Posts by Rachel Prosser
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For me the second circle of hell is a gig where you have to wear ear plugs and the bass vibrates through you.
For some people that is Nirvana. For me Nausea.
I remember lasting about 15 minutes at a Black Seeds gig (after waiting for an hour or two for them to come on) It was so loud and unpleasant I left my then boyfriend and his brother to it.
I'll take Phantom of the Opera any day. I grew up loving musicals, and still pretty much know the West End Cast album of Phantom word for word. I also recall loving " I've never been to me" as a 12 year old, love the operatic quality of Bohemian Rhapsody, and love Abba - although I don't actually play it.
Emma do you think Adele's "Someone like you" is heading to "I will always love you" and "heart must go on" territory?
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Prossers all accounted for.
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People a plate
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Public Table?
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Yeah. When my 69-year-old father used it down the phone to me from Christchurch earlier this year, you could've knocked me down with a feather. I asked him how things were in Christchurch: he said simply, "it's munted." Words both failed and achieved spectacularly in that one moment.
I had a similar moment when my Mum used it. It sounded like a swear word, and I've never ever heard her swear.
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It's got to be Munted. Nothing else has taken over vocabulary and become mainstream in quite the same way.
Funnily enough I feel almost hurt that any more trivial word could take precedence given what the phrase "it's munted" represents to me.
Most of the time I think the earthquakes haven't affected me too badly - I'm resilient, a happy earthquakes story. But then sometimes something triggers an emotional windshift and I realise that it has affected me deeper than I'm normally aware.
So I'm instantly outraged that trivial things could displace Munted, that the earthquake is yesterday's news, even if I forget about it 90% of the time myself.
Out of proportion I know - but such is grief.
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The result is many people don’t feel there is a party that represents them and their views. Certainly none of the parties fit my views
A friend said her friends decided not to vote because none of the parties were exactly what they were looking for.
Thing is, we've got so used to customising everything to our own needs that it's easy to lose site of the fact that much about being an adult is making compromises.
We don't get to choose the perfect house, job, car, or universe, nor do we get a perfect political party.
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It would be easy,, in theory, to take a vote, and find out who cast it. Take the sticker off, find the ballot pad, and then look it up on the certified roll.
However, you won't normally want to do that. And they'll be stored in different parts of the office, which is full of people. So you could, in theory sneak in at night, break into the locked room, and find a ballot paper to look up but really....I can't think why anyone would ever want to. Everyone is busy enough as it is.
However, usually (meaning in the rare cases of double voting) the Returning Officer will identify a double vote, and need to extract the 2 ballot papers.
I haven't seen the manual or been involved in that process, but I'm guessing the first thing would be to find the 2 rolls from the issuing officers who issued the vote.
Then, going through the box of papers from that polling place only, you'd sort the ballot papers by issuing officer stamp (everyone has a different number).
And then for those maybe 100-400 papers you'd remove the sticker, and as you do, look for the line and page number. Once you find it, extract the vote, and by that time, you would know how the double voter voted.
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Also, by the by, one of the useful things about a late election is that counting the votes is a useful job for students who have finished studying.
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but I found the decision in respect of scrutineers to be the more confounding. They’re free!
So what's the position with scruitneers - not permitted?
And what about opening special vote declarations etc - scrutineers allowed there?