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A regular poster told me on another PA thread that they'd always wondered if my breasts were real. I was quite taken aback by that ... not what I expected here on PA. It was more the way it was casually slipped into a broader comment about something else. But I guess because of my choice of Avatar I was asking for it, right?
BTW: According to Gender Genie I am a male, if that helps, but so is Tze Ming Mok (I entered her blog) so I guess it doesn't. (Gee, I didn't realise that 'what' and 'are' were masculine words...)
Maybe Robyn, Joanna, Emma, Deborah, Jackie and Anjum could register again under fake names, and create the illusion of having doubled the number of regular female commentors. You go girls!
Hmmm, I wonder why RB hasn't resonded to that suggestion?
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For shame RB, how dare you impune the legacy of Rudolph Guilliani "the World's Mayor" ...
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this is also funny/spot on:
president bush vs governor bush -
I support a band, buy all of their albums, wear the tshirt, save up to get a ticket but can't get one because someone who couldn't even name one song snaps up all the tickets.
And you know what they do with all that money they scalped?
They buy up all the cheap housing, give it a quick 'paint n paper' makeover, and onsell it for a huuuge profit. Which means us 'regular' folk can't even afford to buy a home in Otara, leaving us stuck in rented accommodation, our only solace being an upcoming concert that we're soooo looking forward to.
But we can't go cos the scalpers have bought up all the tickets, which only gives them more money to buy more houses.
"I say hanging's too good fer 'em!"
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Actually why don't people ever mug scalpers?
Like drug dealers, they're very rarely actually 'holding' when you talk to them, and if they are its only a small amount. If you want, say, six tickets they'll signal to a mate who will bring them over.
If you try to snatch and run you'll likely get a good thumping.
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From Heather's link story:
My point is that given the inadequate partial sprinkler system, the use of lightweight long-span steel bar joists, deficient ‘fireproofing’ on the steel, and large open areas undivided by fire walls, any uncontrolled large area fire would have eventually produced the same total collapse. The importance of early fire control, to save lives by prevention of collapse in most ordinary constructed buildings is generally not appreciated even by engineers. Many years ago hard experience had taught the Fire Dept. that when the fire was beyond their control in the old brick and joist, first generation high-rise buildings the fire forces were withdrawn and the fire fought from the outside in anticipation of collapse
So why then were the people told to stay on their floors? They were actually told to return to their floors when they tried to use the firestairs. And as the death toll proved, there were a lot of firefighters in the building - obviously doing nothing if the fire was allowed to burn uncontrolled.
I've read so many 'conspiracy' websites I have brain fatigue and don't know black from white anymore. All I know is that at one stage Noriega, Sadam, and Osama were all friends (or at least on the payroll) of the good ol' USA.
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sheesh, another thread that's split in two ...
1] Kerry/Dems/Ohio.
Nice guys finish last. The Republicans get it but the Democrtats don't. Rove is a master of 'win at all costs' and 'to the victor go the spoils'. That Kerry allowed himself to be swiftboated perhaps proves why he would have been a wimpy president. In 2008 expect Hillary to kick her opponents square in the nuts to win.2] Ticket scalping.
A scalper takes a punt that demand for the tickets he buys will outnumber the tickets he has bought. If not he is left at the gate flogging them for whatever he can get.WHAT ABOUT TICKETEK AND THE LIKE?
They charge the promoter $2 to print the ticket as well as % of the sale. Then they also charge the punter who buys the ticket a $6 fee + other fees for credit card/phone purchase/courier etc. Ticketek in particular have signed up various venues meaning promoters can't use other ticket agencies. So both the promoter and the punter are obliged to line the pockets of the ticket seller.RUGBY WORLD CUP
Nevermind ticket scalping - what about the blardy venue?!! The govt is taking action on ticket scalping because it's populist (no-one like paying more than they have to) yet the stadium issue continues to flutter in the breeze. But it's not a butterfly, it's (going to be) an albatross around the neck of Auckland ratepayers. I'll streak naked if they can fill the stadium again after the RWC is over. I guarrantee I'll be very old and very ugly by the time that ever happens.And RB was spot on about the BS of those corporate seating packages.
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only 5 post left now ...
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Nice hat tip Weston, thanks for that link
Under this Administration, the federal government has become a stepchild of the Republican Party
And of course once they've got everyone toeing the Republican Party line they can then switch gears to have them follow the Christian Fundamentalist line.
And of course Armegeddon won't come till the Middle East explodes in a mushroom cloud.
where will you be when the Rapture comes? will you be saved?
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Artistic innovation
It's all about communication.Agnostic innovation
It's all about communion.