Posts by Lucy Stewart
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Possibly one of the most sickening things about the whole Veitch affair has been the "Your Views" crowd (not that we should have expected better) expressing opinions along the lines of "he's a good guy and it was ages ago, so we should forget about it". Talk about trivialising things.
Combined with his comments about Serena Williams, I think it's fairly safe to draw from this that Veitch is a nasty piece of work who has no place on our screens. I can't help feeling sorry for his wife, though - no matter how much she knew, she probably never expected it to become so excruciatingly public.
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Well, I'm sure there's any number of explanations.... but the one that keeps jumping to mind is that they are discussing publicly actual policies that were supposed to be secret because the leaders know they wont be that popular with the voters?
Stuff tells me that Shane Arden "had no idea what was really in the policy" because only Key and English are privy to it.
So, hey, it's not that the party as a whole has secret policies - it's just that the leadership doesn't trust the backbenchers enough to tell them what those policies are!
Seriously, is that not bizarre?
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On the topic of National policy releases, their broadcasting policy seems about as substantial and well thought out as their Kiwisaver policy, with Shane Arden first saying that small businesses will be exempt from contributions then reversing his comments the next day.
I would be quite interested in hearing how two different MPs both mistakenly got the impression that employer contributions would be altered by National, to the extent that they announced this in public. Either something funny is going on, or people are snoozing off in policy meetings. A lot.
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Yup, sounds like a fucking genius idea to me!
Almost enough to make those wood ads slightly less irritating.
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And yes, Asperger's faulty-logic crime waves coming your way soon (because it's strong emotive displays that prevent crime!).
At least they never specifically said on the show that Zach had Asperger's? It was, of course, blatantly obvious, and Emily Deschanel discussed it (and Bones' own autistic tendencies) extensively in interviews, but your average viewer isn't going to pick up on that to the point of naming it. Probably.
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and say I was actually quite happy with the Bones finale, given that they'd obviously squished two totally unrelated episodes into one - hence the naked!Booth/killer!Zach dichotomy. I bought the basic logic of Zach being the apprentice, even if the execution was flawed, and Tamara Taylor and T.J.Thyne both put in excellent performances. I'll admit to some bias on the grounds that I love Bones more than anything else on right now, but it still was far from the worst the show has produced (start of season two, I'm looking at you.)
Stargate Atlantis (which I can't stand)
The show works much better if you just accept that, a) the writers are a bunch of idiots who can't see their own racism, sexism, and colonialism when slapped in the face with it repeatedly, b) it's about cross-dressing space vampires and so can't be serious, and c) John Sheppard is possibly the gayest member of the US military ever to cross a TV screen. Personally, I just read the fic and save the show for mocking. It follows the rule for inverse levels of fandom activity/talent vs. show quality that shows such as Smallville demonstrated so aptly in the past.
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2) Cursing out the media is A-OK for enlightened people like us, but not wannabe ninjas who talk funny.
Peter Low can curse out the media all he wants, but correct me if I'm wrong in believing that if anyone on the PAS threatened to "fuck the bloody ass" of either a reporter or another PAS member, it would be taken poorly by everyone. And..."I have money, I can do whatever I want"? How is that not mockable?
5) National are in league with Satan.
Well, duh. ;)
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Yeah. Right. The university fdown the road from me just seems to turn out gangs of drunken students destroying letterboxes & throwing wheelie bins of viaducts (twice) in the middle of the night.
Hah. My university produces students who bash in fellow students' letterboxes. That's gotta be against the code of conduct.
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30 minutes compulsory activity every day at school - hacky sack would do.
I don't know if things have changed dramatically in the last ten years, but when I was at primary school we did have PE four or five times a week. I remember this well because of the special and abiding hatred I had for it. Same thing at secondary school: compulsory PE three times a week - and, yes, that's run-around-the-block, get-into-the-unheated-swimming-pool-at-eight-thirty-am PE, not indoor health lessons - for the first two years. Activity at school is not the problem.
In fact, I'd say school sports are often detrimental because they turn kids off exercise by making them associate it with sports they don't enjoy and aren't necessarily very good at. Team sports are hell if you're not good at them. Which isn't to say kids shouldn't do PE or be encouraged to exercise, but more enforced participation is not going to magically make more people do sports. Probably the opposite.
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P.S. The main beef I’ve got with these truck people is that I’ve had that excruciating Convoy song on the brain all day.
Just that I’d share that burden…
I got Weird Al Yankovich's "Driving a Truck With My High Heels On".
At least the news was more amusing. (Okay, except for the woman who said "I don't really know what this is all about, but good on them anyway!", which was just sad.)