Posts by Michael Savidge
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Well that didn't take long. Superb effort. It's the right idea at the right time in the right hands.
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I think there's a couple of points being missed here. Firstly, Grant is obviously exhibiting the signs of a primitive education. Where do you highly educated folk get off calling him names like dick and grunt. Y'all been spending too much time over on the dark side.
Secondly, I'm surprised (or a bit sheepish if it's already been mentioned) that no-one's spotted Grant as an obvious plant to enliven__somebody's__ hit-rate.
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I think I may have been assaulted on my first day at kindy. I vaguely recall a plastic spade and my face.
That was a nice gift David, thanks, and a good reminder that we all have poignant stories that inform our current stories.
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Hell Damian...you've just broken my heart a little bit more. What a beautiful cat he was....
I don't know what more to say.
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I do find the idea of an online shit-fight about Dickens quite amusing. And also quite nice.
Agreed. Nicer than the potential alternative definitely...
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There is a distinct lack of mentoring for boy/teens - in my area there is none at all.
For those in Akld/Wgtn there is www.bigbuddy.org.nz
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If he'd spent his talents strutting his Fine Mind or spilling his guts about his personal life on some 19th Century equivalent of the interwebz he'd most likely be forgotten today.
*sits back and awaits the shit-fight*
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I would suggest that the disenfranchised, as a generalisation, are feeling perhaps far more enfranchised
than at any stage in China's history and that any boycott would do no real good in moving that progress forward.Before addressing the above Simon, just wanted to say thanks for your thoughts on this and, for the most part, I agree.
However, my original post posed the hypothetical question of imagining what a large scale boycott of the sponsors might achieve. It's certainly not just the Chinese govt that is a driving force behind the big show. That kind of protest is achievable and may make a point that is a little harder for people in positions to effect change to ignore.
And for me, this is as much about corporate greed as it is about human rights. Not that the two aren't rather heavily linked :)
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There's not just one thing happening here.
Duly granted Russell, and I have to admit it's not just the Chinese authorities who I believe need to be regularly reminded of the other things going on behind the celebration of elite athletic effort.
The corporations (and IOC) who are profiting/profiteering from the games deserve just as much needling as the Chinese govt in regard to the human rights issues they're associating themselves with.
But to just watch and enjoy the spectacle without considering and actively supporting the voices of the disenfranchised, well in my view
That's not ok.
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On whose behalf..
Well for starters perhaps those who were thrown out of their homes without recourse to the law so that some shiny new hotels and such could be erected in their stead.
The Olympics on one level represent an opportunity for those in the West to display any conscience they may have in solidarity with the voiceless multitudes who perhaps don't see the games as a true expression of their homeland.
If we say nothing or do nothing we are simply complicit and will be seen as such.
Good on you Rich.