Posts by rodgerd
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if someone wanted their cultural heritage to remain entirely intact intergenerationally, wouldn't it be easier in their country of origin?
Maybe, but plenty of people are, or feel compelled, to move for (e.g.) economic/career/home-turned-into-a-disaster-zone type reasons. I'm sure plenty of Samoan and Tongans who came here in the 60s for jobs might well have preferred to stay in the Islands and away from New Zealand's comparative lack of respect for their traditions, but they didn't feel they had much choice.
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but i hate how some indians will treat us as inferior because we choose not to follow their cultural norms.
Because, after all, the norms of a culture should be followed uncritically. You should treat Dalits like shit and your wive should immolate herself if you die before her[1], and I should be kicking the shit out of anyone who has the surname of Campbell or is English. I mean, the world would be a better place, right?
(And, in the grand scheme of things, there's something ironic about, say, mainland Han Chinese complaining about opression; more often the guilty party than the victim given a longer view of history.)
[1] Yes, yes, I'm mocking a specific set of Indian traditions that don't apply to many of the various cultural groups from the subcontinet.
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When an artist massacres their own song-book so thoroughly it's probably time to hang up the guitar.
Yes, because artists should just churn out the same music in the same style, note for note, for the rest of their lives.
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do AdBlock and FlashBlock allow you to manage exclusions?
Flashblock gives you a box with a play button where the Flash would have been. If you want to watch it, you press play.
I also use NoScript, although that can be a bit more of a pain - stops any JavaScript running unless you allow it. I hadn't noticed how much Google profiles me until I switched it off for a while and looked at the ads.
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if someone assumed i view women as chattels, they'd be drawing a long bow.
Which we can obviously glean from:
would you like this behaviour acted out on your daughter? consensual or otherwise?
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But in the end, you've got to make a judgement call whether some people are adding value to the conversation or killing it.
Or the next thing you know, you're Kiwiblog, and the quality of your blogging is undermined by the vile crap in your comments.
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Well, I suppose we should be grateful that, in New Zealand, tourturing and killing kids in the name of discipline is a hobby for amateurs, despite efforts to reintroduce it in schools; in other places it's more of a professional industry.
Angellika Arndt was just 7 years old when she died at Rice Lake Day Treatment Center in Wisconsin.
In just one month, staff members at the facility had restrained Angellika at least 9 times.
On the day she died, Angellika was placed in a face-down "control hold" for blowing bubbles with her milk.
I'll be over in the corner, having a cry.
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I also note that Diane Foremans apartment was broken into the night before the election. If any political dynamite was discovered then it would have been absolutely useless to Brash's political enemies...
Well, his political enemies on the left. His political enemies on the right might rather he won the election and then had to step down...
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One still might question the kind of "saturation" coverage I saw on a couple of Northland backroads though.
You mean where you say:
and about 9 patrol cars on traffic duty (5 complete with flashing lights pulling some unfortunate bugger over)
So they're obviously finding more than a few people breaking the law. Let me know when burglaries result in a few hundred deaths a year, and I'll let you know when I find cops prioritising illegal driving a problem.
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The impression I formed was that the Police have "nothing better to do" on a sleepy winter Sunday.
Nothing better to do than, you know, try to reduce the likelihood some moron will kill a bunch of people. I heartily approve.
This said, I did drive somewhat slower than I otherwise would have; panoptical state surveillance achieved its goal.
Oh how dreadful. You poor, poor, opressed person, you. Imagine having to pay some vague attention to driving legally! Truely, we live under a regime of the most vile sort!