Posts by Jeremy Andrew
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Somebody, think of the nutbars!
Speaking as someone who's car numberplate says 'nutbar' - Thanks!
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there were people in the south who thought we should just nuke the whole dam place.........
....And leave nothing alive but cockroaches, real estate salespersons and giant, man-eating, mutant painted apple moths.
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Also, this thread has started to make me feel as dumb as a box of hammers. :)
Now there's a feeling I can empathise with...
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Robyn, where can I get one of those Oprah outfits?
A sewing machine - $100 off Trademe
Discount fabric - $20 Spotlight
A hard night on the Absinthe - $50 Liquorland
A spot on Oprah's best-dressed list - Priceless -
Oops and I missed a 'c'...see if you can spot where.
Beside that 's'?
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My kids, however, have grown up largely in an environment (school, neighbourhood) where as Pakeha they're outnumbered by non-Pakeha. I've never, in seven years of doing school runs and going to school events, seen one incident of racism among the kids. They just know that kids are kids and it doesn't matter what colour they are, that's not what decides whether they're a good person or not. And me personally, I've really enjoyed doing things like trying to work children's party food around 'Asian' taste buds and bans on pork, because it's so different from how I grew up.
I second that. My kids aren't outnumbered as such, but their school has a varied ethnic mix.
The closest thing I've seen to a racial occurrence was when one of the kids mothers complained to the teacher that my son told her son he was brown. And that was a five year old making a completely innocent observation that the other kid's skin was a different colour from his own - we've never felt the urge to complain at the numerous people who have felt the need to point out our other son's red hair! -
The Society of the German Language (GfdS) has picked “Klimakatastrophe” (climate disaster) as its “word of the year”, an annual honour awarded to the term the prestigious Wiesbaden-based group feels has captured the spirit or dominated the headlines and public discussion of the year.
I do like the way the German language can pack a whole sentence into one word. It makes coining new words so much more fun, while us English speakers get stuck trying to nominate phrases for word of the year.
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Of course, if you were a cricket commentator, you would talk about it being "very average". I just don't understand that construction at all.
Its fairly simple. In fields where one is expected to excel, an average result is a bad thing.
See the rugby world cup and americas cup for more detail. In both events 'our' teams performed well above the international average, but were seen to have failed.
In sport average = bad.
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or can we just split the difference, and agree that there's a lot of hysterical fucktards on all sides who aren't adding any value to the debate?
Are you talking about the EFB, or the rugby coach thing?
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Its probably indicative of something that so many lurkers have felt compelled to de-lurk specifically to farewell Tze Ming. Something deep and meaningful that touches on the psyche of the many non-posting PAS readers.