Posts by Steve Barnes
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But still, it would be nice not to be swimming in the sewer.
I call it how I see it Russ. I find it degrading that I belong to the same species as the blubbery one. It is hard to voice ones disgust without sounding like a kiwiblurgher sometimes.
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I think that's going too far.
Sacha, when the subject is the Oily one, there is no too far.
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If anything, he comes across as a Clayton's Rambo in that photo.
Are you meaning Clayton Weatherston? that other totally sickening excuse for a human being. They do seem to have some character traits in common.
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Snail trail has also been using the Should-a site as a bill board for his puerile antics too. Does this little snot have any redeeming features or is he truly just a boil on the bum of humanity?.
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It's not a real plane -
LOL
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( the ) other has become entrenched in the culture.
I have a problem with the term Significant Other as a descriptor for "Partner" It allways seems like you should regard them as the enemy.
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I wish I knew why empathy was in such short supply
I suppose many of us noticed that after his participating in "Dancing With the Stars" Rodney Hide seemed to display an empathy previously absent from his persona. I put this down to the necessity of empathy in the performance of paired dancing. He has since recovered however.
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And maybe some alternatives to "gutted" while we're at it.
Ok, how about; disemboweled, eviscerated, cavitated, split from stern to spleen, disabdomenised. Or how about "I was Bloody Eagled"
A graphic description appears in the ßáttr af Ragnars sonum: 'They caused the bloody eagle to be carved on the back of Ælla, and they cut away all of the ribs from the spine, and then they ripped out his lungs.'
Nice.
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(as I was only too sure to note Craig their inability to disperse fog was a major crime)
This fog meme keeps popping up. The equipment that Air NZ has to allow take off and landing in fog is not cheap, Jetstar pass this saving on to their victims.
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This may piss a few people off but I think it raises a valid point.
We are all disabled in some way or another. I can't write blockbusting crime novels and don't get me started on animation I am just incapable of that kind of patience. Steven Hawkin can run rings around almost anyone when it comes to theoretical physics.
The point is that nothing in the world, or universe for that matter, is perfect and we have to accommodate imperfection in order to cope with reality.
In striving to create equality in society some have, with the best of intentions, attempted to hobble the the capabilities of the many to reduce the disadvantage of the few. This is sometimes a low impact cost effective measure such as wheelchair access to venues and public buildings, sometimes an expensive and mostly pointless requirement of local authority (a particular example springs to mind of a requirement for wheelchair access through a jewelers workshop to a toilet. The toilet floor had to be raised and we were ordered to move a staircase 150 mm to meet the code size of the room, move the safe and reverse a door to open outwards which then required a wall to be moved, even though the step at the entrance of the shop did not allow wheelchair access and was to be retained under heritage listing.)
We have to accept that there are minorities that have every right to access almost anything that is accessible to the majority.
So if I see someone having difficulty achieving what they are entitled to, I will offer to help rather than get on the phone to the local authority and demand changes. I mean, if we actually cared about each other a little more then these problems would just go away.
I have re-read this and it sounds a bit naff but I'll post it anyway in the hope of raising my point, if you can understand my rambling ways. ;-)