Posts by Steve Barnes
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You forgot to mention hip replacements.
What is so "Hip" about replacing a working wharf with a "party cenrtal"?
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The term "yeah, no", or sometimes "No, yeah", can be heard all the time and I find it just a little irritating. Like those things that you have never noticed before but accepted on a sub-conscious level. Even John Campbell does it, all the time and he's supposed to be one of the better spoken amongst us.
The "yeah but no but" is Australian as far as I can tell, using the word "but" as a replacement for "though" which can lead to some interesting misunderstandings, like;
"My girlfriend's a lousy root, she gives good head but"
Crude, I know but we are talking Australians. ;-) -
Not Thursday, Wednesday.
On Thursday I was surrounded by wonderful people. :-) -
It must be really painful going through life full of bitterness and resentment, why do they do it?.
Actoids that is.
I got verbally abused by one such creature on Thursday night after making my, oh so deep and meaningful, comment about ACT taking all the parking spaces on Back Benches. She was so upset I thought she was going to vomit. -
From The standard,
the media in this country are predominantly left wing in their political sympathies and that is the real reason Melissa Lee lost so badly.
Mr Baiter at his insightful best.
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Duncan Garner has observed that at least Graham Henry and Mils Muliaina will front up together, compared with the isolated and graceful Melissa Lee.
I actually quite like Melissa Lee. She should come over to our side.
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Anyway I thought all Beagles had holes or was that Baegles or just bagles or bagels or badgirls or bargirls or burgles?.
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Aparently there was more than one Beaglehole
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The name Beaglehole makes me cringe in more ways than one.
Wasn't he the ETS guy?. -
Steve B - I don't agree with/ apprehend a 'cosmic consciousness', and, while critics have labelled some of what I write "magical realism", I don't. It's just plain old fantasy to me.
Sorry I' but I thought you coined the term "magical realism" yourself.
The point I was making was that some individuals can become so involved with their own fantasy that they feel that they have some connection with the characters that they create, hence childhood "friends".
We tend to forget, as adults conditioned to only accept the "acceptable", that those imaginary constructs are as real as, almost, everything we see as real (all but that we touch or feel, but then we all have strange feelings occasionally, eh?) It is in this vein that we construct our own mythology and have done for generations.This is a bit "out there" for a forum discussion but if you want to PM me, I would love to explore the concept with you.