Posts by Jeremy Andrew
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I have a feeling that the New Zealand taxpayer is looking at the biggest compensation payout in its history.
Really? Bigger than the Tainui payout? Bigger than the Ngai Tahu claim?
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Anyone know anything about Mana?
Only what I saw on Eating Media Lunch a year or two back, but I think that was a different kind of mana.
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Freudian slip there, Kowhai?
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I can celebrate my obvious scottish heritage with a batch of ginger kisses.
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My vote goes for the tarts.
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Our media are only doing what other media (particularly the US) have done when presented with easy copy by 'the Authorities'. It's almost Pavlovian.
And if everybody else's media jumped off a cliff, you'd expect our media to as well?
Just because the US seem to accept the rabid meanderings of Fox News and the National Enquirer et al, that doesn't mean that we should allow our media to sink to the same level. Remember, the price of freedom (of the press) is eternal vigilance - so keep an eye on the bastards. -
A lot people wont be able to distinguish what comes from the police, the media or the government.
Mostly because the majority of what they hear from the Police and the Government is filtered and presented (and distorted) by the media.
In this particular case, there's very little the Police are permitted to say, and the papers are putting words in their mouths quite flagrantly. -
It really is fascinating that the more the human body is studied, the more complex it turns out to be - the simple basic things we all take for granted turn out to be not only more complex, but often the opposite of what would seem logical.
Everyone knows that to lose weight you need to eat less calories than you burn, but some people, given the same diet and the same exercise, will gain fat, while others will burn it off.
For example the chaps at the Liggins Institute in Auckland found that the predisposition to obesity can be programmed while the fetus is still developing in the womb - if the mother is nutritionally deprived, the baby is more likely to stockpile fat at the drop of a hat, while well fed mothers have babies that tend to stay slimmer - even given the same food as the chubby kids. The genes are the same, but they get activated differently depending on their enviroment. And similar things happen with stressed mothers vs relaxed ones. -
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.” Mark Twain
Aha, the 'Like Water For Chocolate" principle. Sounds like a fascinating field of study indeed. No problems finding guinea pigs I'm sure!
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Peters doing a Don Brash - Sharples
Now this isn't very fair reporting - everyone knows Winnie was playing race cards long before Don was even dealt into the game.