Posts by Jeremy Andrew
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merely saying the words out loud will dredge the tune out of the deepest darkest depths of your memeory (presuming you're over 30 and ever went to church/watched The Waltons, as a child)
'Fraid not. Over 30, but managed a relatively a-religious upbringing, the closest I've been to the Waltons was working with a guy who reckoned he was related to the family that the Waltons was based on.
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What strikes me is the attitude in the media that renting = poverty. Apprently its a terrible thing if lots of people rent rather than own. I haven't seen any stats on home ownership in other (comprable or otherwise) countries, but was under the impression that in large parts of Europe, the UK included, home ownership numbers were a lot lower than in NZ, largely due to a lot more history for landowners to build up larger portfolios to rent out.
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does all this stuff on email servers get backed up and reverentially stored
Yup, where I work it is, everything in & out & between is duplified in transit and stored on DVD in glorious banalicolour for future archaeologists to cure insomnia with.
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that most noble of extinct species - the filing clerk
I used to be one of them, back in the old days. Ask me about microfiche and the myth of the paperless office.
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I found a copy on Amazon with some suspisciously glowing reviews. I woudn't have called it the best SF book ever...
Basically the heads in jars were hooked up to computers which duplicated all the nerve input necessary to let them think they had bodies & could get up to whatever they could imagine. Not too bad for a book written in 1974. -
what in the hell is an anal bead?
Well, odds are against the book still being in the Tokoroa High School library after 20 years, so I can't send you to the original source. From memory, the novel was called something like Grey Matters, and involved a lot of Futuramaesque heads in jars.
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I recall finding one or two distinctly R rated sci fi novels in my old school library. Or more specifically, some sci fi novels with some distinctly r-rated content that wasn't apparent to someone reading the dust jacket. As a parent I'm not sure what the appropriate age is for my kids to become aware of the uses of anal beads, but as a kid it was certainly educational.
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i think the references to common people are usually attempts faux egality and being on the side of the everyday people.
Too true, the last thing a popstar really wants is "to sleep with common people, like you".
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The bit that gets my ire up is the alleged 'newsbreaks' where they deliberately don't tell you the news to bait you into watching the main show later on. That's not a newsbreak, its a bloody ad break.
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Stephen, hope you had a good break, I know I did - lovely beach weather.
<quote>All men are privileged over women by the actions of a few, whether men want to be or not, because of the fear of violence they can induce. I think that is feminism 101, and any man who's walked home at night, no matter how well intentioned, and watched the woman ahead of him cross the road, knows this is true.</quote?
But now you're talking about violence in general, not rape specifically - I've crossed the road at night more then once to avoid men: I'm male, 6'2" and it wasn't my virtue that I was worried about.
If we're granting implicit power to groups based on their potential (real or otherwise) for violence, then I think we can narrow things down a bit more finely then "all men". " All scruffy looking teenagers" maybe, "anyone wearing a gang patch or mohawk", "people on P" or "all people of darker than average complection". The stats probably bear out the generalisations at least as well as "you're more likely to be bashed by a bloke", but then you're starting to get into the field of ageism, lower-socio-economic-groupism, racial profiling, etc.