Posts by Lilith __
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The spring grass is suddenly long...
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I find this whole business disgusting. Not Brown’s affair, which I care about not at all, but the frenzy of prudish and prurient and self-righteous comments.
I didn’t realise so many NZers were so neurotic about sex that they would get worked up about this. Providing no-one’s job has been compromised, how is it any of our business? How is it even interesting? Has Shortland St got boring? Have people not got lives of their own?
As I’ve said elsewhere: public office should not mean someone’s personal life is public property. Let's be grownups.
Meanwhile, Banks is facing trial for electoral fraud. This is a serious matter, that affects our democracy.
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Spring – determined
Killer pic, Nora! The concrete etc looks totally CGI. :-)
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Emma, I think you're amazing. And this is a situation where I'm delighted to be told what to do!
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Spring bulblets as far as the eye can see
Are those freesias, Nora? Lovely!
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Jos,
Love that velvety darkness Lilith!
Dark red flowers are almost impossible to photograph as they appear to the eye. I found that setting the white balance to tungsten actually gave a more accurate result. Was even darker and more velvety in reality! :-)
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Today it poured, and then the sun came out, and the garden was all sparkly.
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Hard News: Sick with Anger, in reply to Bart Janssen,
As for targetting and arresting that poor child … it’s hard to put the feelings into words.
I sincerely hope the police get their arses sued.
+a million.
I got no words for people who could do a thing like that. Beyond belief. -
Hard News: Sick with Anger, in reply to Stephen R,
when I was five we used to spend days at a time playing in and around the creek down the back of the gulley. It was normal, it was fun, and as long as we were home by tea-time, it was all good.
I had a wonderful childhood of making my own adventures and finding my physical limits. As long as I was home for tea and bed, it was all good.
Sure, there are dangers out there, but there are also many vital life-skills to be gained. -
Hard News: Sick with Anger, in reply to Dan Salmon,
Presumably you’d need a far more comprehensive study to draw a stronger conclusion than ‘the impact of poverty on IQ is greater than the impact of crack.’
Yes. They’re now doing a study specifically into the effects of poverty.
The reason I brought this into the thread is the “War on Drugs” gets such vast funding. Imagine if that amount of money were instead put into alleviating poverty. Imagine if the focus could be on helping children instead of punishing them, along with their parents.
