Posts by Gareth Ward
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Isn’t the real issue here the fact that there are sweets shaped like ... people??
My son is starting a campaign against Jelly Babies just as soon as his neural impulses develop the association.
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"Where else could you go in the world and the locals have actually two different names for everywhere?"
Have overhead a group of American tourists in Florence saying "what's this Firenzeeee that's all over the place?"
It's comforting to know that Lawhs has reached their level of worldly knowledge. Bro. -
And in other "please ask before fuckin with our futures" news - the Guardians of the Super Fund have responded rather blankly to the forced 40% in NZ election promise.
http://pundit.co.nz/content/super-fund-wary-of-40-home-country-bias-oia -
Anybody with friends or family caught up in the Hanover Finance debacle might be interested in what Hanover co-founder Eric Watson has been up to.
I suggest they spend more time investigating the governance, shareholding and inter-party issues of Hanover than something as completely unrelated as a birthday party which frankly doesn't look particularly remarkable (no elephants snorting cocaine etc).
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Surely if someone is considered innocent until guilty name suppression should always be applied.
I feel like we're now at the point where this needs to happen. I accept the concepts of "open and transparent justice" but feel like the complete disregard for the equally important "innocent before proven otherwise" by our media and the majority of citizens means that transparency is now costing us natural justice.
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you are disabled and so can only dance on the inside (in which case you should buy the DVD and stay home, eh, Gareth?)
Sigh
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Or perhaps not, given your different "bookend birds" :>
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3410, that was probably the River Cottage 10 bird:
* Woodcock, inside a
* Partridge, inside a
* Pigeon, inside a
* Pheasant, inside a
* Guinea, fowl inside a
* Mallard, inside a
* Chicken, inside a
* Aylesbury Duck, inside a
* Goose, inside a
* TurkeyEPIC
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I'm not entirely sure how I suddenly became the poster-boy for Hatred of the Disabled here? It's rather offensive though and to claim I am in anyway advocating ANYTHING to do with disability has really pissed me off.
Roger I presume you are not 100% able bodied? Perhaps in a wheelchair (and again, no offense here, just looking for context). I absolutely understand you desiring a seat where you can get a decent view of a concert you've paid for - my point re James Brown was merely that it seemed fair that for a 70 y/o man specifically having made "music to dance to" trying to get everyone dancing for one song seemed an enjoyable and fair thing to do. And nobody, even the by-all-accounts-rather-nasty Mr Brown, was attempting to cause any kind of disquiet amongst the less able-bodied.
Grrrrr.
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Roger, I accept my post was a little "harder" than I intended but I don't believe I was actively begrudging the disabled a concert experience.
Yes, some concerts are better served by a well designed floorplan that lets each to their own, as I believe you've agreed. But James Brown! Come on man! =)