Posts by Pete Sime
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Like most people, I’m tired of adding the suffix “-gate” to indicate any particular scandal. Couldn’t we call this one the Teapot Drone?
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I think the Greens may have made a slight mis-step in their broadcast. In a large part they were saying they'd be good for the poor and marginalised, but they kept on telling people to go to their website for the details. One of the things about the poor and marginalised in this country is that they don't often have convenient access to a computer and the internet.
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I'm actually kinda looking forward to the playoff for third. Wales will have something to prove and Australia are licking their wounds. It might be a tighter contest than the final.
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Hard News: The Sound of Music, in reply to Marcus Turner,
I went to England-Romania too and I really enjoyed it. As a Kiwi I wasn't going to sing Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, so the Mexican waves were a fun part of crowd participation. Going to a sporting event these days is not a passive activity and the biggest roar of the night was when the Romanians scored their sole 3 points. The result was a foregone conclusion, but that's why you back the underdog. You're right about the music playlist, it was rubbish, but the live performances - the Army Band and the choral national anthems were top notch.
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Hello Ctrl-Shift-P - the shortcut for Firefox's private browsing feature.
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If you want to preserve it for posterity, you can send it to the National Library through its web deposit tool.
Well done to all involved.
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to Idiot Savant,
So, I’m looking for some ancient Greek. What’s the paedo- equivalent of misogyny? Because I think we’re well beyond fear here, and into hate.
(Next stop, anger. And then the Dark Side)
I’d go with ephebiphobia
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If they're bringing in food stamps, then I hope they're keeping an eye on the food cost survey, rather than just the CPI.
Of course, it will be inevitable that there'll be complaints further down the road whipped up over what some beneficiaries buy with their food stamps.
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There was a guy I saw on YouTube who gave some very good explanations of voting systems around the UK referendum earlier this year. Perhaps something like that can help.