Posts by BenWilson
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Gawd, that's tragic. Really tragic.
Indeed it is. A better idea would be calling the guy up, offering to buy him a drink, to chat about what's really going on. You might end up friends that way. If he refuses, at least you tried. This approach has worked for me with workplace 'enemies'.
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More on the way too! Which, despite my oldschoolness of leaving that to da missus, has meant a whole lot more chores for me.
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The thing I hate the most about extreme cold is women being all rugged up. Oh and snot icicles.
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I figure that equality means exactly what it says. So the job of husband and wife are really the same, with one exception, childbearing. Obviously different talents lead to different specializations, but organizing those along gender lines rather than talent lines is, hmmm, sexist?
I am, for instance, about 100% stronger than my wife, so I have to do heavy lifting, and any other work that requires high wattage or torque. I believe that her calory output on chores is likely to be the same as mine though. I am also the computer guy so I have to fix her computer all the time, whereas she has the book keeping training so she organizes the finances. She's a terrible driver, and my cooking is breakfast only. That these things happen to also be gender stereotypes is not a reason not to do them, unless we want to have a crash and die, or eat toast every night. Or have a broken computer or chaotic finances.
I seem to have a talent for child manipulation, so I'm usually the one changing nappies and clothes, bathing him and coaxing him to do things, and of course, carrying him a lot. But my wife spends a lot more time with him, playing. This breaks the gender stereotypes and again, that is no reason not to do it.
However, when it came to getting pregnant I'm Old School. That's woman's work.
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I don't want a bar of religion myself, but I can see what others get out of it. A lot like alcohol, really. Not to my taste, leads to a lot of harm, but a lot of people love it, and that's good enough for me.
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Steve I was only saying what I thought Mark was on about, which seemed pretty clear. He was preaching tolerance towards Chuck. Which was actually given, until he started showing the side of himself I met on Kiwiblog some years ago, and disliked intensely. Then people started being intolerant. Mark's just got a longer fuse for people like Chuck, perhaps because he hasn't met him elsewhere, and doesn't know what to expect. If this were Kiwiblog I'd know exactly what to expect, which would be Chuck and a dozen other people carrying on an argument for the express purpose of offending anyone who disagrees with them, getting steadily nastier and nastier, descending from mere abuse to veiled threats, until only trolls or trollbait are left. But this isn't Kiwiblog, and Chuck doesn't have support, so perhaps he wouldn't do that here. As Mark says, let him hang himself, you don't need to troll the troll, that will only encourage him.
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so that's what causes 'South of the border' syndrome. It's been the vitamin D all along? Not population envy, as I'd previously thought.
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mark, I remember a girl in ozzie who told me of her travels in Africa. She was of the opinion that the happiest people she had ever met were in Africa, that she would meet people living in the direst poverty who had a very cheerful outlook. It gave her a new perspective on rich Australians who managed to be highly depressed despite having a life the cheerful Africans only dreamed of.
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Joe, surely Mark is saying "Disagree with Chuck, but be polite about it"?
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Oooh, I like that. You could apply it to, almost, any minority taste/fashion. Yes, I dress like a zombie from a Micheal Jackson video but you don't understand because you're just not cool.
;-)I used to feel that way about swimming in speedos, finding anything else uncomfortably restrictive. My wife has put an end to it, though. "They're undies, even on a beach" she said.
Heres a funny, from the film Les Triplettes de Belleville
Heh, I loved that film. The visual hyperbole is great, I loved the stuff in New York. And in this clip, the way he's so tired that even his eyeballs move slowly.
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