Posts by Lucy Stewart
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And there were quite a few more of them than most people realise. Or perhaps care to realise, for those who love to paint these things in nice shades of black and white.
Venn diagrams to the rescue. Largely the second one.
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I think it's lovely. I have cautioned him against going one more daughter down that line, though.
Dunno. Sons would be worse.
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Calling your child Serenity? I do have a friend whose wife has just given birth to a daughter they've called Zoe. A new little sister for Kaylee.
Hey, be kind. It could have been "Kaywinnit", if they'd decided to go for accuracy.
(Best I've seen is a newspaper announcement for Falcon, younger brother of Ford, Chevy, etc....)
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I know and respect two of the four trustees. I can't say what they think they're doing there.
To delve into the depths of cynicism for a moment - do we in fact know that everyone listed on the page knows they're listed there?
The ‘t’ in FOStR NZ is there to make the acronym easy to say, as in ‘foster’.
Acronym: I do not think this word means what you think it means.
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True, but it was generally implied (in the media, etc) that Worth's comments were of an inappropriate sexual nature and there's been little dispute about that being the case.
Okay, to clarify: I understand that (or, more correctly, that this is the current speculation because, as Sacha said, no-one actually knows.) I was bemused by your "not his wife" addition - because his marital status was really, really not the focus of the coverage, and you made the whole thing sound, to me, like he resigned because he was caught cheating rather than, as is (speculatively!) the case, because he was "sexually inappropriate" towards someone.
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Worth resigned last year for making very inappropriate sexual comments and texts to a woman that is not his wife.
I'm sorry, we have an adultery test for our politicians now? I seem to remember it wasn't quite that simple.
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Lucy, here's a link to that study showing that it's really hard to tell someone else is drunk.
Ah, cheers - should have Googled but I was too rushed/lazy.
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I'm touch-typing this because my eyes stopped bleeding and exploded. Thanks a bunch, Brown.
No-one forced you to watch it, you know.
That may be a bit hyperbolic, but the "power of positive thinking" philosophy meshes cosily with the victim-blaming ideology of this government.
I had a conversation with a Republican voter yesterday who, when I asked her if she thought all poor people were just lazy, responded "Well, we all know people like that, don't we?"
That was....special.
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Actually I could believe that bit. He's a bit of a dick, he was young, passport fraud wasn't such a thing back then as in the modern terrorism world.
But it's such an awfully elaborate and highly risky length to go to for a prank. As that woman interviewed in the Herald said - it involves so much preparation and so many opportunities to be caught out. And, okay, they didn't have Al-Qaeda in the seventies but passport fraud still wasn't a merry whim of idle youth, you know?
It's not even that I don't believe someone would be that idiotic. It's that I'm kind of gobsmacked someone who would do something that idiotic is an elected representative of my country.
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I....have only had one sip of my margarita, but reading that made me feel like it must have been a very large sip. Or I wouldn't be so confused. Would I?