Posts by Helga
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What’s the argument for no beverages? I recall a Kim Hill interview discussing the teas produced in California by a New Zealand expat - teas for relaxation and sleep and getting high or not getting high - all sounded wonderfully civilised. Why not here?
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Ontario has a state-run system for selling alcohol - rather like our licensing trust system. I think that these same outlets are also to sell cannabis.
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That attitude - I PAID for my privilege- was also expressed at a pre-Unitary Plan I went to in Mt Eden. When a very intelligent-sounding (no mental health problems!) young man dared to say he’d love to buy an apartment near his work in Mt Eden - a woman got up and unselfconsciously told him he shouldn’t expect to be admitted. Sickening.
I’m opposite one of the former Council blocks taken over by HNZ in the Banks era, and my experience is similar. The occasional person with mental health problems, but generally speaking it’s perfectly fine. The residents are simply neighbours.
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Hard News: Bikelash, paralysis – and progress, in reply to andin,
We’d kill a few fewer pedestrians, maybe?
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I was standing exhaustedly ironing one day when I was on the DPB and on the radio was Parliament, and there was my PM Rob Muldoon declaring that women on the DPB who took money under the table were worse than tax evaders.
These were the days when my neighbours were encouraged to snitch if men stayed too many nights with me, and when mortgage interest rates were capped, but not mine because I'd owned a house with my husband and couldn't get an institutional loan - mine was 19%.
I didn't take Muldoon's assessment of me and my kind - I knew I wasn't trash as he implied - but it was mighty memorable. -
Hard News: Mt Albert: Cooperating,…, in reply to EE,
I think the latter. Melissa Lee making a showing anything like the one she made last time; straight after Parmjeet P's dreadful fist if Mt Roskill, was more than they could bear the prospect of.
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Truthiness is my favourite, though the much-suggested post-truth has greater currency. Something with truthiness sounds juicy and appealing and I notice that the spell-check on here knows it!
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Hard News: On seclusion rooms, in reply to Vivid,
The words 'locked' and 'fire' in close conjunction are terrifying....
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Wonderful story! Can you give us a link to the Loading Docs film festival?
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Great post Russell - I probably won't watch the programme, but it's great to have discussion on the topic - not only not pushed by the drug companies, but not pushed by those who would wish to mess with Pharmac's decision-making. Or perhaps those two are the same thing?
It must be very hard to know that there's an expensive drug that would help you to live longer, and not be able to get it. There will come a point in life/age though, where I hope that I would be able to say that I didn't want such money spent on me, and that it should be spent instead on younger people.