Posts by Simon Pound
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ummmmmmmmm, seeing that the powers that be have shown that they absolutely don't care what anyone else thinks by ramming this through against all reasonable protest I wonder if the black avatar approach isn't, ummm, going to be totally and absolutley ignored as well.
And perhaps laughed at by fat guys with white cats on their laps.
How about some online civil disobedience. Like an updated sit-in.
Choose a series of targets then run sit-ins against them to draw attention to the unjust and unreasonable draconian law.
A denial of service attack is a pretty good updated sit-in.
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I think the metaphor you are after is:
'VickyPollardian' -
They aren't exactly nasty why don't the poor eat their babies ideas...
DPB mothers/fathers *are already working*. They're raising children.
Indeed - no argument there - never said they weren't.
It is interesting how the whole point of a post can be missed so one line that suits preconceptions can be hauled out.
Yikes.
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I agree about the time spent versus results back of this being all out of whack. Why not spend all that time on something useful and electorally attractive - like - for example:
I would love to see National - with their plentiful lawyers, accountants and businesspeople - -propose some solid policies to stop tax evasion and the rorting of family trust set-ups that mean so many of the property developers whose irresponsible trading caused many of the finance company collapses end up materially unaffected by bankruptcy.Surely that would throw up more savings for the state and provide the kind of moral leadership they talk about the DPB and welfare policies providing.
That said - I didn't think there was really anything in the policy announcement that wasn't something Labour could have come up with. I mean really - if they were in for another term I wouldn't have been surprised if they got around to putting a check-up mechanism on the sickness benefit or some form of work incentive on DPB mothers. They aren't exactly nasty why don't the poor eat their babies ideas...
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lovely writing Mr. Haywood, thanking you..
**Reply**: You're welcome, Mr Pound! -- DH
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This was my favourite bit of the Herald story:
"* The most damaging drug per kilogram was LSD, which cost more than $1.05 billion a kg"
A kilogram of LSD would be pretty damaging, yes.
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Thank you David, I really enjoyed reading that, the tone and pace were lovely.
And I always love learning a wonderful new word (new to me anyway!). Gemütlichkeit.
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bloody nice writing.
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I think that Hitchens and his stances are a little like the monkeys with the typewriters and the complete works of Shakespeare.
If you keep him talking long enough he just might argue eloquently, cogently, convincingly for and against every position on earth.
But if there is one thing i like it is a contrarian - they don't have to be right for me to like them either.
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Hitchens makes me sad.
His diahrettical style (I just made it up so I'll spell it how I fancy) means he'll shit over anything anywhere anyplace.
But in the process his searing contrarian viewpoint gets lost.
He has one of those rare eyes that sees patterns other people don't. And then he gets a bit carried away with them.
He makes alot of sense on certain subjects and is a fool in that he lets himself be drawn on too many - but when he says the same violence informs abortion clinic bombers and suicide bombers and that it is a kind of intellectual poison that is fed through education I feel like cheering.
That said, when he gets going on some other topics I feel more like chucking.