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Up Front: It's Beginning to Look a Lot…, in reply to mark taslov,
I think it's more that if you work a bit on making a less dramatic event you will find it easier to get through. Maybe think of 'don't do christmas" as the aspirational slogan and take small steps in that direction when you can?
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Up Front: It's Beginning to Look a Lot…, in reply to Craig Young,
green clad Solstice Witch
:) I'm reminded of my favourite christmas song:
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Up Front: It's Beginning to Look a Lot…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Don't. Do. Christmas.
With you on that. Being in Australia has helped a huge amount with the "family xmas" pressure. The in-laws here are more buddhist than christian and helps a lot - christmas is much more obviously about the under-fives and the rest of us just hang out and do drugs. Or watch others do that, whatever.
Also, if you think supermarkets and toy shops go overboard with xmas, the drug dealers make them look tame. My "no junk mail" letterbox in a muslim-majority area is already getting christmas alcohol spam. WTF?
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Hard News: Getting serious about the…, in reply to Russell Brown,
how such a regime could work without animal testing.
Exploit the "people are not animals" delusion and allow volunteers to test stuff under medical supervision. It's a lot more ethical (people can give informed consent), although the lack of voluntary euthanasia laws could be problematic if they find something really awful.
There is an awful lot of research and testing being done on recreational drugs all the time, and possibly more so than in the past now due to ease of access to synthesis equipment. From what I can tell almost all the experimenters test on themselves rather than other animals.
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The Haka Bhangra was awesome. We didn't get that here but it was still great. Even in a suburb where "diversity" means "non-muslim" :) And I totally shouldn't eat all that wheaty goodness but, you know, there's a time and a place for everything.
As a positive contrast to Australia (always, always that contrast and let it only stop when Australia catches up) it's also nice. Diwali here is pretty heavily Hindu-only, not through exclusion so much as a lot of people just don't go along. In other suburbs attendance is much more obviously diverse, though.
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Hard News: Music: Grey Lynn Taonga, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Oh dear :) Thanks, I remember that style. Keep Calm and Pass the Gaffer.
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Hard News: Music: Grey Lynn Taonga, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I want to meet the 2D Ian Dalziel :)
I think part of it is that I have a kind of mental library of images/text featuring "you lot" made up of albums from my teens/early 20's, and converting those into actual people is what produces the mental hiccup. "That really funny review of the Jesus and Mary Chain supporting Straitjacket Fits in Christchurch"... oh, here's that actual guy with the slightly odd sense of humour (the JAMC were *awful*).
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Hard News: Music: Grey Lynn Taonga, in reply to Doug Hood,
you’re a legend to me
I still periodically shake myself and go "that's the actual Ian Dalziel" / Doug/ whoever when you lot post here. It's that weird feeling of "he's just some guy on the internet" suddenly turning into "THAT GUY FROM THE LINER NOTES!!! OMG!!!"
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Up Front: R.O.A.R., in reply to SHG,
It's a polite way of contrasting the progressive voices with the regressive ones.
There's a lot of people publicly trying to bring back the "good old days" ... when you could fire someone for being gay, maternity leave wasn't an issue because women were fired when they got married, no-one cared what you called your maori boy, and this whole transsexual/ transvestite/ transgender stuff hadn't been invented.
For a lot of us it was the bad old days and we don't have happy memories of it. We don't want it back. We want to move forward.
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There's also this really good piece on who gets heard in the media and why... in the specific case of the media choosing an angle/who to listen to on a story then all following the judas goat because ... well, anyway, same story.