Posts by Stephen Judd
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people who have long been fond of bleating about the "nanny state".
A commenter over at The Hand Mirror suggested recently that now we have the Evil Stepfather State.
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Wow you guys feel so strongly opposed, interesting.
That's right folks -- the fact that you find something particularly ridiculous is proof that it's true!
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3140, I honestly don't know why I should believe claims where no evidence is offered.
I think there is a problem in that while literally understood, a conspiracy theory is merely a theory which explains things by pointing to a conspiracy, the most common examples are wacky conspiracy theories. Wacky conspiracy theories are so very common that I feel quite justified in assuming a conspiracy theory is likely to be wacky until I see supporting evidence otherwise.
I will listen carefully to your theory if evidence is produced, but I don't think dismissing it if you fail to do so is really very unfair.
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Don't worry, Brickely: Elders of Zion to retire.
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It seems Peterson was on the party list in 2005, but not in 2008, so in fairness to ACT, he doesn't seem to enjoy any role in the party now.
OMG?! Do you suppose Rodney could be a Zionist-Illuminati stooge?
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Do you think someone could ask Rodney Hide about Petersen in Parliament?
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NZ is a dull place
Everywhere is a dull place, for dull people.
Although I will agree that the zone of activities which a child can do unsupervised by their dull parents, and which said child won't be persecuted by their dullard mates for pursuing, can be a small one.
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I went down Castle St and Dundas St last evening and every flat had a car outside it.
Yet when I was a student in the early '90s, it was something of a rarity for someone in a flat to have a car. If students are supposed to be poor, then how can they all afford cars and to run them ?
To pick that apart a bit, if there is a car outside every flat, that falls well short of every student having a car. Apart from that, second hand cars are far cheaper now than they were 15 years ago. For example.
I'm sure that the average punter at university comes from a family better off than the national average, but let's not get carried away.
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I'm not saying that I personally was a badly-behaved drunk, or that I think that fear of hypocrisy is a sound argument for holding off judgement, just offering that as an explanation for the tolerance some people seem to feel.
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dyan:
At what point do people stop being considered children in this country?
Perhaps part of the problem is that many of us who are now respectable if not sober citizens have guilty consciences about our own behaviour when younger and would feel hypocritical clamping down too hard.