Posts by Josh Addison
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Another point you should consider is lesbian violence. If spousal violence is mainly initiated by men how do you explain lesbian violence
You explained it yourself by using the word "mainly". There would only be a contradiction if we were claiming that all spousal violence is intiated by men (nice that you acknowledge a lesbian partner as a spouse, though).
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I think there's an important untold story here: bookies. There must be people who have been taking bets for a long time as to when there'd be an African American president -- who's been placing bets? At what odds? How many people have just made a bunch of money?
Similarly, how many people over the past few decades have said they'll do something "when there's a black man in the White House" and are now feeling a bit silly?
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That said, I do find that jobs are divided between me and the missus along fairly stereotypical gender lines. Mostly, though, that's a result of mutual and complementary laziness: "You should do it because it's The Man's/Woman's Job" is a code phrase we both use to mean "You should do it because I can't be bothered".
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I'd have thought it's the same as the job of a husband: Show up and say "I do". Everything after that is up to you.
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I wonder if any of you BDO-goers can solve this mystery for me:
I live on Mt Smart Road, and on Friday night - about when the BDO was getting out - a car came driving past my house playing "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" at full volume. Over the course of the next couple of hours the same thing happened another three times. So either it was one car driving around the neighbourhood with the same Cyndi Lauper song on loop for hours at a time, or four different cars all happened to have the same tune blasting out at the same obnoxious level on the same stretch of my street.
Was this some sort of promotion? A radio contest, where if the right person hears you playing that song, you win a prize? Or were they just cocks?
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A couple of years ago, I saw Anika Moa at a small bar in the CBD (I forget which one). There was a small group of people at the bar who didn't appear to be paying any attention to her at all, and just chatted through the whole thing - at times taking the piss out of the music. They weren't loud enough to actually interfere with the show, but for those of us in the crowd who were standing near them, it was a bit off-putting.
I assume that that bar was their regular, and they weren't going to let the fact that a gig was playing there put them off. Or maybe they were just pricks who'd got free tickets.
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BenWilson: I'm like you, although I don't have any real interest in getting drunk, so I just stick to the soft drinks. I once read an article that said that about 25% of people have taste buds that are more sensitive than normal, meaning that they have a real sweet tooth and never get a taste for bitter things like coffee and alcohol. That seemed to describe me pretty well - perhaps you're the same.
(Similarly, there's supposedly a 25% group that has less sensitive taste buds than normal, meaning that they appreciate stronger tastes more.)
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The trouble with 'Harry HE LIkes BEer By Cupfuls Not Over Flowing' is its a sentence which no-one would ever say.
I dunno, we always made a point of making our mnemonics as nonsensical as we could. The Periodic Table one my mates came up with for the first ten was "Hi, HEllo, LIttle BEggers - Be Careful Now Of Furry Neanderthals"
Now that I think about it, I remember being told by a teacher that if we wanted to come up with our own mnemonics, rude ones were easier to remember.
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This tech-writer thing is starting to get a wee bit scary.
It gets scarier - I believe we have a certain triple-initial'd acquaintance in common, too. New Zealand - she is a small country.
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I've never liked having to be somewhere on principle, and I dislike the wasted time and endless distractions of going to an office to work. I like to have control over the use of my time.
Myself, I'm a lazy, lazy person, who's happy to just go along with things and fit into situations, hence no real wagging at school. I was always a good student (one of your "high-achievers", I guess) though, so I could do well without putting in major effort.
Where it bit me in the bum was after school - cruising along meant I had put little thought into what would come next. I ended up going for Engineering at university, since that seemed to offer the easiest career path: do Engineering, be an engineer - no need to think about what sort of Science to do or what job I would be able to get with an Arts degree (even though it was the Arts I liked best). One-and-a-bit years of a BE later and I knew I'd made the wrong choice. I changed to Arts and went back to cruising, doing subjects I liked best (and was best at) without worrying about what sort of job it'd get me.
As it turned out, an MA in Philosophy turned out to be useful in getting me a career in tech. writing (snap) - all that critical analysis and essays explaining complex concepts simply. Now I work to someone else's time, but IT jobs are always less regimented than mroe corporate occupations, so I get by just fine...