Posts by giovanni tiso
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This reminds me of Piergiorgio Paterlini's argument that the hatred for gay men is a subset of the hatred for women - although it's easier to prove using the Italian swear word reportoire.
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What do socialists look like?
In my experience, they are very handsome.
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Most blogger codes of ethics sound like they're written by people wanting to be journalists, and many of the more interesting and valuable blogs are good precisely because they go beyond journalism's ideas of how to do public knowledge.
I'm getting painful flashbacks of those alternative blog awards earlier in the year and the bloggers' union or whatever it was called (motto: "Must be braying").
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Also, I'm on nodding terms with Dion Nash, so, nah.
That's how he put his back out so often - too much noddin'.
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Oh, David, flattery will get you... exactly where you wanted to go. And you knew that, didn't you?
Although you can't seriously be dissing The Gruffalo.
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Oh, and by the way, enough with this personalisation and creativity in what you wear on the court/rink/pitch. It's not sport if the players aren't all wearing the exact same outfit provided by a recognised sports equipment manufacturer. Won't somebody please think of the sponsors?
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Hear, hear. Only properly English sports are true sports!
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Following the typesetting of this article, the New Zealand Herald officially changed its motto to "we'll publish anything, so long as it's within deadline".
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From the grotesque to the ridiculous, then back to the grotesque: I give you Deborah Hill Cone on Paul Henry and freedom of speech:
Citizens in socialist Cuba lose their own judgment of right or wrong because they have grown up in a society where they have been taught to spout lies. A lot of them try to leave. Same here.
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I'm not sure if spelling Nazism or pronunciation Nazism is worse.
Surely they're both preferable to people who use the suffix "Nazism" to describe anything other than actual Nazism?