Posts by recordari
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Driving to Piha is probably riskier
The dangers of phone posts. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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Your daughters are statistically safer playing in the park than they are playing in their own home
Seriously? I hope not. I'm sure statistically speaking, but while they rule much of my work life, at home we also apply a consequences framework to our risk assessment matrix. Well at work too, but anyway.
The panic response in my earlier post was based on an actual public notification in our area. Sorry if we chose to take it seriously. How up tight can you get?
Perhaps what has changed is that I grew up in rural NZ, population 815, then moved to the 'big' city. No doubt that has flavoured my paranoia. In the end it comes down to what feels instinctively ok, and what doesn't. Swimming at Piha with my kids is probably riskier than anything mentioned here, but bugger if they're missing out on that.
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Aghh, damn it. Told you I shouldn't post in anger, or when multi-tasking. My editorial board (that is board not bored aye?) is on annual leave, which is what I will be, after this...
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"cotton-wool kids"
Being a father of three of these young women who will, it seems, inevitably chose binge drinking as a chosen rights of passage, this makes me want to throw things at mirrors.
Yes at times our protectionist approach borders on obsession, and perhaps if this really is the unavoidable future, we may have to reassess. But who the hell is this guy telling us to change the way we parent our kids?
'Yes, you can go play in the park unsupervised. That paedophile hasn't been seen in this area for a while, and those kids drinking and setting fire to beer boxes under their car, you just go right ahead and ignore them'.
Oh yeah, the world has changed. Damn, I was wondering what century we were in. Or should that be what millennium?
Note to self. Don't write angry posts when your heart rate is still over 120 after reading mind-numbing Herald Opinions.
PS Or don't read Herald Opinions. Sacha, can you include NSFMCFOOC (Not Safe for Middle Class Fathers of Over-protected Children) as a warning next time please ;-)
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When you factor in the way the Middle-Earth thing delivered for NZ tourism, Jackson has delivered richly to his country of birth. Much more than Myers, Owen Glenn or the others.
Is it safe to have liked the LTOR franchise round here? I mean there were periods, long periods, where my yawn was in serious danger of swallowing my head, but overall, I found it highly entertaining.
Peter Jackson; yes worthy, IMhO. And for all the reasons Russell said as well.
I'm becoming increasingly disinclined to mention the smug recipients of honours we have extensively covered in this thread, and yes I acknowledge my guilt in this. They must be laughing their self-satisfied, ingratiated heads off.
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Well, I'm sure the Fat Police don't think anyone in the dairy sector is honour-worthy due to their trafficing in obesity and death.
It's not what we're eating, it's how we're eating ;-)
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But, Cecelia's Son, if you're working in the thriller/mystery genre the one thing you can't afford is a slack or poorly worked out plot.
Are you saying GWDT (I'm feeling lazy) had a slack and poorly worked out plot? Interesting thought, as my take was the traditional rules were hard to apply, as the weak characterisations of implausible suspects for an implausible crime (should I have given a spoiler alert?) seemed almost integral to the 'unconvincing' plot.
And in spite of all this, it worked, IMhO.
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LMWMFAO!!!
That's Hone for 'Laugh My Arse Off!' You can fill in the blanks.
Classic, Steve. I'm in a comma coma...
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... a Mouse.
iminanut'ole iminanut'ole iknow iminanut'ole...
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And we don't seem to be unique in this.