Posts by Stephen Judd
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/radiates envy
Apropos understatement: I inadvertently caused great offence in NYC once by using that classic Kiwi compliment, "not bad". They do have irony in New York, but not deadpan. NZ litotes vs NY overstatement is a recipe for culture clash. A colleague has similar stories of discovering that if you describe your golf or tennis skills as "all right" or "ok" you are not supposed to then thrash your fellow players - it's not modesty, it's cheating. Or something.
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More fool you Tom if you bought into it. Remember those socks were made in Korea.
The whole thing was a giant con as far as I was concerned, and I still couldn't give a rat's one way or another.
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Apropos the failed reunion - it's possible that either the mother or grandma thought that bringing the child was a good idea.
However, the point is that there was no news angle in that confrontation. It was psychodrama-for-real, staged for our viewing pleasure.
I don't blame the people who broadcast this shit. I blame the people who watch it.
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Well, I thought it was a fine example of its type. I could be wrong. But if I caused you to make that wonderful pun, then I don't repent at all.
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If, heaven forbid, you still have nothing better to do with your time, you can question the wisdom and efficacy of the invasion of Iraq
... because that's a mere trifle that we grownups wouldn't concern ourselves with.
... Petulant, adolescent, you’re-not-my-real-Dad anti-Americanism...
Who is this patronising git?
... their foreign policy worked. So might Bush’s. So might Blair’s.
Monkeys might fly out my butt too. Arguing for a possibility that a thing might work because an unrelated thing worked before? Give me a break.
This article is a wonderful piece of rhetoric, but that's all it is.
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WH, did you see The Independent's reply?
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I think this is the place where we sing that old refrain:
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent...
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Weird. I've heard that story too, but the child was called Mt Eden Bus Stop. And place of conception explicitly mentioned as the reason. I would have heard that in about 93, 94.
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This was about 1992. The Colour of Magic came out in the late 80s. So in order for G Cohen to be eligible for enrolment those parents would have had to travel back in time for the birth, which would work better in the Discworld than it does here.
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My daughter went to primary school with a Galaxy (female).
I keep hearing stories, sadly apocryphal, of children named Meconium (male) and Chlamydia (female).
Years ago, I worked on a university enrolment system. The production database included a Ghengis Cohen. And some who (by deed poll rather than parent, I think) was known as Ocean Sunflower Africa Springsteen.