Posts by Joe Wylie
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Time and place and all that.
Precisely. Nobody came in here using the tragedy to discredit psychics, though. Quite the opposite.
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Joe - she's not my precious Deb Webber.
Hilary, you certainly give that impression by referring to her in such a familiar manner. It also seems a rather bizarre priority to seek to vindicate the woman's vulture-like opportunism in the midst of tragedy. And Nigel Latta, ffs? What a sad indictment of how celebriity culture warps our perceptions.
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It wasn't so many centuries ago that women were burnt as witches because they challenged the status quo and the power hierarchies.
If that were the case with your precious "Deb", Henry would've been making fun of her imagined moustache, rather than crawling so far up her charlatan's rectum that it'd take surgery to get him out.
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With respect, unless one traces the history of Tibetan medicine to the Buddha himself, it's difficult to find any solid evidence that the tradition dates back any further than around 1200 years. That's not to detract from it's possible efficacy - I firmly believe that traditional forms of healing that appear to produce results are every bit as worthy of objective study as "funny little plants from the Amazon basin".
While I have no direct experience of Tibetan medicine, the three months I once spent sharing a house with Tibetan people in suburban Katmandu taught me that they're a highly pragmatic people. When one of the women there was recommended to undergo surgery after being diagnosed by the local hospital as suffering from gallstones, they sought out a trusted lama who'd led their party into exile back in 1959. Before confirming that surgery was their best option he asked them to return with the x-rays so that he could see the offending stones for himself.
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"Oooh are you from New Zealand? I know this whole flat full of guys and they've all got that bird tattooed on them, what's it called? You must meet them."
That was eons ago, and to this day I count myself fortunate that I never did meet those guys.
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Thank you Sacha, I've written to the Minister, for whatever that may be worth. While the person concerned receives home help with housework and showering, none of that's been affected.
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Regarding reductions to respite care - as Hlary said, it appears to be due to the local District Health Board having run out of their ring-fenced budget.
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. . . gleefully set fire to it like you would a wanker's townhouse.
Excellent, very excellent.
Though you'd probably need to bring your own accelerant as it'd be a bit, you know, soggy. -
Do they have uniforms?
Definitely proper boots, by the sound of it, handcrafted from the hides of brothel-sprouted and cauliflower-eared spawt-mad dads. Bastards.
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DPF is being disingenuous. Me, I think he should be more concerned at the way he lets bigots like redbaiter run rampant all over his board.
As Idiot/Savant pointed out here a while back, it's effectively Redbaiter's house. While his talking points never rise above regurgitated Rush Limbaugh, he certainly provides the bulk of the content. Much of Reepicheep's role consists of taking out the boy-curmudgeon's garbage and plumping his pillow.