Posts by James Butler
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Russell Brown,
Have the Greens announced a candidate for Mt Albert this year? I’m presuming it’s not Russel Norman.
It’s David Clendon.
ETA: Tim, snap. Refresh before posting James, refresh before posting.
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Hard News: Guess that Prince thing was…, in reply to Paul Williams,
There’s a rumour that Radiohead will do BDO, in Sydney
The single greatest regret of my life - not putting off other things to go see Radiohead when they toured with OK Computer when I was 15 or so. "Oh I'm sure they'll be back in a year or two" he said.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Max Rose,
Well, it didn't take long for some people to suspect who I am behind this pseudonym
Well call me a shallow reader and a PAS dilettante, but I for one still have no idea who you are :-)
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to James Butler,
I would be tempted to distort the pseudonymous narrative for that reason, which would kinda negate the point of the exercise.
Actually, on reflection the problem would more likely be that I'd forget who I was posting as, and accidentally let the cat out of the bag.
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Thing is, I would have trouble writing pseudonymously about things I don't want people to connect to "James Butler", without also touching on a whole lot of things I have said as "James Butler", which people might link together. I would be tempted to distort the pseudonymous narrative for that reason, which would kinda negate the point of the exercise.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to recordari,
For reasons which may become clear soon, I will probably have to lift whatever painted veil I have left and post under my own name.
You keep dropping hints. It's intriguing, which I guess means it's working.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
NG had totally failed to understand internet culture.
Hell, when even Google fails to understand (or rather, doesn't give a shit about) Internet culture, we're doomed.
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Bart Janssen,
One thing you notice growing up in a nudist club is that boys from the time they came walk will wander around holding their penis. Not so much playing with it, holding. Like a security blanket.
Evolution put it an easy arm's reach away for a reason, right?
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Gardasil’s already getting a taste of that treatment.
I always thought that sounded like a mouthwash.
I always think it sounds like Teamocil®
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Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education, in reply to Ross Mason,
Do fish do it for pleasure? Do birds? Do monkeys? Humans certainly do. Therefore one might assume we humans enjoy it more because....well....we can think about it, reason about and most importantly talk about it. All the above can't. I think we can safely say that all the above "do it" mainly to propagate the species. We do it to propagate but have also developed the niceties of enjoying it.
On the contrary, I think animals, from their perspective at least, generally have sex because it is pleasurable, with propagation of the species being the aim of the genome, rather than the individual animal. Suggesting that animals have sex "to" propagate the species while humans have sex "to" experience pleasure is a conflation of personal intent and evolutionary purpose (inasmuch as evolution has a purpose).