Posts by Stephen Judd
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Done. And a good thing Liz posted -- I was offline all Easter and missed this completely.
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You can do Philosophy at school in Australia (or Victoria, at any rate). My daughter did it and loved it. Led to some great conversations at home too. Talking about Nietzsche with 16 year olds is fun.
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Yeah the Brazilianised Japanese are an inferior social class in Japan -- they've lost their Japaneseness and are supposedly loud and uncouth and no longer part of the national wotsit. There was lots of emigration to Brazil in the 20th century, which is why when you go to a churrascaria, it has a sushi bar.
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Bart, your definition of “outrage” seems somewhat different to mine.
Certainly, I am wearing my black hat this morning.
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I think we should also note that in tweeting about your PR "gift" you are sending a clear signal that you are the kind of person who gets PR freebies, unlike the plebs, a good thing for most wannabe celebs I should think. So not much barrier to declaring that you got it free.
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While I wouldn't put it as harshly as Josie, I find this pretty decadent too. While we get to debate Food Bags, more and more people are hitting the food bank... hah! I have it! They can ethical-wash the product by sending the unsold ones down to the city mission! It'll read great in the chatty "personal" newsletter tucked in the bag!
I get two weeks' dinners for two and more off that, including one and half dozen free range eggs. Seems hopelessly wasteful to me.
Personally, even if I did feel hopelessly rich, this seems to me to be in an unhappy middle spot between cooking and takeout. If someone does all the shopping AND tells me what to do with it, that doesn't leave me much fun. Like using cake mix is just assembly, not baking. I feel much more proud of surveying the fridge and the pantry and what's left of the garden and conjuring something up.
Re the ethics: I am happily untouched by this as I didn't see a single tweet. I obviously don't follow enough celebrities. And I suppose if you do, then you'll come to expect this kind of thing. Seems to me anyway that recipients who want to hold their head up should note that they were given the product.
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Capture: Great Southern Land, in reply to Hebe,
Will the burghers have burgers? Or kebabettes?
Well, it will be a bunfight...
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Hard News: First, admit it's broken, in reply to wendyf,
Bugger! Wendy, I missed this message :( Next time...
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Hard News: Media3: Where is Broadcasting?, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Labour aren’t committed, as far as a I know, any public service television.
http://www.labour.org.nz/news/opposition-parties-stand-together-on-public-broadcasting
"“Labour will take a fully-costed policy into the next election to establish a sustainable new public broadcaster."
(From context, this clearly means "public service" not just publically owned).
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I'm going. If there's a chance for a PAS cluster afterwards, love to meet people.