Posts by Emma Hart
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Craig, dear, you're not right wing, you're just a very naughty boy...
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you don't mind that your opinions may be less valued as a result
Care to guess who currently holds the UK record for saying 'fuck' the most times in a live broadcast?
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In that case, I vote that the trophy be one of those waving lucky cats.
FTW!
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Maybe Public Address should be handing out a "Complete Fucking Bullshit" award to the worst case of bad journalism each week (of course, we might have to give it a more acceptable name such as the 'Deborah Coddington' award).
The Deborah Coddington Memorial Award. Now that has a nice ring to it.
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it just seems polite to address everyone -- regardless of gender -- according to their expressed preference.
Absolutely. When I made that remark I was thinking of the 'not being able to get title and surname right', which I'm pretty sure is a bigger issue for women than men.
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Sorry, irrelevant rant, but it gets on my wick. :)
Not really. Not when we're talking about who gets to identify us as what.
This annoys heaping helpings of women, apparently, if recent discussions in my LJ circle are anything to go by.
Naming conventions in KAOS, which turned into 'don't call me Mrs Blarg'
A blog about swearing which turned into women complaining about being called 'Susie' and 'Izzy
I'll stop link-whoring now.
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How does anyone get from the New Zealand Party to the Communist Party? That's jumping a few tracks to say the least.
I know someone who went from the NZP to the Alliance. That's practically the same thing, right? All that Billy Bragg was probably a tipper.
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Shrubbery. Am I the only person who can't see the word "Shrubbery" without immediately thinking "Neep!"???
Tom, I think you mean "ni!".
Indeed, as I was typing it, I was thinking, heh, I said 'shrubbery'.
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You do have to steel yourself when the people like the Russell Browns [Public Address blogger] attack you. You get used to it, but I didn't realise I'd get used to it quite so quickly. It really stung the first time.
I think I can clear this up. About six weeks ago, my daughter adopted a hedgehog, which lives in our shrubbery. Being a hedgehog, we named it after Russell. This is obviously the smaller Russell's work
No wonder it stung the first time.
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My new-entrants teacher friend is pretty emphatic about the value of the special-ed advice from "bureaucrats" that has become available to her in the past few years.
I was talking to my daughter's audiologist yesterday. In June, 'the gummint' is bringing in hearing testing for newborns. Because the heads of newborn babies are often, through no fault of their own, full of fluid, this is going to lead to a lot of false negatives - children being picked up with a hearing problem who don't have one.
But even with the earlier pick-up, the testing is going to increase the workload for the Special Education advisors. Currently in Canterbury, there are two and a half advisors covering more than four hundred deaf and hearing-impaired children.
Either they need to employ more advisors - which Key clearly isn't going to do - or increase the workload of the ones they've got, decreasing the service they provide. And as a recipient of that service, I can confidently say that if it deteriorates any further, they may as well sack 'em, because it simply can't get any worse and still exist.