Posts by Emma Hart
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D'Brickashaw, classic.
but i just wonder, if people don't know for sure, why do they put "mr" instead of leaving you without a title? i'd prefer a "dear anjum" to a "dear mr rahman".
I've asked this question a couple of times, because I refuse to use a title as much as possible. It seems several data entry programs have 'title' as a required field. The person entering your information can't send the form unless they have something in that field.
So, there's another thing programmers are to blame for.
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it was the most awful experience, with noisy kids, food spillages, and parents who had nothing else to talk about except their own kids.
I still feel like this, did so all through my own children's birthday parties. I particularly can't stand parents who can only talk about children and who won't admit that all babies look exactly the same.
Should David become one of said, I shall feel compelled to pop around for a quick mercy killing.
Babies do make good platforms for books while breastfeeding, though.
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Gods ok, it's his bloody fan clubs that piss me off.
Maybe we could all pitch in and buy Bishop Brian one of these...
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But if you happen to believe there is no god then the whole anthem becomes a bit much - and the Maori version of it even more so.
For me the anthem can be consdiered inclusive of most religious folks, but what about non-religious folks?
I'm an Atheist myself. I find it mildly annoying. In an ideal world, I'd like to see that and the bloody parliamentary prayer out the door. The thing is, as my best friend the singing teacher tells me, people don't listen to lyrics. Normal people, that is. I had an interesting argument last year with an English coworker about who had the worst a)flag and b)national anthem. They're supposed to be embarrassing, aren't they?
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You win the prize for the scariest sounding dinner table. I think I'd rather say Grace than discuss OSS, agnostic though I am.
It's about the only dinner conversation I get that doesn't involve the phrase 'hit points'.
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If that doesn't work he could always run TV ads for PA based around girls in bikinis.
If he could get the girls from the Tui brewery? Phwoah.
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Not many (perhaps any) comments from females either....looks RB's identified a means by which to get (approx) half the population to opt out.
a) I've been having the 'Bish Tamaki is a moron' discussion so often the last few days I'm all worn down in the indignation stakes
b) If I wanted to discuss open source and various programming idiocies I'd sit down at my dinner table.
I did, however, sit down last year when my kids' school decided to make everyone sing the national anthem at school assemblies and go through the lyrics. To my surprise, I didn't find anything in there that the large contingent of Muslim immigrants would find really alienating. That whole 'bonds of love, at thy feet' thing takes on a whole new light if you're picturing a sort of pagan Horned God type deity too. That's the sort of mental picture one needs to drag one's sorry arse through yet another school assembly.
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My guess is wherever Adam goes, women tell him they're unavailable because they're lesbians.
Or, on mature reflection, women tell him they're unavailable because he's a dickhead, and he assumes they're lesbians.
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My favourite is from "Adam", who reckons the latest column, "highlights what is wrong with our society, too many lesbians."
I have to know where Adam is spending his nights out, because this has SO not been my experience.
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I happened across this today, which might be, well, relevant to the tangent, anyway...
<qoute> Researchers at the University of Warwick say sexual orientation, as well as gender, affects navigation skills, reports the Daily Telegraph.
They claim straight men perform better at map reading than gay men who in turn perform better than lesbians, who in turn do better than straight women.
Data was taken from over 198,000 people aged 20-65 years (109,612 men and 88,509 women).</quote>
I did talk to my partner about the differences between men and women. He says women are like Win95: they pretend to be able to multitask, but in fact are just switching and degrading their overall performance.
And men are like DOS. If you don't type in EXACTLY what you want done at the prompt, they'll just sit in the corner doing nothing.