Posts by giovanni tiso
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What, that's it? A dozen twitter entries? After you got free entry, I'm expecting nothing less than an Ernst Hemingway-like account of the heroics at the Cake Tin, full of sentiment and pathos. Get to work, Green.
(Although, I must say, of all days you could spend at a cricket game, you chose one concurrent with the conclusion of a truly magnificent test at the SCG. I doubt that many local fans of the game were focusing on the conclusion of the Wellington rubber while Smith padded up with a broken hand to try and save the game for Sourth Africa. What a giant.)
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I've been trying to visit it for ten years, but to no avail. It's like one of those tantalising videogame locations that you ought to be able to explore, but you can't, and they didn't bother to render them up close but only as a distant landscape.
Plus I hear the mayor is a dick. So maybe Philip Dick?
It's just a theory, mind.
Taihape, on the other hand, exists and is magnificent. The Taihape Motel in particular is like one of those videogame locations rendered in perfect detail, I could spend hours flicking all the bits around. Great touch those Greek owners.
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Whereas I've come to the conclusion that Auckland doesn't exist. Aside from the motorway and the airport. And the skytower, which is probably made of painted balsa wood anyhow.
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The Triptographer
Oooohhh... excellent!
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And that looks like my bike at left.
Why, were you wondering where you had left it?
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I think Giovanni made the right decision not to join such a poorly thought out protest.
I'm not saying it was, nor that you can police all behaviour, although you should certainly strive to discipline some. I'd just like to know, from somebody who was there (I know better than to trust media accounts) what the content of the demonstration was, its general thrust, and whether it made a stand regarding that stunt or others.
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I'm only asking whether that gesture is really the thing most deserving of disgust.
Oh, there's plenty of disgust to go around. Being angry at an idiot close to home does not render me unable of being angrier at armed criminals far from home. But even with that sense of proportion firmly in place, I do happen to think that how we demonstrate against this war is genuinely important, although you wouldn't know it by the fact I didn't bother to get involved. So I'll shut up.
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Paint on a monument? A little less so, IMO.
What does that comparison even mean? Shouldn't you rather ask yourself to what extent, if any, spilling red paint on the monument of a politician who was murdered for urging the signing of the Oslo piece accords does anything to advance the cause of peace?
My personal decision not to go on that march, which I'm in no way trying to glorify, was based on a suspicion: that we wouldn't close rank against something like this. Well, did we? Could somebody who was there tell us how it went? What were the slogans, what was written on the placards?
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An Israel support group has condemned a Catholic priest who splattered red paint over a memorial toformer Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
He did what?!
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Lovely story, Hilary.