Posts by giovanni tiso
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Better for teh gayz, not so grate for the chicks.
Not too bad for the chicks either, at time and in places - certainly far better than elsewhere. How about Spain right now then?
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According to my unwritten thesis It's Cold Eh: Let's Socialise the Health System, sunshine and liberalism are incompatible.
Er... ancient Greece?
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Well, it's not illegal to be a practising Rasta, but it is illegal to smoke marijuana. And it's not illegal to be a Mormon, but it is illegal to have more than one spouse.
Yeah, and I'm fine with that. The day we start making special laws that allow people to do stuff others can do just because of their religion, I'll leave this merry country in a dinghy. I'm open to legalising marijuana and making marriage illegal regardless of the number of spouses, but let's not make special cases.
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The vanilla privilege thing... I don't know. Isn't it just another way of segmenting others? Sex, religion, race, class and politics (not to mention football, in some countries) have always been ways to identify and characterise, often with the conscious or subconscious intent of "othering", to borrow the verb from the post you linked to. I'll freely admit to changing my way of looking at somebody if I find out that they vote National, or that they're religious. I'm not saying I consciously ostracise them, or think less of them, but I sure am tempted and I can almost hear a little switch click in the old brain at the moment of realisation.
We strive for our society to be more inclusive and tolerant, less disriminating in its institutions. But it's not as if non-vanilla sexual practices are illegal, are they? Nor is practicing the muslim religion. It just puts you in another box. We strive to get rid of the boxes, to judge people on the content of their character as opposed to the contents of, say, the third drawer from the top of their bedroom dresser, but it's a process, it takes time. In the meantime I think this idea that people who are into S&M are somehow pariahs... I can't see it. It may be true, but I just haven't come across it.
And Emma... could you try in the future to write posts that don't stick in my brain for hours on end? I've got work to do, you know.
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If National were to dump Act in two years' time,
If National dumps Act and runs a strong candidate in Epsom, I'm not sure Act gets back into Parliament. I'm sure it will get mentioned in the odd heated meeting.
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"Excruciating", Giovanni.
Nah, I'll stand by that. Meaning 2 on ze deectionary.
a. To make thin or emaciated.
b. To reduce the strength of.It has a certain precision, I feel all extenuated right now.
Of course I'm also willing to take "boring".
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I'm so happy I'm not even going to read the post.
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And perhaps I'm a wee bit old fashioned, but genuine affection doesn't get turned into a cheap and silly photo op.
Week two of Craig jumping the shark over the NZ election. It's going to be an extenuating three years, friends.
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I'm with Craig on this. Nine years in office, how dare she enter a car? accept flowers? wave to so called "people"? I hope a commission of inquiry is swiftly launched to look into this and, more importantly, establish why nobody told me about it in time for me to hop on the number 1 bus.
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I like the way you guys think.