Posts by Che Tibby
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heck, probably the one thing about being in mount maunganui is the bare-feet. it means that the second i'm home here in wellington the shoes are off.
and yup, driving without shoes is one of lifes little pleasures. especially the prickly walk from the forecourt to the counter across the little tiny stones.
they make my feet tingle all the way to the nape of my neck.
awesome.
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jesus david...had you posted this before we met i might have given you a comforting hug.
mount maunganui college was shit, but at least the bullying was minimal by comparison (though gruelling at the time).
the only semi-famous alumni i can think of is david skilling, of the new zealand institute, and some bloke who played for the all blacks. i forget who.
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god, red lambrusco... i remember drinking litres of it at the original la porchetta in carlton, melbourne. it was like $4 a bottle, and therefore, a must.
you can buy it from the med warehouse here in wellington at a pretty reasonable price. fantastic chilled and served with summer salads
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The comparison with road death reporting is interesting. Here in the UK we just get obsessive reporting of young, usually black, urbanites knifing each other and there is a panic over it
i can't double-check the stat right now because the person who showed it to me is out of the office, but i remember that ~52% of 'misadventure' fatalities in new zealand are vehicle-related.
so what you have there is a person not coming home from work to their family, because of an accidental death directly related to some sort of proximity to a vehicle.
could someone tell me how that's worse than a murder? does it mean less grief for the partner? the children? the extended family?
tell you what it doesn't make.
the news.
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"They're full of mercury you know and when you break them you have to take them to a special dump" she said, proud of her empirical knowledge.
for the record i heard they contain less mercury than a tube of toothpaste. and certainly less than a amalgam filling.
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And before that there was the "wave" of murders in January that were pretty much in line with normal summer trends
<puts on work hat> fatalities of all kinds spike during the summer months.
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You could also surmise along these lines with respect to the 1970s crime wave: the baby-boomer cohort reached crime-committing age.
would be interesting to see what proportion of the reported crimes were drug-related.
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My guess is that we have a perception of control over our risk of death in a car
strangely, what both car crash and murder have in common is the invasion of my personal space by another individual.
but as you say, there is the misnomer that we can control car fatalities.
maybe we need to listen to cresswell and start installing intrusion airbags on *everyone*. and maybe some catalytic converters. i for one could use some help with my flatulence problem...
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We've been cold turkey on broadcast TV for a couple of years now...The TV news looked like Kabuki to me. Not just the heavy make-up and the weird costumes and sets, but the stylized gestures, the elaborate turns of phrase, the heightened artificiality of the whole thing
oh, i hear you. i find that every time i get near a tv now it magpie's me. so i actively ignore it.
but living without it is easy, and lowers my blood pressure. and when you can get tv on demand in from teh interwebs, why worry?
the last police drama i watched was "the wasp and the unicorn".
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If the silly apes see a lot of pictures of leopards, they will not distinguish them from real leopards, and will think about them all the time, and be extremely careful in case there is a leopard about.
although in cresswell's case it's probably parnell ladies with leopard-skin handbags. he's become so agitated by seeing them all swinging that he's gone home and whacked out his frustration on the keyboard?
that or he's using a tragic death to try and generate some traffic...
i'd expand on russell's advice. drop your tv viewing to only what's absolutely necessary. most news i see these days is as hysterical as that cresswell quote.
me? the picture of chillaxed.
mostly.