Posts by kmont
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I just watched the ad again too. It really is pitch perfect and totally gender neutral to boot. I think why the kiwi ones work and the Aussie ones provoke discomfort (maybe not a bad thing?) is that the message of the kiwi one is community ownership and responsibility, a kind of "own your shit and change is possible" kind of message, were as the Aussie one focuses on the damage.
I literally have no idea where he is coming from with the criticism. If Ralston is really concerned about negative messages about men in the media, get in and promote positive images of kiwi manhood by all means, but don't go writing badly researched BS. It's just morally and intellectually lazy.
And can I just take a minute to say that I'm really hugely touched by the profound civility of this thread? It's an issue on which I know I can be brittle, and this is without a doubt the nicest domestic violence discussion I've ever been a part of.
'tis isn't it
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More.
Someone should pay Keith handsomely for being Keith.
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Don't toy with me Sasha. Befriend me on facebook and give me a job ;-)
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I liked them a lot too. Not least, because I felt good at them, but also because they were tests you didn't and couldn't prepare for, which were my kind of tests.
Exactly. No pressure really because there is nothing you can do to prepare you just have to focus and reason.
I got assessed as having a 16 year old reading age at 10 years old. I failed school certificate and then I got an A in bursary.
The vagaries of the system eh.
Wagging? Did it occasionally. Got away with it because I was a 'good citizen' in the words of my school principal. I managed to walk past him on the street while wagging and smile sweetly, he must have thought I was on the way to the dentist.
I was in the top class of an achedemically undemanding school.
For what it is worth, I would LOVE to be self-employed and I can see the appeal of technical writing.
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Stupid Craft Zine and it's stupid awesome jewelry
I really want one of those now. And a pony (could do with a lifesized carousel pony for our Christmas party).
I am really excited about Bunnies on Ponies for the TAWAs, good work whoever pulled it off.
PONIES!
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I was just on the phone to my mum, she suggested we could pee on the blue to make it green.
I like it, I like it.
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In fact, the most complaints I ever heard along that score were about Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"
Really! It has been a long while since I read that but I remember being pretty disturbed by it. In fact, I think it is actually the most disturbing thing I have ever read. I survived Cioran only to get floored by Sylvia Plath, maybe it is a girl thing.....
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Cheers Stephen, I was loving the duck myself.
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While searching for the correct spelling of skootch I came across this:
twife [contraction of it-wife] n.Nonhuman spouse, partner in an interspecies or intermaterial marriage. Proposed by a right-wing politician as a tongue-in-cheek rider to a tax increase bill he opposed, this bid to widen the definition of marriage to include animals and inanimate objects found unexpected acceptance . Conceived in a satirical spirit to indicate the sorry state of morals that would come about if gay marriage were legalized, the rider was seen by the public as an expression of a true, secret desire. The politician was acclaimed for his bravery, and despite his denials became the darling of the nation. Later, he acceded to the wish of all and made an ornamental shrub his twife, becoming the harbinger of a new era in which the material world was seen as joined by bonds of love and fealty. Not only that, but the rights accruing to spouses enabled the numerous Americans who became husbands and wives of local bodies of land or water (many went so far as to propose marriage to the earth itself) to push through far-reaching environmental protection laws, buoyed by the support of sentimental voters. The possibility of being wedded to the world made people feel sexy just walking around, and the sense of commonality with material things made death less dreadful to many. The smoke caressed its twife, the chimney; clods adored the spade; the mongoose pledged his troth to the steam engine. The world was bound together by secret—but legal—bonds of love.
....and I couldn't help but think of this thread and be tickled by the connection.
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While looking for the correct spelling of "skootch" I stumbled upon the most fabulous bibliophile/nonsense loving site and yet again I regret missing a librarian themed party last weekend.