Posts by Just thinking
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I had a Sunday lunch with a girlfriends sisters family who were this sincere about the evils of Witches.
I'm sure there's a Pastor somewhere kicking himself he didn't take up the vampire crusade before HBO.
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To follow on from self deluded fools.
Garth George has done a number on Pope Brian.
What scares me is the direct oath to him and the excuse to act to offend others in defense of Brian. That's a licence to kill.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10605956&pnum=0
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Privatising of Water leads to deprivation.
The rich pay less and have better serives and the poor pay more for less.
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Scorpio has vintage hardcore porn for sale, it made me blush & a little quezzey - just next to the Architecture section Emma ;)
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I've got a friend whose Dad is Austrian living in Australia, a sweet, quiet and almost timid man.
He has a few scars from his childhood there and a little bitter over his dealings with his past employer and some issue about his retirement fund in Oz..
He hides at parties but once it all dies down you can have a good long pleasant chat with him.The story that stays with me is of him as a 17yr old (virgin) befriending a girl, who he latter found out was a prostitute. The deprevation of their collective situations ment no-one judged each other as each made their way the best they could and her kindness to him, kept him from hunger on more than one occasion. Of course they lost touch when he moved out to Australia.
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Little Hagley is an interesting space.
Set aside for Maori it was stated as being too close to nice neighbourhoods for that. This was by Councillors in the 1980s. -
Yes and Hagley is under threat again. Canty Cricket want to fence the heart of it off for a new stadium.
Need we say the C-word ... Conservatorium. And before you say it is a bout music, it's not.
http://canterburyheritage.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html
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Philip Matthews, point taken. That paragraph is superflous to the point I made above it & not where I wanted to go and why I didn't comment last night on this.
But as a critic I'm sure he can deal with it.
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Sorry some detail may be required here.
Cathedral Grammer exists on both sides of Chester St West and has gates at either end of the Street which are closed during school hours. The obvious extention of this is the closure of the Street for the benefit of a Private School. Contrast the deprevation of Aorangi School.
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Christchurch is multifaceted.
The old boys would have you believe it's theirs but I can tell you there is a strong current for social good (yes they are mutually exclusive) in Christchurch.
The various colours have always been on display and the streets are very much a contested space. From the Irish on Irish riot on Manchester St a centuary ago to (which continued every St Paddys Day). to 1981, & Aorangi Schools proposed closure vs Cathedral Grammers theft of Chester St West.