Good stuff, Arkie. In my day, maths used a horizontal line which showed what was divided by what. Without that horizontal line, how would a maths problem be written that goes 6 divided by a number 2 which is first multiplied by ( 1+2 ) also sitting under ...
Agreed, Well said, Mike. I am pleased to see we are sending ministers to China. Let's keep up the contacts and two way visits, people and politicians alike. I've been there. My daughter lived there. Who goes to war with people one has danced with, sung ...
It seems that, like St Patrick, St Gertrude was never formally canonised, nor did she especially champion our feline friends but rather chased away rodents herself. Like Patricius, she did exist......
..., refugees, alike that blessing. Beannacht. Mac1.
Brilliant, AB. Can you do the accent as well?
Great extended image, Thinker. I thought yesterday of the remaining National caucus members who, facing the prospect of another three years outside the tent in the blizzard eating corned beef and biscuit whilst looking in at the feasting, slink away to ...
Nothing more to be seen here than my simple error- aka 'oopsay'. Anything else is hearsay, seesay or I didn't say.
Oops! Started a new rumour. Of course, Helen White won. And best of luck to her from someone in provincial, southern Labour.......
This is (underlined) possibly something of an upset as Belich was rumoured to have head office support. Who feels there has been an upset or unpredicted outcome, when it depends on a rumour? That sounds like a rumour in itself- there is a rumour that there...
As AB hints at above ar #2, Monopoly has an interesting history. It was developed by a Quaker woman, Elizabeth Magie Phillips, a strong and independent, forthright character, and some friends. It was called the Landlord's Game and was developed to critique...
Here's Barack Obama giving his State of the Union address. Note the tie! He knows how to do 'formal'! https://www.obamalibrary.gov/timeline/first-state-union-address
Because he's pushing the "I speak for hard-working kiwis because I'm one of them" line. Look at me, I've taken my tie off and unbuttoned my shirt so I'm ready to do the hard yakker, like all you other working men. I'm the hard-mahi man, the suited warrior,...
I IRC, the nature of tragedy was that it had to be happening to a 'great' man. Us groundlings in the pit, we never got to be tragic......
You're lucky to have seen it; I have only got grrrr gnash wail SKY and heard it through my radio headphones whilst mowing lawns. The limits of the game just got extended with the win, the style, the guts and grim determination, the self belief and the pure...
" the works of someone who followed the life of a privileged person" I think they're called biographies...... or novels.... Shakespeare of course had Jaque tell of the seven ages of man in As You Like It and Dylan Thomas wrote Lament. Not sure if I'd want ...
Interesting to note that Luxon used a similar description of the timber companies and slash- "“It is the only sector I know that gets to internalise the benefit and to socialise the cost. We need to revisit practices. We need to revisit penalties and ...
In the words of the old blues song, "W stands for woman, woman keeps worrying me." Bald Lemon Luxon preachin' the Blues.
The definition did include 'often', It would be ironic to say that overseas owned extractive industries are socially responsible. My head now hurts.......
"Irony- a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result." My irony is that the forestry companies would never even consider amends. and yours is that a solution makes it all worse. ...
In the article on Huntly burning wood it says, "Genesis isn’t considering further imports of wood. Instead, it wanted to develop a local source of pellets or “biomass”, said interim chief executive Tracey Hickman. “It’s worth some focus by government and ...
I see, watching Parliament, that someone's nodding head is missing from behind Mr Luxon in the junior Whip's seat. Someone else is sitting in Maureen Pugh's pew!
woodart, she sits behind Luxon because she is the National party junior whip, as of 2021. Her job is to nod her head when Luxon speaks and mouth "That's right."
Thanks, Tony Veitch. From your citation, "The Kaikōura MP floated suggestions that warmer temperatures would not cause an increase in extreme rains - contrary to the Government's National Climate Change Risk Assessment (NCCRA) plan." Snort! Floated the ...
"(Stuart Smith for instance) ". Got some evidence for that, Tony? Love to see it. Is he a closet climate change denier or a closet Pugh supporter?
Yes, of much concern, but rather like climate change and global warming- noted, but no action. I think her point about algorithms is worth expanding because social media impinge on us, even more than what we used to complain about- the bloody papers. My FB...
A corollary of this is that a strong message has gone out from the centre-right to the nutter right wing that rationality and social cohesion are more important than blind oppositional defiance. A bit of 'me, too' politics but also importantly distancing ...
Blimey, "do not agree with Putin", that should have read.
Similar figures to those avoiding the draft in the US during the Vietnam War. "Some went to college or graduate school or faked medical conditions, while others fled to Canada. In all, half a million Americans dodged their Vietnam War service." https://www...
I wasn'r trying to be helpful to you so much as I knew you knew what MP meant in tsmithfield's context. I wanted to make a point generally about the reliance we put on others knowing what our contractions mean. I had to look up CGT used above at 3.1. In ...
'Braveheart' along with my name is what I used when facilitating change workshops. It was used to signify that to make changes in our lives a brave heart was needed. Ir seems that all of us have to have a brave heart to encompass the changes that living in...
Agreed. Brilliant commentary. Another dig was at Luxon's use of 'little' and his oh-too-often required explanation/rewording/repapering of his description of Te Tiriti as a "little experiment" by saying he meant the word "brave". The writer said there was ...
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