Yep . . . right on Anne
They aren't really female solkta, they are androgynous, gender neutral and eternal - like Peter Pan - oops . . . he's male. How did that happen?
I really do think that it is quite irresponsible to say "Don't bother doing anything about this, because LOOK AT THIS!!" How about doing something about both? I do think that American influence is something to be aware of and push back against, but there ...
OK Lucy I see where you're coming from but there's a bit of PC gone mad in it as well. I know about Coca Cola's invention and how it changed St Nicholas. I'm also aware of the nauseating American adherence to this actually quite harmless little con. As a ...
Having read some of the comments I have now scrolled to the bottom to make mine. To strip away all the niceties, police are an arm of the law, which in turn is a collection of rules and regulations about how society is expected to operate and the various ...
We had a mortgage with Westpac. Not our choice, but Westpac swallowed up Trustbank who we were originally with. Weren't happy, but what can you do. The interest rate wasn't too bad so we stayed, vowing to change when the mortgage went. Remember how they ...
I notice also dukey that you used 'bought' instead of 'brought'. Oh, whoops, there goes me correcting you. Dang!
Ok ok - I accept that but it does appear that you exist on this site to troll all wrong sayers. You make it very hard to put across ideas (which you didn't comment upon, only saw fit to correct me on a detail) when I'm biting my nails wondering if dukey is...
OK nit-picker, you know what I mean!
I think it was George Bernard Shaw who said - "America is the only country in the history of the world to have gone from a pioneering state to a state of decadence without any intervening period of civilisation." Probably a bit of an exaggeration, but not ...
Actually, the whole scenario in the US is a lot simpler than that, and is based on jealousy and longing. All those years ago they fought against and banished the soldiers of a class-ridden system embedded in a place called England. Over there there was a ...
Just read you comment now cleangreen. I agree, King Hal's speech is a spine tingler. But is it any better than - 'The quality of mercy is not strained . . .' or 'To be or not to be . . .' or 'Is this a dagger which I see before me . . .' Just goes to show ...
I'm replying to you Pete, but I am also agonisingly appealing to all, including journalists, to spell the name correctly! tahr = the boundary separating Greek and Turkish-occupied Cyprus, named after the Attila Plan, a secret Turkish plan of 1964 to ...
Socialism is a very broad term. Dictionary definition - "A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole." And now a ...
No leftie, it isn't like that. Justice and equity are absolutes. Socialism is a spectrum, where extreme versions of it are just as damaging as capitalism, but in a different way.
Gosman, sneering at a typo is about your level. You just enjoy lobbing firecrackers into the mix, don't you? As in 2.1, and 2.1.1.1 - same again, and again. Do you have a canker inside you that gnaws at your soul making you spit vitriol at anything you ...
Check your dictionary people - the word is 'thar' which is a Nepali word for a variety of goat. Th other word 'tahr' is a political Greek/Turkish boundary line.
If you think about it, there has been a serious outbreak of a rampant and unstoppable disease which MFAT has no hope of even containing. It is most evident on the blue benches and is known to us all as Foot (and) in Mouth Disease. The Nats have caught it ...
Well Antoine that is really interesting. The fact that 'consumer confidence is down' appears in a "business" article in the grandmere of journalism says absolutely zilch. Both of these ethereal and purely perceptual concepts are nothing more than what ...
"you're" James, "you're"
Nice as that might be Anne, it would be stooping to their level, and the coalition (Labour-led, of course) is showing fine restraint in not doing so. I really hope they continue to be the adults in the room.
I suspect there is a special place in hell reserved for those who, on the 125th anniversary of women's vote, stand on the steps of Parliament, IN FRONT OF 2 WOMEN and give the two-gun-Tex salute. What he should have done was stand behind and between them, ...
Two gun Tex and his gorgeous molls.
I just have to say with regard to the argie-bargie currently going on in Parliament between the 2 sides in the House - minutiae! Led by Bridges, the carefully framed and seriously delivered series of questions from the Nat side are in essence simply niggly...
Interesting and long winded piece by Mr Fisher. All RW logic set out for all to see. (dead cat) Wow! Ever noticed how David Bennett looks so much like Peter Dutton?
"Few in the media agree" !!!!!!!! WTF Ad? Are you talking about ZB, Herald and co? What else would you expect? I think you need to take a grip and truly understand the massive task across a very broad front that this government is facing. They are trying ...
It does seem that there is some fuzziness about trolls and trolling, and the whole concept is open to much subjectivity, However, Wikipedia has given me the best definition that I have found anywhere. "In Internet slang, a troll (/troʊl, trɒl/) is a person...
Remember that other totally partial idiot "speaker" we had with the last government, and the number of times he showed his true blue colours? Or is that another convenient thing to forget - along with the long list of JK's lies both in and out of ...
Fuck off James, it's tribal and you know it. It's like Trump's core support, unthinking, tub thumping, slogan waving and unwavering allegiance.
OK James, here it is - credibility is basically perceptual in essence, as is this elusive and slippery thing called business confidence. They are ephemeral in all aspects except the real effect they have on people's thinking. Few people are capable of ...
Jan M you are so right. I was teaching through that time too, and an experience I had when Tomorrow's Schools came in was the most traumatic of my career. As Principal of a small school in the Waikato, the School Committee became the Board of Trustees. ...
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