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NOT A LOT TO SAY THIS WEEK:
So I’ll be keeping it short, folks.
KIDZ IN SPACE:
I’m really liking ‘Downtime’. It’s ruling.
I’m hoping it doesn’t suck in a few weeks.
Like I know Gin’s track ‘Oh My’ will, with it’s overexposure.
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NOT A LOT TO SAY THIS WEEK:
So I’ll be keeping it short, folks.
KIDZ IN SPACE:
I’m really liking ‘Downtime’. It’s ruling.
I’m hoping it doesn’t suck in a few weeks.
Like I know Gin’s track ‘Oh My’ will, with it’s overexposure.
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HEADFIRST VS. REVERSE PARKING:
Who wins?
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SEINFELD:
Genius? Or re-run bore.
Who wins?
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SEINFELD:
Genius? Or re-run bore.
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THE NATIONAL PARTY:
…I’m going to be grinding my teeth a lot through this one. I get so frustrated that my thoughts get all mumbled and steamy.
Ok. So. National Party. I don’t understand why the media isn’t making a bigger deal of their Fuck Ups! I mean none of this is surprising to me, but let’s have a quick re-cap –
“Gee, what do ya know. The foreshore might be up for sale again.”
“Gee, what do ya know. Our National Parks can be mined for Money.”
“Gee, what do ya know. Our carbon emissions are going to be uncapped and sold off.”
“Gee, what do ya know. Millions are going to be spent having a “Referendum”
(READ: A farcical poll on which National can and will either fudge and/or ignore the end result)
on whether or not we should do away with an MMP Government and go back to the old system of First Past The Post to basically ensure that Government becomes the Wealthy Self-Serving White Man’s Club it once was, and like any Respectable Government should be.”
Everything they’ve done so far has been touched on only slightly by the media, but even now I can see these as the beginning points of catastrophe down the line.
I can’t talk about politics too much. In fact, I try to ignore it because it’s just too depressing and the behaviour of many in government(s) disgusts me to the point of speechlessness, but I do feel the need to say this:
New Zealand CANNOT WITHSTAND ANOTHER TERM WITH A NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.
Well, Ok, it could if it had to, but the damage the next government will have to clean up chills me to the bone, and by then we may not even own parts of the country. Instead of “Welcome To Hamilton” it’ll be “Vodafone Presents: Hamilton! A subsidiary suburb of Coke presents Russia”.
There are too few people doing everything they can to line the pockets of themselves and their upper-class mates. Poverty is on the rise. The planet is taking a bashing like never before as humans try to rape and pillage the little that is left. John Key and his mates are doing very little to help change this.
And all you John lovers out there, PLEASE. Feel free to try and convince me I’m wrong! I’d LOVE to hear somebody talk some good about him…
PATEA:
Love it. Go check out the museum if you’re ever there. Yeah, I rolled my eyes too, but it’s actually fuckin’ great. Patea began as one of the main ports of the island, but once New Plymouth took over it became a virtual ghost town. The history of that place is actually really fuckin’ interesting. It took me an hour and a half to get through because I actually read everything, which is more than I can say about the atrocious American theme park that is Te Papa. More on that particular subject at a later date.
…I’m going to be grinding my teeth a lot through this one. I get so frustrated that my thoughts get all mumbled and steamy.
Ok. So. National Party. I don’t understand why the media isn’t making a bigger deal of their Fuck Ups! I mean none of this is surprising to me, but let’s have a quick re-cap –
“Gee, what do ya know. The foreshore might be up for sale again.”
“Gee, what do ya know. Our National Parks can be mined for Money.”
“Gee, what do ya know. Our carbon emissions are going to be uncapped and sold off.”
“Gee, what do ya know. Millions are going to be spent having a “Referendum”
(READ: A farcical poll on which National can and will either fudge and/or ignore the end result)
on whether or not we should do away with an MMP Government and go back to the old system of First Past The Post to basically ensure that Government becomes the Wealthy Self-Serving White Man’s Club it once was, and like any Respectable Government should be.”
Everything they’ve done so far has been touched on only slightly by the media, but even now I can see these as the beginning points of catastrophe down the line.
I can’t talk about politics too much. In fact, I try to ignore it because it’s just too depressing and the behaviour of many in government(s) disgusts me to the point of speechlessness, but I do feel the need to say this:
New Zealand CANNOT WITHSTAND ANOTHER TERM WITH A NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.
Well, Ok, it could if it had to, but the damage the next government will have to clean up chills me to the bone, and by then we may not even own parts of the country. Instead of “Welcome To Hamilton” it’ll be “Vodafone Presents: Hamilton! A subsidiary suburb of Coke presents Russia”.
There are too few people doing everything they can to line the pockets of themselves and their upper-class mates. Poverty is on the rise. The planet is taking a bashing like never before as humans try to rape and pillage the little that is left. John Key and his mates are doing very little to help change this.
And all you John lovers out there, PLEASE. Feel free to try and convince me I’m wrong! I’d LOVE to hear somebody talk some good about him…
PATEA:
Love it. Go check out the museum if you’re ever there. Yeah, I rolled my eyes too, but it’s actually fuckin’ great. Patea began as one of the main ports of the island, but once New Plymouth took over it became a virtual ghost town. The history of that place is actually really fuckin’ interesting. It took me an hour and a half to get through because I actually read everything, which is more than I can say about the atrocious American theme park that is Te Papa. More on that particular subject at a later date.
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TRIBAL PARENTING:
The only way to go. You might be able to do it without a village, but it sure does take a load off the parents. I believe it’s better for all involved.
The only way to go. You might be able to do it without a village, but it sure does take a load off the parents. I believe it’s better for all involved.
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SOME KIDS:
Some kids are just hideous. And what’s worse is, I think the parents of hideous children know it, and get so tired of telling them to stop/yelling/spitting/swearing/demanding that they just give up, and the child gets to go on being hideouser and hideouser because the world has gotten so PC that people aren’t as willing to tell other people’s children off as they once were.
I grew up with a solo mother who played A LOT of softball, so I always had at least 16 other women, 8 uncles, 4 aunties, many older cousins and countless second mothers ready to give me a swift kick up the arse if I played up. Which I hardly ever did because my mother was such a hard-arse bitch anyway that I was too scared to play up.
Some kids are just hideous. And what’s worse is, I think the parents of hideous children know it, and get so tired of telling them to stop/yelling/spitting/swearing/demanding that they just give up, and the child gets to go on being hideouser and hideouser because the world has gotten so PC that people aren’t as willing to tell other people’s children off as they once were.
I grew up with a solo mother who played A LOT of softball, so I always had at least 16 other women, 8 uncles, 4 aunties, many older cousins and countless second mothers ready to give me a swift kick up the arse if I played up. Which I hardly ever did because my mother was such a hard-arse bitch anyway that I was too scared to play up.
And I tell you what. I'm glad they did. I turned out more than alright, if I do say so myself.
And I tell you what else. My mother was right when she passed down that time-old piece of advice:
MANNERS WILL GET YOU EVERYWHERE.
My thoughts? Parents are too soft on their kids these days. Here’s a piece of advice:
If your child is loud, demanding, whiney, doesn’t use manners, and often gets their own way whenever they drop their lip and start crying and screaming, despite all your well intentioned, softly spoken, long worded Coddling, then you need to Change Your Style because
NEWSFLASH!!! IT ISN’T WORKING!!!
Don’t clasp your head exasperated and moan that you are at your wits end.
They are the CHIIIIIIIIIILD. You are the AAAADUUUUUULT.
It is THEM that has to deal with YOUR word, Fullstop.
It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A PARENT to get them to understand that.
If your child runs your life, then YOU are the problem.
Sort out your Bratty Children before they become Revolting Adults!!!
I do NOT like sharing the world with Revolting Adults.
About the only positive to that is that once they do become revolting adults, I don’t have to hold back on their arses.
My thoughts? Parents are too soft on their kids these days. Here’s a piece of advice:
If your child is loud, demanding, whiney, doesn’t use manners, and often gets their own way whenever they drop their lip and start crying and screaming, despite all your well intentioned, softly spoken, long worded Coddling, then you need to Change Your Style because
NEWSFLASH!!! IT ISN’T WORKING!!!
Don’t clasp your head exasperated and moan that you are at your wits end.
They are the CHIIIIIIIIIILD. You are the AAAADUUUUUULT.
It is THEM that has to deal with YOUR word, Fullstop.
It is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A PARENT to get them to understand that.
If your child runs your life, then YOU are the problem.
Sort out your Bratty Children before they become Revolting Adults!!!
I do NOT like sharing the world with Revolting Adults.
About the only positive to that is that once they do become revolting adults, I don’t have to hold back on their arses.
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‘H IS FOR HOMO’:
I ran into a friend whilst at a party in Patea in the weekend.
He lives in Whanganui/Wanganui, where they have recently decided that the ‘H’ in the name does count. Mayor Michael Laws is vehemently against this, and seems to have most of the uneducated, redneck, White population behind him.
My friends went to witness the antics at an ‘Anti H’ Protest, where people were carrying placards and chanting such Winner slogans as
“H is for Hate!”,
and “H is for Homo!”.
…Sorry guys, but Wanganui has not always been Wanganui. Sure, maybe during your lifetime, your parents lifetime, maybe even your grandparents and great grandparents… but that’s still only a hundred, hundred and twenty years or so at best. Not always, as some of you claim.
Personally, I can’t believe people care enough about adding a letter that they would actually go out in public and protest it with such an idiotic and pathetic execution of ideas.
That there are still people who can’t control their emotions and feel the need to spit on others because they don’t agree with their own views makes me cringe with disgust at the state of the human race.
I ran into a friend whilst at a party in Patea in the weekend.
He lives in Whanganui/Wanganui, where they have recently decided that the ‘H’ in the name does count. Mayor Michael Laws is vehemently against this, and seems to have most of the uneducated, redneck, White population behind him.
My friends went to witness the antics at an ‘Anti H’ Protest, where people were carrying placards and chanting such Winner slogans as
“H is for Hate!”,
and “H is for Homo!”.
…Sorry guys, but Wanganui has not always been Wanganui. Sure, maybe during your lifetime, your parents lifetime, maybe even your grandparents and great grandparents… but that’s still only a hundred, hundred and twenty years or so at best. Not always, as some of you claim.
Personally, I can’t believe people care enough about adding a letter that they would actually go out in public and protest it with such an idiotic and pathetic execution of ideas.
That there are still people who can’t control their emotions and feel the need to spit on others because they don’t agree with their own views makes me cringe with disgust at the state of the human race.
What's wrong with the letter H?
H is a letter too, man!
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H is for Hideous Hidiots.
H is for Hunreasonable Hatred and Hehaviour.
H is for Hoo gives a shit if they add an ‘H’ or not?
I can only think that people’s attitudes on this are rooted in one of the following:
1. Racism;
2. A lazy attitude to researching history, which will inevitably come back round to racism;
…in fact Racism is really the only thing I can come up with…
I’m not sure either way how I feel about, but I do know that if it was one way and we just got lazy with our pronunciation over the years (Think Para-param. Think Kahow-tra.) then it should go back to how it was. Before it’s lost forever in our own laziness. Why the hell not??
I think a nice quiet sit down at a historical library would probably sort things out, and then all the silliness can stop.
And again, people need to take a breath and think before they speak.
H is for Hideous Hidiots.
H is for Hunreasonable Hatred and Hehaviour.
H is for Hoo gives a shit if they add an ‘H’ or not?
I can only think that people’s attitudes on this are rooted in one of the following:
1. Racism;
2. A lazy attitude to researching history, which will inevitably come back round to racism;
…in fact Racism is really the only thing I can come up with…
I’m not sure either way how I feel about, but I do know that if it was one way and we just got lazy with our pronunciation over the years (Think Para-param. Think Kahow-tra.) then it should go back to how it was. Before it’s lost forever in our own laziness. Why the hell not??
I think a nice quiet sit down at a historical library would probably sort things out, and then all the silliness can stop.
And again, people need to take a breath and think before they speak.
Nobody thinks you’re cool for spitting on someone simply because it’s the only retaliatory action your tiny little brain can think of.
And believe me, if they do, then they’re even dumber than you are.
And believe me, if they do, then they’re even dumber than you are.
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CHRISTMAS APPROACHING:
Ugh.
Ugh.
Does anyone look forward to Christmas anymore? Apart from children, and those who are having First Christmas With Baby.
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BELLE DYING ON HOME AND AWAY:
Dumb.
It should have been MARTHA.
Lata.
Dumb.
It should have been MARTHA.
Lata.
I totally agree with your H in Whanganui comments. I've only been in NZ for 6 years, so I don't have a long history here and that might make me less tied to place names, but the backlash against the H can only be coming out of racism. It's like somehow people see to think no H means the Pakeha own the city, and with H means the Maori own it. Very strange. Everybody owns it. Just spell it right.
ReplyDeleteSame thing with suburb Hataitai in Wellington. Four or so years ago they considered changing it to the correct 'Whataitai' but the Council said nope. That came and went without a murmer though. Being a fan of the Whataitai/Ngake story, and living in Hataitai at the time, I wished they would have fixed it!