Wonderful to see the always lovely Rita Moreno on the late show with Steven Colbert last night and as iconoclastic and feisty as ever. Beautiful person. They dont make 'em like her anymore.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Monday, August 30, 2021
harrassment journals no 3. 31/08/2021
How do you like this one?
wrote a letter to the new manager of Carter Court asking if they would relocate my neighbour.
One person in this block has had to move because of his offensive behaviour and unwanted advances. They could not stand his continual perving at them and asking for 'it' and getting angry when turned down.
I know they have other blocks for men only down Brooklyn Rd.
This guy has started attending groups I go to when I am not there and then saying he cant come anymore in case I get angry.
anyway while I was away he accosted two females visiting my unit in my absence.
and he smokes in his unit when he is not supposed to and it is getting up my nose.
I am a non smoker and should not have to put up with it.
I complained to the management and I got a letter back that was hand delivered out of hours with no postmark and had been already opened.
not good enough at all.
fb funnies 31/08/2021...
For those with strong enough stomachs, reading the comments threads in the Herald can be an enlightening - if not exactly salutary - experience.
It does at least provide a useful insight into what drives what is presumably an important sector of the Herald’s readership - and it also offers an understanding of why the Herald finds it advantageous to pursue its current editorial line.
The comments are usually made in response to a Herald report or opinion piece which is critical of some aspect of the government’s handling of the coronavirus epidemic. The comments, by a large majority, endorse and amplify the criticism - no surprise there.
But what is likely to take the casual reader by surprise is the vitriol emitted by so many of the contributors. For many of them, it is not enough to deplore or lament this or that supposed failing of the government; it is the government itself that is the target.
And the comments are not just critical or dismissive of the government - they bespeak a visceral hatred of the government and especially of the Prime Minister. It is as though they are outraged at the very fact of the government’s existence - as though it is an offence against nature that it should be in office and responsible for our affairs.
We should not be surprised, perhaps, at this evidence that - for some people - the very concept of government (and this government in particular) is anathema. There is increasing evidence around the world, after all, of a rising tide of extreme right-wing opinion, characterised by a conviction that government is a conspiracy against them, and that its every action and policy must be resisted.
The pity of it is that our media - if the Herald is anything to go by - are all too likely, not only to reflect these distorted views, but to amplify and broadcast them, with the result that the values upon which our country has always been built are being lost - and we are all worse off as a result.
Bryan Gould
30 August 2021
Sunday, August 29, 2021
Saturday, August 28, 2021
facebook funnies 29/08/2021...
Signs and symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder and the severity of symptoms vary.
* Have an exaggerated sense of self-importance
* Have a sense of entitlement and require constant, excessive admiration
* Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
* Exaggerate achievements and talents
* Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance
* Believe they are superior and can only associate with equally special people
* Monopolize conversations and belittle or look down on people they perceive as inferior
* Expect special favors and unquestioning compliance with their expectations
* Take advantage of others to get what they want
* Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
* Be envious of others and believe others envy them
* Behave in an arrogant or haughty manner, coming across as conceited, boastful and pretentious
* Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office
be thankful...
What colonialism has done for NZ:
pork, potatoes, pumpkins, peas
beef, sheep, wheat
Nails, hammers, saws, axes.
boats, big macs, electricity.
Cars, jetskis, hardly davisons.
Cars, aeroplanes, metal fishhooks, roads, soap, baths.
scuba diving gear
Cars, trains radio television
guitars, ukeleles, harmonicas
telephones
running water
modern medicine
THE RULE OF LAW!
Friday, August 27, 2021
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