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Like trains. Doesn't like bullies. Trees are also cool. Works in Criminal Justice.


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So failed on s 16? Distress?

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Jedi-Councilesque.

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A one hour and three minutes long 'it's timeto go' video doesn't suggest a clear understanding of priorities.

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Part of me is looking forward to our local AVNJs spinning this.

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Paul's sister was sith material.

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Oh, and spoiler.

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Yet, when their respective spouses died, one went bat-shit evil, and the other wandered off to die alone.

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I know they're different people, but I struggle to differentiate him from that Erik guy who stabbed his mum. A very similar vibe, perhaps.

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A matter of time.

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Good lawyering.

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I appreciate, following the Ernst Young report, that an accounting degree is of course very manly indeed.

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Mine are all disloyalty cards.

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The idea that some degrees are more worthy than others is at very least an incredibly sexist idea. Touchy-feely sing kumbaya girly degrees cf manly engineering, b com, business degrees.

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It's nit like the internet can be trolled for shifty memes from home.

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On my death bed I'm going to regret not spending more time being shitty to people - because there's nothing like impending demise to make a person reflect on the important things.

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...and he was. Add in keeping Fonterra's fine to cover cost of prosecution, when the Judge asked that it go towards the town of Eltham. Also, TRC at that time, "the people of eltham Don't want us to prosecute."

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Was he in the chair when TRC rather disingenuously reported the cleanest water in nz, year after year - or was that before his time?

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Ta. If it's beyond a person who has significant experience as a director of various entities and a regional council chair, then it's probably a miracle anyone gets through... Also, I do appreciate your willingness to answer such queries.

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How convoluted is the maze, the minefield, the labyrinth of making declarations as a political candidate? You know, on a scale of one to ten.

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A tragedy-comedic fall from the mainstream to performance by way of petty Assault. Both sad and pathetic.

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Also the venue on new zealand's 1976 Olympic hockey gold, as an aside.

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No doubt the usual suspects will be praying for his soul, whilst also praying that the result goes against him.

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Tomorrow, keep an ear out for Triffids.

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I get that the only true test of seeing if someone is ministerial is giving them a tilt. But Lee did nothing in a do-nothing (constructive) government. To me, it seems she got the heave-ho for looking bad on TV that time, rather than a failure to deliver (nothing).

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It's very much a 'make libraries safe for people we approve of' campaign. The cost of which is to make libraries less safe for all of us. Add in a touch of not trusting parents to navigate their children through the complexities of life without the assistance of intolerant vice signalers.

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I feel regret that my only visit to DC passed without a metro ride.

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I think in part his struggle to understand that stuff is 'diversifying' by producing the news content is that it sounds like 'diversity,' and that word is triggering for him.

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Of you want to know the best way to get from the mall to Arlington, the best way is to try not to go to Arlington and there you are!

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Same. Educated my whole life in the area, had to wait for a 2nd year undergraduate paper to learn any of this.

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Fuck no. It's as burnt into my memory as 9/11.

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Lies are like cigarettes, they are no more dangerous than a cup of coffee.

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This is the one where my local body, the STD Council supported the mining and submitted some photos of the sea floor that looked awful - and the local dive club submitted photos of the same sea floor that were full of life.

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My wife's 21 yo nephew who doesn't watch news knows all the pseudo-theories of pre-Maori settlement. "Why aren't they recognized?" He asks. 3 reasons. 1, they don't fit any definition of 'indigenous, ' 2, they never signed a treaty with the British Empire, and 3, they never existed.

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I'm not sure how old you are, but I'm 55, and my first election was 1987. 2020 was the first time I got to practically the average age for an mp. So I've had 11 elections where power was held by people older than me who didn't give a shit about our life raft hurtling through space.

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A lot of people appear to be learning about s 106 for the first time today. The outrage is near frenzy. Apropos of nothing at all, I wonder which law firm will get the brief should they get the funds together?

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Assuming he left the Police on good terms he may well go back.

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I love this wall. It defies every other wall in history in that it appears to neither have kept anything out nor in, nor to have retained anything. It is simply a wall, therefore it is. Kind of like what a rock would be.

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I saw something I didn't expect to see in my lifetime the other day. The maths teacher from our local high school in our local bookshop ordered 30 scientific calculators. There were none in stock, and there might be a delay in delivery. I hope there's enough in the country.

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Nah, it's easy to scrap because it's for others.

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He's made of asbestos, which is better for you than a surprising array of everyday things.

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I'm surprised the conspiracy theorists aren't all over it.

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Was it outside a wedding?

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I've got the slow horses.

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I refuse to accept that humans weight 62 kg.

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Wouldn't it be a recycled metal patio?

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I have time for the magical notion that Europe is somehow homogeneous.

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"First they came for our Nazi salutes." -Free Speech Union (attributed).

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Turns out it was a "marketplace for groceries," rather than a marketplace of ideas.

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In one of the "Dirty Harry" films she even stood behind a rocket launcher. But a man saved her.

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Yes, but it's coupled with a "be horrible" vibe.

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