atw: Re: National Broadband Network and empathy
- From: Rod Stuart <rod.stuart@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:20:32 +1000
Overnight I realised where that phrase of a kid saying that runs around it
my head.........it has nothing to do with the USA it's KEVIN BLOODY WILSON,
"A Christmas Carol".
On 26 August 2010 13:31, Terry Dowling <Terrence.Dowling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Gedday Rod,
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> Interesting parable.
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> How are you enjoying your move to Tasmania? I assume we were almost
> neighbours back when you(?) lived in Innaloo (I would've said Perth, but I
> notice you're still not far from Perth).
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> Purely on an 'writing interest' level, I'm keen to know the source of the
> Americanisms. I wonder whether Virginia -- with her "mom" who supports the
> "Green Party" and who sees people begging on the "sidewalk" and tells her
> mom to stick her sign up her "ass" -- is a fresh import from the US?
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> Or are you from the US? Or does the language go with the story/politics?
> Or…?
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> I'm also fascinated to note that "victimless" crimes you directed us to
> include not wearing helmets and seatbelts, when statistics (if you believe
> them) show that these are key factors in reducing road deaths -- and if you
> think the only person affected by the death is the dead person, well, I'd
> say you're either heartless or have never seen/known someone who has died.
> (I was first on scene at a double fatality of folk I didn't know and it
> affected me greatly.) And smoking as victimless when the addiction means
> people can't easily give up, the ads were targeted at the 'stupid'* who
> think it's cool or who succumb to peer pressure? And what about the victims
> of second hand smoke? I'm a low-level victim as I have pterygiums on my eyes
> as a result of having worked in confined conditions with smokers.
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> [*BTW, I saw some stats several years ago that showed the average IQ of
> smokers was something like 10 points below non-smokers. The study didn't go
> into whether you had to be less intelligent to smoke or whether smoking made
> you less intelligent.]
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> Cheers,
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> Terry
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Rod Stuart
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