My patience is being sorely tested by all these reckless reckons and their callous, ostrich-like underpinnings. If there were even a modicum of good faith about engaging in genuine and transparent debate, like 'hey guys, can we put our heads together and try to figure out what is the best way for all of us in our plucky team of five million to get out of Dodge safely, and here's what our (named) experts have advised us and can they talk with yours (in a respectful manner, Fran!) and let's see where that gets us' - then that actually would be useful. I'm sure the government isn't so arrogant to think it has the franchise on good ideas. But no, its all about point scoring and game playing and appealing to sectional interests at the expense of the greater good and continuously sniping and undermining the collective effort and making out as if incompetent, lazy Boris-clowns are in charge, when the overall state of play tell us its quite the opposite. The moral recklessness of playing politics over peoples lives and livelihood is not anything remotely approximating good leadership. Its utterly unforgiveable.
I love this format and as a former English teacher, I can tell you, the speeches are spot on. There's always that kid who relies on a whiff of past charisma, another who just turns up and does something random, and the group who think some sort of distracting role play will cover up their total lack of ideas and research. 10/10 column.
It seems great intellects can not comprehend that we have, if currently by a fine margin, a near unique status. Any appeal to look overseas for 'how to handle it' is just going to result in a worse outcome.
Wheeling on Charles Darwin reminded me of “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex” - was he being intentionally ambiguous in leaving open the possibility that, when it comes to the imperative to actually survive as a species, we may be on a downward trajectory? He wrote of our compulsion to do good (in the superior white patriarchal language of 1871):
"With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. … The aid we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, ... Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature."
So, either John, David, Judith and Paul have simply reverted to 'savagery' or they have heard the call of Gia and are repressing their humanity in favour of the health of the planet by doing what they can to decimate the homo sapiens population.
Judith forgot to mention what the R-value of driving a car is. Maybe she could demonstrate the relative risks by driving from Auckland to Wellington in a car with someone who is Covid positive. I'm guessing she could get all the way there without having a car accident; however...
That principal sounds nice. But seriously, despite being opposed to corporal punishment some of those “kids” seem like they need the strap. I wonder if my primma 1 teacher is still around…?
There's a bit of Monty Python in things at the moment. In the Gnats that is. You've painted the richest farce Uncle Dave. Was waiting for the Patsy & Edina cameo but Thank Christ your cool prevailed and you gave us Saffron......Hooray !
My patience is being sorely tested by all these reckless reckons and their callous, ostrich-like underpinnings. If there were even a modicum of good faith about engaging in genuine and transparent debate, like 'hey guys, can we put our heads together and try to figure out what is the best way for all of us in our plucky team of five million to get out of Dodge safely, and here's what our (named) experts have advised us and can they talk with yours (in a respectful manner, Fran!) and let's see where that gets us' - then that actually would be useful. I'm sure the government isn't so arrogant to think it has the franchise on good ideas. But no, its all about point scoring and game playing and appealing to sectional interests at the expense of the greater good and continuously sniping and undermining the collective effort and making out as if incompetent, lazy Boris-clowns are in charge, when the overall state of play tell us its quite the opposite. The moral recklessness of playing politics over peoples lives and livelihood is not anything remotely approximating good leadership. Its utterly unforgiveable.
I love this format and as a former English teacher, I can tell you, the speeches are spot on. There's always that kid who relies on a whiff of past charisma, another who just turns up and does something random, and the group who think some sort of distracting role play will cover up their total lack of ideas and research. 10/10 column.
Oh my. This is Gold.
It seems great intellects can not comprehend that we have, if currently by a fine margin, a near unique status. Any appeal to look overseas for 'how to handle it' is just going to result in a worse outcome.
Wheeling on Charles Darwin reminded me of “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex” - was he being intentionally ambiguous in leaving open the possibility that, when it comes to the imperative to actually survive as a species, we may be on a downward trajectory? He wrote of our compulsion to do good (in the superior white patriarchal language of 1871):
"With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. … The aid we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, ... Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature."
So, either John, David, Judith and Paul have simply reverted to 'savagery' or they have heard the call of Gia and are repressing their humanity in favour of the health of the planet by doing what they can to decimate the homo sapiens population.
Judith forgot to mention what the R-value of driving a car is. Maybe she could demonstrate the relative risks by driving from Auckland to Wellington in a car with someone who is Covid positive. I'm guessing she could get all the way there without having a car accident; however...
The way JK was slurring his words on Morning Report I thought of a School Journal too. Tosh Day at the Bar.
That principal sounds nice. But seriously, despite being opposed to corporal punishment some of those “kids” seem like they need the strap. I wonder if my primma 1 teacher is still around…?
Gold.
Thanks for that reminder of school speeches🤣 thankfully National were in opposition for our covid emergency or we'd be another UK.
There's a bit of Monty Python in things at the moment. In the Gnats that is. You've painted the richest farce Uncle Dave. Was waiting for the Patsy & Edina cameo but Thank Christ your cool prevailed and you gave us Saffron......Hooray !
Spot on (unfortunately)
F.A.B.