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@mokey said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@mn5 I have yet to hear of a single Gwyneth health thing that hasn't been slammed by medical professionals everywhere. As for munting a delicate eco system with steaming, my opinion would be a hard no.
Good to know. I'll cross it off the Xmas list for the mrs.
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@mn5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@mokey said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@mn5 I have yet to hear of a single Gwyneth health thing that hasn't been slammed by medical professionals everywhere. As for munting a delicate eco system with steaming, my opinion would be a hard no.
Good to know. I'll cross it off the Xmas list for the mrs.
Don't be too rash. It may well impress her and it's not like a few herbs are expensive. Just saying.
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@mokey said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@mn5 I have yet to hear of a single Gwyneth health thing that hasn't been slammed by medical professionals everywhere. As for munting a delicate eco system with steaming, my opinion would be a hard no.
It’s a self cleaning oven according to Oprah . She has a woman around a couple of times a week just to make sure though.
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Must be a slow news day as one of these articles popped as they are prone to every now and then . Some beardo who faps over Jacinda tweeted out his impressions of us and it’s enough for a news story .
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12028588
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Apparently we are all racist fluffybunnies .
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12028961
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@jegga yeah I read that...some of the comments are interesting...He does like to push some controversial views.
the incidents he cites sounds pretty shit TBF.
My old neighbours used to accuse me of being racist at 2am!
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I love Taika's movies, but fuck me days we need to stay far away from the celebrity opinion is THE opinion crap. Butchering the pronunciation of place names is a pretty damned weak example of racism, I have to say. If you are fluent in the language you are always going to pronounce words of that language better. It's not fucking rocket science.
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Add in he's probably talking a lot about people of my parents generation, who flat out weren't taught Maori.
If you have called it Teaw-poe, or Teau-wrong-a, or kaddie-kat, your whole life, it's pretty hard to change. Most people of my age seem to make an effort to pronounce it correctly.
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I thought Waititi would have observed other countries and cultures more in his travels to realise racism is a comparative issue. I certainly recall the manifestation of that hatred from Maoris to Islanders as I grew up. Then I moved abroad and saw how highly Australians thought of each other depending on how lately they'd entered the country and from where. Then I found out how much Asians despise each other. Had a Melbourne taxi driver ranting about how racist Australians are and he shut up one I pointed out that at least we didn't have a caste system...
@mariner4life said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
If you have called it Teaw-poe, or Teau-wrong-a, or kaddie-kat, your whole life, it's pretty hard to change.
Agreed. Correct me politely and I'll try to get it right. Be an arse about it and you'll find I like to call Mumbai Bombay still. And Zimbabwe Rhodesia, etc. But then I can be shit stirring fluffybunny like that.
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Waititi is right. NZ is racist as fuck but not as racist as it was 20 years ago and NOWHERE near as racist as it was 40 years ago.
No racism is acceptable but human nature being what it is we are never going to enjoy collective colour blindness. I've certainly been to a lot of places with more blatant and institutionalised racism than here.
I think a lot of what is construed as racism is a result of the poverty trap rather than clear prejudice
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Two things. 1) He's working for the Human Rights commission on a campaign that relies on racism being widespread for any relevance, and 2) he's now among the Hollywood elites, so ranting about widespread racism among the peasants is what the "in-crowd" do.
I'd take everything he says with a massive grain of salt, it's more about boosting his profile in Hollywood than anything else.
We covered the "Is NZ racist" in another thread on the Politics forum recently.
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@dogmeat said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Waititi is right. NZ is racist as fuck but not as racist as it was 20 years ago and NOWHERE near as racist as it was 40 years ago.
No racism is acceptable but human nature being what it is we are never going to enjoy collective colour blindness. I've certainly been to a lot of places with more blatant and institutionalised racism than here.
I think a lot of what is construed as racism is a result of the poverty trap rather than clear prejudice
The most racist stuff I’ve seen in nz has been directed at Indians and people from Asia. People who I suspect would never utter a racist thing about Maori seem to feel comfortable saying awful things about the Chinese in NZ
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@dogmeat said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Waititi is right. NZ is racist as fuck but not as racist as it was 20 years ago and NOWHERE near as racist as it was 40 years ago.
No racism is acceptable but human nature being what it is we are never going to enjoy collective colour blindness. I've certainly been to a lot of places with more blatant and institutionalised racism than here.
I think a lot of what is construed as racism is a result of the poverty trap rather than clear prejudice
The most racist stuff I’ve seen in nz has been directed at Indians and people from Asia. People who I suspect would never utter a racist thing about Maori seem to feel comfortable saying awful things about the Chinese in NZ
It's because they're new. Probably hard working and wealthy too, which pisses off some people.
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@antipodean said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@dogmeat said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Waititi is right. NZ is racist as fuck but not as racist as it was 20 years ago and NOWHERE near as racist as it was 40 years ago.
No racism is acceptable but human nature being what it is we are never going to enjoy collective colour blindness. I've certainly been to a lot of places with more blatant and institutionalised racism than here.
I think a lot of what is construed as racism is a result of the poverty trap rather than clear prejudice
The most racist stuff I’ve seen in nz has been directed at Indians and people from Asia. People who I suspect would never utter a racist thing about Maori seem to feel comfortable saying awful things about the Chinese in NZ
It's because they're new. Probably hard working and wealthy too, which pisses off some people.
....and shit drivers with a questionable grasp of the English language.
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