On Apr 10, 9:14*pm, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:
"Golden One" wrote in message

* Born and bred, seventh generation. I am based in Perth, Western

Australia but travel a lot for work (mining project acquistions and
financing), but not for the time periods I used to. Most trips are
under two weeks these days. I still visit Botswana and South Africa,
but at the moment it is mostly Sweden and China. Sometimes Husband
travels with me.

Are you a geologist perchance?

Wish I was, I have always said geos have the perfect balance between
field and office work.

I have an accounting degree and work at evaluating the financial side
of project acquisitions and ultimately sourcing finance from private
investors and institutions.

JB

On Apr 10, 10:17*pm, blake murphy wrote:
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:21:13 -0700 (PDT), Golden One

wrote:
On Apr 10, 12:16*am, "cybercat" wrote:
"Golden One" wrote

The nym you have chosen tells more about you than anything
you have to say.

Jaundiced, are you? Or just inordinately impressed with yourself?

** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com**

Exactly what is your problem, besides the fact that you are just a
nasty little bitch?

JB

in this case, i think ignorant race-baiting bothers her. *doesn't
exactly make her a bitch.

your pal,
blake

I called her a bitch because of the tone of her posts to me. Had she
read my posts properly she would have known that I made no racial
comments and in fact stated that there are countries in Africa where
the locals are not tearing each other apart.

JB

Golden One wrote:


I am planning on being in Bots in November, but will be in Jo'burg for
a couple of days on the way home. I would enjoy meeting up as I will
be travelling alone. I will email closer to the time.

Great! Look forward to hearing from you.

--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

Is that chip on your shoulder edible?

"Golden One" wrote in message news:3454ad33-
On Apr 10, 10:17 pm, blake murphy wrote:
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:21:13 -0700 (PDT), Golden One
wrote:
On Apr 10, 12:16 am, "cybercat" wrote:
"Golden One" wrote

The nym you have chosen tells more about you than anything
you have to say.

Jaundiced, are you? Or just inordinately impressed with yourself?
** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com**

Exactly what is your problem, besides the fact that you are just a
nasty little bitch?

in this case, i think ignorant race-baiting bothers her. doesn't
exactly make her a bitch.

I called her a bitch because of the tone of her posts to me.

You were remarkably restrained given that cybercat had potshots in you in at
least 2 posts. And undeserved potshosts given what you had written but
then it seems that comprehension problems aren't restricted to just
cybercat.

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:37:44 +0200, ChattyCathy
wrote:

The Golfer's Wife wrote:

Forget about having to go and live and work in a country in order to
be able to contribute to a debate about that country. Those who have
are so frequently better informed at the grass-roots level and have
much of value to contribute - but it is not the sole requirement.

I have to admit, I am a bit confused about your above paragraph...

Yes I can understand that. It wasn't phrased very well was it? What
I meant to say is that living and working in another country gives one
valuable insight into the culture and often politics, etc. of that
country. If this experience is also coupled with an enquiring
intellect and subsequent authentic research into that country, it is
of immense value. However, there are many internationally renowned
scholars whose work on other countries is generally accepted even
though they may have never actually lived in the country of which they
have done research. Does this make sense to you?

I was fortunate enough to live in Fiji for four years and also
fortunate to have had higher education so that my experience of that
tiny country helps me when I read really informed studies of the
current situation there. However, I am not in the same league as
someone whose studies of Pacific Islands have taken most of their
working life, even if they have never actually lived in one of those
states.

Firstly, you say "Forget about having to go and live and work in a
country in order to be able to contribute to a debate about that
country', but then you go on to say that 'Those who have been to that
country are frequently better informed.....'? Forgive me if I am wrong,
but this gives me the impression you didn't make the debate team in high
school...

I am hoping you meant to say that doing 'armchair research' for a
particular country can indeed be useful and educational - to a degree.
However, actually working/living there is more important in order to
be able debate about it with any real authority.

FWIW I wouldn't presume to get into a debate with you about New Zealand
because IIRC, that's where you currently reside?

I try not to announce where I come from because it tends to generate
torrents of nasty abuse from our Friends Across The Ditch and I can
well do without that. My career took me there for a few years, after
which I did not join many Kiwis and emigrate. And this was simply
because of the insufferable comments about the Poor Kiwis and how
unfortunate we are to have such a poor economy. Oh and the spiders
and snakes as well ... but better not to go into that ...

The only thing I know with any certainty about that country is that *I* find the imported NZ
mussels available here absolutely wonderful. Had some for dinner last
night as a matter of fact.

I like our mussels as well. The ones I have had in other countries
seem so small by comparison. Or perhaps I ate at the wrong
restaurants!

Oh, I almost forgot - have had NZ lamb too.
Delicious.

I think our best lamb gets exported. I have problems sometimes with
lamb here - especially when it is getting past the spring lamb stage!
I guess you get it frozen and it is the really young lamb.

Gives our Karoo lamb some stiff competition.




The Golfer's Wife

The Golfer's Wife wrote:
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:37:44 +0200, ChattyCathy
wrote:

I have to admit, I am a bit confused about your above paragraph...

Yes I can understand that. It wasn't phrased very well was it? What
I meant to say is that living and working in another country gives one
valuable insight into the culture and often politics, etc. of that
country. If this experience is also coupled with an enquiring
intellect and subsequent authentic research into that country, it is
of immense value. However, there are many internationally renowned
scholars whose work on other countries is generally accepted even
though they may have never actually lived in the country of which they
have done research. Does this make sense to you?

A lot more sense, yes. However, l personally wouldn't trust information
completely that was published by somebody who had never actually been
there themselves - 'internationally renowned scholar' or not. shrug

I was fortunate enough to live in Fiji for four years and also
fortunate to have had higher education so that my experience of that
tiny country helps me when I read really informed studies of the
current situation there. However, I am not in the same league as
someone whose studies of Pacific Islands have taken most of their
working life, even if they have never actually lived in one of those
states.

Again, I still think you could tell those learned scholars a thing or
two they didn't know if they hadn't lived/worked there for a while
themselves

BTW, it's an inquiring intellect, not enquiring.... evil grin

Anyway, I think we are going to have to agree to disagree about this,
and leave it at that.

--
Cheers
Chatty Cathy

Is that chip on your shoulder edible?

On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:18:49 -0700 (PDT), Golden One
wrote:

On Apr 10, 10:17*pm, blake murphy wrote:
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:21:13 -0700 (PDT), Golden One

wrote:
On Apr 10, 12:16*am, "cybercat" wrote:
"Golden One" wrote

The nym you have chosen tells more about you than anything
you have to say.

Jaundiced, are you? Or just inordinately impressed with yourself?

** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com**

Exactly what is your problem, besides the fact that you are just a
nasty little bitch?

JB

in this case, i think ignorant race-baiting bothers her. *doesn't
exactly make her a bitch.

your pal,
blake

I called her a bitch because of the tone of her posts to me. Had she
read my posts properly she would have known that I made no racial
comments and in fact stated that there are countries in Africa where
the locals are not tearing each other apart.

JB


oops, i was confusing your comments with the odious statements by
peter lucas. my apologies.

your pal,
blake

On Apr 11, 3:14*pm, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote:
"Golden One" wrote in message news:3454ad33-

On Apr 10, 10:17 pm, blake murphy wrote:

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:21:13 -0700 (PDT), Golden One
wrote:
On Apr 10, 12:16 am, "cybercat" wrote:
"Golden One" wrote

The nym you have chosen tells more about you than anything
you have to say.
Jaundiced, are you? Or just inordinately impressed with yourself?
** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com**
Exactly what is your problem, besides the fact that you are just a
nasty little bitch?
in this case, i think ignorant race-baiting bothers her. doesn't
exactly make her a bitch.
I called her a bitch because of the tone of her posts to me.

You were remarkably restrained given that cybercat had potshots in you in at
least 2 posts. * And undeserved potshosts given what you had written but
then it seems that comprehension problems aren't restricted to just
cybercat.

Life is too short to get my feathers ruffled by people that do not
matter.

It's Saturday, the weather is fantastic and the garden beckons :-)

JB

On Apr 11, 10:09*pm, blake murphy wrote:
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:18:49 -0700 (PDT), Golden One





wrote:
On Apr 10, 10:17*pm, blake murphy wrote:
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:21:13 -0700 (PDT), Golden One

wrote:
On Apr 10, 12:16*am, "cybercat" wrote:
"Golden One" wrote

The nym you have chosen tells more about you than anything
you have to say.

Jaundiced, are you? Or just inordinately impressed with yourself?

** Posted fromhttp://www.teranews.com**

Exactly what is your problem, besides the fact that you are just a
nasty little bitch?

JB

in this case, i think ignorant race-baiting bothers her. *doesn't
exactly make her a bitch.

your pal,
blake

I called her a bitch because of the tone of her posts to me. Had she
read my posts properly she would have known that I made no racial
comments and in fact stated that there are countries in Africa where
the locals are not tearing each other apart.

JB

oops, i was confusing your comments with the odious statements by
peter lucas. *my apologies.

your pal,
blake- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

No worries

JB