[LMB] OT: Weird Link

[Katrina Allis]

On 15/10/06, Tracy MacShane <trix at queerscience.net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, October 14, 2006 11:49 pm, James M. BRYANT, G4CLF wrote:
> > http://www.otago.ac.nz/philosophy/Staff/JoshParsons/flags/ratings.html
>
>
> Also, NZ quite recently went through a campaign to change the flag to
> something more relevant. Alas, it was shot down due to the dictates of
> "tradition". My biggest gripe is the retention of the Union Jack. While
> the English were the largest group of NZ settlers, they were *never* the
> majority of the population. These days, less than half of the population
> are descended from people from Great Britain (and that's including the
> Irish as well).
>

That sort of study makes sense to me, too.  I have to admit, though, that I
would have voted (did vote? can't remember) for keeping the one we currently
have.  I just have this objection, irrational or otherwise, to using the
silver fern or any other sporting symbol as a flag.  And I like tradition.

On the other hand, if someone came up with a flag that I liked with sound
reasoning behind the change, I would be convincable.  I just haven't seen
anything that makes me think that *this* is what the new flag should look
like.

Katrina - still bouncing over TSK!  It's shiny and new and mine and good!

I have CDO.  It's like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, only in alphabetical
order as it should be.

Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was
putting one foot in front of the other.  Moving all the same.
Lois McMaster Bujold, _Curse of Chalion_