And did you know that, according to Eleanor Roosevelt, the hierarchy of intelligent conversation goes something like this: "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people". I was taught as a child that small talk is polite. (Hence our obsession with weather-related small talk, perhaps, since despite our widening human chasms, we still live under the same sky.) I hate small talk. I’m shocked at how many of the political billboards around Wanaka have been attacked and defaced.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 10, 2017 18:00 UTC