"I figured if I could run for secretary of state in California, I'd be in a position to serve as the counter example of how, yes, you can maintain the security and integrity of our elections, but you can also facilitate people being registered to vote," he tells me.
Try to use the substitutes that Geordies use for certain words, for example: "aye" instead of "yes," "didn't nar" for "i don't know", "nar" instead of "no" etc. (An extensive list of geordie words and phrases can be found on Wikipedia).
My two failed marriages are the best examples of this, yes I'm a slow learner sometimes.
While there are millions of brave officers out there who courageously put their life on the line to protect communities and deserve the upmost respect, there are also far too many examples of thugs, yes thugs, like the two mentioned above, abusing their power.
It's tempting to dismiss this as an example of hacker weirdness admirable, yes, but nothing to do with real business.
The election commission will be packed with cronies of Hamid Karzai, the incumbent, who is barred from standing again but would like to follow Vladimir Putin's example of putting a yes-man in the top job while pulling the strings.
However, in each of the settings, when women were approached it was common for them to respond confidently and with certainty when asked if they had heard of chlamydia before, for example, "Oh, yes, uh huh, I've heard of it" and "Chlamydia yes I've heard of it..".... (Fieldnotes, Workplace, April 2005).
The caller might just produce the preferred response of "yes" even when, for example, they are of a 'mixed' ethnicity.
This is an example of knowing when to say "yes" to a good idea while saying "no" to entrenched ways of thinking.
