Posts by Damian Christie
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oh ok...it was a cheapshot but the point is, and Finn and I are all ok about it now....
Good to hear. All credit to Finn, it's a brave man who argues music with you Mr Grigg. Kinda like arguing sherry vs port with the town drunk.
Is that still that huge cat you had years ago in Ponsonby. That was only just a cat.
Yes, Tonka is indeed still alive, well and annoying me.
And what do you mean "only just a cat"? You mean he was closer to being two cats, or a small dog? He's lost a fair bit of weight, but as I remind him every night (to the tune of Boston), he's still More Than a Kitty...
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I'd have to add my two cents though Simon, pulling out the "how many records have you sold?" line is, if not snide, then somewhere in the same ballpark. I've written blogs about dogs ownership and smacking children in the past few weeks, I'd hate to think I'm banned from such topics as a single cat owner...
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Kiddie Porn? Unless you're seeing something I'm not, all those people pictured are well into their twenties... I think you're confusing bFM with Pavement...
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Or most of New Zealand vs Auckland, actually.
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Hey guys, has anyone seen a thread I left here somewhere? Had something to do with animals, just kinda sorta. I'm sure it was right here, but I went away for a couple of days and I see Russell talking sternly (I imagine his hands on his hips), people leaving and yet others talking about gestetners?
Which I have to say, has just made my day. THAT'S what it was called. We used to call it the banda machine. And when the teacher used to hand pages out (our college was poor, we no afford actual books) all you'd hear was the sound of an entire class simultaneously sniffing paper.
Always figured that story would have an Agent Orange kinda ending. Plenty of time I guess, I haven't reproduced yet.
Now, where did I put that thread?
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Is very nice.
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I liked Finn's comments on the one-sided Australia vs New Zealand situation
Ditto. You know, it was a real revelation to me the first time I went to Sydney, that the 'fierce trans-Tasman rivalry' was disappointingly - pathetically - just us.
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>Hopefully after drinking in pubs/clubs for three years you'll discover the joys of binge drinking aren't so cool after all.
I've been binge drinking for going on 18 years now, and apart from the occasional cringe of embarassment on a Sunday morning, I still haven't found the downside, personally.
I grew up in Wellington's answer to Chch, Upper Hutt. It's white, violent and scary. At least half of our parties in 6th/7th form would end when the local skinheads got wind of where we were and would turn up to bash everyone they could. Of course it did provide an excuse to grab the nearest girl and go and hide in the bushes with her, "for safety".
My 16th birthday ended up like the Chch parties Russell's talking of. 20-30 people were invited and I kinda knew things were going badly when I heard at school on Friday there was going to be a "house demolition party" at a strikingly familiar address...
Hundreds turned up, scaled fences, skinheads sprayed my mum and dad with beer, police turned up, left, skinheads turned up again, police turned up again, the guy we'd hired as security ended up scoring the girl I had a crush on... great night.
As a result, my younger sisters were never ever allowed to have parties. Probably lucky as by that stage my parents were living on the Shore.
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Anyone interested (and thanks for talking about it at all), the direct link to the clips for mashing are here: http://images.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz_images/tvone/programmes/close_up/open_source_story/
(It's as clear as our often inscrutable website can be, tvnz.co.nz, keyword Close Up, then click on "Open Source challenge" and follow your nose)
Tim: I contacted Bruce directly to get a high-res version of the Star Lords trailer, which I referred to in the story as a "locally produced effort". I had intended to put a key on screen to Bruce's website, but ran out of time (and to be honest, simply forgot in the rush to get the story finished and on air). But Bruce emailed the next day saying he was stoked that it'd been played on TV, so I think he's okay...
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We don't tithe? Then who's been banking those cheques I've been sending off each week? And who sent me my decoder ring?
And yes, we have to include Scientology. Working on the basis that all religions are based on a series of wacky beliefs, the MC Hammer rule [finalised name TBC] merely provides a diving line between those that are too recent and potentially flash-in-the-pan to recognise.
It is possible that the MC Hammer rule may have a sunset clause, or at least need to be updated in a few hundred years, or when Christ rises again and points out that we were all wrong and Big Bishop Brian was right...