Posts by Aidan
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Luxury.
18 km on my bike. Each way.
Sometimes I took the long route.Cool. Both ways you went past my Aunt & Uncle's farm, but the long way was past the front gate.
Respec ... those roads are thin in places and I know that I go like a bat out of hell around some of the blind corners.
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We've a ways to go yet.
Oh yeah. A long long long way to go. Troy Buswell is now the West Australian treasurer.
You can make this stuff up, but why bother when it is provided free of charge by the wide brown land eh?
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It may be illegal, but signal blockers are available (this is a reputable site, they will deliver what you pay for).
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Friggin' hell. I live(d) such a sheltered life.
A mate of mine I went to Uni with got to talking about her teenage sexual experiences. WOW. She and her friend were 11-12 years old and giving their 16-18 yr old boyfriends handjobs. I was .. well .. stunned. She didn't seem to think it was all that unusual.
I now have two daughters (2 months and almost 5 years old). I don't even really want to think about having teenagers ...
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Thanks for the heads up. I had to use Amazon as I couldn't find a local distributor (for the same price). When I called the local bookshop they looked it up, umm'ed and aahhh'ed and then said "Have you tried Amazon?" !!!!
I did try to do the right thing.
My own busy fella sounds very similar to yours. By crikey he'd love that local museum holiday program. At the moment we are totally in thrall to Scrapheap Challenge. We have a PVR/hard drive set-top box thingo and the A(Oz)BC is showing old and new Scrapheap Challenge 6 days a week. We have a backlog of 20 or so shows to watch. WOO HOO!
Looking forward to a rerun of Golf Ball Gatling Gun, but the Hovercraft Episode takes the cake for no-way-did-they-make-a-hovercraft-out-of-scrap mind blowingness.
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Entire nation states have gone to war on the question of which of 720p or 1080i is better (especially for sport).
See you're getting more actual pixels in yer eyeballs per second in 720p than 1080i. For fast moving images the progressive scan can be better .. if you don't believe me I am authorised to kill you. Or something.
Maybe you don't want 1080i after all?
The Tour? Meh. Drugged-to-the-eyeballs. It's no longer about the better athlete, but who has the best pharmacist.
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WTF is there to be proud of?
Where did I say I was proud? Which isn't to say I'm ashamed either. I just am (from PN). Yeah?
It is windy and dull (both insolation and nightlife). Incontrovertibly true. I could list some of things I like, but I'm not sure you are in the mood to hear.
I think you should leave. Clearly it doesn't suit you.
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He just goes: "Fuck me, it's worse than Palmerston North."
You bastard. Born and bred in Palmy, living in Canberra. Now awash with self doubt.
The "invade new zealand" clip came from The Gruen Transfer, a newish ABC series which purports to analyse advertising. One of the parts of the show is The Pitch where a couple of Ad agencies are given the job of selling the un-sellable. My personal fave was whale meat. All previous pitches are also available.
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Re: "num num for tum tum"
Me either. In fact, we didn't do the whole Easter Bunny thing because it seemed really silly and involved large scale deceit on our part. All our rellies thought we were mean and nasty marxists (or something). When the preschool went to the trouble of whisking the kiddies off for an outing and fabricating "bunny prints" in some flour we figured we were on the losing end of some serious cultural momentum and gave in. Plus it's chocolate right?
Mostly though, it was the wee guys bright shining excited face at the thought of an easter bunny coming and giving him sweets that brought about a change of heart.
The Easter Bunny is still stupid though.
I love "Inside Outside Upside Down", and neither of our children had the bear napping take on it.
Both were frightened witless by "Francis the Scaredy Cat", but it holds and awful fascination for the younger .. she'll be an Edgar Allan Poe fan I reckon.
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I never baby talked my child, and as a result she spoke properly from an early age.
Wow! What confidence. I think I prefer the formulation "I did X and child did Y .. thankfully .. the two did appear to be correlated in time so I sometimes claim the credit".
Seriously though, the wee buggers have such a strongly inbuilt sense of self that we've often felt we can polish off the rough edges, but parenthood is more about us changing to accept them than them changing much at all. This is a good thing.
With respect to the floaties .. reminds me of sailing in the Wanganui river .. but don't they have swimmer nappies? We never had an aquatic numéro deux (praise be!) nor been witness to one and they have strict swimmer nappy only policies at the pools round these parts.
Language is interesting .. number 1 (boy, 5) communicated from an early age but was similar to your number 2, in that most words started with b and ended in "aaah". As he got older his speech was stilted, with explosive and excessively punctuated sounds.
Number 2 (girl, 3) has always been more fluid and free in her speech and in most things she does (drawing, playing etc). She now calls us Mummy and Daddy. I hate it and I have no idea where she got it from .. *shrug* ...