Posts by James Littlewood*
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lots of film reviewers haven’t ever meet a climber.
From what you am saying Rob, it seems only mountaineers (or perhaps New Zealanders) will enjoy it. But just because a thing happened doesn't mean its interesting.
Here's a link illustrating this point by means of the complete destruction of Nicholas Cage. Satisfying.
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I don't really do much sport stuff. But from what I can see, professionalism has completely fucked it up pretty much everywhere. cricket match-tossers; FIFA thieves; America's Cup litigators; and substance abusers everywhere ... you don't have to look far.
Far as I can tell, Rugby is relatively clean next to that lot. But I also hear you RB (along with many others) that high school politics suffer all sorts of distortions in the name of the 1st XV.
I used to live next door to a suburban league club, and spent some time on the sidelines hanging out with the grannies. Now, that was entertainment!
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Gareth Davidson,
And here was me thinking I'd finally found a well informed discussion about MS Messenger! Ah well.
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to Keir Leslie,
It wasn’t a facsimile!
Oh, yes. You're right, it's completely foul. Confess I didn't pay it much attention.
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to Katharine Moody,
as many professional design teams – each working with one of the shortlisted emblems in order to produce a short-short list
You mean an actual design process? That's crazy talk. The kind of thing they do in places which take pride in design and innovation. Never catch on, that.
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Yeah, you'd think.
I notice the panel's letter describes not so much a consideration of aesthetics and culture as "detailed due diligence including robust intellectual property checks."
Guess if they'd have wanted it, they'd have sought the rights to it. Problem solved.
Still have to hand it to the Gvt: they structured the process cleverly so that the most important bit - creating the new design - took place while the least number of people were paying attention.
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That Hundertwasser’s flag wasn’t included
"Modern Hundertwasser" flag (a facsimile of Hundertwasser's famous flag, submitted by Thomas Cottle) was withdrawn from consideration because the Hundertwasser Foundation complained that it breached copyright.
It's understandable at some level, but rather surprising and definitely disappointing they did that without also re-submitting it themselves.
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Interesting point in the "how to design a flag video": No Language allowed. But it then goes on to unpick the symbolism of some of the most distinct flags.
More importantly, by focusing on the fern, the committee have completely ignored the only "don't do" instruction in the whole video, and used the fern as such a universal trope for NZ that it effectively _is_ a linguistic device.
And then they ignored all the positive instructions: rule of thirds and how to balance symmetry and asymmetry for beginners, AND how to break the rules if you're an expert. Everything.
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Clearly the committee of designed-by-committee people built the shortlist not on any kind of representation, but on what the corporate gangleaders in their midst personally prefer.
One of them said on radio yesterday words to the effect of: "well you have to have something that all New Zealanders can relate to, and that's the fern". Fern or koru, same thing, right. Bullshit.
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Why doesn't the italic code ever work for me?
Anyway, Rob, on the thing about
Lab+Greens
If Green is to the left of Labour, and swingers have to be centrists, how come National voters can defect to Green without going through Labour?