Posts by Emma Hart
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Why does that woman have a laptop on the golf course? I can explain away the high heels, but I don't really get the laptop...
Kudos to Gareth: I had failed to notice there was a laptop in that picture. I keep expecting her to say something like 'do you know what the penalty for an overdue library book is, Mr Booth?'
I am very grumpy I won't be in Wellington on the 12th, cos I would totally have dragged some people along for that.
And I won't be in Chch on the 13th...
the White Ferns are actually good Aargh.
Aargh. That's the word I was looking for.
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Watching 'Inside Cricket' on Fox last night (I'm in Sydney) was irritating. NZ described as a 2nd or 3rd grade team, and of course the first 5 wickets to fall were because the Aussies threw their wickets away, nothing about good fielding or bowling. I could go on...
A few games back, commentators were talking about one of the Aussie bowlers, and said, 'you have to remember, a lot of those wickets were taken against teams like Bangladesh and New Zealand'.
This is why it's so much fun when we beat the bastards.
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Cafepress.com?
Shipping. Kitsch-on-demand closer to home? Not that Cafe Press doesn't work nicely.
Yeah enough with the books, where are the PAS T-Shirts?
And mugs. We need mugs. Emma's output alone over the last couple of months would have been worth a few of those.
Note to self: forget novel, write t-shirt slogans.
I love the sound of face-palm in the morning...
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Pff, Einstein was clearly gay. And now you're just trying to cover it up by pointing it out and PRETENDING ITS PARORDY! You should be ashamed. I bet you even wrote this in your dressing gown you pervert.
EXCELLENT COLUMN WOULD TRADE WITH AGAIN HAIL SATAN!!!!! :)
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And so the ground floor of *the* conversation was "gay couple comprising two identical twin brothers"
I blame Lucy.
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Emma, yes, they move on and the problem moves. They don't turn around and start attacking those who have vocalised or enforced the public's objections to their antics, they move on. CHC's racers appear to believe that they're above the law, since they don't feel that it's right for them to be tackled for their behaviour. I'm sure the racers at this end of the country get very shirty when arrested and fined for their carryings-on, but they don't congregate in large numbers and hunt cops. They don't track down the residences of the "offending" mayors and buzz them. They find other places to do their thing.
Matthew, you already said this, and short of me repeating what I said, I don't really see anywhere to go from here. So I guess you must be right.
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The pollies point, the police do their thing, and the racers move on.
Yes, they move on, they don't go away. They 'moved on' from the Colombo Street overbridge. And into the suburbs. And out to McClane's Island, and Templeton, none of which made the problem go away, it just shifted it to another community.
I have no sympathy, Matthew. We used to live next door to a carpark in a street with 'traffic calming measures' - or, an adventure playground. But they're not vermin, they're people.
I don't recall the racers targeting elected officials, never mind the cops, in any other town, either.
Nor did it happen in Chch previously. It's pretty simple. Ideology aside, the 'crackdown' is totally ineffective, and just aggravating the problem.
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While I'm on the topic of blood-thirsty crazies, how about them Christchurch "boy racers"? Are they really as fucking stupid as they seem? Ambushing a cop, apparently with intent to do him some serious harm, is tantamount to a declaration of war.
Without wanting to derail the thread any further, even though I have no time for the little buggers, it's not quite that simple.
There's a huge amount of political point-scoring going on down here over boy racers. Since Sideshow Bob got in, he HAS made a difference, give him his due. Things have got worse all right, but the declaration of war was on HIS side.
This is not an issue, IMO, that can be fixed by policing. A wish to see sit downs and listening might make me a huge wet liberal, but treating them like vermin doesn't seem to be working.
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And when the PAS tee-shirt division kicks off, I'd buy one.
An' me. Is there something more local we can use than Cafe Press?
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A couple of years ago Federer seemed comfortable to lord it over everyone on surfaces other than clay and just accept Nadal's dominance there, now it seems he doesn't even have that.
I have wondered if this is the problem. It seemed like, last time round, Federer had decided to make a concerted effort to win the French Open. He played a couple of other clay-court tournaments, and I think he made some change to his coaching regime. So he actually tried and lost anyway. Now suddenly Nadal can beat him on grass and hardcourt. It wasn't so long ago that all the talk was about whether Federer could beat Sampras's record. (Federer is Sampras, surely: Nadal is Agassi.)