Posts by Emma Hart
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That's because the rules of the game are to stop whenever you get the friggin ball and only run around in a little area of the court. Shesh, no wonder they have the energy left over for more games.
Whatever. I hear it's a non-contact sport too. Sheesh, look at cricket and baseball - half the players spend half the game sitting down.
But at least the netball rules are easy to understand. You can't stand closer to three feet, you can't push people, you can't run with the ball.
Agreed, though it has always amused me that you can be penalised for 'intimidation'.
I love netball as a spectator sport, except I'd like to see something done about the fake injury breaks. It still has less stoppage time than basketball.
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When did women start reading the sports section in large numbers? ;)
Um... when did Chris Cairns start playing cricket?
During the game Amy mentioned how the players shouldn't be allowed ponytails because they hurt if whipped about, especially if they are plaited.
What we used to call a Dutch plait (normal pony-tail, then plaited) is the most lethal of weapons. Like a knotted rope to the face. Casey's unusual double plaits were down the sides of her head, and you just can't get the same swing up like that.
Irene van Dyk is a fantastic netballer and may be one of our greatest sports people of all time. But she is not a goal attack!
F'k'n ay.
Stiil, beats talking about the cricket.
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Christ. I completely overlooked that. What do the readers wish?
Make the tasteless joke. It's what He would have wanted.
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It's nothing that can't be fixed with a pair of sexy leather boots, some caramel cupcakes, a great deal of champagne, and the good wishes of sweet friends and dear family.
And a tattoo.
Aw... fuck it. I'm thirty six; there was patch when it didn't look like I was going to hit thirty.
Ditto. Hmm.
At the moment, I approach forty with mild curiosity. Though it may turn out that as I get closer, it's something I'm less sanguine about.
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I have sent an ailing David off to bed, so he asked me to post apologies for his absence
Oh, poor soul. Seems to have sharpened his emotional blackmail powers, but.
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When you get to my age you forget what being disturbed is.
I thought I might have become disturb-proof in my thirties, having written some pretty squicky things. So I reread The Wasp Factory. You can tell people who've read that by how they react to the phrase 'the bit with the baby'.
Which is still well disturbing.
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Did you get that Fairy Queen question too? English 101 probably hasn't changed since... thinks what was the most contemporary piece... 1929 (The Man WHo Died - DH Lawrence)
Ah, Faerie Queen was ENGL 2-whatever Ren Drama was. 101 I can't remember the poetry but the novels were Heart of Darkness and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing. The ENGL unifems said this was sexist.
The weirdest uni essay question I ever got was at 300 level, and resulted in me writing an essay comparing the symbollic roles of the crema al mascarpone in Amadeus and the fan in Lady Windermere's Fan.
and several books that I hadn't read at all
Hmph, I thought that was uni-only as well. I was a bit slow to realise you didn't have to read all the books.
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there were 5 extra stanzas from the Fairy Queen that I hadn't considered in my answer & which changed the context considerably.
Andrew, do we have exactly the same degree?
it turned out that she was the only person in the room who'd actually read him
Ah, but did she read him in the original Pretentious Wanker?
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And I quoted Groucho in an exam (2nd stage english lit) that wanted Timon of Athens described in terms of Marx.
Good grief. What's next, Titus Andronicus in terms of the Mad Butcher?
On reading my first draft essay on Julius Caeser for Honours, my lecturer asked me if I had a 'thing' for Marlon Brando. I did some rewrites.
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However, I really couldn't help boggling at the assertion that showing an R16 movie to sixth and seventh-formers was inappropriate.
Indeed. And then they fretted about students watching R18 movies for NCEA, but couldn't cite one. Okay, there might be some 15 year olds doing NCEA level one who also did the Shawshank Redemption (R16), and didn't have parental permission. But to object to the nasty? When we used to describe high school English set texts as 'literature to slit your wrists to'?
And no mention that they don't have a rating system for books. If I were doing NCEA this year, looking back on my personality at 16/17, I'd be tempted to write on Toy Story and The Wasp Factory.