Posts by Emma Hart
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Cause I didn't care about the neatness of my uniform so I figured someone who did care about ironed bouses (ie my Mum) could do that bit. I figured out the laundry thing when I had clothes that I actually liked.
Ditto. Never gave a damn about my uniform, but I was expert at getting grass stains out of my white jeans.
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If you'd have been David Haywood your barefootedness would no doubt have been the cause for a sever beating. Lucky for you, eh?
I'm starting to wonder what didn't get Haywood beaten up. It's a wonder he's as normal as he is.
I'm very careful about my inflight foot and legwear. Sneakers and heavy cotton wherever possible.
Anywhere I'm going to be pushed for leg-room, like the movies or on a plane, I really hate having to wear shoes. It's like having the seat in front of me an inch closer. If I'm going to be sitting for a long time, I want to be comfortable.
Like Jackie, if I have to wear shoees somewhere, I'll take them off as soon as possible.
I will take your post as inspiration, though, to wear them less often.
Yes, use me as a role model. So it begins...
shoelessness could only mean you were too poor to afford shoes.
My Nanna's attitude was the same. She lived in Devon until her family emigrated here when she was nineteen (in 1913), and she was horrified by pretty much everything I did. But yes, shoelessness was for urchins and reflected badly on my family. I wish my kids would wear shoes less - my son's shoe consumption is measurable in dollars per month.
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Word. What's with that... faux-bra-esque but slightly too high man-boob-framing graphic on the shirt?
I wonder if the brief was to make them look something like low-grade Transformers.
New Zealand Cricket: We have this great, distinctive uniform everybody likes...
Canterbury: And you want us to fix it? Consider it done!
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The worst uniforms in New Zealand sport are usually worn by our cricketers though.
Prescient, dude. I mean, seriously, wtf?
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Given that experience, I'm surprised by the number of really long skirt uniforms that have popped up since I left school.
When we were looking at applying to Riccarton High as a back-up for my son, I read their uniform code. Insane. Girls' skirt hems were not allowed to be more than 15cm from the ground. I thought the hideous impractically-long skirt was just the current trend, in the way skirt-band-rolling was in my day. But no, it's required. They also regulate colours of hair-tie.
I made my uniform skirt significantly shorter and tighter with my mother's approval
And when my mother saw the RGHS uniform, she asked me about the skirt lengths. I explained, and she said, "That's terrible, why would they make them look so frumpy and awful?"
We lucked out with the uniform for my own high school. In summer it was a box-pleated kilt that danced around like a playful puppy if you had the slightest swish in your walk, slave sandals with the straps that wound up your legs, and white blouses thin enough to display the lace pattern on the whitest bra.
They've changed it now, to a pale washed-out teal pinafore with threads of blue, red and yellow through it.
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My high school doesn't have alumni, according to Wikipedia and its own site.
The only gay teacher I knew about didn't come out until after he retired, but given he used to butle for the Spencer family at Althorp and looked and sounded like Stephen Fry, nobody was terribly surprised.
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Possets Perfumes. Every time I order from them, they pop in a little free gift. The last time, I got an email apologising that my order was going to be slightly late, on account of Hurricane Ike. Cheers Possets, you're brilliant.
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A tie in the Palin / Biden debate will be news (so no doubt the news media will welcome that) and it will be seen as defeat for Biden/Obama
This. She's expected to do so badly that if she doesn't just giggle and fall over, it'll be seen as a win.
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Emma, my boys are jealous - your guy has a room of his OWN??
Yes indeedy. What you need to explain to them is that my boy has a sister, not a brother, and while they shared a room until Boy was about six, we really couldn't have kept it up.
So, y'know, one of them should have been a girl. They can work out which one among themselves.
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You know, there's a Wikipedia page for the suburb of Auckland that David is talking about here, and fully half of it is devoted to singing the praises of the Paremoremo 1st XV. I do wonder sometimes what would happen if high schools were banned from running competitive sports teams, leaving them with nothing to concentrate on but, y'know, teaching.
And as the years went by it became increasingly obvious that they were being taught to be thugs and bullies with the most appalling attitudes to girls.
A friend of mine, after four years at our liberal co-ed school, did his 7th form year at Timaru Boys' High, where they sang Jerusalem in school assemblies. He was appalled by the attitude of his fellow students to girls, and they in turn were appalled that he could talk to boob-bearers as if they were people.