Posts by JackElder
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I'll take zombies any day of the week over the dreary, cod-Anne Rice fascination with vampires that was de rigeur among many of my peer group at varsity in the mid 90s. I always found the whole vampire thing intensely annoying (still do); at least zombies don't take themselves so bloody seriously.
Though I do think we need more werewolf movies.
Another plug for the Halloween Howl tonight in Wellington. Wrestling, ho! (I won't be going myself, but I'm well down with Dr Diablo)
And I've been a fan of Pegg et al since randomly finding Spaced on TV while channel-surfing back in the UK in around 2000. My wife came into the room two minutes later to find out why I was helpless with laughter.
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(Waltham Sydenham Wigram Brighton-on-Sea Linwood Riccarton Spreydon Are All In The South; It's Grim Down South)
Massive respect.
For those who didn't get the reference:
JS - you point out that a lot of the poorer people in Wellington are out in Porirua and the Hutt. Fair point, but it's overstating the case. One of the things I like about the WCC is the deliberate policy of maintaining small patches of council housing in the inner suburbs, in an attempt to prevent ghettoisation. So, while you're right about the Aro Valley being massively gentrified, it still also has a large block of council flats right at the foot of Brooklyn Hill. I'd be surprised if anyone in Wellington City lived more than 2k from the nearest block of council accomodation.
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I'm not. A lot of women like their men, well, manly and nothing says "man" like facial hair.
Like good facial hair. There are few things as cringe-inducing as the bum-fluff moustache grown at age 18 in an attempt to look more mature.
One of the things I like about movember is that you can really see the difference in how fast people's facial hair grows. I've seen people go from clean-shaven on Nov 1st to a full Lemmy tribute moustache at the end of the first week - it's an astonishing sight. I've also seen someone get three weeks in and then shave out of depression as we'd only just realised that he was doing movember (blond moustache, slow growth, it was hard to see).
My mo is a bit unruly and wouldn't really benefit from sculpting. I know it's time to clip my beard back a bit when it's long enough to be getting in my soup.
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A coworker of mine has a long, curled moustache - as in, it goes out sideways from his lips and then curls up and back in, with a diameter of around 1". The secret is a reasonable degree of wax, I'm told. For Wellingtonians, that barber up Featherston St sells such supplies.
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Beards are easy, I usually have one myself. But moustaches are artistry.
True. One of the reasons I have a beard is that it's one less thing to worry about each morning. There's a passage in Mil Millington's book Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About where he comments that a particular character has such carefully and minutely groomed facial hair that it's obvious that he doesn't have children. You can't spend ten minutes each morning carefully shaving your sideburns to points if you've got preschoolers kicking you in the ankles.
I'll confess to bemusement with the modern-day chap revival. Then again, I didn't see much of the point of the cocktail revival either, so I'm probably not particularly the target demographic.
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Derail: one of the catchphrases of racist skinheads in the UK used to be "There ain't no black in the Union Jack!". But that's just because the union flag is s a merging of the flags of England, Scotland, and Wales. If they'd thought to include Cornwall, there would indeed have been black in the Union Jack.
As you were.
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Tch. Grow a beard, part-timers. I haven't seen my chin for sixteen years - the other week I found a mole that I'd completely forgotten about.
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There's more cyclists than us on here, you know. Just that some of them are still in the closet.
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Grrr Cyclist shouldn't be on the road, they should be on cycle ways.
Reading this, I can't tell whether you're cyclist arguing for dedicated cycleways, or a driver fulminating against those annoying cyclists. Either way, I'm leaving this one well alone.
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You mean when he pulled my hair it was because he actually secretly likes me?
No, that's if he dips your pigtails in the inkwell.