Posts by Emma Hart
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So many half-remembered parties. One on a traffic island on Bealey Ave – entry was a D-cell battery for the stereo – which the cops were incredibly cool about. I recommend having a designated chick in any flat (she’ll be the same one who makes people wash the dishes) whose job it is to talk to the police or noise control and gets them to, y’know, just leave again. She must be able to sound incredibly reasonable when drunk, and preferably be distractingly hot. One party I went to dressed as a Green Orion Slave girl and woke up (came to) in the morning with not a trace of body paint on anything but my eyelids. One I had to go back to the next day and ask if I could please have all my clothes back. One where we seriously considered setting fire to stuff in the back yard so we could have a full slate of emergency services call-outs.
But the party story that comes to mind is this one. For a couple of months I flatted with some people I never really got to know in Wainui St. One evening, I was headed off with friend’s to another friend’s pyjama party. As we were leaving, flatties appeared to be settling in for the night with all the lounge furniture in the back yard. Nothing unusual.
We went to our party, and in the wee, wee hours of the morning I stumbled home again. I walk in the back door accompanied by a couple of friends, dressed in pigtails, eyeliner freckles, bare feet, and a Garfield nightshirt that says ‘you may as well take all of me, the parts you want don’t come off’. The flat is deathly quiet, and completely dark. Later, this last turns out to be because there’s not a lightbulb left in the place. No sign of life anywhere. Just an inch-deep layer of broken glass and that unidentifiable miscellaneous crap that covers the floor the morning after parties. The boys carry me and my bare feet to my room and we go to bed. (There’s no light bulb in my room either, and my bedside lamp just makes alarming damp zzzztt noises.)
In the morning, the devastation is even more impressive. But, y’know, we’re nineteen, nobody’s going to SAY anything, it wouldn’t be cool. Any residual annoyance over the state of my room is entirely removed by the look on my ‘ubercool’ flatmate Kelvin’s face as he watches me make three cups of coffee for breakfast. I never did find out what happened, but I don’t think anyone who lived in that flat will ever be running for public office.
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I think the MoH played down the possibility of adverse reactions more than was wise.
This is exactly what pissed me off. Had I had the information that came out through PA in the first place, I would still have had my kids immunised, but I would have done it at our dr's and had them home the rest of the day, rather than having them done at school. Simple.
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Ross, your vast conspiracy theory seems to be looking a little hairy. Might I suggest the purchase of an Occam's Razor?
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Totally off-topic but related to children and photo ops, anyone catch how TV3 commented on Helen Clark's appearance at a children's day thing? "Not having any children of her own to take..."
FFS. Maybe she could have cruised past a poor suburb and picked up a couple off the street.
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The psychology behind DPF and Kiwiblog et al has me completely flummoxed. However I did come across, The Online Disinhibition Effect by John Suler, http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/overview.html</quote>
Elegantly summed up here
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Make US$50 a post and I'll consider it.
Would anyone else like to make an offer on some slightly-used integrity?
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So is this one of the new forms of marketing?
Adding personal sounding messages to blogs. Still incredilbly obvious.For about a year now, the freelance site I get some of my work through has been heavy with job offers to do just this: go round discussion fora and add individually-written, human-generated promotional comments. Here's one at random from yesterday's mail-out:
Ghost Forum contributor requested...
I need some one to post 300 forums posts to skin care blogs or forums with my site's signatures. The forums must be related to skin industry and 3 posts on each forum. You will find forums by yourself and have to create username. Coder is required to show evidence of work done.
The pay rate for that? US$50. Total. Robin just made about 16c.
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I wish PA System had some kind of mod point, favourite, or other reward scheme, because then I could give Emma about 15 trillion bonus points.
It's enough to know I'm loved...
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I can't find it. Is it because I'm using Firefox?
LOL Bless you.
And my boss wouldn't let me put that in our help files...
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Okay, I think I see the problem. It's a web browser options thing. Click on 'tools' then 'options' then 'content'. Under 'enable java script', you should see a box labelled 'enable sense of humour'. If you check this, you should subsequently be able to detect the presence of sarcasm, irony, and satire on the web. Some things may subsequently make a lot more sense.