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Survey two has to be boxers vs briefs...
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*sigh*
You say over-reaction. I say justified reaction.
You may talk about a city you lived in half you life, I talk about a city I've lived in all my life. That doesn't matter to me. It is neither here nor there.
But, for me, it comes down to you telling me to "get over it." That itt is just a colourful gnome. You are telling me how to feel about my living space, my city. That a sign like this is just like an annoying garden ornament in a neighbour's lot.-
No, it isn't. Not at all. It is my heartland, my home. You can call this an over-reaction (but, please note, as I'm sure you have, I've rounded on Moa for their campaign). But i still feel so strongly against this sign, this thing that will sit over Evans Bay. And "stop over-reacting" isn't helping, in fact, it is exactly what Infratil keep saying...
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Thanks, Steve.
Let us from Wellington explain this once again:
- this is not about film making
- this is not about Peter Jackson
- this is not about cultural sideshowsThis is about Infratil deciding, on behalf of an entire city that a significant piece of landscape is to be permanent home of a dad joke! Or, as Queen of Thorns wrote very well, the equivalent of a George Clooney moustache.
And don't raise the straw man of Moa, or the Asteron building, Craig. You can't justify the sign on Moa's advertising, you know that. And you also know you can't find the opposition to the Asteron building, as compared to the opposition to the WELLYWOOD sign. Straw men like that are easily burnt.
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I do apologise for my foul language in my previous comment. But I do feel aggrieved, very aggrieved, that my desire to love and live and love-and-live in my city is declared to be no more than objecting to "a painted garden gnome" by this writer.
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Craig, can I say I'm sick of this. Why do you think it is okay to dismiss this particular grievance as opposed to others? You don't have to live it. You don't have to experience it on a day to day basis. Yet you claim privilege over my right to object, as someone who has to live and live with this thing sitting over the eastern suburbs of my city.
This, despite it's "frivolous" nature as presented by Auckland televised news media, isn't a side-bar to any kind of debate. This is my fucking city you're fucking mocking with your gnome equivalences. To put it bluntly.
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James: I can only but agree with you that Emerson's Bird Dog is a better example of hoppy amazement; it has more character, more depth, as well as the hops to make you mouth go numb and your senses to swirl.
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Just to echo Conal; the proposed WELLYWOOD sign is not a annoying garden gnome, nor a brightly coloured fence. Nor even an annoying billboard this blocks your line of sight.
It is a huge thing, sited on the Miramar cutting to look out over Evans Bay, always in sight of suburbs like Roseneath and much of Kilbernie and Haitaitai, immediately in view as you head around the pretty drive around the bays, or as you head onto the road to the airport - and past it, if you live in Miramar / Seatoun.
This is not a minor thing, a mild annoyance. It is an unfunny dad joke in plain sight, unavoidable, unwanted, for large numbers of the city's inhabitants every day - and for the rest quite a few times a year if not more often.
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Isabel - I'd actually say that isn't the way to try your first Rex Attitude. It's strong, unique, and certainly challenging, and I found that drinking it after experiencing other flavours made it very difficult.
My recommendation is to drink it cool (or, even cold, though Stu McKinlay would probably slap me for saying so), and as your first drink - on a clear, clean palate, untouched as yet by hops or any other strong flavours.
As for the Hop Zombie, I thought I loved it when drinking it at the Wellington launch. The first, so round, fruity, bitter yet sweet was amazing. The second was a bit harsher, a bit rougher as the hops wore away at my tongue. Then Luke bought me a third and, yeah, couldn't finish it. TOO hoppy for my poor taste buds - couldn't taste anything the next day at all!
I've tried the Hop Zombie since then, and I think it just goes a bit too much in one direction; one for the 'hop zombies' for sure, but I prefer a bit more rounded maltiness myself.
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Loving this album... -
Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to Russell Brown,
Meanwhile, Don Brash's open letter to John key might be the most socially divisive rant I've ever seen from a New Zealand political leader. Winston Peters included.
It's bizarre.
Shorter Brash: "John, dude, you've changed. Remember when we we rolling on the opposition benches? You were all about hating on the poor and the Maori back then. You've sold out, man. Gone soft."