Posts by giovanni tiso
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The latter seemed a bit mean of me, but is that what you're suggesting?
Not so much suggesting as saying out right, I thought :-)
But I would totally get on board the cranberry sauce and deep-fried turkey idea too. Never understood why you can only get turkey at Christmas in this silly, silly country.
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Any more revelations about Peter Dunne would be interesting.
People in the know, riddle me this: what are the chances (realistically) that he won't get re-elected?
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What do they give thanks for anyway?
Smallpox.
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Alternatively: how about spending ten dollars in sweets and five seconds each with your kids' neighbours per year, you tight-arse philistines?
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There's a tip for parents of young kids - add a 1 to their year of birth when you sign them up for their first sports teams, just in case.
Yup, that's what I always do. And you should see their faces when I tell them that my little champ was born in the year twenty thousand and eleven. Ohhhh, they go, and aaaahhhhh.
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Jamil? No way! I went to university with that guy.
(I know, I know, welcome to New Zealand, Giovanni. I still get stupidly excited about this sort of thing.)
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He recalled how then Italians had finally turned on Mussolini by stringing him up by his feet, hanging him from a steel girder and stuffing his mouth with his testicles
The last part never happened, though. Meurant possibly got confused with certain colorful mafia executions.
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I like the idea of dumping QB weekend in favour of Matariki
Ah, but then we'd get the Matariki weekend sales and that would make me cry. I agree that it has to be properly reclaimed and rediscovered (nothing in Hamilton to mark it? that's just wrong) but Islander is right, it doesn't need an official stamp to be felt and celebrated. We just need more people to get behind it and talk about it and light bonfires. We also need my son to stop insisting we get up at five in the morning to see it - the adorable little tike.
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I'm having halloween in the northern hemisphere with my kids that are now really getting it and going to an international school with lots of american kids so we had a proper halloween and I carved my first pumpkin.
I trust you were quite safe and nowhere near Piazza Navona. But... are you telling me you can go treat or treating in Italy these days. And if you do, what do the little nippers say when the door opens?
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in fact, I reckon we should replace Xmas with Matariki. Public holiday too.
Hear, hear. I'd leave Xmas where it is, but Matariki has the makings of a true national day/month, and without the surrounding commercial crapfest.