Posts by giovanni tiso
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Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Not sure how you get that cart before that horse
This sounds very dangerous for a start.
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Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to BenWilson,
Hard to know for sure, the helmet being compulsory feels a lot more intrusive than the non-compulsory lycra. Also, the helmet fucks up your hair, which I expect matters to women a lot more.
I was referring to David's posts about helmet laws fostering perceptions of cycle unsafety. I think people on the whole are more worried about looking silly than looking dead.
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Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Lycra and similar fabrics are really comfortable on a bike, in summer and winter.
I think lycra puts off would be cyclists a lot more than the helmet laws. Just putting it out there.
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Muse: Hooray for Wellywood (Really!), in reply to Craig Ranapia,
What I’m suggesting is that it might be wise not to presume the HCC has a slam-dunk case because you very obviously think the other side are a pack of douche-orcs.
I'm not interested nor indeed qualified to quantify the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce's chances to prevent Wellington Airport from ripping off their sign. I'm just interested in calling this particular spade a spade.
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Muse: Hooray for Wellywood (Really!), in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Would also note that the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is rather prone to making legal threats, but as I understand it they're on rather shaky legal ground here if they want to get beyond rather bog-standard sabre-ratting.
Are you an expert on the litigation record of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce now? It must be handy for the weekly pub quiz. But yes, sure, for "plagiarise" the well-disposed person may feel free to read "ever-so-creatively appropriate". Whatevs.
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Muse: Hooray for Wellywood (Really!), in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Maybe it's because they're wild at heart, that they felt able to put up the Wellywood sign despire that fact that almost everyone in the city didn't want it?
Ah, so by Wild at Heart they mean Arseholes. It's so obvious when you explain it like that.
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Muse: Hooray for Wellywood (Really!), in reply to Sacha,
Well, it got noticed in America. How proud the airport bosses must be.
Fitzgerald said a few days ago that the airport's legal advice is that they can go ahead regardless, which drew a rather testy response from the Hollywood chamber of commerce. So, to sum up: what Wellingtonians think doesn't count because the sign is aimed at visitors. What the owners of the sign we're plagiarising doesn't count because we think we ought to be able to get away with it. The airport board's consultation model is quite the beacon.
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If the sign doesn’t signify to most people what it was intended to signify then that’s a failure of design and a reason to come up with a less easily misread signifier, surely?
Well, no, see, the sign was intended to be humourous. So clearly if you don't get the joke it's your fault, not the joke's.
Sure, but it if was pasted on a sign near my house I'd probably have to ask the writer.
Argh. Let's not do the thing again where meaning is in the intention of the author, shall we? Tim's right: if the sign doesn't mean to people what their authors intended it to mean, then maybe it should be changed.
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I bet that if someone pasted on your forehead a sticker saying THE WILSONATOR you might feel invested in deciding what it means as well.
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Muse: Hooray for Wellywood (Really!), in reply to BenWilson,
OK, located it on streetview..So it's on the corner of Miramar Avenue? As in, like a big sign as you enter Miramar? As in, a sign telling you something about Miramar?
It's the road entry to Miramar but it's the air route entry to the city. And really, it's about the city. Ask yourself why in the world would the airport bother to promote Miramar. And it's not as if the good people of that suburb were asked for their opinion either. But everybody understands the sign's about Wellington. Even John Key, judging by his comments.