Posts by Rob Hosking
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Felix wrote:
Not really related the the guidelines set but better than the insipid efforts I made earlier
(though somehow I think I've ripped someone off).Always possible, Felix.
Now.
WHO DID YOU BET ON FOR TOMORROW'S GAME???
Be honest, now.
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Since when did anyone, anywhere, apart from English poetry, use the compressed term "'Tis" in all seriousness? Whenever I've seen the haka written out its been "it is death/it is life...."
And of course the words look silly when you write them out. They do for any damn song.
'Tangled up in Blue', to take a song sort of pretty much at random because it happens to be on the stereo at this moment - makes no bloody sense at all if you write the lyrics out. Its the way the phrases sort of work with the tune which creates the power....OK, there's not much of a tune to 'Ka Mate' but you get the idea. It's the performance.
Opera is particularly bad, if you translate the words into English - if anyone is THAT BORED...but then opera is over-the-top and self dramatising and reminds me strangely of a number of my primary school teachers...
'Scuse me, here, but inspired by this forum I now have a whisky on Friday arvo when I'm cleaning up the office and clearing the backlog and generally hosing down the yard (dairy farmer analogy there I'm afraid)
"Slow Turning" by John Hiatt has replaced 'Tangled Up in Blue' …still would look silly written out.
Oh, and the whisky slogan:
"For the warm glow of winning...."
"for the burning feeling in the guts of losing"
They arne't much good.
I like the one about playing the blues best.
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Felix wrote:
Rob,
I'm given to understand that cad-ish and bounder-ish qualities are to be expected in those of the journalistic persuasion ;-)Yeah.
But in a GOOD way.
God is definitely an ABs fan, even if he is hiding out in the numbers at the moment.
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Felix,
You, Sir, are a Cad and a Bounder, and I hope the Sydenham boys hurt you good.
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Hope some of those people who reckon NZers are "arrogant" about rugby are reading this.
The jitteriness is palpable.
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Oh, and God isn't in the numbers.
He usually hides out in burning bushes, places like that. Got that on the highest authority.
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Great stats. With all those turnovers and tries per minute of possession, all we have to cut down on the unforced errors and hope the lineout still works.
Shit. DEFINITE signs of 2003.
I remain an optimist though, and refer back to the first Dropklck World Cup post, which said of the Argentine-France match "this has upset written all over it" and also picked an NZ - SA final. Holden' ya to that.
And I've managed to negotiate a swap with my beloved of our usual Sunday morning arrangements, so she'll be on toddler-duty.
The ABs had better not let me down. This doesn't happen all that often.
(The toddler-duty thing, I mean. The ABs have let me down, often, since 1998.)
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Russell wrote:
Is looking at a public web page "snooping around" though? I assume you'll be taking the same indignant stance the next time the Herald bases a story on something written by some other kid on Bebo? Because that does happen all the time these days.
Well, hauling it out into public is. There's a whiff of Witchfinder - General about all this which I have a lot of trouble with.
I'm also acutely conscious of the fact that politicians families already cop a lot of shit, and that 14 year old boys are, well, 14 year old boys. Craig's comments on this nailed it, for me.
The Herald-bebo thing....well, yeah, its the latest media fad, it seems. Not a healthy one, either.
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Jackie,
I voted for Helen Clark in Mt Albert in 1987....mostly because she was the only candidate on the ballot who wasn't a dimwit or a loonie. Oh, and I admired what Labour had done in their first term, but that was kind of secondary. I had this idea, back when we had first past the post, that the best thing you could do was vote for the best candidate on your ballot paper.
It was hard, that time, though. Felt as though legions of Tory voting ancesters were doing a slow roll in their coffins.
This is probably the main reason that, unlike a lot of others on the conservative side of politics, I like MMP, for all its faults.
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Gaynz do make an excellent point that during the anti-smacking debate Bill English declared himself entirely responsible for his children's moral education. Some inspection of that moral education does therefore seem appropriate.
Crap. So every time someone says they are responsible for something in their private life the rest of us have a moral right to come snooping??
To take a less emotionally loaded example, I'm responsible for my savings, but you have absolutely no damn right to come snooping around them, let alone sticking them on the front page.