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Coffee it is. (I'm now officially afraid of this contraption.)
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But you where right to bow to the wheel, the almighty.
Isn't the wheel something you put your shoulder to?
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See what I'm talking about.
Couldn't be clearer. Shattered to the core to have doubted you.
The gears are especially fetching. -
I'm totally game for this coffee (seriously, name a day, I live up the road and am a person of uncommon leisure) so long as you promise me you'll keep the wheel.
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What did they water it with, asparagus urine?
Purely out of interest - and possibly to switch tack slightly - how many other people recall being sent outside as kids to "water the lemon tree"? That's not (much of) a euphemism, by the way - as a child I was left with the strong impression that it was perfectly fine to urinate on the lemon tree in the garden, and _only_ the lemon tree. Talking to some friends, this seems to have been a common thread. I don't know if there's any scientific basis for it, or just the yellow connection, but from what I've seen it doesn't do the trees any harm.
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Jack: nope. But at numerous parties, where the tiddly menfolk would repair outside to leave the toilet for the ladies, people would comment "this is why we have such great citrus in New Zealand."
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I pee regularly on the tomatoes. Actually, I might not pee on the tomatoes, but the mere threat of peeing on the tomatoes keeps my ravenous flatmates away from my big, red, juicy, and precious summer fruits.
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Just to be clear, the correct spelling is Pinot gris, not Pinot Gris.
Ditto, Pinot noir, Sauvignon blanc.
Things like 'Pinot', 'Sauvignon' and 'Cabernet Sauvignon' are cultivars, and the final colours are descriptors, not the part of the cultivar name.
So uber-geekily
Vitis vinifera 'Pinot' gris -
I think that there needs to be some more thought in the new legislation about the Woddstock Bourbon and Cola.
I was working on Friday night and gentleman who had spent a considerable amount of time consuming said beverage tried to take my head off after I refused him entry to the bar I was working at.
Even though I had politely told him it was 'full up'. Oh well it may be something that the Nats get right.
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Jack: nope. But at numerous parties, where the tiddly menfolk would repair outside to leave the toilet for the ladies, people would comment "this is why we have such great citrus in New Zealand."
Might also explain quite a bit about New Zealand's divorce stats, and why more women are marrying later... if at all. :)
Even though I had politely told him it was 'full up'. Oh well it may be something that the Nats get right.
If any Government can eradicate obnoxious arseholism in public places, I'd be surprised. But stranger things have happened...
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Daniel, so true. My view that his behavior is likely to have been caused by the alcohol in his drink rather than the sugar is clearly not universally shared. The idea that it could have been because he was just a wanker is almost unsayable.
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Well at least it can't be worse than the UK. It still weirds me out a little that I can buy the hardest of spirits from smallest, meanest convenience store
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Well I have got used to checking out the specials on single malts in the supermarket. It will take some adjusting when we go home.
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It still weirds me out a little that I can buy the hardest of spirits from smallest, meanest convenience store.
In Louisiana you can buy hard liquor from a petrol station. (!)
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In Louisiana you can buy hard liquor from a petrol station. (!)
And, in good old NZ we have a segment on TV One's "premier motorsport show" (the name escapes me somehow) aimed directly at Yoof petrol heads aka, Boy Racers sponsored by Jim Beam Bourbon and "decorated" by the "Jim Beam Party Girls"
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In Louisiana you can buy hard liquor from a petrol station. (!)
You mean like the liquor store attached to the Gull station in New North Rd?
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You mean like the liquor store attached to the Gull station in New North Rd?
Oh snap. I bought beer from there once, but felt guilty enough that I went to Glengarry in Kingsland ever after.
Once the new liquor shop on Great North Road opens - and it's a Planet Liquor, whatever that is - I'll probably slouch down that way instead, and biff empty Woodstocks at people waiting for the train on my way home. Phoreal.
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Sorry, make that New North Road. It's not easy, good social commentary.
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You mean like the liquor store attached to the Gull station in New North Rd?
There's one of those on Te Atatu Road as well. But somehow it's a little more unnerving to go in, pay for petrol, and buy a fifth of whisky from the same hapless clerk during the same transaction.
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Yeah, there's a liquor store sharing the forecourt with a BP here in Dunedin which some people comment on.
But at least they are actually different stores, and you have to leave one to go into the other. And employees in both have to know a little bit about the trade and safety to do so, which is probably not the case in all places in the world.
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And I notice that the New North Road liquor shop has an Eve's Pantry alongside - cake with yr grog, perhaps?
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And I notice that the New North Road liquor shop has an Eve's Pantry alongside - cake with yr grog, perhaps?
We were discussing this in the car. What is Eve's Pantry?
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What is Eve's Pantry?
It's a posh bakery/cakery. The original one is on Manukau Road near the Lido.
Actually, I'm not sure how posh it is now, but I remember in the '90s it was a primo destination for eastern suburbs housewives.
Nowadays you'll see the Eve's Pantry logo on boxes out the back of your local cafe, including - if memory serves - Starbucks.
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Actually, I'm not sure how posh it is now, but I remember in the '90s it was a primo destination for eastern suburbs housewives.
Not terribly, with foodie fashion being what it is. Where you buy your organic gluten-free carrot cake can date faster than the impenetrably hip labels on your clothes.
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