Hard News: Recreations
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Yes, I think your assumptions are correct, Evan.
As for landing in Wellington, just enjoy it! If it's going to crash, it's going to crash, and there's nothing you can do about it as a passenger, so just enjoy the adreneline rush and realise that it's probably turning on the ladies around you in the same way that horror movies do. That's official Wellingtonista advice.
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As for landing in Wellington, just enjoy it! If it's going to crash, it's going to crash, and there's nothing you can do about it as a passenger
Except for not buying a ticket! But I rate the drive down there as about 100 times more dangerous.
so just enjoy the adreneline rush and realise that it's probably turning on the ladies around you in the same way that horror movies do. That's official Wellingtonista advice.
Is it the actual horror, or just the excuse to grab the nearest guy which is the big turn on?
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But I rate the drive down there as about 100 times more dangerous.
I'm no statismathmagician or anything, but I'm pretty sure that the death rate of like what, 500 people a year on the roads > the handful of people who die in plane crashes in NZ, very very few of which are commercial flights, so I think you might be on to something there.
Is it the actual horror, or just the excuse to grab the nearest guy which is the big turn on?
The actual horror.
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It's hard to compare flying and driving on numbers of deaths. We spend a hell of a lot more time driving.
The horror, the horror? I believe the dime store psychology on horror is that it is a release for sexual frustration, which is why it's so popular amongst teens.
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I dunno Geoff, I thought the Waratahs looked pretty crap. The Hurricanes were just crappier.
Hmm, that's about how it looked to me sideline. It was an incredibly frustrating game but I have to say the refereeing was pretty woeful. Still, the Tahs are notorious for starting well but will soon 'die in the arse' (as they say in 'straya).
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Is it the actual horror, or just the excuse to grab the nearest guy which is the big turn on?
Excuse? Oh Ben, just do it, you don't need an excuse.
Of course, the last time I landed at Wellington the guy next to me had what appeared to be the early stages of bubonic plague and Jeffrey Archer novel, both of which kept him well safe from any grabbing.
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I can't grab, got my eyes closed and hands firmly on the armrests.
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and hands firmly on the armrests.
Just make it someone else's armrests & you're in business!
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Ben: is there a particular season it's safe to land an airplane there?
Joanna: Too soon!Not being up with the local news (for obvious reasons; thanks Evan),
I'd read that as meaning that there hasn't been a safe season yet;
i.e. wait until the airport can be re-sited (after the next quake).As for
turning on the ladies around you in the same way that horror movies do
, yeah, most horror movies do have an alarming tendency to victimise their female cast members ... oh, you meant something else. Uh, they do? They are? Wow. Er. But still, can't say I've ever witnessed any grabbing on the way into Wellington. Clenching, maybe, but no grabbing.
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Not being up with the local news (for obvious reasons; thanks Evan),
I'd read that as meaning that there hasn't been a safe season yet;
i.e. wait until the airport can be re-sited (after the next quake).Oh no, I just wanted to make a reference to the fact that AIDs is officially funny now, and everyone loves a good Princess Diana joke, but plane crash humour needs at least another week.
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I've been grabbed. But I don't find it romantic, what flashes through my mind is "if we have a crash she'll rip my arm off". But when I was into horror movies it might have been a different matter.
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Goodness, I don't know which is more offensive: To make a badly timed plane crash joke, or to not know why it might be offensive.
I read "Too Soon" as "Too soon to call", meaning we need another epoch of Wellington weather data before we can be sure they're not just caught in a geologically insignificant winter subclimate, which could end any day. I get No Prize for working that out.
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I know the kids love it, but could we also have some comprehensive, well-lit exhibitions for grown-ups?
I entirely agree, Russell. The last time I was at Our Place - which was also my first time - I felt more than a bit disgruntled. I kept thinking I had missed bits, and rushed around to find out where the missed bits might be, but to no avail. It's a very attractive set up, but I have to say that the older model of museum - the British Museum, the Auckland War Memorial - suit me alot better.
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Goodness, I don't know which is more offensive: To make a badly timed plane crash joke, or to not know why it might be offensive.
Anyone who has heard any of my terrible favouritest jokes would realise that I'm rather hard to offend, but sometimes it's fun to pretend to be offended. See also: "are you calling me fat?"
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I actually enjoy a rough approach into Wellington airport on an early morning business trip....
It means I don't need to spend $5 on a whooshy coffee and can still be wide awake for my first meeting of the day...Joanna, your
"are you calling me fat?"
line immediately conjured up a mental image of Travis Bickle from "Taxi Driver".
If I ever hear that from you I'll be checking your coat sleeves for suspicious gun-shaped bulges (with which I hope you won't be traveling through Wellington airport)
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oooh... just as a wild guess, but I'm betting the last thing you wanna do on hearing that line is start checking the coat for bulges.
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Are you checking out my bulges? Are you mocking me?
(Actually the phrase came from something I said to a guy at a wedding in December 2001, that I was told never to say again by my friend in January 2002) - it was all about how you should take a compliment at face value and not display poor self esteem, but I think it's more fun to turn it around and mess with people's heads. My Oma once wrote me a cheque when she thought she'd insulted me. I felt terrible. But took the money anyway.
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I'm still fuming after watching the TV1 special on Canterbury Water last night.
It was poorly researched and worked off various assumptions - that irrigation was needed. It wasn't balanced at all.
Storing water for use is one thing, but the flushing of the soils by irrigation is and will further damage the aquafers water quality. Think of it as a dirty sponge.
We need to stop any irrigation from aqaufers as these are not sustainable - some taking thousands of years for the water to reach the sea and are drained to empty = drill deeper.
The missinformation being promoted by the dairy industry is criminal.
Key lie told is that the volume of water from one flood is sufficent to fill the reservoir. Although this might be true it will never be done.
Flood waters are too silted and will block, grind down and break any irrigation equipment. Flood waters are never used for these reasons but persists as a repeated lie by the dairy industy. -
I had a disorientating feeling on Saturday evening: I was watching a game of rugby, from Eden Park's ASB Stand, and it occurred to me that I didn't know the rules. I can't recall the last time that was the case.
This just proves that you are a genius Russell. The rest of us mere mortals have never understood any of the rules and that includes when I was playing the game.
I get some of the new ones but Bray was making some real weird pedantic ones at the breakdown. He was particularly hard on the Blues for quite long periods at the ruck.
I'm also not sure why they only short arm it for holding the ball in, not releasing type infringements. Isn't that just as bad as coming in from the side or being offside? Why the distinction?
Also the halfbacks need to be behind the scrum when on defence not allowed to creep around and stuff up attacking ball.
Cheers for the birthday congrats. 4 years is a disgraceful length of time to stick at it but it sure helps having a team rather than flying solo.
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On the rugby, if the Super 14 is being played to new special rules (presumably to encourage a Southern Hemisphere style of rugby) what happens when we have to play Northern Hemisphere sides under the traditional rules?
Or is the idea that either they have to change (unlikely, given that money talks and they have lots of it) or that the game splits. Which would give NZ a much clearer run at the world cup title that is ours of right..
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For some reason
with which I hope you won't be traveling through Wellington airport
.. immediately made me think "that is the style of English up with which i cannot put".
"I treat the hotel as 'my large house' and like to share my taste in art with our guests. Glad you enjoyed it."
The art there IS great; particularly notable for its (1) contemporaneity (2) degree of difficulty, and (3) not being necessarily restricted to being executed in pigment suspended in some medium and applied to a support of some kind (canvas, board).
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On the rugby, if the Super 14 is being played to new special rules (presumably to encourage a Southern Hemisphere style of rugby) what happens when we have to play Northern Hemisphere sides under the traditional rules?
Assuming the change goes through worldwide, the northern hemisphere will cross over at the end of their current season - later this year.
When northern teams come to the south in June, we'll be playing them with old rules. And then tri-nations we go back to new rules. Northern tour at the end of our season - I presume this will be new rules.
Either way - been a fair while since a northern hemisphere team looked like winning in NZ - England, 2003? No need to worry.
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Either way - been a fair while since a northern hemisphere team looked like winning in NZ - England, 2003? No need to worry.
An answer of sorts is available here. Sorry to link-whore but these boys are damn funny and just what this expat needs on a regular basis.
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