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I don't have any pictures of my coat.
Screenshot or it didn't happen :P
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I turned up to a winter daytime event in my snowypeak black jersy with the 1/4 zip and my bullet proof black leather jacket only to be redirected to the pimp convention up the road.
Elephant hide (I'm sure), four buttons front (top one missing) and the length is to the mid thigh.
Best worn with an all black natural fiber ensamble. Black boots, jeans, top and sun glasses for those clear blue cold Christchurch days like today.
OK it maynot be bullet proof but stab & tazer proof for sure.
I didn't buy it and my friend who gave it to me didn't either. It has a murky past and I've been warned not to wear it through customs. It was once owned by someone who had to leave in a hurry. My friend has since left the country too. -
It's not that it is unclean - it's about minimisation of risk. I have a friend who got Hep C from a transfusion 20 years ago, and who would have rather liked them to have been more careful back then.
Sure, but I still wonder why it's an unacceptable risk if I've had oral or anal sex in the last five years (with or without a condom) with a man, but not so much if I'd been doing the same with a woman? Personally, I see where the NZBS is coming from but high-risk behaviour isn't "safer" because you're doing it with a woman -- as HIV-poz women can testify.
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Oh hey. I just made an appointment for my daughter to start getting her gardasil vaccinations today, and that made me remember the last time I took her up there for a shot, when the nurse TRIED to give her a needle phobia. She was nearly hysterical trying to stop Rhiana from watching the needle go in even though I was right there saying 'you can look if you want'. I know my kid. She's the one on Disposing of Dead Things duty for our family.
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Oh hey. I just made an appointment for my daughter to start getting her gardasil vaccinations today, and that made me remember the last time I took her up there for a shot, when the nurse TRIED to give her a needle phobia. She was nearly hysterical trying to stop Rhiana from watching the needle go in even though I was right there saying 'you can look if you want'. I know my kid. She's the one on Disposing of Dead Things duty for our family.
Heh... and surely the child-related petty neurosis is something you don't need to outsource? :) Hell, one thing I love about kids is the streak of fearless ghoulishness most of them, sadly, lose as they get older. "Needles? Kewl!"
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She's the one on Disposing of Dead Things duty for our family.
Very gracious of you.
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She's the one on Disposing of Dead Things duty for our family
I've just been reading the history of the zombie war WWZ, kind of puts an odd persepective on comments like this
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My daughter would totally rock the Zombie Apocalypse.
Very gracious of you.
Thank you. She thrives on responsibility and recognition of her strengths. She also once brought me the dessicated gutless corpse of a guinea pig for inspection, which was somewhat startling.
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Bunch of tattoos and yet I still can't get over the needles for giving blood. Can't they just scrape it off my arm when I'm getting my new tat and screen out the ink?
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I always find a spot on the ceiling and concentrate really hard on it.
Same here. Discovered my aversion to blood during a 4th form first aid film (yes film not video), apparently the pretty yellow stars were not part of the film.
I like it when there is enough dirt of the ceiling for me to focus on something. I also once had a dentist who had a really nice photo of Auckland Harbour on his ceiling.
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I've just been reading the history of the zombie war WWZ, kind of puts an odd persepective on comments like this
Ah, squee! I'm surprised Max Brooks and his father weren't the first out of the gate with a black (and bloody) comedy about the usual nubile suspects being chew toys for Nazi zombies.
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O rh d negative here which is, as the GP in the family said, "Ooo! Hot collector's item!"*
Problem: I have veins that actively retreat from needles...it took a very experienced district nurse 4 goes to harpoon one-
(*I've been looking warily over my shoulder ever since, for eager obstetricians creeping up.)
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Needless to add, link to trailer is of marginal workplace safety -- unless you have headphones and great peripheral vision.
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Zombie nazis on snow! How do we get to see that here?
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Needless to add, link to trailer is of marginal workplace safety -- unless you have headphones and great peripheral vision
Squee!
Did you spot the Braindead tee shirt?In the wikilink there is mention of a film version
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Zombie nazis on snow! How do we get to see that here?
Because Ant Timpson is a sick and twisted bastard (Lord love the sweet little pixie), its doing the Film Festival circuit but it looks like you'll have to do a road trip to Christchurch. Sorry.
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Mikaere, your story is beautiful.
And thanks too for the link back to the 2005 one from Slack and you, on significant dates in NZ history and the unveiling by the Queen Mother of Inia Te Wiata's pouihi at New Zealand House, London.
As a complimentary complement to that story on the other side of the world, may I nominate Tuesday 11 August 1914, when the Poverty Bay Herald included in its Editor's miscellany at this time six days after the outbreak of the First World War: "The usual meeting of the Gisborne Shakespeare Club will not be held on Wednesday evening, owing to the patriotic korero."
Yeah, WW1 not WWZ, but seems to encapsulate rather nicely an earlier point in the cultural linkage of British settler-descendants and Maori. (From the latest update of the National Library's digitised newspapers searchable on-line, where the Povery Bay Herald is one of the better ones for later coverage up to 1920.)
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Ah, squee! I'm surprised Max Brooks and his father weren't the first out of the gate with a black (and bloody) comedy about the usual nubile suspects being chew toys for Nazi zombies.
Zombie nazis on snow! How do we get to see that here?
You fly up to Auckland for the film festival? :)
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Bunch of tattoos and yet I still can't get over the needles for giving blood.
Need to wait six months after tattoos for blood donation. Tatts much riskier.
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In the wikilink there is mention of a film version
Indeed -- but I'll be damned if I can see a way its going to work as a conventional feature (and with a budget lower than the GDP for a medium-sized country) without carving out everything that's interesting about the book in the first place. But we live (and die) in hope.
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but I'll be damned if I can see a way its going to work as a conventional feature
I've made it a policy never to go to the movie of a book I enjoyed, its just too depressing for words.
I nominate Craig as Zombie-flick-Reviewer-in-Chief -
Dead Snow, like Jem and the Holograms, is truly, truly, truly outrageous. Even if it does suffer from Idiot Protagonist Syndrome a little too much (but hell, it's a comedy).
One of these days I must acquire the audiobook of WWZ - Alan Alda, Jürgen Prochnow, Mark Hamill, HENRY ROLLINS among others - that would have to be worth a listen.
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I've pretty much conquered my fear of needles.
Sticking needles into oneself and having twice daily blood tests for two weeks did it. Thank goodness I have veins that even the most incompetent vampire nurse can get blood out of. Admittedly after two weeks of a double daily hammering my veins were getting a wee bit tough.
The nicest clinics have fun posters on the walls that one can focus on while the bottles are being changed. -
Dead Snow, like Jem and the Holograms, is truly, truly, truly outrageous. Even if it does suffer from Idiot Protagonist Syndrome a little too much (but hell, it's a comedy).
And where would the modern horror movie be without teenagers who get aroused by the most unfortunate things -- like dark corners and rampaging serial killers. :)
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Because Ant Timpson is a sick and twisted bastard
However, having my finger on the sick and twisted pulse of PAS, it's the film I've asked to review for the festival.
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