Posts by Dave Patrick
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No love for "trollop" so far? Such a lovely, lovely word......
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Moving from Manukau to Christchurch may have had something to do with the "man this place is white" perception :) - and an overgrown rural service town (Rangiora) is probably a slightly different beast to actually living in Christchurch itself.
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The "official" version is all about making Jesus (and by extension, God, because they're, like, one and the same, y'know?) nice and approachable as opposed to the Old Testament God who was just the sort who would turn small boys in to goats just for a giggle. When you think about it, the Old Testament God really is a bit of a dickhead - thou shalt this and thou shalt not the other, and don't bother looking back at your city I just destroyed because I could and oh, those plagues? Have fun with them too.
I used to buttonhole religious door knockers and involve them in theological arguments (being the son of a reasonably liberal Presbyterian minister has its advantages every now and again) - but the fun's sort of gone out that, it's too easy. I just get annoyed by the ones that use their kids to knock on the door in the hopes you won't swear at them in front of the littlies.
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Christchurch is a strange place....... as a (semi)-recent arrival from Auckland, the first thing to hit us about it was it was really, REALLY flat.
The second was the almost complete lack of brown faces, of any kind - I don't mean this as a perpetuation of stereotyping, but just as an observation - even the roadworkers, rubbish men and dairy owners were white.
The third was the obsession with school - namely the attempt to pigeon-hole you by what school you attended, so people would know how to deal with you, or whether you were worth talking to (foiled completely by us having gone to small schools in places no one has heard of - one in the King Country, one in Franklin). Even now, the Press, when talking about some person in the news, will mention what school they went to if it's a recognisably "nice" school (one of the privates, Girls or Boys High, Burnside at a stretch, Marlborough Girls).
The fourth was the almost complete ignorance of even basic New Zealand geography outside of Canterbury (an inability to place Hamilton on a map for instance), and a fervent belief that Christchurch was the greatest city and best place to live in New Zealand, despite never having lived anywhere else.
A strange, strange place.....
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Emma, a question for you, from someone who's only lived down this way through Sideshow Bob and his predecessor Garry "Not Vicki Buck" Moore - was Vicki Buck really as great as everyone seems to make her?
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you'll still pick Sideshow Bob, because you genuinely believe he's got your best interests at heart
And you could type this without laughing?
/me doesn't feel quite so bad being in Waimakariri District, even though we gave Jim Gerard a job for a few years
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Almost set fire to the kitchen once, but ended up just singeing the mat on top of the microwave and wrecking the seals on the microwave doors - who knew that the old-fashioned yoghurt pots with the paper labels, when filled with mashed vegetable for the youngsters, would actually catch fire if you microwaved them too high for too long?
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Good luck with the Whitcoulls thing - it would be nice to see a relevant, local-writer display in one, rather than the generic "big name publishes new book" ones.
On the subject of book shops, has any one else noticed a drop in quality of stock at Borders since they got taken over by Whitcoulls? Time was I could go in to the science fiction section of Borders here in Christchurch and find 10 or 15 things to buy just like that - nowadays I seem to be lucky to find 1 or 2.
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Patrick Troughton in black and white was probably my first, but I remember more Jon Pertwee than is probably good for me. The series went through a looong period of obvious cost-cutting when the Pertwee Doctor and the brigadier were stuck on earth and never went anywhere in the Tardis. And the less said about K9 the better..... although he did redeem himself somewhat in the Tennant episode he was in.
Tom Baker is still my favourite, I liked Peter Davison as well, but stopped when Colin Baker and then Sylvester McCoy turned out not to be stellar choices.
I liked Donna - she was manic but also real. Loved the Doctor Donna episode. Rose and the whole "love" interest thing bored me stupid - I don't watch Doctor Who to see kissing and doe eyes, I watch for aliens and the Tardis and accidental arrivals and ever-so-slightly-in-the-wrong-place travellings.
And one of my daughters is named after a companion......
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us having some large prisons from which people get released into Chch no matter where they originated from.
Did it provide any proof that these releases added to the crime figures (i.e. "these murders were perpetrated by people recently released from the prisons around Christchurch"), or was it just something to throw in there? Suppose I should really read it myself and find out :)
it sits next to a shiny red stiletto. Why the shoe?
Because one of the murdered women was a prostitute, and everyone knows only prostitutes wear stilettos?