Posts by Emma Hart
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Yikes, about 100 cloves of garlic were planted last weekend - I do hope the chief gardener got it right :)
You've got it right, Andrew, I do this every year. In on the shortest day, out on the longest. Garlic is a cold climate plant. If it's too warm the tops fall over too soon before you get decent bulbs.
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What you'd need is the parents of a gay couple, who actually might not have been all that thrilled when their son/daughter first came out, talking about how wonderful it was to attend the civil union, how nice to was to have family and friends together and celebrating the formalising of the relationship.
Or... okay, so as to avoid dead-squirrel hunting even though I find this a bit icky - a heterosexual couple with a civil union talking about how they were able to choose the relationship form that was right for them.
Keep all the social legislation I loved right out of it. Kiwisaver, WFF... people who are firmly demonstrably financially better off.
Except of course that leads you right into the Cheese Argument.
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At the time I thought it very strange that hearing impaired had different subtitles than the rest of us, but I guess other sound effects would be included.
Indeed, it includes important sound effects or anything an on-screen character reacts to - ringing phone, slamming door, distant scream, etc.
The trick sometimes is to not get these confused with the full descriptive subtitles that describe what's happening on the screen. I don't grok the purpose of these - surely if you can't see what's happening, you also can't see the subtitles, but I'm bound to be missing something here.
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I've only done it with jersey bennys (potatoes, I've grown yams like this too), they work well, all year round even (Wgtn weather).
Like Deborah, I love agrias, they're so reliable. I wasn't going to put any in this year because we're probably moving in a few months. But in buckets, I can take 'em with me...
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Really? I didn't know that, thanks Danielle.
Closed captions for the Deaf. When someone is being sarcastic, the subtitle will have an exclamation mark in brackets after it (!). After watching a couple of seasons of closed caption Buffy - Whedon, sarcastic, who'd've thought (!) - I'd really like to see this practice catch on more on the net, for all I'd like to think we don't need it.
And here's my parental advice for the week. Do something utterly, recklessly self-indulgent every now and then. I just got my first tattoo yesterday, and I'm a much nicer mummy for it.
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Sometimes I'm tempted to make a macro to produce my 'enable sense of humour' instructions at the press of a key...
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So I've downloaded, and just been pimping it out, with a new add-ons, including Lazarus by the team behind interclue. I really missed the form saving feature that disappeared sometime from Netscape, so I'm looking forward to having it back.
I shall tell the guy who built it when he gets home from work, he'll be dead chuffed.
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Well .. it's a tough issue. For a start there are far too many homos running around. It's really annoying not being able to take more than a few paces outside without having to risk losing one's lunch.
Then there are the adulterers. They should be strung up as an example. I'll not say where or how.
Oh, beautiful. I haven't stopped laughing yet.
I take it we string gay adulterers up inside? Inquiring minds need to know.
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I'm perfectly happy to walk by myself at night, it's something I enjoy. I guess I reclaimed the night by never giving it up, rather than spending one night marching in a large loud whistle-equipped group.
As far as effectiveness goes... in the Castro in the 80s when gay-bashing was a popular sport, people would put a symbol in their window. If you were being attacked and you saw that sign, you knew you had a safe place to run TO. The more people who are willing to help and get involved, the more likely it is that someone will help you when you need it.
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I see women in the states are loading up with tasers. The hairspray's a good option - ta!
I'm pretty sure you don't want to encourage your son to take up smoking. Nonetheless, the most effective offensive weapon I've happened to 'just have on me' was the ol' 'lit cigarette to the face'.
I've been given actual weapons to carry to protect myself (usually when being the girlfriend of the big scary guy has become more dangerous than not) and never felt comfortable having them, let alone using them. But my sixth form boyfriend did teach me to open a butterfly knife in a manner so intimidatingly skillful that hopefully it would ensure never having to use it.