Posts by BenWilson
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I will do Dusty at your next event for a modest fee. :)
Both ways now? ;-)
Perhaps I'm also being contrary and there really are rules of good beach house taste. If so, I would like to pose beneath them in my choice of beach attire - Speedos. I don't care who thinks they look like undies, I prefer to swim when I go swimming, not fight gaping pockets full of water and restricted leg movements, just to convince everyone what a great conformist I am.
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If I were Whaleoil I would point to the publicity over Key's bach and ask what's different.
Not much, except that it looks like it's Key's own photo, rather than some creepy stalker's. But the intention is similar, to rag out someone on account of their lifestyle or taste, when obviously the dislike is really political.
Perhaps I'm just touchy because I'm heir to a modernist bach myself which carries with it a lifetime of happy memories. I couldn't give a shit what art critics think of it, I think it's awesome. One of my favorite places on Earth.
And I can't remember who said it, but who wants to bet that open plan living was cooked up by a childless male architect who never did his own housework.
Somehow I think that living in tiny partitioned wooden boxes is actually the more modern invention.
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I mean, he couldn't have paid more than $150k for that piece of crap, surely?
Without seeing the whole thing, who can say?
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but I can't understand the thought processes behind gutting a villa in a chi chi inner city suburb and turning it into a set from 2001.
I can. It's called 'choosing your style' as opposed to 'letting the Victorians choose your style'.
To me Key's Bach just looks like an excellent place to chill out looking out on the water. It's hard to know from the one photo, but I get a real feeling of sour grapes about the commentary.
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Craig, I doubt it. Death is not a time for proportionality. It's a time for ritual.
My own Ed Hillary story. I once stood next to him at baggage reclamation at the airport. I was struck by the incredible hairiness of his ears, and wondered how much of an advantage that gave him in conquering Everest.
Re: Whale Oil. I wonder if his stranger outbursts might be accounted for by his creepy resemblance to the original Incredible Hulk. You wouldn't like him when he's angry...
Re: Key's Bach. Doesn't look too bad to me. Much though I love the cacophonous random cheapness of the traditional kiwi bach, they hardly serve as models of good taste. If a man wants ridiculously large columns on his deck with huge pointless knobs on the top, all power to him. I can see what he's getting at....
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but in seriousness. tried chiro. didn't work.
<quack>Seemed to work OK for me. Guess it depends what your problem is. At least the guy didn't spend most of the appointment ragging on every choice I'd made since birth.</quack>
I have tried a chiropractor and have a very negative attitude towards them. Too invasive, too much cracking.
I've had some pretty short sharp painful treatments from physiotherapists over the years, too. Most of them seemed to involve some form of wrestlers hold and then an almighty crank. Most times it helped, but the earbashing never did.
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i can see you're typing something there ben, but all i'm reading is "quack, quackquack, quack, quackquackquack"
You might need to take off the duck-tinted spectacles.
Well, to the street kid culture represented by those of us who comment on PA it is a bad thing.
No wonder my comments feel out of place. The street kid culture in my area is as bad as it was in 1980. Sniffing glue is still in. Never felt the urge to join in.
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But these are people petitioning for admission to the establishment, not celebrating street culture.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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A chiropracter gave me a lot of help with my neck last year. I will say this for his treatments - they were quick and painless, and didn't require me to add some weird weightlifting drills into my day. All three of those points have not applied to physio treatment I've had for the same problem. It was also quite cheap.
Certainly good posture and exercise are important at all times, but when you have a specific problem, it can be hard to sort it out yourself.
I've only tried the one, and I've tried several physios. They've both helped but I have to say that physios seem to always get on my nerves. Really full of themselves, they act like they instantly know the answer to all your problems, but unfortunately they have never actually fixed any of my problems any more permanently than the humble chiropracter did.
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Re random searches. I had one after a suspicious flight pattern from Amsterdam. And to tell the truth, it was a very suspicious pattern, mainly because of the stupidities of international travel that make return tickets cheaper than one-ways. So I had a ticket home from Barcelona, but I went to Amsterdam after finishing my work in Barcelona. I thought that because the return flight came through Amsterdam, I could just pick it up there. But no. The KLM folk assured me that I would need to fly back to Barcelona, where I would board the flight that went back through Amsterdam.
On the day, I threw myself on the mercy of a Dutch check in person, pointing out that it would only cost KLM more to put me on a flight to Barcelona and back just to satisfy their ticketing system, quite aside from the fact that it inconvenienced me a great deal. She showed me a neat trick - check your own bags into the ongoing flight on the auto checkin. So I got a day in Amsterdam instead of 8 hours of international flight torture to add to the 35-odd that it was going to take to get home.
Unfortunately it became tricky to explain all this to the customs folk here - so I stuck to the story that I'd been on the scheduled flights, which actually did look pretty bloody strange. I favored that option over telling them that some Dutch official had bent the rules for me, which would certainly have got the rubber gloves.
When asked the dope question, I said that I had, at school. They also reckoned my baggage had strong traces of narcotics and explosives. "Which one is it?" I asked "Narcotics OR explosives?". "Both". Yeah right. I'm sure people usually smuggle the two in the same bag. "How do you explain that?" they asked. I suggested a moisturizer explosion had once happened in my bag due to depressurization, a glycerine based one. And as for narcotics, probably most Dutch things are covered in traces of it, depending how sensitive the machines are.
Anyway, I've never had any trouble since. So I can't confirm that once you get searched, that's it. It hasn't panned out that way for me. I suspect your targeting was mostly to do with the flight patterns, so you're probably fine for any trips which don't tour the terrorism hotspots of Central Asia.
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