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Busytown: Holiday reading lust

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  • Craig Ranapia,

    HA! yeah, fine in a one-to-one or one-to-few convo, but it's a tough one, though, on forums:-- cos you'll typically be 'talking' to a wide range of knowledges.

    So you end up torn tween turning up the mansplaining for fear of readers not knowing what yer on about.. or going light on it, and invariably have some other person jumping down yer throat and getting all mainsplaining on YOU.

    Actually, I don't there's much 'mansplaining' going on around PAS, because it's as much about tone as content.

    The best example I can think of was the thread where Cactus Kate (who happens to be a tax lawyer) tried to school Russell on how the media really works, after he expressed some scepticism around her claims to have uncovered evidence that APN management was monstering journos into not covering contentious stories or potentially litigious people.

    After all, what the fuck does he know about the trade he's worked in, and critiqued, for most of his adult life?

    Kate also got serious bonus points for the perfectly executed flouce, and bitching to everyone who would listen that she'd been bullied by that mean Russell Brown and his cabal of sycophants.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Geoff Lealand,

    mansplaining

    Or, as my old dad used to say, teaching your grandmother how to suck eggs?

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report Reply

  • recordari,

    that mean Russell Brown and his cabal of sycophants.

    And like I've said before, all I want to do is get into that cabal! Ok? Jandals and all.

    And I agree, the high standards mean the standard is usually high (tautology), and that's why I'm getting a bit addicted to it. Are there patches?

    Or, as my old dad used to say, teaching your grandmother how to suck eggs?

    You don't suck, you blow ;-)

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Ngaire BookieMonster,

    Are there patches?

    Yes, they give you a fix of "Belgian Witbier".
    :D

    At the foot of Mt Te Aroh… • Since Nov 2009 • 174 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso,

    If you mean gang-like patches, I've been trying to convince Russell to get on to that for months. He's just not exploring the merchandising potential of having all these sycophants lying around.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • philipmatthews,

    If you mean gang-like patches, I've been trying to convince Russell to get on to that for months. He's just not exploring the merchandising potential of having all these sycophants lying around.

    He needs to have a word with Jonathan Dodd. Learn to get more Russell Crowe, less Russell Brown.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2007 • 656 posts Report Reply

  • recordari,

    If you mean gang-like patches, I've been trying to convince Russell to get on to that for months. He's just not exploring the merchandising potential of having all these sycophants lying around.

    Then we could get banned in China AND WHanganui. Choice!

    Yes, they give you a fix of "Belgian Witbier".

    Is that mansplaining or emasculating?

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Martin Lindberg,

    If you mean gang-like patches

    I want a Mongrel Blog patch.

    Stockholm • Since Jul 2009 • 802 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    And like I've said before, all I want to do is get into that cabal! Ok? Jandals and all.

    Do you have any allergies to goat blood, baby flesh, latex (we practice safe Satanic orgies), asprin, lactose or nuts? And are you prone to seizures caused by listening to backmasked Helen Clark speeches?

    I only ask because we are a modern cult which takes our health and safety policy seriously. A safe cult is a productive cult.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • recordari,

    Do you have any allergies to goat blood, baby flesh, latex (we practice safe Satanic orgies), asprin, lactose or nuts? And are you prone to seizures caused by listening to backmasked Helen Clark speeches?

    Mummy! Help!

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • George Darroch,

    Do you have any allergies to goat blood, baby flesh, latex (we practice safe Satanic orgies), asprin, lactose or nuts? And are you prone to seizures caused by listening to backmasked Helen Clark speeches?

    Sorry, not for me. I'm a vegetarian.

    WLG • Since Nov 2006 • 2264 posts Report Reply

  • stephen clover,

    Craig: thanks for linking to that Cactus Kate and so on "scandal"/whatever. I missed that at the time. Most entertaining. I particularly enjoyed Russell:

    Just got another call from a Herald reporter wondering if I'd like further confirmation from himself and any number of colleagues that "Cactus Kate is barking mad". I thanked him and said I felt I'd already established that.

    ... and kicking myself that I missed an opportunity to comment. Oh well.

    wgtn • Since Sep 2007 • 355 posts Report Reply

  • Cecelia,

    Read some. Yes. Written a PhD on the subject replete with exhaustive bibliography of obscure references for and against (what was the question again?) not so much.

    Now that you have written this, it would be cruel to keep us in the dark. I have no objections to mansplaining and I don't think the other people here are delicate little flowers.

    But what does ZOMG mean?

    Hibiscus Coast • Since Apr 2008 • 559 posts Report Reply

  • stephen clover,

    But what does ZOMG mean?

    Let me google that for you... :p

    wgtn • Since Sep 2007 • 355 posts Report Reply

  • Ngaire BookieMonster,

    Hehehe, lmgtfy. Only saw that for the first time the other day.

    ZOMGponies - ZOMG, now with added ponies!

    Or, if you want to be really crazy or a bit esoteric, ZOMGunicorns!

    At the foot of Mt Te Aroh… • Since Nov 2009 • 174 posts Report Reply

  • Keir Leslie,

    To be contrary, I do think the readers/fans distinction is actually quite a good one, and when I get around to my `american engineering lit: why it's shit' thing, I am going to make hay with it.

    Since Jul 2008 • 1452 posts Report Reply

  • recordari,

    But what does ZOMG mean?

    No idea, really, except that apparently putting a 'Z' on OMG makes it more emphatic. At least it hasn't made the Lake Superior State University 2010 List of Banished Words yet.

    PAS patch for first person to use them in a sentence. I would, but I'm off to the movies. Dragoon Tattoo time.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha,

    a Mongrel Blog patch

    outstanding!

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Keir Leslie,

    Since Jul 2008 • 1452 posts Report Reply

  • Alien Lizard (anag),

    Dragoon Tattoo

    OMG...that could be a very different movie!
    ...the Gay Gordons! the Pipes! the Pipes!!
    Toto! I t'ink we're in fekkin' Edinburgh!
    (with subtitles)

    The Arrrgh Complex • Since Jan 2010 • 158 posts Report Reply

  • recordari,

    OMG...that could be a very different movie!

    Glad someone got it ;-)

    As for the movie based on Steig Larsson's novel. Meh. The big heads from the second row of Rialto gave me a headache. Or was it the complete lack of cohesive plot, that became strangely more apparent when converted to screenplay. Am I contradicting myself? Oh well, you live and learn, with a bit of luck.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Martin Lindberg,

    If you watched the movie (or read the book) and wondered which part of the original title "Män som hatar kvinnor" translates to Dragon or Tattoo, give up now.

    The Swedish title means "Men who hate women", but apparently that was deemed too aggressive for the English-speaking market.

    Stockholm • Since Jul 2009 • 802 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso,

    On which subject, Philip.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Cecelia,

    What about he who saw Dragon Tattoo telling us about his PhD in Sci Fi - in a nutshell.

    Hibiscus Coast • Since Apr 2008 • 559 posts Report Reply

  • recordari,

    What about he who saw Dragon Tattoo telling us about his PhD in Sci Fi - in a nutshell.

    In a nutshell, I don't have one, in that or anything else, which is I think what I said?

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

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