Hard News by Russell Brown

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Hard News: Body image and the media

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  • Lucy Stewart,

    Has Grand Designs done Cobb & Log constructions with load bearing walls?
    I know they've done thatching and a fair bit of heritage work.

    There was one a few weeks ago with a log cabin of Finnish design - this one.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 2105 posts Report Reply

  • Just thinking,

    Thank you, missed this one.

    Putaringamotu • Since Apr 2009 • 1158 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    The Mother of all Thread-Jacks ...

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    The Mother of all Thread-Jacks ...

    And on the shortlist of the nicest ... :) But to get back on tpopic, nice show though I really did not need a definition of "cankles". Thanks for that brainworm...

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

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    The Mother of all Thread-Jacks ...

    I just said he found wood sensuous...and then...

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso,

    Has anybody commented on beautifulpeople.com yet?

    On Monday, www.BeautifulPeople.com, the elite dating site for beautiful people only, went live across the globe.

    The site has one clear mission: to create a perfect worldwide community of beauty.

    ...

    Everyone is welcome to apply to join BeautifulPeople.com; yet with a 20% success rate, tens of millions of men and women will be rejected.

    A Lenny Bruce routine turned website.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    Has anybody commented on beautifulpeople.com yet?

    Folks with NPD (Narcissistic personality disorder) need love too -- and the internet is the only place they're likely to go looking for it without getting punched in their pretty faces?

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

  • Lucy Stewart,

    I just said he found wood sensuous...and then...

    As someone said upthread, PAS is basically guaranteed to be full of Grand Designs fans. Don't worry, it was out of your control.

    The Mother of all Thread-Jacks ...

    Or lumber-jacks? ;)

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 2105 posts Report Reply

  • ScottY,

    they were only pushed into using that space (the room where they put the T Rex) because there was a Law Society do in the events centre end of the building

    That would have been the Law Awards - the Grammys of the legal fraternity.

    (They're not run by the Law Society)

    West • Since Feb 2009 • 794 posts Report Reply

  • Steve Barnes,

    Or lumber-jacks? ;)

    Ah, so we all watch Ax Men too? Beats those blokes in the Crab Boats, are they insane?
    Meanwhile some unreality for a Friday arvo.

    Peria • Since Dec 2006 • 5521 posts Report Reply

  • Lucy Stewart,

    Ah, so we all watch Ax Men too? Beats those blokes in the Crab Boats, are they insane?

    I was thinking more Monty Python...

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 2105 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel,

    That would have been the Law Awards - the Grammys of the legal fraternity.

    kind of a "more wig gin" gig, huh?

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Peter Ashby,

    @TomSemmens

    Oh and seeing how the Brits build things on the Living Channel - largely unreinforced brick and mortar held up largely by gravity - I pray they never have an earthquake over about 5 on the Richter scale.

    Plenty of Victorian two story villas in Dunedin built the same way are still standing despite all the earthquakes they have been subjected to. Not many of them still have their chimney's mind. I remember being in bed in our first flat on the top floor of one in a big wind and feeling the house sway as the chimney stack did. I mentioned it to the landlord and he and his wife were around to demolish it quick smart.

    Even in old wooden villas it's the chimneys that go in the earthquakes. Not many earthquakes here in the UK though. Been years since I felt one and our chimney (1965) is still in fine nick. The old wooden villa we had in St Kilda didn't have its chimneys any more, we found them buried in the back garden, right where I wanted to put the veggie garden. We had a potbelly instead.

    Dundee, Scotland • Since May 2007 • 425 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha,

    a "more wig gin" gig

    Admirable.

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

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