Posts by Martin Lindberg
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I suppose one has to be grateful to Maggie that she served a purpose as a unifying enemy for so many bands in the eighties. The passion of their hatred is evident in the music by The Specials, Everything But The Girl, Billy Bragg, The Style Council, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Morrissey, Redskins, Kirsty MacColl, Capital Letters, Robert Wyatt, Crass, The Communards and Elvis Costello.
To name but a few.
Thanks Maggie.
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Hard News: Neither fish nor fowl, in reply to BenWilson,
What’s your gripe with the Newton one?
Just getting straight across to and from either side is a challenge; no bike lanes, kerb a foot high, narrow lanes, turning traffic. So just getting on to the n/w cycleway from the Ponsonby side requires you to either turn right across traffic with no lights or cycling straight across to the Newton side before going across at the lights.
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Hard News: Neither fish nor fowl, in reply to Martin Roberts,
The crossing by Motat (heading outbound) has ugly sightlines
Pretty much all crossings over the NW motorway that I can think of (Newton Rd, Motat and Pt Chev) are just complete disasters for all traffic. They aren't suitable as motorway on-ramps for cars, let alone for through-traffic for pedestrians and cyclists.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
She suggest instead that we should be farming herbivorous fish, apparently butterfish would be a great option.
So long as it's not carp.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Ross Mason,
Eclairs are the new cupcakes!
Pfft. Doughnuts is where it’s at.
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I am pleased that we have now passed peak cupcake. Good riddance.
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Up Front: Card on the Table, in reply to Emma Hart,
The number of people who have changed their minds on this – here, in the US, in Britain, and Australia – in the last decade is mind-boggling.
all thanks to Will & Grace
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Up Front: Card on the Table, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
straight white middle-class cis-gendered males
I like the idea of a character who is a non-straight, non-white, non-middle-class, non-cis-gendered non-male. I mean, if you want all those boxes un-ticked.
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There are a lot of things you can say about geeks. But one of the other things is that they’re pretty damn pro-gay.
While I'd like it to be true, I haven't really seen much evidence for this.
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A colleague had to stop driving as he tended to pass out from coughing-fits due to adult whooping cough. So there is that.