Posts by Sam F
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As Peter Cook once said, "The best satire of the 20th century was the Weimar cabaret, and they managed to stop Hitler in his tracks."
That's rather good, albeit super-depressing.
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Very much a hotel newbie here - the nicest place I can remember staying is the Royal Seoul on a stopover at the end of 2006. A very good room for airline-paid accomodation, and the view was incredible - although I may have just been dazzled by the sheer neon wattage of Seoul on first sight.
The other enduring hotel memory I have is the awkwardness of getting nightly cold calls from prostitutes to our room phones whilst our group was staying in Chinese hotels. Presumably someone had a list and a dialer and had sold the info to local entrepreneurs who used it to go after lone male travellers. It was quite something to watch my partner's dad pick up the ringing phone, and quickly say "Nonono" in Chinese whilst going beet red at the same time before hanging up.
This was an annoying problem in every place we visited, although we learnt to abbreviate the experience by getting the ladies to answer the ten pm phonecalls - one oestrogen-inflected "Wei?" and the caller would promptly hang up without a word.
Needless to say this stuff did not go, as Nigel Cox used to write, in the official register of things that really happened.
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Special Offer! Bridge toll down to $450 one-way! But hurry, this offer won't last!
Rubicon Industries?
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Your bridge has been privatised.
I lol'd.
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I recall the radio-only Hard News, it might've been different, but then I know I was too.
Pretty much what I was thinking. Given how long Hard News has been around now I'd be worried if it hadn't changed much over the time I've been following it (seven or eight years now, in various forms?).
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Man! Looks like I missed a good show. Would have been there in person had I not had to retrieve my bike from T. White's on Symond Street, but hey, there's always next week.
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The suffering from that is remarkably brief.
Even briefer if you pick the wrong wild berries.
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Brazen and unholstered, even.
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when people said 'we need more women writing for Public Address' I'm pretty sure the reasoning wasn't 'because otherwise we'll run out of smut'.
Hooray for unintended consequences? I hardly need prompting to descend into smut anyhow, and hope it doesn't impede people seriously engaging with a topic should I choose to muck around in the background (as robbery can perhaps attest). And it's nice to be unserious sometimes when the standard of debate here is really forbiddingly high.
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Am I the only one slightly surprised that this line wasn't in a thread from one of Emma's posts?
If we must have some recurrent theme that metastases throughout PAS, I'd much rather it was Carry On sexual puns than copyright/wrong.