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Up Front: Hitting That, in reply to Tom Beard,
women of all hair colours, I need to have one blonde, one redhead and one brunette, right?
So, what've you got against the hair-colours black, grey or white? 8>)
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Up Front: Hitting That, in reply to nzlemming,
Absolutely. So much damage has been done to people by this stupid quasi-religious reluctance to talk about sex and to revile those who do. It one of the things that really makes me angry and a significant factor in why I gave up on religion in my teens.
Me too. Although I then spent another quarter of a century learning about religions
just in case I had missed the obvious (religions are human methods of social control) which had been my first reaction…
Individual reactions to land/sea/ancestors/continuity/all other beings are…individual-I would add that I decided to be a public asexual person after remembering my extremely unpleasant experiences as an adolescent - and later- when I made very clear I wasnt interested in sex to various gropers/ cuddle-me's/would-be rapists.
I figured, for any of the 1.5% adolescent asexuals out there here in ANZ, that there was some-one who'd made a sort of success of their life - and was proud of what they born as-cheers, all of us, on that continuum that includes the entire human race (and many other mammalian species as well.)
KIA ORA!
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O, I have every respect for the voyages of Zheng He, and it is a pity his masters decided to cease exploring the sea- world outside of China.
It is also a shame that someone who claims his expertise is as a navigator in the RN
once ran a craft under his command aground – and has continually lied about how his book came to be written – and by whom- -
Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Assuming we’re talking the same Gavin Menzies who tried to prove Zheng He discovered everything, the only person I’ve ever met who had any respect for Menzies’ work was himself a former Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy navigator. He said from a navigator’s point of view it’s all entirely possible. I see a slight difference between possible and probable.
We are.
And "a slight difference between possible and improbable" becomes a lightyear gap when you reel back from some of Menzie's claims...I can list the South Island ones, if anyone really wants* but - suggesting the Zheng He's fleet used *Moeraki boulders as ballast* (admittedly done by an ardent follwer of Gavin M - but never discountinanced by the author) has to take the cake of stupidity...
*they include a South American giant sloth being sighted round Fiordland. They also traduce my ancestors. Which is when I get very angry-
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Chris Waugh,
t’s even better when I can get it from the in laws in season. It’s nice knowing who grew your food
O indeedy! (My free-range eggs & chooks come from a relly e.g (goodness! how hard it was to stop adding an extra g – for goodness.)
Kumara are such a delicious food – there is some research done that suggests that, not long after it came to the South Pacific, it also got to Japan & China… we are not talking Menzies (or worse) here, but serious (and, as yet, unpublished) work by ANZ plant geneticists.
Glad you have the fresh goodies to hand! Happy oven-cooking!
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Like the dissonance between flowers and *oven* - but they're hot flowers, so that's okay. Looks more than spacious enough to do scones et al - are ovenbags available where you are? Should we send some? (Good for spuds, kumara, chicken, pork, fish etc...)
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Ooooo! Perfectly pun-laden as always!
I especially liked the response of the spokesperson who felt for Wairarapa folk who couldnt have Eggs Benedict…*(Apropos of something equally important: when my mother & myself did quite a bit of travelling in USA, we had 6(of each) food & drink standards to know in what category the establishment we were staying at fitted:
drinks:
for my mother – Pina Colada, Gin & lime, good tea (preferably not tea-bags)
for me – single malt whisky & good water, a local sauv. blanc, excellent coffee
for the gin & whisky we liked the bottle being brought to our table…)for breakfast: Mary- muesli & yoghurt; hash browns with mushrooms, bacon & small sausages, tomatoes and a poached egg-
me- muesli, fruit & yoghurt; eggs benedict (with smoked salmon)bonus (both): a good Caesar salad
for dessert: both- Black forest cake
-some would be saddened but not surprised to know that no establishment (fancy hotels mainly)made an ‘all-items’ pass-
mind you, when we dined out we encountered some absolutely memorable – still remembered! -meals…)
Sorry yer Honour, it was the mention of Eggs Benedict that made me ramble (and yes, I do my own, not-quite-English style muffins & local free-range eggs, freshly-made hollandaise & local cold-smoked salmon – so I have an idea of perfection in these matters…)
*since the Hollandaise was going for cattle food you have to wonder about his earnestness, a leeetle bit…
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Up Front: Hitting That, in reply to nzlemming,
ETA And I have no problem with anyone being a slut. It’s a freaking spectrum after all. We can’t all cluster in one place, it’ll tip over and we’ll fall off.
I rather suspect that us asexuals are a necessary part of the continuum then. 8>)
(I knew what I was by the time I was 15 - just didnt know the name for me - or if there were any others...that took until I was in my 50s.) -
Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Hebe,
A place most certainly can have wairua-
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Lilith __,
That scone-pizza sounds excellent! Shall add it to what-can-be-cooked-in-a-hurry-for-a-few-more-than-me.
Secret of scones (& potato cakes): rubbing the butter in thoroughly. There is no good substitute for human hands when doing this...you should wind up with a mix that, when you take a handful & squeeze, will hold that shape when you open your fingers - but when poked, will crumble again.
All family kids are taught how to make scones and dampers - they're basic techniques, and come in handy when the nearest Maccas or KFC is a hundred k away...
Hebe, that flour sounds attractive - I'll be hunting it down (& thank you for the link.)
Great to get floury feedback-