Posts by Peter Darlington
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Southerly: Getting There is Half the Fun, in reply to Paul Brown,
LAX provided one of our worst experiences of years of traveling with our daughter.
Our Deputy Mayor had a terrible experience coming through LAX with his family a few years ago. His 15 year old son's name came up on the security screen as a "person of interest". He was carted off with his son while his partner and other kids looked on, they were thrown into the potential terrorists room and told to sit down and shut up and it was made very clear that they weren't leaving that room until the US govt was absolutely certain it was safe to let them out. They had a flight 2 1/2 hrs later and Tim wasn't allowed to speak to officials or even move off the seat he was on. His poor kid was in an absolute panic, they were basically treated as likely criminals.
With about 30 minutes to spare someone deemed it safe enough to allow them to move on but not without the odd comment that had Tim seriously doubting that his son was ever going to be able to transit through the US easily again.
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Southerly: Getting There is Half the Fun, in reply to Russell Brown,
...in that she was recovering from heart surgery. By Friday, her birthday, in ludicrous Wellington weather, they were feeling morose and my friend had received no presents whatsoever.
Ahem, I'm pretty sure she'd received one..... from Nelson.
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On the remix tip, how about Sex Masheen - The Kon Edit of the Godfather hits it for me.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Hope Springs, in reply to bob daktari,
Now with that said and whilst I eat my hat here's Bryan Ferry (ha).... touched by the hand of Terje from a just released EP of remixes of Don't Stop the Dance - worth the price for this and the Greg Wilson revisits alone (beatport
Ooh choice, thanks for that!
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Hard News: The future: be careful what…, in reply to Euan Mason,
Nice troll, though, Tom!
He wasn't trolling, he was just having some fun. Apparently... :-)
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Hard News: The future: be careful what…, in reply to Euan Mason,
The big improvement is the price. With Sky you are forced to buy loads of content that you don't necessarily want before you even begin paying for sport broadcasts.
But that only works if EPL is the only thing you want to watch. You gain EPL and a price drop but lose Euro leagues, Champions League, rugby, cricket etc... Throw SOHO into the mix and yes, you pay through the nose but it's a one box management solution for everything and it's easy for lazy sods like me.
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This column is worth it, if just for the phrase " toss them in a bit of Raymond's rub and whack it all in the oven"
Ooh er missus.
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Hard News: The future: be careful what…, in reply to Hadyn Green,
Well you don't have to bother recording it. Any game you want live (I assume most of these games were shown delayed). The ability to go back and watch any game you want or any part of any game. The ability to drop Sky.
For me
1. Recording worked best for me, I never tended to watch it live, it's normally 3am after all. I'm old and shouldn't be up at that time of night.
2. See above
3. Yes, that's quite useful but I'm not sure how often I'd do that. Apart from the odd time that we beat Spurs, Chelski or ManU. They'd always get a rewatch.
4. But I love live rugby tests, Hurricanes games, cricket etc... Can't justify both.That's just me though, it may work for a lot of people. But I'm not sure I'm that different from your average sport loving EPL fan.
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Hard News: The future: be careful what…, in reply to Glenn Pearce,
I thought Football overtook Rugby in NZ for participation numbers years ago, participation and viewing (paying for a sky subscription) are 2 different matters however.
For kids sports, yes, but rugby's retention rate to adulthood is higher I believe. This may also help explain why we continue to be so good at rugby but, while improving greatly at football, still aren't going to set the world alight.
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Hard News: The future: be careful what…, in reply to Hadyn Green,
s it better than Sky? Oh fucking HELL YES! One game or maybe two per week of randomised teams, most of whom I don't care about (or worse, actively hate).
The Premier League had 80% of weekend games and all weekday games though so we were all seeing our teams practically every week, every game, and it was easily recordable via MySky. Hard to see where the improvement is with this.