Posts by Danielle
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It's actually a Springsteen song
So true! I forgot that. But they're doing The Pointer Sisters' rendition in that Avis ad, definitely.
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His/hers, or somebody else's?
Heh. His. The twentieth, the twenty-fifth, the thirtieth *elementary school* reunion, blah blah blah. FFS, I'm nearly 35 years old. I finished school a month after I turned seventeen. I can hardly remember it, and what I can remember mostly sucked. Isn't it just a place to be miserable and then happily escape from at high speed?
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Yay, an Up Front! So pleased. :)
I have an American friend who's always trotting off to high school reunions. I couldn't think of anything worse.
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the lengths to which people (often invisibly and dangerously) go to avoid being bankrupted and/or to keep their health insurance
And that all has knock-on effects. If you're in a job which, by some miracle, provides decent health insurance, you'll put up with anything to keep that job. Even illegal or ethically dodgy things. No wonder there's a lack of mandated holidays and the labour movement is so toothless. (Well, there are other historical reasons for that stuff too, but I'm sure the health insurance/employer thing doesn't help.) Some 'freedom'.
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don't diss my man like that - he never wears Dockers, or jirts or jorts
Mine's also American and he doesn't either, so my assertion is false from the get-go. :)
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All American men, without exception*, wear pleated khaki pants. They may also, to a lesser extent, wear denim shorts ('jean shorts', or 'jorts'), and denim shirts ('jean shirts', or 'jirts'). You know how you can always tell if someone's an American tourist from those khaki pants they wear? Them.
*There actually may be many exceptions, but I don't know any of them because I never moved in the right circles.
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Sartorial comment: NZers, as a rule, do not regularly wear khaki chinos, jorts, or jirts. Therefore, we are made of win.
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Here's the Fab Four performing the play-within-a-play from A Midsummer Night's Dream on British TV in 1964
Russell, I love you for posting this. A lot.
Here's another oddity, which I've been showing to everyone: a Bollywood version of 'I Want To Hold Your Hand'.
(Why do some of these people look like puppets?)
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a fantastic Avis ad from 1981
I finally realise, nearly 30 years after the fact, that they're doing a car-rental variant of The Pointer Sisters' 'Fire'. Which is an oddly hot-n-sexy song to use.
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We're selective in the pain we share.
True. Humans are often callous assholes.
(You tend to be more pain-sharey about things with which you have a personal connection, though. Thus, Katrina makes me more enraged/saddened than practically anything else for the last ten years, even though it's objectively not as terrible as a zillion other things.)