Posts by giovanni tiso
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I apologise for being impertinent enough to question the actions of my government...
And for getting the basic facts of your rant du jour completely wrong, I assume.
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Well done! So now to complete the story I must tell you that James' book was published by Michael Laws, whom I met at the time being wholly ignorant of his political past, so I think you can imagine my surprise when I discovered the many other less savoury sides of his personality beside "publisher of excellent poetry".
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It got so bad that not one but two different employers have given me an alarm clock as my Secret Santa present. Hardy har har. Doesn't work cos I switch it off in my sleep and am completely unaware that it's even gone off.
One of my dearest friends was like that since an early age. When he was in high school his mum thought she'd solve the issue by getting him one of those alarm clocks that you could silence by talking to it but then it would ring again in three minutes and so forth until you actually got up and pressed the button. It was a Braun product, and in the ad for it a bunch of alert fellows in the military cheerily shouted to it "Okay, Braun". Anyhow, I was talking to his mum some time after the purchase and she explained to me that now she'd wake up in the morning to the sound of her son screaming FUCK OFF! at three minute intervals and for up to one hour.
(Some years ago I told this anecdote to James McNoughton and he used it for one of his best poems. So maybe the most literary amongst you knew it already...)
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Rugby support is in decline though. The Phoenix typical gate count is within hailing distance of the rugby now.
It may be in decline in absolute terms, but if you add up all the people who see rugby games at all levels in the course of a year versus those in any other sport (there's one Phoenix team, and they play ten home games per season plus the playoffs; without getting into their long spells of paltry attendance), I think you'll find it's still a nation of rugbyheads.
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He got his first fright from me shaking him awake and his second one from taking off his headphones only to discover that the speakers were actually playing as well.
Hah, well yes. When I was a teenager once I was woken up in the middle of the night by Orff's Carmina Burana being played at fantastic volume. The culprit was my older sister, returning a little inhebriated from a night out, and she also hadn't realised the thing with the headphones. In the meantime, for a few seconds I entertained the possibility that I might have died.
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One of our neighbours in Italy banged energetically on our wall on a sunday morning a few times at around six with a similar intent of reprisal. We just turned over.
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I'll admit myself to having been more the sinner than the sinned against, in all fairness. And in Wellington we've had fantastic neighbours, except for a couple of brief stints in the rental to the east of our current house. Not funny stories at all, unfortunately, both instances having to do with women being abused.
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It will puzzle me even more if no one else runs with this
As soon as they get all that egg off their faces, yes. That might take a little bit.
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How recognised is it - by employers, disability services, government agencies?
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We should just call it PAntS.
(ETA. I've done it again: inaugurated a new page with a distressingly stupid comment.)