Posts by Craig Ranapia
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Emma Hart,
Now, I’ve talked a lot about sex, about kink, and gay rights, and feminism, and I have NEVER had anything close to the torrent of abuse I took for saying that.
You're just not trying. :)
-
Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Marcus Turner,
Do you ever worry that we might do to rugby what we did to kiwifruit, by exporting the expertise?
I'm not sure that's a particularly sound analogy, and even if it was what exactly are "we" supposed to do - start drawing up lists of rugby players who can't leave the country without leaving hostages to ensure their return? :)
-
Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Russell Brown,
Nah. Playing rugby was one area where I had to work hard just to be okay at it. As a kid who found most other things at school relatively easy, that was character-building.
Yup. After years of piano lessons, I fairly quickly realized that I was never going to be Michael Houstoun. Doesn't mean I can't fully appreciate the musicality and even sheer physical discipline and persistence required to play at a profession standard:
-
Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Russell Brown,
Nah. Playing rugby was one area where I had to work hard just to be okay at it. As a kid who found most other things at school relatively easy, that was character-building.
Yup. After years of piano lessons, I fairly quickly realized that I was never going to be Michael Houstoun. Doesn’t mean I can’t fully appreciate the musicality and even sheer physical discipline and persistence required to do this to a profession standard:
-
Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to izogi,
I’m just not sure how healthy it is when the entire national mood, election outcomes, crime rates and particularly (so I hear) domestic violence fluctuate depending on whether a particular rugby team is having a good season
I’m afraid whatever amphetamines the Herald’s sub-editors are putting in their coffee at any given moment don’t really signify when it comes to my “mood”. Last time round, I did a pretty sharp Public Address Radio piece when Anton Oliver compared the AB’s getting knocked out at Cardiff to the “stench of death” at Passendale. At the time, Russell (who was in the studio for the recording) asked “a bit harsh?”
No, really I didn’t think so. And I probably wouldn’t have poured on the burn if, a few months before, our nation hadn’t been represented well by Helen Clark at Tyne Cot, the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces from any war.
Yes, I’m it was as disappointing for the AB’s as not winning the Man Booker was for Lloyd Jones, and I'm no stranger to hyperbolic over-enthusiasm. But damn...
-
Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to merc,
Epic fail.
With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, yes. But the more pressing question is how I get the car rego transferred to Liberia - it seems nobody is responsible for any shit that goes down under that flag of convenience.
-
Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Sacha,
Matt McCarten compares the government’s political management of the Rena oil spill with the RWC opening night chaos.
I’m sorry, but is the Herald offering a sizable Christmas bonus to the author of the most stupid single column they publish this year? To be fair, McCarten is well off the pace but I’m not really seeing the equivalence there.
"Maybe the Labour Party’s charge that Key is more interested in photo opportunities than doing his job has a ring of truth about it."
The Prime Ministers of Photo Opportunities.
Oh, Dexter, your irony is so hot it burns. We are talking about the same Labour whose leader was posing for the cameras on a polluted beach without proper training or protective gear, and attacking people who actually know WTF they were talking about when they asked locals to stay away? That's leadership, and I'm Marie of Romania.
-
Saw bits of the game while channel surfing in bed. Now, just got to get over the urge to track down an Aussie sports writer and start screeching "choke on THIS, fuckhole" while doing a Michael Jackson crotch-crunch dance.
It's wrong, I know. I don't do this kind of thing. But it feels sooooo good.
-
who chose this music? And, depending on personal taste, why is it so awful?
The meanest burn I heard? "Like a million bad high school balls mashed up with every lame wedding reception you've ever been to." Ouch.
-
In other news, the Broadcasting Standards Authority didn't uphold Labour's complaint. I'll post the link, because I'm sure y'all will have a lot more to say about the Tory tooldom of the BSA than me. :)
Last ←Newer Page 1 … 242 243 244 245 246 … 1235 Older→ First