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(truthiness?)
Speaking of that, for NZ Colbert fans who may not have noticed: The Colbert Report will be showing on our brand spanking new Comedy Central channel from April 1! Yay.
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See also David Sedaris
Irrelevantly: I could not love him or his sister Amy more. LOVE. That piece of his about being Santa's elf in Macy's... ahhh.
PS Jolisa, thanks for the recommendation (some time back) of The 10PM Question , which is just wonderful.
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They couldn't locate in their frame of reference anything similar to their experience
Or... just to be devils-advocatey for a moment, if you met my mum for half an hour, you'd think she was a pleasant NZ lady from Invercargill who had never spent any time overseas - when in fact she's lived in Norway, the Netherlands, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Indonesia, Singapore, London, Vancouver, and Louisiana. She just doesn't bother talking about it much to other people, because she's kind of low-key. (Unlike her daughter. Heh. Thread convergence: perhaps she can sue me for using her life as an example in a System post?)
It may not be that they can't possibly understand your travels, or know how to 'think in another language'. It's not like most New Zealanders have never left the country before. We call it 'an OE' - it's part of the culture - because so many people do it.
(Of course, I don't know who you were talking to, so maybe they really *did* think you were a Martian and couldn't possibly understand you. But I don't really like jumping to conclusions on this stuff, because I find that people will often surprise you.)
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Just... ridiculous. Still, its almost complete lack of local profile meant that I got seasons three and four at Borders for $10 apiece the other day. Sorry, David Simon.
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Am I the only one who read it and thought...
"Its only bloody pot"No.
(Then I do some second-guessing of myself. Perhaps lots of other people have actual addictions to the stuff, as opposed to what I think is the usual response: sitting on a couch giggling and eating lots of cheese.)
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no matter how much I tried to communicate this, and more - the wondrous things I saw - I was always left with the feeling that I was a Martian talking incomprehensible gibberish.
Maybe they were just bored. ;)
I speak as someone who did the same thing in two different countries, so I'm not being snarky. I just think most people, wherever they are, aren't that interested in other people's experiences unless they have a reason to be, really.
Gosh, that sounds cynical.
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Along similar lines, I've always found claims that such God(s) - if they do indeed exist - both demand and appreciate worship from petty humans rather, err, preposterous.
Giovanni and I are probably both doing mental George Carlin impressions at this point.
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I think the 'sharing' is meant to signify the unisexness of the chain? Or something? It works if you pronounce 'shearing' and 'sharing' the same, which is supposed to be happening amongst Teh Youth. (Did we have some sort of New Zealand accent/pronunciation thread here at some point? It rings a bell.)
I don't care about sport, but I do care about music, even when it's music I don't like, so I was really angry when a friend was wearing a KISS tshirt and couldn't even name two songs by them and was all "I just like the print".
Yes. This. Bands do not exist so you people can plaster them all over your chest because you 'like the print', by hokey! Show some dedication to something you *actually like*!
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I think it's pretty much the opposite for wine. And also hairdressers.
So true! 'Shear Magic': no. 'Curl Up and Dye': no. No no no.
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This was extry fun to read!
I have long since given up on assuming that anyone wearing the hat or shirt of an American team is, in fact, a fan of said team. It is vaguely annoying.