Posts by Emma Hart
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The Green Onion Slave Girl is a Trekkie?!?!?!?!
How were we to know?
Next week: I quite like the internet.
I can't remember the last Trek film I actually enjoyed. Maybe The Voyage Home, but I was a kid then (though I still use Scotty's "hello computer" line).
I did really enjoy six. There was something about mad eye-patched Klingons quoting Julius Caesar that really worked for me.
I have wondered how much this film will make sense for my kids, who haven't seen any Trek past a couple of OS episodes they hated.
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Given she is on her fourth marriage she must be perfect for the job having had so many families.
There are some really good reasons to criticise this appointment, but that's completely fucking irrelevant.
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Incidentally, he maintained a wide and varied circle of friends - some of who were recreational users. His only request was that they didn't smoke when he was in the room.
I was talking to my mother the last time she was up about the old pubs in Timaru. In the days of six o'clock closing, she and her boyfriend used to go and drink after hours in the same pub the cops used - everybody knew where you went to get a drink and which particular group used which particular venue. Now there's a culture change, the idea that the police could flagrantly break a (stupid) law and everyone would just accept it.
I lived in Timaru at a particularly bad time for police-public relations, and that was twenty years ago. It was our turn to have the rampant gang problem Whanganui thinks it does now, so we got extra police shipped in - all fresh out of Cop School, and not enough experienced heads who knew the area to keep them on a leash. And still by and large my experience of dealing with the police has been positive.
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(and David Haywood's and Emma Hart's as well)
And have you seen Alan Bollard in the last couple of days? Draw your own conclusions.
I've been rushed off my feet what with the cow-cursing and the group sex. Keeping Christchurch interesting is a full-time job.
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It's the most lethal vehicle I've ever set foot in - and the most expensive. Smaller than I thought it would be, too.
That was the impression I got too. Also, slipping and falling down a companionway hurts like hell. (Fortunately this was on a less than public tour.)
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Further: we section parts of unfarmed land off, call it reserves and forests and then good keen men and their sons go in their with personal arsenals and dogs and keep up the killing.
ConorJoe, bad timing, my daughter just spent the weekend with her grandfather, learning to shoot. Shall I have her locked away before she goes berko with bloodlust, or do I need to protect her from rampaging generalisations?
Where do you stand on killing possums, goats, deer, rabbits, stoats and feral cats, ConorJoe?
Said grandfather is a pest control officer. You know, keeping the gulags safe from being over-run by fluffy bunny wabbits and TB-carrying possums. Well, that and actually protecting the enviroment by keeping down possums pigs and deer in native bush. You know, those fenced-off bits with the bloodlust...
Because of their time with him, my children have more respect for and understanding of firearms than their peers, for whom guns are just things on telly. This experience bears absolutely no resemblance at all to my own experience of ex-army guys with caches of illegal weaponry.
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Sounded like a ghastly cacophony of cowbells to me.
Pff, there was a brass band at the Crusaders game. Srsly, wtf?
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Oh, and something I learned measuring gelatine for what turned out to be a delicious but overly liquid dessert. A NZ tablespoon is 15mL. An Australian tablespoon is 20.
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The standard conversion is 2 cups butter/pound, so 1/2 cup is 1/4 pound or about 115g.
Bless you, Amy, I've always mildly wanted to know that. I've always found the American practice of measuring butter in cups kind of nauseating. Nice hot cup of lard, anyone?
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What's wrong with a semi-colon and a bag?
Dude, if you have to ask...