Posts by Emma Hart
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2. I met Emma Hart's mum! She's lovely.
Shut uuuuuup...
Don't believe a word she says. She's from Timaru.
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Now my face looks, to me, weird and naked without glasses, and I feel incredibly vulnerable, unarmed.
Yeah, my face is just a big bland slab without my glasses. Also kind of fuzzy.
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After looking through many very slightly different lenses for 10 minutes, I'm crosseyed & couldnt pick a difference if the things were different colours & sxreaming Pick me!
Word. They also switch the lenses over too quickly for my ageing eyes to adjust focus.
I've wanted glasses since my late teens when I realised I looked far more sophisticated and intelligent when trying on my friend's goggles.
Heh, yeah, that thing about passes and glasses? So not true.
A few weeks later, they sliced my cornea with a blade.
I have a total horror of things in eyes. Eye abuse is the one thing that can really intensely squick me out.
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Ha, I managed to find a transcript of the QI episode about the Eskimo/Inuit thing:
Stephen
"Warm the hands on." I think we'd better move away from gender differences. Let's have a look at the picture. What would you call this person here behind you?[Viewscreens: Picture of a young female Eskimo.]
Jo
[presses buzzer, which plays a guitar chord]Jo
An "Inuit".Stephen
Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.[Forfeit: Klaxons sound. Viewscreens flash the word "INUIT".]
Stephen
We thought you'd fall for that one.Jo
And I did.Stephen
Yeah, you see, we have this idea that it's rather politically correct to call anything that lives sort of around about the Arctic Circle an "Inuit" rather than an "Eskimo", but she's a Yupik. Calling her an Inuit would really annoy her, because she would think, "Oh, there goes another Westerner thinking they're saying the right thing without asking me." -
Being partially deaf I can tell you that hearing tests are no fun either. Especially when you start hearing phantom sounds.
Yeah, having gone through it with my eyes, I can tell when my daughter's had enough of hearing testing. Audiologist don't seem to, but then I guess it's different when it's what you do all the time.
Communicating between the two of us could get really interesting.
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Somewhat of a side track: can one still purchase Space Man candy sticks?
Yes you can, but they don't have the red bit on the end that made them look like, um, the rockets were firing or something.
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Watched an old one last night on the Living Channel and it was particularly awesome. Does this make me old?
Also: Two Fat Ladies is my crack. Or possibly heroin.
You know who was awesome? Sister Wendy.
I say you're not old until you start using words like 'nowadays'. Possibly in connection with TV1's Sunday night programming.
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The Inuit Circumpolar Conference meeting in Barrow, Alaska, officially adopting Inuit as a designation for all Eskimos, regardless of their local usages, in 1977.
Dyan, I'm intrigued. How did the Inuit get to do that for the Yupik, who are Eskimo but not Inuit and don't want to be called Inuit? Were the Yupik there?
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looking at the way television fails to provide for commercially-unattractive older viewers
I pondered this after the Boston Legal episode, given how much more television my mother watches than we do, and I don't think we're as badly off as the US, because British tv seems to have a long tradition of making programs that appeal to older viewers. Antiques Roadshow, Midsummer Murders, Coronation Street, Last of the Freaking Summer Wine... Yes, Jonathon Rhys Meyers isn't going short of work, but neither is Geoffrey Palmer.
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The thing with the Eskimos is... 'interesting'. Because, y'know, two minutes research after watching an episode of QI and you find this...
In Canada and Greenland, the term Eskimo has fallen out of favour, as it is considered pejorative by the natives, and has been replaced by the term Inuit. However, while Inuit describes all of the Eskimo peoples in Canada and Greenland, that is not true in Alaska and Siberia.
<B>In Alaska, the term Eskimo is commonly used, because it includes both Yupik and Inupiat, while Inuit is not accepted as a collective term</b> or even specifically used for Inupiat (which technically is Inuit). No universal replacement term for Eskimo, inclusive of all Inuit and Yupik people, is accepted across the geographical area inhabited by the Inuit and Yupik peoples.