Posts by Hadyn Green
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Did I mention the uniforms were perfect except for the numbers on the ABs, which looked like the modern Adidas font.</unigeek>
We watched American Flyers...
Is that the one with Kevin Costner? If so, I remember thinking it was very cool at the time
@Kyle: what about The Miracle? or Slap Shot?
And thinking of Paul Newman, there's been a few motor racing movies too. but not many good ones.
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I should point out that it is (and of course this is my opinion) not a good film.
The depictions of the games are terrible. And, like all sports movies, the night games are lit like stadium flood lighting was never invented. And if you watch carefully the referee only gives out one kind of penalty.
They wouldn't care less what actually hoppen. Its a myth.
And yet I found the movie to be mostly a factual recreation (with embellished speeches and characters whose main role was to not know anything about rugby).
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That reminds me of the sign on a building off Newton Rd.
I love that they just keep touching the sign up instead of changing it.
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I'll let you keep on with the Al Green but
ah, you should have gone last night.
I got my tickets (the first sold in Wellington, because, yes, I am a crazed fan) and then they announced the second show. And although I am the aforementioned crazed fan, I could not justify an extra $50 to see the second show... to my partner.
Here's the set list for the first night. Other than John Saw That Number and Furnace Room Lullaby (and Honky Tonk Hiccups) they played all my favourites
Now back to Al Green... WTF?
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That's pretty committed but if I wasn't in Wellington I would've done the same. Heck, I was considering going again last night.
I can't have been too far away from where you were standing
Heh, at the Bath House no one's that far away from each other :) I was right at the front in the middle. So I also got a good look at Jon Rauhouse on the pedal steel guitar. All night I was like "oh, that's what that sound is on the album!"
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I find Macs Gold a bit tasteless
The beer tasting at Beervana was done by mixing the different flavours into Mac's Gold. I assume because it's a flavorless beer.
Ditto most of the (original) Monteiths range, including but not limited to Original, Golden, and Pilsener.
And not to get myself banned from a number of local venues, but Montieths/DB bars are the worst. The beer selection tends to be Heineken, Tiger and the Montieths range. So my options for a hoppy pale ale or nice strong Belgian-style tripel are...?
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Monteiths, despite being evil with that bollocks about Radler, are pretty good day-to-day beers.
The Radler dispute has made me switch to Mac's (usually Hop Rocker) as my keep-in-the-fridge-for-drinking-with-sports-and-chips beer.
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I love convergent evolution.
When I say: "We use scull, as in rowing, possibly due to the connections to sport and drinking culture." I more correctly mean "we" as in "right now me and my friends". The phrase Naly D used was: Rowing the place I first learned to scull.
At university drinking games were single and double sculls. Drinking as a sport, and there's already a sport that uses the word "scull". Which is my less elegant way of saying what Linger said above:
As native speakers, we don't have enough evidence to judge whether meanings were ever etymologically related. Fortunately, the question usually doesn't matter to us as users of the language.
I would suggest that most people would join the two together in their heads whether they were supposed to be or not. Hence we have two different etymologies for the one term.
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Otherwise known as sports threads :)
I only rarely write a column that's actually about sport
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So I dont think the cinema in Hokitika is really showing it in 3D.
Have they just hired some people to stand at the front and throw things at the audience?