Posts by Emma Hart
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Now with free hand sanitiser!
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I went there on its opening night about six months ago and took great advantage of their ever-so-generous offer of unlimited free Guinness.
And according to Dara O'Braian, if they put a shamrock on the top, you're allowed to punch the bartender in the face.
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I'd probably rate the staff club at the University of Canterbury as the best all-round pub in Christchurch -- that is, if it were actually a pub rather than a private club. The beer is perhaps not quite up to the standard that one might hope, but the staff are suitably surly (they treat you like shit, to be perfectly frank), and the décor is excellent.
Though the last I saw of it was some time back, the Staff Club was lovely. Quality of conversation also excellent. And the guy I was... 'going out with' is such a strong term... anyway, he was a bartender at the Staff Club. He always got the job of cleaning out the Guinness hose.
I do like a nice garden bar - mostly because it's the only place in the pub where you can hear yourself talk. A nice garden bar, not 'a large shingle ashtray with tables shoved in it'.
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Something that makes me gloomy is that TV3 trot out DOCTOR Lillian Ng (their emphasis) on health issues. I think this adds a certain richness to some issues, but I lament her interpretation of health research.
A couple of months back, TV3 had imported some 'vaccines cause autism' story, which was actually framed around a girl who, it turned out if you listened carefully, wasn't actually autistic. They had Mike McRoberts talk to Lilian Ng afterwards, and she was... almost scathing. Certainly pissy. My respect level for her went right up.
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(actually, I'm not sure that LJ hasn't moved its hosting to Russia).
Ha, in Soviet Russia, blog hosts you. Which would certainly simplify things.
As someone still hanging on to their Listener subscription by the skin of their last straw, (as yet nobody rips the Black page off my copy), I've found this whole discussion really useful.
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You’re referring to Marie Davis’ mother’s concerns over Bebo? Well, shit, she’s just lost her daughter (who, at the time of the comments, was missing with foul play the likely reason). And she was exactly screeming about it (from what I read, which was not exhaustive).
No, I was referring to the way one comment by Marie Davis's mother was reported, and linking it to the 'Suicide Girls' beat-up. You're right, she wasn't screaming about it at all, but it became a banner headline. That's what disturbs me.
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At the risk of being insensitive, the whole reaction of the Elim church people has seriously creeped me out. Is it just me, or is treating the death of your children primarily as some sort of test from God just further proof that all fundies of whatever religious persuasion have a tendency towards being death cults?
I'd rather that than watch the bereaved screaming for someone, anyone to blame.
God can cop this one, given there doesn't seem to be any conceivable way to blame it on Bebo.
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If I’m in front of the TV at news time now I’m usually grazing between One and TV3 and Prime, which is showing highlights of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, the British version. I start getting interested when the contestant is at about $4000 and usually stick with it to see how he/she does so miss that news segment.
That's uncanny, Bob. My TV news intake is entirely dictated by where Millionaire contestants are up to.
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Now I’m voting for Obama because I always wanted a pony and this one does nothing but shoot rainbows out of his butt.
Which, I think, trumps everything.
Heh. I think you'll find this is where rainbows come from. So that must be an Obamacorn.
It's the 'what does that mean' bit - what is respectful and what isn't? In some cases I get more of an impression that I'm the one that's meant to detach (which I do).
It doesn't put me off my lunch to see a baby getting their lunch. I take a lot of interest in babies eating, which is part of the problem - I guess I'm not meant to take an interest in babies eating that way.
To be honest, I can really only speak for myself. I never minded people looking at my while I was feeding. I DID mind people staring. In the same way, I don't mind people looking at my breasts when I'm NOT feeding, but I do mind them staring. (Breasts are ace, and can be very distracting. I understand this.) If I'm having a conversation with someone, I'd prefer they looked at my face, whether or not I'm breast-feeding.
I've become more sensitised to the issue since both Facebook and Livejournal banned women from displaying photos of themselves breast-feeding, because it was "obscene". I think I'd be more likely to wonder if someone was being disapproving these days.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but there is no issue with breast feeding in NZ?
If I was out in public and my baby needed feeding, I'd feed. Often this meant sitting down in mall food courts - vastly preferable to skulking off to hide in those disgusting "parents' rooms". I never received a negative comment, and I got a few positive ones.
But. There was a woman in my ante-natal group who didn't breast-feed at all because her friends would make snide comments about women who fed in public. She'd been sensitised to the point where she was just too embarrassed to do it at all.
if it's so normal, surely you should be able to just keep chatting away to the woman normally, but I find I get just as many uncomfortable stares doing just that
I used to breast-feed in my role-playing group. People were perfectly happy to roll my d10s for me, and the guys coped admirably. I really struggle to believe you've had women be uncomfortable by being treated normally while feeding. If they detach from the group to do it, respect their privacy, if they don't, respect their 'still being a personness'.