Posts by Islander
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Ah! One of the things about being part-Scots (albeit Orkney where they dont wear kilts much) is weird esoterica: sporrans were worn majorly when away from your own home. Yes, they acted as a purse – but they had this protective purpose as well. Females can wear kilts (derpending on your area & background) but females dont wear sporrans. Or skean dhu. (We hide them in sleeves.)
Incidentally, kilts, real ones, are gorgeous garments to walk in. They lilt from your hips, they swing with your stride-
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Might give some of the viewing audience a bit more of an view than intended.
Not so. Everyone knows that the function of the sporran is to make viewing of the, erm, vital & interesting bits impossible - even by leetle crawly stealth cameras...
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to Pete Sime,
HEH!
A well-known West Coast joke - "We have repeatedly told the Kaiser- -
OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to Islander,
Rich of Observationz-
you actually dont know ANYTHING about small-town papers, do you?
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Finding something that had happened in Greymouth in the past 24hrs that didn’t reflect badly on the advertisers, your own or the editor’s friends and family would be the hard bit.
With all due respect, you have no understanding of smalltown journalism what so-ever-
Y’know, the GES was locally fearless: it was privately owned. Had a distinct leftish drive(coal mining shareholders) and didnt give a fuck about editor’s family/friends/people who could direct matters but were easily over-ridden:-the advertisers had GES or the tiny Hokitika Guardian-which was genuine local-area competition- and nothing else.
And you obviously have NO idea how much goes on in small towns
– which is of huge interest for all of us small – area- dwellers-
0r how omnivourously we are interested in…us. -
Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to JacksonP,
Nikau *manymoretentacledthan your average eightfooted head"...I think-
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Capture: Labour Weekend: Town or Country?, in reply to Jackie Clark,
What a gorgeous trio!
My Uncle Bill used to have white rats – intelligent cleanly adaptive beings. He trained a pair to sit in a child’s toy rickshaw while a second pair drew it…they seemed to enjoy it (they took turns at the play, anyway.)*
I respect the intelligence of introduced rats – but loathe the damage they do to bird/insect & frog-life. So, I cheerfully kill them.
Kiore is so rare that I dont think anyone in their right minds would kill them (besides, they truly are Rr. edulis – you can eat them. I have.)
* He also trained his cat/s (his dogs were kept outside, and not allowed in the house
while his mother was alive) to never attack the rats.** So, we'd arrive in Oamaru, and find the rats whee-ing up & down the kitchen floor-**Dunno how. Unca' Bill was a pro- animal man, and yet a very good hunter (and fisher). I still miss him.
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to dave crampton,
Perhaps some of you could try going to work at 8:30am, coming up with a story idea, writing the story and having 500 words done by 10am by which time you are working on the next story,.
I havent yet commented to any extent on this thread.
I will base a short comment on my personal experience earlier this year.
Journalists can put a deliberately wrong skew on a story.
I write a quarterly column for my tribe’s magazine “Te Karaka”. 2 issues ago, I wrote about my love for Okarito, and the fact that I will be selling my home & leaving the place I’ve lived in for over 38 years – because the human population
has changed, and the nature of the community has changed (among other salient factors.) A journalist at the “Grey Evening Star” was alerted to the column, spoke to me over the ‘phone for less than 8 minutes, and her piece appeared in the next edition – and was promptly copied by quite a number of SI newspapers (none of which ever got in contact with me.) She used the words “is leaving ’nasty Okarito’” – which occur NOWHERE in my column. The Grey Star editor (whom I know) gave her the additional, totally wrong, info that I had been ‘briefly employed as a proof-reader on the Grey Star.’Actually, I was a card-carrying journalist on the Grey Star
for a year&a half.*
I have been interviewed literally hundreds of times – mainly MSM, but also radio & tv. Journalists have made a lot of errors in the articles I’ve read or viewed – but that snide little ‘news’ item takes the sick-up cake.*Started work at 8am, had to have your story/ies filed by noon (or preferably waaay before), and filled your afternoon work with interviews or your round-writeups…
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Love the bottom-up unfolding!
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Up Front: Moa: Sub-Standard, in reply to Pete,
Having viewed the entire prospectus they look like a bunch of Viagra swilling eedjits looking for a sense of direction.
A disgrace to my sex.Whack!
And, +1-
I still enjoy a beer - Moa no more-