Posts by Danielle
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And I must serial post to note that this hilarious piece, David, is how I imagine any future long-haul flights with my children will turn out. In 2010 we took one nine-month-old, non-crawling, placidly fat baby to America for Christmas. On the plane he sat calmly in his car seat and ate fruit purees, then slept for hours on end without stirring. At any moment of possible sadness I stuck a boob in his mouth and he chilled out. It was about as stress-free as any flight with a child could be. Now, however, we have child two: he is 18 months old, spends most of his free time rampaging through the house and screeching piercingly at me for parental crimes I have committed that he cannot yet adequately explain, and has still to cut thirteen teeth (the appearance of each previous one has been heralded by epic rage and sadness). The thought of taking them both to visit our relatives now breaks me out in a cold sweat. Even the placid first son might crack under the strain. No, we will have to wait until both of them are capable of watching twelve straight hours of television at a stretch.
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Oh, coincidentally, I lived in Trondheim for a year as a toddler. My best friend was the small boy who lived in the house next door. He was called Cnut.
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Southerly: Getting There is Half the Fun, in reply to Russell Brown,
And that was before the War on Terror. Does anyone have a theory as to why American airports are so rubbish?
Because all queuing in America, for anything, is horrendously lengthy, inefficient and officious (like every form you have to fill out for anything ever). I theorise that it's some sort of organisational culture thing.
That being said, LAX is particularly bad. I like SFO a lot better.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Bring Back Boxes, in reply to Sacha,
My theory is that once you start dancing there's no point in stopping until you go home. :)
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Hard News: Friday Music: Bring Back Boxes, in reply to Sacha,
That was my favourite track all night (and there was some stiff competition). I have now become slightly obsessed with finding steel drum bands covering well-known songs. Trinidad Steel Band doing The Meters' "Cissy Strut":
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Field Theory: Part of the Game, in reply to Martin Connelly,
The language you use in this post is just as bad.
Generic use of "fuckwit" is an equal opportunity profanity and calling someone a "faggot" is homophobic abuse. The latter is several orders of magnitude worse than the former. Your argument is a false equivalence. Also known as "full of shit".
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Angus Robertson,
Are you trying to get some sort of award from the Royal Society for the Wilfully Obtuse?
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It absolutely fucking blows my mind that anyone in this thread is going for the "we have to let gay people be harassed or Big Brother wins!" angle. Really? REALLY?
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Scott Chris,
Lot of men out there feel discriminated against, probably without much justification from my perspective – but perception is reality at an individual level.
The key difference being that no one is abusively yelling "look at that guy, what a fucking heterosexual!" about them at the rugby.
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Russell Brown,
The "don't be so precious" comments are filling me with rage. "Stop feeling your own feelings!" Pfffft.