Posts by Emma Hart
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put down some jerseys in the corners and play shirts vs skins. heaps cheaper, and it doesn't ruin the view.
In fact, in my considered opinion with a France-NZ final, that could well MAKE the view.
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Actually, what came to mind when Brash was trying to sell this 'poor boy' thing last night was;
"State house? State house? We lived in shoe box in middle of t'road..."
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I grew up in Timaru in a street full of state houses and solo mothers. Growing up, only one of my friends lived with both their birth parents. Because I'm a chick, I believe I'm supposed to have a bunch of teen pregnancies rather than go to prison.
The fact that I didn't, and I've managed to haul my butt up the ladder a bit, doesn't mean I was a plucky little lass battling against the odds, it means I had a hugely supportive and intelligent mother (because anyone can end up raising their kids on the DPB, not just trash, white or otherwise) and a tremendously brave uncle who embezzled money off my father before he drank it all so I could go to uni. Cheers, Uncle Doug. I've got absolutely no idea how much 'making good' Key did all by himself, but I don't like the idea that I should somehow identify with him because of it.
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I was out in the garden listening to the Ashes (for work, you understand), and Darcy on Sports Radio was saying how they weren't going to have any news headlines because the Ashes was on and nobody cared. "Too bloody right," I said to my aquilegias.
It was half three before I found out.
OTOH, my partner found out at half four when he wanted a page with really awful HTML to test a new application with. That would have been No Right Turn...
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To veer wildly back OFF point again, I think the concept of PC just died...
Revenue Minister Peter Dunne is defending the right of Christchurch schoolgirls to run around in their undies, saying that stopping them is "political correctness gone mad".
Now we know what United Future actually stands for, teenage girls running through Christ's in the knickers. And I never thought we'd agree about anything.
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I wouldn't consider myself a Dave Dobbyn fan, but, like, how awesome was it that he got to sing these lines in front of the Queen and Tony Blair?
Out here on the edge
the empire is fading by the day
and the world is so weary in war
maybe we’ll find that new wayThose lines always remind me of David Lange's Oxford Union Debate speech, which was such a strong advocacy of our right to determine our own course as a country.
I too can't stand the sound of "Loyal" any more, though that may be something to do with the horrible 80s knitwear flashbacks it generates.
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But we don't want it. The stadium, not the edit function. It's just not worth the crap, and most people I know down here had their thumbs on their foreheads the minute it was suggested that Christchurch be the emergency back-up bridesmaid if Auckland can't sort its shit out. We know you don't mean it anyway. Any plan that got kicked down to Christchurch would be even further behind with planning funding and RMA consents.
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Stephen - yeah, the intergenerational thing is important. A program that my kids will get into that we can actually bear to watch is like gold. Dr Who falls into that category and I'd put Stargate Atlantis (that's following in the legacy of all those hour-long scifi programs we grew up with) in there as well.
In the Kiwi Kidult drama tradition, Maddigan's Quest was brilliant. It was even put on in a decent timeslot so we could all sit down and watch it together. I'd LOVE to see Halfmen of O, my kids have read the books. I don't know why NZ stopped making those great kidult dramas: at the time it was about the only thing we did well.
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"Children of Fire Mountain"! I'd forgotten that.
I loved Bab 5, but I always thought that was because it was considerably ABOVE the tradition. Multiple-episode plot arcs. Any kind of plots arcs. And look, there IS a use for Bruce Boxleitner.
Watching ST TOS with my kids is just excruciating, but they love it. I suspect those episodes of Dr Who that had me cowering behind the couch wouldn't hold up to modern scrutiny, but I can testify that Sapphire and Steel is still some scary, scary shit.
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Passing it on to the next generation, my kids are big fans of Thunderbirds, and while my daughter isn't afraid of speeding cars or dangling from high things, she's utterly terrified of Daleks and Cybermen.
And yes, Blake's 7 was brilliant/appalling. I think I spent a major portion of my teen years trying to date Avon. No-one was allowed in the lounge during screenings of the orginal series of Star Trek.
I'd add Kiwi favourites Under the Mountain and Children of the Dog Star.