Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to George Darroch,
Unconvinced that you need a Ferrari machine to make coffee. Hot water, a drinking implement, and something to strain with. I’m considering experimenting with fine muslin cloth, just for kicks.
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(1stworldproblems)
I’m with you that nobody needs a bar-quality machine (unless you have a bar I suppose), and I’ve always done well with my Bialetti, but I must question the 1stworldproblems tag. One of the cradles of NZ coffee culture, if you care to explore the lineage, is the city of Naples, who has enjoyed centuries of dire poverty, but for whose populace the “tazzulella ’e cafè”, the morning cup of good coffee, is a basic human right. There is a wonderful scene in Eduardo De Filippo’s play Questi fantasmi that illustrates the ritual, and its intrinsic cultural sustenance. Too bad it’s in Neapolitan…
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to Hebe,
With a high-tech falafel bike seat I suppose
With a high-tech a priori falafel bike seat.
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Muse: NZIFF Rant: A Diva's Place Is On…, in reply to richard,
I want to go back to people openly screwing in the audience. And the selling of oranges. Let's see how texting is going to bother you people then.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Sacha,
the sound of one p clapping
Nah. The syntax is far too coherent.
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
You forgot "encircled by an unforgiving desert".
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to recordari,
Thank you!
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Muse: NZIFF Rant: A Diva's Place Is On…, in reply to Russell Brown,
that people using cellphones during screenings is rude and contemptuous of others – so “get a life” awful?
The reaction seems a tad over the top. Seriously, is Auckland located in a different country from Wellington? I go to the cinema a bit, and you get the odd person who forgets to switch the phone off or checks a text during a movie, but honestly I wouldn't call it a scourge. Sometimes people even - gasp! - talk during movies. They did so before cellphones were invented. And it's, you know, okay.
If you demand total silence and perfect bodily composure from the people around you in order to enjoy a film maybe a crowded theatre is not for you. (He says, provocatively.)
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Muse: NZIFF Rant: A Diva's Place Is On…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I’m sorry this whole thread is pissing you off, but cover your eyes.
It is, and I will freely admit I’m bringing some baggage into it. And I know, there are genuine dicks out there – but it still doesn’t excuse the blanket assumptions, or the ableist language, or the total loss of one’s grip.
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Some people really must get a life at their earliest possible convenience. He also gets free arsehole points for the use of "ADHD kids" as a slur.
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Muse: NZIFF Rant: A Diva's Place Is On…, in reply to Morgan Nichol,
Given that I'm now paying $40 for seats when I go to the movies, what kind of shit should I as a reasonable peaceful movie goer be forced to endure?
Don't know. Then again, I also don't care.
That was genuinely quite unpleasant.