Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Where are the foreigners?!, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Monotone dining?
...our less adventurous palettes
You paint a grim picture...
Perhaps with some plate pilates
we might stretch our palates
to embrace the Asian spectra...
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Yum Guy -
Hypocrite
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Perverse pedant's soapbox...
An aside: after reading Tumeke I note that Bradbury
and others use adverse when they mean averse.Adverse means 'hostile, unfavorable, opposed,' and is usually applied to situations, conditions, or events—not to people: : the dry weather has had an adverse effect on the garden.
Averse is related in origin and also has the sense of 'opposed,' but is usually employed to describe a person’s attitude: : I would not be averse to making the repairs myself.Whereas The Adverts were just bored teenagers...
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Flying sources...
And also I heard, in a email from a friend that I trust cos
I’ve dealt with him at a major New Zealand Bank...and seeing it's you, I got an email from a friend in Nigeria,
who can help with our cash flow problems, I'll forward it to
you, happy times ahead!
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Rich Lock,
tramping across a bridge too far...
I find them so bizarre that it's only a hop skip and a jump from trolling.
If it gets your goat, then it is more correctly a trip, trap, trip, hop...
;- )Augury, or just being screwed?
...when it seems throwing a bucket of chicken entrails at a freshly scrubbed wall gets roughly the same quality data.
Entrailer trash? Dem's the standard poor folk...
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Twisted Straw Dogs...
Bouchon is average on a good day but the service is aweful.
Now aweful looks like a compliment to me, full of awe and wonder...
..and Bouchon is a word I'd have to see rather than hear in case it was, well, y'know, dog tucker - à la Bichon Fries! - Ok, ok, Frise then - cold dog tucker anyone? :- ) -
Field Theory: The Cup Continues, in reply to Rich Lock,
Action Dan, the greatest hero of them all.
Nah, we need professionals, not armatures…
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Biobbs,
Taxon: Galactic Rock Titans...
Neither of which is as monumental as The Pixies.
Story! Just-so...
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Field Theory: The Cup Continues, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Medial madness...
...we need to breed some groin-less All Blacks.
...or really strong adduct tape