Posts by Steve Parks
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SP; I’m thinking of older pubs. Especially the ones with multiple bars.
So they need corridors, and there must have been a law in the 60s that Corridors in Pubs Must Be Lush.</quote>
I'm just looking for an excuse to go to the pub early.
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Related to the 'sex' part of the topic: India overturns gay sex ban
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on whether there's a good pub with carpet, not on whether its absorbent...
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Carpet in a pub should be of the thick, highly absorbent variety.
I keep thinking of pubs as having wooden or other bare floors, but you could be right. Okay, I'll go do some ...er, research...
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Tables!! At a pub??
What is Dunedin coming to?
Tables are required so you can make people 'table suck' their spillage. No table it ends up on the floor and gets soaked into the carpet …
Carpet!! In a pub??
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Poor old Farrah's down the chart.
Yeah, her and Ed McMahon got a raw deal out of the timing.
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Google News reports the Goldblum rumour as having originated on a NZ site.
Yeah, this one.
Had me wondering for a sec there, because it's not a hoax site. but they obviously fell for one.
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Could one of you two lawyers tell us what the sub judice rule is, please?
Franks was wrong, in any case: the accused didn't go for insanity, he went for a guilty plea on manslaughter only.
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I agree with Kyle on the value of the national census.
Also, Brent raises some good points. I agree with his concerns with "New Zealander" and "Kiwi".
New Zealand European - a bit of a mouthful, and disliked by those who no longer believe that they have any affinity with Europe.
I grant that this observation is correct, but it still baffles me somewhat why people have such a concern. We (the Ethnic Group Who Cannot Easily Be Named) are so manifestly steeped in European/Anglo-Saxon culture that it just seems an obvious, albeit inelegant, pointer to our ethnicity.
Pakeha - this has the problem that in Maori it means non-Maori, and hence equally applies to an American tourist, an Asian New Zealander, and a 5th generation New Zealander.
I don't agree that it applies to a tourist. As you indicate later, it's the Maori word for a non-Maori (or non-Polynesian) New Zealand citizen.
There is also an argument that we shouldn't have to use a Maori word to describe our ethnicity. I would argue that by taking and using a Maori word you are actually showing that you really do associate yourself with New Zealand culture.
Quite. Isn't that what the anti-NZ European side want? To decrease the emphasis on ‘Europe‘, and increase the association with this country? Logan himself said: “…most of us adopt and try to respect the Maori additions that make a unique New Zealand language.”
What better way to show that you associate with a distinctly New Zealand culture than to use a distinctly New Zealand word to describe your ethnicity?
My offering is "kiwitea", meaning "pale Kiwi".
I have no objection in theory, but I think you and I both know that just ain’t gonna happen.
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Interclue told me I didn't want to click on that ...
Product placement!
It worked, too. I had to google to see what you were referring to. Before I read this thread, I was Interclueless.