Posts by Danielle
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Muse: Start The Week, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Yeah, that Crumb documentary is... something.
Come December, I’m probably going to start howling “fuck me, Santa” at unfortunate moments – thanks for nothing, Terry.
That movie makes me want to beat the crap out of inanimate portions of nativity scenes. Cathartic!
Also:
you might not be encouraging your children to go to library school afterwards
You shouldn't be encouraging them to do that anyway. Unless you hate your children and want them to suffer, in which case encourage away.
Sincerely,
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Casting my mind back to my childhood holidays on Auntie Betty's farm in Invercargill... don't they look like that when anything unusual happens? Shearing, drenching, being herded into another paddock... they're kinda twitchy.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Megan Wegan,
What are your thoughts on shearing?
I justify this by theorising - in the time-honoured tradition of 'talking bollocks on shit I know squat about' - that the sheep would be terribly hot come January and thus their initial discomfort is for the greater good. Like trimming your dog's claws. You know she hates it, but she would also hate not being able to walk properly.
(Also, I eat lamb, so basically I'm an asshole anyway.)
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Megan Wegan,
I quite like Speed Chainsawing, too. In fact, the whole Outdoorsperson Does Important Outdoorsy Things With Tools At Speed genre is pretty fun.
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to BenWilson,
I’m not sure if that’s the cause or the effect, though.
Does it matter?
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Tom Beard,
a massive scrum of marketing bukkake
This is such a wonderfully evocative image.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Emma Hart,
In which case, yes, ballroom dancing is a sport.
Yeah, but if the competition has to be aesthetically judged (what a beautiful triple axel!) rather than physically judged (this one got over the line first!), is it a sport? If we're saying the first one is, then American Idol is also a sport.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Russell Brown,
unsolicited information as to how many people go to things in Proper Countries
Additionally, only 2.5 countries give a shit about rugby so therefore it is laughable to care and the only sport you should like is football as it is far more popular worldwide. The more people like a thing, the better it is! Of course.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Rich Lock,
There’s possibly a certain amount of ‘with us or against us’ vibe to some of the promotion.
OK, I have had a belated brainwave: maybe this is my problem. Because I work from home, and I have MySky on *both* televisions, and don’t get the paper, and my son is one year old, and our house is more of a shrine to American sports because of my American husband, the only RWC-esque stuff I’m really engaging with is here, blogs, and FB/Twitter. So let’s just say that the people I tend to associate with online are, by and large, really anti-sport in general and rugby in particular. So it can, to someone in my position, feel a bit like ‘you are an absolute idiot for liking sport and, additionally, this is one of the shittiest things to happen in New Zealand ever’. Now, that’s probably not the general NZ vibe at all, so I am obviously approaching things from a not-very-objective perspective.
It’s about the hats
Ben, in life, it's *always* about the hats.
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Field Theory: How's that working out for…, in reply to Hadyn Green,
Don't you be too sure: if there's one thing we know how to do, it's digress resentfully.