Listener cover design has been terrible for the last two or so years, but I'm sure it's getting worse

Also my father can be quite pedantic in correcting me. I say 'paradise'
rhymes with 'mice', he would say it rhymes with 'lies'.

I grew up in Wellington btw

I'm a 25 year old and I definately make a distinction between 'near' and 'square', as I do between 'bare' and 'beer' etc.. But then I did have years of Speech and Drama lessons and, as a result got laughed at at school either for sounding posh or having 'an Auckland accent'?! whatever the hell that was supposed to mean