Busytown: Sons for the Return Home
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recordari, in reply to
I refused to call it derailing – …
Every time a different, epic, complicated layout, worthy of photographing for the album.Right then. Thought you might appreciate this tree (topical?) outside the aforementioned school. Yarn bombing in the burbs. We're a crafty bunch.
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Islander, in reply to
Nah, goddess with upraised limbs…ooo, and aint her skirts purty?
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Paul Williams, in reply to
That's beautiful, you've just given me a great idea for a fundraiser at our school, thank you muchly for sharing this stunning piece of art!
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Russell Brown, in reply to
the influences of non-English tongues around the world – Yiddish in NYC for example
and Maori in New Zillund
Our (Australian born and bred) producer could not understand a word Tom Scott from Home Brew said on Media 7.
I agreed with a couple of other people afterwards that Tom’s is a born-in-the-mid-80s-Grey-Lynn-to-Avondale- white-kid accent. I’m sufficiently familiar with that accent that I only hear it if I listen, but it’s fascinating when other people hear it and react.
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Hey Russell, this thing you've created, bloody marvellous it is... cheers.
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Islander, in reply to
+ alot-
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speaking of accents can anyone explain to me why John Key and David Farrar have the same accent - is it some regional Auckland thing that those of us to the south don't know about?
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Rich Lock, in reply to
speaking of accents can anyone explain to me why John Key and David Farrar have the same accent
Our Illuminati lizard overlords occasionally have some difficulty with their skin suits. It can be difficult to fit their mandibles into a human jawline, and it affects operation of the voicebox.
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The Grey Lynn drawl sounded bloody strange to me the first time I heard a couple of years ago - I'd heard a few bFM folks talk like that, but I'd identified it as a radio voice. No idea where the Key and Farrar thing comes from, but I'd hazard that because teenagers are the most proficient generators of language shifts, it originated in the 1970s and has stuck ever since.
What strikes me, moving to another place, is how normal shifts. So many little things you end up taking for granted, and not having them leaves a hole where they would have been. Or refreshes you - you realise that a regular occurrence was causing you slight distress, but had become so part of the landscape you'd stopped noticing.
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The funny thing is that the Key/Farrar thing is almost but not quite a lisp - but the same one - it's strange. I have to guess that Key, after coming back from years in NY, had some sort of language training to rid himself of the same accent I have, so he could go into politics, maybe it comes from that somehow
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had some sort of language training to rid himself of the same accent I have, so he could go into politics, maybe it comes from that somehow
I think it’s genuine. Rather, it’s probably stronger than it needs to be.
Helen Clark has toned hers down since becoming UNDP Administrator. You wouldn’t expect any different; she’s sensitive to her situation. Even as PM, you’d hear quite a variation across situation.
(And I couldn’t put a video like this here without a plug for Oxfam or the WFP. Think about what a box of your favourite beverage costs, and then send it their way).
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Sacha, in reply to
why John Key and David Farrar have the same accent
one is apeing the other in the hopes of impressing? :)
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Carol Stewart, in reply to
can anyone explain to me why John Key and David Farrar have the same accent
Perhaps they're the same person, Jekyll and Hyde fashion ;-)
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Knit-picing sew & sews...
Yarn bombing in the burbs. We’re a crafty bunch.
Knotty, but nice - great wool looping granny's queers?
But at the risk of casting purls before twine
and other Aran nonsense from these fair isles
yew are opening a whole new canopy
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Maybe I should have said "why do John Key and David Farrar have the same accent, and no one else" .... I was sort of hoping someone would point to someone else who has that particular way of talking, and say something like "everyone from SSE Ponsonby speaks that way"
(it's just a question that's been bugging me for a year or so)
Then again, has anyone ever seen them together in the same room?
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fabulous footage from The International Space Station
Aurora underfoot over the Indian ocean
the world's wiring revealed...
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recordari, in reply to
Then again, has anyone ever seen them together in the same room?
No, but...
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recordari, in reply to
Aurora underfoot over the Indian ocean
Wow! What an electrifying web we weave.
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Paul Campbell, in reply to
No, but...
That's more of the superman/Clark Kent, no one notices they are the same guy when he puts on the glasses thing .... when I suspect it's probably more of a latex mask or pod person sort of thing
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Bart Janssen, in reply to
and a few appliances that I had assumed wouldn’t work, but will be fine with transformers.
While it is true that appliances will work on transformers you need to remember that it is a net loss of energy. Transformers get warm that tells you you are wasting energy. Also any appliance with a big current draw will need a big transformer so you need space on the bench for the appliance AND the transformer.
So the take home message is the bread maker we brought home and still use was a worthwhile option, especially since they weren't common here back then. But several other appliances have simply been replaced with kiwi versions.
As always, happy to provide contradictory and internally inconsistent advice :).
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I would agree - bring electronics and use transformers, anything with a heater or a light probably isn't worth it
If you are planning on using transformers bring a few US power strips and extension cords if you think you'll need them
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What did you make of Virginia Larson’s editorial in the latest North and South?
I can't recall the last time I've picked up north and south - it not being freely available online and all that. Should I?
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Rich Lock, in reply to
As always, happy to provide contradictory and internally inconsistent advice :).
All that science training wasn't wasted, then? :)
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Carol Stewart, in reply to
Should I?
In a word - no.
The editorial I mentioned was a beatup on academics in general and Auckland University academics in particular. not very edifying. -
Bart Janssen, in reply to
All that science training wasn't wasted, then? :)
Well from the perspective of learning to write confusing and ultimately pointless documents, no not at all.
And while I do get paid well enough now jeez I could have made much more money elsewhere, so yes wasted.
It's been fun though, except for the bits that weren't fun, and interesting, apart from the repetitive boring bits.
However, considering the data obtained thus far and after and exhaustive literature survey, I'm not sure.
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