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  • Joanna,

    I'm ashamed to say I usually just get annoyed by gay-talk, but when it's witty it's a different matter

    Yes, teh gays, they all speak the same. And if they're not Oscar Wilde, or the hilariously camp best friend on TV, they need to pipe down.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report

  • BenWilson,

    they need to pipe down

    I'm not that much of an arse! I just find it boring. Yup, you're gay, OK, I got that the first time. Then again, I guess when you're gay, it probably is a good idea to let everyone know, otherwise the default assumption of hetero can easily be misapplied.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report

  • Joanna,

    I'm not that much of an arse! I just find it boring.

    I just find it boring. Yup, you're an arse, OK, I got that the first time. Then again, I guess when you're an arse, it probably is a good idea to let everyone know, otherwise the default assumption of decent can easily be misapplied.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report

  • kmont,

    Maybe, just maybe, people are not overthinking it, just being themselves.
    </backs carefully away from the topic, or back to the topic>

    wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 485 posts Report

  • andrew llewellyn,

    Yes... well... that's very close to the bone for me.

    Bwaha! The inevitable consequence of dissing someone in little old newzild....

    Who is the current one? I think I read that Nigel Gould is the Chancellor.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report

  • BenWilson,

    Joanna, nice one. Fair crack, I did say I was embarrassed about it.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report

  • Craig Ranapia,

    Two words that prove you can be bitchy and straight as a spirit level: Michael Cullen.

    I rest my case, ladies and gentlemen of the jury.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report

  • BenWilson,

    In fact, totally fair enough. There's nothing wrong with people constantly advertising who and what they are, even if everyone around them already knows. For instance, in Ozzie, try as I might, it's hard to disguise my Kiwi accent and turns of phrase. And even trying to is a choice, which was is made appealing by the annoying habit of ozzies to constantly rib Kiwis. I guess a lot of gays get even more sick of that than I did, especially when it wasn't a reversible decision to be in a hetero dominated society.

    Ah, this is why I love the blogosphere. Unlike in polite society, sometimes I actually get my mind changed.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report

  • anjum rahman,

    maxim have just put out a press release headed "terrorism, australia, children". hmmm, anyone want to try making a sentence out of that?

    hamilton • Since Nov 2006 • 130 posts Report

  • Emma Hart,

    There's nothing wrong with people constantly advertising who and what they are, even if everyone around them already knows

    Yeah, but Ben, it sounds like you're still assuming that everyone who's camp is gay and everyone who's not camp is straight. This may not necessarily be the case.

    Or you could just watch John Barrowman and Simon Amstell have a gay-off on Never Mind the Buzzcocks and set some stereotypes in stone.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report

  • Rebecca Williams,

    don't apologise too much ben, we all know joanna's a bee-atch (jeez, i am brave or just stoopid?)

    re amy winehouse, tell me all about it, she's great. we saw her in concert at the hammersmith apollo. she rather overdid the big-ups to the band (who weren't that great) but she was awesome - when you've got a voice like that, you can afford to be as sassy and up yourself as you like, i think.

    i admire her talent as a singer / songwriter to the extent that i am genuinely concerned about her obvious alcohol / other drug addiction and her very scary skinniness. her father seems to totally collude with her too, i've heard him publicly commenting more than once that she's fine and this is just what kids do in the rock'n'roll business.

    well, eat my shorts daddy, that girl is going d-o-w-n if she doesn't sort her substance dependence out fairly quickly. IMHO.

    Auckland • Since Mar 2007 • 120 posts Report

  • BenWilson,

    Yeah, but Ben, it sounds like you're still assuming that everyone who's camp is gay and everyone who's not camp is straight. This may not necessarily be the case.

    It definitely is not the case. I know the difference. What I'm actually saying is that I don't mind gay, but I find camp about as funny as constant sarcasm - a very low form of wit. Witty camp, sure, but just camp? Ho hum.

    Now, what I'm following up with now is OK, they're allowed to be ho hum. Fuck it, I'm pretty ho hum myself. If I came across as somehow saying it shouldn't be allowed, that's arrogant and rude, sorry about that, retracted. But I stand by thinking it's clown shoes most of the time.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report

  • Peter Darlington,

    Eventually Simon Pound and Abbie Rutledge grabbed me to dash over to Code, where Scribe was playing the after-after-party to a packed house, including an increasingly unhinged McColloch and Thompson. Additional blagging (in the door, up to the VIP bar on the mezzanine, a bright pink token for a free drink) ensued, and I stayed for some of an energetic set before jumping in a taxi to arrive home shortly before 2am.

    My god, as I finish up scything the hay and preparing the feed for the pigs and cleaning out my old briar pipe down here in the chilly South Island, I wonder about the lives of you sophisticated Auckland glitterati (a man in a white suit you say?).

    I bet you snorted cocaine off a supermodels belly, made some home made pR0n and got dropped off home in P-Diddy's Maserati as well!

    Nelson • Since Nov 2006 • 949 posts Report

  • andrew llewellyn,

    (a man in a white suit you say?).

    Well... Paul Holmes in a white suit.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report

  • Joanna,

    Ah, this is why I love the blogosphere. Unlike in polite society, sometimes I actually get my mind changed.

    Thank you for being gracious and explaining yourself. Emma made the point that I was trying to make better than I did with her:

    Yeah, but Ben, it sounds like you're still assuming that everyone who's camp is gay and everyone who's not camp is straight. This may not necessarily be the case.

    and you addressed that with:

    , but I find camp about as funny as constant sarcasm - a very low form of wit.

    As an overly sarcastic person myself, I would like to believe that sarcasm is constantly hilaaaaaarious. Of course everyone has a different sense of humour. Thank god, because otherwise Two and a Half Men would still be on TV....

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report

  • BenWilson,

    Group hug? Gays included. No camps.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report

  • BenWilson,

    OK, camps allowed but I have to have a chick on either side.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report

  • kmont,

    Gracious is hot
    </paris hilton tone of voice>

    Oh and reading literature rather than news is making me a lot less grumpy. Waiting to see what is going to come out about these "terror raids" is making me crotchety.

    wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 485 posts Report

  • Joanna,

    Waiting to see what is going to come out about these "terror raids" is making me crotchety.

    So are you a hat, a string bikini or a plant hanger?

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report

  • BenWilson,

    Kowhai, yeah, I'm over it too. Starting to realize that the more you talk with no info, the more of an arse you sound. Shoulda realized it long ago, but I'm not a professional politician.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report

  • Heather Gaye,

    I don't mind camp, but I'll be dadgarned, if those canadians don't irritate the hell outta me.

    </facetious>

    Morningside • Since Nov 2006 • 533 posts Report

  • kmont,

    The mental image of myself in a crotchety bikini is actually quite awesome. Call me morbid call me pale etc

    wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 485 posts Report

  • Russell Brown,

    I bet you snorted cocaine off a supermodels belly, made some home made pR0n and got dropped off home in P-Diddy's Maserati as well!

    Well, we did have a drink beforehand at a bar where I could have had my choice of Krug ($480) or Cristal ($530), and I assured those present that had I been P Diddy I'd surely have done so.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report

  • Russell Brown,

    but I find camp about as funny as constant sarcasm - a very low form of wit.

    Camp itself isn't a form of wit. It's what you do with your camp, honey ...

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report

  • 81stcolumn,

    oooooh!

    Nawthshaw • Since Nov 2006 • 790 posts Report

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