Whereas, by any reasonable standard, anyone who wears a Klan hood for real is a criminal

Um, Richard, I think we can all take it as read that the KKK is a repulsive organisation and the ideology it espouses is unlikely to find a receptive hearing around here. But I'd…

And then to remove his Klan hood to reveal 'blackface' .... oh ... my ... gawwwwdddddd!

I was so, so embarrassed and disgusted by that. And that African-American professor from the University of Canterbury actually responded politely to it. He's a better man than me.

Why was that douchelord even…

Where do y'all shop for non-Mom jeans??

(Disclaimer: not actually jeans)
My leaving-the-house pants are mostly Fin and Plush (mmmm, love you Fin, love you Plush). My not-leaving-the-house ones are mostly American Apparel 'relaxe pants' (I initially assumed it was a typo in one store, but it seems to be…

His version of a hood is quite funny in its way

What Richard said. He seems to have missed the entire point of the hoodie campaign.

His version of a hood is quite funny in its way, and taking the hoodies' slogan to its logical conclusion ... but where using an image of the Klan is concerned, people are into knee jerk territory, so non-Kapiti readers would fail to make the connection. Guess liberals still have…

No luck on the jeans front

To my great surprise I recently found a pretty decent pair of jeans in Farmers.

I find a lot of jeans have their narrowest point right on the widest bit of my hips which fails to be either comfortable or flattering.

No, Dale Evans is okay, he's no moron. He's a civic minded chap who has done the Wellington/Kapiti community a lot of favours in his time.

This time he made a bad judgement call, but a little context…

Holey Sheet: Voters of Paraparaumu-Raumati Community elect man who etc

Where to even start with that one?

I think the Dom Post headline should have been:

Voters of Paraparaumu-Raumati Community elect man who turns out to be a complete fucking moron

Just discovered another use for my hoodie today: excellent antidote to bad hair after swimming at the Centennial Pool. And the dry Canterbury air had been doing such…

It's increasingly difficult to get vegemite in the states I understand. Something in it – B12 maybe? – is a restricted import substance or some such silly thing.

I recall a funny story a while back about US Customs agents raiding a marine vessel with NZers aboard. They totally freaked…

It was $4US…

Not difficult. Impossible.

My ex was able to find a couple of jars at a store near LA end of last year. Not sure if they had snuck them into the country, or if it was old stock however.

Marmite is available at places like Whole Foods, but it's the tacky English version.

On the subject of hoodies, I note that if they are…

(Vegemite, not so much. But it was fun to look at the expressions on their faces after they tried it...)

It's increasingly difficult to get vegemite in the states I understand. Something in it – B12 maybe? – is a restricted import substance or some such silly thing.

Anzac biscuits seem to occupy the sweet spot of the effort vs expected enjoyment graph for Americans eating Kiwi food.

I made some for peeps in a grad school class in Houston which fell on Anzac Day. They went down rather well, as I recall.

(Vegemite, not so much. But…

Anzac biscuits seem to occupy the sweet spot of the effort vs expected enjoyment graph for Americans eating Kiwi food. You may, however, be subjected to the accusation that they are "just oatmeal…

Apart from anything else, I struggle to see how wearing a KKK outfit draws attention to bore water.

If I recall correctly, there's a shot of wee Ron sporting headwear reminiscent of the original 'gangsta'.

Now I regret chopping out the paragraph where I mused on the link between the psychic appeal of hoodies and the phenomenon of (male) circumcision. (I don't think it works in NZ, anyway?)

Don't forget to make the inevitable "dickhead" joke.

Nonplussed, that's what I aim for (rather than outraged). Which I think answer's Craig's objection to the apparent inconsistency in my stance.

Jolisa: I spend my life in fizzy broth of indifference — the nice thing about being (slightly) misanthropic is that everything is vaguely irritating, but little really makes…

(As a footnote, we were with Daphne in a pub in Weston-Super-Mare one day when she and Mr Daleaway decided to try out the quiz machine together. Even with those two superquizzies collaborating on the answers and working the buttons together, they could not win a quid…

Indeed, that was my younger brother's thing. I had to buy him some from Camden Town when I was living in the UK. Very red, very large DM. I have no idea where they ended up, though. I wonder if you and Emma went to UC with him?

I can…

Oh, the happy memories of biking around Chch with the University Challenge gang, looking to rob those no-armed bandits, then going home with pockets heavy with $20 in 20c pieces. Which was a lot of money in those days.

There was one in a gaming arcade about halfway down Riccarton…

There is a thriving though underground (as far as one can be, on the web) community discussing how to rip off UK pub quiz machines. I stumbled across it by accident when writing…

As a footnote, we were with Daphne in a pub in Weston-Super-Mare one day when she and Mr Daleaway decided to try out the quiz machine together.

Oh, the happy memories of biking around Chch with the University Challenge gang, looking to rob those no-armed bandits, then going home with…

Really spectacular day for it, too. You call this winter?

Also, international week happens to take place while we're away, thus branding "New Zealand"…

Rowing? Or paddling from the Antigua boatsheds? Many a happy hour spent, etc ...

A happy half hour, anyway. We rowed, in the shallowest, tippiest boat it has ever been my nervous pleasure to crew with an enthusiastic six year old and a squirmy two year old. But we stayed…

Rowing? Or paddling from the Antigua boatsheds? Many a happy hour spent, etc ...

You can actually hire antique rowing boats from the Antigua boatsheds these days (along with canoes and paddle-boats). I see Jolisa as a traditional rowing-boat type of person — hope she doesn't catch…

Off to row up the Avon at the behest of the good Drs Haywood... I trust you lot to work the government stroke and keep the discussion alive while we re-enact Swallows and Amazons.

Rowing? Or paddling from the Antigua boatsheds? Many a happy hour spent, etc ...

The heyday of Mastermind and shows where content and intellect counted was over…

I need to get out more.

Quite the raggle taggle team next to the other perky foursomes in matching sweatshirts, but in a moment of pure Scumbag College brilliance, we actually won!

A few years ago an Otago President (who I would have thought was too young to remember University Challenge) tried to get it restarted…

There's some kind of equation (tilt of bust + weight of hood?) which causes them to tip backwards and throttle me around the throat.

Uh-huh. Spoils the whole 'pretending to be a monk' game.

And now that the PAS Women's XV has turned up, can I ask some advice -…

perhaps my general bustiness

This is key to why hoodies are so uncomfortable for me. There's some kind of equation (tilt of bust + weight of hood?) which causes them to tip backwards and throttle me around the throat. Plus you end up with a weirdly inconsistent hemline, short at…

I think you were at UC about the same time I was (vague memories of seeing your name on University Challenge team?)

Ah yes. That was me looking vaguely normal in a UC sweatshirt (no hood) alongside the sensible mathematician guy with the itchy buzzer finger, the Gothy philosopher lad…

Those bizarre pants – really, aren't they jodhpurs?

Ugh, yes, and with their very own reins... I can't figure out if it's more the-knights-that-say-nee! or "Will you be wanting the bridal suite?" "No, I'll just hang onto his ears till…

conveniently just about cold enough for my nice new hoodie to actually come in useful.

Yeah, had my comfort hoodie up this clear cold morning, waiting for the bus, looking an Island Bay swathed in rare fog.

I admit I was worried that someone might mistake me for one of…

yup – hokey pokey – bring a camp stove make it right there in front of them .....…

As a one-time teenage girl, I still burn with the passionate conviction that clothes maketh the grown-ups flip out, and that that is entirely as it should be.

OK, so don't judge younglings by their dress unless they're trying to freak the squares, in which case... Oh fuck it, just…

Steinlager sweatshirts with BLUE or GREEN on them were all the rage. And yes, they came with Hoods.

And Fairydown parkas, the pull over kind a big front…

http://www.ronmarks.com/Trendy%20Threads/Trendy%20Threads%20for%20Land%20Go%27ers.html

As a List member does Ron Marks have an electorate in order to have an electoral office.

Love the dementors comparison

And as for your older lad wearing a bombers jacket, but failing to do the honourable deed to Ron Mark's office..... shaaaaaaaame lady!!