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Hard News: Because it's about time we had another coffee post

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  • Stephen McCurdy,

    Rather belatedly caught up with the Starbucks 'debate'.
    It matters? Coffee? Coffee matters?
    it seems when it comes to plonking, your average PA subscriber is on a par with Nathan Field.

    Avondale • Since Feb 2011 • 3 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle, in reply to Stephen McCurdy,

    So, you’re here to endear yourself to one and all? Nice start.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to Stephen McCurdy,

    Nathan Field

    Eh?

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Stephen McCurdy, in reply to Danielle,

    Well no, actually. I thought PA had a little more to it. Than, eg, plonking about coffee.

    Avondale • Since Feb 2011 • 3 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle,

    Oh dear, the secret's out: we sometimes make small talk. I bet if you po-facedly berate us some more, though, we'll magically start performing up to your expectations. That strategy *always* works.

    (You, uh, see the other threads about terribly 'worthy' things like Egypt and the election and whatnot, right? Just checking.)

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to Stephen McCurdy,

    Feel free to weigh in on the other threads, Stephen. Russell might even be open to a guest post about cinematic music or some other interest.

    And I've just been reminded who Nathan Field is (been a while) - thanks Danielle. #asyouwere

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Steve Barnes,

    Totally off topic, proberbly ;-)
    I am just trying to sort out a telecom mobile problem (they told me I had no credit and after I topped up I found that I had about 25% left, hmmmmm)
    Anypoo. who should they be playing as first on hold music.... One of those Runger girls, you know, the one that happens to be married to that bloke that ownz all of nz's muzic. What was his name again?

    Every time the connection drops and i have to redial i get the same song.
    Not saying anything of course, could be a coincidence, eh.
    Dont quite know what the are plying right no, sounds like the American Forces Network I listened to as a curious youth.
    What a great Saturday night, didn't even get the Pig on a spit but that's another story.... Bloody hell Crowded House... whooda thought they'd make the grade to background musak. Hang on i;
    've been answered... my mistake ... the bastards have hung up again.
    One can only endure so mch Boh Runger... or was it the other one?.......... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    Peria • Since Dec 2006 • 5521 posts Report Reply

  • Steve Barnes, in reply to giovanni tiso,

    instant coffee is actually more expensive than proper coffee.

    Not if you count your own labour... hence instant.
    ;-)

    Peria • Since Dec 2006 • 5521 posts Report Reply

  • Steve Barnes, in reply to recordari,

    Actually, left Laneways before they played as my back started to remind me standing up for 8 hours is for the kids.

    Tell me about it, no really.... don't

    Peria • Since Dec 2006 • 5521 posts Report Reply

  • Steve Barnes,

    Now I gots Gwen Staffani singing about oral sex, damn, that Batch could be president one day...

    Peria • Since Dec 2006 • 5521 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso, in reply to Stephen McCurdy,

    Well no, actually. I thought PA had a little more to it. Than, eg, plonking about coffee.

    I'm going to choose to celebrate the fact that you found the Internet. Welcome, I think you will enjoy it.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • recordari, in reply to Stephen McCurdy,

    Well no, actually. I thought PA had a little more to it. Than, eg, plonking about coffee.

    To see this comment after reading recent posts on Emma's 'Giving me grief' this morning, and what that thread has, and will continue, to mean to me personally, and clearly to others here also, makes it all the more ridoculous.

    Having flipped my own wig here recently, it's good to be reminded of the balance this place can provide.

    Maybe we should do a wine tasting thread. That would really bring the Borg.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown, in reply to Steve Barnes,

    Totally off topic, proberbly ;-)

    If not soberly ;-)

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia, in reply to Stephen McCurdy,

    Well no, actually. I thought PA had a little more to it. Than, eg, plonking about coffee.

    Oh dear, someone is not going to be at all pleased with the three posts I’ve got racked up to go live tomorrow morning… Is it OK to “plonk” about such trivia as Natalie Portman’s deeply cringe-inducing performance in Black Swan, why Americans keep going gaga over British royals like that revolution thingy never happened, and my big gay crush on Hailee Steinfeld?

    Oh dear, the secret's out: we sometimes make small talk.

    And sometimes we bitch, gossip, obsess about trivia, get very very silly and commit offences against taste, sanity and morals. Thank God for that.

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

  • Sacha, in reply to giovanni tiso,

    I'm going to choose to celebrate the fact that you found the Internet.

    Epic slapdown

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Stephen McCurdy, in reply to Sacha,

    I recall noticing the internet just a bit after the war – surely an effective slapdown requires something more than speculative petulance, Sacha? Though I must say I didn’t see Giovanni’s comment as much of a slapdown at all. Perhaps I’m insufficiently po-faced. (I was sufficiently interested by his comments on the Hobbit farce to download his thesis a while ago. But whatever.)

    Apropos your response about thirteen hours ago, I suspect any comment I might make about cinematic music might not be such a good idea. Look where talking about coffee got me. Apart from having pretty much lost interest in film music myself, I might inadvertently come up with some moderately well informed observation about the behaviour and ethics of various visual media private and public imperia, and run the risk of pissing Danielle off even more than I seem to have already.

    Cheers.

    Avondale • Since Feb 2011 • 3 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to Stephen McCurdy,

    Look where talking about coffee got me

    It's not *what* we're talking, it's *how* we're talking #easeup

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to Stephen McCurdy,

    surely an effective slapdown requires something more

    Perhaps like this from Steeve Coogan against Top Gear's lazy racism?

    Richard has his tongue so far down the back of Jeremy's trousers he could forge a career as the back end of a pantomime horse. His attempt to foster some Clarkson-like maverick status with his "edgy" humour is truly tragic. He reminds you of the squirt at school as he hangs round Clarkson the bully, as if to say, "I'm with him". Meanwhile, James May stands at the back holding their coats as they beat up the boy with the stutter.

    ...

    Gentlemen, I don't believe in half-criticisms and this has nothing to do with my slow lap times. But, increasingly, you each look like a middle-aged punk rocker pogoing at his niece's wedding.

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso, in reply to Stephen McCurdy,

    I might inadvertently come up with some moderately well informed observation about the behaviour and ethics of various visual media private and public imperia, and run the risk of pissing Danielle off even more than I seem to have already.

    Yes, she hates it when people badmouth imperia. (By the way, if you've never been - lovely place.)

    Look, I'm not sure what motivated you to come and complain that we talk about stuff that is of little significance, especially since you had to actually dodge more recently updated threads on grief, Egypt and politics to do so, but it is very Usenet ca. 1998 and it wasn't particularly endearing, or indeed productive, back then. If you want to contribute, contribute. If you want to berate, do it either more substantively or less tritely would be my advice.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown, in reply to Sacha,

    Perhaps like this from Steeve Coogan against Top Gear's lazy racism?

    That's some a-grade diss right there.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • recordari, in reply to Sacha,

    pantomime horse

    Oh, go on…
    Haven’t seen Black Swan yet, but this sort of seemed apposite.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle, in reply to giovanni tiso,

    Yes, she hates it when people badmouth imperia.

    Sheez, yeah, remember the last guy who badmouthed imperia around here? I don't even want to talk about what I did to him. Let's just say it wasn't pretty.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

  • recordari,

    Sheez, yeah, remember the last guy who badmouthed imperia around here?

    Could you make us an Imperia-list. Just so we know which ones to avoid.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report Reply

  • Jacqui Dunn,

    Well, hello Stephen. What a start to a discussion!

    Perhaps I’m insufficiently po-faced.

    I certainly got that impression, but smiles are hard to find hiding behind words. They can often be found at the end, though. :))

    Perhaps like this from Steeve Coogan against Top Gear’s lazy racism?

    That’s some a-grade diss right there.

    Very.

    Deepest, darkest Avondale… • Since Jul 2010 • 585 posts Report Reply

  • Geoff Lealand,

    Black Swan. Hmm. I look forward to Craig's appraisal but I have been interested in my beloved and my daughter's response. I thought that it was rather a thin tale, held together by Natalie Portman's performance. Her slippage into pyschosis seemed rather implausible but Josephine and Catherine Rose reckoned it rang true in respect of young girls, striving for perfection, smothering mothers and self-harm (the last a regular theme in Aronofsky's films?)

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report Reply

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