Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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I love these sorts of non-harmful koha that our bodies give to us from time to time. I consider these to be a bit of entertainment that our bodies thoughfully provide for our amusement and the amusement of others. Thanks for sharing, Mr Slack.
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Coddington seems genuinely surprised that her article was read by real people who had real reactions to it. Surely she's not so naive as to still be operating in a time where the only feedback an article got were the carefully vetted letters to the editor?
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I just had a look at the original billboard. It reads "Say goodbye to higher taxes. Not your loved ones." That's two full-stops; two separate sentences that may not actually be related.
In fact, the second sentence "Not your loved ones" sounds like the wail of someone seeing their baby kidnapped by a pirate. "Not my baaaaby!!!!!"
It also literally sounds like "Knot your loved ones", but I don't want to think about tying up my gran.
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If you could walk from one side of the Auckland harbour bridge to the other, would you not ever take your family on the walk some sunny Sunday?
When I lived in Auckland, I used to go for weekend walks. One day I ended up at the marina by the city side of the bridge and I wanted to keep going and walk over the bridge. I could have gone to the Bridgeway and seen a movie or had a coffee at that cool cafe there. But no.
I don't have any experience with cycling, but I know Auckland isn't always the nicest city to walk in. Some of that is to do with geography, but mostly it's due to some council at some stage being dumb and lacking vision.
Living in the wonderfully walkable city that is Wellington, I've realised that it's not really all that hard to make a city walkable. Walking might not fit into the glamorous "world-class" city wet dream that fuels Auckland's self-image but walking is what people do.
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Pop culture references messes up my life.
When I was at high school, most of my friends listened to the morning show of the local FM radio station, but I didn't. One day most of them started ending sentences with "...and if you believe that, you'll believe anything" in a Scottish accent, which apparently came from one of the radio DJs.
I didn't realise this and I just assumed that one of my hilarious friends had just made it up, and everyone was copying them. My attempts to riff off it were frowned upon because I wasn't doing it right.
This has continued to be my default stance - I don't assume someone's quoting a pop culture reference that I don't get. I always think it's originally from the person saying it. As a result, I put the pressure on myself to come up with entertaining witticisms and find myself continually disappointing when all my witty friends turn out to be quoting some comedy writer's work.
Flames, on the side of my face, breathing-breath- heaving breaths. Heaving breath...
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I've fawlin' and I can't get up!
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When I was in Hawaii in 1992, I saw the "I've fallen and I can't get up" ad and it being parodied on Saturday Night Live. I got an extra special bonus pop culture *ping* in my brain.
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and who would have thought craft might be the new thing in magazines ;)
Maybe Sunday magazine could do an article on the new craft craze that's sweeping Auckland...
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One "early" habit that I can't get into is the idea of eating at 6pm.
Have a read of this fascinating article on the "evolution of mealtimes".
Late main meals are a luxury of the moneyed classes!
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These days the main threat to a good night's sleep is a Mega Mai Tai at Matterhorn in the small hours of a Wednesday morning. Right, Robyn?
Oh lordy. It's because of this that I've been drinking many cups of instant coffee today. I tried to give myself an extra hour of sleep this morning, but I still (painfully) woke up at the usual time.
A few years ago I used to finish work at about 11pm. I'd get home and need to spend a few hours winding down before I could get to sleep. Bedtime ended up being at around 4am. It's very peaceful that late at night.