Posts by Heather Gaye
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...also Ben suggests a PA-brand tracksuit in the colour of the hard news masthead, but that's only because he's been watching too much Sopranos recently.
PS: ref Ben McNicoll, he's too busy cooking me beef stroganoff to post himself.
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Hard News: Asking for a Contribution, in reply to Islander,
Nah, his ars-
enal of recordings?That made me laugh more than is really dignified.
Hm whisky. I wonder what a PA whisky would taste like?
Ben says that it would be perfectly viable to buy, bottle & brand a barrel from a smaller distillery. Research trip?
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Hard News: Asking for a Contribution, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Oh, those would be cool. Maybe with Russell’s face on? <snigger>
Would lend a whole special meaning to seeing someone through the bottom of a glass.
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Hard News: Asking for a Contribution, in reply to Islander,
B'aha! Whiplash post!
Ben just suggested that he doesn't wish to have anything etched onto his whisky glass, but he'd be totally into PA-brand coasters. I could get behind that.
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Hard News: Asking for a Contribution, in reply to Jackie Clark,
And would rather have a nice glass for sipping elderberry cordials from, if it’s all the same to you.
PA-brand whisky tumblers! We're on a roll!
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Hard News: Asking for a Contribution, in reply to Ant Timpson,
I think all PA readers are avid coffee snobs and would like a collectable mug each year.
Since when did avid coffee snobs drink out of a mug? PA-branded espresso cups, please!
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There’s something that really gets my goat about Labour opting to pass with amendments/compromise rather than fighting a bill outright:
I just have no idea if this is just because the dialogue here trends left, but all the opinion expressed or implied here about the Christchurch bill seems to be that it’s appalling policy, and very bad news for the people of Christchurch (and, presumably, could have been worse). If it’s true that the policy is really that bad, then conflicting political ideology aside, why the fuck do we have to rely on the opposition to make all the compromises to prevent our own government from screwing up their own constituents?
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to George Darroch,
I find Motorway Patrol too sad to watch. Every time they pull over an unwarranted, unregistered, or otherwise defective car belonging to some poor person unable to afford their duties to the state or safety, my heart sinks to the floor. I identify with the villains far to much.
+1. I find it especially cringeworthy when the narrator tries really hard to paint a dramatic picture of the poor munter as a heinous criminal, recklessly endangering all those that encounter him with his 20kph shuddering fumesome exhaust.
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I often wonder who the writers and singers of songs like this call when their houses are burgled or families are attacked. Do they look at their ravaged property, or shattered loved ones, shrug and say, "Let them get away with it. Don't call the cops. F*** the police"?
White privilege theatre ahoy! What kind of opaque bubble does 'swallop live in?? Surely the point is that "writers and singers of songs like this" do think "don't call the cops, f*** the police" about their shattered loved ones, and many have good reason.
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And, finally, because it’s one of the greatest rock songs of all time
Immediate thought was "pff! that's unlikely", but OH MY GOD, thankyou for sharing!