Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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YouTube is famous for it's comments section always having the contraire dick comment, always, go see.
My favourite YouTube contraire dick comments are the ones that start with "sorry", trying to disguise it as constructive criticism.
"Sorry, but I'm just not sure what you were trying to show us. All I saw was a kitten chasing a toy mouse."
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YouTube have recently brought in some new features to the comments. If you're logged in, you can give a comment the thumbs up or thumbs down - enough thumbs down and the comment isn't displayed in full. And if there's a spam comment, you can also mark it as spam.
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the person threatening the ban comes across like a power-tripping little snot.
If wonder if the ban would have happened if the moderation had been the responsibility of Gerry Brownlee himself, or, in fact, anyone working under their own name, rather than the NZNat pseudonym.
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Robyn, you're not helping my thesis that girls can like bands for the Rock as much as the Coque.
See, if I listen to the Mint Chicks' "Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!" album on my iPod while I'm walking to work, it's all about the music, not how hot Ruben or Kody are.
But if I'm watching the "Crazy? Yes! Dumb? No!" music video on the telly or the YouTube, then I can gaze into Ruben's dreamy eyes and get an extra level of enjoyment out of the song.
Having said that, I think that video is the first one where they played up Ruben's hotness (and it suits the song). Every other video was quite arty and involved sunglasses and costumes and jumping around, and was more a visual-musical art experience than a hard-sell music video.
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Since when has bands + teenage girly fans been about the music?
Ruben Mint Chicks is soooo hot.
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When I was at Brownies in the early '80s, the Brownie units were divided into smaller groups called sixes which were named after New Zealand native birds - Pipits, Tomtits, Bellbirds and Grey Warblers. Though I was the captain of the Bellbirds, the grey warbler bird has always held a special place in my heart, so it gets my vote.
I see on the Forest and Bird voting guide that the Rachel Hunter bird has been banned because it "does not meet the official definition of New Zealand bird" (lolz!!!!) but the Robin is eligible.
Tweet.
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Series four of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe is currently screening in the UK. Screenwipe is a bit like Eating Media Lunch, only because it's the BBC, it has a slightly higher low budget.
In this episode, Brooker took a look at television news, including the modern phenomenon of the 24-hour news channels who need to find stuff to occupy all that time.
And amid the humour and anger is a short made by Adam Curtis ("The Power of Nightmares") about TV reporters over the ages.
It's based around British news, but there's a lot New Zealand TV viewers can get from it.
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I was just checking my website stats, and discovered that someone had recently got to my website by googling for "free tame iti t-shirt".
Unfortunately I can't help them out, but I reckon that right at this moment, there's someone hunched over Photoshop, busy turning a photo of Tame Iti into a Che Guevara-style design, which will soon grace the chests of concerned young men and women of Aotearoa.
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if the staff aren't feeling it, or really good actors, it just comes across as fake plastic McDs service
A cafe down at my local shops recently changed hands. One of the new people working there is a lady who likes to ask "And how's your day been? Busy?".
It's OK to be asked that once per visit, but on more than one occasion she's asked me that twice. It seems creepy and robotic. (Or perhaps my insistance that my lazy Sunday morning hadn't been particularly busy wasn't an acceptable answer.)
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If it's cynical Benny you're talking to, alt. porn simply means more of the same porn clichés but now incorporating tattoos, piercings, hair dye, better scripts and cooler music.
I had a look at Mr Profane's website as I was curious as to what alt.porn looked like. It was expecting to have the usual "Pft! Porn. Woteva!' feeling, but it was different. It was like I'd stumbled across some nudie sexy pics a friend had hidden on her website. I felt like I shouldn't be looking.
I guess it was how relatively ordinary the pornstars looked. In my social circle, I'm more likely to know slighty punky, pierced and tattooed types than people who look like mainstream pornstars.
In fact, does the stereotypical pornstar look (bleached-out blond hair, thin eyebrows, giant lips, tanned skin, talon-like finger nails, implanted boobs, invisible pubes) exist so we're not reminded of anyone we (well, most of us) know in everyday life?
So while the alt.porn stars do look like "real" people, is this, in the world of the porn viewer, a good thing? (Or, when it comes down to the world of the professional masturbator, does it not really matter?)