Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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First!
It needs to be accompanied by another three people also saying "first", including one with serious caching troubles who has posted their "first" at least 20 minutes after the others.
But on the blog topic, I reckon the first seven paragraphs could easily have been ditched.
There ain't no shame in watching Dancing With The Stars, David. You don't have to justify your guilty pleasure. You are amongst friends. We all watch crap on TV and enjoy it.
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I was watching Campbell Live when he interviewed Philip Alpers, who's in the gun control side of the argument (and Fair Go!).
Philip Alpers hasn't been on Fair Go for about 20 years.
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Sundays were commercial free
Recently I was browsing through the Broadcasting Act and I was surprised to discover that TV is still commercial-free on Sunday mornings - between 6am and midday.
I guess I should get out of bed earlier on the weekend.
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So be it and while many an astute and gracious scholar, citizen and patriot may calmly present via clear articulation with credible citation, reference and otherwise; clever crafters seem ever continual in effort for cover by self-manufactured hallmarks as though of PC acceptable (not) practices.
Dad4Justice, it's not that we don't care for what you say, but it's the way you say it.
You have a verbose writing style. While it does have a somewhat pleasing poetic quality, it also takes longer to read, and when faced with a page of comments, it's easier to skip it than to work out exactly what you're trying to say.
If you're trying to get new people on your side, come down to their level. Use concise, blunt language. Save the poetry for your friends.
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One of the Herald readers said:
Of course there is Global Warming or if you want to be politically correct Climate Change
Kapai. I'm really glad this has happened. I remember when the weather felt marginalised by being called "global warming".
"It's not fair," the wind wailed. "Cos, like, sometimes there's cooler weather too!"
So me and my lefty liberal mates at the Institute for Political Correctness Gone Mad petitioned the government and got arts council funding and a Treaty settlement and now everyone has to call it "Global Warming" (woteva that means!!!!! lolz!!!!)
Kia kaha.
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I have also discovered that most such people change their tone even after the fairly abstracted personal contact of an email reply
I've found this too. Maybe a personal conversation starts to form a relationship, which in turn brings on civility.
But I've also had the opposite happen. I once was shocked to see some fanmail I sent to a blogger somehow ended up horribly offending her, and all attempts to explain my intentions just seemed to anger her even more. Oh dear.
And on the subject of anonymous comments, if anyone comments anonymously in my LJ, I'll read what they have to say, but I won't really absorb it. Even a pseudonym gives a bit of context and background that an IP address can't.
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but you can remember what you were pouring down your neck back in the day?
Why, yes. I can remember - the perfectly named Purple Death, Velluto Rosso, Bernadino spumante, and this rubbish from Robbie Burns called Bully Hayes (that could not legally called rum, so was a "general alcoholic beverage" with a pirate on the bottle) mixed with Coke.
All of which are probably worse choices than NOS, if not most party pills.
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I don't know about the youth of today. In my day, we didn't need pills to have parties.
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I could have easily listened to this for an hour. It was really interesting! It's left me wanting to see the film even more now.
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I really enjoyed this!
I think it should be noted, for anyone who is considering downloading it, that Craig talks about the survey done of New Zealanders' favourite movies, where Helen Clark said she like the Motorcycle Diary, and John Key confessed to being a fan of Johnny English.
I'm looking forward to his next 180 seconds worth.