Posts by Eleanor

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  • Hard News: Have you met thingy?,

    Mark H: roflnui to that.

    Unfortunately, some part of my brain then learns a new rule "whenever you see the J person, your natural instinct for her name is wrong." So then I start to say the right name and then correct myself and clearly and confidently say the wrong one.

    I have a double light switch at home like that. I always want to turn the main one off, and leave the ambient one on. And i indubitably pick the wrong switch. Night after night, it's not so ambient-inducing.

    Remembering number sequences used to be soooo easy... with the advent of cell phones I'm totally deprogrammed. Seriously, I used to have the photographic memory for phone numbers, whether they were spoken aloud or written down.

    Luckily, I have retained this skill for words... I am a pedantic speller. If you say a word in conversation that I haven't heard before, if I've seen it written somewhere from the age of about six upwards, then <pop> I get a visual of what the word looks like, written down, and I know how to spell it. Uncanny.

    Names & faces? Not so good.

    wellington • Since May 2007 • 81 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Being Worked,

    Raybon Kan wouldn’t be part of the Auckland pseudo-celeb media in-crowd though, would he?

    Oh FGS LegBreak.

    1. He used to be
    2. He'd be great on DWS
    3. Can I have a list then please?

    wellington • Since May 2007 • 81 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Being Worked,

    Has anyone other than Matthew Ridge actually expressed anything negative about his admitted behaviour?

    Raybon Kan wrote very pointed SST columns two weeks in a row when the story broke, condemning the alleged assaults as being "not ok, ever".

    wellington • Since May 2007 • 81 posts Report Reply

  • Field Theory: Playing Catch Up,

    A few years ago I read about a study of claiming that synchronised swimmers are the fittest athletics at the Olympics.

    Never mind the prancing choreography and waterproof glitter make up,
    that is not to be sniffed at!

    I love the origins of table tennis, a Victorian after-dinner parlour game called whiff whaff!

    wellington • Since May 2007 • 81 posts Report Reply

  • Speaker: It’s Beijing, but not as…,

    Beijing will be an awesome place to be tonight.

    The premise of Emma's article seems to be that she completely disagrees with that statement!

    It seems to me that all cities pull their socks up & pretend to be squeaky clean jolly hockey sticks when the international spotlight shines on them. Think Sydney, Athens... but Beijing was exponentially grubbier than most. Must surely be nice to have a little short term respite from that! ...?

    I can't wait to see the Olympics! Bring it on!! :o)

    wellington • Since May 2007 • 81 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Food Show 08,

    (Sorry - referring to the civet coffee with my last comment!)

    wellington • Since May 2007 • 81 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Food Show 08,

    Now that's what you'd call a crappachino

    wellington • Since May 2007 • 81 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Food Show 08,

    Why pay 50 pounds for a bad-tasting coffee in London? The average price is two quid.

    Civet paste is obtained from squeezing or scraping the anal glands of the IUCN Red Listed (critically endangered) African civet cat, the Indian civet, the Lesser Indian civet and other civet species.

    Back to the Food Show, please!!

    wellington • Since May 2007 • 81 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Food Show 08,

    Last month in New York I ordered a cafe au lait, in the vain and desperate hope that it was similar to a flat white.

    The "barista" filled an enormous cup almost to the top with hot milk, and topped it up with filter coffee from a jug. Soooo... that's a cafe au lait then.

    Re Bar Italia, the funny thing about Italian coffee makers in London is that they seem to really believe that by birthright they are fabulous. Yet in my recent experience their brew is bitter, burnt, foul & over-extracted and they seriously need to wake up their ideas.

    There are a couple of Kiwi owned cafes there now, and also a Kiwi coffee cart in the heart of Soho that is doing a roaring trade, and pissing the Italian cafe owners off no end.

    wellington • Since May 2007 • 81 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Radio Times,

    I just can't STAND the story reading. I don't know what audience they're aiming for with those. I don't know a single kid who wouldn't squirm away from having to listen to them.

    Is it to fill an "artistic" quota perhaps?

    wellington • Since May 2007 • 81 posts Report Reply

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