Posts by Dave Patrick
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Field Theory: A moment of national significance, in reply to Sacha,
Whoever coached them to kick away possession deserves a slap.
Absolutely - we stopped playing the way we'd been playing all tournament and started playing the way everyone else who we'd beaten had played We're the ones who are supposed to field aimless kicks and counter-attack with a vengeance. Damn near choked again, but who cares now - one point is enough.
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Here's hoping Sonny Bill picks up a one-game ban for his yellow card and we never see that particular side-show in an Al Black jersey again - or at least until he's played some rugby and got rid of the league-isms in his game (running with ball in one hand, instinct to take the tackle rather than look for support when he's broken through, no-arms tackles), and earned his place in the team.
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Waimakariri electorate billboards:
LOTS of Clayton Cosgrove signs up in Belfast and Rangiora, only his photo, includes "Party Vote Labour" tag.
Not as many National signs as I'd expected (given National won the party vote quite handily last election) - all signs include Smilin' John along with Kate Wilkinson, and have "Party Vote National". One sign vandalised - Key's head has been neatly excised.
Couple of Rahui Katene billboards in Belfast.
No Greens, ACT, Mana, New Zealand First or anything else.
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to DexterX,
The point of my earlier post was not a focus on Key's leadership but on his stupidity, immaturity and ability to deliver not much.
I cringed too when he came out with that big dopey "look at me, I'm important" grin on his face at the All Black - Japan game last night, and the wave to the crowd. Add to that the "Go the mighty All Blacks" at the end of his speech at the opening ceremony, and he doesn't really come across as a statesman, more a big kid in a lolly shop.
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That first issue of Volume is really depressing reading - MORE bands that aren't coming to Christchurch, but are only doing Wellington and Auckland.
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I had to import my copy of Inflammable Material from Australia because you just couldn't buy it in New Zealand. Cost me $20 from an ad in the back of Rip It Up, back when new albums were only $7.
My punk epiphany came at my 6th Form accrediting party in 1978, when someone had brought Never Mind the Bollocks, Go 2, and Rattus Norvegicus and managed to play a couple of tracks before being shouted off. There was just this tremendous sense of excitement from the music that grabbed me and never let go.
And on the accent thing, my mother speaks very nicely (not Received pronunciation, just very "correctly") - she went to St Cuthberts where they were all taught to speak that way. Our children don't speak kiywiy because we've tried to impress on them the same sorts of clarity of speech as my mother was taught, more because it's a lot easier to get your ideas across if you can speak clearly than because they need to speak "properly".
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It's not a real collar though, is it? Colour me disappointed in that aspect. And South Africa really were very poor.
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Hard News: Friday Fun with Brickface, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
What, no Pink Floyd references yet??
Two, that I've seen so far - the file names may not accurately reflect the contents of the actual png..
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Hard News: Friday Fun with Brickface, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
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Let's see if this worked...
Craig, yours appears to be chopped off? (or is that just me...)
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I've never understood the rationale behind that 'chicken in a tin" thing either - especially when on the TV advert the tins sprouted little chicken legs and danced around the place. It was like "Look at us, we're so processed and engineered we have ACTUAL LEGS on our tins".
Maybe they're appealing to the same market as those tins of macaroni cheese I see in the supermarket too (Really? tins of macaroni cheese? Dude, how hard is it to just make a cheese sauce?)
(and I looked for a YouTube clip of "Chicken on a Wire" by Export Lamb - food references everywhere - but unsurprisingly one does not exist. So you'll just have to hum along with it playing in my head)
