Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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I just watched the Auckland ad. It's quite funny in that it actually looks more like Wellington than Auckland, and that it seems to imply that Auckland is the city that gets a sensible eight-hours sleep every night, before waking up nice and early for a hard day's work.
The volcanic hills and valleys of the inner city seem to have been flattened (hey, just like Wellington's downtown area).
Most of the cool things about Auckland seem to have been left out of the ad, replaced with a manufactured land of dinkiness.
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When I first moved to Auckland in 1997, I used to go out dancing at the Box. But because I was never off my face, I never really enjoyed it. It was just jigging about with a bunch of people I didn't really know very well. It seemed like following a template for a good night out, but not actually managing to have a good time. At the time, I wrote about it on my website.
But now I like having a good kanikani with my friends.
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Er... could you possible expand upon the reasons for your womanly alienation?
It was kind of a joke, but kind of not.
Basically, I read the post, then read the comments and realised that I didn't really get it, but that (at that point) the all-male commenters did get it. So I lept to a conclusion.
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You beatniks sicken me with your prejudice.
Alice Cooper used to covertly play golf in the '70s due to the prejudice against golf in the world of rock. Thought it might also have had something to do with his golf mate being David Cassidy.
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As a woman, I feel alienated by this thread.
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I feel sorry for Goldstein because he's stuck wearing the same style of spectacles. Those giant round '90s-style specs are so out-of-date now, but I'm sure it would cause too much of a ruckus for ASB's customers for them to update them.
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Never got the hints, hardly ever knew any people in the photos.
Too many of those blind items are blind to the point of being severely disabled.
When you read something like "Which property developer's secret mistress is threatening to be secret no more?", the actual desire to know the answer is virtually non-existent.
Likewise all the property developers who have drug habits, gambling debts and plastic surgery. I don't care, because such things aren't even interesting among my friends, let alone strangers.
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Q: Could it be that the mighty gun actually fires blanks?
I don't qualify for a "tax cut" because the "government" has decided that I am making "enough" money "already". But if I did qualify for a tax cut, I would "spend" it on a duvet made of magic kittens, therefore stimulating the economy.
Q: My question to the minister: Based on what?
That time in Arrested Development when Buster joined the army.
Q: How much of a track are we likely to end up with, precisely?
Bloody do-gooder politically correct cyclists! If the government knew what was good for them, they'd build a road from Cape Reinga to Invercargill so that all mainstream New Zealanders could drive along it, which is what mainstream New Zealanders do. We don't faff about on bikes!!!!
Q: How many politicians besides John Banks have used the words "I leave that to Whaleoil?"
lolz
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And then -- because it's 20 years ago this month -- I'll be pondering the connection of New Zealand's first internet link to the rest of the world
I just watched the episode on TVNZ ondemand and I really enjoyed it!
Those three fellows all had interesting things to say. So much so that I wasn't happy when goings-on were disrupted to show that verging-on-advertorial vodka ad film festival EPK thing.
In fact, I was left wanting more, like a feature-length documentary about the net in NZ. We all have stories to tell. Can't someone with a camera do something?
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I'm going to be visiting Auckland soon and was thinking of going to the museum, but sadly I'll be leaving the day before this opens! Waaah!
This seems to really suit the quiet stillness of Auckland Museum - being able to wander around listening to a special soundtrack, having your own experience while everyone else around you has their own experience.
I was trying to imagine how this would work at Te Papa. I don't think it would in most places. Te Papa is so full of text telling FUN FACTS that the idea of ignoring the writing and just appreciating the objects for what they are would be really hard to work out.