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Comment on On the Prowl by Guy

Guy — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:56:02 +0000

I must admit I was more than a little peeved with the launch of the much-heralded “lie-flat” sky lounges. As one who travels alone, I’m never going to get the benefits of the lie flat service, unless I manage to talk the person in seat B into sharing a spoon position with me…. which is more than a little unlikely.

Comment on On the Prowl by m-d

m-d — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:21:52 +0000

In a not completely unrelated aside, I enjoyed this airline graphic, expounding upon the do’s and don’ts of their new lie-flat service:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_a_il-yTtTSI/S404w6lk3hI/AAAAAAAADoM/2O9av7Lm2Lk/s800/airnz%20fork%20and%20spoon_460×230.jpg

perhaps they are hoping to avoid extending cougar hunting territory to the mile-high club…

Comment on On the Prowl by m-d

m-d — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:17:45 +0000

“dogs are often mistaken for cougars”…?!

Comment on On the Prowl by West

West — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:27:08 +0000

Seems to me that the word has been picked perfectly. Wikipedia says (edited version):
“The cougar …. native to the Americas. This large, solitary cat …. the cougar is found in every major American habitat type…. … A capable stalk-and-ambush predator, the cougar pursues a wide variety of prey. Cougars are territorial animals and maintain home ranges of up to 100 miles. Most active at dawn and dusk, they are lone hunters. They are generally solitary animals, except for mothers who remain with kittens for about two years… …. dogs are often mistaken for cougars. A cougar can be identified by its large size, cat-like appearance, consistent tan or tawny body color…..”

whereas the infinitely more dodgy but enjoyable Urban Dictionary says:
“Noun. A 35+ year old female who is on the “hunt” for a much younger, energetic, willing-to-do-anything male. The cougar can frequently be seen in a padded bra, cleavage exposed, propped up against a swanky bar in San Francisco (or other cities)waiting, watching, calculating; gearing up to sink her claws into an innocent young and strapping buck who happens to cross her path. “Man is cougar’s number one prey”. … The cougar can be anyone from an overly surgically altered wind tunnel victim, to an absolute sad and bloated old horn-meister, to a real hottie or milf….

Comment on On the Prowl by 60 MPa

60 MPa — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:23:10 +0000

Certainly from an energy point of view they’ll save money on lighting - they don’t like bright halogens showing up their wrinkles.

Suck it up, boys - lecherous older blokes have been chasing younger women for ages and it’s time to let the pendulum swing a little the other way.

Comment on Wahi Tapu by Kaihuia

Kaihuia — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:48:14 +0000

Actually ‘the moving on of the media’ reflects the strictures they are under regarding reportage on suicide. If she had died at someone else’s hand they would have been all over the funeral and the police inquiry etc. like a pox, without any regard whatsoever to ‘allowing the family space and time to grieve’. Only some kinds of death are a private thing.

Comment on On the Prowl by West

West — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:11:29 +0000

Kanye had it right when he said
“I ain’t saying she’s a gold-digger,
but she ain’t going for no broke nigga…”

The honey always follows the money. (Some) women have always whored themselves out for to the sugar-daddies in return for endless supplies of shoes and well-tanned leather (Catherine ‘Darlings Buds of May’ Zeta-Jones and Michael ‘Lizard-skin” Douglas for starters).

The opposite is now starting to come true. Classic cougar Demi Moore has taken the bait with airhead Ashton Kucher although it may be a poisoned trap. In the same manner that sugar-daddies apparently trade in their sweety-pies for a younger model, will Kucher be traded in for fresher meat? Is Haley Joel Osment the next McCauley Culkin? Will there be new boyz to men that are keen to get their clutches on Demi’s perfectly sculpted mounds of money?

Comment on Wellington 2040 - our vision by Guy

Guy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:23:06 +0000

Bill, as always, there is an amount of cheeky / perhaps fanciful ideas in the Arch Centre’s proposal. Lovely to have your comments - thank you - we’re glad you like it.

We included the “loopy aerial monorail” as a feature because that is one of the suggestions for the waterfront - that it is somewhere that Wellingtonians can go to work and play. The written document, which accompanies the drawings, goes into further detal.

But we also included a mini sports stadium as that was another of our submissions - that the proposed Indoor Sports Stadium (now under construction in Kilbirnie) was in the wrong place in the suburbs - we believed firmly that it should be in the Central City. The Council’s arguments that it serviced the city well in its Kilbirnie location are, we believe, somewhat spurious. While it will be close to Eastern suburbs schools, it will be well away from other schools further west. A central location would have served everyone better - as we stated numerous times in submissions.

However, seeing as it is now under construction way out east, we believe the only fair thing to do is now to demand further Indoor Sports Centres in the CBD as recompense - and so we proposed that it should replace the Shell offices currently on Queens Wharf.

Comment on Wellington 2040 - our vision by Bill Toomath

Bill Toomath — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:36:40 +0000

Bravo for your joyful vision of a future Wellington CBD! It gives a refreshing lift to the spirit, countering portents of gloom.

The bonus of gaining Jervois Quay as a frontal park boulevard, by restricting cars in the CBD and with light rail in the obvious Featherston Street location, gives hope for a new unifying quality in the central city’s urban shape.

Enjoyed your loopy aerial monorail for sightseeing - an answer to London’s Eye? - or is it a virtual reality luge? Not sure about the mini-stadium at Queens Wharf though . . . another blank inward-turned structure . . .

Your bravely wholehearted approach offers a changed image for the city, optimistic and playful.
Fanciful perhaps, but with realistic underpinnings based on what the future may demand.

- bilt -

Comment on Architecture of the Basin by Guy

Guy — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:49:52 +0000

K H : we’ve got a cunning plan. It will be unveiled in a week or two…