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Sep. 8th, 2007
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Sep. 8th, 2007 10:18 amYou've got to make your own fun in the APEC venue at Darling Harbour. The vast media hangar is beginning to resemble the anarchic New Orleans Superdome in which refugees from Hurricane Katrina famously rampaged out of control in 2005...
Running dangerously low on original material, reporters are feasting on each other. Gangs of journalists from The Australian are roaming the complex, brutalising anyone who cannot list all underperforming nations in the Doha round of the World Trade Organisation talks, by individual industry, while simultaneously tapping out the Stars and Stripes with their right foot....
It has all stopped making sense. Is anything real? Is everybody on drugs? Even the coverage of serious APEC issues seems clouded by a hallucinogenic haze of uncertainty...
Happily, there is a new game that can be enjoyed uncontroversially by all APEC observers, including readers at home.
It's called Bilateral Bingo. First, you take a blank sheet of paper and draw a grid with nine squares. In each of those squares, write one of the following words or phrases: wide-ranging; constructive; broad agreement; frank exchange; mutually beneficial; further enhancement of our already robust …; agreed to have further detailed discussions; continue to build and grow; great respect
Now, wait for the next joint press conference; it won't be a long wait, as these events follow bilateral meetings with all the inevitability of a trench-coated Salusinszky tailing Fulwood home from the gym.
-Newideas from Annabel Crabbe this morning.
Running dangerously low on original material, reporters are feasting on each other. Gangs of journalists from The Australian are roaming the complex, brutalising anyone who cannot list all underperforming nations in the Doha round of the World Trade Organisation talks, by individual industry, while simultaneously tapping out the Stars and Stripes with their right foot....
It has all stopped making sense. Is anything real? Is everybody on drugs? Even the coverage of serious APEC issues seems clouded by a hallucinogenic haze of uncertainty...
Happily, there is a new game that can be enjoyed uncontroversially by all APEC observers, including readers at home.
It's called Bilateral Bingo. First, you take a blank sheet of paper and draw a grid with nine squares. In each of those squares, write one of the following words or phrases: wide-ranging; constructive; broad agreement; frank exchange; mutually beneficial; further enhancement of our already robust …; agreed to have further detailed discussions; continue to build and grow; great respect
Now, wait for the next joint press conference; it won't be a long wait, as these events follow bilateral meetings with all the inevitability of a trench-coated Salusinszky tailing Fulwood home from the gym.
-Newideas from Annabel Crabbe this morning.
looks like the London Times has a new agony aunt. one with a penchant for snark...
My mother-in-law, who is 87, has suffered from age-related hair loss for a number of years... she was eventually persuaded, by her family, of the merits of a wig. I am terrified of her next visit... What would be the better approach: “Your wig looks nice,” or: “Your hair looks nice”?
EH, Ryde, Isle of Wight
“Lovely hat.”
or this advice on romance:
...the person I am in love with is oblivious to the fact that I even like him... how does one go about telling someone of one’s affections?
AP, by e-mail
Keep quiet. Why spoil an idyllic relationship? Carry on beatifically floating through a haze of idealised romance.
A nation of Dryzabones?
Sep. 8th, 2007 07:29 pmYes, apparently that's our national dress
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Tess summarizes my day, over dinner tonight: You, a straight woman, sat in Sappho Books, with a guy. And discussed comparative grammar. NO BODY DOES THAT!
well I did, and it was enjoyable. And walking back up City Road, I had the pleasure of witnessing a gorgeously eloquent speech on the beauty of medieval- specifically Irish- Christianity. I can only resort to Beowulfian terminology. Wordhord onleac. Unlocked wordhoard. Or that most excellent and sadly-lost of verbs, maðelian. Brenton maðelode, that's what he did.
(so there you go. Beowulf is good for something, if only the description of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
goblinpaladin's powers of eloquence)
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Tess summarizes my day, over dinner tonight: You, a straight woman, sat in Sappho Books, with a guy. And discussed comparative grammar. NO BODY DOES THAT!
well I did, and it was enjoyable. And walking back up City Road, I had the pleasure of witnessing a gorgeously eloquent speech on the beauty of medieval- specifically Irish- Christianity. I can only resort to Beowulfian terminology. Wordhord onleac. Unlocked wordhoard. Or that most excellent and sadly-lost of verbs, maðelian. Brenton maðelode, that's what he did.
(so there you go. Beowulf is good for something, if only the description of
goblinpaladin's powers of eloquence)