Kia-Ora - the only thing on my list that I missed trying on my England trip.
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papillon... pamplemousse... bibliothèque... un baiser A lilt in his voice. Every sentence like music... #kisskisskiss A terrible beauty is born. Love me some #Jacksass
But if you close your eyes, Does it almost feel like Nothing changed at all? And if you close your eyes, Does it almost feel like You've been here before? How am I gonna be an optimist about this? How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
The chorus to bastilles Pompeii always reminds me of Hal
funny this popped up and i scrolled down to the Kia Ora discussion. Couple months ago some BHers came to my house for the weekend (to watch The Hard Problem thru NTLive at a theatre near me because there were none close to them) and I ordered a litre of Kia Ora on Amazon from a UK shop. Pricing was not bad, it was a novel thing and I knew the girls would get a kick out of it, and they actually "upgraded" me to 2 litre size bottle. Which it says makes something like 45 cups! I presume they didn't have a 1 litre.
We were try it! I poured some in a cup, diluted, and took a sip. It was nasty! I read the bottle and it says "no added sugar" so suspicious I looked at the ingredients and it's sweetened with aspartame. I dislike soda in particular, and "diet" anything in general, so I was completely disappointed. And normally it takes a sip or two to identify the aftertaste of aspartame, but with the Kia Ora, literally the second it hits your tongue you want to spit it out. Everyone, including my two kids agreed! We tried mixing it with some alcohol into mixed drinks, but nope, still nasty. Looked up the info online, I had not ordered the sugar free, and it turns out they only make the sugar free now. So.....down the drain it all went.
No for me then.
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papillon... pamplemousse... bibliothèque... un baiser A lilt in his voice. Every sentence like music... #kisskisskiss A terrible beauty is born. Love me some #Jacksass
papillon... pamplemousse... bibliothèque... un baiser A lilt in his voice. Every sentence like music... #kisskisskiss A terrible beauty is born. Love me some #Jacksass
An entirely different character obvs, but did anyone else see a teeny tiny touch of Hal in Spike's more arrogant moments?
Whimsy, kia ora is truly yuck... maybe our theories of what happens to Hal when he drinks kia ora are all wrong.. and it is in fact that he spews his guts up spectaculary!
-- Edited by domino on Wednesday 10th of June 2015 11:47:10 AM
The Kia Ora story is hilarious, Whimsyfox. I've always wondered what it would taste like. Now I don't have to even try it. I can't stand artificially sweetened drinks or drinks sweetened with high fructose corn syrup. I think they both taste awful.
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Sorry about your Kia-Ora disappointment, whimsy. It never tasted nice and was more renowned for it's artificial food colouring which made children hyper! It had an awesome TV advertising though with one of those songs that everyone of a certain age knows! I'm sure it will be on YouTube somewhere!
Sure I had Kia-Ora... Wasn't the advert something like "we all adora... Kia-Ora". Trying to remember and all I can come up with is the "umbongo" advert...
"....I'll be your dog....." Ahhhh....they don't make ads like that any more. Lol!!
The ad is on youtube - or at least it was. I remember making my kids watch it to convince them that I hadn't made the song up! (Can't think why I would've been singing it!)
Yes......Kia-ora was always pretty nasty! And - like you said, rosie - there's a good reason why the BH writers specifically chose it as the drink Hal shouldn't have.....it had a reputation for hyper-activating(?!) children due to all the additives. I totally share Annie's bemusement that it's still being made!
One Kia Ora theory, the one I subscribe to, is that the additives and artificial sugar affect Hal like they do autistic children. I think rubyrosettared, who has an autistic son, proposed it. And then this was tangentially supported last year by Jamie Mathieson saying that Hal is a bit autistic. So I imagine it makes him hyper, but in a more "adult" like way. As Sarah Dollard said he acts like a loud, obnoxious, drunk, horny frat boy...
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papillon... pamplemousse... bibliothèque... un baiser A lilt in his voice. Every sentence like music... #kisskisskiss A terrible beauty is born. Love me some #Jacksass
This song reminds me always about Hal and Sylvie, maybe littlebit about Hal and Alex too.
The last bridge says it all:
But it's a bad debt Certain death But I want what I want And I gotta get it When the fire dies Darkened skies Hot ash, dead match Only smoke is left It's a bad debt Certain death But I want what I want And I got to get it When the fire dies Dark in the skies Hot as a match Only smoke is left
-- Edited by JozieMozie on Sunday 21st of June 2015 10:03:10 AM
Hello! First time posting.
I started working at a National Trust property this year that's been used for filming Being Human (and Doctor Who, and Sherlock - sadly all before I got there!), so pretty much every day I go into work I'm reminded of Hal!
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Wow, Aradia, that sounds really cool! It sounds like a place that might get used for filming in the future too. There's no telling who you might end up seeing.
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He'd have told me to join him, and I would. - still true!
Here's hoping! It wasn't being looked after by the Trust when most of the previous filming took place, but I'm hoping Doctor Who and Sherlock will come back again (it's in South Wales, so it's possible!).
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try it! I poured some in a cup, diluted, and took a sip. It was nasty! I read the bottle and it says "no added sugar" so suspicious I looked at the ingredients and it's sweetened with aspartame. I dislike soda in particular, and "diet" anything in general, so I was completely disappointed. And normally it takes a sip or two to identify the aftertaste of aspartame, but with the Kia Ora, literally the second it hits your tongue you want to spit it out. Everyone, including my two kids agreed! We tried mixing it with some alcohol into mixed drinks, but nope, still nasty. Looked up the info online, I had not ordered the sugar free, and it turns out they only make the sugar free now. So.....down the drain it all went.
