Anna Paquin is a Canadian/Kiwi and went to the same primary school as my cousin in NZ - we don’t call the school years grades and they def did not do plays for Martin Luther King day at that school! There’s at least one name eliminated :)

Jolie, I have never been to a wedding that I remember there being a bouquet toss at so I’ve got nothing great to add, story wise - but I just wanted you to know how much I love these Pop the Question story threads. Seriously, every time I see one come up I feel myself go ‘yuuuussssssss’ and then get ready to settle…

First thing I thought of while reading this article.

‘’Everyone knows someone who’s run the marathon.’’ - I actually know Kathrine. She was my neighbour growing up. Absolutely lovely person along with being a totally inspiring badass (her marathon story is legend on our street).

I have very fond memories of seeing her each morning as I would go to school - she’d be…

i think I actually laugh-whimpered while reading that story. That plus the whole teeth revelation plus the photo - dear god the photo - it's so funny but also not helping my bird phobia. Can't sleep, goose will eat me!

Oh this is too real.

ah yes, after a year in Berlin I am getting really familiar with public pee-ers.

Such hussies, with our short skirts and our FINGERNAILS.

This is late and grey, but ah well!

Ooof, this one strikes right at that buried part of me that was bullied mercilessly as a kid, in large part for my very curly curls (in fairness, the Irish mammy haircut probably didn't help!)

Oh man. I played the video on its own and laughed. Then I played it with this and had to watch another 5 or 6 times in a row, laughing like a drain. PERFECT recommendation, perfect!

Just thought I would I let you know that I used your crust recipe - and it turned out really well! Thanks again for that and happy thanksgiving. (here's a pie pic!) https://imgur.com/a/FMIal

oooh, thanks! Having made (fruit) mince pies every xmas since I was tiny I definitely appreciate the importance of a good crust recipe :)

Super late to this party but I had to post once I saw the food excitement!

gorgeous! The lights at ground level were pretty breathtaking too. I spent last night with a couple of thousand strangers, at Bornholmer Strasse where the wall first came down. It was beautiful, the lights in the photo above are balloons and at the end they released them all into the night. There was so much cheering,…

Just saw this after writing a whole big comment that said pretty much the same thing. (I'm from the big fish bit of NZ and also very excited!)

The original script writer is Taika Waititi who wrote and directed a Flight of The Conchords episode (Albie) so he does have some practice at mixing music into a script.

I agree - even those words are not just Hawaiian, right? Moana is a word in Maori and Tahitian too, I think in all three it means 'ocean' or 'big body of water,' which seems appropriate! Maui is a folk-hero character across Polynesia - I know him from back home in NZ. He fished up the North Island of New Zealand in…

this article http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/… seemed to suggest that Maui is the Maui of Maori/Polynesian folk history. Would make sense, given the script writer's connection to New Zealand! Might just be a NZ publication reading too much into it though.

Honestly, whether Moana is Hawaiian, Maori, Micronesian,…

I heard a theory that it to do with their painted faces - we intuit so much about people's mood through their expressions and so we are wired to be distrustful of anyone whose face is permanently fixed in the same mood. But also just eughghgh clowns!