<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>8:45 well you did that over summer <,> with the golf thing <{1><[1>i mean i mean we had this summer off the whole idea was to <.>ha for andrew to have the summer off he did six years of varsity <{2><[2>and the last year was really hard <{3><[3>and everything and he was supposed to be just blobbing and he wanted he decided he wanted to do um <,> golf he wanted to <&>9:00 get really good at golf and we had some quite bad weather and that <{4><[4>and he started getting really TENSE about the fact that he wasn't going to ACHIEVE anything over summer and i was thinking he's SUPPOSED TO BE FLAMING WELL RELAXING i mean the whole idea is you were supposed to be relaxing and even then you'd done that for so many years that the concept of just sitting there and not having something to <{5><[5><.>achieve <[1>laughs <[2>yeah <[3>yeah <[4>we had FOUL weather <[5>i actually got good at pool phil and i went down to the thorndon and played pool all day and which which was for about for about two dollars each we could play pool all afternoon cos because it was fifty cents a game and if other people played we got to the stage where we we were good enough that we would stay on the table and other people would pay for the games and i usually drunk maybe a one or two little bottles of diet coke in an afternoon because i was always driving so i never drunk anything drank any alcohol and so you know for a whole afternoon the thorndon would <.>get they were lucky if they got four dollars out of me <&>10:00 laughs laughs and even once or twice we splashed out and bought lunch which was usually fish and chips and that was about two dollars at the thorndon it was really amazing yes you did get into the concept of relaxing after a while didn't you we <{><[>got really good at pool <[>but those days are gone now tut we were the PAKEHAS they people would spot us coming i <{1><[1>went along with ben and i was i was actually not playing very well anyway tut but i i hadn't been but um <.>the all the islanders and that play there and they saw ben and i and we we put our names down to play on this particular table and there was a lot of middle aged islanders and so forth and they obviously thought oh we'll take these guys for a ride and <.>sol and they always offer to play you for money and drinks and stuff like you know if <.>they if they don't know you <{2><[2>and usually in there in that pub it's because you're white and so forth and they'll figure they'll clean you up and this guy said to me you know i'll play you play you for a jug and i just said oh no i wasn't interested <&>11:00 and on the second shot he <.>p popped the white in off his ball all laugh <[1>word <[2>mm GOSH i wish i'd said yes yes that would've probably for someone like him been the first time he'd paid out in a long time and to have paid <{1><[1>out to a whitey would really have offended him <{2><[2>that would have been really funny <[1>to someone like that <[2>but you might have sunk it on your first yes well i might have laughs and i also THAT was THAT was in my HEYDAY when i took beth <{1><[1>beth who plays pool all the time and <{2><[2>has not forgotten <{3><[3>that i cleaned up before she managed to sink a ball <[1>oh beth <[2>who's beth <[3>joanna's sister oh right i thought i'd heard the name before somewhere laughs <{><[>pardon <[>that's i i <.>su i cleaned up and finished a game of pool before she managed to sink A ball she <{><[>was <[>which which is a humiliation which she's never before had and she she's a regular pool player <{><[>i was just on a roll that day cos i did the same to joanna and i would have done the same to phil except <.>i <.>i <.>s got so amused with the whole situation that i um missed a shot and he managed to sink one ball <&>11:56 <&>this section not transcribed as mostly XX speaking <&>13:04 <[>it was funny there are you pick up quite a lot though pool i mean pool partly is just a just relaxing and having a fairly good eye and there's a few tricks that you can learn and some of the things that look really hard are actually so simple <,> because i mean we we learnt to do all sorts like <.>hit hitting a ball really the white really hard and spinning it back and leaving it set up for your next shot using backspin and getting things to come straight back off the wall if <.>you if they're up against the wall and you hit them with the white they'll come straight BACK tut and voc you can often sink a ball like that and things that look quite hard and are really quite simple and you just you suddenly pick it up one day cos a shot works and you think <{><[>oh well that word <[>it suddenly occurs to you that it mm would probably work <{><[>next time word <[>and and you've got to know just where to shoot like to get a ball to run along the cush i never used to be able to do that i always used to send them out and the idea is not to aim for the ball you're hitting at all cos you aim to hit the cush so that it only just nudges it and it shoots <&>14:00 straight along the cushion i mean it's <,> really easy mm purely <{><[>practice <[>cos once we'd figured those things <{><[>out we were much better <[>do you play no <.>i've oh i've played a couple of times but i never really wasn't wasn't interested enough to really do it enough to get good mm i'm doing smallbore rifle shooting instead are you when did you start that um last monday last monday <&>14:26 <&>15:30 i mean the first week we voc um well last monday we did it we um had these rests because you lie down on the floor to shoot and we had the rifles on a rest and that was fine and everyone did reasonably okay and everything and this time we did it properly of course and you had a sling? and i find to actually unload and reload i've got <.>to <.>y you get in the right position basically your body directs the bullet? it's totally against all the stereotypes you have <.>of you've got to be <&>16:00 really relaxed and <,> where your body is lying naturally relaxed is the way that the gun will shoot when you get the actual impact of shooting and um so you get all set up and you're not allowed to move your left elbow and all this sort of stuff and then i've actually got to take the gun down to reload because i've got a short forearm whereas most people can reload in the same position and i was waving around a bit midair when i pulled the bolt up and of course it went whack and the butt hit me <{><[><,> on the lip so it put me off a bit <[>so you weren't trying to pull the trigger with your lip the blood pouring into <{><[>my mouth <[>it was just a joke oh that bad laughs it wasn't oh it was just cut inside it just cut against my teeth inside felt like a bit of an idiot laughs laughs send lee along to her rifle shooting with a mouthguard all laugh hey helmet you take the bike helmet and your mouthguard <.>it's it's an interesting sport though <,> it's <&>17:00 very <{1><[1>mental trying to work out where the shots <{2><[2>go <[1>i'll go and put the jug on <[2>i was going to say it was a very nice coffee i wouldn't push your luck anna laughs no i was thinking the same thing laughs laughs i should have said it after he left the room laughs it's how relaxed you are the more relaxed you are the <.>better better shot you are the um <{><[>word <[>and are you finding that your aim's quite good my aim's good um basically i've got to i well i figured out at the end of last night well the guy who was showing me told me a way of reloading because you're lying down on the floor and you're actually resting it it's a very heavy rifle because it's <.>des i think because it's designed to shoot on ground and you're actually <.>ly lying down like that and the idea of the sling is so that you don't actually have any weight on your wrist <{1><[1>but because i've actually got to tilt the gun down and reload i actually get quite a sore wrist? so i mean my aim that's the <&>18:00 that's the target the first one was okay last night but the aim on the second one well <{2><[2>as you can see see i get the odd <,> one that's totally off <[1>oh right <[2>oh you shoot at these oh right how far away is this when you shoot twenty five yards which is swimming pool <,> yeah quite a way and then you just obviously <{><[>you get points <[>you had three goes at this one <{><[>laughs <[>that no that's a sighting shot you <{1><[1>do three sighting shots and um then you start going around and they adjust the sights so if you're consistently going say like that they'll adjust the sights so that um <,> to redirect <{2><[2>them <[1>oh right <[2>are you okay <&>18:38 <&>noisy bits with cat and plates and quiet bits as Andrew and Lee wander out of room for a while <&>and then i decided to wait till Andrew returned <&>and then Anna told some anecdotes <&>25:52 no i was just cursing because i threw milk everywhere no use crying over spilt milk drew <&>26:00 tut i must have kicked him pretty hard too which is the other reason i yelled yes i was just saying to lee cats and children seem to walk in the wrong direction when they get hit they kind of seem to carry on walking towards <{><[>the source <.>of <[>cats have cats have some really DUMB survival instincts that's what lee was saying i mean they they are so curious that they will walk in and get themselves locked in rooms they will do all sorts of really stupid things yeah always walk straight into a rustling paper bag or box or whatever without knowing what yeah um <,> tut yeah or <.>th or they walk underfoot and sooty does it all the time when he <.>wal when he goes up the stairs on the way home he bolts up the stairs and then he waits for us to <.>p <.>prac practically trip over him and then he goes again and you step past him and then he runs up the rest so quite often either you almost trip over him or he has to scoot round you and then you've got a bike to contend with as <&>27:00 well coughs yeah i don't know <.>where quite where we're going to put that tut that was a warehouse jobbie yeah? what did it cost <{><[>you <[>two hundred and fifty dollars yeah? is it a <,> ten speed eighteen wow even better <.>w well i wasn't going to buy it because you know you just don't know with something like the warehouse what it's going to be like and um tut we were out in paraparaumu and i saw it advertised and i really wanted a bike and all the second hand ones people keep trying to sell second hand bikes for two hundred dollars anyway right and so i decided well you may as well just get a new one and um these ones were advertised so we went in and had a look and i thought oh and i didn't really know if they were good or not and we went along to this bike shop and this guy started trying to sell us a bike and i said look i only want to spend a few hundred dollars so he showed us the cheapest model it was three hundred or something and he went up a couple of models and got to these ones that were four hundred and fifty that were identical to that right so i said oh well thank you and walked out and <&>28:00 went along and bought that for two hundred and fifty dollars it was the same brand and everything um no i think it was a different brand but <{><[><.>same same gears <.>th cos because the frame the frame was different but all frames now come with a lifetime guarantee anyway <[>right and you've tried it out? yeah i've been for a ride on it it was fine the only <&>door shuts thing was the brake that i've got on at the moment the brake pads wore wore out i mean they just simply wore through on <{><[>on the road <[>because inhales tut because they're not a very good quality rubber so you'll just <{><[>spend a bit on them <[>so i'll just just spend a couple of dollars and replace all the brake pads which i mean i expected something cheap like <{><[>that <[>yeah but it's better than spending an extra two hundred for the same yeah type of thing <,> <{1><[1>kevin's kevin spends so much money on bike stuff <{2><[2>he spent three hundred and eighty dollars or something amazing just for an little pedal clips laughs you have to <{3><[3>buy all this <.>ge oh he does he's got three bikes already <[1>the tyres the tyre is <[2>yeah <[3>you can go overboard tut wow see i didn't realise there was so <{1><[1>much involved in bikes <{2><[2>and that word that cycle shop and there were just <[1>amazing <[2>oh you see it's all in the magazine and all the stuff he's oh he's incredible <&>29:00 he just <{><[>spends hundreds and hundreds it's a huge hobby and he's had his um one of his bikes shipped out and with all the extra stuff on it the bike only cost him fifteen hundred to start with i mean you know it's a good racing bike <[>i know it's incredible mm but with all the extra stuff that he's got on it now it's worth about four thousand or something it's just amazing what you know all the gadgetry and of course <{><[>there's special little <[>mm you could buy a car for that <{><[>laughs <[>electronic um laughs weaving thingie and does he race nah no he just rides yeah that's right he does bike a lot he goes out cycling every day wow you know like <{><[>he might come up there and zip out round the bays and <[>that's what he said he gets up in the morning and goes cycling mm all kinds of places so whip over to wainuiomata and back and that kind of thing that's amazing <&>sighs <{1><[1>well the the thing that we noticed um is that the second hand prices <{2><[2>in the paper have gone down it's quite amazing the i can understand if you're not actually looking at buying one you wouldn't notice TOO much but there's been SO many specials on lately you'd think people would realise that <&>30:00 yeah you basically will get a a good standard bike for under three hundred people still <,> they're still putting them in the paper for about two fifty or two hundred or something <[1>word <[2>i'd say so yeah it's just because they would've bought it for four hundred or something <{><[>when they first bought it <[>yeah tut it's one of those thing prices seem to have just plummeted now that they can import direct yeah and maybe the duty's gone off or something but this warehouse one i mean it comes with a lifetime guarantee on the frame and <.>s the warehouse might not be around for that much longer but they might and it they've probably got as much chance as a small <{><[>bike shop in the middle of nowhere you know <[>bike shop that sells much more expensive bikes <{><[>and therefore isn't going to inhales <[>that sells yeah yeah <&>30:35