Benjamin Doyle<\/a>? \u201cThe k\u016bmara does not speak of its own sweetness,\u201d she tells me with a grin.<\/p>\nTHE SPINOFF PUB Q+A<\/p>\n
How much should a pint cost?<\/p>\n
Whatever the business owner paid for it, times two.<\/p>\n
Do you have a karaoke go-to?<\/p>\n
If it\u2019s a private party, at home or at a cousin\u2019s place type of thing, then Tupac or Toni Braxton. But if I\u2019m in a bar or pub, I love Dean Martin \u2013 I\u2019ve been obsessed with the song \u2018Kiss\u2019. When I sing it, all I do is think of Roger.<\/p>\n
Favourite place to get a drink in Aotearoa?<\/p>\n
Ch\u00e2teau Nakhle: my home has a nice little bar trolley, and you can choose from quite a few Kiwi gins and whiskey and whatever. For me, I love when I open my home to someone; I\u2019m opening my heart to them. You know, there\u2019s a Lebanese saying, \u201cbaynatna khubz wa milah\u201d: there is salt and bread between us. Because we\u2019ve shared kai, there should be a different level of respect \u2013 so before you rubbish me, think twice, and vice versa.<\/p>\n
Which three MPs would be on your pub quiz team?<\/p>\n
Lyric, look: all of us have competitive streaks. I\u2019m in my 40s now, and I\u2019m very laid back about a lot of things, but with a pub quiz I will not be in a team that is not featured in the top two. A long time ago, I realised I\u2019ve got a rep to protect when it comes to a pub quiz \u2013 not just as an MP, but as a person. I\u2019ll provide the drinks, the food, whatever, but I\u2019m no awesome person at a pub quiz, so I need the team.<\/p>\n
I put a poll in a group chat with my class of 23 colleagues: are you excellent at a pub quiz, or do you prefer to be moral support? Tom Rutherford is going to provide us our sporting answers, and I found a dark horse: Miles Anderson, one of our farmers. I tested him about some rugby league, cricket, but Miles also has the history aspect, and he\u2019s not too bad at geography \u2013 he said the only thing he\u2019s not good with is the new age music. He passed my test when I asked him \u201cwhat\u2019s the word for the phobia of the number 13?\u201d, and he knew it.<\/p>\n
And James Meager. Look, I just have a feeling Meager is good for a lot of things. But he\u2019s told me he\u2019s good with history. Now, I\u2019m very aware there\u2019s no women there, but the women haven\u2019t got back to me.<\/p>\n
Which MP from across the aisle would you most like to share a drink with?<\/p>\n
Hana Rawhiti just does things to my heart. I love her a lot and I always love time with Hana, so she\u2019s kind of a given. But I had a think about this, and this is really gonna give him a big head, but I\u2019ll say it anyway: Reuben Davidson. When he lets go of his tribal Labour bravado, he\u2019s very funny, very witty, and he cracked me up a few times when we travelled to Australia together.<\/p>\n
Is there an alcohol-related law you would like to change?<\/p>\n
If someone has caused a death by drink driving, I wish that more people would be getting the maximum 10-year penalty, as opposed to two or three [years]. Or there\u2019s a $20,000 fine, but I don\u2019t think there should be an \u201cor\u201d \u2013 for me, when you\u2019ve got a true victim, how much weight are we putting on the fact that a life has been lost? You don\u2019t put a price on a life. People are repeatedly drink-driving and they\u2019re getting, in my opinion, slaps on the wrist.<\/p>\n
What qualities make a good drinking partner?<\/p>\n
Someone that is there for a good time, not a wild time. Some people get aggressive when they drink, and that\u2019s when it becomes that wild, crazy-eyes type thing. You need someone who\u2019s in control.<\/p>\n
Have you ever had a Schnapps election moment where you regretted your political instinct?<\/p>\n
I am quite careful, maybe a little too careful at this stage but, you know, I\u2019m a newbie. There\u2019s a few blonde moments; last week I was on Zoom in select committee, and we were listening to submissions, and when the sound is off I feel like it\u2019s OK to make my comments, like: \u201cyeah, whatever, hah!\u201d But the mic was on.<\/p>\n
Up next on One MP, One Pint: Greens MP Kahurangi Carter. Read more OMPOP interviews here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On pub quiz night, National MP Rima Nakhle can provide the food and drinks, you just need to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[492,11507,111,43,139,69,55748,135,109186,109187],"class_list":{"0":"post-167747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-comments-enabled","9":"tag-national-party","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-one-mp-one-pint","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-rima-nakhle","17":"tag-takanini"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}