Island Life: Burn fat, not oil
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Go back to your communes, or better still, get a job.
I haz job bzy educatn yr kidz n studnets.....
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Here we go again. Let us all teach our children to break Laws.
The man's a menace, but there's no call for this. Think of the children!
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Yes, I know it's pointless and predictable, but I can't resist, so here goes.
And that was just page 1! Of 38. :(
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And that was just page 1! Of 38. :(
Well, not just page one. I yanked out the most batshit quotes from the first eight pages - the rest predate the bridge walk, as the Herald just bumped an old YV thread (can we call them that?).
My little digest is biased towards the nutbars - if you go to the site you can actually winkle out a few golden kernels of sanity from the mass of crap. Make sure you wash your hands thoroughly afterwards.
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And that was just page 1! Of 38.
Well, since he's on crutches, he probably doesn't have anything else to do other than rant away for 38 pages. Sitting around at home, watching Oprah, getting bored, needs to vent.
Oh, wait, I see what you meant. :)
It really, really tickled me that instead of just saying 'my cat has more sense', he went as far as to say 'My British Blue cat has more sense'. Like that makes all the difference.
'Well, if it were a persian or a long-hair, I'd disagree. But since it's a British Blue, I feel I must conceed the point'.
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@Rich
British Blues are notoriously stupid. But they do say that cats resemble their owners...... -
NZTA did what they could to discredit the protesters by directing the crowds onto the centre lanes, completely blocking the bridge. Sure made us look like a bunch of arrogant plonkers...
As we approached the bridge, my friend spoke with Wayne McDonald and was told that they couldn’t allow protesters onto the clip-ons for safety reasons. When asked what the safety reasons were, McD said we’d rock the bridge, people would get motion sickness, fall over and get trampled.
(Curiously this doesn't seem to be an issue for the Auckland Marathon.)
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Those photos warm the cockles of my little anarchistic heart. It's so good to see people not doing what they're told for once, and having fun while doing so.
People should do that more often.
I always smile when I'm passing a stopped school bus at 120kmh
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pointless and predictable
Speaking of, here's what one of my Facebook friends said about the pics I posted:
Every stupid person involved in this action should be ashamed about the danger they put everyone in, including the kids on the bridge, the motorists and the Police! No excuse at all, shame on you all!!! I hope heaps of people are fined.
Walking and cycling on the Harbour bridge is the least of the worries, the damn thing is almost falling apart, and when another cossing is built and traffic on the HB reduces it WILL be partly used for pedestrians, decision already made.
If North Shore people don't like the commute in the mean time, then move to Auckland City or work close to where you live!!!
When I clicked on his name (cos I didn't know who he was - Facebook is like that) I saw that his status update read 'Protestors should get a job!".
I considered defriending him, but it's a democracy - I don't mind if he has a different view to mine.
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Is the bridge really that unsafe? I have never walked over it (!) but if you built a walk/cycle way with the same safeguards as, say, Grafton Bridge would that be enough?
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NZTA did what they could to discredit the protesters by directing the crowds onto the centre lanes, completely blocking the bridge.
As I said in the other thread, this PR conspiracy story seems well over the top. A bunch of people had just proven that they were willing to ignore "advice" and walk/cycle out onto an open motorway. It seems the prudent thing to do in that case to ensure a proper barrier between those crowds and motorway traffic.
I would have been pretty pertubed if I'd been driving in lane 3, with nothing between me and the kids that attended. It is still an open motorway after all. -
That's good stuff 81st, and another PAS reader (Chris) posted his one
here. I really should update mine, since I wrote it quickly ... I wanted to get it up asap (and did, by 11.40am yesterday) in the naive belief that the sooner it was blogged the less chance the media would misrepresent what happened.By and large I don't think they did, I just wish journalists would ask more questions as to what Transits plan for the day was. It seems it was Say "meh" and shrug shoulders.
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Prior to yesterday my opinion of cyclists was .5 of 50...
What is wrong with just saying 1 out of 100?
I don't get the base five.
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speaking of, here's what one of my Facebook friends said about the pics I posted...
People get really worked up about trade unions to. I don't get it. What is it about democratic collective action that so many people find so threatening that they demand the full might of the state be used to crush the merest murmuring of dissent?
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I would have been pretty pertubed if I'd been driving in lane 3, with nothing between me and the kids that attended. It is still an open motorway after all.
I take your point, Gareth, but that's how it works on marathon day, and no-one gets hurt. Likewise, there are many kilometres of state highway one where kids can be standing on the side of the road as we hurtle by.
But in any event, I think what's more likely to have happened is that traffic would have come through at the same slow pace they travel past crash sites.
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People get really worked up about trade unions to. I don't get it. What is it about democratic collective action that so many people find so threatening that they demand the full might of the state be used to crush the merest murmuring of dissent?
Well, they have a point. If it hadn't been for democratic collective action, we wouldn't have had those regrettable revolutions in France and America.
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I would have been pretty pertubed if I'd been driving in lane 3, with nothing between me and the kids that attended. It is still an open motorway after all.
Umm, I live in Dunedin, and I know there's a painted and textured median between Lane 3 and those other lanes. They must be reasonably considerable, given that they're visible on googlemaps. Maybe I'm too law abiding, but on the couple of occasions I've driven across the harbour bridge, I've never considered them as areas through which I could change lanes. They also have electronic signs to slow the traffic, orange cones, trucks with big arrows, and could possibly even have parked up vehicles on the painted median to make it clear that it was no go.
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defriending
I'm going to assume that's a portmanteau of "befriend" and "defenestrate".
You kids and your facebook slang.
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David and James, I certainly think they should have just properly blocked off the clipons only and let the protest happen on there. If it had been planned and executed properly (like it should have been) I would have had zero problem with that
But given NZTA were idiots and didn't, I can somewhat understand their desire to overcompensate for safety given it just suddenly happened (for them) and they would clearly have felt that they had no control of the situation. That seems the more likely reason for closing those lanes than a conspiracy to maximise the pain for motorists to work the PR. -
And I don't expect cars to come over the barrier. But it would be plausible that either a kid or a protestor (who had already demonstrated their intention to be out on open motorway) to wander over there.
Also, I'm in a mad contrary mood today for some reason! I will stop raining on the parade of what was undoubtedly a great fun day and for a cause I totally support :>
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But it would be plausible that either a kid or a protestor (who had already demonstrated their intention to be out on open motorway) to wander over there.
I'm sure that any child that looked like they were going to get into the traffic could have been given a flick on the ear as a warning.
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could have been given a flick on the ear as a warning
None of that woolly PC crap mate, a punch in the face, administered as part of good parental correction. That's what kids get for not behaving while cycling on the Mainland, mate.
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David,
excellent blog, i strongly agree with what you say.
And well done everyone who organised and took part.
i would have been with you if i'd been in AK.The "MOTORWAYS FIRST, LAST AND ALWAY" brigade have ruled AK since 1959. Fifty years is long enough, thanks. now it's time for something smarter.
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None of that woolly PC crap mate, a punch in the face, administered as part of good parental correction. That's what kids get for not behaving while cycling on the Mainland, mate.
2 years ago a did a large portion of my Ironman training on the Taieri Plans. It was such a relief after Auckland. I'll gladly take my flick on the ear if I can visit again.
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I'll gladly take my flick on the ear if I can visit again.
Our campaign is to open two disused railway tunnels to gain better access for cyclists and pedestians, to those very plains.
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