Posts by Tom Semmens

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  • Hard News: Travelling Gravely,

    Pour encourager les autres - harks back to the unfortunate fate of poor Admiral Byng, who failed to show sufficient aggression when confronted by a superior fleet of scurrilous and thoroughly unsanitary Frenchmen and was executed for his troubles. Voltaire, a political refugee in England at the time, recorded a memorable quote: "in this country, it is wise to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others" (Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres).

    Sevilla, Espana • Since Nov 2006 • 2217 posts Report Reply

  • Hard News: Travelling Gravely,

    Just drive your own car to the (Auckland) airport and use one of the long term carpark outfits. It works out to about $24.00 a day.

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  • Cracker: Fillerup,

    What about electric scooters though?

    www.kero.co.nz - these are electric scooters, the 2000w one seems to be the most practical one for N.Z. If you are keen on an electric scooter though, and you have an agent in China, these scooters are manufactured here http://erato.en.ec21.com/. I am looking into the 3500w model, and on past experience buying direct from the factory (via an agent) will save you up to 50%, even after you've had in shipped here.

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  • Cracker: Fillerup,

    Yes - meant the 50cc scooters. The sooner they open up the outside lanes to 50cc scooters the better!!!

    I've taken to walking anywhere that I can reach in less than a roughly two hour round trip. You would be amazed at how far you can get. From where I live that means if I take a compass and draw a great big radius at the one hour radius I can reach objectives like the Pak'n'Save in New North Road, almost to the roundabout of death in Royal Oak, St Lukes, Newmarket, all the CDB, the wall-to-wall wine shops of Mt Eden, Western Springs and Jervois Road. It saves me around $20 a fortnight in gas I reckon, I get to peer into peoples houses and see all the interesting things my fellow humans get up to and if my trip last weekend to Sydney is any guide I am a billion times fitter than all my friends.

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  • Cracker: Fillerup,

    You can't take a scooter over the Auckland harbour bridge, you need something that requires a motorcycle licence and I am pretty sure I've forgotten most of the road code. :(

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  • Hard News: Tragedy into Crisis?,

    AS:

    Is this whole position of your's an intellectual exercise, or have you ever worked in a job where the consequences of a bad call or making a mistake can be life and death? I don't think you really grasp what your expectations entail to the people at the sharp end.

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  • Hard News: Tragedy into Crisis?,

    Sofie Bribiesca:

    There seems to be a common misconception that the vests now routinely worn by police are bullet proof. I believe they are, in fact, stab proof only.

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  • Hard News: Tragedy into Crisis?,

    Like I said - A keyboard commando.

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  • Hard News: Tragedy into Crisis?,

    AS:

    As good keyboard commando, what action do you suggest the police should have taken?

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  • Hard News: Tragedy into Crisis?,

    Should say "tightly restrict wholesale liquor hours"

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