Posts by Paul Campbell
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After using it I've been forced to explain to american friends the meaning of "hoon", the best I was able come up with was "red-necks with cars"
I'm sure there's an Aussie equivalent because "double overhead grease-nipples" seems to ring a bell
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Let's face it "boy racer" is a marketing tool - makes them sound like something out of some afternoon anime - let's go back to calling them what they are "hoons" - a good kiwi word that doesn't get used enough.
In the mean time I'm tired of hearing them driving down town without a muffler - I'm going to start carrying a potato
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moving back to NZ from the US 4 years ago we kind of did the opposite what most people are talking about here - we took out a higher interest loan with the express purpose of paying it off sooner with no penalties - our mortgage and our checking account are the same thing, when the numbers are negative we owe the bank and pay interest, positive and it's paid off. Sadly the NZ/US exchange rate did the nasty on us soon after we came home so we paid it off more slowly than we planned - but it still allowed us to get out from under that debt as quickly as we could.
We still have the paid off mortgage tied to our checking account - it doesn't cost anything and there's those kitchen renovations coming up .... we have an instant home loan available on call ....
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I don't think he 'passed the buck" either - he called the police and had the hospital employees support the prosecution - I've worked for companies (in the US) where executives were caught embezzling and the company just hushed the whole thing up.
I don't know much about Thompson, I think I did vote for him at the last election (from memory he's a doctor but I could be wrong)
there is a merger at the upper levels going on between the Otago and Southland boards, I winder if this is really a power play in that process (time to look for a Bill Birch pulling the puppet strings behind the curtain ...)
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he was elected
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There's a letter to the editor from Thompson in today's ODT (sadly they don't put their letters on their web site) basically saying that he hardly knew the perps of the fraud (it was an overbilling by their head of IT dept to a fake company) - he'd remembered him presenting to the board a couple of times
The main perp (Swann) was known by some about town for having a rather expensive lifestyle, and had previously gone bankrupt - so there's a bit of finger pointing by people who think the hospital board should have noticed. Dunedin's a small place people kind of expect everyone knows everything about everyone.
I don't really expect the board to be that involved in employee's personal stuff - that's more a job for the management side of things - in fact I can imagine a board getting into trouble for being too involved in that sort of level - so Thompson's letter makes sense to me.
I have no idea what National have against him
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damn - I paid mine off this year - I could be getting a lower rate!
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I found Vietnam to be probably the least likely communist country - it seemed like a country full of shop keepers.
What really did it for me though was all the young women on scooters with evening gloves and masks - if your cultural concept of beauty revolves around staying out of the sun so you don't look like you work in the fields then the whole people's agrarian revolution thing just isn't going to fly ...
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yes, there's a lot of bending at the waist to do "<" and ">"
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actually the proposal for the US to put off the analog TV shutoff failed the vote in congress - it's back on again for next month