Posts by Bart Janssen
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A while ago, I and two friends paid some money to attend and event in Parnell. It was a strange sort of event filled with executive types and artistic types, the kind of people with whom I hardly ever have any contact.
There were canapes, good lord I'm a scientist, our events are lucky to have sausage rolls, although my friend is a doctor and he assured me that they were indeed canapes. I also remember sushi being made which was kind of cool, I ate a lot of sushi.
There was an auction of all sorts of weird eclectic items some of which clearly had value. I tried to bid for some of them in the way of auctions. But sadly (or happily) there were others with deeper pockets than I who wanted to bid more.
And there was music, a bit loud for me but then again I'm that straight guy in the corner trying to talk while others are partying.
And then the music stopped and some bloke got up to talk. He said some words some of them very clever, but I've heard him speak before so I know he has a way with words. But that night was different, that night he spoke about his son and his family. That night he let us all know just how much he loves his son.
Thank you Russell
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Ooo, are you going to Shush me?
Oh, darling, I couldn't if I tried.
You really can't hint at an in joke like that and just leave us hanging. I'm sure the loyal readers would be happy to have a whip around (not literally get your mind out of the gutter girl!) to bribe Megan.
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It's sort of like "trouser."
Don't be silly trousered hair is something completely different.
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Surprise us all and wear a tasteful tie.
Just a tie mind - we know how warm it can get so nothing else is required.
Of course that means shaving will take a little longer.
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I'm shocked and distraught that none of my posts made it to the list!
I'll never read anything here again!
Of course it could be that I'm just not as funny as the rest of you wonderful people :).
As I write here every year I am truly thankful that I get to read the voices of you all. You bring me things I would not normally see and make me think about things I would normally never notice. You are all wonderful in too many ways to describe. Have a great holiday all of you.
PS I did get to disturb Emma though and not many of you can say that :)
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I very much doubt if I could recognise the difference between petunias and pansies
Shame on you. Of course the fact that once a week I spend half a day each week helping petunias have sex helps my identification skills.
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Someone asked me yesterday "What's happening in the cricket?" to which I responded "It's a test match so probably nothing".
Yeah this test match cricket stuff is really boring. Whatever you do don't ever watch the last day because it'll only be a boring draw anyway.
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the following would have happened:
Yup I agree entirely.
The tough men that play teh Rugby in NZ would have devolved into whiny babies.
The only reasonable response would have been
QQ moarfollowed by
Working as intended
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I suggest relegating one or two teams this year
And this highlights the complete F'up that is Rugby in NZ at the moment. If they just booted the worst team each year (even if it was Canterbury) then they could pretend to be a sport. But instead because they can't possibly risk losing a profitable team from the premier competition (snort) they get some F'wit accountant to design the relegation rules.
The only word appropriate is contemptible.
As for what happened in the cricket, my word 6 hours of absorbing play with the pakistanis showing they can actually bat and the kiwi bowlers trying everything to figure out a way to remove them. The previous day's highlight was the pakistani left armer literally bowling his guts out. Some glorious batting on a perhaps too friendly pitch some really gutsy bowling from an attack that lacks any real brilliance. Pretty much a great days cricket.
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This is the environment we're in. Everything is about the dollar and the only competition that's seen as bringing in that money to the unions is the NPC (in whatever form it takes).
But they all have pretty uniforms that you can buy so it's all good.
It was of course obvious that they would have more teams because that means more uniforms to sell.
I'm so glad that in the middle of a cricket test match that NZ are actually doing well in the top sports news item is ... not Rugby ... but it is a meeting about Rugby sigh.
I used to like watching the game now I can barely stand to read about it.