Posts by Steve Barnes

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  • Speaker: Copyright Must Change,

    Woops
    Anyone familiar with the story of the Zaxs?
    I did find this. It could come in handy whilst negotiating contracts or something else to do whilst sitting at your desk waiting for that phone call from Big Records.

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  • Speaker: Copyright Must Change,

    Anyone familiar with the story of the Zaxs?

    I did find [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTnM5Z4wbDU | this]]. It could come in handy whilst negotiating contracts or something else to do whilst sitting at your desk waiting for that phone call from Big Records.

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  • Hard News: Not Helping,

    This is because the real thing is unpalatable to some people and they are a lost sales opportunity so the product must be mild, sweet, creamy not savoury

    This is part of the problem of course, there is no accounting for taste as they say. But the manufacture of cheese is stifled by far too much regulation, pasturisation, tubercular testing, bovine spongiform encephyilitis levels and that's just the MAF stuff. In the case of an over ripe Gorganzola there are OSH regulations and fencing requirements, wheels of cheese may require a certain depth of tread and I've even heard of a certain camenbert being detained for causing a public distubance. Just because the French are allowed to flog off strange bubbling masses discovered cowering in the corner of the milk shed does not meal they should be allowed to fester in our fair land. No sir, no surree.
    Perhaps Graeame could enlighten us on the legal status of cheese in New Zealand?.

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  • Hard News: Not Helping,

    Still have to figure out what a New Zealand winemaker has to do not to win a silver medal or better at some sort of competition.

    Wither Hills winemaker Brent Marris figured that out.

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  • Hard News: Not Helping,

    Damn it. I knew I'd forgotten something.
    ;-)

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  • Hard News: Not Helping,

    Viola, le fromage et sur le bicyclette. marde. Ou est le bouffe, ah, le bouffe est sur le bicyclette ill avec une escappe, vitte vitte arreste le bouffe, le bouffe est missapropriare mon bicyclette, Sacre bleu fromage.

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  • Hard News: Not Helping,

    Don't be silly James. We all know the backbone of our economy is bicycles. It will end in tears I tell you, just wait till those cows get in the way of the bicycle track then you'll see.

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  • Hard News: Top of the Populism,

    I had to read that several times before it made the slightest sense. Then I read the by line and realised McNicker was referring to himself in the third person, I think. Was he interviewing himself? Hard to tell really.

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  • Island Life: The Prime Minister will see…,

    (KiwiRail anyone?).

    see, the bastards are offering it to all and sundry already.

    Labour had 9 years and had more than their share of morons and moronic decisions

    Yup, we called National the opposition then and those decisions? Don Brash as a leader? a moronic decision if ever I saw one.

    Stop carping on about the politicians and offer something that actually looks forward.

    Well, we did have forward looking politicians for 9 years and now you have the Government you, no doubt, voted for looking forward to repeating what they did way back in the day. I suppose you're going to say the Job Summut was a success, were you the caterer or something?.
    You know what Mr. Holt, you're a hoot you are, that's what you are, a hoot.

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  • Southerly: Bob's House,

    The Greenwich time ball (the mother of them all) also drops at 1pm and , apparently, here is why.

    1pm was originally chosen to enable the astronomers to undertake telescopic observations at noon. Ref

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