Posts by Rich of Observationz
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They could always send the Army into South Auckland, complete with LAVs and helicopters. They'd be able to engage any miscreants and return fire, from the safety of the LAV if neccesary.
Of course they'd probably kill several innocent bystanders and start a few riots, but hey, can't make an omalette. (or spell one, for that matter)
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What I think Tom means is that some bars overseas will sell you a whole bottle of vodka or whatever, which you write your name on and keep behind the bar between visits (unless one is a complete dipso or in a big team, in which case it gets guzzled in one night).
The Farm in Verbier does this, and it didn't turn Fergie into an alcoholic.
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I know a few people who do *choose* to live in South Auckland. Parts of it are quite nice - in fact, come out of Manukau Mall, take a left and within 5 minutes you'll be passing some rather expensive looking houses.
I wouldn't choose to live in Whanganui - the mayor's a racist bigot, for one thing.
On the subject of alcohol sale restrictions, has anyone got evidence that they has any effect at all on alcohol related problems? I reckon if the number and hours of bottle shops in poor areas were restricted, all that would do would increase drunk driving as people headed for the "posh" areas to buy more booze. And isn't it a little bit racist/classist to allow Mt Eden to have wall to wall wine merchants and a 24-hour Foodtown, whilst relegating Otahuhu to a modern equivalent of the six-o-clock swill.
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I just think the best thing is for fuel prices to keep going up in line with scarcity.
Then people can *choose* if they want to sacrifice other things for the SUV (or indeed the suburban house, which is the other way to drive your fuel bills up).
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Incidentally, if anyone's making loadsamoney out of the price of gas, it isn't BP shareholders. 5 year chart. The stock price has more or less underperformed the FTSE over five years.
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Keeping left works fine in Germany. And people drive at 160Km/h as a matter of course, without all becoming extinct.
What might be a fine scheme would be to introduce competitive driving tests, with the number of licenses in circulation capped at the present number. New licenses would only be issued as existing license holders die/emigrate/become too addled to drive.
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What is the correct response to reading in this week’s Listener cover story that you will only get the keys to Julia Hartley Moore’s SUV from her cold dead hands?
Hotwire the SUV, run her over, take the keys, drive off.
Incidentally the cruise control thing might apply to the Mojave desert (the cited test area), or the Canterbury plains, but I think there are very few places in NZ where you wouldn't be flicking in and out of cruise every 30s.
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What is it with Kiwis and highway lanes? In the UK (I'm sounding like a whining pom here) if you indicate from a freely moving lane into a full one, people generally let you in. They also slow up to let you pull out of side roads, turn right, etc.Here you're expected to get into lane several kilometres before the turning point and woe betide if you should realise too late that you actually need to turn left somewhere. As if the motorway was a Polish bread queue and you should find the back of the line and join it...
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Maybe instead of adding a comment editing facility to Publicaddress you could employ retired newspaper subs to spruce up everyone's typing, grammar and factual accuracy.
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you'd struggle to find a NZ MP that would compare with some of the ogres that occupy state and federal parliament in Australia
Yeah, corruption here is leaving an attribution off a political leaflet.
Corruption in Aussie is conspiring with the mafia to import large quantities of smack, then having anyone who finds out murdered and dumped in motorway foundations.
(Exaggerated, but not much)