Posts by Steve Barnes
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Southerly: My Life As a Palm Tree, in reply to B Jones,
Oh perleeze.
take a friggin concrete pill and harden up. How the hell are we supposed to feed all these extra people who are going to be around because they didn’t smoke, didn’t drink, didn’t fall off a high building, didn’t drive drunk, didn’t take drugs, didn’t cut their heads off with a chainsaw because they didn’t see themselves?.
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Southerly: My Life As a Palm Tree, in reply to Hebe,
Yeah. I am totally sick, totally I tell you, of seeing people in hard hats and Hi-Viz because somebody got the pollyfila out. Mental it makes me go already.
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Rich Lock,
Can’t wait for the day when JK tells us that he has solved the balance of payments problem.
“Today we intercepted an eMail from Nigeria, they will send us 7.5 Billion dollar. all we have to do is send the Governments bank account details and just $30 million to show good faith and we are home free.” -
Ain't it sad to know that we were the last generation to have actual non-structured OSH approved fun.
Won't some body think of the children?. -
Southerly: My Life As a Palm Tree, in reply to Rich Lock,
There was a large abandoned graveyard a couple of streets away that served admirably as a playground.
Would that have been Nunhead Cemetery by any chance, the one with the inverted torches at the gate that made id speshly spooky?.
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Southerly: My Life As a Palm Tree, in reply to Sacha,
Very interesting question.
If I may be as bold as to offer an explanation of why it is interesting then I shall.The "Fibrolite" would heat up, considerably, and expel any moisture contained in the sheet, there is often a lot in "Fibrolite" as it has a rather high rate of absorption, a fact many leaky building owners are aware of.
But I digress. The "Fibrolite" may exhibit bubbles on the surface as the heat expands water into steam, after that the board will crack, the cement return to its pre set form of anhydrous calcium hydroxide and pummelled rock and any other crap someone wants to get rid of, like nuclear waste or some such undesirable by-product of an otherwise profitable enterprise. The cracking can be quite loud but not as entertaining as the Asbestos sheets we played with as kids.
Asbestos got a bad rap in the eighties because some doctor said it might kill you in 20 years but they didn't know how big a problem it was because we would have to wait 20 years to find out and by that time we had all stopped using asbestos because in 20 years......
Anyroad, some bright spark at somewhere like Tasman Paper and Pulp or Carter Holt thought...
....insert light bulb here... "Why not use all that waste pulp to replace asbestos, what could possibly go wrong>"So, what happens when you put "Fibrolite" on a bonfire? Not a lot really, its about as useless as putting it on a House.
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Southerly: My Life As a Palm Tree, in reply to Moz,
Do it right and you can drop more than 5m and land on a steep slope that promptly collapses giving you a nice slidy ride to the bottom.
We used to do that on sand dunes. The angle of a sand dune is fairly constant at between 30 and 35 degrees. So, you run as fast as you can and leap over the edge in the most spectacular fashion. The faster you ran the further out you would go and the further you would drop, hundreds of feet it seemed at the time, then tuck into a roll as you hit then roll down to the flat, oh how we laughed when the fastest runner we knew managed to avoid that ungainly tumble by landing on the flat.
We took him some grapes to the hospital the very next day.
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Southerly: My Life As a Palm Tree, in reply to Ross Mason,
That other brew with iodine and potassium permangate….I think…that goes bang when it dries. :-) :-) :-)
Being a smart arse, because everyone likes a smart arse. It is Iodine crystals and Anhydrous Ammonia and the resulting compound is Nitrogen triiodide
Oh how we laughed at the teacher when the blackboard exploded. ;-)
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Rich Lock,
I believe Android has an app for that now, who needs pesky rooms of computers? the Prime Minister can do it all from his Samsung Galaxy S4.now.
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John Key's official theme song.
"If I find them I'm going to kill them, It was not me it was my friends"