Posts by samuel walker
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Community service for wombat rape claim
off topic, but this just hit the Nelson Mail. Its proof that some reporters CAN do a good job.
"I'll retract the rape complaint from the wombat, because he's pulled out,'' Cradock told the operator at the communications centre, who had no idea what he was talking about, Mr Stringer said.
worth reading for the quotes. its worthy of python.
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Nutmeg..one experience, a friend, she actually turned green. and wernt too happy for a few hours, coulnt leave the hallway for some reason.
Never try to smoke a chilli. ever. apparently it feels as if your blood is on fire, and skull. didnt last long though.
Absinthe didnt do much for me, was a smooth drunk feeling though, perhaps due to all the melted sugar.
As for the san Pedro, there are several I have noticed on my travels around ak, they seem to get shorter all the time......
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sure the tomatoes are 99c a kilo when you're harvesting them, and the only advantage is taste,
we are talking capitalised TASTE here though., even the best, ripest, peak of season supermarket toms never come close to the taste explosion of any tomato hand grown in sunny suburban beachhaven.
even the vine ripened ones, what do they do, pick em green and dye em red or something?
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the best they can do is waste your time and misinform you,
so true, if you need a reminder, ask them about hifi cabling, they will start talking about how much better monster cables are.....then you know most of their advice has been worthless.
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I'd rather not take........
craig, well put.
It reminds me of the modern corporate/psychopath conundrum. as long as they are playing by some rules, and are no worse than their__competitors__ then they believe they are not the evil ones. A justification that simply makes no sense. and once the justification has been made, they move onwards without ever ever looking back.
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This is how many people speak and have spoken for along time.
yes jeremy, and do note that a well placed profanity can comfortably crop up in almost any of the posts here and not look out of place; but you should try to avoid using it as punctuation, It really detracts from the points you are trying to make.
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Somebody tell Jake the Peg!
HAH, pairs, three pairs.
there were even a couple of reasonably well fitted out stores in newmarket doing it.
bought a dodgy second-hand one from a drug addict, just like everyone else.
my theory is, if you ever buy dodgy knowingly; you lose all right to feel upset when you get ripped off. the emotional cost, and lost of precious items far outweighs any justification you could ever offer.
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Interestingly I know of one high-profile NZ clothing brand who have recently migrated most of their manufacturing to China, and are happy to claim (in private) that the sewing of the Chinese-made garments is superior to the locally-made versions.
Im sure thats the case, if they have the systems in place to ensure it. Huffer, for example, have had their clothing made "by our friends in china, peace to the east" [from the label copy] for quite a few years, and in my experience the quality is very high.
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I believe Trelise Cooper is having her kit made in China now. I'm told the price hass dropped markedly.
I would be surprised if her retails have dropped, costs would have though. Its all part of the 'implication of luxury' market. If it costs more it must be worth more.
I'd rather have one $300 shirt that feels good, looks sharp and lasts for years than three $100 shirts
I fully agree, however, It gets trickier and trickier to tell what is what. it seems a lot of people have made a quick buck on the high street lately by selling 'itallian quality' shoes for what seems to be a good price (three for $200 etc) only to find that while they were well finished and merchandised they were totally worn out within months and are constructed in such a way as to make them un-resoleable. Whereas you can buy a decent pair of ecco, thicker leather, just as smart, resoleable, will last longer before wearing down anyway, more comfortable (im liking my ecco's at the moment). ultimately a LOT cheaper. yet the people buying the italian are still making a decision to buy supposedly upmarket of hannahs etc.
You see similar 'scams' across almost all markets now, a lot of the clothing sold in mall factory outlets is benifiting by quality and savings by association, yet is often actually worth less than you will be charged.
rant over, manufacturing prices in china actually seem to have jumped considerably in certain locations/meduim [in china] over the last few months, and companies seem to be applying more and more ethical pressure on both their suppliers [directly] and the government [indirectly], which is good to see. however I do believe we need to put our foot down a little more firmly in some cases, by allowing certain actions we ARE implicit in them. -
Everything after that feature on the playstation where you could play CDs and it would make pictures of multicoloured dolphins swimming around has been gilding the digital lily, if you ask me
indeed it has, they should have just given up then. we had our future right there.
Okay so I can see why people might think that the blogosphere was catty and snide and didn't focus on the big issues....
although for someone who was effectively Felicity Ferret for several years.....he hardly has the right to yelp about it.
<conspiracy> a little birdy tells me she may or may not have seen a certain left wing appologist blogger and a certain prego loving ex magazine type (wink wink) lunching and lurching behind several bottles of penfolds finest muttering about stirring up some publicity before the debut of said lefties latest trans media vanity project. nothing better for a little msm press than a public bout of verbal fisticuffs eh.........my [redacted] lips are sealed.... </conspiracy>