Posts by Steve Barnes
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Whole new meaning to shotgun wedding.
Come to think of it, more like a stungun wedding, tazer if you will.
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Keir Leslie,
If you were to compel people it would be the same way you enforce all the laws of NZ
Visions of AOS accompanying the marital limousine kinda takes the romance out of the occasion one thinks.
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
[Also, Key in full support.]
Good.You’ve just got to make sure the bugger sticks the landing…,
And Russell’s…
He’s left himself a little out, but it does look like he’s on board.
What exactly are you guys suggesting here?.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Lilith __,
I don’t buy the idea that Maori had experienced major earthquakes in Chch, or that that was why they were only living here on an itinerant basis.
I think if you take this as a guide to frequency of fault activity it would be hard to believe Maori had no experience of earthquake in the region.
The Hope and Alpine faults are the most active at 135 and 100-300 repeat times respectively. There is a probability of 65% of a quake in the next 50 years. Damage likely to cover most of the region including infrastructure and lifelines.
…Major concerns are the immediate destruction with no effective warning, evacuation, casualty treatment and loss of services. There is a long time-frame for recovery and normality, months or years. Christchurch has 150 year return cycle for a MM 7.5 to 8 quake and 1000 years fro a MM 9 quake.Here
This was written in 2005, note the "probability of 65% of a quake in the next 50 years." It was not that unexpected and some analysts would say the quake was "overdue"As for the Alpine Fault itself, when that goes it is likely to be of about magnitude 8. This fault is believed to have last moved in about 1717 and a new quake is arguably overdue.
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Ah, The Lab. A studio so important that people have been known to run people over to get to.
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John Banks is the kind of guy who will adhere to the letter of the law while ignoring the spirit. He has been ignoring "The Spirit" for many years...
Archie Banks was a notorious career criminal and Banks' mother Kitty was an alcoholic (Mayor Banks does not drink) and they were both jailed while he was attending Avondale College (after failing to get in to Auckland Grammar for being a "drongo". Banks is a strange mix of boasting and self-deprecation.)
And as Ernest Hemingway said...
"I can't trust a man who doesn't drink, because a man who doesn't drink doesn't trust himself."
which was later beautifully paraphrased by James Arthur Crumley as...
Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They’re the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They’re usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they’re a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can’t trust a man who’s afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It’s damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he’s heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.
Just goes ta show ya eh?.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Sacha,
If you look at the way the city is, it’s clearly still got the memory of the old tram system in it.Same with Auckland’s inner suburbs.
Some say the City of Auckland was designed by the Flying Spaghetti Monster or maybe even Cthulhu.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Lilith __,
Islander, can you explain what you mean? I thought you were talking about right-wing politics, but are you talking about geography?
From what I understand.
A floodplain on geologically unstable terrain is not a suitable place to build a City. I think Nature made that point quite plain.
No amount of mitigating earthworks will beat a solid foundation. Maori understood this and only used the area as a seasonal encampment, we, on the other hand, decided to build high-rise structures. Not smart. -
LOL
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Well, it seems breasts are bigger this year too so I guess that may give creedence to your view
Still not the point though. The fact is that the athletes look. bigger this year, regardless of gender.
