Posts by andrew llewellyn
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Oh yeah:
4. I remember in November 1987, the partners of the sharebroking firm I worked at urged us all to buy while the market was so low, it could only go up right? - those with money did, some without money did too. I did not, because I had no money & I always did the opposite of what those guys said & I seemed to prosper either because of, or in spite of that.
Many of my colleagues took a bath, some had taken out large loans to buy worthless shares that started out rock bottom, but then blasted even further through the floor.
So I'd recommend dabbling only. Or go make a $200k offer on a $1.5 million property. You never know your luck.
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A few points - in order of importance
1. That rupert the bear link is broken
2. Please help the cause & join the Facebook group lobbying for Bain to be on next year's dancing with the stars (verdict permitting).
3. I can't remember the third point. -
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reevaluate our entire attitude to the economics of consumption
Start practising your hunting & gathering.
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photo of the wrong Korean student on its front page
It doesn't really matter which one ... the important thing is it's time to send some back.
Heh.
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I can understand that people immersed in the culture that bought us SARS, killer bees and Y2K might be cautious and reluctant to engage.
I don't get people who say the Y2K bug was a non event because nothing happened - where I worked in the late 90s, the Y2K bug didn't affect us because we'd spent two years identifying & fixing tha date related problems (our system calculated tenant tenure & debt & was somewhat exposed...) OK, the world wouldn't have ended, but there'd have been chaos with our clients' accounts.
The software vendors for the sharebroker I worked for in the late 80s were working it even then.
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Apparently Ms G. had a knee operated button under her desk that summoned a minion to interrupt her when she didn't like how a meeting was going. Allegedly.
But Rod Deane's operated the trapdoor over the croc pit.
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Does the cycleway seem to you to be the pinnacle of insight as to how NZ can handle the economic debacle in which we find ourselves?
I assumed that was the MSM printing & broadcasting guides to keeping chickens of late.
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My memory had conveniently removed that chirpy crapola. By contrast...
It was all.... yellow. And BTW (completely OT) does anyone else substitute the word yellow for white in that Coldplay song about snow?
In my mind of course, in my mind.
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the depths of EwwwTube!
Egad! I've been Nol' Rolled.
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He's actually named in the paragraph right above that one - Rich Poole. He put a full-page ad in the Herald in 2000 moaning about how all his friends had gone overseas because NZ was so shit.
Thanks - I remember Poole, but I didn't put 2 & 2 together Robyn.
When the ads came out, I was working in an SOE on Lambton Quay... a business analyst working with us proudly told me "My name's on that petition."
She got quite shirty when I noted that she was back in NZ & had been for some time.