Posts by Sam F
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Hard News: Do you like what we've done…, in reply to matthewbuchanan,
Ha, the selection-detect-reply wizardry just worked for me a moment ago with tarlen's post above - and then it didn't work again...
Like the shorter quote tags though!
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BTW, Preview / Post buttons are now faulty. Previous comment "posted" from a "preview" click.
Getting errors here too - two error boxes popped up when using Preview. Comment went through fine once I hit post.
Using IE 7.0.5730.13CO in Windows XP, if that helps.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Rich Lock,
It’s unfortunate that the current situation in N Korea is being treated by the media as something of a sideshow. It has the potential to get very nasty very quickly, I suspect.
Indeed. After Pike River this is the story I've been watching the most closely over the last couple of weeks.
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Peter Tashkoff is crying foul over his expulsion from the Act Party because party leader Rodney Hide attended the meeting at which his fate was decided and voted against him.
Mr Hide had previously excused himself from board meetings and discussions about Mr Tashkoff because of a conflict of interest.
Mr Tashkoff has been highly critical of Mr Hide's leadership and has tested the waters among caucus and party members for support for replacing him.
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Mr Hide said the motion to hold the expulsion hearing - where he had excused himself - and the hearing were different matters.
"Once they were going to have a hearing, I considered it sufficiently serious that I needed to be in a position that, as party leader, I was satisfied that it was done appropriately and properly, and to answer questions about it.
"I didn't go along so much to vote, but to be aware of the issues ... I didn't contribute."
He admitted to voting, but said his vote was not needed to reach the required majority.
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Mr Tashkoff said the episode had ignited informal discussions - inside and outside caucus and the party membership - about a new party on the right.
"The name being bandied around is the Reform Party ... There are people frantic to start a new party today."
But he did not think it was the right time and he would revisit the issue in the new year.
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“On my bike I stay out of the way, and five years on I am still unscathed and at least part of that is because, on the road, I know my place.”
Which is not a technique, because the great dilemma of cycling in Auckland seems to be working out what your place is - hard to go anywhere without someone complaining you're a danger to yourself or others.
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Solution: Expand the mall all the way down to Morningside Station.
Vade retro satana…
Although I suspect residents of those perpetually leaky railside apartments would be delighted just to be under cover.
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Not sure if he also hates and fears the Vatican though.
Don’t think so, although it’s been a while since I donned the ole mental hazmat suit and waded through the sewer of TBR.cc.
ETA: Matthew's got it right I think - clearly more up to date than I am...
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I'm thinking they ought to just put up a no right turn sign where Duncan McLean Link meets St Lukes Road; the blasted mall makes it nearly impossible to get to Point Chevalier et cetera that way, thanks to the ludicrous daytime traffic volume it brings.
Also, visiting St Lukes via bike (even passing through the carpark to St Lukes Road or the library) is really, profoundly unpleasant.
I've lived five minutes from the place for about four years now and increasingly detest it.
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I registered my disappointment as mildly as possible in a letter - which hopefully won't be too mangled if it does make it into print.
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So exactly what is Mike Hosking's near-infallible technique for avoiding getting killed on a bike? Or is it a waste of time for him to educate us numbskulls on that score?