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Those aren't tumbleweeds, those are prostitutes. I'd suggest heading two blocks over to Oxford Tce, where the bars are.
thats 7.30pm, hookers aren't out earning a honest nights pay till later (eh um, so I'm told) and bars aren't a humming till way too late, and he happening area isn't oxford tce but off litchfield, but still , dead dead dead, the city center is empty when it should be thriving,
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I would suggest that's a Cantabrian thing (the racism)
oh would you jackie?
cos it doesn't occur anywhere else in this country?
its probably more of a brain drain thing where any people with an iq move to the more cosmopolitan cities, or overseas leaving a higher proportion of mildly retarded boguns to fill the space.
Wellington and Auckland have their fair share of those too but normally in the outer suburbs. CHCH has seen fit to empty its central city of people (friday night 7.30 pm and you can almost see the tumble weeds roll down manchester street), and the lowly move in to occupy.I wonder that its even truly racism that drives these idiots, cos after they're done yelling 'asian' at my girlfriend they'll drive down the road a bit and yell some equally deep and witty observation at the next person walking on the street, if they're not obviously different then it'll be an unintelligible yelp.
That's not a race problem, thats a verbal abuse problem, or assault and should be dealt with by the police, if they weren't too busy waiting for some kind stranger to walk in and repair their printer for them before they see fit to serve and protect.If we get the education level up now we should have a peaceful and intelligent population to share the landscape with in ohhh, 15 -20 years.
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interestingly the people who defend nz and chch as not being increasingly
a) violent,
b) offensive
c) racistare people who spend their time writing to discussion forums and not out and about town very much. You can easily avoid the bad attitude in question by not going out, but if you do step out at the wrong time in the wrong place (and that wrong time and wrong place is expanding), beware.
Also I think Christchurch's problem may not be so much racism as a deluge of idiocracy as I as a non discript ethnically neutral individual have had to suffer similar verbal abuse and stalker drivers in my less regular necessitated walks through town on a weekend night.
I had 4 instances of drunken fuckwits accosting me as I attempted to mind my own business and walk the 5 min walk from my place of work in a club to my inner city home, be it at 2 am in the morning. That didn't used to happen, but be assured, it does now, and I'm sure even more so to others.I think it has a lot to do with our cultures increased acceptance of drunkeness and stupidity, as attested to with recent figures of youth alcohol issues, and the decline in education as a priority (notion and figures grabbed out of thin air).
But there is no depression in new zealand as some skinny white boys once said.
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their little campaign to have New Zealanders send a bottle of a favourite flavour to distant friends
I thought the favourite liquid gift from kiwis to overseas people was kiwi fruit liqueur.
Can't count the number of times I've visiting overseas people with tenuous nz connections, who bring out an untouched bottle of the stuff received as a gift, hoping that an actual kiwi might want to drink the stuff.
There must be dusty warehouses of the stuff waiting for the big break through in style and taste change. -
Just out of interest, one of what? For those of us whose work connections have Trademe blocked...
newmatics broadcast o.r. double 7 inch furtive records
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sounds like the police-guy decided it was no skin off his nose to take a shortcut
if your idea of a short cut is the difference between doing nothing and doing something which turned out to be quite simple, (and one wonders how many of the turned down cases are actually quite simple).
I just had this brilliant idea for upping the quality of police work, and customer satisfaction.
how bout at the end of each inquiry the customer gets given a customer feedback card where they get to fill in the details of how helpful the cop was and pop it in a box at the exit, cops details on the form etc. cop doesn't have access to the box etc, make it matter of course.Then the top brass can review them and see who consistently gets feedback of the nature, "waste of time, no help, and was indigently rude", and those who get "considerate and helpful through out"
Sure you'll get the odd fuckwit who hates all cops and writes garbage but he brass should be able to weed that out and see who gets the consistently bad feedback, and then hopefully move them on to a job that would truly suit them, like mall security guard.
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Whoo, a dodgy band name thread could be fascinating.
Nuns Fart always impressed me as off the cuff offensive. They were a sub goth CHCH band with members of Lurch and other forgotten bands circa 1991 I think, or maybe 94.
Bressa creting cake's original name of "breast secreting cake" is just plain creepy though. Makes you wonder how innocently pop some of their stuff is.
Might have known it was an Aussie who came up with something that tasteless though...
lubricated goat has to be up there with dodgy aussie band names.
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The real shame for a lot of those acts is that their live acts are lost forever in those pre digital days. Now every shitty band gets it's live act released on DVD and it exists in perpetuity. The will never be any real document of just how good Toy Love or The Gordons were live, despite the odd surviving snippets.
Or then again, how bad (Suburban Reptiles, Swingers and, yes, The Gordons again) could be on a rough nightThat's true as far as visual representations of those bands but there are tapes around although some of em are in pretty bad shape now.
John said he's got tapes of pretty much ever gordons gig they played.
The swingers do have tapes too although they could do with a bit of solid restoration, faily hissy.
There are a couple of quite reasonable toy love gigs availabel, and I've got a pretty decent screaming mee mees gig with a bunch of unreleased tracks (did I send you a copy of that yet simon?)Maybe NZ on air could look at channeling some funds and effort into that instead of the next blindspott or tim finn video grant (no offence meant to either of those artists, I'd take the cash if someone was throwing it at me)
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Mysterex is an incredible piece of documentation and is a must read IMO. I'm not sure if I have exactly the same memory of some of the things as they appear in there (not sure if anyone does..they were muddled times) but Andrew is doing a hell of a fine thing in getting it all down.
Its very much a fanzine and I admire the passion but have to make em down big time on the personal slant aspect of their retelling of history.
I thought the flying nun story was just bad form, sour grapes, over what I'm not sure. I personally have pretty postive memories of those times.They managed to write a whole article on pop mexchanix without managing to mention that their full back catalogue of material and every piece of salavagable unreleased material (5 x cds worth!!!!) had been recently collated and released on CD. how do you miss a major detail like that? They did the same for their mention of desperate measures who also recently had the first time on cd treatment, and their gladstone article managed to ignore the only recorded archive of that place and that time in Failsafes Accident compilation a 2 cd set of 100% gladstone band inhabitants. Talk about re writing history, or selective memory.
But its their magazine so I guess they can write what they like, but I much prefer my info from someone like simon kays rawpower label. facts and enthusiasm win out over fanboy waffle anyday.
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But if you wanna go back that far...Suburban Reptiles (part recorded but never released but missing), Marching Girls...
I do wanna go back that far actually :)
did the spelling mistakes double disc satiate the lost album need or do you think they had a better album in them?The features is a definite notable and I hope jed gets round to polishing up that puppy. 8 tracks plus their ep and single will make a worthy entry.
I'll ad to that list the rumored scrapped swingers album before practical jokers featuring their tried and true live set favorites.
some of them can be heard and downloaded on this little known page of phil judds site.
http://www.philjudd.com/links.htmlcheck out the jinx
Also the rumored lost gordons album. legend has it there was an old gordons either before of just after the gordons first album (now there is a classic nz album for sure) that the engineer accidently wiped. apparently the band under took to re record those tracks many years later in their bailterspace days. Not heard these recordings or had confirmation they exist.
Alms for children might have had a good post punk album in them. that single was pretty good and not really like their later band this sporting life.
The lost enemy album.