Posts by Rich Lock
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they were contemplating legislation that would mean that wealthier traffic offenders would pay proportionately higher for their transgressions than lower paid Finns
That actually became law in Finland a few years back. Here's an example from 2004.
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they were contemplating legislation that would mean that wealthier traffic offenders would pay proportionately higher for their transgressions than lower paid Finns
That actually became law in Finland a few years back. Here's an example from 2004.
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is John Key the cultural vacuum on two legs he seems to be from afar?
Oh, he likes a bit of painting.
I'll leave it up to you to insert your own jokes about not being able to think outside the box(es).....
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Weird, I was asked for directions to Devonport by a German couple in a camper van who were lost in darkest Grey Lynn yesterday...
They were remarking about the lack of road signs in this country.
Ich bin ein Grey Lynner.
We took all the signs down so the invasion forces would find it harder to get around.
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Custom-printing playing cards is, I have had reason to learn, hugely expensive and a massive PITA.
Great Art is never cheap.
A quick google for custom+playing+cards throws up a few companies that don't seem eye-gougingly expensive (but certainly more than I'd casually fork out for a laugh), and the process seems quite striaghtforward.
What do you know that we don't?
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A seemingly endless parade
of students study Camus, Satre and de Sade
Chicks get reverential
for all thoughts existential
but blokes use it to help them get laid.If anyone can think of a good one that uses 'existential', 'reverential' and 'pestilential' (in reference to 'The Plague'), then post it up. 'Cos I can't.
Oh, The Humanities!
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The problem with Auckland is that the politicians are the Rich
Well, if you're dumb enough to leave me in charge, there's no point moaning when it all goes pear-shaped.
Or did you mean Rich of Obs?
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Public Address trading cards. With bubblegum
I think I'd prefer either 'top trumps', or something like the Iraq 'most wanted' playing cards.
Although to get the requisite numbers, you'd probably have to pull in PAS regulars, or other members of the MSM or blogosphere.
And you'd have to be careful never to let the ace and eight of spades, the ace and eight of clubs, and the queen of diamonds in the same room together.
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People's Independent Republic of Devonport
I have been thinking about sneaking out one moonless night and building some sort of 'iron curtain' across the peninsular somewhere around narrowneck to keep the plebs out, especially at weekends. Stick a tollgate on Lake road and it'll more than pay for itself.
I'm more worried about the deluge of snooty, drunken South Africans and Englishfolk who will be travelling across via ferry to swarm my lovely subu...on second thoughts, too late.
Or do what we're possibly planning on doing, which is to rent out the house for a couple of months while this cup business plays out, and piss off to Europe on the proceeds.
Although we'll probaby get back to find the walls smeared with mongolian truffle-hog droppings and the floors awash with fine malt.
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I thought it was an interesting story, but not well written/told.
True. Given that you can read both books ('freakonomics', and 'gang leader') and never find out exactly what happens to JT or his lieutenants, it's a rather frustrating 'story'. But for me, the wealth of incidental detail more than made up for it.