Posts by dc_red
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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.
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Understood, Mark, though I found the in yer face animal abuse footage pretty artfully disturbing. I took that to be George's point - a video about the really nasty realities underlying the NZ economy.
Too frikin' right. And even with the artificial (or at least contrived) advantage of a local currency valued at USD0.50 they struggle to flog for a profit the delightful products stemming from those really nasty realities, it seems.
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And cheese. Honestly I cannot get over how average-to-awful cheese is in New Zealand.
Pardon me? You do realize it's the de facto national currency, right? Clearly you haven't encountered the tasteless orange rubber (occasionally tasteless yellow rubber) that passes for cheese in North America. Kiwi cheese is a beautiful memory.
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Welcome back! Isn't the cabbage tree evocative? I'm looking forward to getting back and seeing mine, even though it constantly drops its leaves(?) on the bloody driveway.
"Plenary" and "visiting professor" are essential vocabulary for everyday life.
Heh, that's going in my book of amusing academic anecdotes.
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even those ambitious expats might be forced to return due to the global recession, as reduced opportunities overseas make them more receptive to lower New Zealand salaries.
Hmmm, for those of us who have somewhat secure employment overseas, this equation essentially works in reverse. In talking with another expat kiwi here on Friday, we agreed: "Would much rather be there than here, but there's no way you'd quit a half-decent overseas job to go back and face unemployment in New Zealand"
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the Abrahamic Gods go, you could prove they existed to me, and I still wouldn't want to worship them.
Nicely put!
Along similar lines, I've always found claims that such God(s) - if they do indeed exist - both demand and appreciate worship from petty humans rather, err, preposterous.
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Y'think these religious types would know enough about their intended targets not to bother us on Saturday or Sunday mornings. After full nights of drinking, dancing, copulating, and smoking the devil weed, we just can't function before noon.
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Phil Goff? Couldn't you have found an actual liberal? Or at least someone from somewhere vaguely on the left side of the political spectrum?
Tut, tut, you haven't been keeping up with your kiwiblog have you? He's a well-known communist, actually. So he will fit right in at this event.
More seriously, one's position on the political spectrum is in large part a matter of which angle one's being viewed from.
I remember a large number of delightful Alliance nutters (circa 1993-94) who were adamant the Labour Party (under Helen Clark, no less) was a right-wing party whose sole reason for existence was to advance dog-eat-dog capitalism at every opportunity.
Their proselytizing was almost as annoying as that associated with the door-knocking god botherers, come to think of it. They had some saintly old white guy who gave orders, too. Not many people believe in him now, though (although a few do in Christchurch).
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The driver of the team bus, Mohammad Khalil, said the militants fired a rocket at the vehicle but missed. They also threw a grenade under the bus, but it failed to explode.
He said the vehicle was fired on from several directions – bullet holes could be seen around it – but he kept his foot on the accelerator and kept going.
The vehicle carrying umpires Simon Taufel and Steve Davis and match official Chris Broad, the father of the England bowler Stuart, was also attacked.
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I doubt they'll go bust - I reckon they're one of those iconic NZ businesses that John Key intends to rescue.
I thought they were an iconic Irish business?