Posts by Andre Alessi
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Islander,
He is now 6 – he’s been doing it for 2 years.
He's been six for two years? That sort of behaviour doesn't normally start until one's early thirties. I'd have him checked out for "brassy Parnell blonde marketing manager" syndrome.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Don’t say that, or Chris Trotter will appear in a puff of sulphur. :)
I am going to read this as a fart joke.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Che Tibby,
i worry about this kind of description. it’s a reality, but it gives wankers like Lhaws the opportunity to claim they’re part of a minority.
I'm pretty sure Lhaws is convinced he's firing at 100% all the time.
It's people like him that ensure the estate of Ayn Rand is never short of cash.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Che Tibby,
i think they actually call it “a green lettuce-like substitute”. or “GLLS”
It's not even green, usually. It's a shade of cave-worm white.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to giovanni tiso,
ou’ve got to wonder if the introduction included tea and biscuits.
They're public servants, so it was probably all they could afford.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Idiot Savant,
Would that make it a diplomatic incident, then?
Given that there is an eye witness involved (i.e. the alleged victim) and photographic evidence of what look like injuries from a beating, I don't think that this case will hinge on cops dobbing each other in.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Russell Brown,
But I can still be angry at Michael Laws, right?
Is there ever a time not to be angry at Lhaws?
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to giovanni tiso,
You’re confusing the violence inherent in the system with police brutality or prisoner rape. They are two different things. Police, courts and prisons are the violence. You probably should have stayed till the end of that anarchist meeting, eh?
Oh snap.
Foucault would be unimpressed also, too.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to FletcherB,
were for petrol-generators keeping cell towers and road-side exchanges going at a time when they had no power and their battery backup was dwindling…. in a city with thousands of people trying to contact one another to let them know they were OK, and a few calling for help from within crushed buildings…
Just a note-the generators were only intended to service TelstraClear roadside cabinets, which only carry calls for TelstraClear network landlines. Other phone networks (mobile, Telecom PSTN, etc) would have been unaffected by the theft even if the power did run out, and given the pretty parlous state of landline cables around the city in the days after the earthquake (and loss of power for houses which only had cordless phones) it wouldn't have been a guarantee of service for that many people anyway. For the sake of perspective, there are about 180 TelstraClear cabinets in Christchurch, and each back up generator was intended to power one cabinet (and one of those three generators was found beside a cabinet the day after it was reported missing.)
Which isn't to say that the theft wasn't a scummy thing to do, and that the people that did it appear to have no extenuating circumstances to justify why they'd nick essential network equipment, but we're not talking about someone torching an ambulance or something equally life-threatening here. It appears to be a case of simple dickishness.
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Hard News: The First Draft, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I recommend either chopping wood or alcohol.
You can't chop alcohol. Or can you?