Posts by Bruce Thorpe
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There might well be only limited benefit in a sprinter or jumper using drugs other than the power building steroids. Endurance sports are obviously more vulnerable, especially cycle touring, when recovery rates are critical.
Football is not really about unusual stamina but more about co-ordination and reflexive skills.
I can see benefit in simple stimulants for most big occasions.
I recall somebody telling me that using LSD had improved the accuracy of his kicking. Dunno how it was tested.
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There are so many questionable issues in here alongside undoubted need and misery.
Volunteer charities must rank right up there with the immigration service as ethical jungle and emotional quagmire.
After maybe 40 or 50 years of involvement in community issues as a reporter, community board member, political party worker, volunteer, I have very low expectations of volunteer organisations.
Others have covered many of the questions but one of my biggest problems is that too often the causes, the agendas and the political structures seem to serve the commercial, moral and political interests of the organisers rather than the clients.
As an example, just how many kids, or their families, attending poor schools would make a priority of coats and shoes that do not fit their schools' uniform requirements?
More and more, I believe a proportion of the country's revenue should be set aside for identified charitable needs, and professional transparent systems should set up to meet these identified needs.
I think this is called taxation and the services and goods are called entitlements.
I can see no good reason for gambling activities to be associated with charity, although I am happy that such activities should be returning a great deal of its revenue to the public good through taxation.
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Tv in courtrooms?
Yes.
Did I walk away from TV news more often than ever before?
Yes.
Now the public know how such trials are conducted will things change?
Inevitably.
Does this mean many legal taboos are being challenged?
Sure does.Let the light shine in.
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I heard Walsh and thought a lot was nostalgic rubbish.
he raised the important issue that sporting organisations, amateur or professional should have well developed and accountable regimes in which young players should be required to continue with studies, or become involved in other aspects of commercial life, and not be left killing time between gym sessions.
I agree that professional sport has less excuse for failing in these areas, but Walsh does not convince me that they actually do it worse than the old amateur set upsThe game is cleaner, there are fewer attacks with intent to injure talented opposition and generally a lot less thuggery than in the past,mostly because of the improved technology, especially those so condemned tv cameras.
Many a great amateur sportsman lost his way when the cheering died away. Let us remember Don Clark, possible the greatest matchwinner in the game, left this country convicted of shoplifting, and the list of those who descended into alcoholism and mental deterioration is never published, and certainly was already of considerable length before the All Blacks signed up for the modern professionalism.
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When are the selectors going to go past the Super14 contract holders to select test teams?
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It was my Endless Summer. Possibly the happiest and certainly the most personally formative time of my life.
I was born December 1937, so I was turning 10, I had a dog,and I was not allowed to go to school, or mix with other kids.
Nobody challenged a kid who kept his distance and avoided contact.I was free from a small town world that stigmatised my fatherless famiy.
There was a housing shortage, my mother and five kids lived in two tents on a beach camping ground. We had a cold water tap and made cooking fires in cut down "kerosene tins." They rusted out in about six weeks then we would go back of the grocer;'s and take another one.
My dog Gypsy was mostly kelpie, and taught me how much a human and a dog could share.
And for good measure there was an invisible and very scarey ogre stalking the land called infantile paralysis. There were rumours and.
precautions that changed almost nothing. Even the grown ups were afraid.The sun was always shining and I hoped it would never end.
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Okay we have the tape the jury heard. Right.
We have the "new" transcript the court did not allow.Right.
FFS is there an opportunity to hear the tape without exclusions?
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Well said Russell.
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Legal harassment of cannabis users is an unfortunate aspect of my society. However I do not accept the situation justifies a survivalist response involving the shooting of unarmed police officers or anybody else for that matter.
But it has to be said that survivalism is a widely held political position among men in this country.In the last few days I have heard pretty consistently the view that the police overstepped the privacy of a righteous member of our society, and the continued harassment of cannabis smokers, growers and sellers has made such confrontations inevitable.
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sure you were listing you guns and rifles and air pistols and antiques but you were making it sound like a problem to legislate between you and the Rambo freaks.
I give in on popping the possums invading the immediate vicinity, I do it myself, but do better with poison, and traps overall.
My target was not killing pests so much as the national mythology of the kiwi with a gun.
We do pose with corpses rather a lot.