Posts by Steve Barnes
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Indeed, you wouldn't be wanting unwelcome visitors, mind you I suppose it don't matter what you tell them, they smash their way in anyway. On the day that Crusher Collins blames the media for the public losing respect for the police it is, almost, laughable. I wonder what the Samoan community think of Police respect for them?.
Dawn Raid anyone?.
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I would say our culture of secrecy is more Python than Kafka.
I once had to sign the OSA (official secrets act) back in the UK, that gave me clearance to an enormous amount of stuff. Just signing to OSA was enough, no background check, just your signature under a paragraph that said "I won't tell anybody about anything anybody tells me" or suchlike.
One day I was given an official document defining the order and execution of our mission and set out to complete our task. I was approached by a woman who attempted to extricate information, I resisted. There was no way I was going to expose our mission and refused to reveal which plants were going where in the flowerbeds of Greenwich Park. -
Going back to the bit about glass in CRT screens. They use lead not because of its radiation shielding properties but because lead gives you a clear glass with no tint, if you used gold it would give you red glass which would really fuck up the colours.
A question about the iPad, does it have a floppy drive? (not that I ever need a floppy drive, it's just that I may need another reason for not being suckered into buying the hype ;-))
I like being able to build and fix my own stuff so, to me, the Apple offerings are a step in the wrong direction. What happens when it all goes wrong? I have just had to replace a car for the first time in my life because I couldn't fix it, had it been an old Holden or Ford it would be back on the road but this new stuff is just so specialised as to make it beyond the skills of the most adventurous DIY fixerupper.
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The tragedy of McCully...
So that's the obsession with the Waterfront. -
* John Wayne's birth name
Now here's weird.
You couldn't have known this but my birth name was, in fact, Pilgrim...Home, home on the strange. Where the sheep and the buffalo fly.
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Well done Ian, you are truly our leading PUN dit
But tell me why it says "Don't phone" over the ranch fence?.
Interesting and subtle difference between Media 7 and TV3 news.
At no point did Sneddon conflate "Partay Centralle" with the "Fan Zones" he is required to set up, in fact after mentioning "Pootang Centrum" he specifically referred to the fan Zones as "They", a point edited out of the "Quotes" TV3 put up on the screen.
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Escher could design Tour de France stages that only go uphill and never come down.
Or and here's a killer idea. We could replace Steven Joyce with M.C.Escher and have all of our roads go downhill. That would save a fortune in fuel costs. (thinks, Will this crop up in one of John Key's speeches soon?)
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The undulating field might have been a problem though
Although I think Hudewasser would do a better job than Escher.
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One of the differences surely is that cemeteries and toilets don't bring in vistors from the rest of the country or overseas?
Ah ha, but... There's KawaKawa
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All very interesting.
Many of you wouldn't know but I spent my childhood in Germany. I, in fact, attended the Heineken kindergarten in Meinz. It was an enlightening experience, especially at nap time, which was about three times a day and was always accompanied by the burping and the farting.
Our Kindergarten supervisor, Herr uber sromburg meiser Key used to turn up for work slightly two dots over the O due top being paid in Heiniken, exclusively, and was a well known party aminall with a propensity for brain farts.
Heineken is a literal translation from ancient Slavic and is meaning Kens Arse, which is were it originally came from and it will be quite an eye opener to see our very own All Blacks wearing their new leiderhosen at the first match in 2011 whilst sucking on a Heineken.
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