Posts by Yamis
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I always visit the supermarket before going to the movies. Cheap lollies and drink. Also avoid going to the movies in the weekend. Plus then there's those vouchers or two for tuesday type deals etc.
On a more serious note though, some more Jack Handey:
* At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could save money on tooth X-rays. But then I thought, if a patient said, "How's my back tooth?" and you just looked at it with your X-ray vision and said, "Oh it's okay," then the patient would probably say, "Aren't you going to take an X-ray, stupid?" and you'd say, "Aw fuck you, get outta here," and then he probably wouldn't even pay his bill.* One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.
* I bet when the Neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick, heavy brows." Then they would all get embarrassed because they remembered they had the big hunky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman.
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This was like a scene or three from the movie Final Destination.
The tree was probably going to fall on some wires and electrocute you, but it went for the 'spontaneous combust (with assisstance) ' option, now it will be plotting some other evil way. Is it poisonous?
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You guys need some Jack Handey:
"When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear."
"When you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it's not, mmmmmmmm, boy."
"Sometimes life seems like a dream, especially when I look down and see that I forgot to put on my pants."
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It's just never going to work though. From a logistical point of view it would be a diabolical nightmare. It's not an aircraft seating a few hundred with one point of entry. It's a stadium with half a dozen points of entry and if it's a big game with a large walk up crowd (as there would be in this case) you'd have tens of thousands to deal with. It would cost more to 'police' than any extra money you might make not to mention the aggravation of those who lose their seats and lost money from lower prices.
The occasions in NZ when a sporting event is 'soldout' are as rare as hens teeth these days. If Eden Park wasn't a construction site this wouldn't have happened, and the only other regular soldout games are AB tests (though not these days), and there are usually piss all empty seats there.
If people want to go watch the Blues at the moment they need to buy a ticket during the week it looks like. They can always go slide into some of those vacant season ticket seats during the game anyway ;)
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Maybe they should page people outside the ground "Would Eric Bloggs, please make your way to your seat now, the game is about to really fucking take off".
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Fact is though that the season ticket holders have bought those tickets. So they've already got money for them and a right of paying for a season ticket should be to not go if you don't want to or to turn up when you like. Good luck telling a season ticket holder who's arrived 8 minutes before the game that somebody else has just been given their ticket and now the ground has made double the money from it. Meanwhile season ticket holder finds somewhere else to spend their money next year.
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I get royally pissed off with not being able to buy booze on the Friday and Sunday. It's a long weekend, what else is there to do?! ;)
I did buy ahead this year after being caught out last year somewhat.
But then was caught in a morning crush at the supermarket on the Saturday.
Seriously, what is the fucking point of a long weekend if it's pandamonium on the Thursday and Saturday at the shops?
If people don't want to drink or work on the Friday and Sunday then DON'T DRINK ON THE FRIDAY AND THE SUNDAY AND LEAVE THE REST OF US ALONE!!!!
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That post yesterday was good timing.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/provincial/3556101/Revenue-drop-key-factor-in-500-000-loss
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Hurricanes crowd averages in recent seasons
2006: 26796
2007: 22541
2008: 18122
2009: 14925
2010: 13677So basically they have halved in four years. Must represent a drop of about $1 million in revenue using some basic calculations. Mind you, it would have to halve again and then some to reach Highlander type levels.
At some point in time I might have a look at average crowd sizes in NZ when NZ teams play each other v teams from OZ and teams from SA. Might shed some light on whether the conference type format will work or not.
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On crowds I've crunched the numbers...
Blues got 17,700, which is a sellout I hear (above), they did get 23,000 for their opening game v the Hurricanes at NH stadium though.Hurricanes had 19,777 which according to the radio commentators was the worst crowd for a Hurricanes - Crusaders clash by MILES. They said the first few were soldout, two years ago they got about 31,000 and now this year they got 10,000 less. The commentators might be wrong though.
Chiefs got 11,000 for the game at the Mt against the highlanders. This was their lowest crowd of the year.
NZ crowds to date: 17 games averaging 15,006
Last year the NZ average from 30 games was 13,922 so it's up a bit. What happens from here will depend very much on the form of the teams.Averages by team:
Blues 18,566
Chiefs 14,100
Hurricanes 13,676
Crusaders 21,111 (up 5,000 on last year due to ground being finished I guess)
Highlanders 5,983 (should they be relocated to Southland?)