Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Who would you have preferred to have designed the plane you are flying in?
Howard Hughes?
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Call me a spoilsport, but if I was to rank the essential functions of government, I'd put things like education, public transport and healthcare above what amounts to building a pub, albeit in a fancy location.
If it's such a good scheme, why can't some investor come in and build it?
Then the government could maybe spend tax money on helping people on a benefit improve their education, or giving Auckland adequate public transport? -
On helicopter ambulances, I have this sneaking suspicion that while it looks very wonderful to be able to swoop from the sky and snatch people from the jaws of death, it isn't actually a particularly cost effective use of health dollars. Obviously to the Jeremy Clarkson tendency, something loud and shiny is a better use of taxpayer dollars than community nurses, for instance - but in terms of actual outcomes, it might not be.
Which is maybe why the air ambulance operations run mostly on charity rather than healthcare budgets.
Interestingly, in Ireland the Air Corps does air ambulance work, as well as SAR and police support.
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Paul Holmes' sex life (even if it does lurch towards new frontiers in autoeroticism) isn't kinky enough for you?
I think it's quite a good thing that a google for "Paul Holmes Slash" returns various stories on Guns and Roses, but nothing of the kind that I was looking for.
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"That's a fucking clever headline"
PA has always had the best subs.
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If Prime Ministers sacked their Ministers the moment a cloud began to gather, they'd have a revolving door and a cabinet filled with the surviving nonentities. There'd be a feeding frenzy anytime someone suggested that Minister X had queuejumped in Woolworths sometime in '92.
However, I'd question why Taito Philip Field got selected in the first place (against the advice of his predecessor in the seat, David Lange).
It's almost a form of racism to insist that we must have an MP that "represents" an ethnic group, even if they're arrogant, bigoted and corrupt (or even just crap at politics, after the fashion of the former National candidate for Mt. Albert). If a candidate was English, that wouldn't affect my vote - although if they went under the name of The Honourable Montague Smyth-Smithson-Smithe, Hereditary Margrave of Little Funtingdon that would probably count against.
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Clinton would, more than likely, still be president. Think about it.
No GW Bush, No Afghan or Iraq wars, maybe no bank crash. Not a bad idea.
But you are aware that Bill Clinton couldn't run in 2000 because of term limits; he was *acquitted* by the Senate?
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they don't even have a school ball
That's a negative? Thinking back to my hormonal teenage-hood, I can't think of anything worse than having to go through a sub-__Pretty In Pink__ (RIP John Hughes) exercise in rejection and bullying.
UK schools didn't have school balls in the 80's. (Maybe they do now, as part of slavish copying of American TV). We had a student organised 6th form party after A-levels, but that was in a club, you weren't expected to bring a partner and there certainly wasn't a prom queen or any of that crap.
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Why is it that NZ kids always do so poorly at international maths and science 'elite' competitions, and always do so well at maths and language comprehension in OECD ratings?
From a functional point of view, isn't that the optimal outcome? The education system is producing plenty of students who can be competent engineers, IT specialists and the like, which is what the economy needs. It isn't producing the next Steven Hawking, but doing that would only get us kudos (assuming everyone didn't believe them to be British, like Rutherford).
Also, I think Rutherford made such a contribution that NZ is in credit on "producing great physicists" for the next couple of hundred years.
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most people rarely play the second CD in a double CD set
Record companies do often throw all the self-indulgence and songs that didn't really work onto those, though.