Posts by FletcherB
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I don't have time to go back through the Close Up interview right now, but I think so, yes.
Again... have not checked, but that is my distinct recollection... I immediately asked my wife "Did she just say 'teach them a lesson'?"
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Paula Bennett, on close-up last night, spent considerable time trying to justify her actions, denying it was "simply a case of a Minister releasing private information improperly to silence critics.".... she was almost convincing.
And then used the words "teach them a lesson"....
Tell me that's not vindictive and inappropriate
Whoops!
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Taser is electrocuting. don't see that as between.
Taser is designed to be non-lethal, and meets that design in most situations. Yes, some tasered people have died, but it is infrequent and rare, as opposed to shooting in the chest, which is frequently if not mostly fatal.
Do I want to be tasered? No.
Would I prefer to be tasered than shot? Um-yes please.Dont want to be tasered or shot? Dont advance towards the police with a cleaver would be good advise, I think.
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Apologies if this has been asked before, but if I buy a freeview box will it fix my rotten TV reception?
Quite possibly....
I have a Freeview HD box that uses UHF terrestrial signal.
My house is line of sight with Wiatarua, so it was no surprise to get beautiful pictures from it when attached to the roof-top aerial. (we also got nearly perfect pictures on ordinary TV)
What was more of a surprise was that the bedroom TV with bunny-ears aerial, which always got crap reception at the best of times (being under a tin roof) now also gets perfectly clear pictures on all the decoder channels except for Maori TV.
It seems to cope with a much weaker signal before degrading the picture... so it's worth a shot.
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And, IMO, it is not our attitude to defeat, but our attitude to injustice .
81st column beat me.... but as a non NZ-born resident, I was going to point out that when the subject is "All Black losses" many NZers seem to have difficulty distinguishing between the two...
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And yes, I'd also support the requests of others for a "skip to where I was up to last" feature (not that I know how you'd do that?).
If you don't consciously remember what page number you're up to in a quickly moving thread, (I'm getting better at it), it can take a bit of clicking back a few pages to find the last comment you remember reading, before catching up...
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My suggestion....
At the top of each page, you have links for "System > Public Address Cafe >" and a little below that, "Page 1 2 3 4 5 6" of the topic I'm in.....
Then at the bottom, you have the "Page 1 2 3 4 5 6" repeated, but not the "System > Public Address Cafe >"
So if I i've read down to the bottom of all the posts on this page, I can easily skip to a different page of this discussion... but if I want to go up one level to see which other discussions have new posts... I have to scroll back up to the top of the page first....
Its only minor, but there's plenty of room on the page. Cheers!
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After the massive lawyer-bollocking I got a couple of months back, I'm assuming he asked to take the stand, and his defence team couldn't talk him out of it.
That was my guess too...
I expect Abblet-Kerr's also bound by client lawyer privilege and will never be able to reveal if it was a defense of her own choosing or if it was all his idea? Of course, he's such an egotistical wanker he might just reveal it himself?
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Interesting that the real estate blurb doesn't mention the literary connection but instead waxes lyrical about the indoor outdoor flow, six car garaging and spacious decks on which to sip one's G&T. Philistines!
Indeed.... but at least one of the photo's did prove that the "ferries at the bottom of the garden" was not just poetic license but literally true.
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The concept of bidding against somebody on the phone bothers me about the house auction process. Who's to say the real estate agent isn't pretending?
I wouldnt worry too much about that.... They dont even need someone to pretend to be on the phone.
If you read the terms and conditions of the auction, you'll frequently find terms like "vendors bid" and other legalese for "making up a bid"... They do it all the time.