Posts by Rich of Observationz
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He carries it in his hands any time he's doing his job.
For infantrymen. Cooks, signallers and drivers, to name a few military trades, would be rather impaired in their job if they had a bloody great gun to hold while peeling spuds or driving a truck.
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Was that a Godwin?
Why is it that all discussion using a computer as a medium has to follow rules invented by some geek in 1989?
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So a legal question for everyone:
If an armed intruder breaks into your P-lab and tries to steal your crack, can you shoot them and claim defense of property? -
So I'm assuming the majority of the membership likes the way he operates.
Which suggests something about police recruitment practices and culture.
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Also interesting to find how his own schooling at Auckland Selwyn College fitted him for those high-qualified jobs overseas.
Well he won't get that for his kids, now that the Nats have taken the place over with the aim of turning it into a pale simalcrum of Hogwarts, after the fashion of all the other high-decile schools.
Is there anywhere left in the NZ state sector where kids can get a progressive education any more?
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I actually find it wierd that it's seen as an important goal of public policy to attract "Kiwis" "home".
If people feel that another country offers them what they want in terms of variety of work, cheap drugs, wider range of fellow perverts, warm beer or a range of lethal fauna, then why shouldn't they live there?
Equally, if people from overseas are keen on impressive mountains, swimming in freezing water, being two steps removed from an entire capital city, dance parties in the bush, rural poverty or low-level gang warfare, then they might want to move here.
Shouldn't the government just be trying to improve life for those of us who choose to live here? If they do that, and we still lose people, it won't make things majorly worse for those that remain. (Although there is an environmental argument that we shouldn't hog such a big and well watered island for so few people, I suppose).
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emergency services sometime need to drive really, really fast.
30km/h over the limit for ambulances dealing with a life-threatening callout. less for fire engines - 75km/h in a 50 limit or 105 km/h on the highway.
Not really very fast at all.
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When McDonald met his lawyer, you can imagine the conversation was something like:
Crim: "I'm fucked, aren't I bro, it's jail forever for this?
Brief: "Well... Generally, the best defence in this case is that the P made me do it"
Crim: "Eh, true. I was gonna buy some if the holdup had gone off ok" -
I'm sure they had Grid Girls in all those great old movies with sexy racing drivers in Monaco and places.
The umbrellas are to keep the sun or rain off the drivers in open cars. I'm not sure if they have Grid Girls in that hooned-up family saloon racing that passes for motorsport in Aussie - bit pointless as they're closed cars, really.
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The technology exists for somebody in the UK to take the off-air broadcast of the FA Cup (or anything else) and stream it to the rest of the world.
This would be Illegal, Bad and Wrong. But it can happen, and probably will soon.
Unless what you report is the end of the bubble, Big Sport collapses soon, and we'll be watching an FA Cup Final between AFC Wimbledon and AFC Liverpool on Clapham Common. With all footage released under a Creative Commons license.