Posts by BenWilson
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to HORansome,
Quite keen to have a read of it. I'd DM you in Twitter, if I had the first clue how to do that in TweetDeck. There's something I really don't get about that program.
-
Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to HORansome,
That Popper has really been rubbing off on you, although I detect a strong whiff of Lakatos. I'm keen to hear your take on Feyerabend most of all, though.
-
Hard News: Where are the foreigners?!, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Now aweful looks like a compliment to me, full of awe and wonder...
I have heard it used that way. "Almighty and aweful creator, we beseech you..". I don't think they were trying to say God did a shit job.
-
Hard News: Where are the foreigners?!, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I tried the new fast kebab shop in Kingsland a month before the cup. The guy did that fucking annoying thing of rolling the tin foil into the kebab so it makes a fucking mess if you try to eat it in your hands. It can be made so that the foils is entirely on the outside of the food, and you can peel it down bit by bit, which makes it a very convenient hand-food. I asked him why he did that, and he said "It's always done like that, it's traditional". I pointed out that I'd had many kebabs that didn't do it that way, and he appeared to have no idea what I meant, and no intention of changing. A month later, he was still doing it. Some people don't really deserve repeat business.
-
Hard News: Where are the foreigners?!, in reply to Christian Mair,
As a bar owner in Auckland I can only confirm that the RWC has been a disaster business wise.
I'm sorry to hear that. How do you think the RWC impacted to actually drive business down? Is it because the games are smack bang on your peak times, and most people are staying at home or with friends for these? That does suck, but I must confess that's been my own pattern - not enough cash to go out, and a very entertaining night in is guaranteed.
-
Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And which is a risky defense to run in a defamation suit.
Seems pretty safe to me. It's not defamation if it's true. If Key did rave like a meth-head, then it's true. You'd only need to produce one meth-head and get them to rave like Key. Which is why it would never see a courtroom, like most threats of defamation suits. There's a bloody good chance that the "victim" ends up being the one on trial, and tarnishes their reputation far further than if they just let the matter slide.
Bomber definitely needs counselling on his presentation skills. He talks far too fast.
Yes, the weird pitch changes one gets during extreme excitement were amusing. But isn't that how it's always done on this kind of radio? The emulation of a braying donkey is part of the parody?
-
Hard News: Where are the foreigners?!, in reply to 3410,
Most game attendees are locals, and when they are spending many hundreds - if not thousands - of $ on tickets (something like $20m total per Eden Park game), obviously spending on other things is going to suffer. Unsurprisingly, the first item to be cut back? Restaurant spending.
Certainly has been for me. I was glad to go to one game, but the cost of it curtailed about 5 nights out on the town. I was hoping for more mingling with foreigners, but they seem to be mingling mostly with each other. It was bizarre to be launching my boat to take my youngest for his first cruise around the harbor, literally surrounded by carousing campers who paid zero attention to the place they were in, surrounded by the marina and dozens of trailer boaties availing themselves of the beautiful weather, and dozens of charter fishing setups sitting totally idle right in front of them, preferring to drink beer from plastic cups, eat snags from a shabby table, poop in the free public toilet and generally get ready for an event that was at least 8 hours away, by boozing in a parking lot.
I'd have thought that the chartering business might have caught at least a few of the people there, who would have had to do nothing more than walk 50m as a group, pay some $ and get to see one of the most awesome things about Auckland, the fabulous Gulf. They could have sunk piss the whole time there too.
-
Perhaps they were scared off?
-
Westhaven is totally chockers with campervans.
Edit: That was Saturday. A lot were English so that may have changed since then :-). I noticed a lot of French flags there too.
-
I so want to see ABs vs France in the final. That game can't have a wrong outcome.
Last ←Newer Page 1 … 506 507 508 509 510 … 1066 Older→ First