Posts by BenWilson
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to ChrisW,
Must have been a sophisticated search engine to come up with the car-jack as well as the topiary. The Lockian variant of the human brain?
Google image search. Try "car topiary" to get 204,000 results.
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So the opposite is "national class", the product you get if you're locked in to the country in some way. And I guess the lamest would be "house class", which probably describes Heineken at Queen's Wharf.
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
That's how I see it, but tell it to a car collector! Every mile it does lowers the value. It's enough for most to simply get in and turn the engine over, and then sighingly caress the flanks of the beast, and imagine days gone by.
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Field Theory: Rugby World Cup stories, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I'm not sure it's an attack on democracy, but it sure is an attack on civil rights. Makes me wonder whether having dropped the Privy Council, it is more urgent than ever that NZ makes at least some moves toward a constitution. That's way more in need of changing than the bloody electoral system, which already seems to give carte blanch to the government on basically anything they want to do. It's always been sitting there as a dangerous omission in the NZ system.
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to recordari,
Heh, the perfect example a vehicle that would end up costing a fortune. You wouldn't be able to get a WOF for it without substantial modifications, and probably wouldn't actually want to drive it anywhere in NZ, in case you hit a bump. But who would be crass enough to drive such a beauty?
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Field Theory: Rugby World Cup stories, in reply to Emma Hart,
right next to the photo of the RX-7
They were great cars, when they worked.
ETA: Similar comment about the ABs. Great team, when they win.
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to Rich Lock,
Depends how 'custom' (and therefore emotinally attached) it is.
Yes, indeed. If it's got serious sentimental attachment, that would make it worth the bother. But don't do it for the money savings...chances are there won't be any and it's a bunch of hassle for nothing. If you've sunk hundreds or even thousands of hours of your life into making it choice, then it's a hobby, and it's almost certainly worth transplanting that. Doing up vehicles is an expensive hobby, very seldom is it done for the purposes of making money. Most of the cool cars I've owned over the years have belonged to down-on-their-luck hobbyists. That sounds a bit mean, but practically, they're almost always super stoked if you buy their car, because they get the money they need, AND it's one last chance to show someone all the work they did, to a person that's very likely to appreciate it.
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to Sacha,
Feel free to offer another take on it.
No, that's fine, I'm happy to go with your interpretation. It's not a term I've inquired deeply into the meaning of, but the word "world" implies something really big. So it's yet another one of those phrases that evokes something big, but means something quite average? Rather like "top bloke", by which is meant "nice guy".
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Speaker: Party Central, structures and silos, in reply to Sacha,
To me, 'world-class' means able to attract and keep talented people and ventures against competition from many other places to live, work, play, commune and prosper.
Wow, it's a much lower bar than I ever imagined.
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to Simon Grigg,
A Steinie was the height of Kiwi sophistication then.
This is scarily true. I still preferred wine cooler, though, preferably from a cask.
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