Posts by BenWilson
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Hard News: The Minister's Brain Has Exploded, in reply to recordari,
...and during game night!
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Hard News: The Minister's Brain Has Exploded, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
This must be the massive trickle down of money to the local economy that was heavily touted from the outset...
I do hope that actually happens. It's the NZ World Cup, not the Party Central World Cup. I like that there's games on in smaller towns, and am actually taking advantage of that to get out of Auckland for a bit myself.
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I checked out Queen's Wharf last night. Nothing about it inspired me to go back. The place was cold and soul-less, serving all drinks in plastic cups from an extremely limited selection (no spirits!) in a big barn with rugby playing at rock concert volumes on large screens. Food was available from kiosks if you like to eat standing up. There was a huge amount of empty space. It felt like a car parking lot. Actually, from the lines painted on the ground, I'm pretty sure it was a parking lot.
I went searching for a bar that would actually be nice to sit down and have a drink in. It took 1 min to find one. I tried a few others. My conclusion is that Auckland has surplus capacity for serving drinks with the TV on, and it will not be at all long before every visitor discovers this and bypasses Heineken Central.
Even if I had been able to get in on Friday, I would have stayed for about a minute, then gone back to Quay St.
I managed to find a car park for $2 all night about 100 m away from the entrance. Not entirely sure why I'd want PT, unless I was determined to get drunk.
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Hard News: The Minister's Brain Has Exploded, in reply to nzlemming,
I think he does. Lemmings would never behave in such a fashion ;-)
I did. There were lemming there, though. Shuffling along behind one another, as they do. I heard some fell into the water on the TV news, but have not heard any confirmation from other sources.
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Hard News: The Minister's Brain Has Exploded, in reply to recordari,
Yeah, and if I have to listen to Mexted commenting again, I'll switch to Sky Sport for the duration.
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Hard News: The Minister's Brain Has Exploded, in reply to Sacha,
reckon...I thought Maori TV had it all.
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Off topic, but OMFG go Samoa!
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Field Theory: Straight for the throat, in reply to Paul Williams,
South Africa is one dimensional. They just do that dimension very well.
They'd just have to beat Fiji and then Sth Africa on the 30th. Easy.
Hmmm is it that easy? Then we'd have 3 teams who had only lost one game...would it come back to bonus points etc then?
Think I could pull the old 'working from home' trick?
I'm not even going to pretend to be working. But I won't start watching until 3, I use MySky to skip ads, half time, and setting up of kicks. So I'm live by the end and yelling WOOHOOO out my door the same time my entire neighborhood does.
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Hard News: The Minister's Brain Has Exploded, in reply to recordari,
not a Party Planners Pity Convention.
LOL. You're right, I'm going to watch the game.
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McCully has shown that the government does not view itself as a partner with the Mayor, council, and Super City, but rather a master of it.
This. But Jacinda will now be accused of "politicizing the RWC". Labour is probably best off to just say they support the All Blacks, are enjoying the games and the international company, keep out of the mess, which is imploding (I still can't really figure out why, since it's not like anything at all disastrous of note actually fucking happened), and cash in later. There will be plenty of grist for their traditional tax-and-invest base, particularly around public transport.
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