Posts by Sam F
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Although I have a few quibbles with minor points* in this essay, Reading The Maps has some excellent commentary on this matter.
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Unless you happen to be wandering along the mud flats at the time?
A few million periwinkles will get the ride of their lives...
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Interesting. Tauranga is not mentioned and it is a big low lying city........Could really be a Bay of Plenty
Oddly enough this story appeared in the BoP times a week or so ago.
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I know a librarian who had problems in a suburban Auckland library with intolerant Christians taking library books into the library toilets and ripping them up and trying to flush the pages. The toilets got blocked and one of them went and confessed to the library staff.
Hmm. At the time when I worked at the UOA Library there were persistent rumours about works critical of the PRC being stolen or otherwise vanishing - not sure if they were ever confirmed.
There was also the old classic of people razoring racy pictures out of art books, but I think the motives there were more self-centred (cf. thread title).
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@Peter Darlington: for an extra layer of technology, how about Transmission performed on a *truck*? (Courtesy of some kind PASer linking this vid months back - sorry, can't recall your name, but thanks!)
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Measuring whether an inmate reoffends is very very easy. If they're convicted for a crime post-release, they've re-offended.
Sounds like a great way to encourage private prison operators to lobby ever harder for longer sentences. Not only do they get more moolah for having people in jail longer, they actually stand to possibly lose money when prisoners get released.
Wouldn't the prison operators just factor in the risk of fines and up their prices accordingly anyway?
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Try having a nap before you go out, get hard or just go home, but FFS stop moaning about it like a bunch of old Nana's.
Well, I'm glad I didn't speak up earlier for at least a few more gigs timed to allow one to enjoy the music, then go and do something else for the remainder of the evening or actually enjoy the day after (rather than being exhausted all the way to Monday morning).
Because that would have just sounded so elderly and wrong.
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Lanterns, along with the corner location, were a licensing requirement - it was a cheap way for the authorities to get street lighting and to hopefully attract a better class of boozer to the neighbourhood.
Maybe aiming to dispel a few bug-hunters as well...
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Interesting stuff.
Christopher, you must be developing some fairly muscular arms from the repeated hat movements...
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Just whilst we're dissecting Auckland City Council policy, what think you all of the proposed new pokie rules? I had a go at working out the implications but am sure some of you could do a much better job.