Posts by BenWilson
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Sure sign of the feckless middle-class elite, apparently
Yes, it's part of my disaster survival kit that I have instant coffee. You never know what the disaster could be - what if it's a proletarian revolution? I can slip the instant to the front of the cupboard, video myself dismantling the machine with a baseball bat (actually I was contemplating that anyway, the fucking thing broke, and man vs machine rage is seriously addictive), and be the people's hero.
Edit: Man, I never knew quite how addictive. That youtube is a parody scene, and there are like dozens of them. It's the new Downfall subtitles.
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Hard News: The Thread, It Is Open, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
I can't stand bloody coffee.
Yes, it's hard to get decent blood these days.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Sacha,
Let's train more network engineers and software developers then.
Network engineering pretty much is a trade, and yes we need more of it. Software...meh. There's no shortage.
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Over the long run, our fixation on residential property has helped bugger the economy. I'd rather not encourage more of it.
Dragging back in from the thread about coffee and frogs.
I totally disagree with this. Yes, a fixation on owning residential property has helped it to bubble. But that was not caused by a glut of builders, it was caused by a glut of debt, and the historic safety of property as an investment. The safety encouraged risk-taking.
Furthermore, we have urgent and dire need for tradespeople because of Christchurch. Yes, exporting is good for the economy, but you still need people to make stuff here, for here, too. Part of an export economy is the infrastructure to make it work and that's almost ALL built locally.
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And does this country really need any more house builders? If we're going to invest in mass training, make it in this century's high-value export industries.
Well, at the moment it does. And over the long run, I can't think of anyone else who should be building our houses.
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Actually, isn't this topic meant to be on the other thread?
That too. That's probably where the Standard writer nicked my ideas.
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The preponderance of evidence, whilst far from conclusive, appears to indicate that you are likely more correct than I was about moa.
Scary. My opinion was hardly erudite - I just considered it unlikely something with a drumstick that size would last very long at all if there was no such thing as zoos or farming.
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Hard News: The Thread, It Is Open, in reply to 3410,
I think the correct terminology is "a roll up" *
Wow so I was having 2 roll-ups at the same time last time I played...spooky.
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Hard News: The Thread, It Is Open, in reply to Tom Ackroyd,
- from "The Tale Of Mr. Jeremy Fisher"
That was always my favourite Beatrix Potter, even more than Peter Rabbit. It's probably because of that book that I'm careful never to dangle my foot in the water when I'm fishing.
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Hard News: The Thread, It Is Open, in reply to 3410,
I would like to discuss frogs.
I've noticed this about you.
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I confess to having worked there, so the method of making them was ingrained. I notice Gio also missed the onions. But most people do because they're onion beads, rather than slices, makes the production line go faster.
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