Posts by Rich Lock
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Russell: Idle curiousity, but is there any particular reason the PAS main banner ad is currently a 'Vote for change/give MMP the boot' ad?
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There is a follow-up story in this weeks Aucklander.
This weeks letters page also makes interesting reading, running at around 9:1 in favour of 'Des Denlop is an ignorant fool'.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to BenWilson,
Unless the quantum superposition of the privacy of the conversation collapses by someone just hardening up and posting it in its naked glory.
Unless one or more of the mainstream media outlets grow a pair and do exactly that, I doubt it'll make a difference.
I'd guess not all that high a percentage of the population would actively seek out a recording or transcript hosted offshore, but it's hard to avoid if it's leading the 6.00 news or printed on the front page.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to BenWilson,
Parse that and stay fashionable.
From the Stuff article:
Chief High Court judge Justice Helen Winkelmann delivered her decision today saying she declined to make the declaration as it would amount to a "mini-trial" in advance of a police investigation into the matter.
The application has been declined, but that doesn't actually amount to a decalaration that says that the conversation was private.
What it effectively means is that any sort of resolution won't happen before Saturday.
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Oh, come now, what could possibly go wrong with changing from a business model that's supposed to benefit citizens, to a business model that's entirely profit driven?
ScottishPower, which has more than 5 million British customers, saw profits rise by 7.9% last year amid fears that many people could not afford to heat their homes during the bitter winter.
Oh...
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From what I've heard (not having read it), no-one actually understands Mein Kampf, it being several hundred pages of incomprehensible semi-literate raving. Like some religious texts, it's more of a totem than a teaching aid.
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I once gave a lover a copy of Michael Herr's Dispatches
I did that too.
That's going some way towards making my day. The giving, not the outcome, I hasten to add.
12) Spying Mein Kampf or Dan Brown on someone’s bookshelf can spell havoc for a friendship. What’s your literary deal breaker?
Anything by Martin Amis. It'll be a cold day in hell before I forgive you for 'London Fields', Amis, you sneering snobbish quasi-intellectual ass-hat.
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Hard News: Grokking things by being places, in reply to BenWilson,
It's very soothing work, if done in a way that pays a lot of attention to one's own body
Yes, I normally enjoy working with my hands. But not on those sort of timetables.
It's a pity the youth of Devonport no longer impersonate steamboats.
Too busy with their skateboards and iPhones. Bah!
My two-year old likes to play with daddy's hammer when I leave it lying around. Mummy's not so keen on squashed toddler toes, though. Spoilsport.
Are there any more Grey-Lynn type festies coming up before Christmas?
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Hard News: The Solemnity of the Day, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
I'm pretty sure the town will cease to exist for 17 hours.
Nek minnit...
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So, anyway.. my weekend. Got home on Friday evening and spent four hours waterblasting a fence. When it got dark, I went inside and spent four hours painting things like windowsills. On Saturday, I got up at 4:30am having had four hours sleep and started painting the freshly waterblasted fence. Did you know it's light enough to start painting at 5.00am this time of year? Summertime's awesome. That took around fourteen hours, but I enlivened the tedium by taking a break and spending three hours in the hottest part of the day carrying heavy boxes full of useless crap into a trailer. Then when it got dark I went inside and put some doorhandles on some doors for four hours. Another 4am start on Sunday to stick the second coat on the fence. Lack of sleep is fun! Paintfumes are fun! Hmmm, that driveway is looking a bit grubby, maybe it'll be funtimes to spend three hours waterblasting concrete and mud off it in the hottest middle part of the day. Yes! funfunfun!
Finally finished at 3 on Sunday afternoon just as the photographer arrived. What would make this the bestest ultimo funtimes day ever? To have to spend the next two hours under a tree marinading in paint, mud, concrete dust and my own body filth, because they hadn't photographed the pristine bathroom yet. Keep that filthy Cave Troll out of there! Awesome funtimes! Glass of wine? Don't mind if I do! Tastes like rocket fuel? That'll be the coating of paintfumes on your tongue. Why has daddy passed out on the floor after a few sips of red drink, mummy? Why is daddy posting random surreal rubbish on the interwebs? Just Say No to paint, kids.
But the house is finished and on the market. If anyone knows anyone who is looking for a place in Devo, drop me an e-mail and I'll flick you the listing.
And all of that was worthwhile, because at the weekend, I heard this track for the first time on the radio, and it made me feel like someone had punched through my stomach and given my adrenal gland a good hard squeeze. Fuck she's awesome.