Posts by Richard Stewart
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…,
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Moronovirus - the disease of the anti-vaxxers
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…,
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Edibles
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Looks like the US is experiencing a surge in bicycle sales
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Hard News: Synthetics: We need to stop…, in reply to
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The current laws around recreational drugs have been around for decades and are clearly a failure by any measure.
Surely continuing with prohibition is the more reckless option.
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Speaker: The economics of shit speech,
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I am hoping it might be just a little bit injurious to Mr Hosking's ego for his ill-informed belches to be classed as something less than Premium Content. Which of course they are.
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Hard News: What does the wastewater…, in reply to
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Yes, media accuracy is often absent when it comes to drugs.
Like the report in Stuff yesterday about the French tourists caught with a large amount of Cannabis in their car:
"Police went to the scene and found the two men and 2.43kg of cannabis in one ounce bags.
The estimated street value was between $40,000 and $50,000, Watt said."Which would mean a value of between $466 and $583 per ounce.
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Hard News: These things we must now change, in reply to
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So you're supportive of entitled tossers who move into an area fully aware of a local activity that has existed for nearly 90 years, and then expect said activity to move away because they don't like it?
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Hard News: Music: Grey Lynn Taonga,
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Hard News: Music: What the Flying Nun…,
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Thanks for the Diatribe bio Russell, some great memories there.
Sadly their drummer, Chris Whyte, passed away last week. Chris was a dear friend, and I have much to be grateful to him for, expanding my horizons and introducing me to a whole mess of different and new (to me) music. Never one to seek attention, he was, as you say, integral to Diatribe's sound.
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Hard News: ACL: The best of times, the…, in reply to
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Good grief. I would regard any gig at Spark to be so compromised by terrible sound, awful beer for which there are long queues, and over-zealous security that they're generally not worth attending. Regardless of the act.
Compare that experience to a variety of sights and sounds in beautiful surroundings on a sunny Auckland afternoon and I know which I would rather spend my cash on.
And I have it on good authority that the regular appearances by Grace Jones in Sydney are nothing short of amazing. She is, even at 69, something to behold.
So nah.