Hard News: Going Underground
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Also, charming "entertainments" at the same site..."
Wow. That does more to show where they stand than the sum of their Press Releases, Centre Digests and Columns combined.
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Also, charming "entertainments" at the same site...
Godwin's Law #3: Reductio ad bin Ladenum.
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The Herald today has two relevant stories: Aussie banks' rates higher in NZ and Lack of transparency 'fuelling distrust of banks'. There's even a Your Views. But, as we'll note in the show, there's much more stroppiness on customers' behalf in the Australian media.
It will be interesting to hear the panel's views on whether Australian bank ownership has resulted in a trans-Tasman divide in service standards and profit margins, i.e. is the NZ market is being flogged?
And as previous posts have pointed out, you have to wonder how critical TV news bulletins can afford to be when whole segments of their programmes are sponsored by the banks themselves.
On a personal note, I'd like to think my loyal service as a primary school banking monitor in the late 1970s will be rewarded eventually. Can you put a good word in?
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Cam Pitches on the Campaign for Better Transport blog said yesterday:
It is worth repeating that the difference between the full tunnel option and the next best partly above ground option is small in the context of the size of the project - $200m. This has to be the tunnel or nothing.
Jesus... am I the only person who gets the shits at lobbyists (and that's what Cam is) who talk about hundreds of millions of dollars like its petty cash? Russell, you're quite right that there's no Warehouse option here, but I just cringe at how tone-deaf these people are.
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@ Leg Break
If a drunk driver crashes into a random lamppost above ground, killing passengers not wearing seatbelts, can that be called the Princess Diana syndrome??
I’d have thought the tunnel aspect was a sideshow.
The lesson I took from it was to avoid Mercedes sedans. Oh, and Paris.
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Also, charming "entertainments" at the same site...
Godwin's Law #3: Reductio ad bin Ladenum.
Rolfenui!
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And would Owen McShane say what he'd usually say if it cut through Remuera or Epsom?
Oh, probably. You have to understand that Owen issues his fatwas against selfish suburbanites and their families from the Centre for Resource Management Studies HQ in Kaiwaka, Northland.
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The lesson I took from it was to avoid Mercedes sedans. Oh, and Paris.
Also:
- when coked off your head, make sure the guy driving isn't as munted as you are- unflattering photographs rarely kill anyone
- in a republic, at least you get to elect the lunatics
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The lesson I took from it was to avoid Mercedes sedans. Oh, and Paris.
I learned to never, no matter what, divorce the Prince of Wales.
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CR;
Paris has a bit of a history of being a place where people go die.
Di, Picasso, Jim Morrison, Yassar Arafat, a Concord full of German tourists....
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Oh, probably. You have to understand that Owen issues his fatwas against selfish suburbanites and their families from the Centre for Resource Management Studies HQ in Kaiwaka, Northland.
In other words, equal opportunity of being Prossered?
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When it got cold during the little ice age the Europeans invented knitting and the Polynesians had the good sense to stop sailing towards New Zealand.
If I beat this guy to death with a history textbook, I have the full support of all here, right?
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You have to understand that Owen issues his fatwas against selfish suburbanites and their families from the Centre for Resource Management Studies HQ in Kaiwaka, Northland.
So in other words it's "Sucks for you, I got rich and bought a lifestyle block, now keep public spending and taxes as low as possible or I'll cut you"?
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Furthermore, this motorway network will exist and be in use for hundreds of years. Surely the specifications of such a major piece of infrastructure should not be determined by the wishes of households whose average stay is measured in years.
My brain, she explodes with teh stupid
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Also re: Daily Show and Colbert Report
If it is Sky TV's doing, then a great big steaming bag of expletives will be left on Sky's doorstep.
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Paris has a bit of a history of being a place where people go die.
So, a bit like Waikenae, but faster and with better architecture.
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And a couple of tunnels, although don’t tell Owen McS that.
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Paris has a bit of a history of being a place where people go die.
So, a bit like Waikenae, but faster and with better architecture.
Before he too misty eyed about Paris, might be worth thinking about how much of it was due to people like Georges-Eugène Haussmann who, not to put too fine a point on it, didn't give a flying fuck at a brioche about people who objected to having their homes totalled in pursuit of his grand design...
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I hope someone pointed out to him that YOU CAN'T WALK ON THE MOTORWAY IN NEW ZEALAND! Whether it's above or below ground.
With tunnels, there's a special section dedicated to walkers and cyclists. It's called "above".
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Oh, probably. You have to understand that Owen issues his fatwas against selfish suburbanites and their families from the Centre for Resource Management Studies HQ in Kaiwaka, Northland.
Actually, his more fantastic arguments are:
1) All this thought is given to the air quality in the community - what about the air quality for the commuters, who have to be stuck in a tunnel full of *CARS*!
2) All this thought is given to the community's enjoyment of green spaces. What about the drivers' rights to enjoy them, too? (Via looking out their window when they're driving, cos driving through green spaces is sweet.)
I kid you not.
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Before getting too misty eyed about Paris, might be worth thinking about how much of it was due to people like Georges-Eugène Haussmann who, not to put too fine a point on it, didn't give a flying fuck at a brioche about people who objected to having their homes totalled in pursuit of his grand design...
Ah yes, Haussmannisation. Got to love streets designed with cannonballs in mind.
And Keith: well played!
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much of it was due to people like Georges-Eugène Haussmann
I'm with Baudelaire in preferring the pre-Haussmannised Paris (or in my case, the remnants of it). The Champs Elysee is actually rather boring compared to the mazes of old alleys in places like the Marais, and considering that the rather overscaled grand boulevards are still vastly more attractive than any motorway, the difference between an environment designed purely to move vehicles and a city that works at a human scale is enormous.
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Ya know, Haussmann looked awfully like John Banks.
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So claustrophobics have a greater transport policy weighting than agoraphobics huh? "Open roads are generally frightening places to even drive through – shades of JFK spring too readily to mind."
The Herald today has two relevant stories: Aussie banks' rates higher in NZ
That article really should have been entitled: Aussie banks' rates higher in NZ with explainable causes.
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Oh, also: I notice that Daily Show episodes are freely available on iTunes. Are they blocked as well?
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