Posts by Whoops
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Would it be stretching geographic protection too far to prevent South American-grown fruit from using the name "Kiwifruit"? :-)
It would be contentious to interpret the name as "Fruit originating from New Zealand, and thus known as 'Kiwi'" rather than "Fruit which looks like a fat flightless bird", but the thought amuses me nonetheless.
Wasn't it called the Chinese Gooseberry for a while (after we ah, liberated a sample from China)?
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Agree - for a short amount of time one of the channels (tv1?) was running footage of the guy being pulled from his car with a massive head injury. I'm fairly certain he was deceased... once someone in the control room worked out what the situation was they stopped using it pretty quickly.
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Unconfirmed commentary on HuffPo that tourist were up in the Cathedral Tower.
Fuck.
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to Russell Brown,
Russell I thought you’d know this trick.
Get something waaaay to extreme injected into the report so you can say it’s a step too far (hinting; look at me, I’m a nice guy) and go for the ‘middle’ ground —- which happens to be exactly where you wanted to go in the first place.
Helen did it all the time, IMHO this is no different.
edit - just read your later reply... carry on, but I do think it is bait and switch.Also... wtf about the pensioners whose bill is (I think) larger than dpb'ers
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Very timely - thanks Mr B.
My wife just (monday night) gave birth to our second, and most likely last, child...
Have been thinking about this op quite a bit, especially motivated by seeing the, ah, business end of the process (according to obstebutchertrician because of complications from previous c-section she got to a into a situation where 1-in10 babies die... so things got pretty brutal VERY quickly).
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Another coffee anecdote... draw up a stool, young child, and I will try to amuse you..
When I used to live/work in the UK I had to spend 6 weeks on a mission-from-hell assignment in Milan.It was a fiendishly difficult task (space do-hickey), and my hosts would yell 'coffee break' (in Italian obviously) whenever something requiring deep thought popped up (i.e. every 15 minutes or so).... I could keep up with the coffee breaks for the first week, but after that my body started to do very strange things.
If I remember correctly the brand of choice was Kimbo, or Bimbo, or something.
Double shot, tiny, tiny plastic cups served from one of the million vending machines (yes!) around the office...
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One of many surreal experiences in China (with photographic proof somewhere) was entering a Starbucks inside the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Just. Plain. Out. Of. Place.
(and the coffee was bad there too!)
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uhh, not to be a jerk but in the paragraph outlining the fact-fail of the original you point out ...'the Indian food conglomerate Tata'.
Assuming you're thinking of the same Tata I am... Tata do a hell of a lot more than food...
http://www.tata.com/products/index.aspx?sectid=U2YC1EMmQuk=
Seriously, this man is a blogger?:-P
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I've been enjoying nearly a month at Lake Okareka, but yesterday's stupidity has put a chill over the lake.
What a waste.
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Hi Russell - can you point me to any more NotSchool information or theri site - I looked but google has failed me (other than a couple of blgos about it).