Posts by JackElder
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Brekekex, koax, koax.
On that tip, did anyone else get annoyed reading this article in the Express? It's the sort of faux-journalism that we have to put up with these days. An entire piece blathering on about how reptiles are vile, people who like them are vile, and the whole thing is simply beastly - but amphibians, man, amphibians are awesome! Pfft. Anyone with half a brain knows that reptiles and amphibians are both awesome. (ObXkcd)
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Don’t forget that all Aussie cops in Chch. are teamed with locals.
That doesn't necessarily mean the local was complicit with the beating, though. The presence of a local cop may have saved him from a worse one. E.g. o'seas cop throws a couple of punches, local cop says "that's not how we do it over here mate". But it could well be a hard one to get witnesses for on the record.
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But they were NOT New Zealand police officers.
So it looks like, as Danyl pointed out, that they were playing good cop, Australian cop.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Sacha,
with some facial hair and a bicycle
That's facial hair and a fixed-gear bicycle, thank you. Or a BMX.
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Pfft. Vinyl is for people who don't have the ear to appreciate MP3 compression artefacts.
Old People's Music: Lemon Jelly used to do shows in midafternoon, so all their friends with young kids could come along. Awesome.
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an older person...
Yet one who goes to Chemical Brothers gigs..Exit Planet Dust came out in 1995. If you were, say, 20 then, you're 35 now, heading towards 36. Hello me. Time moves quietly in the background, and it's easy to think "hey, that only came out recently" and then realise that you mean it was 16 years ago.
Similarly, the first Harry Potter book came out in 1997. If you were a 7-year old then, you're probably 20 now, staring at your 21st birthday soon. This is why I'm seeing so many Harry Potter tattoos on the internet: the kids who grew up with HP as such a huge part of their life childhood and adolescence are now adults.
Time eh.
That's bloody annoying about TVNZ7.
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if you’re one off those people given to flashy entrances I may be obliged to glare at you like a Wodehouse aunt and snap my braces aggressively.
Mental note: leave the flash bombs and smoke machine at home. And don't wear the mirror sequinned waistcoat.
Actually, my normal MO is to turn up about four hours after everything has started, by which point most participants are so rollocked they later have no memory of meeting me. While this has served me well so far, particularly in terms of the obtainment of light blackmail material, I may make more of an effort to be there prior to 7pm this time.
If we’re lucky, he’ll have his tits out.
I'll wear an open-necked shirt.
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Indeed, much respect to Orcon for that.
An etiquette question: if this is from 6-11pm, roughly what time will things actually be starting? As in, if I turn up at 7pm, will I be brusquely turned away at the door as the keynote has already started?
I'm confident about my ability to make small talk, but the actual start time will play a role in my choice of transport for the evening.
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I think some analysis on his part, rather than supposition, would find that some people can afford more expensive child seats, which has no relevance to how safe the various seats are, nor how much people value their children’s safety
Indeed. Car seats are a poor example, because all car seats must meet certain legal safety standards. The difference between a cheap car seat and an expensive one is mostly not related to safety; it’s usually bells and whistles (number of recline positions, amount of cosmetic padding, shininess, etc). Absent the ability to meaningfully compete on safety (because all seats must be safe in order to be sold), most competition in child safety seats is at this status symbol level. (At least, this was my experience from shopping for child seats a few years ago). The ‘valuing of children’s safety’ bit seems to come in with the question of whether people actually bother to buy or use a car seat, not in the model of seat they choose.
*Mess*-all impact, if you please.
Mess you, mother-messer! #sfwswearing
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A comment on WINZ and childcare: I'm on the board of my local not-for-profit, community run childcare centre. A regular feature of our monthly meetings is the centre manager wearily explaining particular columns on the fees outstanding spreadsheet as "there's a problem with the payments from WINZ". She regularly has to spend considerable amounts of time chasing up WINZ case managers to find out why payments haven't come in. It's a huge stuff-around.
I would not expect this system to become markedly more seamless and efficient if it's overloaded with a lot of single mothers being forced out to work.