Posts by Stewart
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And here's Dixie & Castro 'at leisure'
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Hi Jackie,
she is american bulldog cross - what with we don't know; she came from teh Waitakere pound & has a few issues (very defensive & barky) despite all the love & affection we lavish on her.
Castro, on the other hand, is a very friendly dog.
They both go to doggy day-care once a week cos where we live they don't get much chance to socialise with other dogs. Seen a big improvement in Dixie as a result. -
That was Dixie (above) and here is her "little brother" Castro in a similar pose
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Not sure I remember how to upload the photo, but here goes...
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Fair enough to speed up the delivery from the back of the ruck (but if winding down the clock won't they just keep the ball in the ruck, rather than make it available for the halfback?) but why not make an effort to get teh friggin scrums right?
The scrums are the single biggest blight on the game at the moment (MHO, of course) and I don't want them to get rid of scrums as they are an important part of the game, but the CTPE nonsense and the exaggeration of the hit are making it a laughing stock.
That's the area they should have targetted...
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Reading this thread is enlightening (up to a point) but also depressing.
Our b/band is so JohnKey/shonky that we can't even set up a Skype account, never mind torrenting stuff that might or might not be legally available.
(Maybe the Skype failure was weather-related; we're talking Monday in west Auckland here...)But I am getting well past the point of 'keeping up' with contemporary culture - I simply don't have the time or the inclination to be watching lots of tv. I will just continue to pick & choose what I want to watch at my time-shifted leisure, and lament the demise of TVNZ7, our last bastion of 'brain-live' local television.
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OnPoint: Student Loans are Loans (Duh.), in reply to Bart Janssen,
In essence this is social engineering but without any intelligent reasoning behind the engineering.
Anti-social engineering?
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If we are talking smarm I have to insist that John Key and Steve Joyce combine to form the Laurel & Hardy of smarm .
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There is a softball diamond close to the railway line, up in the hills behind Fuengirola in Andalucia. Which is where I stumbled my way through a series of 'Residentes V Toursitas' games at the end of 77, start of 78.
Standing in the right outfield, a chilled bottle of San Miguel in 1 hand, mitt on the other... what fun we had!
The USians and the Canadians generally took it a bit more seriously (often not even drinking in the field) but the Aussies, Kiwis and assorted others were there for both booze and softball and generally acquitted themselves well. Often some non-plussed North Americans looking at an antipodean sideways thinking 'How the fuck did he do that?'Haven't played since.
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Yes, I quite agree. However, given the stakes and the need to get it right, I feel the police should have procedures to actively strive not to fall into this mind-set.
Tough ask, I admit, but I know I wouldn't want to be 'the main suspect' under such circumstances.
