Posts by Dave Patrick
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Sean Plunkett was especially wearing yesterday morning, trying to get a lawyer (or law professor, or something - teach me not to listen properly) to say that the Virender Singh decision was an incentive to shop owners to "tool up" as he put it (continuously).
The lawyer was very calm and very sensible (the only person who was) and kept saying no, there's no precedent set, not it doesn't give anyone the right to tool up, yes it's perfectly appropriate for the police to prosecute, and perfectly appropriate for the JPs to choose not to send it to trial.
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So, what does being on the blacklist mean?
Does canteens.com.au get any Australian traffic? Or is it something less insidious?
That's pretty much what it means, yes - Australian ISPs are supposed to block traffic from their subscribers to all the sites on the blacklist.
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Never had door-knockers when I was young, because dad was the local Presbyterian minister - hence I can hold a pretty in-depth discussion on the Bible without even drawing breath. Arguing with the door-knockers is quite fun (especially with the Mormons), but most of the time they get a polite "not interested thanks".
One early Sunday morning door-knocker did get me out of bed looking a bit worse for wear, when I told them I wasn't interested they said "Isn't there anything in the world you 'd like to change?" I said "The number of people who knock on my bloody (actual word spoken may differ from that published here) door at 9:30 on a Sunday morning". They went away.
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That song is also the genesis for "What are ya?" and its response "What are you?"
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I'm sure there's an Aussie equivalent because "double overhead grease-nipples" seems to ring a bell
Almost right - it's chrome plated grease nipples and double reverse overhead twin cam door handles
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It will smell of victory. Or sweat, I guess.
I thought victory smelt like napalm? Or is that just in the morning, maybe in the afternoon it smells like sweat... If so, what does it smell like by late evening?
Ashes?
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Ah, portals - the web answer to the question of ....... well, what, actually? I've yet to use a portal-type site on a regular basis.
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If you really want to terrorise the opposition, you should be coming out to this (or in fact anything by Wold)
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Flat Earth News by Nick Davies
A former Guardian journalist and columnist deconstructs the newspaper industry to explain why we're all so hideously uninformed by modern journalism and newspapers. Bloody good read, and should be compulsory for Journalism schools and media studies departments everywhere. Mostly applicable to the UK and the US, but I can see similarities here in New Zealand with the enormous growth in reporting and the subsequent reduction in journalism.
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Waiuku College, late 70s, south of Auckland. Wagging.
And being terrified of authority and a bit of a goodie-goodie, I only did it once. I was accredited in the 6th form, but we still had to come to school every day during the exams that we didn't have to sit. After the first two days of doing nothing and generally being bored shitless, about 10 of us (3 or 4 who had been accredited, the others who hadn't but weren't sitting the exams either) took off to the beach for the day.
Next day the 3 or 4 of us who had been accredited were hauled in front of the deputy principal and castigated for not being at school, while the others got off scot-free. Not that I have a chip on my shoulder, or can remember the complete details to this day, oh no..... it was just the injustice of being singled out - I don;t think they really cared what the kids who weren't sitting exams because they knew they were going to fail anyway did, they were more concerned about the so-called "good" kids being seen misbehaving.