Posts by Hadyn Green
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The surcharges really bug me.
And they bug for the reason that: if you're smart enough to calulate the percentage you need to add to every purchase on a given day in order to overcome the expenses of paying staff time-and-a-half and a day in lieu, then, you should be able to calculate the much much smaller percentage you need to add to your prices every day of the year so you don't have to raise it on one.
It especially irks me because for some reason the answer to the incredibly complicated estitmatation equation for calculating a surcharge always seem to come to 20%
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There were no stoppages and the official clock hit 80mins just before the TMO play
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You all realise, of course, that this whole song thing is but a smokescreen to hide today's announcement of ticket pricing?
And the fact that the song isn't a rumour! I just saw it on TV and... meh, it's an ad with-none-too-memorable-but-far-from-the-worst-I've-ever-heard rock. And of course it's just the slogan " right here, right now (no other place I'd wanna be) " that they want.
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Actually, I just realised I should've used Bill McLaren instead.
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Find the green civil-servant recycling cube on your desk
My one is black and smells like a banana skin was left in there for some time (it was), will this make a difference?
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Waihi has become a wee bit nicer recently. But this is mainly due to being a major arterial route on SH2 between Tauranga and Auckland (and the road to Whangamata during New Years).
I suggest that to boost revenue in small towns like this the Government re-route SH1 so that it winds through every single town in the country. Problem solved.
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Some days there really is no wisdom to be found in crowds and people take advantage of the relative anonymity to slip the leash. The Sevens is the same. Ghastly.
I think the difference with the Sevens is that they're drinking to have a good time. The guys at the cricket were drinking to get drunk (as they proudly yelled to one another at one point). The Sevens did surprise me with the lack of real drunk arseholes compared to folks drinking and having a good time.
But as Paul said:
It's not a cricket-thing, it's a length-of-time-drinking thing.
Which in turn makes it a cricket thing I suppose (and a Sevens thing and a thing for any all-day event that serves alcohol).
I will admit that they weren't arseholes the entire time and that their return fire at the Australians at the top of the hill was funny at times. I suppose I was a bit surprised to find that at the cricket rather than at other supposedly more "yobbo" sports.
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Firearms licences are cool. You could get one of those.
A friend of mine at uni had one and when he turned 20 while I was still 19 he loaned me the card so we could skirt a law that was changed a few years later.
It was funny how the bouncers didn't really look past the word "firearms" before letting me in.
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That teared me up just reading about it. Can we hope for some heroics on Friday at the Basin? Somehow I don't see that sort of mental toughness in either team.
To be honest I didn't follow the recent pop-cricket story closely but didn't an Aussie head back home straight away when his fiance was in trouble and dump her for some reason? Not quite the same.
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Gio: I think I vaguely remember the ad you're talking about. There's also this.
Why all the lineout art? It's not even our strong point. Could we have a statue of stoic defence?