Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Heh, just watch me do a Homer impression...But, rethink the usage of the land? Different crops for a continuous yield? Several hundred trees says 'farm' to me rather than 'garden', though :-)
I have two apple trees at my house, and I can't eat the yield off one of them. Last year I got about 20 buckets of apples off one of them (it's a monster). Made 25 litres of cider, half a dozen litres of juice, and about 10 apple pies.
Sadly the cider turned out to be barely drinkable (but nicely alcoholic). The apple pies though... OMG.
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Apologies if that damages your brain, Kyle.
I was with you until you said C6H12O6. Which seriously, that's not chemistry, that's a robot off star wars, stop trying to pull the wool over my eyes.
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Just kidding. I understand you're saying a guy drives to the cabinets each day in a ferrari, gets everyone's email out & walks it the last mile or so to your place.
I reckon, when he gets to the cabinet, he should phone me up and read my email out to me.
Cause all that walking, that's gotta be tiring, and you gotta use the new technology that's available.
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I'm all for the environment and saving power as much as the next guy - in fact, probably more.
But microwaving jam feels... wrong. Aren't there laws about preserving fruit and jams and whatnot that say it have to be done on top of an oven?
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Put feijoas, juice, ginger in a large bowl and microwave on high, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Stir in the sugar and nuke again for another five minutes.
Microwave? What's the world coming to?
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The marinas only own a right to the posts so as long as you don't tie up to the post its free to drop anchor in the marina.
You can't anchor in any marina that's in a port, it's against the law. The marina authority will get you to move your boat, and if you don't, it'll be moved for you, and possibly confiscated.
And other boaties in the marina will also take matters into their own hands if you're blocking their access in and out. You might suddenly find your boat anchored near some rocks without a stern line.
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What do you all think? Are people just spooked, or are there really hard times ahead?
I really don't get how a consumer confidence survey makes news. Or why anyone pays to do it.
It really is a bunch of people going out and asking "so... how do you feel about the economy? Things looking up? Going to buy major household items soon?"
As far as I can tell, it has about as much scientific value as any public opinion poll, or the virtual super 12 picks on whether the crusaders are going to beat the hurricanes this weekend.
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It has to be admitted that Keef is currently miles cooler than Paul, because he has a higher 'I seriously don't give a fuck' quotient. Paul is insanely dorky, *and* he's a complete burnout pot casualty. Poor silly old Paul. (He still writes a good choon, though.)
I can't ever see 'Keef' as cool. His skin is falling off his face in threads, and he falls out of trees and hits his head like a 5 year old. And he never could play his instrument with much talent.
And Paul just beat back some money-grubbing woman I understand. He's been busy.
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Just walk away and allow genocide, much worse than the carnage to date, to take place? That is the most likely outcome of the implication of your statement. Just sit back and watch a bloodbath taking place and say "not my problem”. How is that the right thing to do?
If that is what you really believe, then follow the NYT and Obama and make an explicit statement to that effect, I want to see it in print, in all its obscenity.
Oh yawn.
Take that statement and apply it to umpteen other places around the world that the US either has, or hasn't 'intervened' in. That bloodbath in Vietnam... which actually wasn't so much a bloodbath for Vietnamese, as an intervention to prevent further bloodshed from Pol Pot. That little Sudan area, which the US seems to have forgotten exists, and where the bloodbath is much worse.
The moral high ground act from people who support the intervention in Iraq because there's WMDs... er, removing Saddam... er I mean, it'll be a disaster if we don't leave now... seriously. No one's buying that shit.
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We've talking 1950s NZ.
In addition to the capitalisation of the family benefit for a deposit. If you wanted to build your own you needed to follow the prescribed plan or your mortgage would not be approved.
OK, well I own a 1950s house, and it doesn't follow a state house model. Nor do thousands of other houses built around New Zealand at the time. My street actually has a number of ex-Railways houses on it. They didn't require consent for their houses at all - they had an exemption.
Any modernist house in New Zealand was built in the era of state housing, and none of them are anything like state houses. Most of them would have been built with mortgages, and requiring normal planning consent.
And making it easier for state house tenants to buy their homes, doesn't make it harder for other people to build their own. They've not being deprived of anything though state housing.