Posts by Ian Dalziel
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re production values...
Can I just threadjack briefly to register my dismay at the soulless Americanisation of Torchwood last night... -
Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
yes folks, it's a city of two halves...
Meanwhile, quake theme tours for meathead media.
I love our renowned Camera-loving Ringmaster's comment that "It's all about managing the interest of the media and helping them to focus on the remarkable recovery." - what remarkable recovery?
"the tours, will take in the inner-city red zone, AMI Stadium and the RWC 2011 fan zone." - why not the devastated school rugby fields, suburban red zones, and the like? that's more the real story...It is just more disaster-porn pandering, just what will there be to see within the next 5 weeks in the centre city that will be different or indicative of progress?
And it's not as if the city's new plan will be finalised by then, so as usual Bob'll just be making sound bites with little substance ...
But I'm sure Bob "Posey" Parker and Gerry "the Spirit Leveller" Brownlee will be front centre in the photo-ops - that's if Gerry is back from his arduous trip to Monte Carlo - how apt that the world's big Insurance gathering should be in a town famous for its high stakes gambling... -
How to get ahead with an iPad...
(possible NSFW bit near the end) -
Kismet, Hardy...
Nelson Ramp Link?
...sounds a bit 'one-eyed', Horatio...
:- )The Last Exit to Nowhere?
The Peter Off-Rampton? -
there's a suckle born every day...
Ask any farmer – sheep or dairy, and tell them to wean their future profit on substitute milk. They would laugh you off the paddock.
Er, ooh, ahh, that's Beastfeeding u r talking about!
field workers...
peer review
I alway's thought that that was when someone
(just like the author) looked at it from a long way away... -
Special e-vex...
While these complaints are kind of amusing, I don’t envy the BSA committee having to process them all.
I have fond memories of Misleading Cases apparently only 4 episodes still remain, no trace of which can be found on the web - so far...
I see Roy Dotrice is still going strong and has a role in Game of Thrones -
Hard News: Auckland City Nights, in reply to Patrick Reynolds,
Karangahape feet...
Seriously the K’rd bridge should be like the olde London Bridge or the Ponte Vecchio in Florence
... instead it has become the Bridge of sighs...
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Department of Corrections...
I don't think it's reasonable to expect that every correction should take up time on the 6pm news, but certainly on the broadcaster's website, and perhaps even in a weekly half-hour programme on Sundays.
The Press has a weekly section called "Putting it Right" - it can sometimes run to almost half a page!
And even though they invite correspondence from pedants, etc, they can often be quite snarky (and borderline insulting) when presenting these corrections, always seems like classic guilt transference to me.Foiled again...
The UC fencing club used to call itself the CUFC rather than the UCFC until we got a website and Canterbury University in England called to make us take it down.
Is that when they became the Epee Tough riders?
:- )What's up Doc?
What distresses me is that midwives can vary so wildly…
- as do obstetricians, GPs, any health professionalsCase in point the case of the young man who died from meningitis recently and the doctors who sent him home - ostensibly because they were going home or going off shift or some such, sheesh...
(it was on Checkpoint tonight - Aug 30) -
weighing in on the waiters...
A lot of our service industries don’t think because sales are down, it could be bad service.
I've always thought that Kiwis were crap at giving good service because they'd never experienced it here...
vista for visitors...
It shouldn’t be too difficult to remedy the view blocking screens on the K Rd bridge
Maybe they could paste up a big photo of the view?
or maybe in keeping with K Road's other industries they could set up pay per peep booths... -
NB: The Hollow Men doco on Maori TV tonight, 8.30 (Sunday Aug 28)