Posts by dc_red
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I gotta drive home. I will be there in 17 minutes. It will cost me about $3 in gas. By contrast a bus at this time of night would take 50 minutes (+ walking and waiting time) and cost $5.70.
I mention these grim details, because as from tomorrow, I'm back on the bus!
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Yamis, you mix in interesting circles: drunk motorcylists; friends who live in gang streets. By contrast, I have never had opportunity or need to dial 111. Once, in Canada, there was a pretty significant car crash near our place. My room-mate dialled 911 and it was engaged(!?). It took the fire engines about 10 minutes to get there to free one guy, which was interesting because the fire station was about an 8 minute walk down the road.
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Better late than never: cars "liberate" you from your cash pretty darn quick, but having said that for the last 2 weeks I've been driving instead of catching the bus as per usual and its great.
Not because of other passengers (hardly ever had a problem with them in Auckland ... 99% are of the "sit silently and stare straight ahead" variety) but because buses are so damn slow. Between the torturous routes, the constant stops, and the the walks at either end of the voyage .... errrggg!
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NaOH said:
marvellous
Are you really John Campbell?
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Cheers Joe. Funny how someone had previously described him as "a half-dead sheep".
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I was also a witness to Thatcher's handbagging by Howe (the poodle that roared) and her subsequent demise in the following weeks will always have a special place in my heart.
Sounds interesting, does anyone happen to know if audio or video is available on-line?
On another note, I can't help but wonder whether the recent round of atrocious polls for (NZ) Labour might have Helen adding a quick postscript to the budget about personal taxcuts (despite today's 102-pt font "NO" on the front page of the NZH).
At the very least a significant bracket adjustment might take the pressure off. And surprise National perhaps. Bill English already has his talking points ("only the rich can afford to save") well-rehearsed.
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Don, de Freitas claims "sea level change in the tropical Pacific, such as around Tuvalu, has stabilised over the past 15 years."
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Graeme - a good start. I think Chris de Freitas has also made this point.
He made some other rather good points in his NBR article (10 Nov 2006) ... doesn't appear to be online, but it includes a rather lengthy list of points regarding "exaggerated and distorted information" (perhaps not lies per se).
By way of example, de Freitas argues that Gore portrays the summer heat wave in Europe in 2003 as "unusual" when in fact it was due to an anticyclone deflecting warm air from Africa northward, something that has happened 4 times since the end of WW2.
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Oh, and I'd like to see a five year old do something other than make a mess of a plate of spaghetti. I do the same thing myself about every 5th plate. All over face/shirt./table/floor.
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Great post Sarah.
a smack for some minor, unintentional affront, followed by several more for crying about it, then perhaps a few more again for not fixing up the original problem properly etc etc
Good god, that does sound eerily familiar.