Posts by Stephen Judd
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Field Theory: Gruts, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Men should only discuss hats in public internet forums
Surely the mark of a true gentleman is that he can discuss *anything* with propriety, delicacy, accuracy and tact.
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Southerly: One Hundred and Thirty-one…, in reply to stephen walker,
everything ever built in nz has to be done on the cheap and be reliant on no. 8 fencing wire.
Reckon. This country’s flimsy, provisional, hesitant, half-arsed approach to so much work, public and private, makes me sad.
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Corruption in New Zealand is about connections and influence and mutual doing of favours in apparently licit ways. Those reports accurately note that we don't go in for bribes or kickbacks. But there are other means.
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Thanks to this Metafilter post, today I learned about the Jolly Boys.
Here, they look their best:
Here, they sound better:
I am suspicious of all these "hey, we discovered cool old dudes" revivals, but I like this too much to care.
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Hard News: The Political Lie, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
last nights was a great one of the “it’s over already, can’t you keep going?” type
Absolutely agree. It felt as though we were just getting started. I would have loved to go down the pub after and hear the rest.
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I dread to think what the class taste enforcement squad over at the Standard are going to make of this.
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: Radioactive Space Donut, in reply to CatherineP,
I think we have IE6. At least every other site I open tells me my browser is outdated and that I should upgrade... Well, clearly there will be no money for the next 10 years to buy software updates to bring us in line with the real world..
Firefox and Chrome are free. Sounds like your organisation is wasting money on software that costs money to buy (yes I know all software has costs to support and run).
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Jack, one of my colleagues moved to Churton Park and only then discovered the lack of shops. She wrote to Peter Dunne (dunno what she thought he could do) and Dunne replied explaining that residents had previously got planning regs set up that way because it was felt that shops would encourage undesirable elements to loiter.
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Hard News: Some Lines for Labour, in reply to Russell Brown,
A friend who returned from Britain last year can’t get over how expensive food is here. I worry about that.
Supermarket duopoly surely has a lot to do with that. When independent retailers (Halal Butchers in Newtown, or any weekend market) are consistently cheaper than the supposed cheapest supermarket in town (PakNSave) for fresh meat, veg and fruit, there's something wrong.
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A skillset of indecent breadth... now there's a thing to conjure with.