Posts by BenWilson

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  • Cracker: P is for Politics.,

    Sofie, these conspiracy theory theorists are a conspiracy. Just my theory.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report

  • Cracker: P is for Politics.,

    Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you aren't out to get them.

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  • Hard News: The Munter and the Munted,

    Sheree Greegan. In the hospital. With the poisoned drip. Has anyone got hospital?

    Damn, I've got hospital. What's this crap you gave me? Aaron Spiller? Hah, ready to play. Spiller, in the Bongo, with a Rusty Nail.

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  • Cracker: P is for Politics.,

    but remember he's the one campaigning, trying to convince us he deserves our vote, so really the onus to prove his character should be reversed, no?

    He needs to demonstrate relevant things about his character, definitely. And to answer any specific accusations of wrongdoing or incompetence.

    That's if he has any chance of becoming mayor, which he doesn't. He can just fail to dignify any personal accusations with any answer at all, and give his real opinion on actual issues. That's kind of welcome in a candidate. A pity his opinion is silly. TBH it's his opinions themselves that make me wonder if the P didn't get the better of him. Then again, he could just be a dick.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report

  • Cracker: P is for Politics.,

    I'd wager the only thing holding you back from a lucrative career in the police is the frank admission that you moisturize.

    Yes, I'm far too smooth and soft for that kind of thing.

    I wouldn't claim my nose is infallible. Mostly it's just probability. Smell a herby smell on someone you know doesn't cook, and there you go.

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  • Cracker: P is for Politics.,

    The annoying thing about a smell used in the invoking of a search is that it's impossible to prove you don't have a smell. The range of ability is not quantified. A bloodhound could probably smell if you'd been in the same room as cannabis. I'm pretty sure I can smell if people have smoked it within a few hours after, even if they have changed clothes and showered in the interim. Some people think it affects the smell of your sweat, and I would not really be surprised if that is so. Hell, I can smell smoke on clothes that have been through the washing machine.

    When I last came back from Amsterdam I was thoroughly searched, and my bags were swabbed and the sample put into some machine. I had to laugh when they came back and told me the swabs showed strong traces of heroin and explosives. It was probably true, depending how sensitive a machine you used, my bags had sat on a hotel table in Amsterdam for over a week, and Christ only knows what kind of chemicals would set off an explosives test. I recalled that one of my moisturizer tubs had decompressed on the plane, and one of the chemicals in that was glycerin - that seemed to satisfy the officer doing the search. I only laughed because I knew they would find no heroin or explosives, and the two juxtaposed together into the one accusation seemed farcical. So I was both a drug smuggler and a terrorist? mmmkay.

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  • Cracker: P is for Politics.,

    A woman I lived with once had the drug squad turn up at her door with a warrant. She demanded to see it, and they shamefaced had to go back to the car to find it. She then read it, and found that they only had permission to search the room inhabited by her boarder. Pays to pay attention to these things - if you just let them in and say 'go for it', you could end up with a hell of a mess to clean up, and trouble you needn't have faced if they find anything even remotely dodgy.

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  • Hard News: The Munter and the Munted,

    Their stoner spots have a ring of authenticity about them. I hadn't noticed before that their tool van is a Bongo too. LOLZ.

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  • Hard News: The Munter and the Munted,

    Van definitely had the best lines. I rated "I've already got the car and the hat!" whilst elaborating his hairbrained jailbreak idea as the funniest, although the visual humor of the car chase did actually put out longer. It did seem rather silly that a villain would flee to a carpark at the very end of the Te Atatu peninsular, and then try to run for it (where to? Was he going to swim across to Pt Chev?) and even sillier that he wouldn't be able to drag off a Toyota Getz (or whatever it was), and dumbest of all that he would yell "Fuck you pig" and do a huge burnout right in front of a cop, but that was all part of the fun.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report

  • Cracker: P is for Politics.,

    but we'd have a better drug debate if that simple truth was borne in mind

    Totally. I often think it's missing when people talk about responsible drug use, usually meaning "How people who have been using their drug for decades eventually come to use it". I especially include alcohol as one of those drugs.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 10657 posts Report

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