Posts by Sam F
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Makes me wonder about his behavior in the oil rig locker rooms.
I think you're too hung up on roughnecks' rights, Steven. Treat 'em all softly-softly and they'll just end up back in the wider community to drill again.
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Hey, maybe Ports of Auckland could offer leased space with containers and a good strong iron fence thrown in. A little party central, a little Jailhouse Rock, could be a happening thing.
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If you want to build modular prison cells, do a decent job and design it properly and build it from raw materials
This might actually help a boost to a few NZ businesses with good modular housing ideas, and even give prisoners a chance to develop and use construction skills that don't just involve blowtorching windows out of steel boxes. But whoa, heaven forbid we should encourage proper Kiwi ingenuity in building good efficient options from the start, rather than in bodging halfpie solutions from a pile of crap. That'd be too dear anyway. Didn't you notice there's a recession on? And who wants to be nice to crims, particularly now?
... at the moment a bit of creative up-cycling is a good option... I don't see any problem as using them for housing in general, let alone prisons. As I said, I've seen container houses that looked more liveable than many of the London flats I had lived in at the time, and just as good as what seem to me to be very reasonable apartments in NZ.
I'd say right on, but something tells me that if some of our inmates do end up staying in shipping container-based accommodation, they are not going to benefit from the same level of thoughtful design work that has gone into the buildings you describe. Otherwise, they just won't be a satisfying el cheapo option, which is obviously what this is really all about.
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This subject is familiar and fairly close to the bone for myself and my family since a relative experienced a sudden (and still inexplicable) brain injury three years ago. The journey back to wellness for him seems very long and uncertain at the moment, but it's good to to hear from someone who's been through similar troubles and pulled through, especially with the sheer courage and humour that rings through your story. Thanks.
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Sean Plunket was practically advocating swine flu parties this morning before the public health spokeswoman managed to ram it through his brain that there was a big social cost to everyone getting it all at once.
Yeah, that was a bit of a worry.
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Since elements within Big Pharma obviously re-packaged those mind control drugs and distributed them as Gardasil, I'm not so sure I agree.
I understand your concern, but sadly you can't believe everything you hear from Family First.
... It's not the same without any actual conspiracy theorists left on the forum now that lowercase p has departed, is it?
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But the pharmaceutical companies arethe ones who orchestrated 911. Duh.
Ah, but what you'll never read about in the left-controlled media is the secondary operation below Ground Zero, where Big Pharma agents moved to wipe out a lab run by the Lower Manhattan mole people who were using alien technology stolen from crypts in Giza to develop mind-control drugs disguised as cancer vaccines.
See, large corporations do sometimes do good, if one's willing to take a realistic view of things.
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The Red Fence - I love it, and suspect the old part of it, including around Queens Wharf, might be heritage listed. It is a beautiful piece of Victorian or Edwardian ironwork - let's please leave it up! But with the gates open!
Is there money in the budget for an old man on a bicycle to open them each morning?
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Instead, this Star heralds the imminent emergence of Maitreya, the World Teacher, and the beginning phase of the total transformation of every aspect of our lives
No ordinary sun...
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Dude, you should try lamb shanks with red wine in a slow cooker: unreal.
Suburbanites unite!
I think that's going on the must-try list for our slow cooker as well.
Side question: is "suburbane" a recognised adjective yet?