Hard News by Russell Brown

Read Post

Hard News: Somebody flicked the Christmas Switch

28 Responses

First ←Older Page 1 2 Newer→ Last

  • LegBreak,

    Word of the year?


    Reconditioning

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1162 posts Report Reply

  • Joanna,

    (You can, of course, simply try your luck at the door on Thursday night as you trip down Cuba Mall.)

    Yup, do come along anyway after 7pm - no doubt there'll be people leaving at various times in the night, so you might very well just get lucky. Nudge nudge, wink wink.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 746 posts Report Reply

  • Tom Semmens,

    Goodness me, everyone in Auckland is decamping for Waiheke as far as I can tell.

    We've got ourselves a place on the island organised for Xmas/New Year and the social calendar is positively tizzy with BBQ's, picnics, vinyard visits, long lunches, beach time and semi-strenuous hiking about will sorts of friends who are over there as well.

    OTOH, its going to be Christmas for the burglars of Auckland thats fo' sure!

    Now I am going to head down the line to fetch my dear Mumma and take her shopping for the xmas groceries tomorrow.

    I hope I get to hear Snoopy's xmas on the car radio. It's my favourite xmas song and makes me feel all seasonal.

    Sevilla, Espana • Since Nov 2006 • 2217 posts Report Reply

  • Tom Semmens,

    Ohhh here is a thought that just occured to me... is Waiheke the New Zealand answer to the Hamptons? After all, I'm going to be there.

    Sevilla, Espana • Since Nov 2006 • 2217 posts Report Reply

  • Tom Beard,

    Is it just me, or does this guy look eerily like Muldoon at times? Warning: do not click if you intend to get any more work done today.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1040 posts Report Reply

  • Paul Brislen,

    YouTube clip of the day surely has to be...

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 200 posts Report Reply

  • Tom Semmens,

    What would we do without Nicky?

    Sevilla, Espana • Since Nov 2006 • 2217 posts Report Reply

  • Paul Brislen,

    we'd have real news.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 200 posts Report Reply

  • Tony Kennedy,

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 225 posts Report Reply

  • dc_red,

    Tom Beard wrote:

    Is it just me, or does this guy look eerily like Muldoon at times? Warning: do not click if you intend to get any more work done today.

    What's more he's actively malevolent like Muldoon. e.g., just when I thought I had the little b*stard beat, he pulled out a massive iron bar and hit 'me' over the head.

    Oil Patch, Alberta • Since Nov 2006 • 706 posts Report Reply

  • Sarah Flynn,

    Word of the year: Debenture (= unsecured debt backed only by the integrity of the borrower, not by collateral).

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 16 posts Report Reply

  • Rich of Observationz,

    re: debentures:

    Told you so! - March 2005

    Waiheke was described this morning on George as the Ibiza of Auckland. Bleuuuuuurgggggggh!

    (although I assume almost everything they say on George is meant to be ironic).

    Back in Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 5550 posts Report Reply

  • Sarah Flynn,

    Well done Rich, you're officially a smartypants. Mind you, given current high interest rates, 9% has always seemed like a bloody stingy rate of return to me, given that you could get as much as 8.5% just by sticking your money in a savings account last time I checked. Can't understand why people would bother going there, naivete notwithstanding...?

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 16 posts Report Reply

  • Stephen Judd,

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 3122 posts Report Reply

  • Sarah Flynn,

    Ps my mum lives on Waiheke, so we'll probably be there too! And having complained for years myself about all the 'townies' clogging up the roads with their flash cars, we'll be taking ours, as Mum's decrepit little Honda City is in no fit state to carry a baby seat. Parenthood makes pragmatists of us all...

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 16 posts Report Reply

  • Paul Rowe,

    Waiheke was described this morning on George as the Ibiza of Auckland

    Well you might as well enjoy it. The locals here in the Bridge refer to Mangere Bridge as the Mission Bay of South Auckland

    I prefer Le Pont Paresseux when I am feeling suitably Continental.


    My word of the year: McGehanesque to describe an embarrassing local eyesore that could be the Key to riches.

    Lake Roxburgh, Central Ot… • Since Nov 2006 • 574 posts Report Reply

  • Rich of Observationz,

    Mangere Bridge was the place where Jonah Lomu got beaten up on his way home from school.

    Who were those kids? And why aren't *they* in the All Blacks?

    Back in Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 5550 posts Report Reply

  • Emma Hart,

    Well you might as well enjoy it. The locals here in the Bridge refer to Mangere Bridge as the Mission Bay of South Auckland

    I prefer Le Pont Paresseux when I am feeling suitably Continental.

    I think you'd be hard pressed to beat refering to Timaru as the 'Riviera of the South'. That spawned my family calling Orari the 'gateway to Geraldine'.

    And this is my pick for trendy-liberal-guilt Christmas present of the year.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report Reply

  • Robyn Gallagher,

    And this is my pick for trendy-liberal-guilt Christmas present of the year.

    Christ on a bike!

    Since Nov 2006 • 1946 posts Report Reply

  • Richard Goode,

    Er, Russell.

    If you give party pills as Christmas gifts you'll be looking at 8 years in jail.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2007 • 2 posts Report Reply

  • paulalambert,

    Relax, I believe first there is a 6 month amnesty for traders to dispose of any stock. Not that I would recommend giving anyone that crap.

    chch • Since Dec 2006 • 107 posts Report Reply

  • Sue,

    what no party pills?
    so it's back to the e then?

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 527 posts Report Reply

  • Richard Goode,

    Nope.

    Amnesty in relation to use and possession for personal use of BZP
    (1) Despite section 4 of this Act and section 7 of the principal Act, it is not an offence for a person, in relation to any of the controlled drugs added by section 4 of this Act to Part 1 of Schedule 3 of the principal Act, to do either or both of the following before 18 June 2008:
    (a) to possess for his or her own use an amount of that controlled drug that is less than the amount, level, or quantity at and over which that controlled drug is presumed to be for supply, as specified in Schedule 5 of the principal Act (as amended by section 5 of this Act):
    (b) to use that controlled drug.

    Italics mine.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2007 • 2 posts Report Reply

  • Nat Torkington,

    Fingers crossed, then, that Juha will be the only Aucklander heading north to Leigh for the holidays. I look forward to a barren Omaha, its former residents enjoying the clogged streets and intimate ambience of Waiheke, your Auckland away from Auckland.

    Ti Point • Since Nov 2006 • 100 posts Report Reply

  • Max Call,

    Outside the butcher's shop, a metre-high mechanised Santa sings something unintelligible and swivels his hips in a constant, lonely roadside dance, like an old man on party pills*.

    lol
    I had a Regional Manager who had a very similar height and build to those dancing Santas - and he danced just like them. Now everytime I see one as I walk down the street it reminds me of him dancing at the staff Christmas party and I have to laugh. RM wasn't on party pills though he had definitely partaken in a few ales.

    Fruit Bowl of New Zealand… • Since Jun 2007 • 153 posts Report Reply

First ←Older Page 1 2 Newer→ Last

Post your response…

Please sign in using your Public Address credentials…

Login

You may also create an account or retrieve your password.