Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to
soggy bottom buoys…
Anglicans seem to be comfy with a range of views on whether or not the eucharist is really the body of Christ. They certainly don't let it put a damper on their kind of fun. I imagine they'll take a similar approach on the cathedral being truly cardboard.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to
a cardboard building not being water tight might be considered, um, problematic?
As was mentioned upthread, the "cardboard cathedral" tag has turned out to be bit of a pious fraud. As there were issues with producing tubes of the required structural thickness in NZ they're now cosmetic sheaths for (presumably) laminated wooden beams, with steel plate bolted connectors holding the structure together.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to
does the facebook page exist?
There's this.
Button's own page is pretty much a token effort that hasn't been updated in 3 years.
As for the other one, I blocked him some time ago after receiving a FB friend request.
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Cracker: Johnny Foreigner & the Auckland…, in reply to
Which incidentally brings me to one of my pet peeves: New Zealand birth certificates have an expiry date, and have to be “renewed”.
Um… are you sure? I have a 2002 and a 2004 example in front of me, and I cant see any expiry date, and I’ve just read all the fine-print to make sure.
Mine cost me $7 back in 1984. There's no mention of an expiry date anywhere. I happen to have it handy because I used it only last week to establish my ID with both a bank and a government department.
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to
from the bunker beneath Parliament
These old caves are spooky. I wish we’d stayed up in the office.
Key: This is more private. Besides, I rather like it. The dark . . . the silence. Helen told me these caverns extend for miles but I’ve never taken the time to explore. [Laughs] Apparently Mike Moore would disappear down here for weeks – they had to send the army down with dogs and climbing gear to find him.
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Speaker: The Mirror of Our Selves, in reply to
Cars still use spark-plugs and they are just as important as they have ever been
Like exhaust systems, spark plugs last far longer now that lead tetraethyl is gone from petrol. I believe that's why "muffler shops" have all but vanished. Also the proportion of diesel vehicles continues to rise.
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This book looks about right for Councillor Keown. Fortunately it's about as real as his chances of a second term, though in a town that on a bad day can seem like a badly sheltered workshop you never know.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to
I’d have thought he’d have learned after his illiterate ACT campaign billboards some years back…
Says what he likes cos he's just a Keown?
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to
…here’s another! More flawed Council approval processes…
Seems that the rot goes way back on that one. Out of all the councillors, only Glenn Livingstone has consistently pushed for the original consents to be revisited.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to
His job is not to make consent decisions, but to strengthen the team who does.
Oh yeah? The same Crown manager this week appointed to the city council, Doug Martin, was part of a team appointed to write a report on Ecan. As you say, different skillset.