Posts by Don Christie
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Nat...what Auckland deserves and what Aucklanders (according to the Herald and Mr. Slack) want are not the same thing.
Did you miss the harbour proposal last year, being the new kid and all?
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So my point remains valid. Horseshit? I'm gonna send Whaleoil around to shoot you in the head and steal your cigars, which I shall smoke whilst snogging your widow at your funeral. Unless you are gay, in which case I'll quietly give the cigars back and wash my hands.
Sorry, but this deserved a second posting. Saved in my quotes bucket for future plagerisation.
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Graeme Edgeler == Grim Udler
Three is about as short as I can get it - any other takers...
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Nice summary David. I would not be so sure that nothing will come of the present initiatives.
I am sure that the Government will be vilified over time for failing to met targets, empty rhetoric etc. etc. but what we are seeing now is aligned with stuff happening in Europe, particularly the UK. It would be wrong to underestimate the influence the UK/NZ Labour govts. have on each other WRT social and economic policy.
Equally consumers in our target markets will be watching what happens in producer countries very closely. Indeed, the Federated Farmers leaderships recent statements on global warming would make me very worried about the future if I were a farmer. Imagine Tesco's sticking the latest flat earth statements from them over the NZ produce shelf.
Finally, the energy sector is like the Telco one, living on borrowed time as far as regulatory intervention goes. The government has been extending the rope for some time now and the sector seems oblivious to the twitching of trap door levers.
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It made me hard pushed to think of any outstanding Brit films in the last few years.
How about A Cock and Bull Story?
All class and perfect casting.
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Auckland certainly needs a bit of a kicking. The motorway might be ok for Che but it is flaming nightmare to negotiate a route from the airport to the North. On a par with the worst set of intersections in the world, and I have seen a few.
On a positive note - don't you think the Domain just keeps getting better and better?
The Domain was my recent discovery as well. At the risk of repeating myself, protect every little inch. Screw those Carlaw park advocates who want to take - just a little bit - for parking. Philistines.
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German state as such is probably better defined as dating from the Holy Roman Empire
I remember once having to write an essay based on the following statement:
"The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an empire...discuss".
David Haywood as the resident PA German anthropologist might like to have a bash at that one. The only other bit I remember so clearly about that stage in my life is failing my 'A' level history exams, dismally.
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nobody wants to talk to her anymore...but when she chewed interviews she considered herself part of the "rent-a-quote" mob.
Maybe I am too literal.
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X-Air
Just the excuse I was looking for. Seems namesakes attended in force.
I want a BMX, I want a skateboard and I want to misspend my youth. Properly this time round.
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RE: Carlaw park. Apart from Trevor, who gives a shit about the rugby.
Lived here long have you?
I would have said RE:Carlow park - the problem is that a bit of the Auckland Domain is required to make that work. Eating an inch of that place is criminal - IMO.