Posts by Andy Milne
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Guess you have to admire someone with the time/energy to spam a message board manually like that. I wonder if he does manual viruses too - Im envisioning a post along the lines of "excuse me, but if you could delete the entire contents of your hard drive, then email everyone you know and ask them to do the same, I'd be most grateful to you".
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Can we get a moderator up in here?
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Bad was my first album
Snap. I got it on vinyl for christmas when I was about 8, and played it waaay more than was healthy. My favourite track off the album is the way you make me feel but I can't fully articulate why...
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Agree with you Tom. The jury must have completely ignored the judge's summation - he stopped short of saying "find Bain guilty" but only just.
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You know what would make that even more exciting? If at random intervals the ball just, y'know, totally EXPLODED. Awesome.
Ooh, now that'd keep Haddin back from the stumps a bit.
I reckon the power-plays should be tip-and-run. Or maybe 5 overs of one hand, one bounce. Although judging by their home series against india last year, the Aussies already play to this rule.
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OK, I'll play! I have been taking my car to the same garage, Armagh Automotive in CHCH, for several years. It used to be because it was close to work, but now I don't work near there. I still keep going back there though, and this is why:
One day, early in spring, I turned on the A/C in my dodgy little hatchback, and promptly blew a fuse. I happened to be driving past the garage not long after, so I called in and explained what had happened. They whacked in a new fuse and off I went.
Unfortunately, I didn't test the A/C again until after I left, and whaddaya know, the fuse blew again. I rang the garage, they said to drop the car in next day and they would sort it out - obviously the problem was a bit bigger than just a fuse.
So I dropped the car into the garage and left it with them for the day, all the time thinking "what the hell is wrong with my car and how much is this going to cost?". Imagine my surprise, then,when I rolled up after work to be told "all fixed, no charge".
I had the cam belt on the aforementioned dodgy hatchback replaced about 3 months previously. As it turns out, they found the problem was that the air con pump (which had to be moved to allow access to the cam belt) hadn't been reattached correctly, and one of the wires was arcing against the wheel-arch.
I thought this was fantastic - they could (and Im sure some mechanics would) have made up any old reason for the problem, charged me 2 hours labour and I'd have been none the wiser. There's no way I'd have thought to connect my current problem with a cam belt service 3 months previously. Integrity is the things that you do when you think no-one can see you, and the fact that they chose to be completely transparent with me about what was wrong with my car keeps me going back there. I can be confident that if they tell me there's work required on my car, then there genuinely is! Well done to the chaps at Armagh Automotive (cnr Armagh & Barbadoes Sts, ph 366 0823), appreciate your ongoing fantastic service!
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there are things you can prepare for, and things you can't, but either way, bitching about it doesn't make a blind bit of difference, and is an entirely wasted effort.
I agree with you completely on this IS, bitching doesn't change the circumstances a tinkers damn. I think it's entirely understandable though and i found it pretty patronising to say they simply should have prepared better when for many farmers there isn't always much they can do in advance.
I should clarify some of my comments further upthread by saying that most of my (limited) agricultural experience is in sheep & beef, not dairy or cropfarming. So Glenn when you say:
when an agriculture sector (take your pick which flavour crops, livestock whatever) has a "bad season" due to weather the price to me goes up correspondingly so presumably the farmer's income hasn't "halved" ?
You'd be dead wrong from a sheep farmer's point of view. A drought leads to an oversupply at the freezing works, as farmers try and shed stock in response to their reduced capacity to graze them. This oversupply inevitably leads to a sharp decline in the price farmers recieve. The flow-on effect is that next season, if grass cover improves, the farmer will face increased costs in re-stocking his farm because there are fewer lambs available.
And Emma, you commented earlier about dairy farmers in Canterbury. As I understand it, weather doesn't have such a negative impact on dairy farms (at least in canterbury) as it does on sheep/beef farms because of dairy farmers' increased access to irrigation. So when the rain doesnt arrive, the impact is not on the dairy farmers directly, but on river and groundwater levels. Whether or not that's a good thing is a whole nother argument entirely.
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Did you just start up a dairy farm in a region famous for it never raining?
Oh, you mean like Waikato, where it hasn't rained this summer either?
Sometimes, shit just happens. Maybe they should just suck it up and get over it, but I don't think its completely unreasonable for farmers to feel a little unhappy when extreme weather events impact on their livelihoods.
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ugh. Just noticed I used the word "simply" three times in that post. Ugly stuff.
Nurse! need a subeditor here, stat! Or a thesaurus, at the very least.
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"So, yes, I think a bit of B&W about the weather isn't totally out of order from people whose livelihoods are intimately connected with it."
Maybe they could sacrifice a goat too while they're at it?
Weather happens, and it's no good bitching and whining about it. And if they prepared properly for the inevitable bad weather (definition may vary depending on specific industry), maybe they wouldn't need to bitch and whine so much?
Bollocks. I/S how happy do you think you would feel if your salary was cut in half simply because it didn't rain for four months? Nothing to do with your job performance, or market conditions, but simply too much sunshine? You can prattle on all you like about "preparation", but what would this look like exactly do you think? The fact is that most preparation is simply about reducing stock numbers and hanging on for dear life. Telling farmers to be better prepared is as ignorant as it is condescending.
Lets have a little more Savant, please, and a little less Idiot.