I turned six during the Springbok tour. My father was a police sergeant in Auckland at the time and commanded a squad…

There must be a statistic for that...
Death caused by public belief.

I've been meaning for quite some time to write a review of the national police museum in Porirua. Their brochure has a wee section…

And -David Hood?
Yet another animal I'd love to have around the place (not quite as a pet you understand. Anything as awesome as that is nobody's pet-)

Nope. My friend is gay, and really, who wants to be confronted by a nauseating display of heterosexuality? Not him and I don’t blame him.

ETA:…

OMG. I've just realised. The revolution in 1984 happened the same year Orwell's book was set. Is there a PhD in there somewhere? And Roger isn't a Sir, he's a flamin' pig farmer. He's no Sir.

*I became…

Published just in time then.
Be sure to get them to confer their sexual preferences as soon as they arrive and make a note of it in the margin of your address book for future reference.

those sharp animals will get you every time

5. When reaching for little used kitchen implements on top of the cupboard be sure to use a stepladder or some form of scaffolding.

6. When falling try to avoid sharp…

1. Using an old telephone directory as an address book can save you money, just cross out the people you don't know.

VETS. A human armpit hair makes a great prosthetic leg for an invalid spider.

CONVINCE people that you are a robot by constantly walking around like a robot.

"Summerland" is another goodie, and "Gentlemen of the Road (first…

Don't waste money buying expensive binoculars. Simply stand closer to the object you wish to view.
Fnah

Well I could run away from responsibilities, I guess, but I don't expect a medal for not having done that to my own beloved child. I'm certainly not a superdad, either – that's quite an unrealistic thing to expect of anyone,…

It's more a case of finding some criteria, any criteria, to get from impossible number to read properly let alone interview to something feasible.

I'll also include "entertaining fonts", name dropping as in "I happened to be in the lab the day XXX walked past", notes…

And I'd add the sub curriculum – keep quiet, stay still, take instructions, report on time, be part of large group etc etc .
In my work I come across many boys "diagnosed" with ADHD – actually they are…

What do you mean slow?

But yes, thank you for adding some bookish-ness. Was just saying to someone [sic] how much I missed the book threads. Am reading Arivind Adiga’s Last Man In Tower, about modern…

#viztoptips

Indeed. My boy is doing great at school, at National Standard for everything, despite the large dead part of his brain that years of therapy have been directed at mitigating the consequences of. But those standards don't…

As in Orwell's 1984 or Sir Roger's 1984? Or maybe even both?

Reminds me of my friend, very senior in a large civil engineering firm who has a nifty way of sorting out the wheat from the chaff; he chucks out any CV that states early on that…

Heh (sfw, don't worry)

'The 1981 Springbok rugby tour', http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/1981-springbok-tour (Ministry for Culture and Heritage)

I especially got lost in the media gallery

There's this. My wife and kids will be attending.

Incidentally, those Q300's on the Nelson run. I think they make you turn your phone off to avoid people googling the wiki article, and…

The gold standard for me will be when image search can tell a Boeing 737-900 from a 777-200. For the moment I'd simply settle for being able…

I know the Mangere Health Centre has just bought a new machine that deals with large breasts in a much…

I have heard, on good authority, that the Honourable Member would turn up to the opening of an envelope. I do not, however, have any information on the contents of said envelope.

So do I, but the media always talk about how good he is with the electorate, how he turns up to everything, etc. To an extent it's true, except that Chauvel and Shanks are the…

iPredict tends to differ
Unfortunately.

Not VC but one of the leading advocates for Waikato's establishment, a little of the history is here. The first VC was Llewellen (sp).

Ok then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg8aH0NyJPg&feature=related

Most don't vote for him.

You've got elasticity of demand, adaptation to higher prices, effect of fiscal and interest rate settings, etc, to factor in. I think if you asked ten economists you'd get eleven answers.

You could probably get a reasonable approximation to what happens…

I recall it had no steamer. That was the problem I faced. Anyway My Gaggia Titanium is a treat. You go on your way with you coffee collectables :)

Brilliant.

Yeah someone must have a spreadsheet that calculates that. Which is why I was hoping Keith might know.

It's also more complex than just Oil. CPI also includes imported consumer goods (I think). So they should respond directly to changes in the dollar but how much…

In 2000, bulk gasoline was about 64% of pump petrol costs. You've also got the refinery mark up in there (something amusingly called the crack spread) – I'm guessing maybe 50% of todays…

We knew about the protests, were very much for them and anti-tour, but what could I do?

About midway through the tour, word…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9sc1P4s3ow

On the other hand…

I was four. But I 'marched' in my red and white striped mothercare buggy. And I still recall a first year New Zealand history class, maybe in 1999 or 2000 when the whole rest of the class (a few years younger…

That is clappity inducing awesome. Thanks.

Hah! His actual name is L'omino coi baffi (the little mustachioed man) and he's a movie star.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrz0KVLKh8o

Heh! I recall the offer being open. But then I'd only have one, and that would be... fewer?

Cheers Rich. Am hoping the lurgy goes away sufficiently before then. Otherwise it will be mock-tales [sic] for me. ;-)

And because he didn't sell me his Atomic (yes ,I need 2 alright) I went out and got a Gaggia. Making a bloody nice cuppa I must say.:)

Anyone want a coffee some time?

I'll buy you a drink or two at the blend.

I know in rough terms we'll be f'd but I was wondering if anyone has a spreadsheet that could estimate that…

I redacted, but thanks, and the offer stands. Some time in Spring I reckon.

Mocking with love, Recordari. With love. :)

I actually use a Bialetti stovetop. Although I've started calling the man in the logo drawing 'Gio'.

Such warehousing is pretty much the same sub-standard management mentality as measuring…

[Redacted] Whatev's. Anyone want a coffee some time? Rumour has it mine are not too far away from a truck stop in Napoli, which has always been my life time goal.

You keep the Lamborghini of cofee makers inside the Lamborghini of Lamborghinis? Respect.

But could the residents have readily left? From the account of the family member in the Spectrum Care book trying to get her older brother out in the 1980s was not possible.She…

tee-worthy

they did the same thing with drug-addicted people in the late 60s and 70s as well. they just didn't know how to handle them.

Do you really have one?

Two, actually. One has it's own dedicated room in my palatial Devonport mansion. Three butlers and two cooks later, I'm managing to get an at least tolerably drinkable cup of coffee out of that one (can't get the staff these days).…

That's ok in my book. Reading these memoirs above just made me realise, I had just spent another day…

HEAR HEAR!

Okay, now you’re just taunting me deliberately :-D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDNJYB5JBCs&NR=1

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Thanks for your recollection.

Wage and salary earners' incomes only outstripped inflation in the past year because they worked longer hours, figures released yesterday show.
...

So in real or inflation-adjusted terms average hourly earnings fell 0.2 per cent and households' labour income only rose because of a 1.6…

Bloody right too :)

Cold Comfort indeed.
Sorry Hillary its pure coincidence. Your essay up thread was excellent tho.
And I just wanted to say how much the stories in the thread are beautifully thoughtful.
And…

The public or the pollies?

Interesting how easily our politicians can encourage a punitive response from the public that some things are a "lifestyle choice" and that the system's default setting should therefore…

Ahem. He composed the music but Richard von Sturmer wrote the famous lyrics.

I was approx. -1 at the time. But I remember as a teenager once borrowing my Dad's old oilskin jacket and asking "Where did this paint stain come from?", to be told "Oh, that's whitewash which was thrown on us when we protested against the…

oh go on, commit :)

Hey, is it OK if I didn't have any particular views on the Springbok Tour at the time. I am so ashamed of my nine year-old lack of socio-political consciousness. :)

We have one of the most punishing and cynically uncaring systems in the developed world,…

I…

And everyone but John Key can remember the answer.

And thank you for doing so. Seems a different kind of 'P.A. Story' is coming out in this thread. FWIW, it's the compassion and empathy inherent in this place that keeps me coming back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukfIC5wMz38

Our democracy is just fine, Hebe, since we're still going to have free, fair and credible elections regardless. And, honestly, I find…

Quite. The alternatives can be a tad uncomfortable.

Oh – : my reference for the predicted spike

An amazing man and forever the first intellectually-impaired person to address the United Nations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POpdKQ6tv_E

You reckon the big pre-borrowing by govt wasn't timed around the election cycle? High currency suppresses imported oil prices nicely.

Sshh. You weren't meant to make the connection.

Like I always say, our main shortcoming is that we are not able to get people from Wellington to Levin 23 minutes faster. We need to seriously work on that.

One almost laughs now.

Did he realise that these services cost money? Real money? Or…

I'm not sure that would go so well with the 100% Pure brand we're spinning overseas.

At its best, this place is about people telling their experience. Your comment just there was one of those times. Thanks.

A broad issue like social justice doesn't register with him.

Unless they were an aspiring money trader who now has a convenient lapse of memory

more surreal considering that it's entirely preventable. immunisation for measles is almost free. we've been working on immunisation at work, the range of people who don't get their kids immunised is very broad. they're not all…

On the way in we stopped at another friend’s place, he…

What I struggle to get past is the great and apparently sincere speech that BIll English gave…

We are acknowledged world leaders in some of the policy. This seems to have little impact on the motivation of governments of either stripe to match that with adequate resources…

However, I think I was pointing out the WHO was at least referencing NZ material. Maybe that might make "powers that be" sit up a wee bit and mayber get round to implementing meaningful and activated guidelines. If the rest…

Oh yes. But interestingly, both the Herald and Stuff managed to quite independently get the words "sex romp" into their headlines.

Your following sentence was clearer than trying to use one word instead.

As Gio says, the answers are respectively 'yes' and 'not really'. Implementation needs resources and funding.

Autism NZ recently closed their Waikato support services due to lack of funding.

But it's OK – [[http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/minister-congratulates-autism-new-zealand/5/96759|charity…

People will vote for Key because he has been on Letterman, and people won't vote for Goff because he hasn't (been on Letterman).

"Haven't read these so can't comment but certain some of PA will on (how good, correct, right, based on…

As far as I can make out there is no statute of limitations on any criminal act in this country. There are, however, cases that the police do…

I think 2011 is a lost cause, Jonkey hasn't pissed off enough…

Edit; Giovanni. That is what I hoped.

The guidelines themselves are pretty solid, they just don't appear to have any bearing on the delivery of services to people on the spectrum. Is that what you meant?

a bit of editorialising, surely?

you'd need to be up on the vanity to break it. boats are small. so... the issue might not her having been "up for it" or "hot to trot" so much as in possession of the typical-sized…

Vanishingly short, I'd have thought.

Perhaps not. Let’s frame that as a question: what role should evidence have in policy-making – none, or very little?

Apparently, some. Judging from this mention in the WHO Report on Disabilites recently published and picked up from Grant Jacobs posting on [[http://sciblogs.co.nz/code-for-life/2011/08/02/world-report-on-disability/ |…

What's the stature of limitations on perversion of justice in the face of a clear admission by Meurant that he did so?

For a while now, I've felt that TourismNZ really isn't making enough of the reputation of Kiwi women...