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Rich of Observationz

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:25:30 +1300

Incidentally, if I mail some party pills off to my friends just before the ban, and NZ Post don't deliver them until after, presumably I'm in the clear? But are NZ Post guilty of supplying illegal drugs?

Rich of Observationz

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:22:41 +1300

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

While a bottle of whisky is not only legal, but socially acceptable. Even though it's worse for you and those around. What's more, it will give you a worse hangover than BZP if you…

Ben Austin

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:47:08 +1300

pre Christmas warm-up then?

Max Call

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:42:29 +1300

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…

Nat Torkington

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:56:07 +1300

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.

Richard Goode

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:47:59 +1300

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…

Sue

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:24:19 +1300

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

paulalambert

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:51:12 +1300

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.

Richard Goode

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:45:12 +1300

Er, Russell.

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

Robyn Gallagher

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:59:39 +1300

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

Christ on a bike!

Emma Hart

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:25:33 +1300

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…

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:02:11 +1300

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?

Paul Rowe

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:33:48 +1300

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…

Sarah Flynn

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:29:27 +1300

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.…

Stephen Judd

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:20:37 +1300

Is it Christmas?

Sarah Flynn

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:14:02 +1300

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…

Rich of Observationz

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:52:16 +1300

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).

Sarah Flynn

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:42:01 +1300

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

dc_red

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:34:03 +1300

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…

Tony Kennedy

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:13:09 +1300

Christmas Is Awesome

Paul Brislen

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:56:50 +1300

we'd have real news.

Tom Semmens

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:33:26 +1300

What would we do without Nicky?

Paul Brislen

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:24:41 +1300

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

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

Tom Beard

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:11:17 +1300

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.

Tom Semmens

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:02:48 +1300

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.

Tom Semmens

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:00:59 +1300

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…

Joanna

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:38:00 +1300

(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,…

LegBreak

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:21:38 +1300

Word of the year?

Reconditioning

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Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:21:38 +1300

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