I was far too busy gagging at ballocks

--"When Blow Jobs Go Wrong"

Funny!

Who else is it that owns all the property in Herne Bay?

I own two. And one in Westmere.

Heh, riiiight, I see the silly hippie thing, but the connection to Herne Bay unaffordability angst is still lost...

Two symptoms of the same pathology.

I was far too busy gagging at ballocks

--"When Blow Jobs Go Wrong"

But getting bitter on Baby Boomers is an end in itself. Who else is it that owns all the property in Herne Bay? What have they ever given me, except for…

Yes, it does make about as much sense as anarchy to take out bitterness at Aucklanders on Sydneysiders

Oh, Ben... Pardon me for getting just a tiny pissed at self-righteous Baby Boomers who do love to have their organic Fair trade chocolate cake and eat it too. I'd have been…

Craig, you aren't really trying to tell us that ridiculous moral masturbation is confined to the bourgeois?

No, but I've been wading through so much media house price hysteria over the last week (you can't afford to live in Herne Bay — and I care because?), I'm on the verge…

Fantatsic!

I guess the 10kW follow-spots and all the other stage lighting and sound equipment didnt consume the same power at 6:30 that they would have at 8:30?

Call me a cynic, but did anyone measure the carbon footprint of the Earth Hour promotion effort?

I was far too busy gagging at ballocks like this:

One of the most prominent supporters of last year’s initial Earth Hour, the Sydney Theatre Company co-artistic director Cate Blanchett, will do her…

Umm. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't using candles and kerosene lamps for lighting be worse for the environment then the equivalent wattage of electric lighting. Kerosene and paraffin are both derived from fossil fuels ...

... rolled from your own beeswax like a real hippy...

worse for the environment.....

thats kinda what I was thinking,plus the various factors around candles....supply/transit/packaging costs etc; dont wanna be too much of a grinch about it though. I guess the point of the exercise is to make people realise where they can make a difference, and have fun without…

No, but they have got a dose of the clap – ka da boom

As for Tasha & Shannon driving around to tisk tisk.
I'm rather concerned the fall back position to electrical lighting is…

Earth Hour was fun.

And then there was this comment on the Stuff Article:

After taking part in Earth Hour quite considerably by fully lighting the house with candles and having all lights off, we decided in the last 15 minutes to go for a drive to see if our…

It coincided with a neighbourhood kids 11th Birthday and just to encourage the neighbours they when out onto the street and shouted:

"Earth Hour,
Turn off your Power"

Seemed to have worked as well – a few of the lights in the street started to flick…

But can the human being and Bush coexist peacefully?

Looked to me like the average bike commute should get everyone's heart pumping enough.

They could put that on one of those immersion rides at Disneyland and have…

Josh Campbell is a teacher in Chch who bikes to work every day, and that's a montage of the, er, highlights from his handlebar-mounter camera.

Thanks for posting those figures... extremely interesting stuff! It certainly makes Transit's $30-40M look a little odd.

Stephen:

That CHCH guys obviously has the same commute as I do (or, rather, used to) — I recognize all those spots. The whole video is just like an average morning commute…

Holland Denmark & Colombia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rwwxrWHBB8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8RTXrMHt2A

pushbikes

I don't get why we (not me, but other people) call them push bikes. Surely they're pedal bikes? If you're pushing it everywhere, surely you should just walk? Isn't the useful part that you can sit on them and pedal?

Billy Connolly used to have a routine about buying a bicycle and getting a booklet with advice which included the issue of 'penile numbness'. The booklet – according to him – advised the rider to hop off and have a 'discreet massage'.

You can imagine the rest. Personally I've…

Seeing as how I have 10 minutes or so until my ferry, here's something I read once to keep you entertained.

Back in teh olden days, before all this new-fangled stuff like 'carbon fibre', 'air shock suspension' and 'lycra', it was all a bit more hardcore.…

Why, it must be Satan's transport choice.

who else could have designed those freakin' seats!!

an aerial park

actually I've long been thinking they could already do one right here (the old Nelson Street off ramp – to the right of the new Nelson Street off ramp). It would make a nice…

The sheer volume of illogical, wing-nut NIMBYism has left me rather gobsmacked, to be honest.

Typical letter (somewhat paraphrased): 'they've built a cycle lane! And because they've changed…

an aerial park

heh, such an apt fate for the Coathanger!

I agree. Another option is joining a gym, but given the smell and awful music, an unpleasant compromise.

And, y'know. The pointless exercise.

It may be a superficial feature, but having a shower at work is a major fringe benefit as far as I'm concerned.

I agree. Another option is joining a gym, but given the smell and awful music, an unpleasant compromise.

If you work for a govt dept it's worth getting…

take a shower at work anyway

It may be a superficial feature, but having a shower at work is a major fringe benefit as far as I'm concerned.

I never worried about being rained on biking to work in Auckland because I always had a change of clothes and a…

The rain-fall in Auckland is admittedly about six times that of CHCH, but for some years breathable rainwear has eliminated almost all the problems associated with cycling in the rain

As a kid I used to cycle to school in Auckland. Given the showery nature of the rain and…

I am indeed Sir Francis B Baden-Hawthorne, the world's foremost structural engineer...

Ha! I thought it was you, Sir Francis. We meet again — but this time the advantage is mine!

Fair enough to your concerns about the think-of-a-number-and-double-it outcome of some recent public projects. Having had the…

Damn this nomdeplume! Now I see why RB wants us to post under our real names! Yes, I am indeed Sir Francis B Baden-Hawthorne, the world's foremost structural engineer and ...

No you're not. You're that bloke from the Thompson Twins.

The main difference between cycling in AKLD and CHCH is ... CHCH is FLAT!! Auckland has hills.

Actually (a) CHCH has a bunch of hills that make AKLD's look like traffic humps (Cashmere, Redcliffs, Mt Pleasant, etc), and (b) hills are why modern bikes have lots of low…

Auckland has hills

Feh. My Wellington commute makes those hills look like plains. :-)

The main difference between cycling in AKLD and CHCH is that when you arrive at your destination, people in AKLD think you are suicidal to have travelled by bike, and — when you deny this — compliment you on your bravery in awed tones.

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The main difference between cycling in…

Here's a question for Wellington cyclists or would-be cyclists: where are the bottlenecks, gaps and deathtraps in what one might exaggeratedly call our "cycle network"?

yeah, that Adelaide/Riddiford/John St clusterfuck is pretty scary on a bike. I'd be abandoning the road code for the footpath if that was my regular…

In urban design, there's a well established principle that there is a maximum distance or time beyond which most people can't be arsed walking. I think it's about 10 minutes.

I think the real obstacle to bike use and pedestrian use – for me anyway – is traffic, not hills,…

Here's a question for Wellington cyclists or would-be cyclists: where are the bottlenecks, gaps and deathtraps in what one might exaggeratedly call our "cycle network"? Are there some suburbs with frustrated pools of cyclists who could be unleashed given a small stretch of cycle lane or an improved intersection?

I…

people in AKLD think you are suicidal to have travelled by bike

Yep – years ago when I started working (at the Museum), I cycled every day, secretly thrilled at my ability to fly past queues of traffic and dodge through all sorts of narrow shortcuts. My 10-speed bike also…

there's nothing like a extremely tall, helmetless and skinny wannabe hippy in a swandri barrelling down rush-hour symonds street at 30km/hr to remind all the bus passengers of their own mortality.

had some mighty close…

Here's a question for Wellington cyclists or would-be cyclists: where are the bottlenecks, gaps and deathtraps in what one might exaggeratedly call our "cycle network"? Are there some suburbs with frustrated pools of cyclists who could be unleashed given a small stretch of cycle lane or an improved intersection?

I…

In urban design, there's a well established principle that there is a maximum distance or time beyond which most people can't be arsed walking. I think it's about 10 minutes.

My bet is that there is a similar limit for cycling. Maybe it's 20 minutes.

Actually, I was just looking…

How many people have visited Sydney, and not walked over the harbour bridge?

At least one! But someone did point it out, so I was actually aware they had a bridge.

Now, I know of another major flaw in general with Auckland's public transport, and it is about waiting as well. If you want to commute…

people in AKLD think you are suicidal to have travelled by bike, and — when you deny this — compliment you on your bravery in awed tones.

Too, too true.

You drive, so you spend money on petrol, hence you pay tax, which goes to helping you drive more. Of course it'd be nice if the tax went towards letting you drive less, but that's…

Although he appears to have a good point about the previous shuttle trials on the Harbour Bridge, Rudman craftily glosses over the flaw that put most cyclists off using it (I recall several people complaining about this at the time).

This flaw was…

In urban design, there's a well…

Given that various duties and levies (and then GST on top) make up a very large proportion of the retail…