Public Address | Cafe | Random Play: It's life Jim, but not as we know it . . .

Sam F

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:06:58 +1300

The first half of this year sucked for me, and it's all the media's fault. Between oil price shocks, financial collapses and stock-market disaster, I found this a pretty depressing time to be entering the working world. Had I graduated and started working at the end of last year as…

George Darroch

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:22:39 +1300

Life is quiet in this thread. Perhaps this shouldn't surprise us.

We're not on the internet anyway.

Paul Litterick

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:29:18 +1300

I actively choose not to engage in most political discussion.

In this discussion, I actively choose not to talk about banks. It is all we hear these days.

Paul Campbell

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:19:58 +1300

(and should I move my money to Kiwibank?)

Paul Campbell

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:19:39 +1300

when I moved back to NZ I was looking for a bank, went from bank to bank asking what their deposit insurance limit was (I was moving enough for a house) I kept getting blank stares "what?" – took me a while to figure out that no one had any…

Jackie Clark

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:05:43 +1300

By not engaging with these great events of our time sent to test or divert us, I was probably dead.
It just didn’t seem like it from where I was standing.

I actively choose not to engage in most political discussion. It's very freeing.

linger

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:40:47 +1300

Geez Steven, have NZ banks started begging for a private sector bailout plan now?

George Darroch

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:24:20 +1300

Have a look. It's a very different but much improved (search function! tags!!) Elsewhere

Indeed. I used that search function today, to look for a particular artist. And since I couldn't find him, I'll put in a word for Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. The best music I've heard this year, in any…

Public Address

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:24:20 +1300

Discussion from blog post.