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Steve, in such an exhibition, how many true dalmatians would you spot?

I thought the whole point was they came pre-spotted?

Never hesitate to publicly comment on people parking in disability or kiddie parks, especially at supermarkets

In the same vein of "can I help carry your shopping", I long to grow the balls to yell "OH MY GOD, YOU'VE LEFT YOUR BABY IN THE SUPERMARKET! I'll help you find them"…

Be prepared for how small Dali paintings are. Most of the reproductions are blown up.

True... sometimes...
I remember as a young lad (can't have been older than 11 or so) when I saw Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee... at the Thyssen-Bornemisza exhibition which toured NZ in…

Nah... if there were more unflappable octogenarian transgendered pot-smoking landladies out there, the world would be a much more agreeable place. :)

Speaking of which, and getting horribly off-topic (sorry!), I just purchased Michael Tolliver Lives, the 20-years later update to the original Tales books. About half way through, and…

I'm seeing spots before my eyes,
my head feels twice its normal size,
and every Sunday morning I'm so sick

Steve, in such an exhibition, how many true dalmatians would you spot?

101 probably.
;-)

Sophie, my understanding is that this exhibition includes items from multiple collections that would otherwise require much travelling to see. Travelling that would, ordinarily, be outside our budget. I see it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

but how many times in your life do you get the chance to see that many Dali's in a single show?

I find an exhibition of peoples from the former Yugoslavia somewhat demeaning.

I thought Ry Cooder was playing with Nick Lowe? Which is quite awesome all by itself, because I like Nick Lowe.

Thanks Danielle. I heard an ad on the radio on my way out this morn and thought shit. Still onlly got the end of it so still not sure…

with some chillax time in Melbourne. (Anyone have any recommendations for cheap and cheerful eateries....?)

Pelligrini's. I never visit Melbourne without dropping into the place for lunch – a true local institution which is very centrally located. The menu consists of whatever they happen to be cooking that day (they…

Splendid. We should have people dressed as zombies in the nation's boardrooms.

Have you seen the average board of directors? We do.

A miracle, a miracle......"

Sorry I know this is way OT from the senile delinquents.

Nah... if there were more unflappable octogenarian transgendered pot-smoking landladies out there, the world would be a much more agreeable place. :)

"That's not being a fucking tidy kiwi!"

I can't even handle how fantastic that is. Can this be part of the Bollard tshirt order, just because? It would be excellent if a zombie was screaming the words in a speech bubble. (I've thrown someone's litter back into their car at…

recommended many superb books (none more so that the Tales of the City series)

Ahh, that's a blast, Paul. I loved that series. Did you see the TV adaptation? It wasn't half bad – it had Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis (as Anna Madrigal, of course) which is something.
Sorry…

Mount Gambier

A peculiar corner of the planet, though not without its charms. This (beware brief snatch of midi muzak as page loads) is a lovely spot, about 30km distant on the coast. Onetime home of Adam Lindsay Gordon, mosly famous for

__Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things…

I like to think that person never littered again, for fear of an avenging zombie coming out of the darkness to attack them.

Splendid. We should have people dressed as zombies in the nation's boardrooms.

I too offer any PAS regular a meal and entertainment should you have spare time in Sydney and a tolerance for infant screeming...<./quote>

Tempting offer — a bit of F2F argument would be a delightful novelty. We might even teach the baby diva a trick or two. Shame next month's…

ex-hippy feminazi pseudo-massage therapist parked sideways across two kiddie parks.

Not to excuse her behaviour, was the "feminazi" descriptor *really* necessary there, Mark?

A friend of ours told the neighborhood kids to "clear off!" within a week of becoming a homeowner.

My neighbourhood kids have consistently failed to play their part in any lawn-related traditions; they do not play on my lawn, nor do they come to the door and ask to be…

I…

(Ry Cooder's world stuff in particular).

Coming in the next few months ,playing with Jarvis Cocker. Can't help but think of "Cunts are still running the world"
If you ever need to crash Paul ,you could stay at our place, I know what you mean by homesick.

And then I got to thinking, actually an entire series of Bollard t-shirts would…

Apparently blue access parking tags are among the items most frequently stolen from cars in Australia [link] ('though I have to admit…

the only park designated for those with proof of need

The only wider carpark spots, too – for fitting wheelchairs and other equipment. No other option there.

Still educating those who decide/approve where to put the carparks (clue: sometimes over 200m from the intended destination).

We arrived back in Christchurch yesterday morning, and attempted to ward off our jet-lag with a stroll along the promenade at Sumner.

I just read this entire thread but can't quite get over this statement from David's initial piece... Sumner, love the place dearly, would live there again in a…

Or the young woman in the express queue with about 20 items (12 item limit). I asked her…

At New World (yep, central Auckland again). A woman with two kids in the trolley seat was doing a magnificent job of holding onto her temper and sanity as she tried to ignore the youngest one's outright tantrum. The child was screaming and crying.…

When they got onto Winston Peters having "risen above being a Maori" the atmosphere of suppressed hysteria in the car almost levitated the Hillman Imp off the road.

Thanks for that story, really.

Feel proud, people. Research shows that people like us help keep civilisation civilised. Without us, everyone would be like those low-rent old bitches who don't give a fuck.

K – where's a t-shirt screenprinter: "I civilise you, muthafucka".

Glad to hear that there is research that validates my actions.

Came out of Grey Lynn New World once, to find some ex-hippy feminazi pseudo-massage therapist parked sideways across two kiddie parks.…

I've occasionally wished for doctors having the ability to write temporary mobility permits (for things like broken toes ....) – I never park in mobility spaces but have found I've very occasionally had…

I was there, and can vouch for the surrealness of the whole event.

What would be really surreal is if the 3 Old Ladies read this, registered, and gave their angle on the story.

We can only hope?

Ushi, a German…

NO FUCKER LITTERS IN FRONT OF ALAN BOLLARD AND GETS AWAY WITH IT

O great, more solo mum bashing.

How many bourbon bottles do you normally leave on your front lawn?

And which part of the property gets the tequila bottles?

I was looking out of my window earlier, at my front lawn, and noticed a discarded Bourbon bottle, it was not one of my own.

How many bourbon bottles do you normally leave on your front lawn?

Local Man, Steve Barnes, Urges Young People to Remove Themselves From His Lawn Forthwith

Heh. A friend of ours told the neighborhood kids to "clear off!" within a week of becoming a homeowner. Then again, he bought in Karori, which is notorious for claiming friends for the Dark Side.

In my experience, some people seem to feel almost bound to respond aggressively in a situation which they perceive as a confrontation, in…

And thank you Danielle, now get off my lawn I need to mow it, yoof today have nothing to do but laze about on my lawn with all their litter I don't know, world going to th blah blah blah onions on my belt blah…

It's Christchurch. Need I say more?

Well, I was going to write a post about how Christchurch is the most violent City in New Zealand but not being James Bremner and this not being kiwiblog, I bothered to check my "Facts" first.
Apparently the belief that Christchurch is a dangerous place…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_7C0QGkiVo

And searching around found this one. Topical. Nice to see he is still writing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAG0XMRty5Y&feature=related

or if the drop trash beside their car hoping no one will notice run up and set it on fire

But these women clearly wanted to mess up Sumner. Maybe they were anti its current residents because it's got so expensive to buy a house…

David, is the title of your next book "My Second Stabbing"?

Or is that work in progress?

Hee!

Or round these parts – Roflenui!

Or is that work in progress?

see here

that they bore more than a passing resemblance to Jabba The Hutt.

Hey, leave the Hutt Valley out of this.

'Hey, you dropped something.'

They usualy think it's something important and will look around, while you just smile and keep pointing at the item.. some…

NO FUCKER LITTERS IN FRONT OF ALAN BOLLARD AND GETS AWAY WITH IT

I'd like this on a t-shirt.

It's Christchurch. Need I say more?

What Philip said.

Cliche isn't argument.

It's Christchurch. Need I say more?

Yes.

Fewer than 10% of local mobility parking permit holders use wheelchairs, though, so I'd have to be prepared to get it wrong and have my bluff called.

But presumably most of them do not skip.

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And a personal favourite:

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asking obviously able-bodied folk skipping away after parking in a mobility-challenged parking space if they need a hand to carry their shopping back to their car

Brilliant – I may steal that idea.

And don't forget that Ponsonby and Freeman's Bay were classed as slums (with social attitudes to match) until well into the 1970s.

Living in…

That course of action did occur to me — but I was hindered by the fact that I was dealing with three elderly ladies. Somehow didn't seem very nice.

If they want to regress into their second childhood, they should be treated like children. Dirty, obnoxious, tiresomely egotistical children who…

What is scary is that these little old ladies were probably (amongst others) bikie girls years ago...well...not that many years ago and they could be the first of a wave of THAT youth reaching THIS age...

One time, when a group of us were staying in a sweet little village…

Also, there's that particular type who are all about "I've always done whatever the fuck I want to do" and become more evil about it with age.

And word about cigarette butts. I HATE THEM -…

Indoctrinating the kids only lasts to the point where it gets to embarrassing or even dangerous…

Cigarette…

I need an emergency contact number for you — so that I can phone for instruction when I next find myself in this type of situation...

What is scary is that these little old ladies were probably (amongst others) bikie girls years ago...well...not that many years ago and they could be the first of a wave of THAT youth reaching THIS age...

You have the most disturbing theories, Ross...

Given your recent track record, though, I'm really looking forward to lunch tomorrow.

Ha — if you don't mind talking to an (ex-) engineer!

Just remembered that — a year or so back — a parked car-load of teenagers threw a beer can on our front lawn.…

Which leaves me with the question: what could I have done differently? How could I have communicated to them (and have them listen and understand) that it isn't okay to throw your rubbish in the street?

No-win situation. What you need is my elderly mother to totally kick their arses.…

Oxford (UK), old couple walking down the footpath as we walk behind, old lady drops sweet wrapper on ground.

Me (in probably the same tone as you): "I'd Have Though Your Generation Would Know Better."

Her: "Oh dear" picks up litter, looks embarrassed.

Me:…

... I spotted someone at the intersection outside our flat chuck a complete set of McDonald's rubbish out of the window. I ... managed to hiff the whole lot back through the driver's window just as the light went green.

You are my hero, dude!

That course of action did…

Whatever feels right at the time

I think part of the reason that it shocked me was that it was 3 women in the car. I think if it had been men it would have felt less surprising to me. Which I guess…