Posts by Rich of Observationz
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@ChrisW: I was being facietious. I don't believe that even Rodney Hide would dig a cut & cover (we'll put the bodies back after) trench through there.
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The Backbencher is I believe, frequented by unsavoury characters who work in the local industrial works.
Also, on the subject of snobbery, how working class is an event with $1400 tickets?
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By the way, italic stuff is not quite right? I had a space between the closing underbars and the word stuff.
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The Backbencher's a five minute walk
You gotta imagine there's a bar called The Dockers Punch or something considerably closer. Or would have been in the good old days when industrial workers went for two pints before work, three at lunchtime and nine after...
Yes, I think we need to distinguish places owned by the public from places used by the public.
My point is that a facility for Big Sport is likely to be neither. Like the Cake Tin or Eden Park, open only to paying customers.
As noted above, you can't walk through Queens Wharf or Eden Park. The former however, contributes money to the citizens. The latter (despite its private ownership) is subsidised by them.
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Talking of Maggie, they seem to have her permanently incarcerated now:
Thatcher to remain in hospital as 'precautionary measure'.Some sort of ASBO, I guess.
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The Basin Reserve is a glowing exception, but I do think that every time Kerry drives past it, she thinks longingly of motorway flyovers.
You can't walk through Eden Park when there isn't a game on, for instance. Offices, gyms and even cafes are not public space. (Any more than the Canary Wharf tower in London is a public space just because it includes a train station and shopping mall).
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New South Fuckin Wales?
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proximity of the stadium to Wellington's leisure precinct
What?
It's 1.5km from the nearest "leezure" area at Customhouse Quay and nearly 3km from Courtney Place.
And, talking of the caketin, a visit will dispel any idea that stadia are "public open space". High wire fences on most sides, and a bloody great car park between it and the station. Good for skating, though.
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In other news, they're going to build a motorway through Taupiri mountain. Who could possibly object?
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<misquote>distributed them as Clearasil</misquote>
So instead of wiping out my zits, they took over my mind? OMG!