Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Face it, netball is just a dreadful sport to watch. Players imprisoned in certain sections of the court, Subbuteo like restrictions on how far they can move with the ball, and way too much whistle.
I somewhat concur. I realise that the netballers are tremendously good at what they do, but as far as I can tell the referees spend more time blowing the whistle than not, and the players seem to ignore whistles half the time.
As a referee of a different sport, to me the whistle means "ah hello players, look at me, stop what you're doing, that's not how you play XXXX [insert sport name here]". Not "oh shit sorry, I had my whistle in my mouth and accidentally breathed, keep on playing netball".
And any sport that discourages a Phil Jones type shot from your own side of halfway to beat the buzzer and bring the crowd to their feet... c'mon.
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That said, to this day I have not seen Goonies, and answered the question based on the incomplete set of bubblegum cards my sister had been given by someone.
See. I answered a first year history exam question on Israel/Palestine based on my memory of covering the topic in 5th form history. The lecturer who taught it bored me to tears within five minutes, and I didn't attend another lecture on the topic all year. Sadly I picked the wrong topics to study for the exam, and so had to cover it from three year old memories.
But your story is much better. Class.
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But anyhoo .... "The Cullen Fund isn't there to prop up our economy" Yes, but imagine what could have been. Imagine if the Super Fund owned Telecom, Rail, BNZ, Air NZ, V/42 Below, NavMan, and Watties. We might have decent broadband, electric trains, kiwibank, an airline that serviced all parts of NZ, an international beverage brand, and crops grown in NZ again.
Personally, the Cullen Fund is one of the few things that I'm quite mercenary about.
I don't want it to invest in things of dubious morality (though I note getting agreement on what those things are isn't necessarily easy), after that, I want it make as much money as possible.
I only want it to invest in NZ companies if the companies are going to make lots of money. Otherwise I want it overseas getting big bucks out of selling oil or cars or toys or facebook or whatever.
That's my future superannuation jersey you're wearing, after all.
If John Key invests 40% of it in the NZ market, pushing the prices up artificially, and then the market collapses back down once it settles down again, and therefore it loses a couple of billion, pissed I'd be I tell ya.
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Questions asked of me/my mother/other foreign friends while living in Texas and/or Louisiana
I spent an evening in a bar on Long Beach Island, NJ in 2006. The bar was owned by one Mr Batista, who was running for the local mayoralty. His son was behind the bar serving, granddad apparently used to run Cuba before Castro ran him off.
I was introduced to a group of locals (tradesmen mostly who knew each other through being volunteer firemen) as coming from New Zealand.
One asked me if we had tractors in New Zealand. At least, what he actually did, was say "Tractors?" and move his hands in a driving on the steering wheel type motion.
After he did it two or three times people had recovered laughing enough to tell him that Kiwis spoke English. I just looked at him like he was mad the whole time.
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But I'm still gob-smacked at the Chicago Tribune endorsement -- which has never gone to a Democrat.
The Chicago Tribune is the newspaper that in 1948 released an early edition the day after the election, before they knew the poll result. They picked that Dewey would beat Truman, and turned out to be wrong.
This is the resulting front page. This is Truman, after the actual results were announced, holding the paper.
Not a newspaper that goes for Democrats is what I'm saying. Ditto on the gob-smacked.
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Off-topic.
My car tape deck has gone bung.
Does anyone have any experience with car stereo mp3 systems?
I don't want to plug an mp3 player into a stereo, I want to put songs on the system directly via usb or something, and go from there. And I don't want to spend $500.
I don't mind if it comes with CD player, but it's not required, all my CDs I have as mp3s anyway. Anyone have any experience or suggestions?
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That said, I'm not entirely sure how to judge that (not being especially carnivorous). Are we to make a judgment based on who is closest to a ready-made confit? Or on who is closest to a stick of jerky?
On that basis, you leave Winston Peters for last.
He's already dried up an ancient, and he probably can't taste any worse than he does now.
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i'm very far from anyone involved in briefing the minister or involved in the minister's office on this one, but i'm probably not wrong in assuming that she's working under advice.
I'm sure she's getting advice.
It's a bit of a coin toss as to whether a minister follows the advice given to them by their various ministries, follows the advice of someone in their office, or has their own barrow to push and are doing their own thing.
The child porn thing would probably indicate someone who didn't have too much experience in the field. Extrapolating out the resources it takes to catch those people, to the hundreds of thousands of people that breach various copyrights every day...
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Clearly not a well-read man on what a multiplicity of exclamation marks is said to indicate about the user.
And their billboards use ALL CAPS too. How rude.
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I bet, your kids are very lucky. Mum is past such endeavours, she toyed with the idea a while ago but it was all a bit too much
Can I recommend, if your mother/grandmother etc is too old for the writing, that sitting down with them and looking through photographs with a tape recorder running is a valuable resource.
Even if you don't do anything with it now, when they're gone someone will want to know who people are and what stories the family had. Your kids/grandkids will want to know about where the family comes from, and the people that know won't be around any more.
Going through photographs is a great way to jog memories and get stories going. It's also useful to refer to the photographs in some way that you can look back at them later, so numbering the photographs and talking about them by the number is a smart thing to do.
Often such an activity might take 20, 30 hours at a minimum, so it's a good thing to schedule over a several weekend afternoons.
With digital technology these days, you can make multiple copies of the recording and everyone in the family can have a copy, with scans of the accompanying images.