Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Well, I was going to suggest a 'Garage Sale 7am Saturday' sign in front of your noisy next-doors
7am is for losers. If you're not knocking on the door at 5.30am, you'll never get the good stuff.
Even better if you're drunk and coming home from the pub rather than getting up early to go garage sale-ing.
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Unless she's moved in the last year or so, that photo would have been taken in Auckland somewhere.
It's varsity holidays, there aren't many students still left in Dunedin. I don't know where he's from, but I presume Act pulled a bunch of activists into Epsom to make sure that Rodney got in.
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A little backgrounder by Brian Rudman at the Granny:
Ah. A real class act then?
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If you can't get into his house, you'll just have to fill his car with Space Invader.
For a few seconds there I pictured the old-style video game with the monitor mounted into a table. Man that would be a cool ride.
Around fixed election dates, the question as Giovanni has put it is what then happens if you 'snap' early, come the actual election date?
Our elections determine who is the government. In the US, for example, it's a different situation as they don't have a Westminster system. So their government doesn't fall over, it just trundles on with a stupid grin, a la George Bush.
I'm all in favour of Craig's point, that the right to call elections shouldn't just be used for political advantage, but I wonder if its practical.
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4] setting a fixed election date, with the official campaign season (vis a vis any EFA) starting 6 months prior. This would not negate a Govt calling a snap election.
Do any Westminster governments have fixed election dates? I don't see how it can work. What's the point of a fixed date if the government can call a snap election early? That's not a fixed date, that's a "last possible day an election can occur", and we already have that.
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I don't know who Chris is, but I think everyone should feel free to mock him while he's looking silly. It can be our wee bit of revenge for any part he had in bringing us Roger Douglas.
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O hai - I made another one.
The guy behind her (on her left) with the dark grey shirt, looks like a guy I know down here.
In which case, I believe he's actually an Act activist.
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Who could now miss out or now be in?
See my post here. Most likely Labour will pick up one from National.
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Thanks for that Graeme. That is somewhat bizarre, do you know why a different rule was put in for an independent (non) overhang, as compared to a party overhang?
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Well said. It’s archaic, and in these increasingly “professional” days it’s being abused. And not only by the fielding team either.
Join the crusade.
Actually if I was to get up-in-arms about anything in cricket, it would be that test that we had against Australia a few years ago when NZ was chasing strong but running out of time, with McMillan at the crease smacking balls everywhere.
And the Australians (McGrath was one I think), bowled balls pushing the wides on both sides to make it difficult for him to score and it finished a draw when NZ ran out of time.
Surely if the point of having wides is to make it so the ball ends up in a channel so that if the batsman is good enough, he hits it.
NZ did the opposite in a one day match maybe 15 years ago when Australia were tied going into the last over but with their #11 facing (Reid?). All six balls were straight, over the top of the wicket, and the batsman just wasn't good enough to hit them. Wicket maiden (run out going for it on the last ball), finished in a draw.
If cricket is going to be a game played in good spirit with gentleman's rules, fine. If teams aren't going to play it that way, lets scrap that idea and play it like every other sport, where the umpires impose the rules and the players shut up and play the game.