Posts by Kyle Matthews

  • Up Front: Knights in White Flannel,

    The PR overlords have got to him

    That's not unusual in pro sports. Standard practice for anything these guys write to get put in front of the PR guy first, they probably just didn't know about this blog.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Field Theory: One Girl, Tin Cup,

    bugger. One player down for the last 25 minutes.

    Great tournament for them to do so well though.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Field Theory: One Girl, Tin Cup,

    Did we just miss out by a goal at the 97th minute? That seems to be what the livescoring is telling me.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Hard News: The smart thing to do,

    I don't mind there being further public debate on 'the best way to deal with climate change'. Carbon tax? ETS? Both? Something else? As long as we're doing something and making an effort, that's a good start.

    But if a bunch of politicians are going to spend weeks sitting in a room listening to every head-in-the-sand, scientific conspiracy, 'but it snowed last year in my backyard' theory, with Rodney Hide as 'I know fucking everything' Chair, I'm going to start throwing things at the TV.

    Classic case of "I'd much rather you sat on your arses and got paid for doing nothing rather than wasting your time fucking things up some more".

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Hard News: Flu diversions,

    Page not found
    Sorry, the page you were looking for in the blog MandM does not exist.

    Doesn't work from links in their own blog either.

    Maybe Russell 'tagged his master' and that undid it.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Speaker: Database Nation,

    I also had to stand in the perspex cubicle that blows jets of air at you in the hope of picking up explosives residue.

    Sounds like low-level kinky.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Hard News: If you can't say something…,

    People who vote not really wanting the votes counted in full?

    I suspect that most NZers, like me, are confident that's already happened once, and think our system is fairly trustworthy, and doesn't need to be done again.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Speaker: Database Nation,

    I had to provide more detail of course to get a number on account but the strangest request was for me to draw a picture of my house so they could find it if required! I drew a primary school styled square box with windows and flowers and they seemed happy.

    Bizarre! And people say NZ bureaucracy has gone mad.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Speaker: Database Nation,

    Please point to where anything any of you has said contradicts that.

    I thought Stephen's point was that Israel is at least as, or more, vigorous than the USA in its response.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Speaker: Database Nation,

    Gio, that's not a result of terrorism, though.

    I'm not sure whether it's because of terrorism or not, but Italy has suffered a lot more terrorist incidents in the past 50 years than the USA has, so it's not out of the question that it relates to terrorism.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

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