Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I had originally intended to comment here along the lines of "I can't wait for the Womens' XV to arrive", but I'm sure at this point they've probably had enough of this stuff, just like the rest of us.
I gave up a couple of pages ago and happily spent the time I would have used to post checking up on the cricket. Good start!
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Okay, maybe not, unless we're going to start throwing up massive signs announcing every suburb
Wait hang on. That's a brilliant idea. It'd be like road signs, but for long distance travelling. Want to get to Kelburn? See, it's up there, with the big signs on the outside of the Hunter building. Wainuiomata? Sign on the hill, with the arrow pointing over the top. No one will ever need to ask for directions again!
While we're at it, can we paint the cake tin with the pictures that are on the outside of old caketins? Y'know, scandanavian looking fields and people picking flowers and deer and whatnot?
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Jack, it can be done in one day but there are a fair number (12-13)of country pubs to go past
So it's basically a fortnight then to do it properly?
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Series three and four it's really into its stride, and quite addictive.
Series four is the peak I thought. Wonderful acting from young actors, and... devastating by the end of it. I wanted to reach into the screen and rescue them.
Danielle is right, it's not a series about crime, it's a series about urban American life and all the conflicts and contradictions and fuckups and beautiful bits in it. Crime and policing and politics are just their day jobs.
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Yes, it's a lot to take just for a pub crawl. That footage must be around somewhere deep in an archive.
It would have been the 1995 pub crawl which got tangled up with the Asia Development Bank protests that were on the same week. The students association tried to cancel the pub crawl or move it but the organisers wouldn't do it (I understand). So hundreds of protesters got mixed up with thousands of pub crawlers and the police got spazzy on both groups.
I remember running an occupation of the Otago University registry at the same time and we brought a TV into the council chamber and watched Aucklanders getting knocked around while we lounged around.
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Kyle, so I've imagined the motorcycle cops I've seen with people they've pulled over on the motorway? Or are you calling me a liar?
Christ. Here's what I said.
They still broke out the old bikes sometimes for special occasions, last time I knew anything about them.
For the record, last time I saw the bikes was early 1993.
But yes, to make you feel better, you are correct, I am wrong, I humbly withdraw. Clearly you're not a liar.
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Oh really? Please tell that to the cops I see riding marked motorcycles. That's as recently as the last couple of months, too.
Did you read all my post or just the first sentence? Let me repeat the bits you missed:
They still broke out the old bikes sometimes for special occasions, last time I knew anything about them. Most of the time they live in a garage attached to a police station.
Your copious evidence that police officers still use the bikes at open days and at the police college simply backs up precisely what I said (they still break them out for special occasions).
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OTOH, we have just discovered The Wire and we're onto Season 2 and the script is so incredibly delicious that I want to eat it up.
We really need t-shirts or something to promote this show properly. I'm considering buying series 1 for my Dad.
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Why does no one believe me? :)
NZ police no longer has a motorcycle unit. They disestablished it because the BMW bikes they used were horrendously expensive to maintain, buying and maintaining a much more useful car made better financial sense as well.
They still broke out the old bikes sometimes for special occasions, last time I knew anything about them. Most of the time they live in a garage attached to a police station. When I was 17 I took one of them off the stand and both me and it almost fell over sideways it was so heavy.
Umm, I believe you. But my story was about a cop who (under the radar of his bosses) sometimes used his horse for his work. Another step up is officially authorised use of horses for occasional work. Another step up from that is "there's a mounted police unit".
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Rearrange the following words: Poll. Thatcher. Margaret. Tax.
Yup. But we should discuss what's likely to be coming, not 'things that Satan would impose upon us'.
The government signalled that benefits would increase to compensate for the GST increase. Assuming that they follow through on that, beneficiaries will only be as screwed in the future as they are now (ie, a fair bit), not any more.