Posts by Ray Gilbert
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Russell Brown,
My eagle eyed wife found this on another site last night as well
Worrying thought though - if this is what happened to someone's cannabis crop what has happened to the suburban P labs?
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Hard News: "Orderly transition" in #Egypt, in reply to recordari,
Meanwhile our election is going to be November 26th this year. John Key will be hoping the AB's do ok in the world cup.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
I'd not seen it for 25 odd years and I'm buzzing off it.
Ah memories - nothing like good old 1980s police brutality. I got a bit of it myself.
On a lighter note the 80's dancing in bright colored shirts thing reminds me a lot of the Wiggles
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I had a friend at high school in the 80s whose parents were walking with another couple along a fairly deserted stretch of beach in the Coromandel. They came across a small dune which they walked over only to fall waist deep inside a rotting whale carcass which had been covered up with wind blown sand.
Didn't smell it myself of course but I reckon it must be up there!
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Not quite a holiday story, but I went to Carols by Glowsticks in Warkworth just before Xmas with friends and family. Lockwood Smith had flown all the way from a parliamentary sitting to host the show. By host I mean be lead singer on every song, doing a fine Michael Crawford impression belting out each number like an Andrew Lloyd Weber production. Bizarre really. Obviously the man can't bear to not be the centre of attention - like the last time I met him
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(it seems you just can't get hoggets or two-tooths these days)
This might help
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Hard News: We are all twatcocks now…, in reply to Megan Wegan,
I was thinking more about the last 2 words in the phrase, or is that just my cesspit of a mind?
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I would suggest a useful twatcock shortening cum sanitisation
Um - anyone else pick up on the obvious remasculanising done by this statement? (Is remasculanising actually a word?)
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Hard News: I'm not a "f***ing cyclist".…, in reply to Greg Wood,
I've been threatened with a hammer, run off the road, had a guy threaten to kill me - I'm pretty sure he was serious, and dealt with abuse on an almost daily basis while cycling to and from work every day for many years.
Now I generally only cycle when the weather is bad and ride a push scooter 11km each way from Blockhouse Bay to Grafton. One thing I've noticed is that I arrive at work and home much more chilled out when I don't have to deal with the arrogance and aggression of many rush hour Auckland drivers.
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
“Sapphire” is the only long gem name I can think of that is vaguely name-acceptable
Especially if you combine it with Steel