Posts by andrew llewellyn
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Pfft to edit button - what's done is deno. Neevr loko bcka.
gobfrey shrdlu
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Tom, use the 'Off' button (on your tv...)
Why should I have to?
Because if you don't, sooner or later you'll be confronted by something featuring Simon Barnett. And then you'll see the wisdom in those words.
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Awesome. Makes me remember my wife hasn't seen her father since she was 9. She's one of 7 kids - he went on to have at least 6 more somewhere. The two families have never met as far as I know. I wonder if they & their mum had similar experiences. I kind of hope he's living sad & lonely somewhere.
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Here's a cautionary tale - a few months ago we had the bright idea of downsizing our house in town & moving our base to our weekender on the Kapiti coast.
So we put the house on the market (prime location, seriously - had to be recession proof). We were in the fortunate position of not having to sell & determined to opnly if we received an eye watering offer.
First mistake we made - and we're very experienced in house buying & selling - was to allow them to do open homes. We should have made it appointment only. So all the neighbours & passers by traipsed through our house, the vast majority of them just nosy.
The second mistake was to make it a closed tender. This has never worked for us, either as buyers or sellers.
The third mistake was to find a lovely little townhouse in Thorndon & put an offer on that - conditional on us selling our house.
Now here's the caution bit - we didn't really want to put an offer on the place until our own tender had closed, but we were pursuaded by the agent to put one in. Then he called all the interested parties to put their bids in.
Unfortunately for the vendor, no-one else did (I seemd to be the opnly person in the process who thought that was a bad tacticv for them.
A week later our tender closed - we had 3 offers, all of them below the RV. SO we declined them.
The Thorndon agent called to see how we'd gone - we told him we had no acceptable offers & he said "But did you get any unconditional offers? Because that's what your offer was - conditional on ourselves getting an unconditional offer regardless, apparently, of the amount.
As it happens all the offers we received werew conditional to sdome extent & so we withdrew our offer completely & have decided to stay in our lovely old houise in its brilliant location.
If push had come to shove we could probably have fought that one, as it seemed somewhat underhand & contrary to opur5 instructions. In future, we'll make sure we read what we sign very carefully too.
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Does the target demographic eat bread? Hence my RTD suggestion.
If it helps there's plenty of folate in beer....
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What does this man think he gains from some of the shit he's spewing?
He clearly sees himself as the superior intellect in that room, if not his whole life. Haven't seen or read it all, but I've heard no mention of remorse, nor much responsiblility.
I don't imagine that's endearing him to the jury. I certainly hope not anyway.
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So unless you're Dorothy, freshly back in Kansas & being asked for comment by the locla rag, the term is inappropriate. Gotcha.
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More interestingly Daniel Radcliffe sez he's an atheist.
Not a f*cking atheist? He's letting the side down.
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Well, given that they both appear to be 100% white......possibly something of a hint.
it just occurs to me that I have no idea what any of them looks like. But that reminds me of the utter confusion on my daughter's face some years ago, when Janet Jackson was on TV & someone noted that she was Michael's sister."
"But, but..."
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heh, what about "No engine Braking"
Similar signs had me baffled too, but if you stay a night within earshot of say, SH1, you will hear odd roarings in the distance, especially in rural parts, like wild beasts clearing their throats. Big wild beasts.
Anyway, I reckon those roarings are the "engine brakes", and truckies aren't supposed to use them within earshot of towns.