Posts by Paul Campbell
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the Cook itself may also be heading for history depending on who (ie maybe the Uni) ends up buying it - all that Dunedin sound played there
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yes we have electricity - best not to mention rugby to random strangers though - for some it's a bit of a touchy subject
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National however are intimately tied in my psyche with the Muldoon of my youth ....
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Hard News: Is that it?, in reply to "chris",
Why is there no income tax exemption bracket? The UK has one up to £2440.
even the US has not one but two of these - a $5800 "standard deduction" ($11,600 if you file with your spouse) and a $3700 "personal exemption" (claimed once each for yourself, your spouse and your kids) - a single person would pay tax as if they earned $5800+$3700=$9500 less, married couple with 2 kids it would be as if they earned $11,600+4x$3700 or $26,400 less
(I say 'less' because the tax tables are written in the US as if someone starts being taxed at an income of $1 past the above values - they treat a real income of $26,401 for the above family as $1 and start taxing at the 10% rate from there which is confusing when trying to compare with other places)
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Hard News: 2011: The Year Of What?, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Can't DB be slapped with a Commerce Commission big slappy thing for false advertising.
I actually reported them to the Advertising Council but was turned down - apparently advertising a Radler/Shandy with 5% alcohol content is not a problem
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surely it's just a a case of 2012, off by one, there was no year 0 , sort of thing?
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I'm pretty much convinced that Muldoon was very small and the 'big' head simply an optical illusion caused by clever TV angles, the fumes of the ever present gin, and the use of 70s brothel creepers.
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It's a business - the companies are trying their utmost to separate us from our money, that's how capitalism works - to me, someone who finds rugby quite "meh", it punches all my cynical buttons, I simply see people being swept up in the marketing frenzy .... yet it's NZ and calling the emperor on his nakedness is never a popular thing
Mind you there seems to be some sort of popular revolt brewing locally, maybe that will be fun
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My daughter's in her last year at high school - the short last term thing seems to be really screwing them around, they have something like 2 weeks back then off for NCEA - at a time when they should be celebrating that transition from school to the wider world, saying goodbye to friends off to see the world etc etc it's all ending with a bit of whimper and is IMHO rather sad