Posts by Paul Campbell
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to Russell Brown,
Before it was shut down, The Daktory was a reasonable model for a cannabis business -- a safe, comfortable place in a non-residential area, members only. That's basically how the medical pot places work in California too. It can be done.
To be fair medical pot prescriptions in California must be the most abused prescriptions around, half the people I know seem to have one, including kids - it's a bit like having a fake drivers license
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I suspect Emma has probably never owned a key, for her a hairclip will surely do. "I've lost the key" is just a ruse ...
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Maybe this is just a physical issue - as all the students arrive at the Uni in the morning they displace air that flows outwards (or maybe as lectures start the lecturers heat it up), as they leave or the hot air generation ceases it's sucked back in again
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I'd actually rather they Norwayed Dunedin ....
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I commuted across town to Uni in Chch for a couple of years - can they do something about the wind that blows from the Uni in the mornings and towards it in the afternoons?
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Muse: Hooray for Wellywood (Really!), in reply to BenWilson,
That is actually one of the things I most like about NZ, one of the few things that made me weep as I flew into NZ after my first trip abroad, that it is a place where people are allowed to be tacky.
And whenever I came back to visit all I could feel was that cultural cringe - "oh god, how sad, they're trying too hard" - now I've moved back I guess I've gotten used to it, still looks tacky though.
Wellington has that wonderful wild windblown coast you see as you fly in, with scrubby stuff just hanging on the last thing it needs is the tattered remains of a giant sign
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Sure it's tacky and derivative .... but surely it's also a an attractive nuisance ... everyone and hir dog is going to want to tag it or burn it down, or steal a "W" for the flat kitchen's wall or ....
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Hard News: The Political Lie, in reply to 3410,
But there's a grey area where promises are made, in the full understanding that circumstances will change, allowing the promise to "legitimately" be abandoned.
You mean like promising ultra fast broadband in an election, but not mentioning that many of you outside Auckland might not actually see for at least a decade?
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Southerly: That CERA Rumour, in reply to Lea Barker,
Re Paul Campbell's post about boat-like foundations... Do you happen to know if the idea ever gained ground, so to speak?
Well I was just parroting something I'd read about houses being built on reclaimed land south of San Francisco (around the airport from memory) - so yes people are building like that - probably not a lot though, you might even need something like that to get building permits in some places these days.
While there are the hulks of ships under the SF Marina and the Financial District I don't think that's the main thing down there - I think it's mostly dredge tailings from Bay
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too short (minor typos) 'nd'->'and' 'when'->'went'