Posts by Shep Cheyenne
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whoops couldn't load 9-noon correctly
so here's the linky
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OMG, did anyone catch the 9-noon thearpy session for Richard (I'm a dick) Becht? It was truely insightful.
He starts as being uninterested in the Paraolympics and then goes on to say how as a child he couldn't bare to look and people with missing limbs or scars. Um..., did anyone recall the events for people with plastic surgery? I missed it, but Becht who claims to have not watched the paraolympics draws on images of childhood trauma to describe the paraolympians FFS!.
He compares the great success of Sophies 2 Golds and one Silver as being less deserving than Valarie Vilis single Gold. Excuse me here if I've missed something but is he comparing shotput with swimming?
Would it be wrong to point out that Valarie won in a womens event and did not throw (or is that put) as far as her male counterpart?
His calls for purity of sport and his disgust at paraolympians echoes the 1936 Olympics.
Sport With Richard Becht
A look at the week in sport and the weekend to come. (duration: 14′59″)
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"If I lived in Wigram, I'd be wondering what to do with my electorate vote - Labour, probably, but would the National candidate have a better chance of unseating Anderton?"
That is Marc (Cook me some eggs) Alexander ex-United Future.
His claim to fame is having a slap-dash-mex-cross-over resturant before going into politics. I never got sick eating their but I sure got sick of it. Best feature was it was aimed at students and other noisey drunks to eat and not notice the slop infront of you.
He panders to the self important property investers who have become landlords to the poor and treat them like serfs. They're over mortgaged and the market rents don't match their out goings, so short of any basic economics as well. Look for knee jerk over reactions and some poor family villified for his self promotion.
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Agreed!
Let's remeber it was Dr Morgan "Fingers" Fahey Convicted sexual predator, struck off GP & disgraced Dupty Mayor of Christchurch who was the driving force behind this stupid line of thought.
The economics of it was to save $ by not making safer transport routes for cyclists and put the cost of safety onto the rider.
What a load of crap, but if your main aim was to keep power by reducing City spending on safe transport this was a winner.
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Ahhh - that was ment to be shouldn't have guns ... my Kingdom for a correction button.
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"About twenty years ago my father took a case of police firearms (four or five pistols) on a domestic flight from Auckland to Wellington"
Your point is cops 'used to' get away with any fracken thing they liked, we know, we know.
"NZ domestic air flights, sport-pistol shooters traveling to away-competitions used to take their gun cases on board as carry-on baggage all the time."
That's just fracken wrong, but representative of pistol shooters attitudes to THEIR perceived rights.
You wanna met the guys who should have guns? Go to a pistol club and watch the fat guys do barrel rolls with their Glocks out and safey off. -
"so to save on expenses he took his own bike engine over. As carry on luggage... "
That shud have been stopped, due to the possibility of the flamable gasses coming from it as the air pressure lessens (same reason Zippo lighters have always been banned) - I hope it was at least during the days on nonsmoking.
And $10K worth of kit going west would have me doing a little haka too.
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"This is just really appalling customer service. "
Yep but matched equally by a journo(?) who uses their position to vent their spleen.
How many Shop assistanst and waitresses have had "People of Self Importance" threaten them, their job, their bosses job, etc. Because they didn't get, their 1st Class slippers when on some tax payer funded junket ( Mr Burdon). Or the famous "Do you know who I am!?" (Mr Roulston).
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"what next reform school for errant travelers"
There is a fear of flying school :)
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"and the local Air New Zealand staff was determined not to let us on the flight. "
That would have been a United Airlines staffer in Air NZ drag - a real mixed bag. Remeber "Fly the Friendly Skys"? They canned the add when they found out no-one thinks UA are friendly.