Posts by Evan Yates
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Perhaps we could send a battalion of hardened veteran NZ camera operators and OB directors to France to take over the World Cup TV coverage. The cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys will just evacuate (their bowels then the control room) and the pro's can get on with it.
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The Burger King Whopper is a joke.
The McDonalds Big MAC isn't too far fetched.
The Subway sandwich is disadvantaged by the fact that they can be so personally customised that it may be just a case of differing ingredient lists.
The biggest visual difference looks to me to be the ad images crisp, green, leafy lettuce and the actual product's shredded stalks and wilted centres.
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IMHO corporal punishment in boys' schools (my observation sample size being 1... mine) has exactly the opposite effect intended. Guys at my school were given an unspoken "coolness/toughness" ranking depending on how many times they had been caned. A "Punishment Idol" sort of thing.
A few of the toughest got such high rankings that they graduated straight to gang membership and then jail. Woohoo! Score one for the "smash respect into the little buggers" crowd...
We had one non-conformist amongst the staff. Mr. Roberts was an American math teacher and refused to cane boys because he grokked the way it became a "badge of honour" to be whacked.
The regime did change when a newer, younger headmaster replaced the old. The new guy was the first one who had never been forced to spend time in the military. Co-incidence?
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Yes, but where can you find good Antigone at this time of year in Hamilton, the Farmers' Market doesn't seem to have any.
The best organic Antigone is to be found in the warmer climates of the Far North. However the recent floods in Kerikeri seem to have wiped out this year's crop. We might be reduced to importing inferior product grown in the hotter parts of Europe. (Don't touch the stuff from China!)
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Fancy not knowing your Antigone from your Agamemnon
How gauche!!
Every one knows that Antigone should only be served before luncheon (preferably on thin slices of toast). On the other hand, Agamemnon is crying out to be drizzled on a nice thick steak to bring out the flavour.
I get my Agamemnon ( done in interestingly shaped old bottles) from an ageing hippy on the Coromandel who has built his own Memnon press from old tractor parts.
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"Where is the statistical evidence to suggest offending by 10 to 13-year-olds is spiralling out of control?"
I didn't think that the bill was designed to counter a (non-existent?) increase in crime rate by that demographic. My impression was that it was about more severely punishing the offenders we are already dealing with.
It all seemed to hark back to the whole "Kids get away with murder and get nothing more than a slap on the wrist" argument that gets trotted out whenever a Bailey Kuariki crops up on the judicial radar.
Judge Becroft's argument makes the assumption that the Youth Justice System is working OK currently, and why would you want to chuck it out? Ron Mark is coming at it from another direction i.e. It is broken and we need to "get tough". (Death Penalty, anyone?)
As always, the truth may be somewhere in between (but I'm not clever enough to know where that truth is. Sorry)
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Now, I happen to think these are all good things, and I would expect any government to present them to the pubic as such.
Hurrr...hurrr... he said "pubic"...
I think "present them to the pubic" could be interpreted as "given the arse" or told to "suck me" (in the prejorative American vernacular).
Casts a whole new light on the post's attitude.
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True story.
An Emergency Department doctor I know told me about a grizzled old farmer who came in with chest pains and irregular heartbeat. When asked how long he had the problem he said "About two years". The doctor asked "Why on earth didn't you come to hospital before now?"The farmer said "Whenever the old ticker was feeling a bit crook, I'd just grab hold of the terminals of the electric fence unit, and Bang!, I'd feel right as rain".
Yes, that's right. He was de-fibrillating himself with the electric fence unit.
And the kicker is, he pulled back the sheet on the stretcher to reveal said fence power-pack. He had brought it with him to hospital as he didn't trust the hospital ("You bloody townies") to have the right equipment to sort him out.
Honest to God. All true.
Maybe Gallagher's should get into the health business...
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'6' & '7'? it's digital TV for heaven's sake, not that clunky rotary dial on the side of the old black and white TV
I yearn for the days of the rotary channel dial. That satisfying "clunk" as it slotted into the next setting. As kids it was our job to do dad's bidding when the channel needed changing (Their were only two choices but they were on channels 3 and 7 on our old B&W set... 4 clunks left or 4 clunks right.. those were the days!!)
Someone should build a remote that has a "clunky" rotary dial which translates into and transmits the correct Infrared code for the channel number. That would be retro cool.
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Yeah, totally fly through San Francisco rather than LAX.
I endorse this advice completely. SFO was 150% better than LAX in terms of ease of passage on my last visit in '06. Also if flying AirNZ, you get to travel to AKL on the 777 which is a much more roomy and modern airplane than the workhorse 747-400s that ply the LAX route.