Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Sad to hear about Mike Fomison - I remember a crazy road trip moving him up to Wellington from Chchch many decades ago... and discovering the costs of taking a rental car across the strait without asking - sigh.
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Hard News: Dilemmas: the drug-driving ad…, in reply to Russell Brown,
They're wasted, bro. But not so wasted they won't stop their mate driving.
I think it's a completely crap ad - the narrative basically only addresses their own self-interest, they may stop him driving, but only because he is a 'useful idiot'!
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Hard News: On joining the international…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
It is one thing to say the Russians try to use aysemmetric warfare and disinformation to influence elections – notably Trump’s victory (and Brexit, if you believe the UK’s chattering classes). That contention is probably indisputable. But it is quite another to contend they succeeded, or even had any sort of impact beyond the trivial.
I'm thinking Russia's recent appointment of Steven Seagal as Special Envoy to the USofA also isn't one of their table-slamming 'Checkmate!!' moves either...
...I also note the story is in the 'Entertainment' section rather than the 'World' or 'Politics' sections.
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Hard News: Reassure Me: cannabis,…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I’m not sure about the way some jurisdictions aren’t allowing concentrates for that reason.
Overheard, Auckland 2025:
"Have you seen the price of cold-pressed cannabis oil at Farro?!"
"I know!*
Those plantation riots at Ruatoria really ramped up the market
- and they're still restoring the rail link "*using the KimHillSottoVox© App
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Hard News: A cannabis moment in the Parliament, in reply to tussock,
faddy lipids...
...something nebulous about gateways
Then there's always DMT...
...as recently espoused by Irvine Welsh"...What DMT does - it allows you into an antechamber between life and death. You get to hang out on the fringes and talk to the gatekeepers… All the learned behaviour and culture... We get right down back to the human essence. It's interesting to think that there is a human essence that is bigger than our cultural learned behaviours, norms, values. Human existence."
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"Is this based on Welsh's own experiences? Yes. He has taken it four times. Always present are what he calls "geometric gnomes," which vary in physical form but are consistently soothing and comforting, caring for you throughout the trip."No, Mon! They're gnomons!
:- )Plus The new science of psychedelics
A better life through chemistry!It's the physics of the affair...
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Hard News: Friday Music: The spaceman…, in reply to Russell Brown,
That certainly was a warm recommendation!
...and Graham Reid's ever excellent Elsewhere also adds to the praise - this could be the Blair Parkes release to cut through!
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Grant Smithies gave a big Thumbs up to Blair Parkes' latest album on Nine to Noon this morning:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018655481/blair-parkes-the-blue-nile-and-fabulous-arabiaGo listen for yourself:
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I see Bailterspace are touring after their Others Way appearance.
https://www.undertheradar.co.nz/ticket/8574/Bailterspace.utr -
I'd be interested to know if those Meth detection' boxes that were being touted actually work , and how?
Or were they just selling a false sense of security in a tin. -
I note one of mr Stratford's earliest questions on Twitter back in 2010 - must've thrilled his 24 followers
Miles Stratford
@MethMinderMiles
Follow @MethMinderMiles
What happens if you find your livinging in meth lab
6:40 PM - 8 Jun 2010Well I'm guessing he can answer that one himself now
- looks like he did find a living in Meth Labs!
