Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: The miserable archive, in reply to andin,
Thats him 2nd from the right
Spooky, considering he'd have been barely 5 years old, though those reptilians really hit the ground running once they're out of the egg.
BTW the Wall of Surf party outpolled the Communist League and Blokes' Liberation in the 1990 election, though there's been no suggested Key connection AFAIK.
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Hard News: The miserable archive, in reply to ,
The cyanide can kill the photographer if they fuck it all up by adding the sulfuric acid at the wrong time. But the photograph it self isn’t going to have any halmfull residual cyanide.
I guess some people never really got over those primary school stories about the kids who died of lead poisoning after being jabbed with the lead of a pencil.
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Feed: World of Food 7: Anguilla – Jerk chicken, in reply to Russell Brown,
You'd have been better off with maybe fresh Thai birdseye chillis – cheap at Avondale Markets, less cheap but available with various other varieties (although maybe not out of season) at Farro.
IMHE these freeze beautifully, making them a nice candidate for container growing if your gardening options are limited. While they turn squishy when thawed they seem otherwise unimpaired by freezing. They can be easily cleaned by slicing them lengthwise while still hard frozen and stripping the seeds out.
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Hard News: We are, at last, navigating…, in reply to nzlemming,
I've never heard him called that before...
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Hard News: We are, at last, navigating…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
I thoroughly recommend reading the comments section on the Kiwiblog post on this matter.
Kiwiblog is like having a webcam in a tankful of giant hissing cockroaches. While their antics have little effect on the course of events, they provide Reepicheep - and you too, it would seem - with hours of online fun.
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Hard News: We are, at last, navigating…, in reply to izogi,
Without clearly citing it he's just spouting vacuous rubbish.
"The mark of Satan is upon them..."
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Hard News: We are, at last, navigating…, in reply to Neil,
I wonder if there’ll be a response from the insurance companies.
There's been this.
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Hard News: We are, at last, navigating…, in reply to izogi,
I haven't been following this story deeply, but his arguments just sounded ridiculous, alleging cherry-picked research and conflating moral issues (eg. character of meth users versus "hard-working New Zealanders") with science.
Funny how those who complain the loudest about "virtue signaling" aren't at all shy about proclaiming the virtues of "hard-working New Zealanders".
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Up Front: A Word About Safety, in reply to TracyMac,
People, including juries, need to understand...
While I've tried not to take it personally, I still wonder occasionally why I was rejected for jury service while the guy in the beige safari suit with the obvious toupee got to stay. I've no idea whether the ability to assess the suitability of potential jurors by simply casting an eye over the cut of their jib is part of a lawyer's formal training, but I suspect there's at least a teensy element of cynicism in how it's applied.
Being diagnosed with a cognitive disability doesn't disqualify one from jury service. In the case I'm familiar with, when the prospective juror's mother called the MOJ she was told in no uncertain terms to butt out. Fair enough, even the best of carers may need reminding on occasion that their loved ones have become, in theory at least, autonomous adults.
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Hard News: Protecting privilege in Epsom, in reply to TracyMac,
I grew up in times when state housing was in almost all suburbs - "pepper-potting".
Most of those micro-enclaves in "better" suburbs were wiped out during the Shipley era policy of "market rentals". From the financial inducements offered to some stubborn tenants by developers and their agents, it seems that housing stock had to be vacant before it could be legally flogged off in the brave new market conditions.