Posts by Martin Lindberg
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Paul Campbell,
She was a preschool teacher who had been gifted them by a small child
Damn those pesky kids and their magnets!
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Paul Campbell,
.... she pulls out a hand full of refrigerator magnets ....
Just out of curiosity, why was she routinely carrying around refrigerator magnets? Where they the flat adware ones that she handed out as promotional items?
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There are definitely personality and/or cultural aspects to the choice of washing machine.
Front-loaders generally do take longer to run and while it's running you can't add items. To make the best use of them requires a well thought out washing strategy. However, you will be rewarded with lower power and water consuption. And lint-free, clean clothes.
Top-loaders generally are faster and you can add items while running, so they suit indecisive characters with poor planning skills who don't care that their clothes do not come out that clean. And full of lint.
;)
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Don't care too much about dishwashers, but just get me started on washing machines.
Front-loaders FTW!
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to BenWilson,
It's a hundred times more powerful than Tower, and should be acting like it
Just checking, is Tower now shorthand for all insurance companies? I know that Dr Haywood's experience is with Tower, but from what I've read so far, this interpretation appears to apply to all of them. Have any other insurance companies stepped up to say that they would handle this differently? Or are they just happy that they have not yet had the spotlight on them?
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Ever since I first read about Terence Malick's Tree of Life I've been wondering with increasing irritation why it's never mentioned that Patrick White wrote the novel.
Until today, when it suddenly dawned on me that Patrick White's (excellent) book is called Tree of Man.
Ah well, brain rot...
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to David Haywood,
Apart from raising hell about this thru media, your MP etc, I would suggest you raise this with the Insurance Ombudsman. Tower has signed up as participant to this process.
ETA: You first need to raise a formal complaint with Tower. There is a process to follow described here.
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Muse: Emotion Pictures, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Which reminds me - why is it that people are happy to watch foreign-language cartoons dubbed into English, but turn their noses up at the same for live-action films?
Well, the cartoons are by definition already dubbed. Those animated characters can't really speak by themselves. Real actors can. Still, I'm happier with subtitles myself.
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to nzlemming,
ETA As to the underage drinkers, I’ll listen to the ER specialists, alarmist though they may be. It’s the best evidence I’ve seen so far.
With all due respect to ER staff, they only see the people that turn up to ED. And by definition they only see the problems. Not saying that underage drinking is or isn't a problem, I just think that by asking ER staff you would be getting a rather slanted view of the issue overall.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Square Two, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
You should have listened to Ken Ring when he predicted yesterday’s events!
Wait-what? He didn’t?
My bad. He did. That settles it once and for all.