Posts by Jeremy Andrew
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Especially as I am really bad at dealing with stinky, gooey substances.
You'll learn - they might be stinky & gooey, but somehow your own sprogs emissions are less objectionable than those of other people's.
Either that or you invoke the traditional "I was in labour for xteen hours - you can clean that up/change that/wipe that/hose that/shovel that" -
But, let's put it another another way. Say there is no booze in New Zealand -- would you actively bring it in to enhance this public enjoyment you speak of?
Knowing, as you would with hindsight, that it contributes to 40 or 50 road deaths and innumerable accidents every year. That the small but measurable health benefits are more than outweighed by the damage done by binge drinking and chronic overdrinking. Add to that to violence that it exacerbates. And that not even counting the damage to and by actual addicts?
Personally I wouldn't shed a tear if all the pokie machines were dropped off the end of Queen's Wharf tomorrow. I came close to shedding a tear when I had to help destroy a (huge) shipment of illegally imported whiskey, vodka & gin that customs had seized.
We have a range of legislation about who can drink and buy drink, and when and where, etc. Obviously it reduces some of the harm of alcohol, but people will still mistreat it.
We have a range of legislation about pokies. It could probably stand a decent overhaul.I'm not sure where pokies fit on the spectrum of vices, whether they are closer to alcohol; fun in moderation, but can be abused; or more like P - possible to take casually, but much more likely to hook you in and ruin your life and health. I don't think there are many who would argue that P should be banned. There are those that argue that alcohol should be banned, but not many.
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Wait til the pushers start mixing that into milkshakes to hook the kids...
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Its an unappreciated fact of nature that traumatic amnesia is almost solely responsible for the ability of the human race to keep the birth rate above the death rate...
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Ahhh, memories...
In case any of you non-parents out there are entertaining the notion that there might be a tiny bit of hyperbole involved... there's not, that's pretty much an impartial, documentary-style, cinema verite of a blog post. That's exactly what parenthood is like
(for the first child, some conditions apply, your mileage may vary, results not typical, seek medical advice before embarking on any similar programme, plus $98 postage and handling, if you have received this in error do not read)
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Speaking of shock-horror:
Florida cops issue shock 'Butthash' warningCops from Florida's Collier County have created a bit of a stir by declaring that local high school kids are getting high on fermented "fecal matter and urine", known as "Jenkem", or "Butthash"
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The firework thing is another branch of that maturity thing - the dividing line comes when you stop collecting notices from noise control officers and start phoning noise control...
Sounds like one of those "three stages of man" things - you know:
1) You believe in Santa
2) You don't believe in Santa
3) You are Santa -
I too enjoyed the shortened selling period. But some inconsiderate sods over our back fence decided to celebrate on the official date until well after midnight. I don't mind so much on the weekend, but when you've got work in the morning.
It was exacerbated by the way fireworks have gotten louder - to make up for not being allowed to be as dangerous. I don't miss keeping an eye out for flaming skyrockets in the guttering, but the bigger bangs are just obnoxious.From what I've seen in the media, the measures to ban the more dangerous fireworks are succeeding, most of the reported incidents were from people being dicks, not from inadvertant acts. The only way to stop idiots throwing sparklers into people's windows is to ban them altogether, which means the tiny minority of morons spoil it for the majority of the sensible folks.
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On a related note, Family First and the catholic church really, really want you to watch Californication. Why else would they put out a press release about perverted sex & drug use in it?
Family First has called for families to boycott companies advertising during the first episode of what it described as the drug, sex and vomit-laden Californication on Thursday night.
And New Zealand's Catholic Church has branded the show as evil.
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__I will be contributing hippy humus and pita bread.__
You'll be contributing organic dead leaves and dirt?
I'm all for gardening, but I was hoping for some food...
Luckily for Kowhai, hummus has multiple spellings from different dialects - humus, hommus, etc are all valid.
Which I'm normally not (quite) pedantic enough to point out, except it reminds me of some priceless graffiti from Sydney:
Scrawled on the wall "God hates homos" and added in another hand "But he loves taboulleh".