Posts by Steve Barnes
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Not me, Tom. I've never 'got' the whole driving fast and dangerously thing and wanting a flash car. I just don't understand it. Never have.
James, you are a big wuss.
See you Friday.
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Correct me if I'm wrong and I'm sure someone will even if I'm right.
But is a "Cease and Desist" notice a civil matter? and therefore out of the realms of police procedure?
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And then Redbaiter runs into the room with his underpants on his head
LOL
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Steve, you seem to be having a kind of visceral day.
What? like a gut's full of a day?
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Not fit for purpose, CGA. Go get em Russ.
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Cork taint is a broad term referring to a set of undesirable smells or tastes found in a bottle of wine, especially spoilage that can only be detected after bottling, aging and opening. Though modern studies have shown that other factors can also be responsible for taint – including wooden barrels, storage conditions and the transportation of corks and wine – the cork is normally considered to be responsible, and a wine found to be tainted on opening is said to be "corked". Cork taint can affect wines irrespective of price and quality level.
The chief cause of cork taint is the presence of 2,4,6-trichloroanisole (TCA) in the wine. Corked wine containing TCA has a characteristic odor, variously described as resembling a moldy newspaper, wet dog, damp cloth, or damp basement. In almost all cases of corked wine the wine's native aromas are reduced significantly, and a very tainted wine is completely undrinkable (though harmless). While the human threshold for detecting TCA is measured in the single-digit parts per trillion, this can vary by several orders of magnitude depending on an individual's sensitivity. Detection is also complicated by the olfactory system's particularly quick habituation to TCA, making the smell less obvious on each subsequent sniff.
Going to Wikipedia so you don't have to.
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In other news;
from the HeraldClubrooms, two chalets, the YMCA and houses had been destroyed by the fire.
Evacuations were taking place, said rural fire officer and response co-ordinator Don Scott.
So, they'd be shitting themselves then? in a co-ordindated kinda way.
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IKB, LOL
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And I still fail to see how the type of car you're driving influences the legislation around discharging a firearm at police.
That guy the other week was driving a Skyline. It's Knowledge Bro.
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I'm still wondering WTF nice middle-class people have to do before their drivers licenses are no long treated as some kind of inalienable human right.
Indeed Craig. I have often voiced the opinion that the worst drivers on our roads are, in fact, Kiwi Males in their late fifties onwards until dementia. The attitude of "This is my God given right of way" seems to stem from a belief that, because the roads were less crowded when they were young, the entire roading system belongs to them and all those usurpers should die a horrible death in a twisted mass of smoking metal.