Posts by Grant McDougall
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Jokes just don't work when you have to explain them...
google.co.nz
check 'search pages from New Zealand'
type in clueless
Hit 'I'm feeling lucky.'
Worked for me...
Thanks Deborah, you're better than me at explaining IT stuff.
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I got imdb. I presume you mean tick "Pages from New Zealand" before you do that.
Or you're an unusually keen fan of Alicia Silverstone :>No, as I said, tick "I feel lucky". Make sure it's "clueless" with a small c and you use quote marks.
Make sure to use google.co.nz not google.com, too.
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Want some election-related entertainment? Go to google.co.nz, type in "clueless", then hit "I'm feeling lucky".
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A lot of the readers' comments at Stuff and the Herald about the election are typically hilarious frothing-at-the-mouth twaddle.
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the Trons have in fact been invited to Paris to play a Mercedes corporate do
Which Greg will be finding hugely amusing, given that he is a huge fan of that somewhat more down-to-earth vehicle, the Hillman Superminx (there were six in various states of repair in the backyard when I flatted with him).
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It's harder than it looks to please all of the people all of the time.
...and even harder to be an Otago supporter. The Otago NPC side really has been a shadow of it's former great self in recent years, with this year being perhaps the worst for over two decades.
Even in the classic Laurie Mains-Gordon Hunter-Tony Gilbert era, well, somethings you just had to accept into the bargain of the team playing scintillating rugby, win or lose: mandatory pasting by Auckland ? Best just to get it over and done with. Valiant, heart-stopping narrow lose away to Canterbury? Dems da breaks. Losing away to Waikato? Not good, but we always beat them at home.
But this year, bloody hell. We're being hammered by teams we'd usually thrash: Bay Of Plenty and Hawkes Bay. Not good. Not good at all.
Some mates and I were dissecting this at the pub last night. In short, there appears to be no team unity and captain Craig Newby is a temp-prone eejit. One of my mates had been in a corporate box at the last home game. Two of the injured Otago players gave a short speech before the game, then everyone went out to the box's balcony to watch the game - except the two players who didn't even bother to watch their team "mates". Bloody appalling.
Then, about 40mins after the game, Adam Thompson, Otago's sole current All Black, was seen walking down the road by himself (maybe there was an honest reason for this, but it's still puzzling...).
As for Newby, he loses it whenever things aren't going right, yelling in frustration, rather than displaying leadership and calling the team together and encouraging them to back themselves and getting stuck in.It is very disheartening.
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Has anyone else realised how much Owen Glenn looks like the late Augie Auer ? Maybe they were seperated at birth, or something...
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One thing that baffles / annoys me is the way that right-of-centre commentators (including Paul Holmes) keep going on about how hot Palin is.
Apparently the Republicans have been screaming "sexism" whenever Palin gets asked a hard question, yet they were happy enough to have button badges saying "Hottest VP, Coolest state" at their convention.
Also, there's a fair bit of typical GOP hypocrisy going on: it's "sexist" to attack palin, but not "racist" for them to attack Obama, it would appear.
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Purely out of curiousity, is Aaron Bhatnager any relation to Roger Bhatnager, the Auckland businessman that owns (owned ?) Noel Leemings, etc ?
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That billboard is going to come back and haunt National should it win the election.
NZers going to Australia, UK, US, etc to live is a fact of life and won't change even if the economy flourishes.People leaving, like crime, is an easy political football to kick around, but it's a lot harder to do something substantial about it.
Thatcher famously got elected using a billboard saying "Labour isn't working" slogan and a picture of a big dole queue.
When unemployment sky-rocketed under her, Labour responded with "The Conservatives aren't working" and an even larger dole queue picture.
Expect Labour to respond in kind on this issue.