Posts by Shep Cheyenne
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Cricket was a game devised for gambling and so the rich kids would have someone to play with.
Gentlemen & Players - amateurs would pay for professionals (gardeners and the like) to play with them and occupy their summer days on their estates.Now it's returning to its true form - HQ in Dubai and the game proper controlled by Pakistani Bookmakers.
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I hear Alt TV with such luminaries as Bomber & Driver are lowering the bar on the Boob Tube, again.
The last show I saw with Bombers had him prostitute a child. OK he didn't let her get in the car - but highly suspect actions.
Does Steve Crow have the controlling interest in Alt TV?
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Steve & George shall we jam the walls, floors and rooves full of Swannies?
Irrespective of price the Swannies are now made in China.
Kyle - " Practically no houses in New Zealand at the time they were all built had good insulation"
And that's my point. The Govt was highly prescriptive in order to achieve the illusion of egalatariamism, effectively halting the building of better housing in NZ.
While being better than the criminal housing in Dunnes, a state house and the govt policies were written with a deluded view of our reality of south pacific lattitude and weather.
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Sue - 'regime change' - as in Iraq?
Are you advocating war on China?
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Fiji were 'protected' by paternalistic colonials who wanted Fijians to remain as they are. By the way they would make an unfair profit out of the Indians.
Anyone catch Ross Kemp on Gangs and see how similar our Pacific Island Labour programme is to the fascist Russian MPs view of a mild form of slavery?
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Kracklite - I agree with you but you're side stepped insulation.
And we need to be a bit more prescriptive than this charmer on Trademe.
Notice how none of the photos were of the Bedroom.
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RB - Private house builders would follow the state house plans in order to get through the Council easier and would get pref for mortgages to build a private house the same as a state house.
"As for double glasing harden up boy and buy a swannie or take up knitting."
Swannies are all made in China now.
Cold homes are a major health problem. They agrevate all kinds of conditions and lead to a miserable existence then an early grave.
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How good were they?
I remeber the ice on the inside of the windows, freezing in winter without insulation and the sacks of coal being burnt choking the air outside, while writing my name in the smoke filled air inside as well.Egalatarianism was about an illusion of "you can be this equal".
Egalatarianism in NZ has always been a myth, like the Queens Chain. Egalatarianism had INNA (Irish need not apply), Cockers Htl banning Indians, Womens wages reduced below a mans etc.
Oh NZ Railways on St Paddys day turning red with blood - this was in the 1980s.It created a bench mark that others would not reach above.
And now with the removal of housing standards like double glazing (the only concrete issue reported on) it seeks to enshrine inadequate housing that will impact on the health of NZers now and in the future.
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"more attitude than taste or judgement."
I haven't warmed to him yet. A bit of the Lockwood Smith about him.
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"Helengrad-style housing".
Bill has a point.
Back in the day of the State House, the NZ Govt & Banks would be favourable towards private building on the State House Model.
Creating the egalatarian myth.
Graffiti made the destruction of the school more miserable? I'm not sure I'ld be able to focus on little more than the chared remains.
Sorry is this a policy or a plan yet to be adopted?
Does anyone have the details? I really want to dig through this.