Posts by william blake
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With the result of forcing the price of cannabis up or worse creating such a scarcity of NZs (illicit) drug of choice, that people turn to methamphetamine.
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Just the punchline.
'Dunno but his face rings a bell.'
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Hard News: Fear of Cycling, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I think if a cyclist is using a shared cycle path, which is prevalent in the West, they have the onus to be able to stop in time for any emergency. Similar to driving a motor vehicle with the 'what if ' principle, it's the heavier, faster vehicles that need to be ready to act. With the greater power comes the greater responsibility.
Sure everybody needs to be aware of latent danger when traversing the city, its best not to test the braking capacity of a 55 tonne truck and daydreaming should be confined to your happy place,not when crossing the road.
It's not that the people lower down the chain are dickheads, it's the fact that we are all dickheads some of the time. We all have to hope that the vehicles around us are travelling a bit more carefully at that moment. We have to look after each other.
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Hard News: Fear of Cycling, in reply to Chopper,
"Pedestrians spill out onto the cycle lane with no consideration that there might be a cyclist coming. People cross it without looking, while talking on their mobiles"
There was me thinking it was a linear food chain with Gerry Brownlee the apex predator followed by the trucking lobby, 55 tonne trucks, all the way down to toddlers, and some form of power gives way to sail spirit was the order of the day.
Power commuting cyclists giving a little ping on their bell blasting through pedestrians and animals are just as arrogant as the one tonne metal sledgehammers.
Many of us are pedestrians, cyclists and motorists at one time or another, why do we adopt intolerant and aggressive positions when we know exactly how and why
others are behaving. Pedestrians do wander around on shared cycleways its written on the box. -
If sanctionable drug detection tests on job seekers produce such sparkling results why not institute sanctionable lie detection tests on politicians?
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My GP was recommending anti epilepsy drugs for nerve pain when I decided to quit the repurposed anti depressant that were clogging my brain for little relief. From what you report Sativex might be just as bad.
A fellow sufferer told me recently that "bud was best" but only once you had "punched through the paranoia" perhaps longer term use of Sativex would provide the benefits of pain reduction without the acute effects of being drug fucked.
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Access: Murder – it’s not OK., in reply to ,
Thanks Hilary, this needs to be said as it is true.
Steven the obvious mitigating factor is the failure of support for the Mother but then in mitigation of the support services, we have a limit on resources because of free market ideas of health care floating around at government level. The (Neo) liberal democratic hegemony that we have is as hard to excuse as it is to get rid of, and this is the real trickle down; to this kind of cruel tragedy. That said, simply returning to a more social democratic form of government won’t get rid of predjudice but it might remove some of the economic constraints of helping people with the greatest need.
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Righto I will google that Sacha.
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Don’t be stoopid be a smartie, come on join the natzi pardy.