Posts by Yamis
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You have to love a game, too, that gives us the word 'nurdle' and produces potential sentences like "Pietersen has spanked Warne through the covers".
or "caught behind", or "taken down the legside". giggle giggle.
"The ball dropped at his feet".
"He's put it straight down long ons throat".
or from Kerry O'Keefe. "he's bowls a lot of Rock Hudson delivieries". "They look straight but they aren't".
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"110%"
It's what all athletes give these days.
Actually, are numbers and symbols allowed? hang on.
One hundred and ten percent.
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Sign of the times really and another step towards the middle ground.
MMP was worked out by Labour a lot quicker than National and now National have cottoned on. It's a make friends system, not enemies because no party is going to get more than 50% of the vote in NZ anytime soon.
I will think about voting for National if hell freezes over, but decide not to in the end. But I was quite impressed with how Key could speak for two minutes straight on Campbell Live with no pauses, no stutters, no ums or aghs and in coherent sentences even if it was the warm touchy feely nothingness that people have mentioned. It reminds me of being at Brixton Academy a few years back listening to Henry Rollins do spoken word gig. He mentioned to the audience that it must be cool having a prime minister that could actually speak and make sense (comparing him to Bush who was making people cringe and laugh at his inability to do the same). People in the audience groaned a bit at the 'complement' to Blair but the point was fair, that somebody who can speak clearly and well and looks the part can go an awful long way to convincing people who don't do much listening that they are the person for the job. We must see it everyday at work, on TV, in the papers that if people say things loud enough, often enough or else look nice then they get to positions they might not otherwise deserve to be in.
I suspect there is more to Key than meets the eye (there better be for the blue teams sake) but at the same time, you would have thought that if he was strong on many issues we would have heard of it by now. I have a nagging feeling that he is going to go the middle ground on policy for a while but on the back of criticism from nat supporters and followers for being to centrist and going away from traditional right wing goals of shafting the poor and weak while high fiving each other he will try taking a harder line on a couple of issues eventually which may work or be the downfall of the Nats once again.
What an appalling rant. I'm off to bed.
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I thought it was rather common to NOT reveal your sources in the journalistic field if they did not wish to be revealed. If people know you will reveal them then often the information would never come to light surely.
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The so called "six" are hardly going to come forward regardless of how they obtained the information because if they do they will be out of a job shortly afterwards.
If I kill somebody but argue that I'm sure other people are killing as well does that mean I should be let off?
Nup.
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I wonder if Keith Locke did a study on the amount of air pollution caused by private motor vehicles going to a 60,000 seat Eden Park as opposed to how people might use PUBLIC TRANSPORT ENMASSE! to get to a waterfront stadium. Or has that not occured to him. Odd seeing as how its a particular bug bear for the Greens. It would also attract gigs like the U2 concert which I'm sure most people drove to. Locke thinks he represents all greens with this soapbox he's been on. Well not this f**ker!!!!!!
Locke: And when I get that feeling, I've got, selective thiiiinking, selective............... thiiiiiiinking.
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Weird: "Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange".
I would say not owning a television qualifies as weird.
Maybe once or twice every couple of years I'll come across somebody who doesn't own one and more often than not they themselves are weird.
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Agree. I could get the bus or train to the waterfront stadium from where I live. To Eden Park I can get... my arse out to the car and drive in, park miles away and walk and repeat to get home.
Haven't had time to go over it but is the main sticking point with the ARC really about the disruption tot he ports because the line about heritage values etc is a complete and utter joke. The cbd is filled with recently built buildings. Some look nice and some look bloody awful but if they have an issue with preservation then they should do more. My father has busted his guts along with a few others to preserve countless buildings in the cbd and other parts of Auckland because nobody will get on board. Now all of a sudden it's become a big concern. Screw it, lets invade one of Aucklands oldest suburbs a few times a year instead.
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Bryan to answer some of your questions:
The NZRU originally planned for about 80 million dollars worth of temporary seating to go into Eden Park and that is what was sold to the IRB and deemed perfectly adequate to them to give us the WC. That number shot up after they unveiled plans for a big 350 million dollar revamp and thats when the waterfront idea seed was sown and germinated fairly quickly.If they had stuck to the 80 million dollar temporary idea the waterfront option would possibly never have surfaced. Well not for much longer anyway.
Its now up to 385 million and basically its a rubbish idea throwing money into a stadium without a real long term future.
Auckland will eventually grow to the point where it even needs a stadium able to seat more than 60,000 and Eden Park simply can't keep doing that. At least at the waterfront you can do a highbury or yankee stadium and build a new one down the road and demolish the old one once it can't cater to your needs anymore. Eden Park may be a bit cheaper but its short term thinking not long term. It's like building a one lane bridge over a river when you are building a huge subdivision on the otherside.
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Bryan how close do you live to Albany?
The entire population of Auckland does not live on the other side of the harbour bridge. Some of us live in places like Massey, Gled Eden, Papatoetoe, Otahuhu, Onehunga and a few dozen other suburbs which are all quite a way from just jumping on the harbour bridge.
The waterfront is the central point or as near as you are going to get to EVERYWHERE in the greater Auckland region. Albany isn't even central to the North Shore. It has buses yes, it has car parking yes.
The waterfront has buses, way more car parking potentially available (yes, there are huge empty carparks arund the times most events will be on), rail, workers and residents on it's doorstep and it is no more than 30 minutes drive outside peak hour for roughly a million people.
60,000 seats at Albany = whiter than white elephant.