Posts by BenWilson
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Too soon? Is that before or after monsoon?
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As a Wellingtonista, it is my job to know everything about everything in this city. Duh.
Excellent, is there a particular season it's safe to land an airplane there?
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Murray Mexted has never seemed to show any grasp of the rules in the past
His stint as captain of the All Blacks was entirely down to referee prejudice?
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>Wellington is depraved of good hardware shops.
>Typo of the week. Never checked out the depraved hardware shops of either Wellington or Auckland so I'll have to take your word for it.
I brought some dishwashing gloves and a pot plant in a Wellington hardware shop the other day
Don't you know the difference between depraved and perverted? You also need a hamster to suffer from true depravation.
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Wellington is depraved of good hardware shops.
Typo of the week. Never checked out the depraved hardware shops of either Wellington or Auckland so I'll have to take your word for it.
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Pretending that Auckland is five cities, not a city centre surrounded by urban sprawl, is just silly though. My view on a city is that it's a large urban area, usually surrounded by suburbs, and then countryside.
Surely you got that I was being silly on purpose. Yeah, it's a sprawly city with a fuzzy boundary. The people who live in it make it work for them, having given up on molding it to fit the expectations others have of a planned city. They're quietly confident that it's a good place without needing to knock the likes of Wellington which is definitely doing it's damnedest to be a city too.
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However my point was not that Auckland is more or less messed up but a comment based on personal experience and a note of personal concern. I do admit being bemused by the rush to defence...here and elsewhere.
Quite. NZ doesn't have to be the only drug and booze addled place for it to be concern.
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Anyone else got any "I did P and I'm OK" stories?
I know quite a few people with this story. I do also know a few who are not OK.
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No it doesn't but I'm always bemused by the need to redefine a city as a bunch of people who can get together easily and walk everywhere.
Ditto to both points....Wellington does not Sux, but just because it's the University Tramping Club of NZ, doesn't mean it's the only good club. Gimme car club when it's raining any day.
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Auckland is a beast. A great big beautiful one. The automobile perfectly solves the issue of it being far flung for all those who can accept that it was not much of city when trains were invented, even less of one when the pushbike vied with the horse, and didn't even have humans in it when walking was invented.
It is a grave mistake in thinking to believe that because it is a city that maximises convenience for automobile users, that this is somehow a bad thing, and convenience for automobiles should therefore be reduced. Of course it would be better if there were a lot more viable alternatives, but that particular alternative is incredibly convenient and should continue to be so for as long as automobiles are viable. Which is probably forever. Can't wait for Wrightspeeds to hit my price range :-)
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