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Post by corsair5517 on Mar 20, 2013 0:31:28 GMT 12
Clever, yes?! I saw Tinselworm in the UK and I swear I've never laughed so hard. Ever.
He does a great rip on U2, as well....
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Post by corsair5517 on Mar 17, 2013 20:14:12 GMT 12
Sorry 'bout that... "window licking" is a term I picked up in Jersey, meaning worrying a trivial detail to death, and in this instance means the constant to-ing and fro-ing about the colour of the decals when the build itself is a beauty!
Gee... the aircraft were really scruffy, weren't they!?!
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Post by corsair5517 on Mar 15, 2013 20:04:49 GMT 12
Regardless of all the window licking being done, this is a beauty!
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Post by corsair5517 on Mar 9, 2013 22:37:18 GMT 12
That is certainly a possibility Beagle, Bruce and I have discussed that before and he reckons it's possible. Definitely possible; a guitar forum I frequent based in the US has had a get together of forum members for the last three years and a live streaming has been made available for non attending members. It doesn't seem too onerous a task to set up, either...
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Post by corsair5517 on Mar 5, 2013 22:03:12 GMT 12
I worked at a woollen mill some years ago where we made merino mink which was fine merino wool blended with possum fur and the trappers were selling their skins green for better prices than I used to sell the skins I trapped, stretched and trimmed! However, by the time the mill went tits-up, the fur was not coming to us; it was going offshore....
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Post by corsair5517 on Mar 3, 2013 12:50:24 GMT 12
Too many chiefs, not enough Indians? This. How can the NZDF justify having all of these senior ranks in a service that is so damn small?
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Post by corsair5517 on Mar 3, 2013 12:43:33 GMT 12
It's not just happening in NZ either; just about every souvenir we've looked at here in Australia and in the UK is Made in China. Only in France and Germany was there a preponderance of locally (European) made stuff. The decision by DOC to import from Asia does not surprise me at all, and it should not surprise anyone else; the writing was on the wall years ago when wages from Asia were compared with those for the "first world" nations...
It's not just the souvenir industry, either; heavy manufacturing has all but disappeared from the UK and the US.... all gone to Asia!
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Post by corsair5517 on Feb 27, 2013 21:06:32 GMT 12
I guess if Clive Palmer's financing the thing he can call it whatever the hell he wants! This is all over the media here atm....
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Post by corsair5517 on Feb 15, 2013 20:37:56 GMT 12
Bright objects fall from sky in Russia This made the news here tonight; looked utterly fantastic!
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Post by corsair5517 on Feb 15, 2013 20:33:37 GMT 12
Aren't they horseburgers over there? Hee hee hee.... Mate, the French have been chowing down on Neddie and Nellie for eons, and make no secret of the fact! They are a lot less squeamish than the poms; they even hunt, shoot and consume the likes of blackbirds....
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Post by corsair5517 on Feb 14, 2013 21:23:40 GMT 12
I've shot the SLR/Steyr AK and M4 and I could a lot more with the 5.56 weapons than with SLR or AK. Really? I found the SLR very, very accurate indeed at most sane ranges with terminal ballistics that were far in excess of that offered by the AR-15. Agreed that the AK is hit and miss, but the Valmet which is based on the AK is a much more serious proposition. I've not used the M4 so can't comment on that, but that said, I only ever hunted with an SLR once, but used the Colt quite often on goat eradication.
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Post by corsair5517 on Feb 14, 2013 21:08:15 GMT 12
A burger is not a burger unless it has beetroot in it. This . I've found a shop here where they do put beetroot in your burger and yes.... the proprietors are ex-pats! Burgers in the UK are uniformly shite, at least the ones I had in London, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Jersey were! I didn't have a hamburger in France; why would you?! I discovered croque-monsieurs instead....
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Post by corsair5517 on Feb 10, 2013 11:27:51 GMT 12
Really, is it that important that the machine stays in NZ? Why? Anyone who is interested will surely have seen it, so why the perceived near-outrage that it should be sold on?
I well remember the howls of outrage that erupted when Wallis pranged his Spitfire at Waipukurau about how it shouldn't be flown etc etc.: I remember thinking at the time, it's his bloody airplane and if he wants to fly it - and crash it! - then that's his prerogative! I still feel that way; it's his gear and his to do with what he will, legalities notwithstanding.
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Post by corsair5517 on Feb 10, 2013 11:18:28 GMT 12
How is the Upper House chosen in this day and age? And why does a country the size of NZ need 121 MPs?
As Paul says, the FPP system is inequitable and needed changing, but MMP - especially as it is writ in NZ - is simply not working; you end up with kingmakers like Peters which is a disaster, or at least was when he had Bolger over a barrel! Interesting that NZ continued functioning just fine while Peters played the coy virgin for two months.... the STV system was my preferred choice, but clearly, not everyone else's.....
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Post by corsair5517 on Feb 8, 2013 21:30:08 GMT 12
I've chased NZ5517 in the New Creek region of Inangahua, an Auster in Little Malaya, and an Oxford way up on the Port Hills. Also hunted for an Avro 626 in a huge hole in the ground near Kaiapoi....
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Post by corsair5517 on Feb 6, 2013 20:28:43 GMT 12
Good call!!
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Post by corsair5517 on Feb 6, 2013 1:11:39 GMT 12
Well I have a different view considering that the treaty was ignored and broken by the crown right from the beginning with subsequent illegal land confiscations. ... and haven't NZers been paying for that in monetary terms for quite some time now?! This is why that damned treaty must not be used in any re-writing of a constitution for NZ; it's the 21st century, for crying out loud; not the middle of the 19th!
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Post by corsair5517 on Feb 5, 2013 14:36:08 GMT 12
As far as I can make out from here, this is Key fixing to hold onto power by getting the Maori Party onside by allowing this travesty to see the light of day. And if anyone believes a word Cullen says, well.....
I can only hope that NZers stop this bullshit before it goes too far; mind you, no-one has had the stones to stop the country haemorrhaging cash to the treaty industry yet....
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Post by corsair5517 on Feb 4, 2013 22:04:04 GMT 12
If the National/Maori coalition push this review through - and unless NZers get off their apathetic arses and start making enquiries of their MPs, it will happen!! - then the Treaty of Waitangi will become the document that everything is based around with the treaty industry hitting a gear not yet seen.
This goes WAY deeper than the NZ Defence Force, guys; that was toast when Helen got her hands on the tiller....
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Post by corsair5517 on Feb 3, 2013 23:27:27 GMT 12
It wasn't just politicians he was one-eyed and biased towards/against in his show. He had a knack of clearly putting his personal opinion across on any news subject, which to me has always meant he was the first big step in dumbing down the good media we once had in this country. It's funny how very few people actually liked him on TV, most thought he was a complete prick, and he was often criticized for his sloppy, unrehearsed, bumbling nature and his one-eyed and often plain rude interviews, not to mention his racism that got him fired from television; not to mention the fact that earlier in is career he'd also been banned form Radio New Zealand for breaching standards. Yet now that he's dead he's suddenly a great hero of NZ media. I call bullshit! Yep... +1.
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