http://www.stuff.co.nz/4561663a12.html
Just saw this over at stuff :/

Cool!

Not especially surprising.

Someone wanna remind Jimmeh Cahtuh that the Soviet Union doesn't exist any more?

They are a threat, and they must be stopped!

I learned this the other day and found it quite disturbing....

Women, in groups so it's more acceptable, are 'fasting'. Of course, to you and me and Joe Obvious that's just starvation for a week ... but if you call it 'fasting' then it's got that whole PC-acceptable-hippy-aura around it.

Call it what you will, it's still an eating disorder. And it's messed up.

I've met countless people who think 'juice fasting' is a great idea for cleansing, cleaning yourself out and renewing your energy. And it's not just hippies doing it, it's disturbing.

I'm pretty sure a lot of people think it's going to make them slimmer :/

Whatever happened to that chick who was going to go on a diet of jizz for a month?

/edit - well, she would have been buggered if the bananas ran out...

sounds like something liz shaw might do

The film Mish and I helped with in the 48 Hour Film Festival made it to the chch finals !!

finally back within walking distance of work (oh ya, i had about a month or so of having to drive to and for work, which sucked). Feels good. Instead of biking or walking; I'm gonna teach myself how to ride a skateboard again. I figure if I ride everyday to and from work I'll hopefully develop some grace in movement.

Learn to ollie up gutters. All that stuff everyday.

well done, ours didnt get past our heat :P

The NZHerald scrapes for news - again
 

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/...ectid=10514056

While it's a pontentially bad situation, fuck that's funny!

OMGROFL!

You mean the bit about gingas trying to breed?

I was more amused by what sounds like a pale, emo, internet-using teenager called 'Saddie'.

But yeah. Doesn't sound good for her, which is a bad thing.

HAHAHAHA~

It's Alabamba, they're obviously related.

Red heads breeding is bad enough, related red heads breeding is the 2nd sign of the apocolypse

"o/~ Para bail- Alabamba.
Para bail- Alabamba,
Se necesita una poca de gracia...."

If she tried that, she'd starve.

I have an LAX phone number that gets redirected to my NZ landline. Basically costs nothing (pennies a month). Its purpose is to make my US consumer presence a little more credible.

Problem is, I've started getting telemarketers phoning me; not that I ever answer, but the answerphone messages are promising me things I bet they're not going to deliver upon.

do telemarketers ever deliver?

...serious question, because i've always treated phone spam the same way as email spam: straight to the bin.

A Los Angeles International Airport number...?

Yeah the telemarketers are fucking nuts in America.

My mate came over to stay with me and my gf for a holiday, and bought a pre paid cell. And somehow still got calls from people trying to sell mortgages? Most people I know there screen calls, something I believe is very rare in NZ. But somewhat of a necessity if you somehow end up on the spam call lists.

Exactly what I was wondering. Maybe GT moonlights as an air traffic controller. In which case, I'm cancelling my trip in July.

Doesn't everybody use airport codes in place of city names? I guess not :-)

CCD
JCX
JID
JBP
LAX
JSN
JLX
JUC
VNY
JWC
WHP
LSQ

All Los Angeles. Pls to be defined specific more.

But, that was all I was trying to convey. And, since you "got it" I succeeded.

Can you get your number put on the Do Not Call list?

the biggest trojan I have on my computer is called iTunes. iTunes store is simple point, click and buy, and iTunes U got lots of interesting podcasts from universities.

^Whiskey + internet

new lotto ad with old guy looking for lost french love ftw. looks too high budget to be NZ made though...still, good choice.

GT, yeah, nothing wrong with it. It's just one letter extra, and I think everyone knew exactly what you meant.

Had an amusing moment whilst doing a tour of my prospective employers site - ran into a friend who I hadn't seen for maybe 6 - 8 years. Thats all good, except both of us had this moment where all we could remember was each others online nicks (I could see it in his face). Thankfully he remembered, as did I not long after (with a bit of quick observational intuition).

Still would have been amusing for the boss to hear.
"Pixie, long time no see!"
"Codeine, you're looking well!"

Pixie

Could be worse. Imagine if your nicks were Golden Teapot and Cyberbob.

Transformer terrorist T-Shirt gets you booted out of planes
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle1234193.ece

AIRPORT guards stopped a man boarding a plane — for wearing a Transformers T-shirt showing a cartoon gun.

Brad Jayakody, 30, was shocked when he was told to change his top if he wanted to catch his flight from Heathrow’s Terminal 5.

IT consultant Brad — on a British Airways trip with four colleagues to Dusseldorf, Germany — asked to see the security chief.

He thought the boss would "see sense" — but he backed up the decision and threatened him with ARREST. Aussie-born Brad said: "My mate set off the alarms and was searched.

"But then the guy told me to stop and said ‘you cannot get on the plane because there is a gun on your T-shirt’."

Yea, I cracked up at that ad, very well done :D
Had no idea it was for lotto until the very end

I'm sorry - a beef sandwich? Was it shaped like a bomb? Oh - I get it - it might have had BSE in it, which would make it a biological agent...

Hamish and Scott..... easy. Slacker! :D