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Old 21st May 2019, 22:08     #41561
leadinjector
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by DrTiTus
FACT: More people die from motor vehicle accidents caused by sneezes, than motor vehicle accidents that didn't happen when you go through a checkpoint. But let's not cut off our noses to spite our fates.
what does that even mean?
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Old 22nd May 2019, 00:37     #41562
DrTiTus
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You can, through no bad decision/choice of your own, cause an accident, and therefore a fatality by sneezing.

When you go through an alcohol checkpoint, you haven't had an accident or demonstrated intoxication, so there are no fatalities or actual harm, just "possibly maybe sort of but you might have because imagine if" fatalities.

The last part is a play on words, suggesting that I accept we shouldn't attempt to eliminate sneezing (cutting off our noses) and give up on Minority Report checkpoints being that we are more likely to have an accident (our fates [face]), as it is not likely to achieve the desired outcome.

I've always thought checkpoints were cunty/unfair because you can be fine to drive if you're a regular drinker and you don't get drunk easily (sober as a judge), but you're over the limit. Compared to 22 year old dizzy girl new to driving, not wearing her glasses because she wants to look good at a party, who never drinks and gets pissed off a small glass of wine and is probably in worse shape to drive. Or you could be on LSD and get through an alcohol checkpoint if you can count to 10 and remember your name and any address at all and not keep pulling weird faces from the way the lights are fucking trippy mannn.

I'm just a grumpy old man now though, I am getting a zero alcohol licence for 3 years, and I've learnt just to let others drive or get the bus.

Oh speaking of old men, happy birthday (~third of a century) for yesterday I think it was, you big pencil lead injector :P
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Old 22nd May 2019, 08:11     #41563
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Old 22nd May 2019, 09:45     #41564
StN
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My bad decision is to ride my electric scooter 5kms through the back streets of Queenspark/Parklands to the old pub. Well, that's not the bad bit - but the 5kms back seems to go a lot faster. I do smile a lot and have music blaring from my phone to warn others if they can't see my light before I bowl them at a rollicking 20kms/h. Strangely it also appears colder on the way there, but on the way back, I don't care.
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Old 22nd May 2019, 11:10     #41565
crocos
 
Not worth posting in the vids thread or the listening to thread:
Slimey, yet satisfying
That's right! An earworm, bitches!
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Old 22nd May 2019, 17:09     #41566
leadinjector
 
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Oh speaking of old men, happy birthday (~third of a century) for yesterday I think it was, you big pencil lead injector :P
fucking 33 is a depressing age. made worse because i thought i was 32 until mrs injector pointed it out to me.
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Old 22nd May 2019, 18:39     #41567
CCS
Stunt Pants
 
Christ, early onset dementia.
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Old 22nd May 2019, 18:58     #41568
leadinjector
 
who are you again
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Old 22nd May 2019, 21:13     #41569
CCS
Stunt Pants
 
Get off my lawn
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Old 22nd May 2019, 23:07     #41570
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
galbraiths cunts
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Old 27th May 2019, 09:30     #41571
Jodi
 
I got a powervr!
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Old 28th May 2019, 22:26     #41572
MadMax
Stuff
 
Have heard a point come up regarding recent gun law changes in NZ that it could risk a weapon shortage should we be called to arms akin to 1940-1943

https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/34574/home-guard

http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/schol...-1Hom-c12.html
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Rifles, though promised often, were slow to appear apart from those owned by an élite minority. In January 1941 some elderly rifles were issued for training purposes, though not certified fit for firing.82 A few weeks later the Prime Minister appealed for the loan of .303 rifles, promising to make good all deterioration or loss, but the response was slight: more than two weeks later only 30 had been handed in throughout the Auckland police district from Wellsford to Huntly, only two from Auckland city.83 At the end of April an impressment order was gazetted, requiring all rifles or parts thereof to be handed in immediately, but this did not produce a flood, and shortage of rifles remained a sore point till well into 1942.
Great reading.
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Old 29th May 2019, 09:40     #41573
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I thought the way wars a fought had changed - boots on the ground (and by extension, a home guard) have been replaced with missiles and drones.

Short of a virulent mutagen, we should be covered by whatever Bruce Simpson has in his back shed?
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Old 29th May 2019, 10:10     #41574
CCS
Stunt Pants
 
You trust Bruce to share the contents of his shed with the govt?
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Old 30th May 2019, 08:18     #41575
StN
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Took the daughter to a UC science vocation info night at Canty last night.

It was dark at 18:20, so not the best for navigating. Got to Clyde Road and turned into the campus. A small voice says "Parking is in Clyde Dad..."

Clearly I know what this means, I just turned off Clyde and am now hooning (at 30kms/h) through the uni. Drive past a sign pointing to one of the front carparks - something something Clyde carpark.

"Dad - that's where we need to park - it's free"

Dad level increases - "It's Ok, lets park in the Law carparks"

Pull in - all carparks claim to require a coupon to display or something. Meh, must go deeper - find faculty carparks even closer. Yep, that'll do.

"Dad, it says you'll get clamped!"

Pffft - Dad level increases.

Shit the campus is dark. Many lights are out, but some nice blue ones show the way. Oh - they are rape alert stations. OK.

Hmmm - this place has changed a bit in 30 years.

Where do we need to go?

"Central lecture theatres"

Oh - that must be like where the science ones were - over past the library - it's tall - there it is, let's go this way...

Ahh - here is a block of theatres all lit up, with young people milling around inside - this must be it!

Door won't open - another bloke with a teenager joins in. Then a chap opens it from inside, and we enter. Get the ticket out to prove we are legit. No-one seems to be scanning the QR code...

A bloke opens up one of the theatres, and announces that we should all come in - fill up from the front middle please.

I enter and see papers spread out - one per pair of seats - ahh, very prudent - they know that the kids all have adults with them!

I file in with the daughter and we grab a pair of seats near the front. She looks around and can't see any of her friends yet. Bloke who opened the doors looks at me.

"Yeah - fill up the seats from the middle out please - don't touch the papers yet. By the way, this is the Fluid Dynamic 324 exam..."

Oh Fuck.

Dad level maxes out.

Daughter rolls eyes.

We shuffle out and find the next brightly lit building just around the corner.

Didn't get clamped - Ha! Showed her I was hard core.
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Old 30th May 2019, 10:20     #41576
CCS
Stunt Pants
 
The fuck is a rape alert station? Do I have to pre-register if I want to rape a student these days?
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Old 30th May 2019, 10:24     #41577
StN
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Quote:
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The fuck is a rape alert station? Do I have to pre-register if I want to rape a student these days?
I've seen them at Otago too - although I think they had a red light down there.
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Old 31st May 2019, 09:20     #41578
MadMax
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Some uni campuses have guard stations that you must wait at to be safely escorted around from.
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Old 31st May 2019, 11:47     #41579
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Can’t believe they don’t label them safe spaces
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Old 7th June 2019, 08:17     #41580
CCS
Stunt Pants
 
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Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross has told how her anal cancer — picked up during a routine gynaecologist visit — is linked to her husband's throat cancer diagnosis.

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Old 7th June 2019, 09:36     #41581
StN
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It's like Michael Douglas all over again. Didn't he claim he got throat cancer from munching on too much HPV warty snatch?
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Old 7th June 2019, 10:52     #41582
CCS
Stunt Pants
 
Yeah, he was probably right too. Same deal with Mr Marcia Cross, I'd say. you dawg
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Old 9th June 2019, 11:30     #41583
StN
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FFS New World - here is a pro tip - Don't put the Voltarin gel on the bottom shelf where old bastards that need it can't bend down to get it.
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Old 9th June 2019, 12:40     #41584
CCS
Stunt Pants
 
Holy crap Daily scripture

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Originally Posted by Ezekiel 23:19-20

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.


Holy shit.
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Old 9th June 2019, 13:56     #41585
crocos
 
I never knew Zeke was so kinky.
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Old 9th June 2019, 17:02     #41586
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Whatever book that is in should be banned.
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Old 9th June 2019, 17:30     #41587
Lightspeed
 
Ancient writings have weird shit in them. Who would have thunk?
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Old 10th June 2019, 07:44     #41588
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I never knew Zeke was so kinky.
Zeke was the Rince of his day.

I like the bit where the old guy invented wine and got munted all the time and then one time when he was off his tits naked his kids tried to cover him up and in a drunken rage he cursed the brown fella.

Is Russell Crowe going to do a sequel?

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Old 10th June 2019, 16:47     #41589
MadMax
Stuff
 
When Vodafone speak in acronyms to me, I totally want to ring them up in return and ask them something like

Oh hey VFNZ I need ASAP an ETA on that FRE or is that still TBA? TIA ...
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Old 11th June 2019, 00:22     #41590
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Quote:
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when he was off his tits naked his kids tried to cover him up
that's...one interpretation
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Old 15th June 2019, 11:09     #41591
fixed_truth
 
Tararua man cuts phallus from carving representing Rangitāne whakapapa

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He said the public know to expect some nudity in art when visiting a gallery or museum, and could choose whether to take children inside. But to place it on a public walkway, people may not expect it.
He's got a point. But from the photo you can hardly notice it.
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Old 15th June 2019, 11:39     #41592
crocos
 
I disagree - he doesn't have a point. There's nothing inherently offensive about a phallus (or breast, etc) that people shouldn't be able to handle it with maybe no more than some sniggering if they're really that puerile and juvenile.

If they're really that offended by an object that's not done to offend, but is instead done to match appropriate cultural norms, then that is on them, not the carved statue.
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Old 15th June 2019, 12:00     #41593
Lightspeed
 
Yeah, one person's personal obsession with penis is justification tob ruin objects of cultural significance.
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Old 15th June 2019, 13:35     #41594
Ab
A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
Quote:
"I never dreamt the Māori would be so offended"

Wainwright believed there was a distinction between such carvings and, for example, Michelangelo's David.
because of course he does, I wonder why
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Old 15th June 2019, 17:29     #41595
fixed_truth
 
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I disagree - he doesn't have a point. There's nothing inherently offensive about a phallus (or breast, etc) that people shouldn't be able to handle it with maybe no more than some sniggering if they're really that puerile and juvenile.

If they're really that offended by an object that's not done to offend, but is instead done to match appropriate cultural norms, then that is on them, not the carved statue.
This guy is definitely a crackpot. I think that one of his points is that there are places where there is an expectation of seeing nudity in artwork and places where there isn't an expectation. If you choose to go to a museum or marae for example you know what you're in for and same with movies and television being classified. I thought it raised an interesting question around public nudity/censorship and peoples choice not to come into contact with this, (even if their view are old fashioned) and also the evolving nature of what's considered obscene. But yes, I doubt many people would find this offensive anymore so he's shit out of luck.
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Old 15th June 2019, 19:52     #41596
leadinjector
 
just a fucktarded old racist
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Old 16th June 2019, 10:55     #41597
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He's probably never seen Whatonga on the Tawa Loop track then ...
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Old 17th June 2019, 00:21     #41598
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I think that one of his points is that there are places where there is an expectation of seeing nudity in artwork and places where there isn't an expectation[...] I thought it raised an interesting question around public nudity/censorship and peoples choice not to come into contact with this, (even if their view are old fashioned)
Even if I felt there was any relevance to this very insular worldview, vandalising it is in no way a valid expression in how to address the issue. That act of pointless arseholery more than anything is what I feel has many upset, even if they'd otherwise agree with his fear of seeing penises.
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Old 17th June 2019, 11:43     #41599
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A mariachi ogre snorkel
 
This is the most 2019 story today;

https://i.stuff.co.nz/world/australi...he-wad-of-cash
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Old 20th June 2019, 19:10     #41600
Pepsi
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One of my kids has this annoying toy that plays a snippet of a 90’s techno song and it’s driving me crazy that I can’t remember it. Does anyone know?

https://imgur.com/a/7TVzc5P

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