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CCS · 15th March 2009, 00:09

Not really. They run those short articles all the time. In the print edition they run in those little 'News in Brief' columns. It's hardly worth putting them on the website, especially as they had a long article on the same story a day or so prior.

caffiend · 17th March 2009, 16:20

http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/22691...ex-look-feeble

This whole article is so poorly written it makes my brain hurt. Reading this is like sitting in the passenger seat of a car while the driver keeps bunny-hopping, fucking up gear-shifts and stalling. Terrible - especially since it's Reuters - you'd think they'd be able to employ competent wordsmiths.

Luse · 18th March 2009, 00:57

Review: Serj Tankian and the APO

Quote:

Serj Tankian and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
Where: Auckland Town Hall
When: Monday, March 17

CCS · 18th March 2009, 01:19

caffiend · 18th March 2009, 01:24

Monday? Or March 17? You decide.

CCS · 18th March 2009, 01:42

Ah, I see. *titter*

Saladin · 18th March 2009, 11:39

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket...start-to-tests

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A decision on the start times in the second and third tests is still on the table but the third is at the Basin Reserve in Wellington from April 3-7 and logic suggests it would be an impossibility. Day light saving begins after day one.

Wait, DST begins in April now?

StN · 18th March 2009, 11:46

Technically, Sunday 27 September 2009 is after day one...

Saladin · 18th March 2009, 14:59

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment...rbike-for-sale

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Fastest Indian motorbike for sale

Except if you read the article, it's not even an Indian that's being sold, let alone the fastest :P

combatspoon · 18th March 2009, 21:04

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2274...acier-ice-fall

Quote:

Tourist injured by glacier ice fall
'We are naturally very upset'

LATEST A foreign tourist was airlifted to hospital this evening after a large chunk of ice fell on him at Fox Glacier on the South Island's West Coast.

The Czech Republic tourist was on a guided rock climb with three others around 3.30pm when he became caught in a rock fall.

Inspector Rick Jury said the man, in his mid-20s, was caught by a falling rock and pinned to the ice.

So which is it?

Endymion · 19th March 2009, 12:00

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crim...tted-in-Wigram

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Originally Posted by TFA

"He then dumped the vehicle he was in about 6am in Wigram Road and allegedly stole another nearby in Winchops Rd," Mr Munro said.

The stolen vehicle is a white 1993 Subaru Legacy, registration CR6361.

There's no Winchops Rd near Wigram, it's Whincops Road. And the number plate CR6361 is not going to be on a 1993 Subaru Legacy, innit?

Cyberbob · 19th March 2009, 12:05

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Originally Posted by Endymion

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crim...tted-in-Wigram

There's no Winchops Rd near Wigram, it's Whincops Road. And the number plate CR6361 is not going to be on a 1993 Subaru Legacy, innit?

Depends, do you see some serious shit when it goes 88 miles per hour?

Luse · 19th March 2009, 12:15

There's a story about NZ flights being disrupted / diverted near Tonga due to a 'significant eruption'. Shouldn't the focus be on the fact that there's a volcano erupting near Tonga?

Edit, found it
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2274...pts-NZ-flights

Endymion · 19th March 2009, 12:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyberbob

Depends, do you see some serious shit when it goes 88 miles per hour?

Yeah, the noise from the hydraulic lifters reaches its resonant frequency with the body and tears it apart.

Baal · 19th March 2009, 12:26

Stuff have no fucking clue how to do a poll. Often they present options that don't encompass all the reasonable possibilities.

Really yanks my chain.

crocos · 19th March 2009, 23:44

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Originally Posted by Baal

Stuff have no fucking clue

You should have stopped there

Reformed_Quint · 20th March 2009, 09:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by combatspoon

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2274...acier-ice-fall

So which is it?

It was in the Herald yesterday to, word for word.

PiNg` · 20th March 2009, 12:41

CCS · 20th March 2009, 14:23

Tuff az, brah.

xin · 20th March 2009, 14:40

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Originally Posted by Reformed_Quint

It was in the Herald yesterday to, word for word.

Not all content on Stuff/NZHerald is written by their editors.

That article was written by the NZPA.

Danjah · 20th March 2009, 14:50

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Originally Posted by PiNg`

nigga is straight metro ballin now!

Omegakai · 20th March 2009, 20:05

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Originally Posted by Danjah

nigga is straight metro ballin now!

I beat you the irony of it all,. is that he gets a job... delivering pizzas.

guy looks totally un-remorseful /spit.

Dusty · 21st March 2009, 20:37

Off topic - but still amusing...
"In Angola, pope urges more for poor"
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/af...ope/index.html

Yup...like AIDS...

CCS · 23rd March 2009, 09:40

Quote:

Grandmother of nine swims Cook Strait
New 7:40AM Monday Mar 23, 2009

A grandmother of nine battled hypothermia to become the oldest person to swim the Cook Strait.

Rotorua woman Pam Dickson, 55, swam the 26km from Ohau Pt on Wellington's west coast to Perano Head in Marlborough Sounds in nine house and 23 minutes on Friday.

As authored by NZPA... I guess they just run it through the spell checker and hit 'OK' to any and all suggested changes...

caffiend · 23rd March 2009, 10:22

Or the reporter could be Fijian and was using speech-recognition software.

lektronimo · 23rd March 2009, 11:12

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Originally Posted by caffiend

Or the reporter could be Fijian and was using speech-recognition software.

StN · 23rd March 2009, 15:24

Oh FFS!!!

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It would be the third marriage for Ford, whose most famous film roles include the swaggering Star Wars space hero Hans Solo and the rugged explorer Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark and its sequels.

caffiend · 23rd March 2009, 15:27

Ahaha... Hans Solo. Don't forget his brother Klaus Solo and sister Gretchen Solo.

Ab · 23rd March 2009, 15:34

It's short for Hansel.

StN · 23rd March 2009, 15:39

...and not to mention that Temple was a prequel...

caffiend · 23rd March 2009, 15:43

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Originally Posted by Ab

It's short for Hansel.

He is so Hoth right now.

Saladin · 23rd March 2009, 15:55

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crim...int-turn-death

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Officer on trial for three-point-turn death

Anthony Dale Bridgman, 58, has denied two charges of dangerous driving causing injury to motorcyclists Brent Russell and Marty Collins.

So, uh, no actual death then?

caffiend · 23rd March 2009, 16:00

Already changed to 'crash'... we're going to have start getting screen grabs, before the sub-sub-sub-editors read this thread and make the correction.

Luse · 23rd March 2009, 21:15

Shift, alt, delete for internet copyright law

Does Shift + Alt + Delete actual DO anything? Did they mean Ctr Alt Del? Even then it makes little sense.

Edit: No, nothing on vista, won't even delete the file I tried it on. Anyone able to tell me if it does anything on a Mac or nix?

zeekiorage · 23rd March 2009, 22:26

Shift + Delete in Windows has always meant "Delete without sending to Recycle Bin" but Shift + Alt + Delete?.

Ctrl + Alt + Delete?
Select All + Delete?

Reformed_Quint · 23rd March 2009, 22:30

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Originally Posted by Luse

Shift, alt, delete for internet copyright law

Is it just my imagination, or did an internet petition actually work?

Luse · 24th March 2009, 00:42

^ I think it was helped a lot by the fact that none of the ISPs (Other than Xnet) wanted to do the dirty work.

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Originally Posted by zeekiorage

Shift + Delete in Windows has always meant "Delete without sending to Recycle Bin" but Shift + Alt + Delete?.

Yeah and doing that with ALT makes it do nothing.

Russian · 24th March 2009, 22:37

I should point out that 'skewer' was the wrong word to use, but hey the readers are none the wiser: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2286...skew-drug-case

yeah, too bad 'skewer' was still plastered in the Dom

fuck you fairfax!

TD · 30th March 2009, 00:25

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2299...-felt-all-over

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Super-city will be felt all over

*giggle*

Lightspeed · 30th March 2009, 18:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Omegakai

guy looks totally un-remorseful /spit.

I too would give the finger if I were him.

15th March 2009, 00:09	#441
CCS Stunt Pants	Not really. They run those short articles all the time. In the print edition they run in those little 'News in Brief' columns. It's hardly worth putting them on the website, especially as they had a long article on the same story a day or so prior. __________________ I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?

18th March 2009, 01:19	#444
CCS Stunt Pants	buh? __________________ I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?

18th March 2009, 01:42	#446
CCS Stunt Pants	Ah, I see. titter __________________ I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?

20th March 2009, 14:23	#459
CCS Stunt Pants	Tuff az, brah. __________________ I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?

17th March 2009, 16:20	#442
caffiend	http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/22691...ex-look-feeble This whole article is so poorly written it makes my brain hurt. Reading this is like sitting in the passenger seat of a car while the driver keeps bunny-hopping, fucking up gear-shifts and stalling. Terrible - especially since it's Reuters - you'd think they'd be able to employ competent wordsmiths. __________________ If ignorance is bliss, why is everyone so unhappy these days?

18th March 2009, 01:24	#445
caffiend	Monday? Or March 17? You decide. __________________ If ignorance is bliss, why is everyone so unhappy these days?

18th March 2009, 11:46	#448
StN I have detailed files	Technically, Sunday 27 September 2009 is after day one...

19th March 2009, 12:15	#453
Luse	There's a story about NZ flights being disrupted / diverted near Tonga due to a 'significant eruption'. Shouldn't the focus be on the fact that there's a volcano erupting near Tonga? Edit, found it http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2274...pts-NZ-flights

19th March 2009, 12:26	#455
Baal	Stuff have no fucking clue how to do a poll. Often they present options that don't encompass all the reasonable possibilities. Really yanks my chain. __________________ Your a homo.

21st March 2009, 20:37	#463
Dusty	Off topic - but still amusing... "In Angola, pope urges more for poor" http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/af...ope/index.html Yup...like AIDS...

23rd March 2009, 10:22	#465
caffiend	Or the reporter could be Fijian and was using speech-recognition software. __________________ If ignorance is bliss, why is everyone so unhappy these days?

23rd March 2009, 15:27	#468
caffiend	Ahaha... Hans Solo. Don't forget his brother Klaus Solo and sister Gretchen Solo. __________________ If ignorance is bliss, why is everyone so unhappy these days?

23rd March 2009, 15:34	#469
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	It's short for Hansel.

23rd March 2009, 15:39	#470
StN I have detailed files	...and not to mention that Temple was a prequel...

23rd March 2009, 16:00	#473
caffiend	Already changed to 'crash'... we're going to have start getting screen grabs, before the sub-sub-sub-editors read this thread and make the correction. __________________ If ignorance is bliss, why is everyone so unhappy these days?

23rd March 2009, 21:15	#474
Luse	Shift, alt, delete for internet copyright law Does Shift + Alt + Delete actual DO anything? Did they mean Ctr Alt Del? Even then it makes little sense. Edit: No, nothing on vista, won't even delete the file I tried it on. Anyone able to tell me if it does anything on a Mac or nix? Last edited by Luse : 23rd March 2009 at 21:20.

23rd March 2009, 22:26	#475
zeekiorage	Shift + Delete in Windows has always meant "Delete without sending to Recycle Bin" but Shift + Alt + Delete?. Ctrl + Alt + Delete? Select All + Delete? __________________ The surest sign that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson

24th March 2009, 22:37	#478
Russian	I should point out that 'skewer' was the wrong word to use, but hey the readers are none the wiser: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2286...skew-drug-case yeah, too bad 'skewer' was still plastered in the Dom fuck you fairfax!