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14 years ago @ Oswald Bastable's... - A poverty of imagination · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm buggered if I know where my page of relevant, incisive and witty comment went, Never mind. I cant be buggered retyping it.

We did this to ourselves. We grew up just after the war engineering our own entertainment. As you point out, there were reserves and ponds & lakes to fill in idle hours.
We didnt have the wherewithal to do what is taken for granted by the kids of today, but we made sure that our kids had everything we didnt.

We created a rod for our own backs.

14 years ago @ Oswald Bastable's... - The end of a favorite hut · 1 reply · +2 points

I have no time for DOC as an entity, but I did work with some good guys there.
They have been stripped of cash, then stripped and stripped again. I doubt that this government has thrust bags of cash at them either!
They have no maintenance budget for the back country - and have been told to put their resources into the front areas where the tourists go.

A lot of the staff feel as we do.

14 years ago @ Oswald Bastable's... - Obviously not a Happy ... · 0 replies · +2 points

I'm betting another 'Vitamin P' case...

I suppose I'll get castigated by the Politically Correct, but really, theres no need to bring Meth into it - The offenders name gives a strong clue.......

14 years ago @ Oswald Bastable's... - Dumbass kid and parents · 2 replies · +2 points

I was taken to the Wellington zoo in the late 1940's by my father.
I have never been since.
If someone must keep these animals prisoner, then it should be on a vast area of fenced land - the size of a county - where they can roam free and do their own thing.

14 years ago @ Oswald Bastable's... - Balloon Crash · 0 replies · +2 points

Sad news.

14 years ago @ Oswald Bastable's... - Just wondering · 0 replies · +2 points

Quite true.
When the Police were hijacked by the MOT in the early 90's, the MOT brought their ticket-books and a peculiar system of finance with them.
They sell blocks of time spent on particular aspects of road policing. EG, they may sell say, 80,000 hours of enforcing the open road limit, 100,000 hrs of Blood Alcohol, etc etc.
Money for jam!
They probably havnt sold any hours for agricultural vehicle enforcement and it would have to come out of the HGV block.

14 years ago @ Oswald Bastable's... - Taxi! · 1 reply · +2 points

Too true Oz.
I would be happy to carry one - and even use it if I broke my leg, but It'd be a frigid day in hell before I suffered the embarrassment of calling a taxi-ride.

If someone cant handle and survive a couple of nights bushed, they have no right to be there in the first place

14 years ago @ Oswald Bastable's... - The thought police are... · 0 replies · +1 points

Mixed feelings.
Books/videos depicting sex with infants and similar sorts of depravity have no place in NZ, for instance.
And as a matter of fact, I havnt finished reading the entire contents of my local library yet, so it hasnt affected me greatly................

14 years ago @ Oswald Bastable's... - Guilty by association ... · 0 replies · +2 points

Coroners are invariably lawyers. Most do not have the benefit [if you can call it that] of having dealt with criminal law - they are, and always have been, civil litigators.
And no - they dont live in the same world as we do.

14 years ago @ Oswald Bastable's... - No- don't shut her down · 0 replies · +3 points

I have said it elsewhere - I have no problem with her racism. What she believes is hers.
What I have a problem with, is her position and with it, her ability to imbue her students with the poison she vomits. I have a problem with the weak response from the jelly-spined deBres. And I have a problem with the university, who's spokesman defends her poison as legitimate academic speech.

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