Marilyn Waring shot straight to the brain cells.

And if you want to go down the “closet” path, I could name several MPs (one Nat one with whom – big mistake – I slept about 25 years ago included) – but I won’t!

Because that has nothing to do with their political performance or what they are elected to Parliament to do.

[DPF: No you were being an offensive jerk. Piss off]

first time I’ve seen a post deleted.

Wow, not even demerited….. that’s bad.

Fair call and for the record I am not, however sometimes you see a comment (which seems to have vanished by the way) that just begs a response like that.

I have no issue with what side people choose to butter their bread.

What the hell has sexual prefrence got to do with it bruv? It has always been very clear that you are on the extreme right wing economically, but, until now, I at least gave you credit that you were not homophobic.

I am not sorry in making this a personal issue, you are a clear example of a human being who has spent far to long hanging around with low life’s and people of questionable sexual preference, clearly it has had a negative influence on what was once your brain.

Just because you are not capable of making a choice please do not delude yourself into thinking that others are as thick as you are, have you not noticed that the bright kids are the ones who do not belong to young Labour or the rainbow faction of your sad political party.

While we are on the subject of life expectancy James it should be noted that your chances of reaching 40 are non existent should you continue to run into the middle of the road obstructing good honest folk going about their business, I know that I sure as hell would not be stopping if you were every dumb enough to leap out in front of my vehicle.

you are young and have the empty head of being young.

you have no idea of where your genes are going to take you in 40 yrs time.

But I will tell you one thing. I can predict some future.

you will repeat my words to a teenager some time within the next 40 years.

Why is it that you and he Greens think you can do a better job of raising our kids than we can?

Tolley is dead right, schools are there to teach, the rest is up to the parents, while I am on the subject of teaching lets hope the next thing Tolley gets her teeth into is the curriculum, it is not the jobs of schools to be pushing the global warming con or for them to be indoctrinating our kids with left wing bullshit.

A more back to basics approach is what is needed.

Coffee buns and apple turnovers. Excellent to chase down a pie before a crushing game of bullrush.

Your 1st XI coach should be shot!

What he should have done is kept you bowling left arm leggies and made you run around the field five times after practice to keep the weight off, far to many good prospects have been turned into medium paced pie chuckers because of coaches like him, if a kid can spin the ball or bowl at a reasonably quick pace then that is what they should be made to continue doing, nothing boils my cricketing blood more than a coach telling a young genuine quick to slow down and bowl “line and length” or hearing a young spinner told to “bowl straight”, a good coach would say “get it to the other end as quick as you can and worry about the line and length later on” or “just give the bloody ball a good rip son”

The coaching thing is sad, when I was at school the teachers used to fight to be coach of the first XV or cricket XI, now they have to bring in outside coaches for both jobs as the teachers cannot be bothered doing the job.

Burt, the difference is that junk food was just banned form school tuckshops, not universally. BZP is not only banned, but its possession and distribution is now criminalised.

Which is bizarre, because BZP is a shit drug anyway, If E were legalised (and, to my knowledge, no-one has ever committed a crime of violence on that drug – it just makes people love everyone) no-one would be interested in using BZP. Actually, a lot fewer people would be interested in using alcohol too, which has far greater harm potential than E.

So the Misuse of Drugs schedules are all fucked up. If it is to be an effective law, it should categorsie drugs according to their harm potential. Sure, P should be at the top of the list where it is, and I think should be totally prohibited, but much of the rest of the scheduling bears no relationship to the actual harm caused by the drugs concerned.

There’s a Greenfly in my Tuckshop!

Yep, for once I agree with you bruv (not with the pinkos bit, but with the theme of the comment).

I was a lazy kid who thought bowling spin was cool, because I could (sometimes) take wickets off 7 paces. And I liked to field at slip, even though I was a bit of a bumblefingers with close catches (later discovered it was an eyesight problem).

My school cricket coach sorted all that out – I got a stern message that if I were to stay in the 1st XI I was expected to open the bowling at the best pace I could manage and field at fine leg or mid-on where I had to do rather more running than I would have preferred.

Yep, 30 something years on, I sometimes wished I’d stuck with the spin off 7 paces (left arm wrist, which hardly any batsman in NZ had ever seen), and fielding at slip. The first of these, at least, I was reasonably good at as a schoolboy.

I might have progessed further than club cricket persisting with that. But I might have also ended up with a physique like Shane Warne or Ajuna Ranatunga and still never played for a NZ provincial team, let alone for New Zealand.

So, in retrospect, I’m actually glad I was expected to improve my physical fitness to stay in the school 1st XI, even though I I never progressed much further in cricket.

“How many teenagers are attracted to something because it is banned, illegal, wrong or will simply piss their parents off?”

Heaps I suspect, its one of the reasons I became a smoker however that is not the issue.

Ciggies are bad for you and will kill at least 50% of the people who use them, what they do NOT do is alter your mental state or become ineffective after prolonged use, its not as if most smokers move onto smoking cigars just to get a bigger “hit” is it.

I know far to many bright smart kids who turned out to be dead beats and drop kicks because they wasted ten or so years smoking weed, I also knew more than I wanted to who moved from grass to harder shit and ended up diving from the top of Wellington car parks and office blocks in the stupid belief that they could fly.

Those pushing the “legalise it” barrow are mostly the same idealogical idiots who thought that caring for the mentally ill in the community was a good idea, it makes them feel good as they are not the poor bastards who have to clean up the mess at the other end.