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February 29, 2008 10:35am by David Farrar

General Debate 29 Feb 2009

Happy Birthday to all those who only get one every four years.

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Inventory2

My wife married a couple on 29 February four years ago, I wonder if a wedding anniversary is easier to remember when it only comes around every four years!
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February 29, 2008 10:40am
Bevan

The bastard has been caught.

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1316907/1608716
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February 29, 2008 10:45am
llew

My wife married a couple on 29 February four years ago,

Sounds like a very liberal arrangement.
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February 29, 2008 10:47am
Grant Michael McKenna

I shall be disappointed if the aren’t some comments about how Nai Yin Xue was subdued- I expect something along the lines of “vigilante justice” and so on- bless their little leftist socks…

and as for the “liberal arrangement”- classic…
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February 29, 2008 10:55am
A Nonny Mouse

I’m waiting patiently to get proposed to today…

Of course as I don’t have a girlfriend at the moment i might be waiting another 4 years. 🙂
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February 29, 2008 11:02am
bwakile

Thats right IV2
Where do you fit into this cosy arrangement?
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February 29, 2008 11:05am
david

With friends like this who needs enemies !!!!

http://www.michaelbassett.co.nz/articleview.php
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February 29, 2008 11:38am
Inventory2

bwakile said “Where do you fit into this cosy arrangement?”

I couldn’t possibly comment!! Mrs Inventory is a serial couple-marrier!!!!!
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February 29, 2008 12:09pm
Bevan

Interesting, as I read this – if I want to go a cast a surf rod in an area I used to go fishing in as a kid, I now need a permit. Un-f’n-believable! Since when did we need permits to fish non commercially anywhere in the ocean?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10495239
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February 29, 2008 12:11pm
Ross Miller

Its interesting some of the names that contributors choose to post under … my No. 1 pick is shortshrivelledandslightlyleft – conjours up greatly.
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February 29, 2008 12:29pm
philu

ross miller’s kinda weird too..

sorta ‘stepford-man’..eh..?

what made you choose that on-line-persona..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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February 29, 2008 12:51pm
Murray

Not at all Bevan.

Soon it will be a reserve and you’ll not be permitted permit or not.

Fish are like trees, only for looking at.
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February 29, 2008 12:53pm
Buggerlugs

Fuck up phil. Ross – shortshrivelledandslightlyleft – isn’t that how Gennifer Flowers described Bill Clinton’s ‘unique’ appendage?
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February 29, 2008 1:01pm
philu

this is very ‘cool’…

http://whoar.co.nz/2008/the-affordable-zero-carbon-hometodays-must-read/

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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February 29, 2008 1:31pm
Johnboy

Happy Birthday to all those who only get one every four years.

Glad I was born on a different date so I dont have to wait 4 years between naughties
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February 29, 2008 1:46pm
James Sleep

Yes, it is my Mum’s birthday. I shall pass on your best wishes. lol
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February 29, 2008 2:02pm
Peak Oil Conspiracy

James Sleep:

Don’t you think it’s time to retract this demonstrably false accusation:

Four days ago I went over to Kiwiblog to challenge him on this. I posted a very small comment asking him to clarify this, whether the staffer was right or wrong. He has blocked me from posting on Kiwiblog.

Oh and this:

I embarrassingly refer back to a comment I posted on my old blog where I said that Curia research is corrupt. Maybe I was right. They say they are an independent polling company, when really they could be the poll pushers for National!

http://newzblog.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/david-farrar-puts-silence-on-potential-unmasker/
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February 29, 2008 2:16pm
Mickey D

Hopefully someone can assist with a dilemma myself and neighbours have.

In our midst we have a chap living who kennels his dog, I kid you not, in his car parked on the roadside 24/7. The poor thing is only allowed to ‘escape’ 5 minutes a day to pee and crap and than it’s back to his cell.

This has been the case for longer than 5 months now – each and every day throughout the heat of this summer without a single day’s reprieve. Yes, a window is down but that lets the rain in when it’s wet!

The car is immobile, a wreck.

Numerous complaints by many have been made to both the SPCA and Akl City Council but both advaise they can’t (or won’t) do a thing.

In the SPCA’s case I suspect this has to do with their embarrassment. They fell for the owners bullshit when first approached that he was only in Auckland for a week and then continued to do so with his further wind ups e.g. he tells them the dog is exercised daily when it is most certainly not. Which there is no excuse for as he sits at home all and every day.

The Council’s dog control say the car is private property and provided the dog isn’t menacing they can’t do anything.

I’ve reviewed the Dog Control Act and although it is a bit vague on what suitable kenneling is he does appear to be breaching the Act. Certainly on the lack of exercise. Clearly the authorities don’t think so.

Any possible plans of attack out there other than the obvious – break into the car and give the owner a good pasting if he protests? The dog’s gradual detrioration is such that is what I’m going to have to revert to in the next week if a clever/cunning alternative can’t be identified.

I just can’t believe the SPCA won’t act when you read about convictions (and rightly so) of those people who have left a dog in the car in the sun for only a few hours.

I also thought of the ‘abandoned vehicle’ angle to force the issue but the Council advise as the car is situated outside his lodgings the car is not abandoned.

Thoughts please?
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February 29, 2008 2:20pm
Buggerlugs

Ah, here’s a beauty. ABC Learning Centres are in a bit of strife at the moment, what with $760M being wiped off the value of the company and the ASX investigating the sale of shares by members of the Board. Scott Emerson is their spokesman. Who does Scott work for? A company called Crook Publicity.

You couldn’t get a more unfortunate name association…
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February 29, 2008 2:23pm
Peak Oil Conspiracy

Mickey D:

This immediately came to mind: have you considered your options under the Animal Welfare Act? You can find it here. Section 10 for starters:

Obligation in relation to physical, health, and behavioural needs of animals

The owner of an animal, and every person in charge of an animal, must ensure that the physical, health, and behavioural needs of the animal are met in a manner that is in accordance with both—
(a) Good practice; and
(b) Scientific knowledge.

I’d say, with a little more publicity, the SPCA would be more motivated to intervene.
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February 29, 2008 2:23pm
Buggerlugs

Mickey – ring the coppers; or let the dog loose and then ring dog control.
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February 29, 2008 2:25pm
dad4justice

I do wonder when the government is going to do something about our appalling child abuse statistics?
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February 29, 2008 2:35pm
Peak Oil Conspiracy

D4J:

I’m not quite sure what you’d have the government do, but it can only do so much. In the same way that charity starts at home, child abuse often (at least statistically) starts in the family. I presume you don’t have in mind the extreme option of compulsory sterilisation for repeat offenders. So, short of that, what specific policy do you want to see implemented?
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February 29, 2008 2:44pm
dad4justice

Look how can we address child abuse when courts bail baby killers?
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February 29, 2008 2:50pm
david

Mickey D, The Auckland City Council is known for ticketing cars parked outside owner’s residences if they are not registered &/or not warranted. If the car is not roadworthy, it is unlikely to have a current registration and they would be very inconsistent if they didn’t ping it.

You could always unscrew the number plates to re-inforce the point I suppose.
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February 29, 2008 2:58pm
baxter

Mickey….If its his council’s territory write a letter to Banksie he wouldn’t tolerate any neglect of duty by his animal control officers, or the spca.
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February 29, 2008 3:01pm
John Dalley

D4J – Do something about it yourself. Instead of moaning about the Government not doing it for you. You’re a great excuse for a Right Wingnut you expect the Govt to do the job for you.
Your like the rest of your fellow man, take some responsibility and stop blaming Governments for something that is parental responsability.
I’m no doubt that if National does become the Govt, you and the rest of your ilk will still be moaning for them to take the resposability to bring up peoples families.
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February 29, 2008 5:07pm
aladin

Lest I forget: Many Happy Returns to my mate, Budgie, born on this day (so he reminded us year after year), but who sadly passed away 5 years ago from a stroke (only in his 40’s).
Happy Birthday, buddy!

aladin
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February 29, 2008 6:57pm
dad4justice

John Dalley the feminazi bitches and soft cock eunuchs from liarbour have destroyed the Nations integrity – you grip stick!
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February 29, 2008 7:07pm
Joely Doe

DPF’s Kiwiblog – Fomenting Happy Mischief since 2003

– Shouldn’t that be ‘FoRmenting’??
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February 29, 2008 7:28pm
John Dalley

D4J – Such elequent renditions. John Key will be so proud to have you on his team.
You should get National to put you as an assistant for womans affairs, you’ll help the party no end.
I see you refer to a partner every so often. That would have to be a male one wouldn’t it?
No woman in their right mind would have you as a partner?
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February 29, 2008 7:44pm
Rex Widerstrom

Mickey D: A spot of animal liberation is called for methinks. First find someone willing to care for the poor thing, then spirit it away. If the owner is so keen on pets, I know where I can get some snakes you could leave for him under the seat… Alternatively, as bwaikle has suggested, go direct to Banksy. He’s a great supporter of animals and hates creeps such as the one you describe.

Trouble with the first option (and possibly the second, depending on what the Council did) would be that these types inevitably get another dog… some poor pup bred by an unspayed bitch equally ill-treated by one of their mates. Only a court can ban him from animal ownership – ideally for life.

Joely Doe: Fomenting is correct, formenting is a mis-spelling. If Professor Peter Davis used it and it slipped past the Herald’s subs, I truly despair for education in NZ. Then again, perhaps it was a DPF typo. Been known to happen, in direct proportion to the amount of blood in his Pinotstream 😀
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February 29, 2008 8:25pm
Johnboy

Most of the happy mischief I get into is usually caused by something made by fermenting but I am not a professor of course my title starts with “p” but ends with “head”
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February 29, 2008 8:31pm
Buggerlugs

Rex – it got past the NZH subs because they have contracted all subbing out. Lowest common denominator etc…
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February 29, 2008 8:45pm
Short Shriveled and Slightly to the Left

“Fuck up phil. Ross – shortshrivelledandslightlyleft – isn’t that how Gennifer Flowers described Bill Clinton’s ‘unique’ appendage?”
It’s off Liar Liar during Jim Carrey’s character’s ‘cannot lie period’
someone asks him “hang’s it hanging?”
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February 29, 2008 10:22pm
Buggerlugs

Oh. I don’t watch comedies. Apart from between 2-3pm on sitting days.
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February 29, 2008 10:50pm

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