Come here, big boy and get the chopReal Kiwi blokes don’t do proper haircuts. The rate of inflation at the hairdresser since 2003 has dramatically outstripped the rest of the cost of living - and men have responded in a simple, commonsense way. Instead of getting a trim every four weeks, they put it off [...]
Chichester Cathedral - somewhat phallic. Picture by Ian Britton, Freefoto.comThe “man in the street” could be banished in Britain, which invented the term as meaning “the average person”. A report by 21st Century androids employed by Chichester District Council in the UK claims that this popular description is based on an assumption that the world [...]
Maraenui, before and after the tremor. Picture by 31vickDetailed reports are only now trickling in about the 5.9 Richter Scale quake that hit in the late hours of last Monday beneath the village of Maraenui in Napier. Initial news of the disaster was swiftly transmitted by the hamlet’s 35,000 unchipped and unregistered Staffordshire-Terrier cross-mutts, and [...]
Anyone likely to be outraged or offended by Auckland’s boring old Boobs on Bikes parade will have no chance of bringing a case against organiser Steve Crow. The event received so much pre-publicity that those of a sensitive nature were reasonably forewarned to keep away.
Bill English - he has a language problem. Picture: NZPA
So Bill English “misspoke” when he said National would sell Kiwibank, and “John Key doesn’t understand the complexities of Kiwisaver”. Bill’s problem is that he doesn’t frisk everyone he talks to for hidden wires, and he’s suffering from a bad case of loose “language”. That’s the [...]
The UK Parliament. A place familiar to madmen (Picture by Ian Britton, freefoto.com)Not many people know that it is illegal to die within the precincts of the British Houses of Parliament. The official explanation is that Parliament is a Royal palace. This is an odd law, because it did not stop a series of English [...]
Britain’s Mallard - Its wind-tunnel-tested, aerodynamic body allowed it to reach speeds of more than 160 kmh. Mallard was in service until 1963, when it was retired, having covered almost 2.4 million km (Picture – Wikipedia)Part of our $1.5 billion-plus train set includes the Railway Workshops, which the Government is promising to re-open – to [...]
The prognosis is not good at Hawke’s Bay DHB - picture by Ben EarwickePeople who don’t believe in democracy have a habit of re-writing history. Stalin and Mao Tse-tung spring immediately to mind. Perhaps that’s why the government-appointed new Hawke’s Bay District Health Board has done something that otherwise defies rational explanation. They’ve taken down [...]
It’s half-term time again, and instead of bashing each other to bits in the playground, the little treasures are stuck at home, apparently making life an utter misery for their parents – who much prefer handing over the terrible tots to the cosy confinement of school than having to look after their bored-mindless kids all [...]
The airwaves are packed with commercials made by uncreative, overpaid people who persuade silly clients to spend large amounts of money inflicting baffling ads on innocent viewers who just tuned in to see something interesting. Admittedly, some commercials are better than the programmes they separate, but most of them insult our intelligence.
Here are some recent [...]
