Was the protest today worth the effort?

[Ratti]

heck yes! My helmet's off to you Stoney. Excellent organising. I'll think about voting for you when you go into politics. What party you gonna be part of dude?

[riffer]

LOL. You haven't noticed he's a bit of a Labourite?

[Fatt Max]

Yes, it was worth the effort. We came and made a noise. The Union turn out was dissappointing but it has made me personally so much more up and behind this protest because it is the right thing to do. Stoney, Riffer and Co made this a true protest. If it comes down to us then FFS let it be us.
Had a great chat with Caseye afterwards about where to from here and a fantastic inspring beer with some great people after, certainly made me want to push this even harder.
So, it was worth it, every fecking minute of it. There is so much more to do but I'm up for it and I know the bikers are, so lets have it.
Sorry for my wailings by the way, hope everyones ears are ok....

[spacemonkey]

Was the protest worth it?

HELL YES!
the more noise the better to get thru those thick thuckers thucking skulls!
Public awareness
Public awareness
Public awareness
The more protest, the more awareness.

[spacemonkey]

oh ps Nice songs Max. ;)

[Pedrostt500]

Yes the Effort was well worth while, Nick Myth showed his true colour and that is YELLOW.

[P38]

Was worth every Kilometer I travelled both there and back.

Awesome ride, well worth the effort.

Bring on Bikeoi II.

Uploading a vid you'll recognise to Youtube ......... Keep an eye out for it.........once I figure out how to do it that is.

[Scuba_Steve]

It was worth it in the sense we're telling the Govt & the (dis)honorable Nick Smith, that we're still here & aint going away anytime soon, but the turn out was kinda piss poor, I think the unions could have done much better then they did.
I think we need BOKEOI ver2.0 (Just to throw a "Buzz" word in there) but this time we invite every car club & truckie org in NZ lets clog the streets of Wellington make some noise & show that New Zealands can be a force to reckon with and we want ACC to be as was intended!

On a more important matter tho, does anyone know where I can catch a clip of Fatt Max's wicked ACC song?

[Ratti]

not just truckies. what about Greypower next time? Affluent, influential and soon to be caught in the net for sure.

[Ratti]

Uploading a vid you'll recognise to Youtube ......... Keep an eye out for it.........once I figure out how to do it that is.

please please please post the link here.

[P38]

please please please post the link here.

LOL .... I will

However I'm a Video Virgin and Youtube newby....just created an account tonight.

Dont really know what I'm doing but somethng is being uploaded........ it's just taking a very long time.

Hope it works out ok.

[chanceyy]

yes it was worth it .. just as a gentle reminder .. next time we need the numbers again and spreading the word is vital .. talking to some friends tonite & they simply had no idea how the changes in ACC would affect them ..

Fatt Max/casey awesome to say hi n Fatt awesome awesome songs mate .. you really did good :yes:

good to get hugs from the regulars .. :whistle:

[BMWST?]

too right it was worth it.The line up at the front is looking very slick .the speakers were varied and interesting,goes to show there is an understanding about this issue across a wide cross section of society.I am sure you all noticed a LOT of people did peep out to see what was happening.The actual number s were disapoimting but we have raised the awareness that we aint finished with this.I think it was good even from that point of view

[Fatt Max]

It was a great day and no mistake.....

....and look, we found the Parliamentary Pie Man......they have one and we found him, me, Caseye and Ratti found him....

[Ratti]

yup, you sure can move fast for a fat bastard

honestly, caseye spotted the catering chap and FM was there before the poor man had realised what was hapening. like lightening is our FM

[Her_C4]

Hi all,

Photo's are up from today - a bt haphazard due to the amount of portait shots - but I will look into that tomorrow (or so). As per last time, there is no charge for the photo's however, if last time was anything to go by - delivery times may be a little slow as my priority is (obviously) paying clients!

http://www.wfactor.org/?p=gallery&g=acc

[P38]

LOL .... I will

However I'm a Video Virgin and Youtube newby....just created an account tonight.

Dont really know what I'm doing but somethng is being uploaded........ it's just taking a very long time.

Hope it works out ok.

Well you Tube has got me Buggered!

I coverted my Videos into Mpeg2, Mpeg4, WMV and even FLV formats.... all have the same results.

The upload bar reaches 100% ok but the little rotating icon just keeps rotating.... I left it run over night thinking it was just slow but still no joy.

The file size is 180MB and the video is nearly 3 mins long. I believe this fits with the upload maximums of less than 2gigs and 10 minutes.

I have even viewed the You Tube upload tutorials and have had someone else recheck what I have done.

Have tried and tried and tried and now I'm about to give up.

Does anyone have any suggestions before I give up in disgust

[Scuba_Steve]

Well you Tube has got me Buggered!

Was about to ask about how the fatt max YouTube appearance was getting on, unfortunately my advice on uploading would be as useless as National's ACC Accounting Department, its been 4yrs since I last uploaded something to YouTube, I could suggest (if your not already) using something like Handbrake to see if you can get that file size down a bit before uploading in-case this is the problem somehow.

[Slyer]

Sorry what protest?

[firefighter]

Sorry what protest?

2nd

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[P38]

Was about to ask about how the fatt max YouTube appearance was getting on, unfortunately my advice on uploading would be as useless as National's ACC Accounting Department, its been 4yrs since I last uploaded something to YouTube, I could suggest (if your not already) using something like Handbrake to see if you can get that file size down a bit before uploading in-case this is the problem somehow.

Thanks Scuba Steve.

I dumbed it down to AVI 26 MB and finally success.

Just wish I could have loaded it in HD as the video and sound is miles better.

[P38]

Fatt Max ....... You Rock Mate.

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[P38]

And another just like the other.

Good work Max.

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[Stormer]

Max man, you should go on like that NZ Idol thing, you`d cane the lot of them!

Look...any protest is a good protest...better than sitting on your A.R.S.E. doing nothing.

[Ratti]

Hey FM, you're a hit with my sprogs! they sung along to the A.R.S.E chorus too...quick learners and they is good spellers too!

[Scuba_Steve]

Cheers P38 been hanging out for that song lol,
I saw a radio NZ person at the protest recording too maybee we all need to continuously request the song be played, its catchy enough it could turn into kinda a mini cult classic while having a side effect of continuously pushing the ACC protest

[buellbabe]

Yep the protest was definately worth it, sure there weren't as many people there as the first one but I for one will keep coming back to do it again.

We gotta keep making a noise.