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    Gaaahh

    I haven't looked at Stuff much for a few weeks. Too busy.

    Had look while eating breakfast, and now I have tachycardia.

    Britanny Murphy dead at 32 from a "Heart Attack".

    A thief described as a motorcyclist. It's good in one way. We bitched about them calling us biker and they listened so now they're going to load the word "motorcyclist" with negative connotations.

    98 year old rest home patient with Dementia in a "High Dependency" unit gets beaten to death over time by other patients with Dementia.

    Celebrity sucks. Avoid it at all costs kids.

    Far from being the Fourth Estate, the NZ media are a bunch of petty, arrogant, just plain mean children.

    Don't get old in NZ. The prevailing culture doesn't support caring for the old. Your job is to start trying to beat trains at train crossings and running from cops from the age of 70 on. Oh, and calling each other bikers is now mandatory, otherwise you ride the bus.
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post

    Don't get old in NZ. The prevailing culture doesn't support caring for the old. Your job is to start trying to beat trains at train crossings and running from cops from the age of 70 on. Oh, and calling each other bikers is now mandatory, otherwise you ride the bus.
    Fuck the bus

    Ride hard, die young and pretty, and leave ya kids to pay the levy increase you bequeath them

    Word!
    Just ride.

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    Yup... Stuff..

    Long time since I looked at Stuff too....

    "Cow kicks Sarah Jessica Parker"... Who really needs to know about that... (sadly I did read the story and it was a tad overdramatised - to say the least!)

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    Stuff is a journalistic cesspool.

    Don't get me started on the literary masturbation known as "the lost boys" blog.
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    if you have a face afterwards well... that depends how you act...

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    Thanks for the warning! I will continue to avoid the site.

    (BTW, you sound just like Hitcher when you say Gaaah!)

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    Agree totally about the press Jim. The only disagreement is that the NZ press are any worse than overseas - the UK is excrutiating. Good investigative journalism is a dying art and don't get me started about TV news.

    However, I did have a frisson of pleasure from your comment about Brittany Murphy. Never heard of her which I must say I'm rather pleased about and is perhaps a commentary on how much I bother to read popular news.

    Merry Xmas from Coromandel (proudly still stuck in the 19th century )

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneY View Post
    Fuck the bus

    Ride hard, die young and pretty, and leave ya kids to pay the levy increase you bequeath them

    Word!
    From what I've seen, most people who die in motorcycle accidents don't look too pretty, regardless of age.
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    where opinion holds more weight than fact.

    It's better to not pass and know that you could have than to pass and find out that you can't. Wait for the straight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by R6_kid View Post
    From what I've seen, most people who die in motorcycle accidents don't look too pretty, regardless of age.
    Reeled in, skined and on the hotplate



    As if I actually believe that, LMFAO
    Just wanted to sound like 'dontgiveafuck' rebel for a minute
    Just ride.

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    Just another day in the life of a New Zealander..................

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    The true cause of stress related symptoms!! "News," created by over zelous journo's..

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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    Your job is to start trying to beat trains at train crossings and running from cops from the age of 70 on.
    Is it OK that I started all this at 60 instead of 70? Trouble is, y'see, I gotta run out of life before I run out of money...an' the money's going fast!
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    Knock yourself out mate. Figuratively of course.
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneY View Post
    Fuck the bus

    Ride hard, die young and pretty, and leave ya kids to pay the levy increase you bequeath them

    Word!
    I ride a bus. What of it?

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    If I had the motivation (which I don't), or the literary skills (which I sure as hell don't) I'd start a commentary website on the media.

    I'd would try and get a collection of specialists in their field to comment on the accuracy and stupidity within the media.

    Is there many sites like this in NZ?
    Some things are worth dying for, living is one of them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fatjim View Post
    If I had the motivation (which I don't), or the literary skills (which I sure as hell don't) I'd start a commentary website on the media.

    I'd would try and get a collection of specialists in their field to comment on the accuracy and stupidity within the media.

    Is there many sites like this in NZ?
    Working on an Oz facility I'm stuck with mostly Oz TV, and they have a good show called Mediawatch which is an eye opener. There's also a similar thing on RadioNZ which I've heard of but haven't listened to.

    That the general public still take what they read/watch/listen to as gospel rather than attention seeking sensationalism beggars belief and is a sad and frustrating commentary on our culture.

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