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    Quote Originally Posted by TempBJ View Post
    That said, I stand by the comment that, as with many (if not all) industries, that there are some lazy journalists out there. I regularly finish reading an article wondering why some basic questions were missed, as I'm sure you do (especially you considering your professional interest)...but I digress...
    Some? Mate, there are shitloads of lazy journalists! I was merely pointing out that I wasn't one of them! Our local paper (an insult to all decent ones) is pathetic. In one recent article about the Pukekohe classic meeting, the journalist called the Britten bike the Brittan, Ginger Molloy Ginger Malloy, and the Isle of Man the Isle of Mann. Not to mention putting an unnecessary apostrophe in the plural of kiwi - kiwi's... And then a few days later the editor himself wrote a column where he talked of something 'complimenting' something else when he actually meant complementing. As for half the stuff you read in community newspapers, it's printed word for word from press releases or lifted from other publications.

    So many times my husband and I will read an item and think "but what about this or that?" or "where did this happen?" or "when?" or "who said?" There are often gaps so big you could drive a bus through them! Half the time I don't tell people what I do, or I tell them about one part, like the editing. Sounds more important and doesn't make them spit tacks...
    Yes, I am pedantic about spelling and grammar so get used to it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beemer View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beemer View Post
    Some? Mate, there are shitloads of lazy journalists! I was merely pointing out that I wasn't one of them! Our local paper (an insult to all decent ones) is pathetic. In one recent article about the Pukekohe classic meeting, the journalist called the Britten bike the Brittan, Ginger Molloy Ginger Malloy, and the Isle of Man the Isle of Mann. Not to mention putting an unnecessary apostrophe in the plural of kiwi - kiwi's... And then a few days later the editor himself wrote a column where he talked of something 'complimenting' something else when he actually meant complementing. As for half the stuff you read in community newspapers, it's printed word for word from press releases or lifted from other publications.

    So many times my husband and I will read an item and think "but what about this or that?" or "where did this happen?" or "when?" or "who said?" There are often gaps so big you could drive a bus through them! Half the time I don't tell people what I do, or I tell them about one part, like the editing. Sounds more important and doesn't make them spit tacks...
    Yeah, i figured it would annoy you more than me (and thats saying something). That said, now I'm really conscientious of my spelling and grammer....and...shit Funny what some professions do to a conversation, I try to never give mine away too easily and generally slightly bend it...like saying I'm a fighter pilot for the NZ Air Force (which also doubles and a mild IQ test)
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    The bird killer is a menace and needs to be dealt with severely. Killing innocent critters where they had no busimess to for killings sakes. Deeply sick and capable of who knows what.

    My mate divorced her husband and one factor of the 2 was that he aimed at a wounded animal seen on the road and killed it - and enjoyed doing so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by candor View Post
    My mate divorced her husband and one factor of the 2 was that he aimed at a wounded animal seen on the road and killed it - and enjoyed doing so.
    Cyclist?


    Joke..
    It's only when you take the piss out of a partially shaved wookie with an overactive 'me' gene and stapled on piss flaps that it becomes a problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by candor View Post
    The bird killer is a menace and needs to be dealt with severely. Killing innocent critters where they had no busimess to for killings sakes. Deeply sick and capable of who knows what.

    My mate divorced her husband and one factor of the 2 was that he aimed at a wounded animal seen on the road and killed it - and enjoyed doing so.
    Well when they do find him they should strip him naked and stick a dead goose up his arse and parade him around auckland with the gooses feet hanging out of him he wont do it again and everybody gets to have a good laugh this is the sort of community justice I will meter out if I was the Prime minister Fuckwits should be made an example of and the punishers should try to think up more embarrassing and intersting things to do to them!!!!
    I can just see the kids lining up for the criminals parade look mummy theres a goose sticking out of that mans bum!! Yes Timmy that's what happens when you are a bad person do you think timmy is likely to go out that week and offend I think not!!!!!
    Sometimes the most simple solutions are staring us right in the face we just need the Balls to carry them out, eh Helen!!!!!!
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    It will be some arse who doesn't like the noise,and probably complained about the speedway too.



    Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.
    Life is skittles and life is beer.
    I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring.
    I do, don't you? 'Course you do.
    But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me,
    And makes ev'ry Sunday a treat for me.

    All the world seems in tune
    On a spring afternoon,
    When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
    Ev'ry Sunday you'll see
    My sweetheart and me,
    As we poison the pigeons in the park.

    When they see us coming, the birdies all try an' hide,
    But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide.
    The sun's shining bright,
    Ev'rything seems all right,
    When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.

    Lalaalaalalaladoodiedieedoodoodoo

    We've gained notoriety,
    And caused much anxiety
    In the Audubon Society
    With our games.
    They call it impiety,
    And lack of propriety,
    And quite a variety
    Of unpleasant names.
    But it's not against any religion
    To want to dispose of a pigeon.

    So if Sunday you're free,
    Why don't you come with me,
    And we'll poison the pigeons in the park.
    And maybe we'll do
    In a squirrel or two,
    While we're poisoning pigeons in the park.

    We'll murder them all in our joy and our merriment.
    Except for the few we take home to experiment.
    My pulse will be quickenin'
    With each drop of strychnine
    We feed to a pigeon.
    It just takes a smidgen!
    To poison a pigeon in the park.

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    Quote Originally Posted by candor View Post
    My mate divorced her husband and one factor of the 2 was that he aimed at a wounded animal seen on the road and killed it - and enjoyed doing so.
    As a person who derives pleasure from swerving to exterminate possums I see on the road when I'm driving a c.a.r., then I guess I should be expecting divorce procedings to be filed any day now. Some people deserve to be transported back in time about 1,000 years so they can learn to harden the fuck up.
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    As a person who derives pleasure from swerving to exterminate possums I see on the road when I'm driving a c.a.r., then I guess I should be expecting divorce procedings to be filed any day now. Some people deserve to be transported back in time about 1,000 years so they can learn to harden the fuck up.

    Yes. Then they could meet St Francis of Asissi. Sometimes it is needful that living creatures be killed. A wise man does not repine at needful killing, every thing serves its purpose. Neither does a wise man rejoice at destroying that which he cannot recreate, be the need what it may.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    As a person who derives pleasure from swerving to exterminate possums I see on the road when I'm driving a c.a.r., then I guess I should be expecting divorce procedings to be filed any day now. Some people deserve to be transported back in time about 1,000 years so they can learn to harden the fuck up.
    So long as you transport yourself forward a thousand years to se if you evolve
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    Quote Originally Posted by candor View Post
    The bird killer is a menace and needs to be dealt with severely. Killing innocent critters where they had no busimess to for killings sakes. Deeply sick and capable of who knows what.

    My mate divorced her husband and one factor of the 2 was that he aimed at a wounded animal seen on the road and killed it - and enjoyed doing so.
    What was the other factor???

    Did she snap himout on TARGET going through a strangers underwear draw?????
    NEVER LET THE TRUTH GET IN THE WAY OF A GOOD STORY!

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    A few weeks ago, an old friend, a lady in her late 80s died.

    She had had, by the world's standards , a hard life, with more than her share of grief.

    Lately confined to her bed, and in much pain, she could still look out the window, and record her thoughts in her diary.

    The entry for the day before she died recorded "Out the window, I can see many birds walking on the grass and flying in the trees. They are very beautiful and watching them I am filled with joy at what a happy life I have had".

    The next day her heart at last gave up the struggle and she died , with great serenity, lucid to the last and entirely without fear.

    The Western Springs' birds gave happiness to many. Their killing was needless and graceless.

    I wonder if the person responsible will make so gentle an end when his time comes?

    Karma can be a real bitch. We get out of life what we put into it.
    Quote Originally Posted by skidmark
    This world has lost it's drive, everybody just wants to fit in the be the norm as it were.
    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Vincent
    The manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to find out what the average rider prefers, because the maker who guesses closest to the average preference gets the largest sales. But the average rider is mainly interested in silly (as opposed to useful) “goodies” to try to kid the public that he is riding a racer

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion View Post
    ...Karma can be a real bitch. We get out of life what we put into it.
    Nicely put...
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    Possums are pests, they invade my home so get o sympathy from me.

    Guitana your solution is inspired, if you stand for Parliamen you already have one vote. What shall we call your party?

    The OTHER reason was that she carried weight after having kids so he called her fat / unsexy (to his and her mates - like me!) and tried treating her like a domestic robot. Later!

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