Are they still giving out the Nobel prize for sidecar racing?Originally Posted by sidecar bob
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Are they still giving out the Nobel prize for sidecar racing?
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sounds like you have a bit of flu.
Or a head full of snot, at any rate.
Guess ill have to do the decent thing and bring my 12ga round...
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not feeling the leafy love
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Its also made of trees, trees that grow back, Jake.
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The giant kauri are commonly rotten in the centre and the outside is good timber. A bit like a tube standing upwards.
However... if you cut down the younger trees you obviously don't get older trees.
A mate's dad remembers being sent down to Victoria Park when it was a timber merchant's location, to purchase large quantities of kauri to be used to make boxes and packing crates.
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ps...for those who can't spot a rare national tree...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathis_australis
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Yeah, but reaching for the file marked "Unintended Consequences", this type of carry on is exactly the reason nobody wants to plant proper trees anymore and it's yuccas as far as the eye can see in new developments.
Only a homo puts an engine back together WITHOUT making it go faster.
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There isn't enough soil in a new development for trees. Theres barely enough room for people...
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I believe that the areas along the sides of motorways should be utilised in this way. Perfect planting areas for decent trees, but instead we have flax-bushes up the wazoo. The builders of motorways have proven that they have the ability to cut them down again if the need arises.
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Jeez Volty those trees you keep licking must be cholesterol enriched...you've put weight on since you rode the Velonot feeling the leafy love
The Majestic Metal Wizard
I have 2 opinions on this case
The first is siding with the protestors (to a point) that how was it that a large and very old Kauri (I do have a softspot for Kauri - Swamp Kauri makes amazing Snare Drums) managed to get resource consent to be removed - this is where I think the Auckland Council again shows that it run by those at the very bottom of the IQ bell curve.
The next opinion can be summed up by this:
If I had all the legal paperwork to do something on my privately owned land and some tree huggers came and protested - they would be informed that they are tresspassing on private property and they were to leave immediately.
They would have 60 seconds before a warning rifle shot was fired several meters above their head, and told that if they do not vacate off my land, they will feel the next one.
A follow up to the second opinion is also one of my pet gripes:
'Oh you should save OUR tree'
'Well this development is going to make me $200,000 profit - and you want me to not develop for a tree - thats fine - you can pay me the $200 K that I am forgoing to save YOUR tree'
'....'
I really hate people who don't put their CASH (cause they have none, they are usually dirty unemployed hippies, who else has time to spend up a tree?) where their mouth is, and expect other people to pay or not get payed just to suit their ideals/beliefs.
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The tree was here first. Typical blind scared white mutha fuckas imposing their will.
I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
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Still, lives longer than it would in an RBE eh Herr Mashy.
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Embracing mediocrity
This.
It is nice to have trees, it would be sad if they were all cut down, and new subdivisions with houses jammed in next to each other with no significant trees are not very pretty to look at. But you can't save every tree (just the ones on other people's property, and not the ones on your own property because your dog might get sick)
However, if I have title to a piece of land, and there is a tree in the way of where I want to build something why shouldn't I be allowed to cut it down? It's all very nice for people to like looking at a tree that's on someone else's property, but why should that give them the right to decide what happens to said tree, when they bear none of the responsibility of looking after it.
This happens with existing property too, where councils arbitrarily decide that a tree on private property should be protected, with no consultation with the owner. So people end up with a tree that fucks their drains, damages the foundations of their house, requires maintenance, but they can't cut it down and the community gets to look at the lovely tree at someone else's expense.
I guess the sensible answer would be that if the council/greater community decides they want a tree kept, the council/greater community should bear the cost of it's existence, however I can't see that happening any time soon.
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