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A nice run out in the fine weather

Hmmm. I don't recall the last time the police accidently or wrongfully shot anyone in NZ. I wonder why that could be?

We have had a bit of rain this month in NZ!

Austin A35, not my first car. Bought it in Sydney for $40 and drove it down to Melbourne where I met up with a girl who was waiting to hear about a job in Townsville so we drove north and continued on as far as Cooktown then back to Townsville where she was to meet her employers. One of the Townsvil...

Riley '2 and a half'. It had been a very nice car but it was rather sad when it came in to my hands.

They should park tanks in the breach, better use than having the Ukes destroy them.

I do not recall such excitement when we had an eclipse! It was on a Saturday which is museum workshop day so we had a lot of people there, we hung up a white sheet and shut the big doors. With everyone inside it was easy to maneuver the sheet to catch a beam coming through a convenient nail hole giv...

Any more random, incongruous comments that avoid the central problem of the Hamas atrocities on Oct 7th? Happenings of Oct 7 are now in history regrettable though they may be. However the extermination of the non-Jews in Israel is an on-going matter and any whataboutery involving Oct 7 is incredibl...

I think the throwing babies out of incubators accusation was rescinded quite quickly, probably when the claimants realised there were such claims in every war, by all sides, dating back to the invention of incubators. I recall it in Kuwait in 1990. There's no shortage of evidence of the first two, ...

You may recall I considered the Invasion of Iraq and the continued occupation of Afghanistan completely unjustifiable, as did the UNSG with Iraq, and that I now live in a country which refused to join the Iraq invasion, and withdrew from the 'Stan when its initial peacekeeping stint was done. I wen...

..and would that be the same Amnesty International who refused to condemn mass rape and torture, but only when carried out by Hamas? It would. Probably, there does appear to be very confused accounts of mass rape, torture, beheading babies, throwing babies out of incubators, eating babies, feet fir...

We found that Israel’s cruel policies of segregation, dispossession and exclusion across all territories under its control clearly amount to apartheid. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-a-cruel-system-of-domination-and-a-crime-against-humanity/ Di...

I'd say that was an accurate description of the current state of international humanitarian law in the age of terrorism. Although the points I've made are not what-aboutery at all. They are a simple consequence of Hamas conducting a massive terrorist attack, and assuming the Israelis wouldn't invad...

Haha, what a pile of what-about-ary!

People should realise that the IDF is the army of God's chosen people and as such can do no wrong.

Korea?

The vessel appeared to be turning towards the bridge when it hit. I wonder if an anchor that might have been dropped was pulling the bow around...

There goes that annoying whining again.

To my mind at least, the country produces two main products that the world no longer wants. Tobacco, for obvious reasons, and sugar which is increasingly grown as a beet in countries that are far north or south of the tropics, plus there are so many artificial alternatives today. Its biggest import...

There goes that pitiful whining again...