Lived in the uk for just over 10 years from 2000 to 2011. there were some great pub meals in both the north (around Yorkshire and Durham) and in the south west (Swindon / Bath).

I was very disappointed with Indian when I moved back to New Zealand so I guess that was good as well.

We cant get good Jamaican/Caribbean in small town NZ, and that was a good go to down south.

Currently a factory / site manager for a small food production plant, so plant maintenance, warehouse management, staff management, general IT, data analysis…

I have sat on both in house on external advisory boards, worked with scientists on research projects, been involved in technical trials (field trials) for disease diagnostic kits (lateral flow devices like the now [in]famous covid tests), driven heavy good trucks, line lead in plastics production, lab tech in plastics, and a few other things

I did my first year at uni and averaged flat C’s and then went working. I have gained a few certs over the years where needed, but nothing above first/second year uni level.

Fuck those guys

Don’t do that, they might just enjoy it

I live in hope the NZ is a net positive on the world - but with the current right of centre coalition we have in power I’m losing that hope, especially at a local NZ level.

No, that would be a bad country doing a shit thing (or 20), doesn’t make them good.

Well down here it is our winter plan, and I Don’t think it will change too much. We womt be doing a 6week trip like last winter though - mostly because of schooling

Over the last 6 months have averaged 200gb per day with a peak of 2.4tb in one day

I like to us a phrase based around “All hail the deity on the mantle”

Designed to trigger the most religious

Fuck Peters and the ‘anti-woke’. I want to say much more on the subject, but my two girls are getting ready. for bed. These are kids I want to grow up and be excepted for who ever they are. I don’t want them growing up hating people for just liking someone oe being something slightly different.

Fuck Seymour as well for blowing these dog-wistles just as hard as Peters

well that is one way to find gems like this https://select.github.io/movies/movie/tt0402854

Not sure what to make of that though

A radio interview with one of the authors

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/middayreport/audio/2019035492/what-happened-when-ai-took-over-the-radio

Generally the cops don’t carry weapons in New Zealand and we have specialist police that respond to armed offenders

The above is over simplified

Armed Offenders Squad

it is coming to the 25th adversity of 9/11. it would be such a shame if it was to happen again… my thoughts and prayers would be with them.

That echos what happened in Australasia so closely, and to a lesser extent New Zealand.

Man, we have so much to give back to the indigenous populations for what we have taken.

following on from an earlier comment in anothe thread, nitrated organic compounds come to mind, Toluene or Glycine.

The story I shared (or maybe some other online chat) may have got me on a watch list post the events of September 2001, so use at your own discretion.

and here I was expecting the next Ebola or Hauntervirus outbreak, not cannibalism

both my brother and his wife are ECE teachers, they have to much of the same stuff as all primary schools (infact another two of our close friend group are primary teachers).

Visit a couple in your area and get the vibes.

When we lived in town we elected to not go to either of the ECE centers that my brother or his wife worked at, could create issues. But we did go to one that they did recommend. When we moved to the ‘village’ we were down to just a single choice (at the time). In a very small town/village we still see some of the ECE staff and some still remember our girls from 4/5 years ago.

If you can find that sort of community in a ECE centre then it is well worth it.

Mine, nitrated organic compounds will act on fingers that are too close…

It all started, as a teenager, with my mates and I making black powder pipe bombs to let off on the back of a farm. With time these increased in size, and then the chemistry also stepped - to the point that we unplanted a sizable pine tree. This resulted in the local constabulary paying us a visit (for the first time). Thankfully it was a quite visit, no lights, no parents involved, just a stern watch out you could really heart yourselves. As we move on in our endeavors escalated we learnt a few things.

Timing is everything, get the timing wrong and you may need stitches at best. I think one of my mates was very lucky that day and only split the skin of a finger, it could have gone much worse.

Of cause that didn’t stop us - and that lead to the cops and AOS being called on another occasion - when the AOS is involved it tends to make the local papers, and parents somehow become involved as well.

All good life lessons.

in that vein, Amy Winehouse