Random thoughts thread

[Simon]

It's fatty and greasy and unhealthy. But sometimes a pepperoni pizza is just so good.

[CCS]

Blow up?! By itself? Or with encouragement?

[StN]

Hey - I didn't pull an Elvis. I'm blaming cheap Chinese capacitors.

[doppelgänger of someone]

The other person: so ASB used to go around schools and get kids to sign up youth bank accounts.
Me: Get them when they are young, eh?
The other person: yeah
Me: yeah just like a pedophile
[blank look]

[PsyK]

fuck that's pretty funny au
lolol lolol lololol

[leadinjector]

sweet im a model now, had to sign a waiver and shit. some girls turned up at our gym looking for fighters to take photos of so in the interest of women everywhere i volunteered myself straight away.

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful!

[StN]

Fuck I hope you're modelling shirts.

[leadinjector]

was too cold for showing the goods really :/

[Reformed_Quint]

Originally Posted by leadinjector

was too cold for showing the goods really :/

You havn't got no goods to show.

[caffiend]

Originally Posted by Reformed_Quint

You havn't got no goods to show.

Ooh, you bitch.

[Juju]

Bugger.

Driving down onewa road tonight... minding my own business and POW big yellow flash. Wonder wtf it was? No work trucks around with flashing yellow lights or anything. Then I look at my speed... 63kmh :/

At least I'll have a nice photo of my car.

[?>Superman]

Originally Posted by leadinjector

sweet im a model now, had to sign a waiver and shit. some girls turned up at our gym looking for fighters to take photos of so in the interest of women everywhere i volunteered myself straight away.

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful!

Handbag modeling? Shoe modeling? Watch/Bracelet modeling? Body-bag modeling?

p.s Good work

[CCS]

Originally Posted by StN

Hey - I didn't pull an Elvis. I'm blaming cheap Chinese capacitors.

Ah, so it wasn't the kids changing channels too quickly? You may be able to use this fiasco to scare them... "You see what happens when you don't go to bed when I tell you?"

[Reformed_Quint]

fuck up and go to bed ccs uu akkk shit, fuck you, u george clooney m utha fuka.

[StN]

Originally Posted by CCS

Ah, so it wasn't the kids changing channels too quickly? You may be able to use this fiasco to scare them... "You see what happens when you don't go to bed when I tell you?"

Yeah - apparantly they were just watching an old Dr Who, and it went pop - It still starts up (but with no splash screen) and the audio works, but no vid. So I guess it sounds like a Plasma driver board. Anecdotal evidence on the web suggests it may be a common 15 month fault, and I'm hoping that the durability clause implied in section 8 of the consumer guarantees act will out play the 12 month warranty (assuming it's reasonable to expect a TV to last longer than 15 months...)

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by markE

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/46...ectid=10434887 is AKL ok ?

Yeah, they're leaving in droves, which is why there's such a slump in the local housing market. Oh wait...

[Lightspeed]

Is it odd that on The Muppets the canned laughter is of adults laughing?

[Simon]

No, because it's set in a theatre.

[xor]

Originally Posted by Simon

It's fatty and greasy and unhealthy. But sometimes a pepperoni pizza is just so good.

awww yeah!
You just gotta get in there.

Rugby + beer + pizza +corn chips/salsa = win win

[Wake]

Free Crowded House, just phone telecoms 126, and you'll get 30minutes (and counting) of free hold music.

TGIF

[DrTiTus]

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

Is it odd that on The Muppets the canned laughter is of adults laughing?

No, the Muppets is not a children's program... what makes you think it is?

Sesame Street is a children's program... the Muppets is just made by the same crew...

[xor]

Counting down till 5pm

[ZoSo]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/ukfs_news/...00/4748292.stm

Costly root.

[caffiend]

In the last few days there have been stories about the escalating Darfur famine/refugee crisis, ever more destructive bombs in Baghdad, college massacres in the US, a spate of local sex attacks and a hit-and-run bus driver, new threats from the US-Iran standoff and increasing evidence of "climate-change + increased resource demand" related water crises; but to me this story is, in so many ways, the most compelling evidence of how idiotic the human race is: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4031990a12.html

[MoP]

The girl who works in the downstairs cafe = cute

Hitting on the person who makes your breakfast = possible bad idea :/

[Reformed_Quint]

Only if you fuck it up

[leadinjector]

roofies bro

[crocos]

Originally Posted by ZoSo

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/ukfs_news/...00/4748292.stm

Costly root.

0_o

[MoP]

Originally Posted by Reformed_Quint

Only if you fuck it up

Originally Posted by leadinjector

roofies bro

NZG never fails to deliver

[Draco T Bastard]

Geez - some people are fucken stupid. It's not government spending that is driving up inflation but people speculating in the housing market.

[Sp0nge]

inflation is much more complex than that.

inflation goes in cycles, and our inflation isnt even that high at the moment.
so whatever you read now, youll read more of it for a couple of years at least.

its not easy to determine what type of spending is driving inflation.

the banks are driving it by lending money to make record profits.
individuals drive it by buying houses in the hope of getting rich.
offshore oil companies drive it, as do many other multinationals.
foreign investment drives it chasing our relatively high interest rates compared to the rest of the world.
etc.

inflation is driven by greed...not just by scarce resources.

[shootme]

Lets not forget govt. spending, that contributes a fair bit to inflation (just don't ask me for hard facts, cbf finding them)

[Draco T Bastard]

Originally Posted by Sp0nge

<snip>
inflation is driven by greed...not just by scarce resources.

The second link I gave has a brief run down on it and agrees with you. It's driven by speculative borrowing more than anything else.

Originally Posted by shootme

Lets not forget govt. spending, that contributes a fair bit to inflation (just don't ask me for hard facts, cbf finding them)

True - I've read that govt spending accounts for between 10 and 20% of inflation. The same article held that between 50 and 75% was from banks printing money in response to demand.

The point being that cutting govt spending like Fran Sullivan wants isn't going to bring inflation under control. As Michael Cullen has pointed out - the present $6.5b surplus is $6.5b taken out of the economy thanks to the govt but inflation is still climbing. Therefore there must be another reason for it to continue to climb and that's the speculators - primarily the ones working in the housing market. Almost all other speculators are going into a holding mode because money is too expensive. Housing, quite frankly, is about the only market left where you can borrow to make money.

[GRiM ReeFer]

inflation? what the fuck is that? no really, profit without inflation? a market based on exponential growth in consumers and product in a finite world? someones going to bleed.... unsustainable.

What drives the housing market? supply and demand, population man, not speculation, it ain't speculation investing in the property market, it's a fucken given, bitches gotta live somewhere, high density housing? just makes my normal property more exclusive, so long as the economic leaders demand an exponential growth in population to fuel the economy there will be inflation, quality of life is being sacrificed on the alter of monetary economics.

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by Sp0nge

inflation is driven by greed...not just by scarce resources.

And Jews. Don't forget the Jews.

[?>Superman]

Originally Posted by caffiend

In the last few days there have been stories about the escalating Darfur famine/refugee crisis, ever more destructive bombs in Baghdad, college massacres in the US, a spate of local sex attacks and a hit-and-run bus driver, new threats from the US-Iran standoff and increasing evidence of "climate-change + increased resource demand" related water crises; but to me this story is, in so many ways, the most compelling evidence of how idiotic the human race is: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4031990a12.html

Originally Posted by taken from link

Celebrity polar bear cub Knut receives death threat

Definately a hit from the Panda-Mafia. Fucking Pandas.

[Draco T Bastard]

Originally Posted by GRiM ReeFer

BS

40% of NZ homes are rented - 50% in Auckland - and that percentage is increasing as more and more people can no longer afford to buy. Present return on buying a house is around double anything else just from buying and then selling. Throw in the fact that it will also have an income from renting it out and you think the prices aren't driven by speculation?

[Golden Teapot]

I'd like to see capital gains tax on gains from selling ahouse that isn't your main home...

[leadinjector]

So I told the girl im in love with never to talk to me again last night, who else has had a shitty weekend?

[Draco T Bastard]

And no, it's not computer generated.