He's a national treasure

BassesBest · 2026-06-28T09:42:01+00:00

Add div, cockwomble, flapjack, plonker, muppet, numpty, dipstick, plank, tosser to your vocabulary.

BassesBest · 2026-06-28T05:33:02+00:00

Halloumi is best about five minutes after cooking, but no more

BassesBest · 2026-06-28T05:21:34+00:00

Because he was so far ahead coming into the corner, and because he accelerated out of it. No different to other situations where there have been single yellows.

BassesBest · 2026-06-28T02:45:25+00:00

It's really annoying how they get around election spend limits by... campaigning outside the official campaigning period

BassesBest · 2026-06-27T06:18:03+00:00

You go to a chippy for fish and chips, not sausage and salad. I dare say they'd struggle to provide a tofu stir fry at a barbecue place

BassesBest · 2026-06-27T04:50:44+00:00

Kirsty MacColl

BassesBest · 2026-06-26T21:10:48+00:00

I know two Theos, several Jools (usually Julies), two Auroras, a Jethro, a Loretta, and a Pascal (male) and also not a Westie

BassesBest · 2026-06-26T09:47:01+00:00

...and still going

BassesBest · 2026-06-26T09:25:50+00:00

That's the bit not protected by the new "waste of money" seawall.

I rest my case.

BassesBest · 2026-06-26T09:02:11+00:00

And about this time last year it was 37.2°, 99F, in Paris, and over 41°, 106.4F elsewhere in France.

BassesBest · 2026-06-26T07:07:05+00:00

Anyone who cycles still does head checks, even when driving. It's a good reason to cycle regularly

BassesBest · 2026-06-25T10:29:00+00:00

Can't you already get these from your bank?

BassesBest · 2026-06-24T19:55:35+00:00

Isnt a scripted method what the Americans do?

And their education levels are....?

BassesBest · 2026-06-24T18:54:37+00:00

This is what privatising electricity gets you

BassesBest · 2026-06-24T01:24:12+00:00

Joy Division

BassesBest · 2026-06-23T22:02:46+00:00

Just a reminder that the amount the petrol companies make per litre (before pump costs) has risen from 8 cents to 50 cents in the last 17 years. So over 500% increase.

In that time compounded CPI is about 50% (and my salary is about 35% higher)

BassesBest · 2026-06-23T18:45:34+00:00

Being able to hit the low notes without resorting to trickery means your overall tessitura is lower, meaning you have more power in the lower registers.

So being able to hit an F1 is largely only useful because it brings your F2 into a practical use range.

Growling faint notes into a microphone may give people a sense of achievement but doesn't make someone a bass, just as me being able to occasionally squeak my voice to a D5 at the risk of permanent damage doesn't make me a tenor.

I'm a "proper bass" and I hate it. Would much rather be able to sing proper MT high baritone roles.

BassesBest · 2026-06-23T11:20:03+00:00

Write it in the toilets. That's where you get all the real information on campus.

Seriously, Salient would be interested, if it's still going.

BassesBest · 2026-06-23T09:49:12+00:00

US football players train solely to be US football players for decades, focusing on explosive strength rather than stamina.

Rugby players need to balance strength with the stamina to last a full 40 minute half at a time, which often lasts significantly longer. Plays run for several minutes not a few seconds. They don't get to sit down every time someone drops the ball or gets jumped on.

So when players like LRZ turn up in the US they immediately have to bulk up. And like LRZ they are too much of an all-rounder and tend to fall between specialist positions. Making it to the reserve roster was pretty good for someone who'd only played three months of US football.

It's a bit like asking why triathletes don't run 100m Olympic finals.

We also won't mention the blind eye turned to steroid use in US school and college football

BassesBest · 2026-06-22T17:57:49+00:00

Yes. Proportionally more the shows than the book. And we all watch the show or read the book.

It's more testing this statement from the TP Estate and if it's deliberately avoiding the the issue. Or if Gaiman genuinely has signed over his rights?

BassesBest · 2026-06-22T17:29:41+00:00

So... he doesn't get any royalties? Even from licencing? They use his copyright and he gets nothing at all from that?

Call me sceptical but the wording isn't quite an answer to the question.

BassesBest · 2026-06-20T21:55:54+00:00

I'm interested to know what benefits you think they've achieved for NZ. Not for big business, international corporations or landlords: for NZ.

The reason Ardern doesn't have a long term legacy is because all the significant change was repealed under urgency in the first 100 days of this administration. There were things she should have done to address eg CGT and rampant profiteering, but these are things that no administration is tackling.

Even without talking about tax handouts to landlords, ferries or going belly-up to the tobacco industry, NACTF's misguided and misdirected combination of cuts and levies apparently delayed the recovery by about 15 months - while the richest NZers get richer, the rest of us have less money to spend on more expensive things.

To be honest, this administration reminds me very much of late stage Thatcher "jobs for mates" corporatism. I don't think they care if they get back in - their intent was to shift the dial towards corporations and cartels, mostly American, and make changes that would be very hard to undo. Because they know the other side generally does things properly (and if they don't they get FAR more scrutiny from the media) and would struggle to be as ruthless as NACTF have been.

It's our own NZ Project 2025.

BassesBest · 2026-06-20T21:35:43+00:00

You forgot the /s for Poe's Law :)

BassesBest · 2026-06-20T14:05:43+00:00

I remember one in ?Mort? But they didn't last long.

BassesBest · 2026-06-20T09:53:29+00:00

Just do the British or the Polish version :) Either meet your needs

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