@mariner4life said in Don't want a criminal conviction, don't commit crimes (except if you play rugby):

@Kiwiwomble said in Don't want a criminal conviction, don't commit crimes (except if you play rugby):

@Virgil thats one of the saddest points...that that has to be said

does it really? The ones who would never do it already know it. Those that will won't care what you say

There's no middle ground "swing" deciders out there

As Bill Burr put it:

@barbarian said in Buying a car:

Thinking of buying a Subaru Outback. Well to be more precise my wife is, and I really don't have much choice in the matter. But they look like nice cars and from anecdotal evidence they hold up pretty well. Any experience with them here?

Reliable and multipurpose. I think the only thing I've heard bad is servicing costs. Lot of toys, capability, and enough off road for Aussie conditions unless you're going a long distance from tarmac

@Snowy said in Fern Helpline:

My post just got upvoted by a cop. Things get more humorous by the day.

What can I say? I love my dark humour...

@JC said in Lying on your resume:

@NTA said in Lying on your resume:

@JC said in Lying on your resume:

@MN5 Solution-focussed. Nimble. Advocates for the client. Ooh, and a new one for the lockdown generation: Remote-tolerant.

"Learnings" has preceded all these and IMHO brought society to its knees from an intellectual standpoint.

Abomination. I was taught that if you have to pluralise a gerund you should choose a more appropriate noun. The world has gone mad.

Oh man, they have let us all out on one day.

@canefan it is $1k now not $400 and yes, avoid NZPost You Shop as they will add it on every time

jeez must be showing my age, coffee was definetly not a thing when I lived in London, some of the lunch bars in Soho may have had a machine, probably if they were Italian owned.

Puts a new light on my visits to Smithfield markets and whatever those butchers were up to.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300082738/auckland-police-shooting-alleged-murderer-can-now-be-named

my favourite album to ever come out of NZ

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Bitter, You Again and Gimme Gimme are amazing,

and For What You Burn is in my 15 favourite songs of all time

Unreal album, fuck i love Shihad

@Crucial said in Life changes:

@Duluth said in Life changes:

@Crucial said in Life changes:

Just about every thread has been infiltrated by a Frans Botherer.

I need to check what timeline/alternate universe I am in.

Hard to get threads back on topic because people keep responding to him

Will ban him soon if he keeps being tedious

Who? Frans?
He is being a Bother.

Well he certainly isn't being Polish

"Beirut Port silos temporarily closed".

I am going to hell anyway but that really made me laugh.

@JC said in Dad advice sharing thread.:

@taniwharugby No, Crazy Joes were exactly like popsicles except they had a kind of ridged design

For her pleasure?

great, went up to put the fans in the roof for the winter, and was a very distinct smell of somethign dead... have an old GoPro-type camera with no infra red on it, so looking at fitting a light I have to the extendable selfie stick that came with it and do a bit of a search in the soffit that I struggle to get near enough to due to the roof...which will be a painful exercise searching and then watching (probably to find the body either the 1st place I went to, or where I probably cant reach anyway...)

@Bones said in South Island driving route:

@Snowy said in South Island driving route:

@Bones said in South Island driving route:

@Snowy I thought there is? Is it only on the LH side?

Nope. Just side of the road sign. Pisses my Welsh wife off no end that we don’t have the roadmarking. She is actually correct for once.

I like how you have to make a distinction as to which wife you're talking about.

To be Mr Serious briefly - they have the arrows in the UK and she has been caught out in head on traffic due to lack of them here.

I struggle dealing with one wife, so you can keep your Middle Eastbourne polygamy ideas to yourself.

@Nepia said in First cars!:

@Hooroo said in First cars!:

@dogmeat said in First cars!:

Ferners I give you the automotive glory that is the 1958 CA Bedford Van

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Mine cost $300 and came with six spare wheels. It was older than me when I bought it at 17 and had definitely seen better days.

It had a metallic green paint job and jumped out of third gear (top) every 200 metres so I learned to drive with my foot poised above the clutch which became agony on long drives. Column shift. Th side doors would slide backwards and forwards as you went round corners. Don't know what the top speed was as the speedo never worked but mates and I took it on a roadie to Napier for the first ever NPC game and it took six hours to make the trip from Taupo to the game. Mainly because it didn't have the poke to make it up the hills so all but the lightest of us walked up the steepest climbs.

Man I loved that van. mattress in the back Easily get 15 in it. Would hold shit loads of crates for a roadie. Just reach over and help yourself to another.... Once along the desert road we had two of us riding on the bonnet cleaning the windscreen and the car being steered and the pedals controlled by two guys leaning forward from the back seat. I tell you - you always have plenty of friends if you have a van like the Beddie.

I solved the issue of arguing during driving lessons as I taught myself to drive in it. Got in and just started driving round and round the block until I got my confidence up and went for my test the next week.

It was broke as often as it was going, but it was easy to fix . Drove it till the tyres were down to the canvas.

After a couple of years I started a cleaning company to pay my way thu uni , started making "good' money and got rid of the van as it was just too much hassle keeping it on the road and I bought a Fiat. Got more for it as parts than it cost me.

Wish I still had it . Most fun vehicle I've ever owned - definitely until the current one.

That. Is. Awesome!

Me and my flatmates picthed in together for a Bedford van that needed doing up. We never once started doing it up. It sat in the car port and we played poker in it. Then we sold it when we had to move out. A completely pointless exercise but a fun one all the same.

What was wrong with the inside of your place that you preferred to play poker in the Bedford?

Inside the flat didn’t have the gimmick of a Bedford van!!!

@NTA said in Google wifi:

I thought about it some more, and gave up on the idea. The kids have phones and could just hotspot all the porn they want if they were really keen.

It's a DNS that you can spec blocklists for. You can put it on their phones, and have it password protected so they can't turn it off, and add a blocklist for workaround services. Never tried those functions, but might be good.

Block Bypass Methods

Prevent or hinder the use of methods that can help bypass NextDNS filtering on the network. This includes VPNs, proxies, Tor-related software and encrypted DNS providers.

@Hooroo said in The Local:

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@pakman said in Coronavirus - UK:

@Crucial said in Coronavirus - UK:

@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:

@Crucial said in Coronavirus - UK:

@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:

@pakman said in Coronavirus - UK:

@Catogrande said in Coronavirus - UK:

@pakman @Victor-Meldrew

A good friend of mine is part of the set up at St Austell and we were talking about how the beer had improved (it was truly awful at one point). He told me that this was down to a new head brewer following retirement of the former HB. The previous one had been there man and boy but couldn't brew beer to save his life. They are very loyal employers.

That's rather like Youngs before and after they moved brewing to Bedford. I liked the head brewer, but Ram Brewery was Dickensian.

Were brewing at Eagle for six months before they told CAMRA, etc.. In mean time were many reports of beer being on good form!

Was never the same after they cleaned up the Thames and the Wandle.

Clean? The Wandle isn’t too toxic but the Thames is only “cleaner” not clean.

The ex head brewer at Young’s is now the owner/ brewer of Wimbledon Brewery. His Autumn Ale is lovely. Had a great evening with him one night at a Young’s Pub.

What shocks me is that Young’s have renamed their standard Bitter. I was usually a Special drinker but I did like an “Ordinary “ from time to time.

These things are relative of course. Back along if you fell in the Thames the odds were on you dying of poison before you could drown.

I always favoured a pint of mixed. We have a couple of Youngs pubs down here and I get met with blank looks when asking for same. It is particularly galling having to explain the concept at every round that is purchased - even in the same session.

Mixed or Ram and Special are pretty standard orders in the Young’s pubs I frequented.

For a brief period there was strong rumour that bottled Ram Rod was Special!

Ordinary, Spesh and RR all all pretty much the same just brewed out to different ABVs

Always enjoy Winter Warmer when the cold sets in. Did you have any particular Youngs haunts?

Our local was a Youngs (Hand in Hand - Wimbledon) and as the best dog pub in London the place was often more like the dogs taking their owners out.
Our 'weekend away day local' was also a Youngs. The Dolphin in Betchworth. We would often go for a walk or ride in the Surrey Hills and spend the afternoon by the fire chatting to the locals there. Good setup with friendly folk. The best thing was timing a walk from the pub on a Sunday morning through the nearby farmland on a loop to Brockham and back arriving just as the door was being opened as the first pints pulled.
Lots of Youngs pubs in Wimbledon actually H&H, Crooked Billet, Rose and Crown, Dog and Fox, The Alexandra. Youngs has a good relationship with the AELTC so during the tennis each of those gets some sort of boost (D&F is the players drinking spot, R&C get minor official dinners, H&H do the lunches for the parking attendants) That parking lunch gig turns over £1,600 a day for 3 weeks during a quiet time of the day.
It really is the biggest thing I miss about living over there and would often make up for the crap aspects.

Edit: a painting of the H&H by the head barman that they presented us with on our last night. (Must have spent a lot 😉 )

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Sunday arvo's in a English Garden bar always seems better than a NZ garden bar. I don't know why.

When I was in London last year, my brother picked me up from Airport and I was shattered but we went to a pub on top of a hill for a sandwich and a pint and I felt as though I had never left. My tiredness disappeared and I was just so happy and content.

Britain knows how to do pubs!

That grassy bit in front of the pub is part of the Wimbledon Common and along with the Crooked Billet two doors down this gets filled with deckchairs on a fine day with loads of people spilled out having a drink while the kids run around. An aspect of licensing in the UK that is good and would be seen here in NZ under our very restrictive policies. Turns having a beer into a long slow social get together rather than a 'let's get pissed session.

Up at Brewtown in Upper Hutt they have this ridiculous situation where, because areas for consumption must be strictly laid out and ring-fenced, you have these little pens outside where you can only drink the beer from one place. There are also signs that tell you that you can't take a sip while crossing the driveway to the designated piece of grass.

BTW the ale named 'Common' by Wimbledon Brewery is basically the same recipe as Youngs 'Ordinary'. It is the brewer's little joke

@Crucial great thinking

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