Eating Weka
His cuisine entrée each night was sweet and sour weka, the bird being rife thus not protected there.
Bob Jones
Is New Zealand In Mourning?
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Prime Minister Luxon, on hearing that Charles and Camilla will be visiting Australia but not New Zealand, issued “an open invite” to visit New Zealand. That is the same “invite” already available to everyone else in the world, in line with our major tourist industry.
Sport – Our Ultimate Sanity Sanctuary
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In a troubled world to a degree unprecedented since the end of the 2nd World War, which as individuals we’re all helpless to do anything about, thank God for the salvation of sport. Yesterday, we watched Afghanistan hand a hiding to Australia, something which
Ans Westra – A Life in Photography
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com When I was a schoolboy, few of our teachers, or anyone else, had ever been to university. Anyone with a degree was looked upon with awe. Sixty years later it seems everyone goes to university, largely thanks to the commercialisation of universities, now cluttered with
Ignorance
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In yesterday’s New Zealand Herald is a large display advertisement illustrated ironically, given its content, with a picture of a human brain. The advertisement is on behalf of the News Publishers Association promoting newspaper advertising and its message is, “Neuroscience – the study of the
And Still They Keep Coming
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Re yesterday’s Blog and my return from abroad to find a pile of computer-generated letters from the ASB re a deceased person’s account, closed 6 years back, another one arrived in today’s mail. All this remember over 80 cents, the Bank must
Computer Dependency
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ve just returned to New Zealand after two months in Scotland, Paris and Serbia. In the mountain of mail awaiting me were further letters offering credit from the ASB, to settle the outstanding amount, namely 80 cents, re an account closed six years ago
The Maori Message in Simple Language
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A Maori political party led by a cowboy hat wearing attention-seeker with a grossly disfigured, fully tattooed face, endeavoured to close down our cities on Thursday. The underlying message of this bullshit protest can be summed up simply; specifically, “we’re (part) Maoris so give
The Chief Ombudsman
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier having reached the compulsory retirement age of 72 and formally retired as he’s obliged to do, has now been asked by the government to carry on in the interim, which he’s delighted to do. Being an Ombudsman can be
The Art Market
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Last week I was shown a copy of the Listener from last year. The reason was a four page article in it on a Korean based Kiwi, Adam Ballin, who along with two colleagues has apparently built a very successful international renewable energy business and
Keyboard Cowards
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Recently a New Zealand Herald correspondent, an Andrew Tichborn of Green Bay wrote, “Way back in the 1970s Wellington property owner Bob Jones made the comment that he loved Labour governments because they generated so many new government and quasi-government departments. It was a golden
Julie-Anne Genter
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A couple of weeks back impassioned and possibly drunk, Green MP Julie-Anne Genter, stormed across Parliament, leapt up on a typically non-descript National MP’s desk, lifted her skirt, pulled down her pants and peed on his head. Not content with that, she then grabbed
The News Media Imagery
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In recent weeks the traditional news media themselves have become a major news story. With fast fading audiences in the face of alternative options, they’ve become a sunset industry and of necessity are undergoing constant staff layoffs, just as occurs in other once seemingly
The Way Things Were
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Recently someone sent me a faded photo of my standard four class in Lower Hutt, 75 years ago. The oddities vis a vis the current situation were first, a total of 44 of us. I’m told in state schools today the maximum class size
Reefton – The New Paris
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In an at times ridiculously over the top article by an Annamarie Quill, the Stuff website recently waxed worshipfully about the virtues of the West Coast town of Reefton. First, it had the cheapest houses in New Zealand. There’s an age-old reason for that being
Racist Advertising
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Over the last six months, it’s become fashionable for our advertising agencies to use Maoris in their television advertisements. With only a single exception, they are always portrayed as obese simpering simpletons. On the other hand, European models in these adverts are usually physically