Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I might be wrong but I’m fairly sure our newspapers In Memorium classified advertisements are peculiar to New Zealand. These puzzle me. Their standard form is typically a letter addressed to a family member who died on the date of publication some years earlier.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Doubtless many New Zealanders read with disbelief the report of 15 teenagers, most aged about 14 and one 19, savagely attacking and injuring passengers and the driver on a Lower Hutt bus, this according to the driver’s union spokesman, now a regular event over
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above, yet another recent brainless Stuff site heading. The deceased was in his thirties, a significant portion of anyone’s life which was certainly not ahead of him, he having already lived it. The only accurate use of this absurd cliché can apply to
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Two days before Christmas, the subbie buffoon at the Australian Financial Review gave us these two pearls of incompetence. The first about a CEO of the collapsed crypto FTX’s associated company Alameda, namely Caroline Ellison, read, “Alameda’s Ellison pleads guilty to fraud. Faces
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above Tremain cartoon illustrates why, by a country mile, he’s currently our most outstanding political cartoonist and probably our best ever. New Zealand cartoon historian Ian Grant, despite his soft left negativity, would be hard pressed to argue any New Zealand cartoonist in
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The relentless media guff about Harry, Meghan and the rest of the so-called royalty cast, puzzles me. Do New Zealand readers give a damn? Polls show support for the monarchy in Britain rests substantially with lower middle-class women. There’s a growing Republican movement there
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Periodically, following an accident, we read of someone falling into a coma then coming out of it a year or so later. Imagine such a Rip Van Winkle situation now with someone who say fell into a coma in mid 2020 and waking today. When
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In a mindbogglingly inane contributory NZ Herald article Rob Campbell, chairman of Auckland’s casino (among other sinecures) asks, “Who on earth is being hurt by co-governance?”. I’ll answer that by stating the obvious. We all are. In a democracy the underlying principle is
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In a Herald report on our various sports bodies “struggling” with allowing transgenders to participate in sports, the following claim is made, namely “access to sport is a human right”. It’s no such thing. The writer simply made it up. The author, Holly Thorpe
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The capital’s current mayor (the city has justifiably dumped them at the first opportunity ever since Dame Kerry Prendergast pulled stumps) excitedly announced the introduction of e-bikes. This is fine for the suburbs but a terrible idea for the CBD. Here’s why. Because
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Below, a recent self-explanatory exchange of correspondence with an Auckland Bayleys commercial property agent. While Sunil’s efforts ain’t up to art critic standards, he could pick up a few bob on the side writing wine reviews. “Dear Sunil Bhana, I refer to your
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Over five years ago, Waikato University proposed launching a medical school and promptly came under heavy attack from then Auckland uni’ Vice-Chancellor Professor Stuart McCutcheson. Stuart branded the proposal an “ill-considered folly,” but acknowledging the then dire situation with grossly insufficient GPs being produced for
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In recent years Maoris have increasingly figured in television advertising. To the best of my knowledge, without exception, they’re always shown as obese Billy T James character types, specifically buffoons. The latest from the Transport Department has a fat Maori driver engaging in a
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Britain’s Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for the abolition of the unelected House of Lords. From what I can discern this has attracted widespread support, not that Starmer needs it as his Party will bolt home in the next election. The House
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A so-called “senior Christchurch lawyer” has been blasted by Stuff for among other things, being drunk, which as an aside is a bit bloody rich coming from a journalist. But good Lord! I’ve dealt with literally hundreds of lawyers all over the world in
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I had a poke at Wellington commercial property agent Chris Gollins recently for ludicrously advertising a strata office floor for sale, “as is, where is.” The “where is” plainly inferred a potential purchaser could shift the floor somewhere else. Points (5 out of 10) to
