Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The tiny, indeed almost non-existent audiences, despite sunny days, at most provincial rugby matches provides further evidence of the game’s fading appeal. Personally, I find it largely unwatchable because of the incessant whistle-blowing, on my observation, at about one minute intervals, followed by 2
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Accountants have always borne the brunt of ridicule, namely as timid souls kicking for touch in life’s journey. So be it if that’s what they seek. Earlier this month I reported one of the big four, namely PWC’s New Zealand boss’s
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com It’s clear NZ First will go into the next election with Winston Peters at the helm. He’s been here before, notably after 2008 when for the first time since he formed his Party nearly three decades back, it was out of Parliament. He’
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The recent death of 1979 Nobel Prize winning American physicist Steven Weinberg aged 88, recalled his famous quip about the evolution of the universe in the three minutes after the Big Bang, specifically, “After that, nothing of any interest would happen in the history of
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A report about the Financial Market Authority lists its Maori name, specifically Te Mana Tatai Hokohoko. Broadly translated Tatai Hokohoko means organised trade. That would be acceptable, if rather infantile, given pre-European Maori were not traders, although they certainly were once Europeans arrived. But swapping
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Finland is widely respected as one of the most advanced nations in the world. Its contribution to civilisation in a range of technologies and in new thinking on education commands global respect. But it has a problem, specifically that its language is viewed as one
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Pfizer claim they waited six weeks despite their urging, for New Zealand Government officials to actually meet with them and discuss vaccine supplies last year. That is a disgraceful slur. Surely they know we were actually at the head of the queue for vaccines, as
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian was Australia’s best politician since Paul Keating and the cross-party sadness at her resignation said everything about her calibre and public support. Keating left school at 14 but was hugely intelligent and pragmatic, characteristics shared by Berejiklian. Sadly they are
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Like used car dealers and lawyers, accountants have always been figures of fun, albeit for radically different reasons. The used car dealers, hugely unfairly, are portrayed as crooks. The lawyers, with some justification, as shysters and accountants as the epitome of wetness. Most likely to
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A small Flaxmere, Hastings church has been wasting money with full-page newspaper advertisements, pressing people to sign a petition urging the government open an Embassy in Israel. Where do I start? First, the naivete of the public. Parliament cops hundreds of petitions annually, on every
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Goldman Sachs has ordered its 6000 UK workforce to return to their offices full-time and cease exploiting the work from home two days a week outdated policy. Outdated as unlike New Zealand, anyone in Britain not vaccinated, is because they chose not to be, vaccinations
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com John Key’s common-sense criticism of the one trick pony Government’s lockdowns deservedly received wide-spread support. But a couple of exceptions stood out. First, came the social media infantile demand for Key to advise how many Covid deaths he would trade for freedom. If
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Black American economist and academic Thomas Sowell, still going strong at 90, ran the standard gambit from being a marxist in his youth until reality struck, and like so many, he saw the light and became a market economy enthusiast. Sowell is noted for some
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Zealand is by a very long shot, the most geographically isolated developed nation in the world. For that reason we’ve always suffered a sizeable brain drain as anyone with an ounce of spirit, leaves for the more interesting life the wider world offers.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman had the misfortune to be struck with multiple sclerosis in 2018. This is an affliction in which the body’s all-important immune system basically turns on itself and instead of its protective role, attacks the body in diverse ways. In
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com More Stuff Site Illiteracy The dying Stuff news media outfit, bought for $1 a couple of years back, continues to entertain with its illiteracy. A recent heading referred to a “dead” body found in the Manawatu Estuary. That’s like telling readers the sun is hot,
