Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Recently I read well know British writer A.N. Wilson’s 600 page tome “After the Victorians” basically a world history of the extraordinarily eventful first half of the 20th century. Of New Zealand, Ed Hilary got a single mention, albeit as part of the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A week back we were as always, hugely entertained by the farcical annual journalism awards. Once again both the Herald and the Stuff fleet bragged of being the big winners, as they do each year. How is this possible? Simple; everyone gets a prize. Being
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In seven plus decades of reading, on average 8 hours daily, of tens of thousands of books, jam jar labels, magazines, newspapers and what have you, I can unhesitantly say I’ve never read gibberish to match an extract I quote below. This “contribution” was
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’m delighted to report that the day after I slammed the infantile “Be Kind” signs on the heavy traffic Wellington – Hutt highway, they disappeared. Hopefully so too nationwide. The “Be Kind” crap was the most infantile insult ever inflicted on the New Zealand public.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The ratbag Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, when not murdering and imprisoning opponents, is endeavouring to free Saudi women from the horrors of extreme Islamic dictates as part of his modernisation agenda. He cites Cairo as his role example, where women dress in Western mode,
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com At times it’s excruciatingly embarrassing living in New Zealand. Our sense of irrelevance, justifiable with our small population and geographic isolation, leads to an embarrassing self-consciousness and copycatism by our half-wit classes. When no-hopers, ironically described as “activists,” lay on the streets of New
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Below an article in the top Aussie newspaper, The Australian, published a few days ago. As said before, the true devastation will not be evident until the utterly unnecessary lockdown is finally recovered. It’s a social economic horror story lying ahead, attributable to the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Below, the opening line from Britain’s Metro newspaper. “At least two people have survived after a plane carrying more than 100 passengers and crew crashed, killing everyone on board.” I’ve known dozens of our newspaper editors over the last half century, all good
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Winston Peters is 100% right. End this unbelievably foolish lockdown right now. Overnight the WHO expressed alarm at the historically unprecedented incidents of family violence, a euphemism for angry home imprisoned men beating up their wives and children. I can’t believe they were surprised.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A coalition of the Salvation Army, the Problem Gambling Foundation and a Maori Health Agency have called for the government to ban poker machines. I’m a libertarian and believe each to their own with life choices but see no inconsistency with that position in
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com First, by a country mile, trace the screamingly wet and bound to be bearded, cowering bastard responsible for the “Be Kind” neon signs on our motorways. They’re absurdly infantile and massively insulting. I’d take him on a nation-wide tour to be dragged naked,
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Of all fields of expertise and excluding the bogus ones (sociologists, chiropractors etc) none match economists for talking nonsense when it comes to forecasting. If that sounds extreme, bear in mind the fact that economic forecasting is invariably wrong is now a specialist field of
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The virus epidemic has brought in its wake an even bigger epidemic of stupidity, epitomised by an outbreak of “Buy New Zealand Made” pleas. This advocacy is world-class stupidity. What if every nation adopted that line? The effect here would be poverty of starvation proportions
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com There’s been nothing more mindless than the fashion this year of politicians having a weirdo gesticulating and face-pulling alongside them when addressing the television cameras. This absurdity supposedly caters for the tiny handful of stone-deaf people whom I’m damn sure would prefer captions.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Over the last two months those of us following the news on the array of international television channels, must have viewed literally hundreds of proclaimed health experts, mainly American. Nearly every one of them has been interviewed against the background of bookshelves. Books are my
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The NZ Herald recently highlighted the suicide of a young self-employed butcher who saw his life’s work go down the drain by the utterly insane edict that meat could only be purchased at supermarkets. The farcical rule was subsequently wiped but here’s the
