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Absolutely the best thing I’ve read summarising the shoe throwing incident:
Throw a shoe at me once, shame on — you. Throw a shoe — you throw a shoe, you can’t throw a shoe again.
Thanks, 23/6.

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So, I know how it is.  You’re in NZ, hardcover books cost $50 upwards.  Yuck.  Want to get some of that cheap book lovin’ available overseas?  Sure you do.  But Amazon wants to charge much $ for postage, and it’s going to take 18-32 days to ship unless you pay for more expensive methods.
Hint: go [...]

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YouTube is always full of offerings, but the Chicken Police is my second all-time favourite.  After Western Spaghetti, that is.  I’d also like to be able to do this.  What is impressive is the guy looks like he has hands and just learnt to do it for fun.  Maybe I’m wrong about that, but if [...]

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There isn’t any objective way of determining where is a good place to live.  I’m enjoying London; not that I spent a whole lot of time out in it, thanks to my work and hobbies all being indoors.  But I love the sense of bigness and endless choice when I do go out, and I [...]

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Well, looks like NZ didn’t get my memo about voting Labour.
I don’t think a National government is going to be catastrophic for New Zealand.  National have definitely moved towards the centre in their policies (or at least the policies they were willing to speak about), and any government would be silly to spend big bucks [...]

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There is some sweetness in the fact that Maverick County, Texas, voted 78.2% in favour of Obama.
The story of how the word “maverick” came to be is an interesting one, if you haven’t already read about it.
In other news, my voting in the NZ elections was a complete fail.  I initially sent in my vote [...]

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I guess we all like to think of ourselves as unique snowflakes.  Stuff White People Like captures my conformance to a stereotype so closely, it’s embarrasing.  Coincidentally, we’re getting a food processor today specifically so I can make hummus.  Ah, the joys of Argos and cheap home delivery.
Speaking of the joys of London, it’s 1 [...]

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