I've decided to start issuing my own awards from time to time.
They will the called "The What's Going on in NZ Biggest Balls in the World Award"
The first lucky recipient is the new master of pranking who send a Fly Buys card in the the name of " U R Fucking Whore" to some bint and her family in Christchurch. Story is here.
This genius managed to get the Flybuys internet registration to send the card, without being reviewed by someone prior to creating the card and sending it out.
I love that this woman had nightmares that someone was out to get her. I'm waiting for someone to send her a Credit card in the name of I P Freely. I think she'll have a nervous breakdown.
And what this article didn't say, but was on the news last night, was that this family wanted compensation from Fly Buys and were upset that none had been offered. What, precisely, they wanted compensation for wasn't specified. Funnily enough. Maybe they should say they are Maori, they'll have compensation coming out of their ears.
And if anyone's wondering, Flybuys claim to have closed the loophole which allowed this to happen.
So, mysterious prankster, you are the first winner of the WGOINZBBITWA. Congratulations.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007
Scooter riders are lunatics
Two posts in one day. You lucky, lucky bastards.
While I'm on the subject of bikes and bikers, has anyone else noticed how batshit insane scooter riders are?
I see them daily taking their lives in their hands (as, to be fair, all motorcyclists do to a certain extent) with a minimun of safety gear on. They sit so low to the ground, and swerve around traffic so much, it's only a matter of time before someone cleans them up.
Yes, I know they law in NZ technically allows someone to wear Speedos and a helmet, as long as the helmet is approved, but c'mon, do the sums. Did it hurt when you fell off your pushbike as a kid? It can't not hurt to fall off a moving scooter. Tarmac doesn't have a lot of padding.
I blame the advertisments that show a smiling European couple wearing shorts and a t-shirt with their open-face helmets riding on their new Vespa. How have the local PC Brigade not complained about these ads yet?? My guess; the PC brigade aren't smart enough to figure it out.
Could also be that many of them a car drivers trying to save some cash on their daily commute, and don't hold motorcycle licences. Could it be time to change the law?
Probably works for ACC. They can blame the dangerous motorcycles for all these injuries every year, and therefore justify hiking up the ACC levies bikers have to pay. Sneaky like a corrupt Governmental Fox.
And those fricken suicidal clowns on mini-choppers on public roads. Don't get me started.
While I'm on the subject of bikes and bikers, has anyone else noticed how batshit insane scooter riders are?
I see them daily taking their lives in their hands (as, to be fair, all motorcyclists do to a certain extent) with a minimun of safety gear on. They sit so low to the ground, and swerve around traffic so much, it's only a matter of time before someone cleans them up.
Yes, I know they law in NZ technically allows someone to wear Speedos and a helmet, as long as the helmet is approved, but c'mon, do the sums. Did it hurt when you fell off your pushbike as a kid? It can't not hurt to fall off a moving scooter. Tarmac doesn't have a lot of padding.
I blame the advertisments that show a smiling European couple wearing shorts and a t-shirt with their open-face helmets riding on their new Vespa. How have the local PC Brigade not complained about these ads yet?? My guess; the PC brigade aren't smart enough to figure it out.
Could also be that many of them a car drivers trying to save some cash on their daily commute, and don't hold motorcycle licences. Could it be time to change the law?
Probably works for ACC. They can blame the dangerous motorcycles for all these injuries every year, and therefore justify hiking up the ACC levies bikers have to pay. Sneaky like a corrupt Governmental Fox.
And those fricken suicidal clowns on mini-choppers on public roads. Don't get me started.
Protests over "Cheese Cutter" Barriers
After some young guy got chopped in half by a cheese cutter motorway median barrier (more here), NZ Bikers are considering protesting to the lunatics running the asylum (this means the Goverment, for those who sniffed too many permanent markers at school).
While I would normally point and laugh at such flagrant optimism (that Uncle Helen will actually listen to the public), given that Labour have been getting a flogging in the Polls this year, and there is an election next year, they may have some chance of being listened to.
Also, Helen is pretty savvy, and the motorcycling community has been growing at around 30% per year for the last 5 years, so that could be ammunition for the bikers.
The horribly dangerous bastard things have already been banned in big chunks of Europe, so maybe there is hope.
One scary little factoid; 70% of bikers who hit the pricks (the barriers, not the government) at 85km/h or faster loose a limb.
While I would normally point and laugh at such flagrant optimism (that Uncle Helen will actually listen to the public), given that Labour have been getting a flogging in the Polls this year, and there is an election next year, they may have some chance of being listened to.
Also, Helen is pretty savvy, and the motorcycling community has been growing at around 30% per year for the last 5 years, so that could be ammunition for the bikers.
The horribly dangerous bastard things have already been banned in big chunks of Europe, so maybe there is hope.
One scary little factoid; 70% of bikers who hit the pricks (the barriers, not the government) at 85km/h or faster loose a limb.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
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