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Comment on Buying or starting a business… by Internet Banking

Internet Banking — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:19:39 +0000

@Markus I get your drift on where you were going there. I often think of my past and use it as a means to analyze where I am and where I want to get to. Where I struggel is balancing it all out. How do you guys balance things out?

Comment on Perspective Please People. They’re Only Dogs by FitzGeraldo

FitzGeraldo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:36:31 +0000

The owner handed the first shooter a loaded gun to start the job off, so how pressured could he be?. Sounds to me he got upset because it wasn’t pretty. But those guys shot the lot in twenty minutes, that’s nearly two dogs a minute. They don’t seem too “Frenzied” to me, as the papers would have it, more clinincal and in control, as you should be when using a gun.. THE spca should be asking this guy why he had so many dogs in poor conditions and asking its staff if phone calls from neighbours were acted on. I know from experience that they are not interested in dogs unless they are obviously skinny. As for the workers needing counselling, spare me. They work for an organisation the kills thousands of dogs annually. Surely they’ve seen a pile of dead dogs before. It’s not unknown for people to ask neighbours to shoot dogs, it happened to me many years ago when a neighbour was too twee to deal with his stock worrying dogs. Fortunately another neighbour did the deed, shot eight dogs when they attacked yarded sheep.

Comment on Perspective Please People. They’re Only Dogs by Robert L

Robert L — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:05:45 +0000

Animals always get a lot of coverage in the media.
Though as a dog owner I can understand why people do get upset by the mindless ones out there. Cruelty to any living thing should be berated but comparing this to the human tragedy of Haiti is indeed out of perspective.

I know many people though who think 1 dog = 100 humans.

Thanks Greg

Comment on Perspective Please People. They’re Only Dogs by Justin Pirie

Justin Pirie — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:29:38 +0000

OK, OK, not good- but I’m glad to see the owner dressed up for the cameras! :p

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Comment on Department of Conservation and Scams, A Micro-Rant by Mike

Mike — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:11:39 +0000

Hi Ben.

If he was an “identified attendant” as the sign suggested, especially one supposed to be taking money on behalf of DOC, you’d sort of expect him to be wearing some kind of DOC uniform or obvious identification. DOC certainly doesn’t seem to have a shortage of those uniforms they hand out to their staff.

From the way you’ve described it, my guess is he’s either a con artist (perhaps he nicked the sign from somewhere else), or that someone at DOC hasn’t thought things through.

Comment on Department of Conservation and Scams, A Micro-Rant by Ben Kepes

Ben Kepes — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:52:22 +0000

Didn’t ask him for any ID – he was a big boy and I was a little scared! No response from DoC yet

Comment on Department of Conservation and Scams, A Micro-Rant by Mike

Mike — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:20:48 +0000

Maybe I’m wrong, but my current guess is an unauthorised entrepreneur. Did you happen to ask him for any official ID?

I was there less than a year ago and don’t remember this at all, though perhaps we missed it. DOCs Tane Mahuta page also makes no mention of vehicle security.

Comment on Telstra clear sucks……. by Rob

Rob — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:05:49 +0000

New Zealand is primitive when it comes to broadband, yea telstra sucks.

Comment on Department of Conservation and Scams, A Micro-Rant by stuartm

stuartm — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:16:18 +0000

This is a big problem back in South Africa too. It started off with good intentions, but then if you didn’t pay the ’security guards’ you would probably come back to a dented or keyed-car, or a smashed window.
But this seems a bit out-of-place in a well-known, NZ tourist attraction. I really hope that DOC haven’t officially agreed to this.