Competition? What do I win?

Wrong thread

@booboo If you like Infinite Monkey Cage, Robin Ince plus guests are doing 3 science shows in NZ in April (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch)

http://atheistfoundation.org.au/cosmicshambleslive/

@NTA said in Virtual Reality:

Need the PS4 camera before the headset, right?

Yes, the camera tracks the tron lights on the headset

I want @Canes4life to give us a complete run down of Ardie Saveas performance against the Williams sisters and when we can expect to see him at Wimbledon.

@Snowy it was only when I deliberately mowed through the thick patch in the middle to see how it coped....my old mower would almost always stall going through there with a catcher.

@MajorRage said in Wisdom Of The Fern Collective - South Island Tour:

@Snowy I don't know if she's going to find her answer there ...

A few nights with the WT rellies will be much more enlightening.

Poor girl.

@taniwharugby is that code for something bro 😁

@Tregaskis thanks for the advice. I had read about that tax scheme, if thats what you call it, and will be getting advice about whether that or claiming family tax breaks (if eligible) is best. As far as i know it is one or the other.

The fact that one of our businesses is a service business and the other is a product business complicates it a bit.

@gt12 we tried to book dinner at Ishikawa but had to settle for Nakajima. Still amazing but next time I'm going for 3 stars

@antipodean said in Le Dîner en Blanc:

@Hooroo said in Le Dîner en Blanc:

Is there more to it?? Are other ethinicities allowed entry?

It's about 'decorum, elegance, and etiquette', so no.

Sounds a bit kak to me

@Hooroo said in This made me laugh:

@canefan said in This made me laugh:

@Mokey said in This made me laugh:

@antipodean said in This made me laugh:

@Hooroo A few years ago a scene I witnessed in Kyoto summed up the difference in expectation when it came to the value of education: I had run out of cigarettes about 9pm and wandered out of the hotel down a block or two to the nearest Lawson when I encountered a bunch of school kids still in uniform leaving an after school tutorial.

Ditto for me teaching in Taiwan. Not about getting into a great Uni there, it starts with getting into a great kindy. The schedules those poor babies are put through is incredible. Regular school from 7.30 til 4.30. Then each night is activities - music, English, public speaking etc etc. My latest teaching slot went from 6.30pm til 8.30pm, and sometimes they were under 10's. Plus scheduled Saturday classes. I always wondered when they had time to just be kiddies. It's no wonder they come to NZ and cane it.

They get here and your average Kiwi kid hasn't got a chance. Going to school in NZ is probably like being on perpetual holiday back home

and being rewarded for it!!

Money for Nothing!

Bit silly (even if technically correct) to include little rock outcrops in these.

I have my own little list to cross off which are the 'accessible' points on the main islands. Those that the average Joe Blow could go to when travelling around. eg a drive and a well trodden walk.

North Island

Northern - Cape Reinga Lighthouse.
Southern - Cape Palliser
Western - Cape Egmont Lighthouse
Eastern - The East Cape Rd
Highest - Mt Ruapehu (I'd count any of the peaks really. A summer hike can take you to the top of Te HeuHeu which is only 40m shorter than Tahurangi although even the well worn 'tourist' route to the dome shelter above the Crater Lake is only about 100m less that the highest point.
Lowest - who cares. unless you are into caving it's hardly accesible (and I don't know where it is)

South Island

Northern - Puponga
Southern - Slope Point
Western - This one is a bit tricky as most of Fiordland is only for the serious foot traveller and the readily accessible parts are fairly inland. The westernmost piece of accessible coast is probably Milford Sound although you could also probably do a Dusky Sound trip that might let you ashore (i don't know)
Eastern - again complicated by the true points being in the Marlborough Sounds and not easily accessible but you could count the Lighthouse at the southern point of Cifford Bay.
Highest - well I'd like to do it one day but doesn't really fit the criteria I have set. Any high points that do fit the criteria are just so far below so many other peaks it isn't worth counting (or working out).

@raznomore said in Popular songs you can't stand:

I hate Kanye now but loved his stuff 10 years ago. He was original, had a good flow and sampled well.

Amen to the earlier comments about Nirvana & Radiohead.

Add to that anything Fat Boy Slim or Daft Punk.

Im sorry but throw The Exponents in there too. I was dragged along to many of their pub gigs when I was at uni and the only reason was because I was seeing a chick named Tracy that thought the song was for her.

Well pissed up kiwis at sporting events can only do "Why does love do this to me?" justice the first 20,000 times you hear it. After that it becomes a bit ho hum.

@Kirwan said in iCloud or other cloud based Storage:

@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in iCloud or other cloud based Storage:

@Kirwan Your google search history just got a lot more interesting. 🙂

I wish I could say I used incognito mode for that, but I was rushing for the punchline. Dammit.

Please share what ads you start seeing....

I sell cars for a living, work at a BMW dealership in the States, so any advice I could give probably does not apply. But I did enjoy reading all the responses.
But if you have any BMW questions I'm more than happy to help.

I always thought it originated from a geographical ignorance inbred into Cantabrians that confused Auckland with the Auckland Islands

@Winger won't be happy.