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<p>Fantail hasn't got me yet - but it will be a test - maybe now I know this theory it will be like having a bone pointed at me. I'm going to work on the (slightly discriminatory) theory that it's not applicable to pakeha. But, if I sold my house to your Nan - with its trained fantail - could that be murder? </p>
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<p>A pair of them nested right outside my office window last spring...was pretty cool watching them raise the chicks.</p>
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<p>My Nan's long dead, and no it had nothing to do with me not being able to close the other door and window on time.</p>
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<p>I think other cultures can adopt (not adopt) things as they see fit. I wouldn't dare step in a cemetery with food in NZ, but if I was in Mexico attending a Day of the Dead celebration I'll happily chomp down on a burrito in the cemetery - after all, they're not my ancestors.</p> -
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<p>My Nan's long dead, and no it had nothing to do with me not being able to close the other door and window on time.</p>
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<p>In theory, you could accuse the fantails of slacking on the job - if they're going to be harbingers they've got to be consistent about it.</p>
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<p>Closest I've come to seeing a ghost was at the end of the 6th form when I got a job with the council mowing roadsides and cemeteries. I stopped for lunch in a cemetery one day - out in the countryside and glanced over my shoulder and there was a white figure looming about 20 yards away. I didn't stop for a second look and bolted. I ate my lunch on the other side of the fence that day.</p>
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<p>Some people might wear crucifixes to ward off ghosts, but based on that experience I reckon a big lawn-mower and a pair of ear-muffs will effectively ward them off. Once you've got a mower fired up it just seems highly unlikely that the undead are coming for you.</p>
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<p>In any case, I'm pretty sure I just saw one of those big spooky marble statues out of the corner of my eye.</p> -
Everyone's bigger than me
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I whiff of many things
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<p>I normally do what my whiff tells me!</p>
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<p></p><p></p><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">[b][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Dowd_%28politician%29#Hendogate]James Patrick Dowd[/url][/b] (born 5 March 1951) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been a member of parliament (MP) since 1992, first for Lewisham West and since 2010 for Lewisham West and Penge.<br><br>
[b]Hendogate[/b]<br><br>
On 20 January 2014, Dowd made a speech in the House of Commons during a debate on the Intellectual Property Bill, stating that he had asked for Worcester Sauce whilst eating a meal at the Hare and Billet pub in Blackheath and that he was provided with Henderson's Relish.[5] Dowd used Henderson's as an example of "parasitic packaging", implying in the debate that it was attempting to pass itself off as Lea and Perrins.[6]<br><br>
Henderson's Relish is well known within Sheffield and parts of Yorkshire and has been manufactured there for over 100 years. Dowd upset supporters of the sauce; the Sheffield Central member of parliament, Paul Blomfield, offered to bring a bottle to Parliament and invite Dowd for a meal with him using it – an invitation accepted by Dowd.[7]<br><br>
Simon Freeman – the managing director of Henderson's – jokingly stated that he would order "an internal investigation to find out how it got out of Yorkshire";[8] a local newspaper, the Sheffield Star, launched a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #Hendogate to defend Henderson's, attracting support locally.[9] Dowd later stated his "amazement" at the backlash his comments had caused, which he said included threats of violence.[10] The assistant manager of the Hare and Billet – Adam Beaston – claimed that Dowd branded Henderson's a "blatant copy" of Lea and Perrins at the time but that he warned the MP that such a view would be "blasphemy in Sheffield".[11]</blockquote> -
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_City)'>http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(Lake_Havasu_City)</a>
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<p>Might not be parasitic packaging in the 21st century, but I reckon it was in the 19th. According to Wiki</p>
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<p>It is best known as the maker of Lea & Perrins brand of <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcestershire_sauce' title="Worcestershire sauce">Worcestershire sauce</a>,<sup><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_%26_Perrins#cite_note-1'><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup> which was <strong>first sold in 1838 </strong>by <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wheeley_Lea' title="John Wheeley Lea">John Wheeley Lea</a> and <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Perrins' title="William Henry Perrins">William Henry Perrins</a>,<sup><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_%26_Perrins#cite_note-2'><span>[</span></a></sup></p>
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<p>It was Henry Henderson who first began manufacturing his own special type of sauce back in the <strong>latter part of the 19th century</strong></p>
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<p><span><span style="font-size:10px;"><span> <img src="http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-700/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/11/3/1257250494862/Lea-and-Perrins-Worcester-001.jpg" alt="Lea-and-Perrins-Worcester-001.jpg"> </span> <img height="388" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02006/hendersons_2006213i.jpg" width="620" alt="hendersons_2006213i.jpg"></span></span></p>
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<p>I have a bunch of mates who would like to share info, news, photos etc amongst ourselves without using facebook or any related methods (it's all above board, honest!!). I want everyone to be able to contribute without needing one person to upload all the stuff at any time. How might I best go about this?</p>
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<p>Meet down the pub?</p>
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<p>Meet down the pub?</p>
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<p>A website you mean?</p>
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<p>Kind of, but it's just a site you create in Google using templates, it doesn't need knowledge of HTML - kind of like a company Intranet.</p>
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<p>It used to be free but I'm not sure about now - you may need a Google Apps account ... so might not work for you guys. Ok, so apparently it's still free if you have a gmail account.</p> -
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<p>Kind of, but it's just a site you create in Google using templates, it doesn't need knowledge of HTML - kind of like a company Intranet.</p>
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<p>It used to be free but I'm not sure about now - you may need a Google Apps account ... so might not work for you guys. Ok, so apparently it's still free if you have a gmail account.</p>
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<p>Looks like Google Site. I'll give it a go thanks. At least one poster offered a sensible reply to a question from someone who isn't so online savvy</p>
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<p>Actually - google groups might be easiest - you can just create threads (like any old forum) and post pics and stuff within them. Depends on how much effort you want to put in.</p>
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<p>You can create a group in a couple of minutes and start posting straight away.</p>
