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@mn5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@chris-b said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I don't think the 150kg prototype is really possible though because its so much harder lugging 150kg around than 120kg even if a lot of it is muscle. There's a limit to how fast the heart can power a unit like that, look at Grid Iron players. Enormous and strong but with the lung capacity of a smoker breathing through a straw.
More focus on the Eugenics programme!
Aim for something like a silverback gorilla!
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In line with the thread topic, shocking performance by Stuff to have zero coverage (if they do have some it is well hidden) of the commemoration yesterday in Le Quesnoy.
This town is fast becoming the kiwi point of focus regarding WW1 contribution in France and the efforts of the local people to keep the history alive is to be applauded.Some good coverage here form Newshub https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2018/11/our-second-home-hundreds-of-kiwis-commemorate-le-quesnoy-wwi-victory.html
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@bones said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Well, fuck.
Fantastic stuff. I might try this for lunch today.
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ha, I eat mine like that, not sure why, but I do, turns out I am a man ahead of my time!
Thursday is home made burger night, but I feel like a burger now
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@crucial the herald has been good too , there’s also a kids book about it that’s been out for a year.
Yeah. I linked to the Herald docos last week.
Just thought it was worth getting a dig in at Stuff, who didn't even have a correspondent there on Saturday.Le Quesnoy is also twinned with Cambridge, who have developed a very strong connection. The Cambridge town band had the honour of playing at the ceremony. This was the projection on the Town Hall the other night.
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@bones said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@mn5 honestly, who throws a shoe?
that really hurt!
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@crucial said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Le Quesnoy is also twinned with Cambridge, who have developed a very strong connection.
There has been a few articles in the Waikato Times because of this connection.
I've been to Ypres for the Menin Gate Last Post ceremony but didn't have a chance to go to Le Quesnoy.
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@sammyc said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@bones said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@mn5 honestly, who throws a shoe?
Classic episode. I love Homers response "Yes, once...." such awesome subtle humour. I'm so pleased the SJWs got rid of Apu though, his racist typecasting was really making me into a bad person and heaven forbid I keep laughing at a brilliant show.
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@bovidae said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@crucial said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Le Quesnoy is also twinned with Cambridge, who have developed a very strong connection.
There has been a few articles in the Waikato Times because of this connection.
I've been to Ypres for the Menin Gate Last Post ceremony but didn't have a chance to go to Le Quesnoy.
Check out this graphic showing (and naming) every NZ Soldier in the WWI Roll of Honour.
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In a similar vein, Auckland Museum has a cross for every casualty and is projecting a short film onto the Museum this weekend
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@dogmeat said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
In a similar vein, Auckland Museum has a cross for every casualty and is projecting a short film onto the Museum this weekend
I was at a wreath laying ceremony today at the NZ Memorial at Hyde Park Corner. No fanfare, publicity or press. Just the Governor General and a very small NZDF contingent. Left a wreath. Payed her respects and left. Was quite cool and there were some quite puzzled tourists around that could work out it was something official but it was so low key with minimal security that they were looking like 'surely it's not someone important'.
Was a funny contrast as the Austrian Ambassador had just been escorted past in the horse drawn carriage on the way to present credentials to the Queen followed by the Royal Cavalry who were seemingly out for a ride in full kit. NZ1 just pulls up, GG hops out and walks across the grass.. -
I think Hosking is a dick but he winds up lefties just by existing so this is pleasing
World War One Roll of Honour
