Referee biased against Spain by consistently penalising and booking Argentinian players

Yer man Animal there on the drums

Sounds like the Māpua leisure park has been sold, maybe the boutique hotel development is soon

Not having subtitles for the opening scene of Death on the Nile certainly exercised the little gray cells a bit

England can still lose this 6-4 from here

The slowly dawning realisation of Billy Zane’s filmography. Titanic Dead Calm Going Overboard Danger Zone Head Above Water Dead Fish I Woke Up Early The Day I Died Tombstone

I had not realised that I was living in an economic powerhouse www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

Gonna win the Auckland Helicopter Trust lottery and retrofit that Dodge Charger as an EV

Dinosaurs, having survived the asteroid strike: "we shall diversify and become bird life" H5N1: "Hiya"

After a brief pause, a new project begins. This time, renovating the retail #2 space. Plus bonus shed recladding, steps and deck as outdoor side-quests along the way.

This modern life is swings and roundabouts, innit?

I’ve just taken over operations at Hilbert’s Hotel, I’ve listed it as an AirBnB and not only can’t their booking system cope, but I’ve had a whole bunch of 1-star reviews from guests who had to change rooms when the tour bus turned up unexpectedly.

INT, alien spacecraft. A group of excited aliens awaits the return of their emissary on first contact with Earth. The alien commander exits the shuttle craft. ALL: “well?” Ka-Ren, alien commander: “they laughed at me when I asked to speak with a leader”

Today: “you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs” Tomorrow: “you can’t make an omelette”

I think we need better judges www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

Seven aftershocks around 3-4 in the past hour as well as the initial 6.3-6.6 #eqnz

That should shake out who’s built a proper disaster bunker #eqnz

Top Gun: Bullets over Broadway

Silmarillion were the first neo-prog band from The Shire to have 11 Top 40 hits on the Middle-Earth Singles charts

5 or 6. I didn’t read LoTR until I was 13/14 and the Silmarillion was much later

Cocaine? In THIS economy?

Occasionally I like to do a long press on the Home Screen and watch all the app icons shake with trepidation as they wonder which one is going to get deleted.

Editor: “Mr Wright, we loved your novel Gadsby. What a tour de force writing the whole thing with no letter E” Ernest Vincent Wright: “very kind” Editor: “we’ve put your name on the cover”

As far as I can tell, England have decided to play mostly in their own half and Argentina have decided to also play mostly within their own half.

Non-testicular fortitude

“Energy cannot be created or destroyed, merely converted from one form into another, or be blocked from export via the Straits of Hormuz” I’m going to fill up the car…with electrons (*) (*) actually might be the same electron travelling backwards/forwards thru time www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

This city is: A) Petrograd B) Leningrad C) St Petersburg D) all of the above

Surely it’s fine for retirement villages to squeeze an extra 4% out of old people once they’ve “left” (#euphemism)

This is where wearables research should have stopped in the 90s, before a lengthy program of sociological research into impacts commenced

ACT party makes major pre-election non-policy announcement

No. We haven’t even reached “rejected Sirius Cybernetics Corporation prototype” Le els of sophistication. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

How the hell did they get that consented, built, inspected and signed-off in 2019?

Why the fuck are all the tech bros using Tolkien nomenclature? Did they maybe misread the text?

I’ve launched a new app for people who want to be the third wheel on dates. It’s called Hindr.

My full proposal for all and any postings on upwork that are along the lines of "traffic won't pass from the LAN to the VPN" is "Add a static route", regardless of router/firewall vendor.

S1-9 of 'Allo 'Allo. De Niro vs Pacino in Heat. "Danny"/"Terry" (unscripted) in Ocean's Eleven.

Afternoon visitor

I am begging people to understand that when you pay the higher price, you validate the higher price

Same shit, different year. It's always July or November.

Me: desperate at the end of the game of Scrabble, playing MEOW Opponent: plays HOMEOWNERS through it for a triple-triple

David Seymour to retire from politics, join the Wiggles

The clarity of the photo from 1300BCE is amazing

It’s like watching a succession of attempts to make people believe that a perpetual motion machine is possible, with an endlessly more complex arrangement of motors, gyroscopes and magnets

I’ve hacked the account of the President of the Dad Joke society. “Hacked” is maybe too strong a word, I just typed in his password, which was “incorrect”

“Verify your age” (computer science” 256KB frame store. 8-bit colour. 300 baud. 8” disks. 16KB RAM. 1MHz CPU. TCP/IP was in the future. Bang path addressing. BBS.

I’ve landed a part in the local amateur dramatic society production of 101 Dalmatians. I’m playing the lead.

“Survived the oil shock”. So far. www.orfonline.org/research/how...

Why on earth would you touch this? www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

Exodus 7:13

McConnell to stay alive until after 3 August. Everything that was common practice in the Soviet Union in the 70s has now become common practice in the US