@Nepia That optiontown site is pretty interesting - thanks!

I've flown on Malaysian Airlines several times since their crashes - I figured they're bound to be meticulous in their safety - however, if their ground staff service is anything to go by, this assumption might be mistaken.

Haven't been on a flight that has been close to full and they've been significantly cheaper out of Auckland than other options to Asia.

Regan King showing the Nigerians how its done.

Go son !!!

Oh and is have dropped the funt thing way earlier with the knowledge I have now

@MajorRage said in Merry Christmas 2018 & Happy 2019:

A quick scroll through Facebook today tells me that a lot of people don’t know what the word gorgeous actually means ...

I'm at dad's just north of Cambridge (Waikato) for a couple of days and my stepbrother's kids are crying every half an hour. That definitely doesn't fall into the gorgeous category.

Perhaps I should post this here:

Alexa, Who Has Access to My Data? Amazon Reveals Private Voice Data Files

In August 2018, amazon.de customer Martin Schneider (not his real name) used these rights to ask Amazon to release the personal data it has on file about him. A couple of months later, Schneider was sent a download link to a 100MB ZIP file. About 50 of the zipped files contained data relating to everyday things like Amazon searches, but there were also around 1,700 WAV files and a PDF cataloging unsorted transcripts of Alexa’s interpretations of his voice commands. Schneider was extremely surprised to find these files as he doesn’t use Alexa and doesn’t own any Alexa-enabled devices. He listened to some random sample files but didn’t recognize any of the voices they contained.

@antipodean said in Will our kids be immortal or extinct?:

Looking for a career as a personality devoid newsreader? Because that's gone.

You could say that was years ago.

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@bones said in A funny xmas story for this day and age....:

@mn5 you can't tell me Klinger wasn't a funny bastard.

Not only that he must have been Tv's first ever cross dresser. What a revolutionary!!!

@jegga said in Bee Swarm Capture:

@hooroo said in Bee Swarm Capture:

Luck hopefully.

anyway, all too hard basket to do myself so got a mate who is a bee keeper to come grab it

Is he going to store it on your farm ? We had the same thing happen but we already had three hives so the beekeeper took it away . I think he killed the queen and gave the hive one of his queens .

He will take it. I was thinking of keeping it but we are selling this farm shortly so don't want the hassle of moving it

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@antipodean said in Connections:

@hooroo How can someone with a head that looks like an over-inflated balloon have friends?

because Hooroo seems like a decent bloke...

oh, you meant Goodhead

@bovidae said in Quake:

Scanning through the Stuff article most people near the epicentre felt little or nothing. Bigger shakes in the lower NI and SI.

Anything deep in Central NI tends to throw waves out that get felt far more in places like Welly.
They're the ones that you hear coming like a truck. Luckily they also tend to have lost any sharpness by the time they are felt.
Mind you I have been up Ruapehu when there was one centered nearby. That was a bit freaky.

I like Meghan for obvious reasons and I like Prince Phillip for the outrage he causes. Casual racism is is still great fun and good on him for not having a filter.

The rest are all fluffybunnies who should suffer the same fate as the Russian royal family.

God Bless communism.

I will be enjoying the once a year we actually get a TRC game worth watching at a decent time of the day

@mokey said in Fonterra:

@smudge Slick burn there.

I completely missed that!! Very good!

I only recently learned of the existence of these , considering the amount of carriers the yanks ultimately ended up with it explains how they were able to train so many aircrew .
Apparently if you were shot down in the pacific and recovered by another US boat your pistol and anything else interesting on you was souvenired by your rescuers and your carrier had to swap you for your bodyweight in ice cream.

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@kruse that’s awesome!

To be clear, it was the UK immigration that waved us through back into UK.

Even the poms have to queue now to get back in!