Category Archives: Intermission

Monday amusement

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It’s Monday and I need coffee so here’s something amusing I was linked to: Beginner’s Guide to Police Harassment “A North Island police station received this question from a resident through the feedback section of a local Police website:“I would like to know how it is possible for police officers to continually harass people and get away with it?”In response, a sergeant posted this reply:First of all, let me tell you this … it’s not easy. In the Palmerston North and rural area we average one cop for every 505 people. Only about 60 per cent of those cops are … Continue reading →

Spirit of the Olympricks photo contest

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Not content with not allowing people to share photo’s on the internet, those enlightened people running the olympics have also said if you’re not a sponsor you can’t run Olympics based photography competitions,though locog do seem to have very quietly back pedalled on that a bit. Now as an enthusiastically loss making site (much like the main stream media there) it should be OK for me to run just such a contest as: “A spokesman for the Olympics organising committee, Locog, today told AP: ‘I have spoken with one of our lawyers and, provided the pictures are not used for … Continue reading →

A lasting legacy for local communities

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I know more Olympic shite, I really should change topic, but inspired by other peoples graphics I thought I’d exercise my piss poor graphics skills. Especially having read about the lasting sports legacy being left in hackney with existing sports facilities and wildlife habitat destroyed for good. That’s even before you consider if the Olympic body will return the pitches under the temporary car park to anything like they’re previous state. To keep track of just what the legacy will be, and lets see how far off the mark my graphic is there’s Games Monitor. Oh and for the record … Continue reading →