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- The Colonial pretenders: Why I own Scotland, and Kevin doesn’t by Grumpy Old Geezers on Nov 21, 2009
A well known Napier identity believes he may have been cheated of an inheritance worth billions of dollars. It includes vast tracts of Scotland, the minerals and shellfish in and around Lake Hatuma in New Zealand’s Central Hawke’s Bay, a mult...
- A tinge of racism, a twinge of regret, and a fearful cringe from the rest of us by Grumpy Old Geezers on Nov 10, 2009
How sad, one-eyed and diminished the Maori people now look, thanks to the thoughtless peasant some of them elected. Picture from Dreamstime.com What has become of this country? We must live in a very bad State, when the Race Relations Commissioner ca...
- At Immigration New Zealand, a blithering idiot is born every minute by Grumpy Old Geezers on Nov 7, 2009
Eric King-Turner made headlines, but sadly had not nearly enough tight lines on the riverbank Let us offer up a prayer for the soul of New Zealand’s oldest migrant, 104-year-old Eric King-Turner, a refined English gentleman who died in Nelson witho...
- Call this a coalition government? It’s more like the Cosy Nostra by Grumpy Old Geezers on Nov 6, 2009
The ultimate long-drop National spent nine years as an almost unemployable Opposition. One year into “governing”, it turns out that their minds were blank all the time. After a shaky first few weeks, during which they seemed to recall lit...
- It’s official! Research shows that being grumpy is good for you by Grumpy Old Geezers on Nov 3, 2009
Statistics prove that most research is total rubbish, but at last an Australian psychology expert has come up with something really useful. He’s been studying emotions and has discovered that being grumpy makes us think more clearly. (We could have...
- The medium is the tedium: The depressive power of our regressive press by Grumpy Old Geezers on Oct 27, 2009
As technology made it easier to move type, the lazier the press became. Picture by SAX at Dreamstime.com Once upon a time, there was an ailing daily paper in England’s West Country. It had a circulation of 12,000, and hardly any journalists. A ruth...
- When the Ghost in the Machine needs to back off by PR from the Beach on Oct 27, 2009
So this weekend Facebook decided that it would make some decisions on my behalf, selectively editing my friends' updates, information, quiz results, likes (but not dislikes as there is no button) et al. Today, Google launches social search so I can r...
