Author: ranginui

Spoilt for choices.

Well it seems as Maori, theres not a lot to choose from in the 2 major
parties. We can either be patronised, and stabbed in the back by Labour. Or
insulted and stabbed in the face by National. Welcome to New Zealand 2005, a
country which the majority of people seem to want to drag back into the 1850s.
Im disgusted by
Nationals
race relation policies and I’m at least as disgusted by Labour’s failure
to respond. A simple, “you are a bunch of ignorant twats” would have been
fine, but for crying out loud, grow some spine people. If you want NZ to
turn into a shithole that treats its indigenous people like Australia treats
the Aborigines, why cant you just fuck off to Australia and leave the rest of us here.

Shut your ‘mainstream’ face.

Im glad I dont have to come into contact with many of these so called
‘Mainstream New Zealanders’ National keeps blathering on about. They sound
like complete and utter arsehats. Combine a good mixture of prejudice, with
a dollop of bigotry, add some eurocentric assimilationist tendencies and
stir with a nice spoon of ignorance, and you’ll have the people who would be
attracted to National’s attitude. It’ll be interesting, we should be able to
tell after the election the exact proportion of the voting population who
are arsehats. Lets hope for the country’s sake its less than 50%.

Very good weekend for sports.

Well all apart from the Wellington Lions playing some woeful rugby on Friday
night, its been a good weekend for sports so far. Shane Bond has returned
with a roar to One day cricket, smashing through the Indian batsman, to help
NZ win a game that should have been Indias. Then last night in one of the
closer tests you’ll ever see, the All Blacks got up to beat the Springboks.
And at the same time Stacy Jones was scoring the winning try for the
Warriors. And to top it off, if England don’t choke (and lets face it,
theres a good chance they will) they should beat Australia in the 4th Ashes
cricket test.

I need a Tivo

Well I guess first I need telstraclear to hurry up with their digital cable.
But then I need some kinda PVR, so I dont keep missing the adult swim
cartoons on cartoon network. Tonigh its Space Ghost coast to coast, then
Aqua teen hunger force, followed by Sealab 2021 and finally the Brak show.
Four insane and yet funny cartoons in a row.

Trogdor!!!!

So I forgot to write about this, so I’ll write it up now. While we were in
Dunedin for Laurel’s interview at the School of Medicine we went shopping
and stopped to eat at the foodcall in the mall there.
I spotted a guy wearing a Trogdor tshirt, so I
told Laurel I’d give her $5 if she went over and yelled “Trogdooooooooor” at
him. So Laurel took it up a level and went over and sang a big chunk of the
song. The guy took it pretty well, his girlfriend was a bit embarassed, but
what can you expect if you go out with someone wearing a trogdor tshirt.

What are TelstraClear playing at this time?

Ok paradise.net.nz used to be a fantastic ISP. Then telstraclear bought it,
and its steadily sucked more, almost monthly. The latest piece of madness is
their transparent proxy is stopping me from accessing a bunch of websites.
Most annoyingly lists.sourceforge.net is one of those. Its a ‘known fault’
which just means that it’ll get fixed only when enough people complain.
I really resent the degradation of the service, since ive had my cablemodem
account in this house, they have depeered from all the peering exchanges,
implemented (badly) transparent proxying and had intermittent connectivity
outages. But I still pay exactly the same every month .. for what is now a
vastly inferior product. Dickheads!

Arsehat of the year

Goes to the wussy piece of shit who tortured and ended up killing a golden
retriever. And then went on to do the same to cats .. and who knows how many
other animals before that. What a hard man, torturing tame pets. Its for
people like that, that kneecapping was invented.
And as for the dumb policeman who ranked burglaries of a higher importance.
Do you really want someone who does this sort of thing wandering around? Its
just a matter of time till he graduates to humans.