Young peoples fun spoiled by dickhead.

On Friday night a group of young men decided to test their cars out.

I can empathise, as a young man many many moons ago I also joined others in doing the a similar thing.

To this end the men (and women, the main reason for having the cars in the first place) found a stretch of road far out in the country, making sure that the road was basically untraveled and no houses were nearby so that they would interfere with no-one.

After gathering they were accosted by a member of a gang, a jackbooted storm trooper hero who decided that being in a fast car with a fancy paint job and pretty lights made him 10' tall and bullet proof and determined that the young men should not have fun where they were disturbing no-one.

The boys reacted much the same way most of us would when some dickhead decides to ruin good, honest and harmless fun.

They drove the bastard away.

A person there at the time advised me that it didn't take much, once the bully boy realised his bullying was over in that place he scarpered quicksmart.

Now in a real world the halfwit would have been admonished by his superiors for being stupid and ignorant and taken away from any decision making position until he could prove he was capable of making good decisions.

Not so here.

The police instead went crying to the media, claiming they were incompetent (probably the first true thing coming out of that organisation's press releases for years) and demanding someone else does their job for them and NZ's police state be tightened up to allow them to work towards the joyless, regulated world they so much admire.

The cowboys in their fancy painted cars with the pretty lights meanwhile continue to pick and choose their jobs, taking easy targets every time and ignoring anything that suits them or is too hard.

A good, thinking, intelligent and considerate police force is hard to find.

NZ Police, in Christchurch anyway, has not got close.

They need to try MUCH harder.



NB The detail of Friday night's incident was told to me by one of the young men (not, he assured me one of the bottle throwers) who had gathered to try his car out.

I believed him.

Success

As I stated the other day I've been attempting to purchase a PC notebook, preferably a netbook.

I have finally found one in a shop that just let me buy it, with a discount for cash, Dragon PCs in Gasson Street, Christchurch.

I purchased a Linux based Asus Eee PC 900

Of course now I can't get the bloody thing to connect to the internet through my router but hell, at least I've done the first bit.

Tips will be welcomed.

Beaten again. Bugger!

This blog is my place to rant. I wish I'd had one as good as this fellow so often does.

I'm an old fart and male which, among other things, means I hate shopping.

The internet has been great for me, allowing me to investigate purchases on line and then just wander in to a place I know what I want is on sale and buy it.

I always pay cash so am usually in and out quickly.

Unfortunately recently the internet has let me down.

I want to buy a PC notebook.

All I want it for is to run a word processor and spreadsheet program, work some of my business records, send the odd email and maybe play on the internet.

For anything more I have my desk-top PC.

I searched the internet and decided that the ASUS Eee PC 701 (4 Gig solid state HD and 512meg RAM) netbook running on linux was probably going to be good enough for my wants, put a few hundred in my pocket and wandered out to buy one.

I parked at a shopping centre where Harvey Norman, Noel Leeming, Dick Smith, Warehouse Stationary and Smiths City had set up shop

Whoops!

The only ASUS 701 I could find was running Windows XP, reducing memory dramatically and was pink.

I returned home and re-researched notebooks, recorded a couple that appeared to be suitable, particularly the ASUS 901 and ventured forth once again with high hopes.

A couple of hours later I returned home deflated once again.

I have discovered that computer shops either contain salesmen who are way over the top, hard sell types not immune to lying through their teeth for a sale and who would rather push a rental/hp type sale than simply take the cash or disinterested scrofulous youths with no sale skills, no people skills and no interest in creating an atmosphere that will encourage sales, instead preferring to display their hearing disabilities to the world.

Two weeks after starting my quest I remain notebookless.

But richer.

Wowsers win - it must be America

The Lingerei Bowl, the greatest American Football event each year has been forced out of mainstream America by a bunch of bloody Yankee wowsers.

Probably the same tossers who voted for B Hussein Obama.

It will this year be held in a nudist camp.

The only good news is a new LFL being televised in 2009.

I hope Sky carries the feed.

Another Winston

Much hated ChCh mayor Bob Parker has stated he will give away his payrise.

Good on him you might say.

Unfortunately he hasn't stated that he will give the money back to the poor bastards who pay him, the rate payers.

My bet is he will make a tax deductible donation to some charity the he controls.

Talk about indian-giver - is this bastard related to NZ First?

These people affect your lives

They let these people vote?

Democracy is a failure.

A few hundred years ago a group of superstitious extremists decided they needed to go to a new country where they could extreme away in peace.

Mainly Poms they chose the new territories in America.

After a while the descendent's of these extremists decided that their group of settlements were not being served well by rules and regulations (as well as taxes) coming in from England and formed a new, independent country.

As a gimmick to attract workers to that country they adopted a novel measure, they would let all free men have a say in who made the rules and regulations.

This of course was not a new idea.

Greece and Rome had both tried it.

Greece of course promptly fell over and Rome is now simply the seat of one of the myriad of Mediterranean superstitions around at the time, no longer even a country.

England and France had both had their go as well with varying degrees of success.

Of course the Americans were bright enough to see some of the pitfalls and just allowed the free men the right to elect those who elected the leader as well as two groups of advisers who had to get their ideas past that leader before they became law.

This system has worked pretty good although a recent failure of the system may yet bite the world on it's ass.

This failure was almost certainly caused by two changes to the original idea. A simple “crack the door open and the whole bloody flood cascades through” effect.

Those two changes were to include every man not imprisoned in the description “free” and then to admit women to the group.

I'm sure about now people are saying “Fair enough, that's progress and they have a right to be included”.

Why?

As an aside while thinking about this I have tried to think of actual developments, inventions etc. that women have given to mankind. I don't mean me-too type things but new ideas and innovations and the women who have given these.

Apart from Curie I'm buggered if I can think of one.

This rant however is not about that, it is about that first change – giving all people not incarcerated in a penal institution or disqualified for illegal activities the vote.

Why do we give the senile, the infirm, the outright lazy, the too stupid to better themselves enough to feed themselves, the too subservient to think for themselves the right to select rule makers.

We don't give children that right and many if not most of the above have mental processes lower than double digit aged children.

What is so great about this thing called democracy? This idea that every adult should be allowed a say in who makes the rules?

It creates more problems than it solves

Having given the matter some thought a benevolent dictatorship is the best form of governance, cutting the politicking down completely and doing away with compromise.

I doubt that the majority are bright enough to consider this option so we are almost certainly stuck with this democracy farce but surely within that democracy steps must be taken to limit just who has the chance to vote

We make people get a license to drive a motor vehicle, shoot a gun, get married, sell booze, all activities that can cause only localised catastrophes while we allow all free adults to, without training or proving competence to vote to decide who leads the country.

All registered voters should sit and pass a vote license test prior to being allowed to vote, the test being re administered at regular intervals.

Giving everyone the vote, without ensuring they are competent to use that vote is simply bloody stupid.

Once again bloody extremists have buggered up the world.

Never there when needed.

Driving into town tonight at about 11:30 am I followed a dangerously drunk sheila.

Speeds varying from 25-45KPH, all over the road and not reacting to the lights.

Was there a cop in sight? Of course not.

I took a wander around the city when I got there, no sign of cops anywhere.

I'm guessing the midnight is shift change time and all the cops were back at the police station.

If this is the case it would not surprise me. I doubt any outfit that works mainly on influencing law instead of enforcing it would worry about large gaps in service enough to stagger change-over times.

With management of this standard it is no wonder these cowboys are so out of control.

Greatest show of ignorance

The NZ Herald WWW.NZHerald.co.nz have been running a poll on the greatest living NZer.

Unbelievably heading the list have been the slag who has led NZ into very serious economic difficulties, a maker of very expensive and, based on the small segments I've seen of them, very bad moving pictures and a brave soldier who has a great deal of publicity lately.

Fair enough that the soldier should be included but the others are there simply because most respondents simply can not think for themselves.

Others I've seen/heard mentioned are Peter Snell (once a NZer, now a Seppo) and Dame Kiri TeKanawa.

The former was a very good middle distance runner who left NZ for America as soon as he could and never returned (to live).

The latter a good performer of an endeavour that constitutes mainly very short Italian plays padded out by several songs and is probably the only form of performance in which a 15 stone middle aged woman can pretend to be a lithesome young beauty without being laughed out of existance by the audiance.

Attended by a very small minority and enjoyed by a small percentage of these.

Along with a handful of scientists who keep a low profile and just get on with the job two men stand out as having done genuine service for NZ and deserve the recognition of being among the top contenders for this title.

I refer of course to the two NZers who rescued NZ in the early to mid eighties.

Sir Robert Jones, who as well as being a very good author and commentator on sport, politics and current affairs put aside his business committments to get rid of the mad bastard Muldoon and Sir Roger Douglas who had the courage and foresight to steer NZ towards self sufficiancy.

Are the published results of this poll the greatest show of ignorance by NZers ever?

It needs to be said

Stuff today reported that Dave Dobbyn was going to "sing" to the poor bastards who have been transported home after dying in the Airbus crash off France.

No doubt there will also be a Maori cultural group wailing and jumping around.

Haven't they had enough torment?