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Chris A

Oh my, how scandalous.

2 days 18 hours ago
Chris A

Hey Chris, didn't you have a from dust voucher? It's currently on special if you wanted to double dip

2 days 18 hours ago
James

omg, just saw the worst of those drug driving ads - finished with the passenger saying -"at least you aren't drinking while you drive" - seriously thats their message???

2 days 17 hours ago
Jill

Dave, if I get some tickets I'll give them to you, but only if you tell me what my cell phone number is......

2 days 17 hours ago
Jill

Chris everybody is sick of hearing about LOW TEA!!!!!!!!!!

2 days 16 hours ago
Chris D

Senior Sergeant Mike Hannah received calls ...complaining about a topless sunbather.... "I went down there and had a look," he said. http://goo.gl/PTuv3

2 days 1 hour ago
Martin

Better work stories.

1 day 23 hours ago
Dave

021xx974xx4

1 day 20 hours ago
Chris D

WRT the above - why do people give so many shits about a soccer shirt anyway?

1 day 19 hours ago
Chris A

It's soccer and Europe. I just crunched the numbers and it's a massive collective hard on, using the 'new' All Blacks jersey as a base number the results were staggering.

1 day 18 hours ago
Jill

Very good Dave! I put in for the tickets today so I'll let you know if I get some.

1 day 14 hours ago
Chris A

Martin: http://www.gamersgate.com/games?prio=relevance&q=warhammerweekend what do we need?

1 day 6 hours ago
Chris D

GG down presently. Doesn't inspire confidence.

1 day 4 hours ago
Martin

Whoa. To just play between us we just need plain old Dawn of War II. If you want to play online or watch other people's replays you'll want Retribution but vanilla is a great game itself.

1 day 3 hours ago
Chris D

I don't understand the sale there seems to be many duplicates of each game at vastly different prices.

22 hours 22 min ago
Chris D

As far as I can tell vanilla DOW is $30. I have seen it way cheaper on steam. Edit: wait no that's complete pack. Ugh this website is annoying. Edit2: finally found for $5. For some reason I have to confirm my email. Ugh again. Edit3 can't finish my purchase as it keeps timing out. Screw this website. Plus they've already sent me 4 emails.

22 hours 19 min ago
Chris A

What happens if you just get Retribution?

19 hours 48 min ago
Ash

Some days you've just got to love work- Had a customer give me 5 bottles of whisky and another gave me a pair of shoes- after teasing me for 6 months for having crap shoes.

18 hours 52 min ago
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Games in 2012

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In order to continue James line of thinking (whilst also making the first article for 6 months).

What games are people looking forward to this year?

Boxing Day and New Years

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What's Everyone doing for Boxing Day and New Years this year?

Chris and I are going to be in Whanga for Christmas Day and are thinking about either staying there Boxing day, coming back to Tauranga for BBQ etc. and catching up with everyone (which we could have at our place), or going to the Pirongia Races. So whats everyone else up to?

Also what are people planning this year for New Years? We don't have any idea what we're doing yet.

Favourite Email Jokes

I'll start this with a few!

Chilli Farm Blog

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One thing I can do while sick is start my chilli farm blog. This year I'm planning to grow ten varieties of chillis for various purposes. I acquired the seeds recently and planted them into a propagator. This now sits by the window sill where it gets sun for about three quarters of the day. I'll water this very lightly (with a spray bottle) more or less daily.

There are about 2-3 chilli seeds in each punnet, so around 4 - 6 seeds for each variety. Hopefully most of these will germinate. When the seedlings have emerged and have two leaves I will thin them by removing the weaker of each variety. I want to wind up with two healthy plants for each variety by summer. Once the seedlings are big enough they will be transplanted into the vege garden, and I'll probably build a support wire for some of them.

One problem is that I'm not sure how big each of these will get. I've only grown ordinary chillies that you see everywhere in NZ - I think they're Asian Fire, but I'm not sure. Anyway, apparently some varieties get much bigger and grow like a bush. I'll have to have a read up on each one before planting.

See the picture below. The varieties, from left to right, are:
Malaga Bird
Thai Chilli
Scotch Bonnet
Brazilian Hot
Bhut Jolokia - the world's hottest chilli
Jalapeno
Cayenne
Hungarian Wax
Wildfire
Harbenero (mixed colours)

I'll keep an update here each time there's something worth posting.

(click to embiggen)

Today I learned not to drive a VW in Wellington

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I parked my car in downtown Wellington (Allen street) last night and it wouldn't start when I got back to it. It had the telltale signs of a broken key transponder (chipped key). Called a tow truck this morning and he told me that this is a common problem - in that part of town there is enough radio interference to prevent the key transponder from working. Towed it out of range of the radio interference and it works fine. At least I don't need an $800 VW chipped key.

Moral of the story: be careful where you park in Wellington if your car has a chipped key.

Halloween Party - Tauranga

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Sup y'all, we're interested in organising a medium-to-large Halloween party at our place (getting in early to reserve the date). Looking at this point to gauge interest. Will be a competition for best costume. BYO booze, food provided. BBQ if warm enough.

Halloween is on a Monday this year, so will be on the weekend prior (October 29-30).

Group Skype Catch-up

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Hey everyone, I'm interested in organising a catch up with anyone who's interested via Skype (or alternative VOIP service) at some stage. Mostly for the benefit of those of us outside Auckland/New Zealand. I'm thinking say 4pm Saturday (NZ time) this weekend? Who is keen? I hardly ever seem to see anyone online on Skype, which is why I want to arrange something formally.

New Broadband Plan

Hi Guys,

We are currently paying, what I deem, to be far too much for the inter webs.

We only need 20gbs of data and have no use for a phone line.

- Who's using whom and paying what?
- Any good deals out there that we should be looking at?

Cheers

How much do you drink in a normal week?

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Zero
11% (1 vote)
1 - 5 drinks
11% (1 vote)
5 - 10 drinks
11% (1 vote)
10 - 15 drinks
33% (3 votes)
> 15 drinks
33% (3 votes)
Total votes: 9

$20 TAB challenge thread

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Well the TAB has a promo on right now that if you sign up you get $20.

I'm thinking we get a little bit of a 'How far can you make your $20 go?' thing going on, not a contest, just a thing to fill the void of that virtual rugby we used to do.

Only rules being (subject to your input):

No top ups, except for re-buy;
Maximum re-buy $20;
Log your bets (win or lose)

What do you say?

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