Lemmy

Body falling apart, he rolls, slides sideways into the grave on fire and cries "What a fuckin' ride!' at 70.

Beats the hell out of living to any age having done nothing, lived on level seven vegan food (doesn't throw a shadow) and shunned all intoxicants, red meat or casual sex.

It IS better to burn out, than to rust!

That confirms the tech works

"A grief-stricken British couple whose boxer died in June 2015 successfully cloned their dead dog after taking its DNA to a commercial dog-cloning service.
Laura Jacques, 29, and Richard Remde, 43, paid US$100,000 (NZ$146,000) to enlist the services of Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in South Korea, reports the Guardian.
A boxer puppy was delivered by a surrogate dog on Boxing Day following a successful procedure..."

What interests me is that the tech is obviously there.

So who is cloning people behind closed doors. Or parts of people.

Watch as the rich and famous start having extraordinarily long lives. As many do now, accessing the medtech the rif-raf are not allowed to know of...

insanity rules

It's summer. the sun is out, the water is warm and most folks are in holiday. Yesterday they stuffed themselves stupid and the fridge is still full of cold drinks. If your luck was in, you got goodies and toys.

So what do the stupid fuckers do?

Head to retail hell and go shopping. Probably on credit.

Folks- a real bargain will be the equivalent of a lotto win.

Stay home, go the the beach or river. Play with the kids, eat some more, get pissed but stay out of the frickin' shops.

They will still be there next week.

I'm off to the beach. Afterwards a few cold ones, then savor my Christmas cigar.

Trampers are getting dumber

"A group of trampers activated a locator beacon after a member of their party became ill, then carried on tramping the Hollyford Track on Sunday morning, police say..."

I don't care what any of them say.  If the situation warrants activating a beacon, at least one other person should stay with the casualty.

The so-called friends are a bunch of arseholes!

Probably blasphemy in NZ

Not a great person at all

What kind of loser has a fortune and yet fails to provide for their children? Especially when you know you are on borrowed time.

I have been heartily sick of the faux wailing and gnashing of teeth over the totally expected demise of this buffoon.

I have seen too many good people go into the night without any kind of fanfare. People who have done great and good things without financial reward...

Scam alert

"Kiwi households will pay about $100 extra a year as part of New Zealand efforts to meet an ambitious new climate change target, Prime Minister John Key says..."

Just as well he gets a $ 13,500 pay rise this year. That should cover the damage.

A cunning plan

Say there is global warming when there isn't. Keep telling the lie loudly.
Grab a shitload of tax money and jobs on the gray train for your partners in crime.
Take credit for the end of the world not happening. Easy when it was never going to happen.

Just like Y2K...

Beggers can't be choosers

"The Salvation Army is taking donations of unwrapped gifts for families in need this Christmas - but they'd rather they weren't second hand.
Blenheim Salvation Army community ministries co-ordinator Bridget Lauder said every child deserved a new toy on Christmas Day.
"Just because someone isn't coping and can't provide Christmas gifts doesn't mean they should get leftovers," she said..."

What colour is the sky on your planet?

Nothing wrong with good second hand stuff. I buy it all the time.
Most kids don't give a damn- they just like the toys.

Is this to appease some damn do-gooders guilt trip?

It's still a poodle-shooter

"US small arms manufacturer Lewis Machine & Tool Co (LMT) has been named the preferred tenderer in the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) Individual Weapon Replacement programme.
IHS Jane's understands that LMT's AR-15-derived CQB16 has been selected to replace the Steyr AUG A1 assault rifle in NZDF service. A New Zealand Ministry of Defence (MoD) notification released in mid-August only said that LMT had been downselected..."

Yet again they ignore the troops, who are wanting something more powerful that 5.56

Over half a century ago, it was determined that 7mm is the optimum military caliber. Trouble is, politics stuffed this up by staying with existing cartridges for economics. It seems they have never heard of a phase out period.

Hell, in NZ they could give all their stocks of 5.56 to the cops, who could certainly use getting some rounds down the range.

What a feckin' lightweight

"Just one bottle is enough to get me drunk, according to emergency medicine specialist and clinical toxicologist at Wellington Hospital Dr Paul Quigley."

750 mls of 4% beer and you are drunk. Join the Salvation Army now, and leave the drinking to those who enjoy it. And stop labeling anyone who can drink more than that an alcoholic.

Drinking steadily and at a moderate pace, it's not so hard for a healthy young man to put away a crate OVER THE COURSE OF AN AFTERNOON AND NIGHT'S DRINKING. A few quiet beers in the afternoon, a barbecue and an evening of drinks in good company and that crate is gone, especially in the summer.

Not everyone is into speed guzzling and most that do get over that real quick. the results are not pleasant- although rarely fatal drinking crate beer. You puke it out before doing any real harm.

These wowsers need to come to terms with the fact that NZ'rs like to drink. Get over it.

Punish the ones that play up after drinking. Leave the rest alone. For most of them, it's a bit of respite from a shitty, low-payed job and not much of a future to look forward to.

Oh no-The planet!

Your stinkin' Prius won't save the planet when you are up against nature.

Your miniscule emission mean sod all compared to a volcano fart.

Even worse, you can't tax it...

Media bias?

Or are they part of the US governments spin program?

The most appalling massacre of innocents has faded out rather quickly. Only Americans, I suppose and it's their own fault for owning so many guns.

Or was it that no rugby players were slain? That would tie up the front page for a week or two.

They are in too deep with their own agenda and lies to finally come out and say that the Emperor is buck naked and it ain't a pretty sight.

Is THIS the pivotal event?

Probably not.

It SHOULD be, but then, Beslan wasn't. That should have been, but we are immune to unspeakable acts in 'foreign' lands.

Be warned, this sort of atrocity is coming to New Zealand and the rest of the world so far mstly untouched by Muslim savages.

Whoever is calling the shots is a lot smarter than previous. Rather than big body counts, they are going for two person teams, who seem to be trained in rudimentary infantry skills (one shoots, one covers) and going for more soft targets than one big and more difficult one. Spread the terror. Twenty fanatics making up ten teams, gets more results than one high profile target.

Now maybe, just maybe- some of these assholes out there that go on about the religion of peace can get it through their thick skulls just how low these satanic spawn will go. Maybe.

I doubt it.

This shock me up a bit, as I have a VERY similar scenario in my current book, that come out as my protagonist is reading an old classified history book.

This is one bit of fiction that I wish had stayed that way.

Economics explained

The Greece Bailout Explained.................

It is a slow day in a little Greek Village. The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the village, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night. The owner gives him some keys and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.

The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel. The guy at the Farmers' Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the taverna.

The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him "services" on credit. The hooker then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note.

The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town.

No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole village is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism. And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how the Greek bailout package works!!..

a superstitious lot

"...Car buyers beware: that bargain buy could be harbouring a dark secret. 
Motors involved in some of the country's most gruesome crimes are being sold for knockdown prices - and legal experts say there's no obligation for sellers to warn buyers...

...police spokeswoman Jillian Reid said property containing blood or hazardous materials would usually be cleaned by police before being returned.
Often, though, if the crime is particularly gruesome, family members may prefer to have the vehicle destroyed, which is usually organised with the help of police...."

The bit that amuses me is that nobody will say anything about people destroying property because something bad happened in it.

Yet if you had a priest bless the same property, you would be openly mocked for being superstitious...

98 years old

Buy them BEFORE the Evil Aliens land

I have been asked to write a short piece on firearms suitable for food-gathering in a SHTF scenario and for defense- obviously in the event evil aliens land, as it would unthinkable to use a firearm in self defense in the Socialist Republic of New Zealand. All laws are out the window when the rocks fall from the sky!

Obviously, the best firearm for both situations is the one you have. You had better have one, preferably more, before the shops board up their now empty windows.

You can't go wrong with a good bolt action .22 rifle for gathering food.

Don't bother with a semi-auto and do get one with good iron sights. No backup sights and a busted scope and you have something suitable for killing livestock in the yards. If you can, get one with a silencer. You probably don't want to advertise your hunting, lest you become the hunted.

Ammo is cheap and portable. If you can, get an after market peep sight and PRACTICE.

The other food gatherer is the shotgun, if noise is not an issue. Get a 12 gauge, as ammo is more common. If recoil is a problem, use trap loads. You will have to get a little closer to your game, but that is what real hunting is all about and in a survival situation, ducks on the ground are a sure meal.

If you want a centerfire for hunting, get a common caliber such as .308, 7-08, .223, 7.62x39 or .243. they would be the most popular in NZ. If you can afford it, do get an over the barrel silencer. It will bring the report down to about the level of a .22 magnum, plus reduce recoil, flash and it will not be obvious to tell where the shot come from. Stick to a simple bolt action, unless you have a military background, or a lot of expensive training in how to maintain and use a semi-auto. As before, do get one that has iron sights fitted.

OK, You need to DEFEND from the evil aliens, now landing with barbecue sauce and a taste for you.

Their physiology is much the same as ours. Air goes in and out, blood goes round and round- anything else is a bad thing for them. The military version has body armour, the others do not. Their firearms shoot projectiles and only the big ships have lasers. OK, our bullets kill them.

We far outnumber them, but they control communications, so we are unorganised- a weakness they do not have.

But we are on our home ground.

Every time they used to walk down a street, a .22 slug comes unheard and hits one of them in the face. They had no idea where it came from. They don't walk down streets much anymore.

In the home, it was soon found that a shotgun blast to the face was an answer to body armour. A short barrelled shotgun is best- preferably a Remington 870 or a Mossberg. Every home should have one. Follow up shots are fast, should you have multiple intruders or heavy body armour to deal with.

The centerfire rifle you use to hunt deer is also very effective. Just shoot one or two into a patrol and get the hell out of there to a pre-arranged hiding place. The common hunting rifles mentioned above will all take care of business at a decent stand off range. About a thousand bucks will buy a good piece.

As before, I recommend a bolt action for simplicity- if you are looking for ideas here, you are probably new to the game and should avoid military style weapons, as they require quite a bit of training and maintenance. It is a good idea to have a firearm in your inventory that is in the same caliber as your military uses.

Don't be shy about picking up the enemies weapons. If you can, they don't need them anymore.

You lost your normal rights on conviction

"Use of security cameras in prison showers and toilets is under the spotlight in the latest examination of conditions in New Zealand jails.
The 2014 annual report into places of detention under the United Nations' Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) has harshly criticised the Corrections Department for breaching some prisoners' privacy because guards, including those of the opposite gender, can watch them showering and using the toilet..."

Cry me a river. I had to shower and take a dump out in public whilst in the Army. Nobody got all hot under the collar about that.

Fact is- as most know- the showers and toilets are the favorite place for bashing and buggery in a prison. Surveillance is for the inmates benefit.

But to avoid this is a simple thing.

Stay out of jail.

Some of us remember

I do recall how every time fuel went up, so did a host of other products, due to transport costs.

Ok, so when do prices come down, seeing as diesel has dropped by over a third.

Yep, thought not...

cool stuff

Ain't 'alf been some clever bastards

This one could have your name on it.

Catch is, it probably costs more than a grunt is paid in a year.

Lone wolf nutters

The Shoe Bomber was a Muslim
The Beltway Snipers were Muslims
The Fort Hood Shooter was a Muslim
The underwear Bomber was a Muslim
The U-S.S. Cole Bombers were Muslims
The Madrid Train Bombers were Muslims
The Bafi Nightclub Bombers were Muslims
The London Subway Bombers were Muslims
The Moscow Theatre Attackers were Muslims
The Boston Marathon Bombers were Muslims
The Pan-Am flight #93 Bombers were Muslims
The Air France Entebbe Hijackers were Muslims
The Iranian Embassy Takeover, was by Muslims
The Beirut U.S. Embassy bombers were Muslims
The Libyan U.S. Embassy Attack was by Musiims
The Buenos Aires Suicide Bombers were Muslims
The Israeli Olympic Team Attackers were Muslims
The Kenyan U.S, Embassy Bombers were Muslims
The Saudi, Khobar Towers Bombers were Muslims
The Beirut Marine Barracks bombers were Muslims
The Besian Russian School Attackers were Muslims
The first World Trade Center Bombers were Muslims
The Bombay & Mumbai India Attackers were Muslims
The Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Hijackers were Muslims
The September 11th 2001 Airline Hijackers were Muslims’
The Parisian attackers were Muslim
The Lindt cafe tosspot was Muslim
Boko Haram, killers of 2,000 at the weekend are Muslim
etc.etc.etc.
Think of it:
Buddhists living with Hindus = No Problem
Hindus living with Christians = No Problem
Hindus living with Jews = No Problem
Christians living with Shintos = No Problem
Shintos living with Confucians = No Problem
Confusians living with Baha’is = No Problem
Baha’is living with Jews = No Problem
Jews living with Atheists = No Problem
Atheists living with Buddhists = No Problem
Buddhists living with Sikhs = No Problem
Sikhs living with Hindus = No Problem
Hindus living with Baha’is = No Problem
Baha’is living with Christians = No Problem
Christians living with Jews = No Problem
Jews living with Buddhists = No Problem
Buddhists living with Shintos = No Problem
Shintos living with Atheists = No Problem
Atheists living with Confucians = No Problem
Confusians living with Hindus = No Problem
Muslims living with Hindus = Problem
Muslims living with Buddhists = Problem
Muslims living with Christians = Problem
Muslims living with Jews = Problem
Muslims living with Sikhs = Problem
Muslims living with Baha’is = Problem
Muslims living with Shintos = Problem
Muslims living with Atheists = Problem
MUSLIMS LIVING WITH MUSLIMS = BIG PROBLEM

That religion of Peace again

You can expect as much mercy WHEN THEY DO THIS HERE.