Service

I stood at the back of the que this morning for my Herald and trim latte. By the time I'd ordered and paid I was able to pick it up. Not bad for a Monday.
Well done BP.

The Worst Epidemic In The History Of Mankind

Obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Yep and us who exercise and lay off the sucre and doughnuts (Yes I like them) will be paying through the nose for the fat bastards.
Bring back Roger !
User pays!

Being of Scottish ancestry I was pleased to see a cheap option found. There is now proof extremely low calorie liquid diets can be used safely to help severely obese people shed almost half their body fat !
I can see the lines forming.

Living Legend

Congratulations to Gordon Tietjens and the 7s squad.
Love your work. To quote Sean and DJ "Full credit to the boys".
I've really enjoyed the tension of previous sevens finals. Vunibaka even if he is 34 had me worrying. That guy is scary.

No worries though as the guys ran in try after try and blitzed Fiji 34-0. South Africa was never going to stop the roll.
Like Sarah Ulmer, Rob and Mahe we don't yet appreciate the status Tietjens will rightly be given over the next decades. I suspect he'll be remembered far more fondly than Hart, Mitchell, Henry and for sure Deans the traitor.
What's with the rugby union allowing him to continue coaching our best when he's signed with the Wallabies?
Sack him from his Crusaders job.
Good on ya Robbie. He must have a better lawyer than the NZRU. I can just see John O'Neill grinning all over again. Us Waikato fans are well used to it, the rest of you must be starting to enjoy that feeling by now to. Suck it up fellow Kiwis, remember Gallipoli. We're mates.

Converting Muslims

I ain't no Catholic but I did wonder what was behind the high profile conversion by the Pope of one of Italy's most famous and controversial journalists over Easter. Especially so him, Magdi Allam, being 'one of Italy's best-known intellectuals' and a fierce critic of Islamic extremism and a strong supporter of Israel.
For sure this would have driven the fanatics batty.
And today more fuel to the fire 'Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said yesterday'.
Q how many Indians and Chinese are Moslem? Doesn't look like Norinco will be going broke anytime soon.
Just as humerous was the notice claiming to be from a Pakistani Mosque , a lot like those preprinted 'My ancestry' certificates you see around, that I saw last week claiming to have been sent by the father of a guy here in NZ who is also converting to Christianity. Quotes included and "You are no longer my scion" and "If you return you will be slaughtered".
Maybe a con to stay here but call me gullible, so easily verifiable I doubt it.

Oz ahead again

The grass was greener, milk was cheaper, and I was surprised to read Aussies are having an even harder time than us over the sub-prime fallout and appear to be experiencing stuff we haven't yet seen like people being evicted by police after falling behind in rent or mortgage payments and rocketing mortgagee sales rates.
Australians had their 12th interest rate rise in a row last week and were bleating frantically about banks foreclosing on home owners 2 months behind and penalty interest rates of 17% per day on arrears.
One headline I skipped was "10 Ways To Save Your House". A few of my own:
1 Stay home (nah)
2 Use free air tickets
3 Get the upgrade from Hyundai Elantra to Mitsi 380
4 Take the room with 4 balconies rather than the big one facing the sea
5 Swim in the pool and beach rather than Whitewater World or Wet and Wild
6 Eat Weetbix not Cocopops
7 Buy plenty of duty free
8 Walk
9 Get half price rash-suits from Target
10 Sell the beach section (no way)

Benji who?

"Paris Hilton and Benji Marshall seemed glued to one another at Nicky Hilton's LA fashion show. Gallery: Hiltons hit catwalk Gallery: More LA fashions "
That ain't our Benji on the Courier Mail website (1133NZDT 12.3.08) only Benji Madden, guitarist with Good Charlotte.

Gimme More

Hard to beat a good beach, a xxxx and maybe next time I'll get to ride a wave 1.9km.

Way to go Kelly !

No sign of aggro in the human soup that I could see, including a guy at least 20 years older than me and a kid about 8 or 9 going for it swerving in and out of the paddlers. More sensationalism at the expense of reality.

Can you see us putting up scaffolding, stage and portacabins on Manu Bay?

Not a bad bar at the Rainbow Bay SLSC despite the boring video and distracting clientele.