Another dawn, another day, and it must be the week-end, because yesterday was that beaut called TGIF. So what to do, how to start the day. Get the ablutions out of the way, make a cuppa, and then you read the paper, which if you live in Auckland as we do, is the New Zealand Herald. It doesn't take long to beat your way through the proliferation of the ads which dominate and cover a huge percentage of each and every page in all the sections, which on a Saturday's edition are quite massive ( if not a small forest, then a big little wood to print that lot). So there it is. The editorial, the only thing worth reading on most days, if only to re-enforce the absolute belief, that this town is populated by some really strange people whose collectives I Q's must continuously bring tears to the eyes of our southern neighbours, not to mention those living across the ditch. You can just visualise their quite thoughts as they smugly muse " Thank Christ we don't live there".
Yes the editorial. Most definitely written today (okay, last evening), by a sub-Ed, because for all of its faults, Nanny Herald does indeed have a not-too-bad-editor, but the bozo who gave the the letter titled "In time we will be proud of our rail service". the prime spot featured at the top of the page, truly needs putting down and taken out of his misery. Mate, not now, not in the near or distant future, not ever will this town have a decent or even halve decent rail system. Why? Because for a start this is the most anti-progression place in the world. It is populated by the highest percentage of NIMBY than other place on earth.
One has only to look at the largest motorway extension, currently underway in Auckland City at the moment. The Hillsborough to Sandringham road sector of the western ring route which started construction when ground was broken more that four years ago, and is not due for completion for another two years. Six years to lay four kilometres of roading is a joke, yet that is Auckland, so to expect to ever have a rail service which will extend across the region, and provide adequate service as have always existed in Wellington, exists only in the realms of cloud cuckoo land.
Finally, the Blues lost again. Ever since Carlos started the trend with the hair colouring trick, -thinking maybe that he could lull the opposition into some form of identity confusion, most of those rugger chaps brains have been fried by all that peroxide. Take a look at the antics of Jerry the gorilla from the windy city if you need convincing, or at the inability of the ABs to work out that a drop kick was on when they were parked in front of the French goals posts in the dying moments of that fateful game in Cardiff last October, and needing just one score, any score, to avoid defeat. Their grey matter had been dissolved by all those chemicals, and we lost. No, not them us. The poor punters who faithfully, year after year, World cup after World cup, have like devoted or deluded pups, have supported them.You think I'm kidding. I bet cha' a pint of Guinness on St.Paddy's day next Friday, that I am not.
Moving on.
3 comments:
Hi Michael!
I am very happy to read such an academic posting from you. In fact, I do not quite understand about the title of the text. However, I do quite understand of what you are talking about. Yes! you are correct. There are NIMBYS here in Auckland but I think, if there are no people who are against something, there will be no debate for a proper and a correct decision at the end.
I think, something like that happened when the issue was negotiated by the government. As a result, the conclusion of that argument was the construction of more and more motorways but not a rail way as said.
As mentioned by that sub-Ed, "In Time We Will Be Proud of Our Rail Way Service," I am not sure whether he is involved in any committee for planning those kinds of work, as for the reason of his mentioning the rail way in the editorial page of the news paper. But if he is just guessing it,then I believe in you my friend. Not now, not in the near or distant future or not ever.
Please! explain to me what the title means. Bye 4 now.
Hello again Michael!
I just want to comment on the second part of your posting in which you are talking about the lost of the All Blacks and the hair colouring tricks of the boys.I also agree with what you are saying about that. But, as I said in my first comment, things depend on plans and decisions made, like the decision to build motorways ahead of railways.
Similarly the game plan by the All Blacks Coach did not work and there was also no decision by the captain to have a dropkick to win that game. At the end, that was not what we hoped to be. Therefore, I think what you talked about depends on original plans and decisions.
It is just the same as the hair colouring tricks by some guys as you mentioned. If that was the reason why they did it, to lull the opposition into some form of identity, it didn't work as well, as it is all over down under.
Thank you for your comments Poeelama. The origins for my title derive from fact that in the UK and Ireland, New Zealand and Australia are known as "dowm under". Therefore the the title now translates into "events that are worthy of commenting upon, anywhere in this region.
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