As is usual these days someone is outraged over two individuals choosing to box each other…voluntarily…just because they happen to be short. Though you can’t tell who is outraged because the Herald article doesn’t say…perhaps they are trying to find some outrage and are soliciting for it.

The promoter of a boxing match between two dwarves insists it’s a serious fight and can’t see why anyone would object.

Colin Lane and Matthew Wood will square off ahead of the Parker – Botha fight on June 13.

Each of them stands at 1.3m tall, roughly four foot eight.  Read more »

Quite the range of results.  I’m going to claim extra-ordinary circumstances as my post-op meds needed to be taken “with food”, and were timed in between meals.  So much for surgery being an advantage in the Blubbergeddon race, right?  (yeah… yeah… I know, I take responsibility for the result).

So, as a team we lost 15.1 kgs during week one.  That’s phenomenal.

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Michael Laws rips into the green taliban opposed to the Denniston mining plan:

In the wake of the Government’s commonsense decision to allow opencast coal mining on the Denniston Plateau, it was no surprise that the greenie lobby would scream betrayal.

The mining will occur on conservation land – a title that means not much except that no-one lives there, and no-one wants to.

The mine will occupy less than 5 per cent of the total Denniston conservation area, which doesn’t have national park status.

More importantly, the approval granted to Australian miners Bathurst Resources will create more than 400 jobs, rejuvenate an emaciated economy and add some extraneous conservation measures like a 35-kilometre predator fence. In short, it’s a win-win.

Yes it is. Jobs, growth, earnings all in an area desperate for all three.  Read more »

Tropisms > Chernobyl > Lost Souls from POLYMORF on Vimeo.

It is bad enough that she has a revolving door staff recruitment process in her office, worse still that no one seems to be able to work with her, still worse that she can’t win a seat, lost a court battle over a school closure, helped the Nats lose some support in Christchurch…but the fatal mistake that will cost her any hope of retaining her ministerial position, which was tenuous anyway, is her display of naked ambition on The Nation this morning.

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A few days ago we published a photo of an Audi taking up not one, but two disabled parking spots.  Here it is again, to refresh the memory:

Spotted outside the Bunnings Warehouse in Rongotai on Friday 17th May 2013,

Questioned the lady on a permit and all she said was it was ok because she was dropping off her boy!!

Well, someone didn’t like that lady’s attitude and did some more investigating.

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The Teachers’s Council is still deliberating on why they continue to remain out of step with the rest of New Zealand in order to protect pedos, and other assorted criminals by helping them remain anonymous.

They have two choices…change the rules themselves, or face parliament doing it for them.

Secrecy rules protecting the names of errant teachers are headed for a shake-up in Parliament.

The Herald on Sunday has been pushing for changes to the rules which automatically protect the privacy of teachers subject to complaints.  Read more »

First in this article, she is a “hostage” freed in Israel.

via NZ Herald

Take a good look at her.  Because the NZ Herald says she is a hostage in a bank incident in Israel, and yet, in the very same issue…

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A lefty troll is hamming it up over at Farrar’s art, travel and fitness blog, he was complaining about the fictitious number of starving kids and why he thinks that the only good Tory is a dead tory, and that “there is no death nasty enough for that prick Roger Douglas.”  Read more »

This is the Skycycle, a ride in Japan that is pedal powered.

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