People don't wear suits any more. Poppies were much more common when people wore the same jacket and/or coat every day. I ususally buy a poppy. But I have nowhere really to put it. (View Post)

Apparently during the Cold War NZ was one of the Soviet Union's prime targets. They were highly suspicious of its claims to nuclear-freeness and thought the west was hiding something big there and th… (View Post)

A friend of mine who is a university librarian is mocking them on facebook. If they've lost the university librarian vote, you have to wonder which constituencies are still loyal. (View Post)

Not sure I agree with that. Had they managed to hold off tuition fees they could have retained the vote of the young even now. The #1 reason the Greens are so popular amongst my daughters' generation… (View Post)

I used to feel like that. Then I realised what I dislike is the genre of music in a musical. It's not the bursting into song per se, it's the songs they choose to burst into. The hills are alive with… (View Post)