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#3349560 3-Mar-2025 12:11

Beginning of March and two 2025 calendars have been deposited in our mail box in the last two days, one by a real estate agent and the second a large wall calendar with advertising all over it.

A 2026 calendar would be more useful at this point.

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#3349629 3-Mar-2025 13:53

SirHumphreyAppleby:

Beginning of March and two 2025 calendars have been deposited in our mail box in the last two days, one by a real estate agent and the second a large wall calendar with advertising all over it.

A 2026 calendar would be more useful at this point.

I got this for Christmas last year. Makes me smile every time I look at it.

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#3349673 3-Mar-2025 16:22

networkn:

World Squash Federation made a social media post asking for people to tag people who hadn't beaten them yet. Being the smartass I am, I tagged a good number of the top 30 in the world.

Good on you if only the top 30 remain to be beaten .

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#3349683 3-Mar-2025 16:58

Island Bay village where Council have spent a gazillion $$$ on extensive bike lanes and new footpaths and steel upstands to trip on. So now walking along the pedestrian footpath there are three across kids on scooters speeding down the footpath only avoided being hit because was walking looking behind me. They can’t use the bike lanes because they are on too much of an angle and not wide enough. There you go WCC, rip it all up for a fifth time and start over.

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#3349706 3-Mar-2025 18:10

elpenguino:

Good on you if only the top 30 remain to be beaten .

I thought it might be asking for trouble to tag the top 500 :)

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#3349802 4-Mar-2025 06:32

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#3349827 4-Mar-2025 08:47

Eva888:

Island Bay village where Council have spent a gazillion $$$ on extensive bike lanes and new footpaths and steel upstands to trip on. So now walking along the pedestrian footpath there are three across kids on scooters speeding down the footpath only avoided being hit because was walking looking behind me. They can’t use the bike lanes because they are on too much of an angle and not wide enough. There you go WCC, rip it all up for a fifth time and start over.

This absolute Gucci bike rack hardly gets used, even in summer.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/525269/scarcely-used-84k-wellington-bike-rack-will-prove-its-worth-in-summer-councillor

The bike rack was $84k but the total cost including footpath and road changes was $550K. Meanwhile Wellington water still leaks...

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#3350028 4-Mar-2025 16:50

johno1234:

Eva888:

Island Bay village where Council have spent a gazillion $$$ on extensive bike lanes and new footpaths and steel upstands to trip on. So now walking along the pedestrian footpath there are three across kids on scooters speeding down the footpath only avoided being hit because was walking looking behind me. They can’t use the bike lanes because they are on too much of an angle and not wide enough. There you go WCC, rip it all up for a fifth time and start over.

This absolute Gucci bike rack hardly gets used, even in summer.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/525269/scarcely-used-84k-wellington-bike-rack-will-prove-its-worth-in-summer-councillor

The bike rack was $84k but the total cost including footpath and road changes was $550K. Meanwhile Wellington water still leaks...

Yeah, I'm not sure I'd trust my $10k eBike on a public rack, where it's 100% likely to be stolen or vandalised.

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#3350054 4-Mar-2025 18:13

Handsomedan:
Yeah, I'm not sure I'd trust my $10k eBike on a public rack, where it's 100% likely to be stolen or vandalised.

If not going to work where you can put your bike inside, where can you put a bike that is secure... nowhere?

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#3350236 4-Mar-2025 23:21

I have volunteered to rejoin the military! I'm now part of the 1st Legion „Germanica“, 3rd Cohort, 2nd Maniple, 1st Centurion. 😁

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#3350290 5-Mar-2025 09:19

Tinkerisk:

I have volunteered to rejoin the military! I'm now part of the 1st Legion „Germanica“, 3rd Cohort, 2nd Maniple, 1st Centurion. 😁

Made me smile. I imagine this would be a Dads Army likened to herding cats.

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#3350355 5-Mar-2025 10:08

You know your wife loves you and see's you as special when the answer to

'With the cancellation of our flights to Brisbane, how hard/expensive would it be to get to Christchurch for the NZ Squash Open"

Her response

"Watching or playing?".

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#3350356 5-Mar-2025 10:09

An 18 year old wildcard from NZ, beating a player ranked 200 places above him, in the NZ Squash Open. It will be the biggest upset of the year in squash I'd bet.

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#3350357 5-Mar-2025 10:09

Stay out of the Teutoburg Forest what ever you do!

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#3350361 5-Mar-2025 10:23

Bung:

Stay out of the Teutoburg Forest what ever you do!

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