LET'S TALK ABOUT WIT*

 * Robert and Richard, the other bloggers are halfway there.

Oscar Wilde is probably the most famous 'wit' followed by George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward, and Mark Twain but obviously there are millions of others who haven't 'had as much press' or who've lived in isolated communities

Wainuiomata, a remote suburb of the Hutt Valley had a famous wit. Her name was Chloe (now residing in Napier) and famously quipped "I'm a tea-aholic. I'm not an alcoholic".

To date research has not uncovered any famous Moera wits but we did unearth this quote from a racegoer at the now defunct Hutt Raceway Trotting Club -

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. "

At least Robert and Richard are keeping the tradition going with their 'funny' quips on the blog posts.

 

WE SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT THAT ELECTRIC CAR

 It's very worrying watching the Middle East disaster unfold with the shocking attacks by Hamas and the brutal responses by Israel.

This is only going to get worse with paramilitary and terrorist organisations like Hezbollah being brought into the conflict and with Arab countries and Iran supporting Hamas which will ultimately destroy efforts over the last couple of decades to broker peace accords.

The Palestinian people in Gaza and Israeli citizens are once again under attack. "We advise Palestinians in Gaza to get out" says Netanyahu. Get out to where though? They have nowhere to go.

This latest conflict is likely to have the worst regional and indeed world-wide ramifications since the 1980s. A major war is likely that, if Saudi Arabia  sits back and watches will engulf, well, the Gulf. With the backdrop of the Russia/Ukraine war, Chinese expansionism, the simmering Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq situations and the war in Sudan we are witnessing a perfect storm last seen in the 1930s before WW2. There will be global ramifications with oil shortages just being the tip of the iceberg,

No doubt Robert's priests will be rewriting their sermons for the coming busy weekend trying to find examples of red heifer sightings.

ANOTHER SILLY IDEA

 

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

 

Regular readers will recall that a few months ago when writing a post on our Akaroa trip, I mentioned a wish to visit all of the remaining lighthouses in New Zealand (23).

These are the lighthouses that the public can visit:

• Cape Reinga✓
• Tiritiri Matangi Island✓
•  Matangi Island✓
• East Cape
• Castle Point✓
• Cape Palliser ✓
• Pencarrow Head✓
• Somes Island✓
• Nelson Boulder Bank
• Akaroa Head✓
• Katiki Point
• Nugget Point
• Waipapa Point
• Farewell Spit
• Cape Egmont
• Cape Foulwind.

I have visited a few of them in the past but certainly haven't seen them all.

From memory I've ticked the ones that I have visited and I've also visited some that are not on the 'public list'  like Cape Campbell (Marlborough), Bean Rock (Auckland) and Ackers Point (Stewart Island).

Not many really but these were just visits in passing. I need to make a plan to visit as many of the rest as I can before either they or I disappear.

I've been waiting to do the visits with The Old Girl but she's often busy with work so I might have to do the visits on my own which I guess, is apt for visiting lighthouses.

I'd better do some research in advance.

I mean - what could go wrong?

IT

 

Not that guy but, spoiler alert, there is a clown involved in this post.*

You might have noticed, if you don't have a life and trawl through the 'seldom read' part of the internet, that Richard (of Richard's Bass Bag) is having problems trying to communicate with the outside world via his cellphone.

To be honest I think he made that up. The bit about the couch I mean. I think the room he sits in is the bathroom and the seat he sits on is the toilet.

IT is not his forté I guess. He and other old ex-schoolteachers probably regret having banned the use of phones and hand-held communication devices in classrooms over the years otherwise they might have learned something.

The 'outside world' he's trying to communicate with is an even more seldom read blog: Robert the apathetic sanctimonious sinner, toilet cleaner, threatener of eternal damnation, music snob and sucker. 

More 'out of this world' than 'outside world' I would have thought but if he wats to go there who am I to say he shouldn't .....

..... it probably keeps him amused and out of trouble but is a problem for others wanting to use the bathroom.

I've suggested that he buys himself a laptop computer or an iPad so that he doesn't have to confine himself to the cold study but, to a Luddite this is like suggesting he holiday on Venus.

* Richard might as well be a mime or a silent clown if he can't get his communication devices to work properly.

ANOTHER NEW POST - THE RELIGIOUS CURMUDGEON

 

AND RICHARD SAID ...

NEW POST - THE RELIGIOUS CURMUDGEON

 

IS IT ALL OVER NOW?

WELCOME HOME

 I came across a very interesting media item today which was interesting, informative and moving.

No, I'm not talking about Richard (of RBB)'s latest post about goats. I did say "interesting, informative and moving".*

While driving home from the supermarket (and recovering from the shock of a $531 Countdown bill for a trolley of grocery essentials and just a few treats!) I listened to a Jesse Mulligan interview with Deborah Manning, the human rights lawyer who spent nearly five years fighting to allow Ahmed Zaoui, a former Algerian MP  to come to New Zealand as a refugee in 2003.
 

This is an interesting (and informative and moving) interview and worth listening to. Here's the link: 

Human Rights

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Dave Dobbyn wrote and released a song relating to this. 'Welcome Home' is about refugees and had Ahmad Zaoui in the 2005 video.

 

* If you want to read about Richard's goats here's a link:

RICHARD'S GOATS

A LEAP OF FAITH - CATHOLIC LOGIC

 

For Robert really. Richard;s probably too busy with his goats to read this.

FERAL ARSEHOLES

I mentioned earlier of a new 'dogs prohibited' sign at the start of the walking track at the end of our road: SITTING

Sure enough, the sign was soon defaced with some moron attempting to obscure the prohibition message.

Incensed, I posted the image on Neighbourly (Facebook) and sure enough, all the moronic trolls came out claiming that there is no council ban, accusing me of erecting an illegal sign and generally getting quite nasty.

Even adding to the post, a copy of a clear council prohibition that's on the council website under 'DOG REGULATIONS' didn't convince the fools.

I eventually deleted the post.

I'm pissed off with dog owners around here who think that their scruffy and ugly mutts are the 'bees knees'. Most are the horrible and snappy Bichon Frise and terrier types - like large rats. I was bitten by one of these little fuckers a while ago see: IT'S LIKE A JUNGLE SOMETIMES

Sheesh!