Ah this was what was going on at ZQN:
Two Air NZ flights struck by lightning on their way to Queenstown
http://nzh.tw/12055261
What's going on at ZQN? Planes circling, NZ621 appears to have diverted to CHC
Jump to postThere are some advantages for those traveling from the east coast via Perth: To London: first leg is domestic so check in time is later and don't have to go through immigration, this is done while transiting through Perth. This is worth at least an hour. From London: immigration will be handled in P...
Jump to postUnacceptable discrimination against people of size. Everybody has a right to travel and if the seats are too small, it is the fault of the airline. Yeah the airlines should use this guy as their model to make sure their seats are big enough: http://i766.photobucket.com/albums/xx302/ajithrockscc/TV%...
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Jump to postThe Alphabeat by David Guetta off the instrumental CD of Nothing But the Beat, love this song and Dreams and Sunshine esp.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/qf002" class="quote" target="_blank">qf002</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>Quoting tayser (Reply 8): <acronym title="Melbou...
Jump to postSome Kiwi electropop Takes Me Higher, J Williams feat. Dane Rumble (Justin Sane & Mikael Wills Remix) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecGBwEHJEac&feature=related" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecGBwEHJEac&feature=related</a> Night of Your Life, J Williams feat. K...
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Jump to postI am a practising Catholic. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DocLightning" class="quote" target="_blank">DocLightning</a> (<a href="#53" class="quote">Reply 53</a>):<br/><i> I f...
Jump to postLife In Technicolor ii - Coldplay off their Prospekt's March <acronym title="Iran Asseman Airlines">EP</acronym>; one of my favourites. Interesting music video if you haven't seen: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSovfzyx28&ob=av3e" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXSovfz...
Jump to postThe ad has to be seen in a wider context, this is a previous ad in the series: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCpWrANWFsY&feature=related" target=_blank>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCpWrANWFsY&feature=related</a> So KFC can't feature anyone black in advertising? Now that would be racist.
Jump to postNew Zealand has a 12.5 % GST (Goods and services tax) on everything (no exceptions for any class of food). The government is currently undertaking a review of the tax mix and there is a chance that the rate may be increased in favour of decreasing personal income tax.
Jump to postInteresting trip report Nicholas. I have a question that perhaps you can answer, when and why did Air NZ stop online check-in.
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Jump to postIt is a common Aussie jibe to refer to New Zealand as "the shaky isles". However given that there have been 3 earthquakes above 4.5 on the Richter scales in the last couple of days (4.5 nera Korumburra VIC, a 4.9 near Beacon <acronym title="KLM CityHopper (Netherlands)">WA</acronym> and a 5.1 near B...
Jump to postVery warm here in CHC today, 36 °C (97 °F) , humidity in the 20 %s made it a little more bearable. I here a lot of Eastern Europe is shivering because of Gazprom cutting the supply!
Jump to postNot cold here at all, its 31 °C (88 °F) here in Christchurch, New Zealand! Of course it is our summer down here.
Jump to postThe Art Gallery of New South Wales in the Domain (close to the Botanical Gardens) is free (with fees for some special exhibitions) and has some pretty spectacular paintings. Naturally you can't take photos of the paintings but it is still worth a look IMHO.
Jump to postAnother thing I have done recently in Melbourne is go up the Eureka Tower in Southbank (its the tallest building in Melbourne), has some great views. <TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=95% style="border-top: 1pt #28455E solid;border-right: 1pt #1B2E3F solid;border-bottom: 1pt #1B2E3F solid;border-le...
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Jump to postHow embarrassing for Coldplay. In my opnion they haven't made an album worth buying since Rush of Blood to the Head (admittedly I did buy X&Y but I gave it to my sister). Personally I think the mash of Joe Satriani and Coldplay sounds really good but neither sound that good alone. Maybe they should ...
Jump to postFrom a (right-leaning) outsiders prospective the new coalition deal appears very amateur. The Liberal party doesn't even have permanent leader and why didn't they enter negotiations with the NDP and Bloc seven weeks ago if that was their intentions. For Stéphane Dion to say that the vote of no confi...
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Jump to postHelen Clark (PM) has just delivered a somewhat bitter concession speech and resigned as leader of the Labour Party. The Prime Minister elect is John Key leader of the National Party. Results: New Government Bloc (centre-right): National 45.5 % (59 seats) Act 3.7 % (5 seats) United Future 0.9 % (1 se...
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Jump to postWhat I don't understand is presumably the Maori word "Uruwhenua" means passport and we all know that Aotearoa is equivalent to New Zealand then why isn't Aotearoa in the larger font and Uruwhenua in the smaller font?
Jump to postLooks like Helen Clark has been keeping a big secret of her own. John Key severed ties with Winston at exactly the right moment. <a href="http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/410965/2043522" target="_blank"><b>Clark says she knew of donation</b></a> <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id...
Jump to post3 News poll
National: 48%
Labour: 37%
Greens: 6%
New Zealand First: 3%
Maori Party: 2%
ACT: 2%
United Future: 1%
Preferred Prime Minister
John Key 34%
Helen Clark 31%
Winston Peters 4%
McCain is no doubt going to use this clip soon in an ad: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6aH14AuuDBE&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6aH14AuuDBE&hl=en&fs=1" type="applicat...
Jump to postColmar Brunton TVNZ poll
National: 51%
Labour: 37%
Greens: 3.5%
Maori Party: 3.1%
New Zealand First: 2.6%
United Future: 0.7%
ACT: 0.6%
Preferred Prime Minister
John Key 36%
Helen Clark 33%
Winston Peters 3%
Latest poll results, quite a discrepancy in the performance of the minor parties between the Fairfax Media-Nielsen poll and the Morgan Poll. Source: <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/4657649a11.html" target="_blank">Nats romping ahead</a> <b>Fairfax Media-Nielsen</b> (1102 people surveyed from August ...
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Jump to postMy first reaction is it looks like a cartoon car. Front bumper looks like a mouth and the headlights like eyes, the black strip a nose perhaps... a turtle?
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Jump to post"Since Bill's case became known to Google Australia, his embarrassing sleep-in has been removed from the site."
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Jump to postInteresting letter to the editor by Nick Smith in the weekend Press: <TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=95% style="border-top: 1pt #28455E solid;border-right: 1pt #1B2E3F solid;border-bottom: 1pt #1B2E3F solid;border-left: 1pt #28455E solid;table-layout:fixed;border-spacing:0;padding:0;border-collap...
Jump to postAnd some of my posts in the <acronym title="Air New Zealand">NZ</acronym> aviation thread 38 ( <a href="http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/4098236/" target=_blank>http://www.airliners.net/aviation-fo...eneral_aviation/read.main/4098236/</a> ) were deemed too politica...
Jump to postWell we are coming rapidly up to another election and even if we don't know exactly when the election will be, it has to be sometime in the next 3 months. Already there have been indications that it could be dirty campaign with the secret tapings at the National party conference last weekend. Person...
Jump to postKramer: Yes, I’m interested in the apartment Agent: Yes come in, come in. I’m Christine Neyhart. Kramer: Oh delicious to meet you Agent: Did the broker send you over? Kramer: Yes most likely, I’m A.G Pennypacker, I’m a wealthy industrialist, philanthropist and bicyclist and yes I’m looking for a pla...
Jump to postFestivus, too many good quotes to list: <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/I-wm9N0KiAs&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/I-wm9N0KiAs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-f...
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