(8 hours ago)zqwerty Wrote: Trump is too busy juggling nuclear submarines to be whispering sweet nothings in Luxon's ears that will be Thiel doing the mischief making with the National Party.
It's funny to see Bulawayo mentioned here. I spent two years there doing my GCE "A" levels at Sixth Form College. It has very wide main streets in the CBD, wide enough that an ox cart with full yoke of oxen can do a "u" turn. It's a lovely spread out city with Matopos Hills, Cecil Rhode's Burial Place, not far away.
I was there during the time that Southern Rhodesia declared U.D.I. (Unilateral Declaration of Independence) under Ian Smith.
Between the age of 16 to 18 years old I boarded with a family whose father was the man in charge of Beyer-Garratt Locomotive maintenance from Mafeking in South Africa to Livingstone by Victoria Falls.
I had one of the most memorable days of my life on an unofficial day trip with other school friends to Matopos Hills.
http://www.bulawayomemories.com/SCHOOLS/...hform.html
It's an interesting city with lots of history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulawayo
Cheers for posting that, interesting to see all the older buildings, some similar to some here until the quakes.
I looked up the meaning of Zimbabwe & apparently it means stone houses or buildings.
(7 hours ago)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote:(10 hours ago)Lilith7 Wrote: Yeah, but those things make sense. AND deprive govts of that ever so handy target...every damned election (& in between times) its always the gangs & the criminals thy're going to 'get tough' on - remember Judith Collins being called 'Crusher Collins" because she was going to smash the boy racer's cars years ago. I think one did get crushed eventually.
Fixing things to have a fairer society is apparently far too hard...
And on the subject of those illegal clothes - somewhere, I suspect thast some bright spark is even now busily designing a not gang insignia which looks very, very like a gang insignia...
Like an old lady doing a bit of political embroidery on the back of her denim cutoff jacket? Must say I enjoy it when the underlying message gets read by a passing pair of eyes...
I'd quite like to be arrested wearing it too.
Well - good luck with that...or not.


in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)