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They put all the luggage in a big box and then eventually give you a stochastic assortment from that based on your origin, destination, the meal you requested, the meal you actually received, and your blood alcohol measurement after the flight.

Hope you get a vaguely matching pair of shoes.

They're slow cooked in a soy based sauce until all the connective tissue goes gelatinous. You suck the goop off and spit out all the little bones.

I personally am too pākehā to enjoy the experience.

This, but with kecap manis (sweet, thickened soy). Nom.

Not sure if the peanut butter chilli sauce sandwich is quite feral enough to count.

Sprinkled on the peanut butter in a peanut butter sandwich.

I think that's more the big hole in the water where a boat should be.

One of my physics lecturers described US academic regalia, where every institution has its own strip, as it were, as being "colour coded, like resistors".

Haiiiii-YA!

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Train hopping requires trains...

It gave me an enjoyable little spark of schadenfreude in the midst of a dismal voting process to rank a literal clown ahead of Chung and Tiefenbacher.

Oddly low on specifics. Which high performing sports teams? What leaders has he studied? How about an illustrative example of one thing he learned?

How about "Deliver some ferries, and we'll think about it."

As far as I can tell, Willis still hasn't released her economic model.

Thing is, Verity, she was treating you like a twit before the election, and you still voted for her.

Wot, no tinned spaghetti?

It would help if it were the right size. He looks as if his mum is trying to avoid buying a new uniform for the last year of school.

It's full of people who should never be taken seriously taking themselves way too seriously.

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Y'know what. I'm not gonna finish that thought.

State of the wharekai, too.

State of the emergency room and State of the school staffroom seem like pretty solid places to start.

As a dev, we have the choice between leaving some people totally baffled, giving a badly prepared hour long lecture that no one actually wants and still leaves some people baffled, and saying "did stuff to keep the machine going beep".

I like to think my hour-long lectures are entertaining at least

It sometimes* helps to know that certain naming schemes are the vestigial remains of elaborate maths-nerd in-jokes from before software engineer existed as a profession.

*and sometimes it doesn't.

Hi-vis is appropriate when your workplace is a disaster zone.

Yes, but could these business leaders remember their names?

Subtly downgrade a band

Def Tabby.

Doing more for NZs profile with a crumpled Whittaker's wrapper than the current guy could with a helicopter full of pavlova.

Extends household budget by foraging for free fruit.

Sorry, you'll just have to find some nice warm dust to have a roll in.

I'm just enjoying having such a glorious example of breaching the trust thermocline playing out in real time.

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