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This photo was snapped on a coastal walkway at Mangawhai Heads by James Armitage, who wonders what tourists would make of it.
"New Zealand is known for being safe; no snakes, bears, scorpions or poisonous spiders to worry about - just the trees apparently."
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An astounded C. Wright of Howick wonders if anyone can beat this for the ultimate wine list rip-off. "We purchased a bottle of wine on special at Pak'n Save for $6 - then saw the same wine on a wine list at an upmarket restaurant for $55 a bottle. The by-the-glass price was $11.50... and the glass was only filled to a quarter level. And to top it off - this was the cheapest wine available."
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A Westmere reader who cycles for exercise wonders why bike seats are shaped as they are. Even if carefully angled, they can apply crushing force to a part of the (male and female) anatomy where crushing force is never advisable. Presumably there is some reason for this design as opposed to, say, a figure-eight-shaped cushion that gently supports the buttocks while leaving everything forward of that entirely untouched. He wonders whether there is anyone among cycling cognoscenti who can enlighten him.
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Claire Bruford wonders if anyone else remembers the poem some intelligent graffiti artist scribbled across the sewer pipe beside the bridge on Ti Rakau Drive in Pakuranga in the early 80s? "It was written up there for years until the council finally painted over it. As kids, my sister and I used to read it out loud with absolutely no idea what it meant.
Now it all makes sense: "Prices rise and profits hop, pay stays low so buying stops. Goods won't sell so workers sacked, don't look now depression's back. Workers unite to protect wages and conditions and fight unemployment." Obviously a graffiti artist with an economics background.
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"Do you think Kiwibank are hypocrites?" asks Tim. "Their whole marketing campaign is about the New Zealand public supporting the New Zealand bank and not the Aussies. Yet when they have selected a company to undertake their media work they chose an Australian-owned media organisation called STW Communications."
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