Following on from the Tacky Mum-to-be T-shirts: "At least mums-to-be can choose to wear crass maternity wear, unlike the babies who'll be wearing these slogans on their chest," says Jonathan, who spotted these in Glenfield Mall.
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When is covered seating not covered seating?" asks John. "Apparently when
you pay $200-odd at North Harbour Stadium for tickets to The Who. This from the Ticketmaster website: "Even though some areas are sold as covered seating we cannot guarantee this." What? You can't walk around the stadium and find out where the covered seating is before you start charging hundreds of dollars for it?
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Unni Haskell, a 62-year-old woman from Connecticut, took two months of golf lessons and decided she was ready to hit the course. She teed up and took aim on the 91m first hole at Cypress Links in St Petersburg, Florida. Haskell's drive avoided a bunker on the left, bounced on to the green and rolled into the hole. "I didn't know it was that big of a deal," she said of her hole-in-one. "I thought all golfers do this." (Source: TampaBay.com)
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Bossy kids: It used to be about playing firemen or policemen (or if you were a girl, mums and dads) but now the toys are very contemporary, like Playmobil's Airport Security Check Point. An Amazon customer wrote this review about his experience with the toy: "I was a little disappointed when I first bought this item, because the functionality is limited. My 5-year-old son pointed out that the passenger's shoes cannot be removed. Then, we placed a deadly fingernail file underneath the passenger's scarf, and neither the detector doorway nor the security wand picked it up. My son said, 'that's the worst security ever!' But it turned out to be okay, because when the passenger got on the Playmobil B757 and tried to hijack it, she was mobbed by a couple of other heroic passengers, who only sustained minor injuries in the scuffle, which were treated at the Playmobil Hospital."
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Maybe Peter Sanders should check before he makes comments, both zero and oh are acceptable and common-use terms. Beyond New Zealand free call numbers are referred to as oh eight hundred and oh three hundred, and never zero eight hundred. Then there is dial oh for the operator. I agree it is frustrating especially when you are entering alphanumeric into a computer.
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In England, the Cambridgeshire County Council used powers it has under anti-terrorism law to spy on local newsboys. Council officials believed the boys were delivering newspapers without the required permits. They later used evidence gathered by the spies to prosecute one shop owner for using five of the paperboys. (Source: Reason.com)
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See today's Herald cartoon
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