Preserving Aaron Gilmore’s finest moments for posterity Gilmore [gil-mawr] verb. 1. To bluster or bully someone from an imaginary power-base: When he was caught lying, Aaron tried to gilmore his way out, but nobody was intimidated. 2. To deposit bowel motions in an inappropriate place: The dog gilmored on the doorstep. Add a Comment

Thanks, Trevor, for inspiring not one, but two neologisms: mall·ar·dy [mal-ar-dee] noun, plural -dies. 1. a disorder in which the sufferer has a propensity to damage his/her own team by random acts of stupidity. 2. a pathological desire to ride a bicycle while trying to blog. See quackers Quack·ers [kwak-ers] informal 1. a packet of thin, crisp upper-class biscuits. 2. an extreme lack of social [...]

New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, the people that lefties love to hate, have pointed out the real “elephant in the room” in the debate on climate change. They report that reducing greenhouse gasses is a low priority for New Zealand and there are much more important environmental issues we should be paying attention to [...]

I have long come to the conclusion that the vast majority of accidents that present to emergency departments are entirely predictable. They are not “accidents” in the sense of a genuinely unforeseeable set of circumstances, but consequences of stupidity. The element of stupidity is not necessarily the victim’s, of course. Often the “accident” is not [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article.  You can always rely on the Herald to give us a bit of spam when we’re hungry: Key will not guarantee tax cuts after this year Prime Minister John Key is unwilling to give a categorical assurance that tax cuts [...]

So Darwin was right, man did descend from apes. Only it appears that some did not bother to go the full distance. Twenty teenagers harassed an ambulance as it attempted to pick up one of their number who had been shot. Perhaps DoC could find a nice forest for them to swing around in. However, [...]

Once again WINZ achieves the unbelievable. The HOS reports that they paid the towing and storage charges for a woman who was caught driving while her licence was suspended. That is stupid on so many levels that I find it hard to know where to start. I know that WINZ do occasionally loan taxpayer money to pay fines. [...]