Things that make you go hmmmm

Sadly I was not one of them but 209 people each won $87,202 in the last Big Wednesday.

Another mass shooting in 'merica.

I say HMMMMM as that seems to be the attitude of their general populous. 

We need guns to stop guns.

What?

The NRA will naturally defend ths right to bear arms. Just crazy stuff. How long till something gets done about it? God only knows.

via Simon Hampton.

Might want to avoid the Aioli

$10 for a lunchtime handjob seems a bit expensive, even if it is in a kitchen. 

Will bow to your knowledge of the prices of lunchtime hand jobs.

Better living everybody.

Review in the DomPost of Westpac Stadium's last year.http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/72987528/westpac-stadium-looking-at-ways-to-improve-concourse-before-lions-tour

interesting read. 

Phoenix+U20WC contributed about 155,000 (my figure) of the 531,000 'fans'. Not shabby.

One thing requires further research though. "More than 80,000 people attended the four Cricket World Cup matches at the stadium. The tournament pumped an estimated $40m in the Wellington region's GDP."

Crikey! That's what?  Roughly $500 a head?  So I have emailed the writer and asked for the source of the claim.

My hmmmm... is. Average croud at Super Smash T20 Cricket - 2596

How much money was lost on those T20 cricket matches?  Given cost of stadium hire blah blah blah...

Hmmmm...

it's at the stadium for tv purposes, since the basin doesn't have lights that are good enough for cricket at night. 

"You will always find him in the kitchen at parties."

That $40m figure isn't that outlandish if you're talking the tournament as a whole. Officials, teams, VIPs, and the media alone would contribute a fair bit. Then there's things like the English fans who would have a fair bit of cash to spend on hotels, meals, transport, and entertainment. Hiring the stadium for over a month probably cost millions. There were also a few full time staff organising the tournament who were located in Wellington, so their salaries and office space would contribute too. It's not like each fan attending a game would spend $500 on average, but all the associated expenses of a major tournament add up.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/wom...

Lady Sues her 12 year old nephew because he was so excited to see her he hugged her and she broke her wrist. 

"The aunt, Jennifer Connell, claims her nephew acted unreasonably when his exuberant greeting caused her to fall and break her wrist in 2011"

“I was at a party recently, and it was difficult to hold my hors d’oeuvre plate,” - damage done.  

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 'murica

$500 a head isn't outrageous.  My Dad and I went through $400 at one of the world cup matches including food and drink.  Add into that if someone is from out of town and stays 2 nights that's $120 - $1000 plus more food any time they stay, and any shopping done.

$500 is a fairly cheap holiday if you are form out of town.

The canes did alright for themselves, though it helps they were winning.

As a whole, yes. However it has been quoted, not just in that article either, for the Wellington region.  I think it was WCC that put it out in the first place. I'll see what Michael Forbes offers and post the reply.

One of the comments under the Westpac article makes a good read. 

"the average attendance for the domestic T20 is wrong - the paltry figure of 2,596 is actually the total over three days and included the second lowest attendance ever at the stadium (413) for the Saturday double-header. The Friday night total wasn't much better at 638 and was also in the bottom ten Stadium attendances.

The average was thus a whopping 865 people per day !

For the record the lowest ever official attendance at the Stadium was also for cricket ... 50 for a club cricket final between Naenae and Easts in 2007 (almost an aisle each)."

Ouch! That must impact a wallet somewhere.

as I said above, what they lose in attendances they gain with tv rights. 

I don't agree with it, and think it's a short term tv money grab (typical of a lot of sports - see Phoenix 7pm Sunday kickoffs) which hurts the long term viability of the sport, but those short term numbers do add up. They're not losing money on the deal. 

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/13/wom...

Didn't get a dime. Thanks goodness. Looks like it was a play for inheritance after his mum died last year. Sicko.

Any idea what the television deal was worth?

presumably more than theyd make by having the games at the basin

Any idea how much that might be?

Devils advocate time. The woman would have been paid out by her insurance company for the damage down.

Insurance companies regularly look to get their  money back on what they have paid out on. We all know that. So they sue the people at fault.

Now, in America, when insurance companies take someone to court, they do it in the name of their client that they paid out, rather than their own. This is a way to protect the "image" of all the insurance companies, because who would want to pay money to a place that they know regularity takes people to court over trivial things.

So in this case, the insurance company may have taken the 8 year old to court to cover their costs. The aunt may have made their court case look ridiculous on purpose to make sure the court didn't rule against her nephew and give his inheritance to the insurance company.

The part that makes me think that this is actually what happened in the "hors d'oeuvre" line, there's no way anyone in their right mind would think that would make people feel sorry for them, especially after talking to a lawyer.

TLDR: Aunt probably made the court case look absolutely ridiculously to stop her insurance company from successfully suing her nephew.

Trevor Noah - he's no Craig Kilborn, but, ya know, he might be alright...

Anyone else worried about that strange anomaly picked up on distant star is caused by a Dyson sphere?

http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2015/10/maybe-its...

But what if Dyson made the Dyson Sphere??? Can you imagine how heavy and difficult to clean it would be?

Might explain Black Holes.

Spock out....

Seems you're right. Internet mob justice is wrong in abusing and punishing someone without checking the facts, once again. 

article here

Also: 'MURICA

Mob justice and people jumping to conclusions  on the interweb?  Never.

I stand corrected. Time to put away my pitchfork!

What a screwed system.

My new golf shoes - that look/feel like footy boots...

fox football using images of flares in the promo for the A league...

Men

We still love ya.

Someone got offended, complained and now it's hot stuff on stuff. No one else noticed until it was pointed out. It goes to show that shadows can be deceptive.

There's literally nothing you can say or do without someone having a cry about it these days. Unbelievable.

Can't believe you can say that Buffy

I'm telling the mods

It's a stupid billboard and I dont think its funny, but FFS syrely its only offensive to the prudes that find the act itself offensive.

What makes me laugh is no one noticed the shadow until the offended one pointed it out. Make you wonder what is on their mind to see it in the first place,

Frank Lowy.

Rugby and their legions of lemmings. 2 weeks and 4 games ago, this was a team that was old, past it, not up to scratch and we won't win to now being the greatest of all time since the last greatest of all time team 4 years ago. They angst harder than we do when all they had to do was tune into the last game of the tournament to see the most telegraphed fore gone conclusion happen. Such a paranoid bunch.

In other news, women's refuge reports a quiet Monday...

and before anyone tries to angst and beat up the women's refuge line, the old girl volunteers there and those were pretty much her words yesterday...