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07/03/07

This has gotta be the grossest display of over-packaging I have ever seen:

That's my workmate Mark, holding up a USB hub in his left hand and the box it came in, in his right hand.

01/03/07

My boss John and I had a great time going around NZ checking it out between meetings.

On John's last day I realised that he hadn't had NZ fish & chips yet! We drove past one place and noted that it had a large sign saying "Auckland's Best Fish & Chips". It wasn't until we got out of the car and had ordered when we noted the fine print under "Auckland's Best":

A decade too late, but still, we had damn good breaded fish, battered muscles and Kumara chips!

Also, I've managed to catch up with Craig, Kim and their newborn Ellie!

They've both done rather well I reckon.

15/02/07

Well, I’m off to NZ for two weeks tomorrow for work, but I’m actually getting more excited about snowboarding in Canada in 3 weeks time!

Here are my predictions for our Canada trip, I’m thinking of putting odds on them happening:

• Ice-hockey game: Screaming "we want blood, we want blood", gaining 5Kg from breathing the pretzel, nacho and hot-dog saturated air, big plastic mugs of beer, Crazy yelling out the wrong thing and getting us all in a fight with supporters.

• Drinking in Calgary: Groups of ladies around us Handsome lads with sexy foreign accents, shiiit loads of booze, standing on tables doing the can-can, crazy slipping off and crashing through the neighbouring table full of chicks who want nothing to do with us after that.

• Snowmobiling: hooning around destroying the pristine silence of nature, running over a few bunny rabbits, racing through pine forest, crazy wrapping his snowmobile around a tree and coughing up £2,000 cos he didn't get insurance.

• Ice fishing: the guys, big fu<k off drill, 6 packs of the finest Canadian beer we can find, talkin' shiit, killin' fish by smacking them over the head with a shovel, a Moose wandering past to throw our empties at, a Grizzly Bear coming across us who proceeds to thump his paws against the hut door while we freak out inside like in the movies, crazy falling into the ice hole and freezing his ass off

• Snowboarding: Kicking up so much powder in gorgeous runs down the mountain that we pee our pants with excitement and joy, booze and food in the sun every lunch time, chilling out in hot tubs every night before hitting the town, Crazy spending 5 days building the biggest jump man kind has ever seen and hitting it far to fast causing him to crash and break both of his legs.

 All sounds freaken awesome!!!

Crazy's Response after reading this is:

I'd just like to go on record and say 'possible'...
... 'possible' to nearly everything you've written.
Possible!

14/02/07

I was cleaning out some old pics from my phone and I came across these two pics of Stef, Crazy and I at the Greyhounds last month.

Here's Crazy with his pick, a sure fire winner with the name "John" on his ticket:

 

And the inevitable result:

It was a really cool night actually, slumming it with white trash, eating dodgy looking chicken burgers and swilling a few snakebites while screaming "Come on ya little baastard" as the dogs run round. I'd go back for sure!

12/02/07

Welcome any TNT Magazine readers (and the usual crowd of course). There are lots more pub crawl pics and an un-cropped version of my published crowd pic on my Waitangi Day Circle Line Pub Crawl page.

My pic was on the contents page (top right):

And the second page of this article:

bottom left:

If you look closely down the left hand of the second page you can see my picture credit :-)

11/02/07

As if you needed another excuse to say "Richard, you scare me":

08/02/07

Awesome news, here is a pic of Craig and Kim's 1 HOUR old baby!

Craig briefly wrote:

Hey bro, this is our 1 hour old daughter. No name yet, guess craig junior is out.

06/02/07

Here are a few extra snaps that I took on the Circle Line Pub crawl. The weather was awesome which made for some great pics.

Big Ben and Houses of Parliament:

close-up of Big Ben:

London Eye:

London eye and Big Ben to Right:

05/02/07

Well, I think I'm finally sober after the circle line pub crawl on Sat! Was an incredible day. Pics and another carefully crafted video will be up soon...

Register for Glastonbury here. Whatever you do though, don't email around your registration number like Crazy did, cos then you can log in to the web site using his post code, steal his pic:

and delete his registration so you'll have a better chance of getting a ticket.

MUAH HA HA HA

Nah, just kidding, Crazy (or am I? You'll have to wait a few mins before midnight on the 28th of Feb to find out...)

26/01/07

OK, time for some more pics of my Niece Tyla! Mum just sent me some and these are my favourites:

22/01/07

Crazy, Richard, Pete, Myself and 2 of Crazy's mates Angela and Esther (who I first met on a crazy weekend in Amsterdam) went to the Slug and Lettuce last Thurs for a bit of a knees up.

Although being far too old (looking around at the average age of the punters) we did see a TNT Magazine photographer there for TNT Spotted. With old age does come, um, "wisdom" of sorts, the wisdom to know what sort of photo is gonna get you into the magazine at any rate:

Everyone who's pointed out that I'm in the mag says "who's that you're kissing?!", It is in fact Richard.

19/01/07

I'm classifying this news article under "OH-MY-GOD":

Angry doc cuts off patient's penis
Stuff.co.nz | Thursday, 18 January 2007
In a fit of rage, a Romanian doctor cut off a patient's penis during surgery and then proceeded to mutilate it.
The 36-year-old Romanian man had gone into Bucharest hospital to have corrective surgery on one of his testicles. During the operation, surgeon Naum Ciomu lost his temper, picked up a scalpel and hacked off the man's penis.
To the shock of the nursing staff, he then placed the penis on the operating table and proceeded to chop it into small pieces before storming out of the theatre, the Metro.co.uk website reported this week.
Afterwards, Ciomu claimed he had been under stress and lost his temper after he accidentally cut the man's urinary channel and 'overreacted'.
Ciomu has since had his medical license suspended and a Romanian court has ordered him to pay $NZ284,351 in damages to the man with the mutilated member.
The court also ordered the hospital to pay $NZ56,858 costs to the man to pay for the operation to rebuild his penis using tissue from his arm.

As if going in for an operation near Mr Happy isn't bad enough, now you have to worry about doctors going loco and turning him into teppanyaki!!!

16/01/07

OK, I know I'm gonna get a lot of shiit from a lot of guys here, but screw it, I found this site and it openly made me laugh out loud (especially the "winningest" (remember to click "more" at bottom of page). If you don't like cats, you won't get this page (and probably hate it):

kittenWar.com

My only defence is that I found this at work at 4:30pm after having finished a Guinness. That's right, if you wanna put shiit on me, you first have to drink at work in an open plan office with your boss in full view.

03/01/07

Quote of the week:

Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for an hour. Set him on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

01/01/07

Happy New Year everyone! Mine started off nice and sedate with a meal at Putney Station pub. going clockwise is Meels, Chris, Kent, Dayle, Sarah, Tania, Amanda, Grant, me, Stef, Zara and Adele:

Of course, couldn't resist playing with Zara (she's telling Grant and I all about how much her Mum and Dad spoil her):

After the meal we got everyone back to our flat and got rather drunk :-) Also managed to watch the London Eye fireworks from my room.

Wishing you all a very prosperous 2007!

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08/03/07

Cuzzy Tania sent me the following:

07/03/07

Cuzzy Brenda sent me in Qantas's new slogan:

Quickies Available Now in Toilet Ask Staff

Fantastic :-)

15/02/07

Shea sent me a link to this Jackie Chan style video, very cool.

14/02/07

Well, here I was thinking about just how depressing it was gonna be spending Valentines day single and alone this year with no-one telling me how much they love me (except for Mum) when good ol' Petra sends me a valentines day card, from Africa no less!!!

Thank you so much, Petra, you really made my day (and I'm sure I can take Ian) :-)

12/02/07

It looks like Crazy J has found some of his old maths text books and has sent in examples of his work!

You get an A+ from me, Crazy.

09/02/07

Sharon sent in this pic from Google Earth, showing my parents castle!

Cheers Shaz!

08/02/07

I got this email today:

Hi Tony
I've just been look at your website (it's great) and I'm hoping we will be able to run one of your wide-angle shots of the Circle line pub crawl in TNT next week (the one taken in Westminster that shows the huge crowd)? We're running a story on the pub crawl and your picture would be a perfect way to illustrate how huge it has got. We would of course credit you and could put a link to your website (your video of it is excellent).
What do you reckon?
Thanks
Ainsley
Ainsley Thomson | TNT Magazine | News Editor

She was talking about this pic and I said yeah sweet, so be on the look out in next weeks mag!

30/01/07

I rarely get anything from Katrina (who's incidentally heading to Oz very shortly) but she sent in this video of Donald Rumsfeld which is just fantastic :-)

11/01/07

Stu sent me an email, saying:

Went up to Golden Bay for a few days over the Xmas break, caught up with Hannah and Cullen up there, check out this cool beach photo:

Yeah, real freaken funny. Hannah, I'm sure it was you who wrote that in the sand, because I know someone like Cullen isn't smart enough to spell words like "is".

09/01/07

Karin sent in this photo of graffiti on the wall outside her work (she works in Wellington, NZ, so there's government buildings everywhere)

Now the person who wrote that is either a genius who has mastered the term "ironic" to a whole new level, or is a "greenie" who is as thick as the pig shiit on his trousers.

You all know which one I'm betting on.

08/01/07

Karin sent me in this song called "My Cubicle"... pretty good parody of James Blunt's "You're Beautiful".

I'm pretty darn happy not to be able to relate to that song for the past few years!

05/01/07

This is FREAKEN UNBELIEVABLE!!!

Check out this video of what happens to spiders when they are fed drugs and alcohol. Seriously, watch the whole thing...

Sent in by me :-)

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