Cricketman

ya' kno' yo' a hillbilly, when o' yo' momma's christmas list, she done got "#1 Ammo". [/cletus] (not saying you're a hillbilly, or your momma, unless you are... then you probably already knew the above! )

Thats all kinds of [expletives] awesome! seeing as my poker night has turned into a "everyone go to town with some other peeps" night, im tempted to come down and steal it.... ah well... might have to come down and have a gizzage tommorow boss!

It is absolutely the best thing. The colours of the fish are completely different to anything I've ever seen in another Aro'. The different shades of colour that you just dont notice until you look really closely, like the reds and greens on the oppercullum and the red on the scales. Breathtaking.

happened to me a while back.. the bi-mettalic strip got rusty and old. I was lucky that I reached my arm in to move a plant (which i wasnt gonna do till later) and thought "that feels warmer than usual"... sorry for your loss mate.

where do you sign up for one??

I love trevally like Barrie, or terakihi the same way. mmmm.... another good idea... take a snapper, gut,(gill and can scale if preferred.) make slices about 3-4 cm apart and bout 1 cm deep into the flesh on both sides of the fish. fill gut cavity with 1/2 a lemon sliced. squeeze remaining lemon over the fish. mix butter with your selection of herbs and spices and place in gut catity and knobs along the top of the fish. place in tinfoil, fold the edges over so it creates a tight seal. Throw on moderate bbq. The butter will melt and the lemon juices steam the fish, the BBQ sorta fries the underside, its a best of both worlds scenario! Open the parcel carefully to let steam escape, peel back the skin.. devour! Same can be done with a flounder.

No, It's a promise... 8)

im gonna try and make it this time... might be late though... lol

Nissan or toyota, cant go past either of those for reliability and ease of use. no matter what Have you got a budget in mind? As that will also deterine peoples views, ie, GT-T Caldina is algood if youve got the money, if you dont then your gonna start looking at other factors. general hints... Toyotas just keep going well past 200 or 300 000 k's. Any other brand past this, think carefully about, some will be fine if they are looked after, but some just dont go the distance, I've heard stories both ways. After 150 000 ks ish, anything with a turbo, walk away. The extra rigours puton the internals means that they wear out faster, and by that stage, the turbo itself may even be getting to breaking point. And when under boost, the breakdowns are incredible. Check the oil on the car, rub it through your fingers, it should be dark, but still golden, and rub easily in your fingers, leaving a thin layer. Black (like BLACK), thick, or even grainy feeling oil = not looked after, and the grainyness comes from engine wear and bits of metal filings. Beware new golden freshly changed oil, could mean that they had a problem with it burning etc and just changed it. or they just had a service, but think carefully about it. look at the oil cap, your looking for deposits, varnishing etc. Get someone to follow you when you take a test drive and watch for smoke. Don't be afriad to give it some balls (not in front of the seller), its the only way your gonna find flat-spots and how it behaves at high-revs. look for cambelt wear indicators, usually on the tensioner. new cambelts again could mean a recently fixed problem or new service. again, judge on its merits. speaking of cambelts, some cars (Nissan primera-SR20s, mitsubishi magna - astron II, just for example) use chain driven cams, so never need to worry about that. beware overly clean engine bays that look like they've been recently steamwashed, could be hiding oil leaks. Thats all I can think of right now. Failing all this, get a AA check done.

I hate you.....

What do you expect of a company where 2 out of the 3 directors are in Australia! It is listed as being owned by "Probatus Investments limited" which is then slit evenly into 4 main shareholders 25/100 a peice (all in NZ funnily enough). Previously owned by "R & H Janson LTD." The austrailian directors cannot be traced fr4om within NZ. O. And,before anyone gets shirty about information here, it is freely available to anyone in the world on the businesses register, It is merely a relay of such information. In fact, there is alot more information that I have not posted. Just covering my glutes...

Sounds like fun!

tadaaa! :lol:

:oops: :oops: I thought that he meant the fry were gone, and teh electras were eaten meaning that there was nothing left!

Missing something ?? *edit*: Im having a laff, dont people take it the wrong way.... please....

My fish have also started laying eggsand breeding. they are under constant light/dark cycles and constant temperature. My theory is that the cycle of barometric pressure changes with the seasons, and being the only thing that is not a constant in the tank, it must be air pressure that causes them to recognise a season and spawn. Could do an interesting experiment in a barometric chamber.

^5 for pickles and gerkhins and anything in brine! I love olives... I can eat a whole jar before I know what I've done!

Video or it never happened lmao

pump working in the same direction as waterflow ie, siphon running through the pump.... if you got 2 pumps actually running wth the same L/h then you wouldnt need the syphon or priming etc?? one pumping in (pulling from teh tank) and one pumping back up. or man up and drill it!

Ive since fixed that plane that i thought my brother stuffed. BUT... i have got a assortment of small motors sitting around. i think its time for Herbet? the helicopter to under the knife... MWAUHAHAHAH

you could use a small pump at the bottom that runs continuously, ie, if there is a power cut, when it comes back on the pump self-primes the syphon? just an idea.

My SAE does the same thing from time to time, as does my tiger barb. I dont know how they could get bored, its a pretty choka tank full of hidey holes and even put a powerhead in there for more water circ etc. Hes doing it right now in fact. If only he cleaned up algae. *sigh*

Indeed that is correctomundo. They wont need alot. as long as they keep wet. maybe double bag and into a small box to prevent crushing? Other than that, not alot else really. Oh, and for future reference, CAPS are taken as shouting and thereby rude.

I agree that some sectors should pay more for ACC, But some sectors certainly should not. I also think that in some areas ACC is too lax with its "throw away" money, and others theyre tighter than a ducks arse. Example: My mother used to work for Whakatane hospital at the front desk of ED. People would come in off the street and say they had a headache. she would then have to fill out an ACC form, put it in the computer, and dish out 2 panadol. I recently (last year) broke the bones in my hand. Went to Tauranga ED, as I would in Whakatane. After waiting 3 hours to just see the triage nurse, She informs me that she is not sure its broken, it may be, but I'd have to go to a private institution such as accident and healthcare, and hands me a brochure. consult $80, X-ray $60, plus bandages/cast equipment/materials if it as broken. What.... The..... Flounder.... ACC in my mind should be made, like the dentist etc, available for people at the tough points of thier lives. Kids under, say, 20? and the elderly, and for those groups it should be free for all, anything that they might need. Inbetween? only major trauma and the like. The rest? GP's are trained (at least should be!) to deal with a hell of alot more than what they currently do. even broken bones, stitches, etc. And the people should have to have medical insurance! there is no excuse not to! the money youd save in ACC levies, coupled with the extra competition between insurance companies would mean that you could probably, in most cases, get off cheaper than what we are already. With less work to do, ACC themselves may find that they are not as big as organisation, and then thier wages go down too. = less to pay again. All the time, everyone else is winning away merrily, safe in the knowledge that they are covered. And knowing EXACTLY what they are covered for. ACC cover differs between areas, and there is no actual way to know if your injury would be covered or not, until its too late and then you get bent over by ACC. What it would also mean is that levies could be taken out of petrol/user charges/ rego etc , as a fair whack of the population could rise against and say that they are not recieving the benifits. Oh, and to finish my example, my hand WAS broken in 2 places, i drove to Whakatane the next day and had it checked. All of this would have been unneccessary had I held proper health insurance, and ACC was doing its job across the board.

I always lok at his avatar and think its the cow talking bahaha! welcome mate, oh, and