October 18 2007
Choice Links
posted by Ana Samways at 10:09 amProof you can’t afford a house, unless you live with your folks and don’t have lattes: According to the 3rd annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey here are the 25 Most Unaffordable Housing Markets in the World. Any city which scores over 5.1, based on house price and income data, is considered severely unaffordable. No surprises that Auckland makes the list…
Art: Creepy cereal box art…
This is Echo Bot which delivers a pre-recorded message to any passerby who activates the eyeball motion sensor. ‘Oi, get away from my desk, loser!’ would be a goodie. Cherck it out here…
Did you know former photographer for Sunday Star Times’ Bridget Saunders (he’s now Herald on Sunday’s social snapper) Norrie Montgomery has his own website called The A List? The A stands for Auckland, apparently. If you get some perverse pleasure from looking at gaping–mouthed, overtanned attention seeking event sluts, go here. First up, the premiere of the so-bad-it’s-really-bad film The Devil Dared Me To… (That ‘we’re so cool we can produce shit’ approach really is wearing thin for those Back Of The Y/Deja Voodoo boys)…
Gossip more powerful than direct observation…
Classic music video: “Mexican Radio”, by Wall of Voodoo.
World’s most expensive homes…
An Oakland City Council unanimously approved bill that makes it illegal to smoke in outdoor dining areas, ATM lines, parks and bus stops…
You’ll feel better if you click on the Stress Pig…
Video: Riverdanceby The Celtic Monkeys (Via Presurfer)
October 18th, 2007 at 10:23 am
There’s nothing worse than using an ATM after a smoker. Personally I’d ban smoking from city footpaths too. All those smokers standing outside their office buildings in the freezing cold, blowing smoke into the faces of those passing by makes walking down the street a health hazard.
You want to kill yourself? Fine. You want to kill me? Not fine.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Agreed. Same goes for cars.
October 18th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
“gaping–mouthed, overtanned attention seeking event sluts”…poetry, Ms Samways, pure poetry.
As to the points above, can I just say that as a social leper it’s getting hard enough to have a quiet fag as it is without moaning buggers banging on about anyone who lights a fag within 100 yards of them. But hey, maybe we should give up and stop giving the Government $900 million a year in taxes. Let the non-smokers pay for the health system instead…
And thirdly, it says a lot for the abysmal wages in this country when Auckland is less affordable than Dublin, where a shoebox on the roadside will set you back about half a mil in Kiwiroubles.
October 18th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
has the guy from the “a-list” seen hot chicks with douchebags?
if not, he should, and not repeat old material.