by Jme57 | Sep 6, 2019 | Archived, Daily Rants
[A Grumpy Old Kiwi Man regular reader has offered their view on the visual pollution that we are subjected to with the avalanche of local body elections throughout the country] Jme57 writes: “Now it’s the silly season with all the wannabes going for a free...
by ngaioman | Sep 2, 2019 | Archived, Daily Rants
I discovered a new word today. It is “Wexter”. Want to know what it is? Well if you read this far you probably do. It is a person who “walks and texts”. I actually wouldn’t call them a “person”. I prefer to use the term...
by ngaioman | Aug 30, 2019 | Archived, Daily Rants
Well it has taken me a few years to finally decide on the winner of the inaugural ‘Grumpy Old Kiwi Man’ award for ‘mindless television programme featuring morons’, but I can announce this year’s winner….. It is the eagerly...
by ngaioman | Aug 25, 2019 | Archived, Daily Rants
Before heading home on a train on Friday night, I glanced at a TV in the railway station showing a game of rugby happening at that moment in the nearby Wellington Stadium. The most obvious thing that I saw was that the ‘crowd’ in attendance at the game...
by ngaioman | Aug 23, 2019 | Archived, Daily Rants
Have you had a ride on one of these ‘E-Scooters’ yet? Well I have and it was great fun, plus it got me from one side of the central city to the other for $4.20. It took me a while to build up the courage to give it a go, not because of the fear of riding...
by ngaioman | Aug 22, 2019 | Archived, Daily Rants
(Rant below provided by The Parnassus Kid) What happens inside the brains of radio commentators, the ‘shock jocks’ of the air waves. It seems that after about two months on air with their ‘own show’, they begin the not so gradual slide into expert on everything. Fair...
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