Christchurch Treehouse of Awesome-Where everyone knows your name

[winter]

15mins in and I'm already bored out of my fucking mind, good thing it's gym day

Doing dat volume training. New trainer is killing me - slowly. He's a bit of a babe as well. New gym has one of the most amazing ratio of hot women to guys I have ever seen. I'm loving it.

Winterdiddles. I'm going to be in Auckland come the 1st of March through to the 8th. Any chance of a ball-cupping session? How far are you from Papakura?

nice, love a new program/trainer to kick ya butt eh! I'm on deadlifts today so will likely have issues carrying my son home afterwork tonight hahaha..

Yeah mate, not too far at all - I'm in Mt Eden, central auckland I'm sure we can suss something out - get a bunch of the aucklanderz amongst it.

I was talking to BenZene about a casual catch up for the many who would like to avail of such an activity in Auckland. Perhaps we could all make a scene at a variety of establishments around the country?

I love this idea. Would be good to catch up with Benzene too! it's been a long time

[Retardobot]

Keen! Someone organise it.

Because I'm lazy as shit.

[Arseynimz]

I was talking to BenZene about a casual catch up for the many who would like to avail of such an activity in Auckland. Perhaps we could all make a scene at a variety of establishments around the country?

you mean like we go to a pub and catch up cause there is no Xlan to do it at?

I'm keen....

Heh, about that...

[trololololo]

ITS FRIDAY

[Arseynimz]

I really wanted to go to Carl Barron. Was all excited and shit, and then realised I'm going to Sydney for an event. Looked at the other places he's playing, and the ones closest are this weekend, and I have my kids.

Fuck.

[trololololo]

im going to this next weekend, it is going to be good

http://dramfest.co.nz/main-event/

[Craigor]

ITS FRIDAY

I was under the impression it was Thursday, until just before work, I was making my lunch, and I went to put a banana in my lunch box, and there was only one left.. and I was like "WTF, I'm sure I bought enough bananas to last the whole week"
After a moments confusion, I came to the realisation it was Friday, not Thursday, and was most pleased


This all happened pre-morning coffee, all idiocy is justified.

[Growler]

Balls getting sweaty

[trololololo]

Got my longboard back from Codex after a year or so last weekend, went for a skate during my lunch break, it twas good

Thats good to hear Craigor

[Codex]

Codex did sexy times yes?

Unrelated to last night but yes and may have been a bad decision lol god damn it

[Growler]

Did she have cooties?

[Lias]

you mean like we go to a pub and catch up cause there is no Xlan to do it at?

I'm keen....

Heh, about that...

Did you cunts all miss that Arsey basically just hinted he's organising a replacement for XLAN?

[Growler]

nah... but it's got to the point now that it is like bring back buck, just a novel idea that will never happen

[Retardobot]

Holy shit NZ.

Every Tom, Dick and shit stained Mary thinks they are a branding genius in light of the Telecom overhaul.

[Codex]

Holy shit NZ.

Every Tom, Dick and shit stained Mary thinks they are a branding genius in light of the Telecom overhaul.

I fucking know right

Jesus

[Growler]

but come on, SPARK...... to me that's a power company, or some evil meaning.

Still Pissing Around and Rake in Kash.


Is it clever branding to the deceitful fuckers....?

[Retardobot]

but come on, SPARK...... to me that's a power company

You're fucking dead to me.

Naming a power company Spark is one hell of a dumb idea. Would you name a plumbing company "Leaky Pipes"?

[Growler]

why name a telco Spark..... from a brand that's known internationally....

Next BMW will change their name to Vroom

[Growler]

"What's your company name... "

"Bacon Burger Design..."

"Oh you're a designer, awesome. I work for Spark"

"who now??? what do they do, sounds electrical or lighting based, maybe fireworks, yeah fireworks fucking awesome"

"phone and internet...."

[Growler]

It's all done so we can laugh at the indians trying to say Spark, Spork, Spvark, how can I not help you today.

[Retardobot]

"What's your company name... "

"Bacon Burger Design..."

"Oh you're a designer, awesome. I work for Spark"

"who now??? what do they do, sounds electrical or lighting based, maybe fireworks, yeah fireworks fucking awesome"

"phone and internet...."

That is a hypothetical conversation that would only end up happening if a company took on the name Spark where they had 0 brand recognition. Telecom turning into Spark has the whole of the nation looking at them. They won't have this issue.

It's also funny reading the brave attempts by Telecom's social media to quell the madness. One person commented on Facebook "you should be spending the money in hiring better support staff", Telecom responded "Our support staff in Manilla is every part of the Telecom family and they take great pride in giving you the best support they can".

Haha.

[Growler]

hahahahaha, that one made me laugh. They don't own spark.co.nz or spark.com either

http://www.spark.com/

it is SFW...

I wait with anticipation for their logo! All the orange on their current www looks very SNAP based.

[BeNZene]

I wait with anticipation for their logo!

The bit on the left is known as the spark internally, so they may just roll with that:



(Looks more like a squiggle to me).

[Retardobot]

They're going to be keeping the logo. The initial brand update they did 2-3 years ago was the first step in going from Telecom to Spark. Making that change without introducing anything would have been suicidal.

[trololololo]

Will they keep the telecom name afterwards?, if they don't someone could get the name and sell it back if spark fails