General Debate 5 December 2011

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Other_Andy

Sunday Reflection: The higher ed bubble is bursting, so what comes next?

http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/12/sunday-reflection-higher-ed-bubble-bursting-so-what-comes-next/1969376

New Zealand’s student loan scheme is under the same pressure.

This from last year….
Nearly 900,000 people have taken student loans since the scheme started, and more than two-thirds have not fully repaid the money back.
A Ministry of Education report says only $6.4 billion of the $13.9 billion borrowed since students started getting loans in 1992 has been paid back.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10684474

A good suggestion from the US article above:

“Student loans, if they are to continue, should be made dischargeable in bankruptcy after five years — but with the school that received the money on the hook for all or part of the unpaid balance.
Up until now, the loan guarantees have meant that colleges, like the writers of subprime mortgages a few years ago, got their money up front, with any problems in payment falling on someone else.
Make defaults expensive to colleges, and they’ll become much more careful about how much they lend and what kinds of programs they offer.”
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December 5, 2011 8:03am
Sofia

Shark jumps over surfer off Florida beach
Uploaded by OrlandoSentinel on Sep 6, 2011
Orlando Sentinel photographer Jacob Langston was shooting with a GoPRo camera off New Smyrna Beach, Fla., in June 2011 when …
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEbi_AJ0wUU

Why are both main television channels showing this clip now?
I thought NEWS programmes implicitly carried items that are NEW
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December 5, 2011 8:10am
thedavincimode

Memo: NZ Cricket

Please don’t let them go to Hobart. Just bring them home. Its too embarassing.
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December 5, 2011 8:18am
Elaycee

Another own goal headline from the lamestream media.

The dopey Malcolm bint is now sucking off the tit of Auckland Council and featuring in a video about rubbish. (Yes, I can hear the shouts: “Great type casting”). 🙂

On this occasion, the headline in the Herald is rather apt.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10770966
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December 5, 2011 8:20am
thedavincimode

Other_Andy

Good idea in principle, but would you trust NZ’s tertiary institutions to exercise any sensible restraint in that regard?

The likely outcome (a bleat to gummint for mo money when they fucked up) would perhaps provide a better opportunity to actually impose restraint. Buy the assets (in a PPP 🙂 )when they go bust and hire lecturers who actually can teach and teach something useful. The rest of them can go down and play with the smelly hippies.
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December 5, 2011 8:25am
hmmokrightitis

@TDM, re: what used to be NZ cricket

John Wright must be ready to bitch slap the lot of them. He has my permission to do so. Do they not teach catching anymore? Was looking forward to watching a great struggle over the last two days, all for nought.

If labour are going to rebuild from scratch based on a warts and all review of WTF just happened, can we get a two-for-one deal and throw in NZC as well?
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December 5, 2011 8:32am
Manolo

thedavincimode: There is no such thing as NZ Cricket. They’re just a group of amateur players gathered in the streets of Taihape.
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December 5, 2011 8:33am
immigant

Other_Andy

Key point, could not agree more.

“Make defaults expensive to colleges, and they’ll become much more careful about how much they lend and what kinds of programs they offer.”

Then maybe we will stop having things like certificate in window dressing or Bachelor of women studies.
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December 5, 2011 8:36am
graham

Elaycee:

From that article, the following:

“Councillor Cameron Brewer took issue with Malcolm taking part in the 10-week campaign … He said her criticism of Prime Minister John Key during the election campaign made her an inappropriate choice and would make the council look left-wing politically.”

Quite correct. In my humble opinion, Malcolm’s star-power and appeal has gone waaaaay down since she started coming across as a stroppy tantrum-throwing woman. These days, I’m automatically turned off anything that has her associated with it.
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December 5, 2011 8:37am
Manolo

A temporary setback for the aspiring Russian tyrant: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/04/us-russia-election-idUSTRE7B019B20111204
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December 5, 2011 8:39am
thedavincimode

hmmmokeydokey

You don’t seem to understand.

Its all about being really confident and putting the opposition bowlers under pressure. Oops, and of course, “playing your natural game”, even if your natural game just happens to be to play like a fuckwit who has no personal pride in his performance.
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December 5, 2011 8:48am
graham

Meanwhile, from the Occupy “don’t let the facts get in the way of what we’re doing” movement:

Some hackers (including “Anonymous”) have joined together to launch an attack on banks in response to recent crackdowns against the Occupy protest movement. OpRobinHood will use stolen credit details to donate to charities and others, supposedly at the expense of banks.

Except Rob Rachwald, director of security strategy at database security firm Imperva, explains that ultimately banking customers and not the banks themselves bear the cost of credit card fraud – not directly, but through increased fees. Anonymous is mistaken if it thinks that charitable donations using stolen credit cards offer any exception to this rule, he argued.

“From a consumer standpoint, there’s no liability for a stolen card … The fraudulent transaction is not charged back to the consumer. The problem is that this misleads consumers – and Anonymous – into thinking that consumers are spared while banks and retailers are screwed. Wrong.”

“The reality is retailers who accepted the stolen credit card (not knowing it was stolen) lose price of the merchandise purchased. Credit card companies increase fees and interest rates. Fraud costs, in effect, are distributed back to the general pool of consumers.”

“So it is members of the majority, not the banks, who are ultimately going to be left out of pocket by OpRobinHood.”

Well done, Occupiers. Screwing the 99% you supposedly represent. Epic fail – again.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/02/oprobinhood_who_pays/
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December 5, 2011 8:54am
dime

Only 3 weeks til xmas!!! How awesome.

With the help of my rich prick tax cut i shall be going over board this year 🙂 as will my over achieving, cashed up, rich prick tax cut having family.

Praise Allah goofball didn’t get in and up the top rate!
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December 5, 2011 8:55am
Scott Chris

Apart from a brief period when Crowe and Hadlee and Jones were playing together, our cricket team has always sucked. Even then we weren’t much good.

Our only chance is to bring back the green seamers, the glued wickets and Fred Goodall.
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December 5, 2011 8:55am
graham

And at the OccupyAuckland squat, I saw a sign encouraging people to default on their mortgage. So you take out a mortgage, thereby knowingly entering a contract with the bank, and these clowns say, “Just don’t pay it”. Yeah, that’s the way to take the higher moral ground … not.

And who do they think the banks will ultimately pass the losses and increased costs onto? Hmmm, let me think – oh yes, that would be the rest of us – THE REAL 99%, YOU MORONS.
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December 5, 2011 8:59am
Elaycee

@graham: I could never endure an episode of Outrageous Fortune.

My wife and I made the mistake of looking at it once – and we dead heated in our dive for the remote to change to Discovery – at the time, I think they were showing a programme about the life cycle of a skink and we agreed it was a better option all round.

Malcolm is just a second rate wannabe who somehow thinks that, because she has appeared on TV, she should have some special status.

Well, her wish has now come true – she talks about rubbish. 😀
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December 5, 2011 9:00am
Scott Chris

Elaycee says:- “The dopey Malcolm bint is now sucking off the tit of Auckland Council”

~Another message of peace and enlightenment from the intolerant wacko right~

Fool.
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December 5, 2011 9:05am
dime

Why the name calling scott? you know it results in one of us turning our attention to you and giving you a smack down. then you cry and bang on about bullies like the little girl you are
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December 5, 2011 9:11am
david

Cactus Kate must really have the good oil on who is promising what in the labour leadership race. Who woulda thunk that plastic surgery would be a bargaining chip?

“7. Street – Cunliffe if he promises her a slot like Nanaia.”
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December 5, 2011 9:13am
Other_Andy

@SC

Anybody assciated with the Mana party and the Unite Union are way beyond the pale.
They are the intoleRANT wacko left\right extremists.
Some of the Greenies such as Delahunty also fall in that category.
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December 5, 2011 9:14am
Elaycee

Scott Chris – Haha – another brilliant, witty comment from the resident stalk.

Did you have another bad weekend? Don’t worry – Christmas will soon be here and you can look forward to all the loving messages and presents from your mates.

No?

Oh oh….
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December 5, 2011 9:20am
Longknives

Re the Black Caps- Smacked within four days after talking yourselves up…Bloody disgrace! I knew this would happen as soon as I started reading arrogant drivel like this-

http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/46961/we-do-not-fear-australia-doug-bracewell

Re Robyn Malcolm- Who the hell does this person think she is? Does being a ‘c’ grade actor make you a bloody expert on everything ?? What’s next- Nick from Shortland Street for Prime Minister??
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December 5, 2011 9:23am
virtualmark

Simple answer to the ~~Soft-Cocks~~ Black Caps …

Pay the batsmen by the run. Forget getting a $150,000 retainer and $7,300 a test match. They get a $50,000 base salary and $100 a run. $1,000 bonus for a 50. $2,000 bonus for a century.

Then let’s see how careful they become with their shot selection.
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December 5, 2011 9:33am
Other_Andy

“Councillor Cameron Brewer took issue with Malcolm taking part in the 10-week campaign … He said her criticism of Prime Minister John Key during the election campaign made her an inappropriate choice and would make the council look left-wing politically.”

You most be joking!
Would make the council LOOK left-wing politically?

The council IS left-wing.

Len Brown opened Labour’s annual conference in Auckland in 2010. How much more one-eyed can you get?
He is not only using a ‘re-distributive’ rating scheme but also spending millions on vote buying schemes and projects for Len’s voter base.
One of them…..
“Currently free admission is only available at seven swimming pools in south Auckland previously operated by the former Manukau City Council.”
http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/News/NewsArticles/Pages/Mayor_announces_free_council_swimming_pools_study.aspx

As for Len himself……

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os3KTA8JSEs
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December 5, 2011 9:40am
dime

On the bright side, Len will be toast next election.

Unless the right stand two candidates again. cheers Colin.
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December 5, 2011 9:42am
trout

NZ Cricket will never produce a viable test team; we don’t have players (numbers), the pitches (mostly indifferent where batting is a lottery and sticking around is a gamble), or the patience for 5 day play. Better that we should give up 5 day tests, take the Indian funding (around 2 mill. a year at last count) and develop top short game players (20, 40, 50 over). Treat it like sevens, and specialize. That way we can participate at top level in the money competitions and attract new exciting players to the game.
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December 5, 2011 9:45am
JamesS

Was in town yesterday and wandered past the ‘Occupy Wellington’ site; does anyone realise there are only about a dozen people there? most of them are the usual bearded, no hoper, drop out types

I have always thought their big mistake was suggesting they represented 99% of the population as middle New Zealand would look at these clowns and not exactly see themselves; middle New Zealand raise their children to be productive and respectful, not drop outs wearing scruffy clothing and not bathing.
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December 5, 2011 9:50am
graham

@ longknives:

“Does being a ‘c’ grade actor make you a bloody expert on everything??”

Apparently so, if Robyn Malcolm, Keshia Castle-Hughes and Lucy Lawless are anything to go by. Remember when Castle-Hughes and Lawless were all into the climate change thing a couple of years ago? They were quite adamant that John Key should do what they told him. And John Key responded by telling Keisha to stick to acting 🙂

And Lucy Lawless tried to present John Key with an air ticket to attend an international climate change meeting in Copenhagen (because if you believe in climate change, it just makes sense to fly a round trip of about 34000 kilometres in an airplane to express concern about climate change caused by engine emissions …). That nasty Mr Key refused! How dare he?!
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December 5, 2011 9:50am
wreck1080

Do people have any problems with Air NZ grabaseat availability?

I’m in the Tauranga area, and visit Christchurch occasionally.

But, Tauranga to Christchurch grabaseats always sell out very quickly, sometimes in seconds.

I phoned Air NZ to query this one time–several times I trying getting seats less than a second after they became available but still missed out. They said , too bad.
Eg, today, the only sold out grabaseat is Tauranga Christchurch.

Same happened in the weekend.

I reckon Air NZ muset make a killing on the tauranga->christchurch route.
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December 5, 2011 10:19am
dime

wreck – no doubt. there is no competition on those regional routes.

I remember getting fucked over flying out of nelson once. i missed a flight (plane was hadnt even started its taxi) and they charged me 3 hundy to get back to auckland. couldnt say “fuck ya ill take jetstar”.

i did punish them though. i flew 50 clients to auckland over the following two months and didnt use air nz once.

it made me feel better.
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December 5, 2011 10:25am
Manolo

Ah, the delights of multiculturalism: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10770789
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December 5, 2011 10:48am
DavidC

Wreck @ 10.19
I am in Palmy Nth and we get rooted by AirNZ as well. They charge what they like as we have no choice other than driving to Welly then flying with someone else.
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December 5, 2011 10:59am
immigant

Manolo

No point posting stuff about teh UK, they made horrible mistakes with immigration policy up already, no saving them. NZ just needs to make sure we don’t step on the proverbial rake after we’ve seen UK do it.
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December 5, 2011 11:00am
Manolo

Palmie? No, you couldn’t be the same David C. I know, could you? 😀
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December 5, 2011 11:01am
Brian Smaller

@Manolo – that link was offensive to my religion. I hereby declare a fatwa on your infidel arse.
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December 5, 2011 11:03am
Manolo

Immigant, I wish you were right, but that’s precisely my point.
The ruling political elites, the bureaucrats, and do-gooders tend not to learn from someone else’s mistakes, but keep repeating the errors over and over.
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December 5, 2011 11:04am
Manolo

Guv’nor Brian, I feel deeply honoured as a new Salman Rushdie.
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December 5, 2011 11:06am
immigant

Wait till you start getting kids that were born in NZ but don’t speak English. I saw that in Switzerland, and the Swiss are uber-sensitive about integration.
But then again I think we get that kind of jazz in Sauff AK anyway.
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December 5, 2011 11:26am
The only red for me is that of Manchester United

Wreck1080@10.19

I’m continually annoyed by Air New Zealand. The main trunk line is well serviced with plenty of specials. The provinces mean while suffer. As a Southlander living in Auckland I want to go home to see my mother. The Auckland to Invercargill (and return) route is never ever offered as a special. I contacted Air New Zealand to ask why. Their reply was that specials such as Grab A Seat are only offered on direct routes. So for this route you have to fly from Auckland to Christchurch, change plans and then from Christchurch to Invercargill. You could fiddle around with dates and try and get some special deals with Grab A Seat specials from on those separate routes, but it’s hardly worth it. I don’t expect the Auckland to Invercargill route to become a daily affair, but they could put on a plane at least once a week. Air New Zealand have planes which can cover the distance.

For their new offers of lower prices for seats for carry on luggage only, I entered some dates for May for travel to various South Island destinations straight after the news was announced. Same old story of no seats available on the dates I selected. I doubt a plane could fill so quickly for Tuesday flights.

When my brother and I had to travel to Invercargill urgently after the sudden death of my father. We paid over $500 each for airfares. As we were travelling because of a death in the family, we were entitled to a small refund. That came to a total of $120.

Air New Zealand, great if you travel main trunkline. Everywhere else you pay through the nose. I’d love to corner Rob Fyfe in a lift and give him some feedback.
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December 5, 2011 11:29am
immigant

I love how people complain about prices. All you guys baggin Air NZ are clowns. How much do you expect them to charge if they are the only company that does these backwater routes?

Let’s tell companies how much to charge us cause thats how buisness works? Those dirty fat cats, providing us goods and services that we would not otherwise have in exchange for money. Dirty bastards. I shoudl be able to pay what I want! Not what the market dictates.
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December 5, 2011 11:39am
Scott Chris

dime/elaycee

Simple really. If you insist on being assholes all the time and posting intolerant rubbish then I will do likewise.

You are obviously too stupid to see that I’m just doing unto you as you do unto others.
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December 5, 2011 12:01pm
dime

scott – that new marketing grad wants a latte. off you go.
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December 5, 2011 12:06pm
dime

immigant – just highlighting what happens when there is no competition.

same as when we complain about ACC
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December 5, 2011 12:07pm
immigant

yYha I know, but this “No competition” debate is getting boring, along side about a dozen other default GD topics. We should be discussing solutions and new ideas not re-chewing the pleasantly familiar cud of old problems.
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December 5, 2011 1:09pm
thedavincimode

Scott Chris

If you insist on being assholes all the time and posting intolerant rubbish then I will do likewise.

You are obviously too stupid to see that I’m just doing unto you as you do unto others.

Ad hom: CHECK
Hypocrite: CHECK
Petulant: CHECK

And you started out with such high principles Scott.

What happened? Where did it all go wrong? Is it something somebody said?

I mean, is it really adult behaviour to respond this way?
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December 5, 2011 1:24pm
dime

Some of us come here to both give our opinions and read other peoples opinions and maybe even learn something.

Scott comes here to preach and tell us how it is.

Its his outlet cause hes stuck in a dead end job. sad.
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December 5, 2011 1:43pm
Elaycee

@thedavincimode / dime: I really think Scoot sees himself / herself as the guardian of all things at David’s Kiwiblog. [Ahem… excuse me whilst I clear my throat..]

If he / she sees something that he / she doesn’t agree with / doesn’t like then he / she runs off bleating like a little stuck piggie, all the way to the headmaster. Sad really – because that’s the sort of behaviour usually attributed to school kids.

And in parallel, I piss myself laughing at the thought that he / she is hunched all over the keyboard apoplectic with rage that Kiwibloggers take it in turn to bitch slap him / her with regular monotony.

Oh the humanity!
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December 5, 2011 1:45pm
Scott Chris

thedavincimode says:- “I mean, is it really adult behaviour to respond this way?”

Why would I want to behave like an adult? The behaviour of most adults is something I don’t wish to emulate. We’re all just kids playing the society game, and I’m trying different tactics. If my ‘petulant hypocritical ad homs’ don’t work, I’ll try something else.

You may or may not have noticed, but I don’t attack those whose currency is reason, but for those whose currency is vitriol I respond in kind.
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December 5, 2011 1:53pm
thedavincimode

But Scott, how did this all come about? Down wrestling in the shallow end. And to think I looked up to you; looked to your example. 🙁

All those times I nearly wrote something but asked myself: would Scott say this? And then didn’t.

You were always so critical of the “petulant hypocritical ad hom”. Then you do it and once you start, there’s just no stopping you as you catapault yourself to the 3000 mark on a tidal wave of ad hom and ill-humour. An avalanche of petulance and hypocrisy.

And now you say if it doesn’t work you’ll do something else!! This surely cannot be. You’re not a fraud are you Scott? Who is the real Scott Chris?
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December 5, 2011 2:44pm
bereal

i think that by applying some behavioral science principles we are in a position
to produce an initial profile on the unsub, Scott Chris.

Sex, not often but a male.(of sorts)
Height, 5’6″ or shorter. (probably bald and overweight) spectacles.
Age, unknown.
Family background, an only child, weak father (an accountant?) strong mother who
continually praised little Scott Chris, mummys boy. Developed an unwarranted very high opinion of himself.
Education, a crawler who often brought teacher an apple. A notorious pimp. Disliked by all. No close associates.
3 years secondary.
Employment, sedentary office job where he was a well known brown noser. (didn’t do him any good but.)
Vehicle. Small 4 door, a Skoda or similar. (white)
Residence, lives alone in a small unit.
to be continued.
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December 5, 2011 2:53pm
thedavincimode

beryl

I don’t think they do a Skoda in white do they?

(Personal disclosure: I’ve never shopped for one, and none of my best friends have ever considered buying one. Well, none have ever admitted it.)
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December 5, 2011 3:01pm
Manolo

A cracker, bereal. By the way, do you work for the FBI Profiling Unit? 🙂
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December 5, 2011 3:02pm
Elaycee

Haha – excellent work, bereal.

That’ll bring on the apoplexy…. 😛
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December 5, 2011 3:31pm
dime

bereal – LMAO

definitely a dude. He hates women.

suspect he married someone who resembled his mother. she destroyed him and took everything with her (probably cause she paid for everything)

ill also add – strippers are scared of him. hes the dude that sits n the dark corner of showgirls by himself, hands over all he can afford but just scares them.
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December 5, 2011 3:34pm
Other_Andy

Senate Approves Bill that Legalizes Sodomy and Bestiality in U.S. Military

The Senate on Thursday evening voted 93-7 to approve a defense authorization bill that includes a provision which not only repeals the military law on sodomy, it also repeals the military ban on sex with animals–or bestiality.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/senate-approves-bill-legalizes-sodomy-and-bestiality-us-military
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December 5, 2011 4:11pm
nasska

Other_Andy

It would be worthwhile finding out what else the bill covers. My bullshit alert is redlining as throwing something like this into a bill containing real sneaky stuff would be just the sort of thing Obama’s lowlife mates would try on.

While everyone’s running around worrying about who sodomises who there’s probably some part of the legislation that really endangers the rights & freedoms of USA citizens being carefully ignored by the media.
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December 5, 2011 4:27pm
James Stephenson

(Personal disclosure: I’ve never shopped for one, and none of my best friends have ever considered buying one. Well, none have ever admitted it.)

Of all the things to despise communism for, turning one of Europe’s great original engineering companies into a laughing stock is my personal #1.
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December 5, 2011 4:32pm
James Stephenson

By the way, do you work for the FBI Profiling Unit?

I think he’s just founded the KBI Profiling Unit…
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December 5, 2011 4:34pm
thedavincimode

James S

Rescued by the Germans though, so that they had a market for new old VWs …
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December 5, 2011 5:04pm
thedavincimode

Other_Andy

I reckon that there will be some nervous camels in the middle east and the ‘stan about now. Or at least, the good looking ones will be feeling nervous.
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December 5, 2011 5:06pm
Scott Chris

Heh, I see beryl has joined in with the other buzzards. Funnily enough, I owned an old Skoda my last year in high school. When that died, I bought an old Fiat 850 for uni. When I crashed that, my sister gave me her rusty viva.

What beryl and other troglodytes don’t seem to have noticed, is that Skoda/VW make a very decent automobile these days.
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December 5, 2011 5:42pm
chiz

Surely those camels, and the goats, have been nervous ever since the mullahs started telling the locals not to have sex before marriage.
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December 5, 2011 5:46pm
Johnboy

Sad to hear that your Sis had a rusty viva Scotty.

Hope medical science prevailed and gave her a reconstructed viva as bright, wet and shiny as all the other tarts had. 🙂
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December 5, 2011 5:46pm
Pauleastbay

NZ Cricket = Sky Sports being turned off until March.

They are a marketing disaster, John Fellet will be trying to buy the lingere football league to keep viewers
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December 5, 2011 5:57pm
bereal

Scott Chris, good on you for having a bit of a sense of humour.
Point is, if you lightened up a bit on the name calling and holier than thou attitude you wouldn’t put peoples
backs up so much and cop so much flack. Sometimes you do make good comments.

So the vehicle was pretty close eh ; how much of the rest of the profile was spot on ?
Most of it ?

Other_Andy, i see sodomy was legalised in the British Royal Navy in 1967
Not so sure about buggery though. Some of the comments in the story you linked to are hilarious.
eg, “Why do the marines want to rape our pets ?”
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December 5, 2011 6:03pm
Viking2

Heavy lifting about to start.

Vidoe of smit borneo

http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/19410-crane-arrives-to-aid-rena-salvors.html#vid

http://screencast.com/t/foSGMff5qOZe
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December 5, 2011 6:05pm
RF

Must confess that I was recently slumming over at the Standard and felt sick after reading the posts.. What a filthy site… It’s hard to believe that such evil mutants are free to roam throughout this fair country.

They are all in complete denial and self destrcting over their choice of new leader but I guess that is good for the free thinking right.
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December 5, 2011 6:08pm
wat dabney

More victims of the war on drugs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2069844/Chinese-execution-pictures-Women-executed-drug-smuggling.html
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December 5, 2011 6:11pm
Johnboy

Once upon a time V2 such a vessel would have been called “The Smith Glasgow”. 🙂

How times have changed. 🙂
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December 5, 2011 6:12pm
Pauleastbay

http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2011/12/cushy-millions/#disqus_thread

Explains nicely how Shearer wasn’t exactly in the trenches whilst at the UN.

WTF is a MSc in Resource Management, please say it ain’t how to run a rubbish dump
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December 5, 2011 6:30pm
Other_Andy

As any dedicated ‘lefty’ Labour Party apparatchik.
“Do as I say, not as I do”
(Suckers!)
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December 5, 2011 7:22pm
reid

This is why TPP wants Pharmac out.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/12/04/lobbyists-stealing-government.aspx?e_cid=20111204_SNL_Art_1
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December 5, 2011 7:30pm
Viking2

http://www.flixxy.com/chinese-bicycle-acrobatics.htm
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December 5, 2011 7:57pm
nasska

Bethlehem City Council Department of Social Care:

Childs Name: Jesus O’Nazaretth
Parental Report:
Mother – Delusional: claims to converse with people who can fly. Behaviour possibly an indication of prolonged narcotics use.
Father – Absent/Unknown.
Step Father – Of limited IQ. Does not understand where babies come from. Seems unperturbed about his wife’s obvious infidelity.
Living Conditions – The family reside in a dilapidated out-building and the child was found sharing the accommodation with a number of animals.
The place was dirty and un-heated.
The parents were throwing wild parties and had invited all the local shepherds round (not a suitable environment for a baby).
During our inspection, three mature gentlemen approached the parents with very expensive gifts – we are concerned about their motives, several paedophile rings operate in this area.
Action – Child taken into care.
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December 5, 2011 8:00pm
Johnboy

I went to bed with their Grandmothers once back in Shanghai V2.

It brought a whole new meaning to the words “You want us put lubber on bigboy beflore we take you for lide lound world”.
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December 5, 2011 8:05pm
reid

Viking that’s great, thank you.

nasska were those pedo’s arrested as well? Let’s hope so. Crikey.
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December 5, 2011 8:32pm
big bruv

I note that the Green party staff member who was sacked for vandalising National party signs has unsurprisingly been given her job back now that the election is over.

All that faux outrage from Wussell was really not needed, far better for Wuss to have come out and told the truth.

Both Norman and the female co-leader knew all about the vandalism from day one and they both endorsed it.

Just another example of Green party lies.
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December 5, 2011 8:54pm
reid

I confidently predict BB this will be front page news across the entire MSM broadcast channels from Morning Report to talkback to the evening news this very morrow.

In fact I’m hoping i-predict will announce a $50k IPO on it for I’d buy the whole lot I’m that fucking confident.

Let’s wait and see.
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December 5, 2011 9:26pm
Manolo

A coup for the regime of the crazy mullahs: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/05/us-military-sources-iran-has-missing-us-drone/
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