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Whafe

Yay, I beat a Pinko to the first post of the day……. YEAH HA 😀
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May 21, 2011 9:10am
Pete George

Well, that’s clocked up a few. Far too many for some I know – I’ve received a fair bit of stick, especially in my early days here, but most of you seem to have learnt to tolerate or ignore my statements and prods and digs and questions and waffles. But this occasion shouldn’t be about me.

I’d like to dedicate this post to Kiwiblog, and particularly to David Farrar who made it happen and keeps allowing it to happen. It’s unusual, especially in politics, for someone openly and closely associated with one party, to be so inclusive of all and sundry, no matter how critical or spade calling they might be (with the odd deserved exception).

Kiwiblog is really a forum of two parts. First and foremost it’s David’s daily diet of interesting and astute and wide ranging posts that give his blog substantial net and media cred. Despite his obvious political lean he will often criticise his own and praise opposing factions and parties, very refreshing for a political operator.

Secondly , it’s a very open mouthpiece where just about anyone is allowed to say their bit. Sometimes it’s a mêlée, it can be brutal, but it’s also very interesting, informative, entertaining, and it can be a lot of fun. This wouldn’t be possible without the host’s tolerance of such a varied range of views and styles.

I’ve been Kiwiblogging for a couple of years – maybe I’m just getting used to it here, but I feel that the mêlée has improved noticeably over that time, there has been a nasty edge but that seems to have receded. David runs a minimal moderation model, that is one of the strengths of the blog. It’s also a potential weakness, but if civility is supported and respected by most posters then self moderation can and does usually work well. No one is prevented from being forthright, colourful, blunt and brutally honest, but it’s worth trying to follow a general “rule” of only posting what you’d be prepared to say in person or in public.

It’s good so see a continuous inclusion of new posters. I still feel like I’m a relative newbie here time-wise. My advice is to be honest with yourself and to others – be prepared to have what may have seemed like great wisdoms dashed on the rocks of the blog, some can be sharp, but it’s more a test of ideas and wits rather than a soapbox here. Keep in mind that one or two scathing diss-idents are not the whole community, there is a substantial silent readership.

I’m very grateful I’ve had the Kiwiblog opportunity to share and test my ideas, I’ve built substantially on what I’ve known about politics, about social issues, and about human nature. It’s a different sort of interaction to real life, it has a wide and ready reach but you have to allow for the lack of body language, it’s much easier to misconstrue and misinterpret messages and intentions. Despite that the internet, and blogs, are a great addition to communication, and Kiwiblog is one of the better mediums we have.

Cheers to Kiwiblog, and to David Farrar. Thanks very much.

[DPF: Ta]
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May 21, 2011 9:10am
Manolo

Tacky!

A Wellywood sign to celebrate the capital’s film industry will be built along the hillside next to the Miramar Cutting.

The Hollywood-style sign will be 3.5 metres high and 28m wide. It is understood to cost several hundred thousand dollars and is intended to be ready for the Rugby World Cup in September.
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May 21, 2011 9:11am
Manolo

Good on you, P.G.
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May 21, 2011 9:12am
Manolo

The Huruld analyses Kiwi Saver changes. For those who believe Labour lite, lead by English and Key, is the party of low taxes….not. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10727060

KiwiSaver changes called ‘great tax switcheroo’

Changes to KiwiSaver this week mean that for many savers who earn more than $58,000, the Government is taking more cash out of previously tax-free employer contributions than it pays out in annual incentives.
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May 21, 2011 9:15am
Other_Andy

In the New Zealand Herald today…
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/budget-2011/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503063&objectid=10726612
25% of the taxpayers pay 70% of the tax intake
Talk about paying a fair share.
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May 21, 2011 9:16am
Whafe

Its interesting that John Armstrong in the Herald seems to think the only good budget is one that gives people something…

When will many of the NZ population realise the economy is in the toilet, we cant just cant keep giving…

Goofy Goff and his Pinko’s are all talk, show us how you would do better, come on, out with it….
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May 21, 2011 9:17am
Peter

A Wellywood sign to celebrate the capital’s film industry will be built along the hillside next to the Miramar Cutting.

Why not just erect a sign saying “We’re Wellington, We Have No Imagination”

It is deeply sad that airport “executives” would a) even consider this and b) *still* think it’s a good idea.

Beyond tacky.
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May 21, 2011 9:18am
Whafe

Pete, very good post indeed, congrats on 10K posts, your tax rate will now lift 😉
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May 21, 2011 9:22am
nasska

PG @ 9.10am

Good 10K post…..congratulations.
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May 21, 2011 9:25am
nasska

Peter @ 9.18am

It just needs balance…something like Welcome to Wankerville on the Haitaitai hills should do the trick.
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May 21, 2011 9:29am
Pauleastbay

Wellington Airport CEO Steve Fitzgerald has a huge future in politics.

The majority of people thought the Wellywood sign was stupid to the nth degree but he will still go ahead with it, simply brilliant.
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May 21, 2011 9:35am
Peter

It just needs balance…something like Welcome to Wankerville on the Haitaitai hills should do the trick.

Aucklanders, and everyone else, will have a field day with this. And rightly so.

I think I need to move somewhere less embarrassing than the soon-to-be “Wellywood”.

Like Ekatunhuna.
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May 21, 2011 9:39am
Whafe

Steveie Fitzgerald sounds like a Pinko, whom feels it is his right to tell us what we want, not what the majority vote for
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May 21, 2011 9:40am
Inventory2

Isn’t it interesting what the Register of Pecuniary Interests discloses. Labour makes much about John Key’s holidays at his “mansion in Hawaii”, but a few of them like the holiday lifestyle themselves …

http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2011/05/spot-double-standard.html

Oh dear. What’s that word when you say one thing and do another? I think it starts with an “h” …
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May 21, 2011 9:42am
Ender

Haha am I the only one who thinks it’s odd that the left is criticising increased effective tax rates on high income earners?
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May 21, 2011 9:47am
Inventory2

Well done Pete George; 10,000 posts represents a lot of typing, thinking and time. I thought I spent a lot of time here, but I’ve still got almost 4000 to go!
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May 21, 2011 9:48am
jaba

well said/done PG
Other_Andy “25% of the taxpayers pay 70% of the tax intake
Talk about paying a fair share”
no no no, son, the 25% would have to pay 100% to make the Labour/Greens happy
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May 21, 2011 9:50am
Whafe

I find it odd in an odd way that how my mind cannot fathom how a Pinko thinks they should be given because it is there belief and right.

How does a Pinkos mind get to a state where by they truly believe that those that work hard and get ahead should be taxed more to pay for those that dont wish to get off of their asses… I know a decade of Hulun Clark goes a long way to doing this, but none the less it still leaves me speechless how the overall mantra of a Pinko is
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May 21, 2011 9:55am
Ender

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5035348/Hunters-branded-inhuman-speak-out

Have the mother for libel I say. She made a statement for broadcast indicating that the men left the scene of the crime without attempting to seek help for the victim when, infact, they, the police and the courts say they did everything within their power to help her.
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May 21, 2011 9:57am
Dave Mann

@Pete George….. well written. I especially liked the fact that you celebrated your 10,000th comment by acknowledging DPF, the guy who made this blog happen and allows such a range of opinion to be expressed here. Good one 🙂
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May 21, 2011 9:58am
jaba

looks like KFC’s double-down will get a hiding on election day
“Election-year planning would also focus on ways to get Labour supporters to the polls, especially in the so-called “four Ms” seats in South Auckland where the non-vote hit Labour in 2008: Mangere, Maungakiekie, Manukau East and Manurewa”.
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May 21, 2011 9:59am
Bobbie black

What the world hasn’t ended yet?

What the Hell?

Shit that means I’ll need to go to work on Monday as usual then God?

God? Yoohoo, God!?

Nice post Pete.
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May 21, 2011 10:08am
James Stephenson

South Auckland …. Maungakiekie……

We’re not in F-ing South Auckland! Maungakiekie is One Tree F-ing Hill…
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May 21, 2011 10:14am
Pauleastbay

We’re not in F-ing South Auckland! Maungakiekie is One Tree F-ing Hill……

be afraid James, mayor Len wants turn all of Auckland into South Auckland
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May 21, 2011 10:17am
Clint Heine

Ugh, the last thing I want to see when coming back to NZ is a huge bloody “Wellywood” sign. Whoever is erecting it is an idiot who must hate Wellington.
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May 21, 2011 10:20am
James Stephenson

@Pauleastbay

Len is just the latest and worst manufestation of the “Dressmart Effect”…it brings all sorts of undesirable trash up from South Auckland…our burglary rates in Onehunga are terrible.
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May 21, 2011 10:35am
MT_Tinman

I think the sign is a great idea.

Usually I dread the approach to Wellington, the slow, always buffeted drop down the sound to the airport.

Soon that will no longer be the case, no way will I be concerned whether the ‘plane can land.

I’ll be far to busy laughing!
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May 21, 2011 10:39am
publicwatchdog

Seen this ‘Kiwibloggers’?

http://www.gregpalast.com/

Strauss-Kahn Screws Africa

by Greg Palast
New York, Friday, May 20, 2011

Now that I’ve dispensed with the obvious and obnoxious teaser headline, let’s drop the towel and expose Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s history of arrogant abuse. The truth is, the grandee of the IMF has molested Africans for years.

On Wednesday, the New York Times ran five – count’em, FIVE – stories on Strauss-Kahn, Director-General of the International Monetary Fund. According to the Paper of Record, the charges against “DSK,” as he’s known in France, are in “contradiction” to his “charm” and “accomplishments” at the IMF.

Au contraire, mes chers lecteurs.

Director-General DSK’s cruelty, arrogance and impunity toward African and other nations as generalissimo of the IMF is right in line with the story told by the poor, African hotel housekeeper in New York City.
……………….”

Greg Palast is one of my favourite investigative reporters.

(So – on that basis – most ‘Kiwibloggers’ will hate him on principle?

😉

For those of you who GENUINELY believe in ‘freedom of expression’ – I suggest you have a read.
Greg Palast has a VERY entertaining and informative style of work.

Have a LOVELY day.

Kind regards

Penny Bright
http://waterpressure.wordpress.com
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May 21, 2011 10:59am
Manolo

Nutter alert, nutter alert!
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May 21, 2011 11:03am
MyNameIsJack

So I guess you all forgot yesterday was International Draw Mohammed Day.

Well, thanks to globalisation, its still May 20 in some parts of the world, so GET DRAWING!
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May 21, 2011 11:17am
Elaycee

Oh Oh…. blog blight has arrived. Check the kids are outside playing…
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May 21, 2011 11:18am
Manolo

So I guess you all forgot yesterday was International Draw Mohammed Day.

Why bother drawing? Photographs of Bert Potter and Gary Glitter will do.
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May 21, 2011 11:21am
reid

One opinion of the J-20, China’s new stealth fighter.

http://atimes.com/atimes/China/ME20Ad03.html
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May 21, 2011 11:26am
stephen

I’m very grateful I’ve had the Kiwiblog opportunity to share and test my ideas, I’ve built substantially on what I’ve known about politics, about social issues, and about human nature

Me too, feel like I’ve learned a lot by actively engaging with other posters here. I used to do it a lot more in early days (see: http://xkcd.com/386/), but became a little jaded with the ‘same-old’ to an extent. Still, I hope everyone else is making ‘progress’, in some way.
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May 21, 2011 11:56am
Sofia

Further –

Seen this ‘Kiwibloggers’?

THE ESTABLISHMENT ELIMINATES A THREAT …

– http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28153.htm

“…The police and the prostitute media have made it impossible for Dominique Strauss-Kahn to get a fair trial. From the moment of the announcement that he had been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting a hotel maid, and before he was ever indicted, the accounts given by the police were designed to create the impression that the director of the International Monetary Fund was guilty.
For example, the police told the media, which duly regurgitated to the public, that Strauss-Kahn was in such a hurry to flee the scene of the crime that he left behind his cell phone.

The police also put out the story that by calling airlines and demanding passenger lists, they managed to catch the fleeing rapist just as his plane was departing for France.
A New York judge denied Strauss-Kahn bail on the basis of police misrepresentation that he was apprehended fleeing the country.

Once he was imprisoned, the police announced that Strauss-Kahn was on suicide watch, which is a way of suggesting to the public that the accused rapist might take his own life in order to avoid the public humiliation of a guilty verdict from a jury.

But what really happened, assuming one can learn anything from press reports, is that Strauss-Kahn, upon arriving at JFK airport for his scheduled flight, discovered that he did not have his cell phone and telephoned the hotel, the scene of the alleged crime.
It boggles the mind that anyone could possibly think that a person fleeing from his crime would call the scene of the crime, ask about his left-behind cell phone, and tell them where he was.

Then in rapid succession, reeking of orchestration, a French woman steps forward and declares that a decade ago she was nearly raped by Strauss-Kahn.
This was followed by Kristin Davis, the Manhattan Madam of the prostitute who did in Eliot Spitzer before he could get the banksters on Wall Street, stepping forward to announce that one of her call girls refused to service Strauss-Kahn a second time because he was too rough in the act.

With hunting season opened, any woman whose career would benefit from publicity, or whose bank account would bless a damage award, can now step forward and claim to have been a victim or near victim of Strauss-Kahn.
This is not to deny that Strauss-Kahn might have an inordinate appetite for sex that did him in. It is to say that long before a jury hears from the maid, or from a prosecutor speaking for the maid “who is too traumatized to appear in court,” the jury has been programmed with the verdict that he is guilty . . .
_______________________________________

I am one of my own favourite investigative reporters

(So – on that basis – most ‘Kiwibloggers’ will abuse me on principle? 🙂

Continue to try having a LOVELY day.

Kind regards

Penny Blight
– http://waterpressure.wordpressure.somethingorother

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Manolo (4,173) Says:
May 21st, 2011 at 12:07 pm

Another nutter alert, another nutter alert!
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May 21, 2011 12:07pm
Falafulu Fisi

Congratulation Pete George! 10,000 posts.
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May 21, 2011 12:12pm
nasska

Elaycee @ 11.18am

Note that the latest press release from Waterworld was under 250 words & stood up well compared with the normal incoherent ramblings.

In your opinion is this due to;
a) new improved anti psychotic drugs
b) the phase of the moon
c) a desire to engage with fellow commenters in a sane & rational way.

I don’t hold out a lot of hope for change but after three sad months of watching a mind unravel I’m ready to clutch at straws.
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May 21, 2011 12:12pm
Elaycee

@nasska 12.12pm.
Option (a) – For sure.
Option (b) – Most likely.
Option (c) – No way. The terminology “sane” and “traditional” are not words one can use in the same sentence containing reference to the infestation that is the blog blight.

But more likely Option (d) – She was spanked and told to post a link rather than cut / paste propaganda.

Its rather like watching a crash at Daytona Speedway in freeze frame…. you know the inevitable outcome and yet there is a perverse fascination in watching it unfold. Just like the realisation on the blog blight’s face when she gets the results of the Howick Ward by-election. EEEK!
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May 21, 2011 12:27pm
Elaycee

@ Manolo 12.07pm: Check the poster’s name. Its not from the Kellogg’s fruit loop poster – its actually Sofia.
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May 21, 2011 12:30pm
Elaycee

@Pete George – 9.10am. Well written.
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May 21, 2011 12:33pm
Manolo

Thanks, Elaycee. I noticed that.
It could the case of a missing twin sister?
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May 21, 2011 12:34pm
nasska

Elaycee @ 12.27pm

My bad….still, as you note, there’s the by-election results to look forward to with the accompanying spin to create a resounding endorsement from the five votes received.
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May 21, 2011 12:43pm
Elaycee

@Manolo – Two of them? A twin sister? Noooooooooooooooooooo…. Wash your mouth out.

It would not be possible – one of them is bad enough. Picture it – poised over the keyboard with fingers ready to pounce, furrowed brow hiding a tormented frontal lobe bereft of producing any coherent thought, attention focussed on trying to think of some more bullshit to spin to the nasty people at Kiwiblog, lips pouting, chest pumping with rage and to complete it all, a facial expression resembling a camel chomping on gorse.

The thought of two of them is not nice at all. In fact, I need to go outside for some fresh air…
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May 21, 2011 12:52pm
Puzzled in Ekatahuna

@Manolo and Elaycee – Two of them? A twin sister? Noooooooooooooooooooo…. Wash your mouth out.

Actually read the two posts – the original AGAINST Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the other FOR him – well, at least suggesting a conspiracy on the part of NYPD and others.
Yes, a truely split personality?
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May 21, 2011 1:02pm
TripeWryter

A gracious and generous 10,000th, Pete George.

Well done.
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May 21, 2011 1:21pm
TripeWryter

” where the non-vote hit Labour in 2008: Mangere, Maungakiekie, Manukau East and Manurewa”.”

Didn’t Labour alienate themselves from voters in those electorates because they had lost the connection? Because they were too busy engaging in the kind of social engineering that the Maori and Pacific Island votes neither needed nor wanted?

And Labour still shows every sign of not having listened.
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May 21, 2011 1:26pm
Johnboy

Congrats Petey George.

Glad to see you are coming round to the light side of the force! 🙂
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May 21, 2011 1:33pm
Johnboy

And for all you bastards who are picking on the woman of my dreams Penny Bright.

Leave her alone I say.

I love her and will not be satisfied until she is grazing in my home paddock!
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May 21, 2011 1:37pm
Rufus

Labour-promises-bold-election-policies

Can’t wait…
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May 21, 2011 1:38pm
Tauhei Notts

Jaba at 9.59 a.m.
What a delightfully cutting comment.
People who cannot remember the 2005 election rip off will not understand the poignant point that you make.
It is comments like yours that help make this the country’s top blog site.
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May 21, 2011 1:41pm
Rufus

@Reid 11:26

J-20 = gamechanger ?

Better learn to enjoy noodles….
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May 21, 2011 1:44pm
Yvette

Elle est un loup dans l’habillement du mouton, mais les aimez-vous de cette façon, non ?
Are you ready for the world to go futt? Have you got all your moutons lined up in a row ready for the Rapture?
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May 21, 2011 2:00pm
backster

Well done Pete George but I think PUblic Watchdog will beat you to 20,000.
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May 21, 2011 2:03pm
Johnboy

Quand on est frappé avec le practicality un doit prendre une décision sérieuse Yvette.
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May 21, 2011 2:10pm
Rufus

Just found one of those Labour red cards with the “tick box” options on it:

[ ] Let’s let National sell asses sales, raise power prices, send all the profits overseas or some such rubbish*

[ ] Let’s not.

So my question is – Labour, what would you like to do instead?!

*Anyway, the first proposal is totally misleading. Framed in such a way to make everyone recoil in horror. The fact that they’re lying through their teeth doesn’t matter, perception is everything. As long as the continue to repeat the mantra ” National = asses sales” someone will eventually believe them.

I hate Labour with a passion. Lying, cheating, thieving scum.
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May 21, 2011 2:19pm
Yvette

Johnboy, how many mouton do you have because you only have three and a half hours left?
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May 21, 2011 2:29pm
Elaycee

@ Johnboy; @Yvette: Si les deux vous voulez avoir «privé» chats, pourquoi ne pas échanger des numéros de téléphone et adresses électroniques, et faire avec elle?
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May 21, 2011 2:30pm
Johnboy

Yvette. Est pas le nombre des moutons mais des la qualité au moment final qui donne le plaisir. 🙂
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May 21, 2011 2:36pm
Johnboy

Elaycee. Vous êtes bienvenu pour ajouter votre numéro de téléphone si le acte ne finit pas bien pour vous. 🙂
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May 21, 2011 2:41pm
Elaycee

@ Johnboy: Moi? Non, merci…
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May 21, 2011 2:45pm
Viking2

N.B. Frogs live with pond scum. Are you frog pretenders sure you are on the right blog? 😳
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May 21, 2011 2:50pm
Viking2

John Key goes to a science exhibition and is shown a time machine which can see
100 years into the future.

The man in charge invites him to ask any question he likes.

John Key asks “What will Australia be like in 100 years time?” The machine
whirrs and beeps and goes into action and gives a printout, which the man
reads:

“The country is in good hands under the new Prime Minister, crime is non-
existent, there is no conflict, the economy is healthy. There are no worries.”

He has another go, “What will China be like in 100 years time?” Another print
out:

“The country will be the world’s leading economy and everyone there will enjoy
the highest standard of living in the world”

John Key then asks “What will New Zealand be like in 100 years time?” The
machine whirrs and beeps and goes into action. The man gets a Printout,but he’s
just stares at it.

“Come on”, says John Key “What does it say?”

The man replies, “Buggered if I know ! It’s all in Maori!”
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May 21, 2011 2:55pm
Viking2

Labour will do away with Families Commission
VERNON SMALL
Last updated 14:47 21/05/2011

NEW FOCUS: Annette King says Labour will do away with the Families Commission and replace with a Children’s Ministry.

Labour would dis-establish the Families Commission, championed by United Future leader Peter Dunne, and fold some of its work into a new Children’s Ministry, Labour deputy leader Annette King says.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5036744/Labour-will-do-away-with-Families-Commission
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May 21, 2011 3:02pm
nasska

Johnboy

You can probably take a chance on being philosophical since the world ends in a few hours.

Femme de l’eau pour le plaisir
Un mouton pour l’ecstasy
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May 21, 2011 3:05pm
Manolo

Labour would dis-establish the Families Commission, championed by United Future leader Peter Dunne, and fold some of its work into a new Children’s Ministry

In the best socialist tradition: from the pan to the fire. Replacing bureaucrats with more bureaucrats!
Shame on you, "Full Moon" King.
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May 21, 2011 3:06pm
Johnboy

nasska: Un homme dur a toujours besoin un bon squirter
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May 21, 2011 3:12pm
Yvette

Elaycee – @ Johnboy; @Yvette: If both you want “to have deprived” cats, why not exchange phone numbers and email addresses, and make with it?

. . . want “to have deprived” cats . . . To borrow current expression: “Errrr – ?”
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May 21, 2011 3:13pm
nasska

Viking 2 @ 2.55pm

Very good.
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May 21, 2011 3:21pm
Elaycee

@Yvette. Google translator = not good.
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May 21, 2011 3:26pm
Elaycee

I had a terrible experience this afternoon and in order that fellow Kiwibloggers do not suffer the same trauma (and as part of my own recovery), I need to share what happened:

I live in the Eastern Suburbs of Auckland. Driving back home today, I stopped behind another car at an intersection and waited for the traffic to clear – in particular a very large furniture truck that was moving away from in front of a residential property. But the simple act of gently moving away from the kerb, created panic not witnessed in Howick before:

A mother with a child in a pram / a second alongside, screamed in panic, threw a blanket over the baby and turned the head of the other child aside – all whilst rushing away from the object of her concern.

The air was immediately filled with the baying of dogs – this in turn prompted all neighbourhood cats to scarper at top speed and for the local sparrow population to take flight. Remember, this all occurred in a matter of moments. The car in front of me took off at such a rate that the engine was screaming on the rev limiter whilst it deposited 6 months tyre wear on the road – roughly the same amount of rubber seen when a V8 Supercar starts a race. From nowhere a helicopter appeared overhead and police sirens could be heard in the distance. Joggers hid behind fences and even the postie did a U turn on her bike and pedalled urgently for safer places.

And what was the object of such panic? What prompted the residents of Howick to leap for their phones and dial 111 in the quest for urgent assistance? Was this the end of the world as proclaimed by some fruitloops?

No – it was much worse – Penny Bright had erected a hoarding on someone’s fence – complete with full sized picture of herself and a bright red stencilled slogan “No Rates Increase.” OMG! It was the stuff of which nightmares are made.

So, to anyone in the vicinity of Cook Street Howick, may I extend this plea – keep your eyes firmly on the road whilst driving and do NOT allow them to deviate away to the nearby landscape.

EEEK!
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May 21, 2011 3:30pm
Johnboy

Elaycee: Yvette and I always correspond using:

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

Its the translator you have when you are not having a translator! 🙂
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May 21, 2011 3:32pm
nasska

Johnboy

Since I suspect that under the gruff exterior of a hardened farmer there probably beats a romantic heart……..

A Love Story

They met in a secluded field, the sun nearly kissing the evening horizon.The warm breeze was full of that earthy musky scent that only those fortunate enough to live outside the urban rat race know, and the quiet whispering of leaves in the Weeping Willow overhead added the final touch to the most romantic scene. They lay there, both naked. He knew he had to have her and have her now.

Without a word being spoken, he managed to move himself to a position of dominance. He could feel instantly that this is what she had been waiting for as she frantically thrust her pelvis at his approaching organ. He moved slowly at first, inch by inch, until he was fully inside her. Then as tension rose, they began the ultimate in sex.

Although inexperienced, she approached every change of position with enthusiasm, moaning with despair every time he withdrew to prevent himself from ending it all too soon. As sexual tension heightened towards the inevitable mind-blowing climax, it was all he could do to hold out until the moment they had been both waiting for was upon them. As it did, they rolled together in the now damp grass.

As the last deep orange glow of the long setting sun melted into the darkness of approaching night, as they lay there still entwined in an amorous embrace, he kissed her long and lovingly and whispered how good she had been. She tenderly and sensuously licked his inner ear and whispered, “Baaa”, then re-joined the flock.
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May 21, 2011 3:36pm
Johnboy

Can you direct me to Cook St. Howick Elaycee so I can view the image of my beloved?
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May 21, 2011 3:36pm
nasska

Elaycee @ 3.32pm

You poor bastard…..the therapy may help.
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May 21, 2011 3:39pm
Johnboy

That’s a lovely story nasska but why didn’t he just clamp her, do the job and kick her arse back to the flock and ready himself for the next one?

As for letting her lick his ear all I can say is YUUUCK!
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May 21, 2011 3:40pm
Elaycee

@ Johnboy. I’m still in deep shock and I’m trying to shut it all out, but think it was in the area of the Cook St / Minerva Tce / Drake St intersection.

Take sunglasses.

And someone to drive you home.

EEEK!
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May 21, 2011 3:43pm
Johnboy

Penny can drive me home to our love nest while I whisper sweet nothings in her shell like ear of the joys that await her down on my little farm in Wainui. 🙂
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May 21, 2011 3:48pm
Bevan

I see Labour still haven’t got the message:

Annette King: “It still astounds me that in New Zealand we have a minister for race horses, a minister of the Rugby World Cup, a minister for senior citizens but no minister for the most vulnerable in our community, our kids.”

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10727150

Hey Anette, why didn’t you bring this up – I dunno back in 04 or 05? Didn’t you blokes and um Labour create a Minister for the World Cup, and a Minister for Horse Racing? And ahhhh, didn’t the “Family’s Commission” come into existence, you know, the last time you were in gov? Why are they bad now, they didn’t seem to be so bad while you were desperate for Winny and Dunnes support were they?

How about the next time, instead of trying to re-write history and make out they are bad ol National Party creations you start with the words: “New Zealand, we’re sorry, we kinda fucked up with these ones”. I know you guys really suck at admitting when you are wrong, but that’s kinda why we’re not giving you a chance right now – and this arrogant hypocrisy doesn’t really help your cause.

Oh, and Toad – the Greens aren’t a credible alternative, get back in your hole.
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May 21, 2011 3:59pm
Yvette

@ nasska and Johnboy
Shame on you both. My second monitor has gone weird and my hard drive has gone all soft.

“while I whisper sweet nothings in her shell like ear” – with a loud hailer.
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May 21, 2011 4:02pm
Lazybum

See Ryan Giggs of Manchester United is the footballer with the super injuction that has been exposed on Twitter for rodgering some bird on Big Brother.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8526571/Premiership-footballer-sues-Twitter-after-details-of-super-injunction-were-published.html
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May 21, 2011 4:27pm
Viking2

Two look a likes. you will enjoy this.

http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/201121/quiz220.jpg

http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/201121/SCCZEN_A_100610NZHMMKING4_220x147.JPG
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May 21, 2011 4:50pm
Johnboy

I’m really pissed that the woman I love hasn’t turned up to our rendezvous.

I guess she may be busy fellating a fire hydrant or something.
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May 21, 2011 4:54pm
Manolo

I’m really pissed that the woman I love hasn’t turned up to our rendezvous.

I feel sorry for you. You must be well beyond desperation.
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May 21, 2011 5:30pm
nasska

Johnboy

‘Tis better to have loved and lost. Than never to have loved at all.
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May 21, 2011 5:43pm
Johnboy

True nasska.

No worries. I still love my hand. 🙂
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May 21, 2011 5:47pm
alex Masterley

Just about six. Have fun people.
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May 21, 2011 5:58pm
nasska

Can’t these god botherers run anything properly….now even The Rapture is late.
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May 21, 2011 6:21pm
jaba

still have my crash helmet on and mouth guard in, when is the grim reaper coming again?
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May 21, 2011 6:26pm
Johnboy

I told the wife to give the big bloke a call and hold off till I’ve scoffed my two pork chops (I’m not Jewish or Muslim you understand).

I like to make a really good job of a pork chop so you can put the rapture on hold till say 7.30pm.
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May 21, 2011 6:29pm
Blue Coast

I see Moon King is going to look after our kids. I may not be right but didn’t Sue Bullsh*t say the same thing.
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May 21, 2011 6:45pm
alex Masterley

I got myself a double down in anticipation. Even that didn’t start the rapture.
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May 21, 2011 6:51pm
Inventory2

Sheesh; King couldn’t keep Dazza Hughes on the straight and narrow; how’s she going to look after kids?
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May 21, 2011 7:28pm
side show bob

Do you think God can hold the rapture for awhile, still got 70 something bottles of rough red left in the wine rake. Be such a shame to leave them.
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May 21, 2011 7:50pm
nasska

On a tour of NZ, the Pope took a couple of days off to visit the ocean for some sightseeing.
He was cruising along the beach at Wanganui in his car, when there was a frantic commotion just off the shore.
A helpless man wearing a green and gold Aussie rugby jersey was struggling frantically to free himself, from the jaws of a 5-metre shark.
As the Pope watched horrified, a Waka cruised up alongside with two men wearing All Black jerseys.
Rangi quickly threw a harpoon into the shark’s side. Hohepa reached out and pulled the mauled, bleeding and semi-conscious Aussie from the water. Then, using long clubs, Rangi and Hohepa killed the shark and hauled it into the boat.
Immediately the Pope summoned them to the beach, ‘I give you my blessing for your brave actions,’ he told them. ‘I heard that there was some bitter rivalry between New Zealand and Australia, but now I have seen with my own eyes that this is not true.’
As the Pope drove off, Rangi asked Hohepa ‘Who the hell was that, bro?’
‘That was the Pope cuz’ Hohepa replied. ‘He’s in direct contact with God bro, and has access to all of God’s wisdom.’
‘Well’ Rangi said, ‘he may have access to God’s wisdom, but he don’t know bugger all about shark fishing ………. Is the bait holding up okay, or do we need to get another Aussie?
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May 21, 2011 7:57pm
Bobbie black

Penny got off those 21 arrests by pleading insanity?

Hey Penny, I am curious as to what conviction you did receive?

Just a short sentence will suffice.
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May 21, 2011 8:48pm
side show bob

Don’t bother Bobbie, Penny’s being taken in the rapture, God felt sorry for Kiwiblog.
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May 21, 2011 9:04pm
Rex Widerstrom

So… does this rapture thing go according to timezones? Like, the nearest to the dateline get it first?

Just askin’… not that I want to watch you all die or anything…

😀
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May 21, 2011 9:48pm
Bobbie black

Well, time’s nearly up in New Zealand.

Those fanatical priets are so inaccurate.

Get’s annoying after a while.

I guess they do a lot of face palming.
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May 21, 2011 9:55pm
nasska

Rex

The oracle with the suspect crystal ball predicted the event would occur at 6.0pm “Pacific Time”. Dinner Time has come & gone & we’re looking at bedtime so we might have to write off The Rapture as a no show.
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