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July 26, 2011 8:00am by Kokila Patel

General Debate 26 July 2011

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Pete George

There’s a remarkable poll on the Herald: Would you get dental work done, then say you can’t pay?

11% (about 1300 out of 11900 votes) say Yes.
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July 26, 2011 7:13pm
Griff

@nasska
” if you ever hope to be a credible adult and want a job that pays better than minimum wage, then for God’s sake don’t pierce or tattoo every available piece of flesh. If you do so, then plan your future around saying, “Do you want fries with that?”

“scribbles are also a major turn off for woman” so you will just be a w…ker as well
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July 26, 2011 7:16pm
reid

James Murdoch may have the leave the building, in the UK, anyway. The other Murdoch in the US, well who knows.

The non-Murdoch UK papers won’t stop on this one, until Rupert comes up with some nasty stuff on their owners, from his “dossier.”

Isn’t it a farce. It’s just too bad that as a population, apparently human begins aren’t yet capable of collectively filtering scum like this from its information intakes and denying it oxygen so it just dies if alive or never even considers arising in the first place.

Plato said: “Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” Which pretty much sums up the entire MSM, these days, doesn’t it.
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July 26, 2011 7:20pm
reid

There’s a remarkable poll on the Herald: Would you get dental work done, then say you can’t pay?

11% (about 1300 out of 11900 votes) say Yes.

Pete maybe this is why so many dentists, apparently, commit suicide.
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July 26, 2011 7:23pm
Scott Chris

Pauleastbay (1,149) Says:
July 26th, 2011 at 7:13 pm

With all due respect Paul, that’s just your anecdotal testimony. There is some loss of native species, but the long term gains are proven to far outweigh the losses. 1080 is also the most cost effective approach to pest control.
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July 26, 2011 7:24pm
Steve

Thought this might bring a smile to your lips.

Cinderella was now 75 years old. After a fulfilling life with the now dead Prince, she happily sat upon her rocking chair, watching the world go by from her front porch, with a cat called Alan for companionship.

One sunny afternoon, out of nowhere, appeared the Fairy Godmother. Cinderella said “Fairy Godmother, what are you doing here after all these years?” The Fairy Godmother replied “Well Cinderella, since you have lived a good, wholesome life since we last met, I have decided to grant you 3 wishes. Is there anything for which your heart still yearns?”

Cinderella is taken aback, overjoyed and after some thoughtful consideration and almost under her breath she uttered her first wish: “I wish I was wealthy beyond comprehension.” Instantly, her rocking chair was turned into solid gold. Cinderella was stunned. Alan, her old faithful cat, jumped off her lap and scampered to the edge of the porch, quivering with fear. Cinderella said “Oh thank you, Fairy God Mother”.

The Fairy Godmother replied “It is the least I can do. What does your heart wish for your second wish?” Cinderella looked down at her frail body, and said: “I wish I was young and full of the beauty of youth again”. At once, her wish having been desired, became reality, and her beautiful youthful visage had returned. Cinderella felt stirrings inside her that had been dormant for years and long forgotten vigour and vitality began to course through her very soul.

Then the Fairy Godmother again spoke “You have one more wish, what shall you have?” Cinderella looked over to the frightened cat in the corner and said, “I wish you to transform Alan my old cat into a beautiful, and handsome young man”. Magically, Alan suddenly underwent so fundamental a change in his biological make-up, that when complete he stood before her, a young man, so beautiful the like of which she nor the world had ever seen, so fair indeed that birds begun to fall from the sky at his feet.

The Fairy Godmother again spoke: “Congratulations, Cinderella. Enjoy your new life.” And, with a blazing shock of bright blue electricity, she was gone. For a few eerie moments, Alan and Cinderella looked into each other’s eyes.

Cinderella sat, breathless, gazing at the most stunningly perfect young man she had ever seen. Then Alan walked over to Cinderella, who sat transfixed in her rocking chair, and held her close in his young muscular arms. He leant in close to her ear, and into her ear breathed as much as whispered, blowing her golden hair with his warm breath, “I bet you regret having me de-sexed now, don’t you?”
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July 26, 2011 7:24pm
wat dabney

“Evil and dumb people can be dealt with. The deeply-convinced do-gooders in positions of almost unchecked power, those are the ones we should worry about, those who are full of good intentions but suffer from tunnel-vision, incurably in awe of their own theories and incapable of even beginning to grasp how what they are doing could make things worse.”

http://papermoneycollapse.com/2011/07/bernankes-blind-side/
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July 26, 2011 7:25pm
nasska

One Man’s Gym Story

Dear Diary.

For my sixty fifth birthday this year, my wife (the dear) purchased a week of personal training at the local health club for me. Although I am still in great shape since playing on my college tennis team 45 years ago, I decided it would be a good idea to go ahead and give it a try. I called the club and made my reservations with a personal trainer named Belinda, who identified herself as a 26-year-old aerobics instructor and model for athletic clothing and swimwear. My wife seemed pleased with my enthusiasm to get started! The club encouraged me to keep a diary to chart my progress

MONDAY

Started my day at 6:00 a.m. Tough to get out of bed, but found it was well worth it when I arrived at the health club to find Belinda waiting for me. She is something of a Greek goddess – with blond hair, dancing eyes and a dazzling white smile. Woo Hoo!! Belinda gave me a tour and showed me the machines. She took my pulse after five minutes on the treadmill. She was alarmed that my pulse was so fast, but I attribute it to standing next to her in her Lycra aerobic outfit. I enjoyed watching the skillful way in which she conducted her aerobics class after my workout today. Very inspiring! Belinda was encouraging as I did my sit-ups, all though my gut was already aching from holding it in the whole time she was around. This is going to be a FANTASTIC week-!!

TUESDAY

I drank a whole pot of coffee, but I finally made it out the door. Belinda made me lie on my back and push a heavy iron bar into the air — then she put weights on it! My legs were a little wobbly on the treadmill, but I made the full mile. Belinda’s rewarding smile made it all worthwhile. I feel GREAT-!! It’s a whole new life for me.

WEDNESDAY

The only way I can brush my teeth is by laying on the toothbrush on the counter and moving my mouth back and forth over it. I believe I have a hernia in both pectorals. Driving was OK as long as I didn’t try to steer or stop. I parked on top of a GEO in the club parking lot. Belinda was impatient with me, insisting that my screams bothered other club members. Her voice is a little too perky for early in the morning and when she scolds, She gets this nasally whine that is VERY annoying. My chest hurt when I got on the treadmill, so Belinda put me on the stair monster. Why the hell would anyone invent a machine to simulate an activity rendered obsolete by elevators? Belinda told me it would help me get in shape and enjoy life. She said some other shit too.

THURSDAY

Belinda was waiting for me with her vampire-like teeth exposed as her thin, cruel lips were pulled back in a full snarl. I couldn’t help being a half an hour late, it took me that long to tie my shoes. Belinda took me to work out with dumbbells. When she was not looking, I ran and hid in the men’s room. She sent Lars to find me. Then, as punishment, she put me on the rowing machine — which I sank.

FRIDAY

I hate that bitch Belinda more than any human being has ever hated any other human being in the history of the world. Stupid, skinny, anemic little cheerleader. If there was a part of my body I could move without unbearable pain, I would beat her with it. Belinda wanted me to work on my triceps . I don’t have any triceps! And if you don’t want dents in the floor, don’t hand me the motherfucking barbells or anything that weighs more than a sandwich. The treadmill flung me off and I landed on a health and nutrition teacher. Why couldn’t it have been someone softer, like the drama coach or the choir director?

SATURDAY

Belinda left a message on my answering machine in her grating, shrilly voice wondering why I did not show up today. Just hearing her made me want to smash the machine with my planner. However, I lacked the strength to even use the TV remote and ended up catching eleven straight hours of the Weather Channel.

SUNDAY

I’m having the Church van pick me up for services today so I can go and thank GOD that this week is over. I will also pray that next year my wife (the bitch) will choose a gift for me that is fun — like a root canal or a vasectomy.
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July 26, 2011 7:26pm
Griff

iconic relating to, resembling, or having the character of an icon
2. having a fixed conventional style
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an icon.

how many in NZ would relate to a photo of a swing in a Metrosideros Southern rātā or Pōhutukawa over the beach
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July 26, 2011 7:27pm
Johnboy

Scott if you think that me looking after my own patch and paying for it myself and your irrational attachment to whatever you are alluding to that DOC is guarding and will protect for the next millenia or so (as long as we keep throwing them cash) you are even more stupid than I gave you credit for.
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July 26, 2011 7:27pm
Steve

Suck eggs PhilU, fullstop man.

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The bartender asks: “What’s with the big pause?”
The bear responds: “I dunno… I’ve always had them.”
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July 26, 2011 7:27pm
Scott Chris

@Pauleastbay (1,149) Says:
July 26th, 2011 at 7:13 pm

I agree though, that there is an unnatural silence. You won’t hear a laughing owl, or a huia bird for instance.
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July 26, 2011 7:28pm
reid

New Rule: If you ever hope to be a credible adult and want a job that pays better than minimum wage, then for God’s sake don’t pierce or tattoo every available piece of flesh. If you do so, then plan your future around saying, “Do you want fries with that?”

I saw a guy getting off a plane on Monday who had a hollow thick-rimmed ring about the size of a ten-cent piece in his ear. Like those African tribes who used to put discs in their lips, was my first thought. Another thought was: why?
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July 26, 2011 7:28pm
Johnboy

Nice to be talking about killing deer and possums instead of what went down the other day, even if we have to put up with the huggers! 🙂
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July 26, 2011 7:31pm
reid

More details on Matt’s stolen employee’s trust monies. Get this: He stole from his own employees between October 2007 and March 2009. That’s deliberate, calculated and knowing stealing from your own employees. And this guy pretends he gives a flying fuck about workers? Give us a break. What a Silent-T.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/5342791/IRD-chasing-Matt-McCarten-company
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July 26, 2011 7:33pm
Johnboy

The Murri’s ate the bloody Huia’s for fucks sake SC!

Christ knows what they did to the poor bloody Laughing Owl?

Beat the snot out of it for taking the piss I should think. 🙂

Deer and Possums not guilty on this ocassion!
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July 26, 2011 7:35pm
Scott Chris

Johnboy (5,248) Says:
July 26th, 2011 at 7:27 pm

No, I’m saying that if you are only concerned with preserving your little corner of the world, and you have nothing constructive to say about what happens to the rest of it, then any argument you may propose about how the world should be run is worthless.
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July 26, 2011 7:36pm
Griff

@reid

“I saw a guy getting off a plane on Monday who had a hollow thick-rimmed ring about the size of a ten-cent piece in his ear. Like those African tribes who used to put discs in their lips, was my first thought. Another thought was: why?”

hope the natives don’t take up their old school piecing style its the same
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July 26, 2011 7:38pm
Johnboy

Makes Jimmy Hoffa look pretty straight really reid! 🙂
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July 26, 2011 7:38pm
Pauleastbay

Scott

Really fucking sorry my comment is made from actually being in the New Zealand bush and is therefore only anecdotal, much better tio get my information from a parliamentary commission.Silly old me.

My favourite DoC thing currently is getting control of large tracts of land and letting them revert to gorse. Their excuse is that native species will fight through eventually, they know this how,? arrogance runs with terrority Scott and you have bought into the myth..
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July 26, 2011 7:38pm
Johnboy

I think my world and your world Scott are two entirely different places.

I prefer mine.
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July 26, 2011 7:40pm
Johnboy

Your world sounds OK too PaulEB! 🙂
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July 26, 2011 7:41pm
Steve

The Gym is that good nasska? 🙂 🙂
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July 26, 2011 7:44pm
nasska

Steve

Doesn’t seem worth the risk to find out.
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July 26, 2011 7:46pm
Scott Chris

@Pauleastbay (1,150) Says:
July 26th, 2011 at 7:38 pm

Yes gorse is much maligned by farmers, because it invades productive pasture and can take over if poorly managed. On the other hand, for us tree huggers, it is a perfect primary cover for regenerating bush, better than manuka, because even goats won’t eat it. It’s is also a good fixer of nitrogen. I LOVE gorse!!
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July 26, 2011 7:46pm
Pauleastbay

Icon
A picture image or other representation – representation in painting or enamel of some sacred personage as Christ or a saint or an angel, itself venerated as scared.

iconic pertaining to or characteristic of an icon portrait or image.
It doesnt matter what many in NZ want it to be

A plant is not an icon
A animal is not an icon
Colin Meads is not an icon
Janet Frame is not an icon.
A swing certainly isn’t an icon.

A shovel can be a digging implement with a leverage device but Colin Meads is not an icon and he is not iconic.
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July 26, 2011 7:50pm
Johnboy

How can a purist like yourself love an introduced species Scott?

Shame on you! 🙂
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July 26, 2011 7:51pm
nasska

Pauleastbay

Not a lot of room for debate then?
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July 26, 2011 7:53pm
Johnboy

I once thought I was an Icon but after serving three years for fraud I realised I was just a con
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July 26, 2011 7:53pm
Scott Chris

Johnboy (5,255) Says:
July 26th, 2011 at 7:51 pm

I’m not a purist. If a thing does more good than harm according to my philosophy, then I’ll consider using it. I’m a pragmatist.
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July 26, 2011 7:56pm
Griff

@Pauleastbay
semantics is great for the anal retentive. communication relies on the exchange of ideas im sure most reading my post would understand wot i was trying to impart
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July 26, 2011 8:00pm
Johnboy

Think of all the overseas cash we can make out of the introduced animals Scott.

Imagine a scrubby Sika stag worth say $10,000, a real trophy beast say $50,000 and we can breed them like flys!

How many Rata’s can you save or Huia’s (wot the Murri ate out) can you genetically re-engineer with all that dosh?

Think outside the square my Boy! 🙂

As someone wise said once if you want to ensure the survival of a species farm it! 🙂
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July 26, 2011 8:03pm
Elaycee

“If the worst comes to the worst Sue will sell her body on Karangahape Road.”

So they’re not planning on paying this debt off any time soon??? 🙂
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July 26, 2011 8:07pm
Scott Chris

JB

Sure, if we could sell Kakapo to pay for the preservation of the rest without threatenining their existence then why not?
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July 26, 2011 8:08pm
Pauleastbay

So sorry Griff,
I think you will find that every now and again someone will disagree with you, happens to me all the time, poor deluded fools.

I am not going to argue with the big fuck off dictionary sitting on my desk.

And at the risk of being really anal, I don’t think icon is one of those words that are open to semantics, it sort of only has the one meaning.

Nasska jokes please, I’ve been tree hugged to death
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July 26, 2011 8:10pm
Johnboy

Speaking of beauteous creatures have you seen any sign of my bloody barbed wire maker recently Elaycee? She seems to have done a bunk.

(You being a local and all and a well known admirer of the luvley creature). 🙂
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July 26, 2011 8:11pm
Griff

A bit like the value of king fish and blue fin tuna Don’t just rape the resource for cat food and cray bait .the Yanks will come here and pay lots and lots of dosh just for the chance of capturing one

And farm freshwater mud fish (trout)

pragmatism
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July 26, 2011 8:11pm
nasska

Elaycee

…”So they’re not planning on paying this debt off any time soon??? “….

At $20 a time I’d say you’d be looking at an extended payment arrangement.
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July 26, 2011 8:13pm
nasska

Q: How many women with PMS does it take to change a light bulb?

A: One. Only ONE!! And do you know WHY? Because no one else
in this house knows HOW to change a light bulb! They don’t even
know that the bulb is BURNED OUT! They would sit in the dark for
THREE DAYS before they figured it out. And, once they figured it
out, they wouldn’t be able to find the light bulbs despite
the fact that they’ve been in the SAME CUPBOARD for the past
17 YEARS! But if they did, by some miracle, actually find them
2 DAYS LATER, the chair they dragged to stand on to change
the STUPID light bulb would STILL BE IN THE SAME SPOT!!
AND UNDERNEATH IT WOULD BE THE WRAPPER THE
STUPID LIGHT BULBS CAME IN! WHY? BECAUSE NO-ONE
EVER CARRIES OUT THE GARBAGE!! IT’S A WONDER WE
HAVEN’T ALL SUFFOCATED FROM THE PILES OF GARBAGE
THAT ARE 12 FEET DEEP THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE.
THE HOUSE!! -IT WOULD TAKE AN ARMY TO CLEAN THIS HOUSE!

I’m sorry…what did you ask me?
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July 26, 2011 8:15pm
Rodders

@Johnboy @8.11pm – looking for Penny? – watch this TVNZ Newsclip from Sunday (about 35 secs in) 🙂

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/british-mp-advocates-welfare-reform-in-nz-4320991/video
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July 26, 2011 8:16pm
Johnboy

Just imagine Scott if we tossed out all those useless arses that made the decisions at DOC and replaced them with progressive minds that forgot all the nose rubbing and tree hugging shit and really got the hills pumping with trophy Deer, Chamois and Thar.

They could advertise abroad and the filthy rich would flock to our shores to zap them.

The budget for saving Kakapo, Kiwi and Bill’s deficit would go through the roof! 🙂

Time us hunters and you conservationists got into bed together! (Not you and I of course)! 🙂
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July 26, 2011 8:17pm
Rodders

🙂 nasska 🙂
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July 26, 2011 8:21pm
Scott Chris

JB

The devil in the detail. You’d end up hunting me.
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July 26, 2011 8:21pm
Griff

She would blend in well with the hideous rejects who ply their trade on Hopetown rd and at least she would do no harm. Maybe by sharing diseases she would be useful. Wipe out a few loser punters with AIDS
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July 26, 2011 8:22pm
krazykiwi

Rodders: “kk – as if anyone would want to pay you to express your weird views.”

Yeah I know. Still looking for a sponsor. You too? Pete did ask repeatedly ‘who are you acting for?‘ a couple of years ago. It was over one issue. I suspect it was an attempted smear rather than a genuine question about ‘backers’
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July 26, 2011 8:23pm
Johnboy

What a huge embarrassment it is Rodders to have to tolerate a stone-age creature doing a spear dance whenever a dignitary arrives here.

Is it just me or do others cringe in despair whenever this sad spectacle appears?
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July 26, 2011 8:24pm
Rodders

KK – ok, thanks (I’ve calmed down now) 🙂

JB – I’m still needing counselling after the sight of Penny’s megaphone 🙂
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July 26, 2011 8:25pm
Johnboy

Did you spell that with an h or a c Scott?
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July 26, 2011 8:26pm
Pauleastbay

You’d end up hunting me.

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Yep you’d need bullets John boy, a 1080 drop wouldn’t work on Scotty as its really really selective ………. sorry more pig shit landing on my head
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July 26, 2011 8:28pm
Johnboy

Sorry chaps.

Much fun it’s been tonight—– 🙂 but I must go and watch the last episode of the Duke of Wellington.

Might come back later if not too pissed! 🙂
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July 26, 2011 8:28pm
Viking2

Scott Chris (166) Says:
July 26th, 2011 at 7:46 pm

@Pauleastbay (1,150) Says:
July 26th, 2011 at 7:38 pm

Yes gorse is much maligned by farmers,

because even goats won’t eat it. Gorse he is talking about. Well we must have a lot of new age goats about now that DOC are in control.

Having cut acres of the shit the only good thing about it is that it holds the hills together and good thick woody bits aare shit hot for firewood. Burns real hot.

Having had herds of goats eating gorse among other selected nutritious plants I’d say you don’t know what the fuck you are talking about.
They eat the soft tips and strip the bark, same as they do for woolly nightshade.

Give up your day job and go and do some hard yakker and clean your head of the rubbish you have been fed.
Johnboy probably has an acre or three out the coast where its cold wet and windy and fucking steep. Work that over and come back in a year or two when you know some real stuff.
Johnboy here’s a new wiremaker for you.
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July 26, 2011 8:36pm
Viking2

reid (7,952) Says:
July 26th, 2011 at 7:28 pm

New Rule: If you ever hope to be a credible adult and want a job that pays better than minimum wage, then for God’s sake don’t pierce or tattoo every available piece of flesh. If you do so, then plan your future around saying, “Do you want fries with that?”

I saw a guy getting off a plane on Monday who had a hollow thick-rimmed ring about the size of a ten-cent piece in his ear. Like those African tribes who used to put discs in their lips, was my first thought. Another thought was: why?

How much “p” could you fit into an earring like that??
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July 26, 2011 8:36pm
tristanb

@wreck

Doesn’t affect me, I can afford to go but I wonder how people even on the average income can afford dental care. Many just don’t go.

Well, they’ve made a decision that a $200 filling or a $80 extraction is less important that keeping the cash. That’s fine for them – their decision. If they skipped basic SkyTV for a few months they could pay for it. If they stopped smoking for a month they could pay for it (and have healthier teeth). But if they’d rather not pay for a dentist – they don’t get dental care.

Maybe you could donate your money to help pay for those who can’t save a year for a tooth extraction. Or would you prefer to take some of my money (and every other employed person’s money) to pay for those who can’t save for a few weeks? Someone’s gotta pay. I think it’s fair at the moment that the person getting the dental work pays for it – is that such a terrible thing?!

Perhaps, numbers of dentists are being artificially limited to keep prices high.

The only scarcity of dentists is created by the bastards leaving to go to Australia to earn more money than they do here!
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July 26, 2011 8:42pm
Viking2

Dollar rallies as investors flee greenback
July 26, 2011 – 5:46PM

The Australian dollar surged today as a dearth of progress in US debt talks led investors to dump the greenback across the board and flock to currencies backed by stronger economies.

The Aussie leapt by more than a cent to a three-month peak of $US1.0933, before closing locally at $US1.0931. The domestic currency reached $US1.1011 on May 3, a record high since the currency was floated in December 1983.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/dollar-rallies-as-investors-flee-greenback-20110726-1hxmo.html#ixzz1TCOrsWHc
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July 26, 2011 8:42pm
Hurf Durf

RightNow (2,926) Says:
July 26th, 2011 at 11:07 am

mikenmild: “Maybe the most likely terrorist group in NZ could be some self-styled environmentalists?”
I agree completely, many seriously believe their actions are going to save the planet and the deaths of a few capitalists would just be a bonus.

Pretty much. Remember No Pressure? Plus that odious little man Keith Locke managed to use the Norway atrocity to smear the United States two days ago. Lovely people. Didn’t see any outrage about that either.
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July 26, 2011 8:51pm
Elaycee

@Johnboy says: “have you seen any sign of my bloody barbed wire maker recently Elaycee?”

Nothing here – thank goodness. But she should know how to make barbed wire – she has experienced enough of it up close and personal…. remember, she was the HART organiser in the Wairarapa during the 1981 tour (she even moved to AKL to support comrade Minto). Maybe she just doesn’t like you any more. 🙂
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July 26, 2011 9:03pm
reid

How much “p” could you fit into an earring like that??

If you took it out this hollow ring it would leave a big gaping hole in his ear-lobe V2. A big, ugly, obvious one. This is why it was hard to see the point. I mean if you can’t even smuggle drugs in it, WTF was he thinking?

I suppose it could be useful if his arms and legs were cut off and he needed to save himself from danger by threading a rope through his ear-lobe in order to lower himself away, with his teeth, but otherwise, it just doesn’t seem like a good idea, at all.
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July 26, 2011 9:05pm
double d

how sad – ird chasing unite ….
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July 26, 2011 9:07pm
Hurf Durf

Looks like Zion Wildlife Park has finally gone fully up the proverbial creek and gone over the waterfall. Which is a shame, because it was a decent jaunt the few times I’ve been.
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July 26, 2011 9:22pm
reid

indeed double-d, Unite are victims. Wait a mo, it’s not Unite, it’s its owner’s private company, from which he stole their worker’s trust monies. They really are victims. What do ya know.

Whereas Matt’s clearly your average scumbag dickensian typical employer who just can’t wait to punish his loyal staff by stealing their monies held in trust by him on their behalf. He’s probably counting it right now, I imagine, in front of a big fire, probably thinking how very very proud he is, to have stolen his worker’s trust monies.

What a piece of work. Who would ever vote for SCUM LIKE HIM???

What else, pray tell, can one conclude?
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July 26, 2011 9:25pm
Other_Andy

Poor Goofy…
Somebody hacked his Wikipedia entry

“The dishonerable Phill Gof”

http://whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz/
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July 26, 2011 9:26pm
Johnboy

“Johnboy probably has an acre or three out the coast where its cold wet and windy”.

Only if I turn the heatpump off, forget my grandad nappies and drink too much 4XXXX V2! 🙂
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July 26, 2011 9:30pm
Johnboy

Apparently the Duke of Wellington once said:

“A general must know when to retreat and dare to do it”.

See you folks!! 🙂
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July 26, 2011 9:36pm
Viking2

Think its getting better?
Try Aussie, well maybe
check this out.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/study-claims-household-budgets-not-so-tight-these-days/story-e6freon6-1226101653283
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July 26, 2011 9:37pm
bereal

pete george @ 5 .18 pm
by the same token,
‘i bet your car has a bald tyre’
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July 26, 2011 9:43pm
krazykiwi

nasska:

I missed krazykiwi’s crucifixion this morning

heh! Completely agree re letting those that grieve be. That’s what I was trying to do! A good friend is married to a Norwegian gal. She’s utterly devastated, even embarrassed to be Norwegan. It’s absolutely tragic.

As for your Land Cruiser cyclist sights … I have eyes in the back of my head (cyclist evolution)… I’ll see you coming and ready my counter-measures
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July 26, 2011 9:58pm
double d

heh heh
yep, nasty ird chasing poor unite who champion the Peeps!
how dare they.
pan right – hunched up figure wearing cut off gloves chuckling evilly “its myyy preshus moniessss”
with ya reid… (sorry plagarised dickensian scene)
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July 26, 2011 10:08pm
Griff

@Pauleastbay at 8:10 pm

I would strongly suggest that you get a new dictionary or come into the present century

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_icon
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/icon
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iconic
http://www.answers.com/topic/icon
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/iconic
http://www.yourdictionary.com/icon
http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-cobuild/iconic

I am even more surprised that U did not pick up my misuse of semantics
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July 26, 2011 10:16pm
Tauhei Notts

I think that Matt The Ratt had been a director of another company that went bust and did not pay its wages tax deductions that it was holding in trust for its employees.
I had researched this matter some weeks ago and posted on it; but I cannot remember when.
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July 26, 2011 10:24pm
Rodders

@Tauhei – you mean this comment?
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/is_unite_solvent-2.html#comment-843756
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July 26, 2011 10:29pm
reid

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/5342791/IRD-chasing-Matt-McCarten-company

Isn’t it amazing how much we amateurs know about it yet the professionals who do this for a living while we amateurs work in our day jobs remain completely and utterly silent on this rather revealing, relevant and important issue.
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July 26, 2011 10:32pm
Rodders

@Tauhei – here it is (a bit further down the same thread)
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/06/is_unite_solvent-2.html#comment-843931

I hope Matt is giving The Mana Party the benefit of his financial “expertise.” They deserve it.
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July 26, 2011 10:41pm
niggly

Well whadaya know eh !!!!!

Well known Kiwiblog antagonist, Bryla, y’know the peace loving “pacifist” who used to say here that he wouldn’t even lift a finger to save his own family if they were attacked (this is from the time some of us called him out at the time of the Waihopai 3 trial, when he was covering it and posting here), has been arrested for attacking an ADF helicopter!!!

What’s with these so called “peace activist’s” who proclaim violence is not the answer? Who then need to up-the-ante with their comrades in order to not look like a pussy and be da staunch man? Who then love the adulation from fellow peaceniks and hippies?

Hope the violent ploughshares bastard is convicted, so it hampers his travel abroad (and hopefully be prevented from entering NZ with a criminal conviction).

(As an aside, note how the ABC Media use a headline questioning the competancy of the ADF rather than use a headline to question the mentaility of a nut job).

ADF security questioned after helicopter attack
Paul Robinson
Posted July 25, 2011 08:34:14

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-25/adf-security-questioned-after-helicopter-attack/2808750

The Federal Opposition says last week’s attack on a military helicopter at Rockhampton airport in central Queensland raises concerns about Australian Defence Force (ADF) security.

Bryan Law, 57, was granted bail by a Rockhampton magistrate on Friday, charged with attacking an Australian Tiger helicopter with a mattock.

Opposition defence materiel parliamentary secretary Senator Gary Humphries says the ADF has questions to answer about security, after he visited central Queensland for Exercise Talisman Sabre, which is being held at Shoalwater Bay.

“I understand that there was some talk about there being targeting of military equipment, particularly aircraft,” he said.

“I understand the incident here was also one that was captured on film.

“In the circumstances, we need to ask ourselves whether we are providing enough protection for aircraft and other equipment, which of course sets the Australian taxpayer back many billions of dollars.”

Senator Humphries says the attack prevented a young airman from returning to Brisbane to see his wife, who had been seriously injured in a car accident.

“Because the airport was locked down for helicopter flights for the whole of that day, he was unable to reach his wife until the following day or very late the same day,” he said.

“Now that young airman might have been placed in a tragic circumstance by virtue of the foolishness of individuals, who decided to use the airport as the scene for a political protest.”
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July 26, 2011 11:27pm
Viking2

Flavells Brain Fart. Stupid bastard.
And Muri’s voted for a dumb prick like this.

Maori MP: ‘Condemn’ suicide victims
By Jamie Morton
5:30 AM Wednesday Jul 27, 2011

A Maori Party MP has suggested that children who take their own lives should be condemned rather than have their life celebrated – a call slammed as “absolutely disgusting” by a mother whose child took his life.

In a controversial column in Rotorua’s Daily Post newspaper, Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell suggested a “very hard stand” should be made on suicide.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10741056
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July 27, 2011 6:56am
Viking2

Oh Dear.
The socialists steal from their mates.

Police investigate AUT’s missing $500k
By Jared Savage
5:30 AM Wednesday Jul 27, 2011

Hundreds of thousands of dollars have gone missing from the accounts of a taxpayer-funded Auckland university.
There is a matter under investigation into possible accounting discrepancies. As this is under investigation we cannot comment further,” said an AUT spokeswoman.

It’s understood more than $500,000 is missing.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10741060
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July 27, 2011 7:01am
Manolo

The girls and trannies at The Sub-standard are fuming: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/politics/5344648/National-Party-could-govern-alone
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July 27, 2011 7:36am
Manolo

The incompetent Messiah continues to disappoint: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/more-americans-unhappy-with-obama-on-economy-jobs/2011/07/25/gIQABJ9sZI_story.html?hpid=z3
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July 27, 2011 7:41am
Lance

@Viking2
I can tell you that not everyone at a Uni is a socialist, maybe the majority but not all.
There is even the odd Nazi floating around (I shit you not).
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