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December 31, 2015 8:00am by Kokila Patel

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Johnboy

300 is definitely on tonight with 400 a possibility! 🙂
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December 31, 2015 3:55pm
Manolo

Those who offend imam Padriv will be punished by the prophet. He is a man of profound faith and impeccable conduct, who is here to make us see the light of Islam. Allahu akbar!
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December 31, 2015 3:55pm
Captain Mainwaring

Johnboy, Southee’s position in the batting order is a result of his last half-dozen or so performances. Today he was on song (at least for five balls) so he might rise one place for the next game.
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December 31, 2015 3:57pm
Awww C-mon

Blaze

“Just as there is no proof you are anything other than a dumbed down keyboard”

There is absolute proof of that Blaze. I know fully I have terrible spelling and grammer, I am basically uneducated and have learnt through doing things. I accept ‘dumbed down keyboard’ as a description.

Riddle me this though, which is a better proposition. To be uneducated and a poor writer who has learnt to think critically and for himself or to have perfect punctuation and spelling but no understanding of how to make up ones own mind?

So in my normal style, Fuck off back to the Strandard troll. Try not to get caught showing off to them again about what a great job of upsetting KB’ers you do though, that must have been embarrassing!
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December 31, 2015 3:58pm
Maggy Wassilieff

@Andrei
Спасибо
Best wishes for 2016
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December 31, 2015 3:59pm
blazeoflight

JB

I shudder to think what rubbish you lot will be posting by then! ?

But I will still be ?
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December 31, 2015 4:00pm
Johnboy

Desist with your anger and invite the poor chap round for a nice roast pork dinner Manolo.

Quaff a couple of bottles and see if he’d like to stay the night for a lovely bacon and egg breakfast on new years day.

Meld with your brother and spread peace and love old chap! 🙂
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December 31, 2015 4:00pm
Don the Kiwi

Are you playing canasta, JB ?
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December 31, 2015 4:01pm
blazeoflight

Meanwhile, Whangamata reverberates to the sounds of noisy exhausts and the sights of lazy ape hangers on their way to their annual tête-à-tête with our boys in blue.
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December 31, 2015 4:04pm
Johnboy

Never feel inadequate here AC-m…..I have to fuck sheep cause no one else would have me for Gods sake! 🙂
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December 31, 2015 4:04pm
Manolo

Your words of wisdom are always on the ewe, I mean on the money, Johnboy.
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December 31, 2015 4:04pm
Johnboy

I only play pocket billiards Don! 🙂
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December 31, 2015 4:05pm
Awww C-mon

Thanks John, Mate I’m happy as a pig in muck or a Manawatu cockie with oversize gumboots and velcro gloves!
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December 31, 2015 4:06pm
Shawn Herles

“Shawn @ 1:25 – I just can’t watch House. Hugh is either Prince George or Bertie Wooster to me.”

Yup, same for me Fletch. I tried, but just could not get into House. I have all of the Jeeves and Wooster episodes on DVD. Bloody brilliant comedy!
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December 31, 2015 4:08pm
DJP6-25

Nostradamus 9:16 am. I’d expect Abbot ot act. I don’t trust Turnbull; except to warm a seat.

All_on_Red 9:25 am. thanks for the link. She was using a Vickers gun, and gave thm the whole nine yards. the water jacket was steaming afterwards.

Tauhei Notts 10:40 am. I agree, his stuff is good.
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December 31, 2015 4:19pm
starboard

Queenstowns ready to go off tonight trendsetters..I can report the talent down here is the best I’ve seen for 10 years. We’ve got A list movie stars here by the dozen, most arriving in their private corporate jets ex aussie. I can boast to you that I took a well known hollywood husband and wife couple on a 1 hour flight of the region today in my squirrel , so impressed were they, they tipped me a cool hundy. S/B’s happy !

” Starboard wishes each and every one of you a very happy new year ” …im off out on the piss !
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December 31, 2015 4:19pm
Johnboy

Captain Mainwaring sir.

I respectfully suggest that your comment could have come from someone as rigid in his thinking as Captain Square from the Eastbourne platoon! 🙂

When our chaps see the enemy plan unfolding they have to move their best assets to the position that does most good.

Twas obvious that we needed a big hitter not a couple of plodders.

Batting orders were not written by God on tablets of stone.

Lack of thinking like yours will cost us the war…mark my words old chap! 🙂
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December 31, 2015 4:24pm
Fisiani

Just been given a week ban from posting on the Standard. They have declared Key Derangement Syndrome to be forbidden words.Their censorship attempts knows no bounds.
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December 31, 2015 4:33pm
blazeoflight

@Tauhei Notts 10:40am

That comment only confirms your innate gullibility.

The biggest problem with KIA’s posts is that unshakeable ideology is so interwoven with contrivances, inventions and outright falsehoods that unravelling his posts just consume so much time that I can’t be bothered.

Maybe one day, if I catch bronchitis or something…
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December 31, 2015 4:34pm
Shawn Herles

“The biggest problem with KIA’s posts is that unshakeable ideology is so interwoven with contrivances, inventions and outright falsehoods that unravelling his posts just consume so much time that I can’t be bothered.”

Translation: “KIA’s posts are too well reasoned and argued, and my limited, narrow, and stale Leftist dogma has no answer to them, so I pretend not to bother.”

There, fixed it for you blaze! 🙂
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December 31, 2015 4:37pm
blazeoflight

The honours system sucks.
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December 31, 2015 4:50pm
Awww C-mon

Keep digging yourself a hole Blaze, the overfed – unconcerned cruising around Whangamata

Spent Christmas day arvo out on the paddleboard.

Chardonnay socialist, nup, this hypocrite from Auckland sips champagne and tuts tuts from his ivory throne

oh an edit and delete the b/s … maybe there is a conscious
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December 31, 2015 4:54pm
blazeoflight

Jeez, I’m so used to AwwC’s stalking that I didn’t even notice it was Shawn joining the club!
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December 31, 2015 4:54pm
Shawn Herles

So terrified of having your own views put under the spotlight that you think people responding to you is stalking blaze?

You can get therapy for that sort of paranoia.
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December 31, 2015 4:58pm
blazeoflight

@AwwC

I’m more of a Pinot Gris man, as regards vino.

And actually I’m watching the waves from my bach balcony ❤️

Cheers to you, too, and Shawn, of course.

Gotta go for a while – case of expensive bubbly to open for the guests
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December 31, 2015 4:59pm
Shawn Herles

Houston Muslim Charged With Lighting His Own Mosque On Fire

“Using surveillance video from other area businesses to identify the arsonist, Gary Nathaniel Moore, 37, was arrested and charged with starting the Christmas Day fire that devastated a Houston, Texas mosque. Moore is a devout Muslim who attended this same mosque for years, praying up to five times a day every day of the week.

Also up in smoke is the DC Media’s hoped-for anti-GOP Narrative. Before any facts were known, numerous DC Media outlets immediately exploited the tragedy to place the blame for the fire on Donald Trump.

CBS News:

Advocacy groups believe there has been a spike in anti-Muslim incidents across the United States in recent weeks that can be linked to the mass shooting in California and the inflammatory rhetoric of Donald Trump and other Republican presidential candidates. And they say that Muslims are fearful the backlash could lead to further harassment and violence.

CNN:

The Houston chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations called on authorities to investigate the fire for an anti-Muslim motive.

“Because of the recent spike in hate incidents targeting mosques nationwide, we urge law enforcement authorities to investigate a possible bias motive for this fire,” Mustafaa Carroll, the chapter’s executive director, said in a statement.

NBC News:

The Houston chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations called on authorities to investigate a possible bias motive in the case, citing what it called a “recent spike in hate incidents targeting mosques nationwide.

Now that a devout Muslim has been charged, the DC Media will forget all about the incident.

The media’s playbook is always to immediately use any disaster or crime as a means to make the GOP answer for it. Then, once the facts come out and point to a member of the Protected Class, the story is memory-holed and the accusation against the Republican lingers.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/12/30/houston-muslim-charged-with-lighting-his-own-mosque-on-fire/
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December 31, 2015 5:00pm
Johnboy

Gary Nathaniel Moore… obviously a Syrian extremist! 🙂
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December 31, 2015 5:03pm
Scott Chris

starboard (3,871 comments) says:
December 31st, 2015 at 4:19 pm
Queenstowns ready to go off tonight trendsetters..I can report the talent down here is the best I’ve seen for 10 years. We’ve got A list movie stars here by the dozen, most arriving in their private corporate jets ex aussie. I can boast to you that I took a well known hollywood husband and wife couple on a 1 hour flight of the region today in my squirrel , so impressed were they, they tipped me a cool hundy.

Translation: John Kardashian (yeah I never heard of her either) just spewed all over the back seat of Starbore’s cab. Minder gave him $10 to cover costs.
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December 31, 2015 5:03pm
Awww C-mon

Pinot Gris … my gay bff’s boyfriend drinks that too.

Well I’m still working so another reason for me to quip something negative and bitter.

I will take your salutation as sincere and not sarcastic and wish you happy new year back.
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December 31, 2015 5:05pm
Johnboy

Ibn Ali Nathanial (Little) Lucifer….now that’s a proper Muslim name! 🙂
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December 31, 2015 5:05pm
Johnboy

Where’s d4j tonight?
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December 31, 2015 5:08pm
Northshoredoc

@ fisiani – being banned from the standard is a badge of honour they ban virtually anyone who doesn’t regurgitate the party line and dares to have a variant point of view.

It is chock full of nutters screeching Nazi and fascist at Key and the Nats and then there’s the endless posts on rape culture and inequality they bring the leftof politics in NZ into laughable disrepute on a daily basis.
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December 31, 2015 5:11pm
big bruv

Ask Rowan
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December 31, 2015 5:12pm
big bruv

Rape culture…..would that apply to people like Darren Hughes?
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December 31, 2015 5:13pm
Johnboy

Colonial Viper always puts a reasoned point of view across.

Sad to see how the chap with his wifes name always shuts him down! 🙂
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December 31, 2015 5:15pm
Longknives

“All Black fan of the year: big bruv”

This is an Outrage! I’ve been cheated…
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December 31, 2015 5:34pm
Jack5

Happy New Year Kiwibloggodites

A guid New Year and mony may ye see.

For Andrei:
с новым годом
с новым счастьем

For Manolo:
Selamat Tahun Baru

For Maori posters:
Tau Hou hari

For the Stephieboys:
سنة جديدة سعيدة

For Shawn, our Cherokee poster:
e-qua i-tse u-de-ti-yv-sv-i-
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December 31, 2015 5:40pm
waikatogirl

Paulus
Frankly I am getting tired of her diatribe and all those who respond.
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I have not responded to Ms Bright’ whitterings since March.
She is certainly thick skinned and committed to her beliefs, if delusional.
Said in a caring way of course!

Happy New Year Penny, although you are going to be sorely disappointed by the result of your mayoral challenge. Doomed to fail thank goodness.

I will renew my efforts not to comment on Ms Bright’s delusions again from 2016 🙂
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December 31, 2015 5:40pm
kowtow

Multicultural diversity dividend in Belgium……

“New Year fireworks and festivities have been cancelled in the Belgian capital, Brussels, because of a terror alert.”

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35201552
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December 31, 2015 5:46pm
waikatogirl

Paulus Gnome
Award for ‘just being a calm oasis in a troubled sea’ is a joint first for Maggi and waikatogirl! (posting about testiclse balanced by being from Island Bay, Riveria to nowhere!) Thank you ladies ?
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Thank you PG. Nice compliment to go with my glass of bubbly. Happy New Year!
Lets hope for lots of interesting interaction on KB in 2016…
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December 31, 2015 5:47pm
Jack5

Heh and for the bloody trolls, a New Year message from your Klingon headquarters:

nuqneH

naDevvo’ peghoS
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December 31, 2015 5:48pm
Awww C-mon

Happy New Year to all but the sad gimp who down-ticked waikatogirl @5:47

An hour and bit and I will lock up and head home to a party at mine been held by two teen age sons before they all walk to the Mount…. might stay at work!!
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December 31, 2015 6:11pm
publicwatchdog

Well Kiwibloggers – the bush walk by the river was lovely, and am getting fitter on the uphill bits.

(Nothing an oxygen tent can’t fix 😉

Anyway – to help unravel the (largely unpublicised?) story behind the Kaipara District Council Validation of Rates and Other Matters Bill – here is the Hansard record of the Third Reading debate

For a succinct summary of the corrupt ‘conflicts of interest’ that plagued Kaipara, and the, in my view, appalling role played by the Office of the Auditor-General, I suggest you read what (then) NZ First MP Andrew Williams had to say, in explaining why NZ First was NOT supporting this disgraceful legislation :

http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/debates/debates/50HansD_20131204_00000024/kaipara-district-council-validation-of-rates-and-other

Those who think that NZ Auditor-General Lyn Provost is / has been doing a good job – might like to check the FACTS on her role, and the role of her Office in this matter?

In my opinion and experience, out of all the statutory ‘Third Party Public Watchdogs’, the Office of the Auditor-General has proven to be the most profoundly useless, in defending the public and the public interest.

Penny Bright

2016 Auckland Mayoral candidate.
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December 31, 2015 6:35pm
Awww C-mon

Glad you enjoyed the walk and some exercise Penny, Happy New Years!
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December 31, 2015 6:39pm
wiseowl

Decided to have a crate day.
Wish everyone a happy new year and look forward to 2016 posts that test the mental aptitude of lefties (they have none) and challenge the considered offerings of the centre right.
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December 31, 2015 6:40pm
big bruv

The best thing about the new years honours list is that Helen Kelly got what she deserved which is fuck all.

The worst thing, the McCaw embarrassment, another example of cultural cringe.
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December 31, 2015 7:01pm
holysheet

Happy ewe year johnboy.
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December 31, 2015 7:18pm
publicwatchdog

How can my considered opinions – backed with FACTS and EVIDENCE possibly be ‘delusional’ Waikato Girl?

I’m sorry that your ‘belief system’ seems to be so insecure that you have to resort to ad hominem attacks when challenged?

Wonder if there is such a thing as ‘mind yoga’?

Exercises for opening the mind?

Might be an appropriate New Years resolution – for a number of Kiwibloggers?

(Suggested in a caring way 😉

It’s all good Waikato Girl – have a lovely New Year’s Eve and a GREAT 2016.

Kind regards

Penny Bright

2016 Auckland Mayoral candidate.
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December 31, 2015 7:27pm
Captain Mainwaring

Bit of a thumping for the Black Caps.
Overconfidence?
Is Williamson a much better batsman than a captain?
Southee buggered his body by hitting 18 off about four balls?
Taylor should stick to tests?
Bets were taken?
Answers please……
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December 31, 2015 7:30pm
Longknives

Bruv- Your thoughts on Keven Mealamu getting New Year’s Honours?

The guy is famous/notorious for trying to break O’Driscoll’s neck (Even the great Bill McLaren said it was the worst thing he had seen on a Rugby Field..)
Then there was the headbutt on Lewis Moody…
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December 31, 2015 7:31pm
Captain Mainwaring

“How can my considered opinions – backed with FACTS and EVIDENCE possibly be ‘delusional’ Waikato Girl?”

Penny: ‘Delusional’ is another way to spell ‘Penny Bright’.
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December 31, 2015 7:32pm
RF

OK you IT people. I have a challenge. Can someone invent software that automatically gives Penny a down tick when her posts hit your screen. I suspect I’m getting RSI from down ticking her and need to avoid this. I think the correct expression is cutting to the chase.

This is in a caring sort of way and a good idea to ring in 2016 as a Penny free zone.

Any interest ?

P.S. Happy New Year.
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December 31, 2015 7:40pm
RF

Longknives. 7.31pm. You are exciting me. Don’t forget spade face Umunga his co-offender. Both never held to account because they wore the black get out of jail free pass jersey.
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December 31, 2015 7:44pm
mikenmild

big bruv and Longknives are seething over the bucket-load of honours for the All Blacks.
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December 31, 2015 7:44pm
publicwatchdog

That ‘mind yoga’ not working for you Captain Mainwaring?

Any FACTS that you particularly dislike in my posts?

But hey!

Thanks for continuing to read and comment on my posts 😉

They must be as tantalising as Amanda Baillie’s ponytail was to PM John Key?

Go on Captain!

IGNORE this post!

DON’T read it!!!

(I know – too late …. 😉

Have a lovely New Year’s Eve Captain – tomorrow is another year …

Kind regards

Penny Bright

2016 Auckland Mayoral candidate.
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December 31, 2015 7:48pm
nasska

Good: You’re pregnant.
Bad: It’s triplets.
Ugly: Your husband had a vasectomy five years ago.

Good: Your husband is not talking to you.
Bad: He wants a divorce.
Ugly: He’s a lawyer.

Good: Your son is finally maturing.
Bad: He’s involved with the woman next door.
Ugly: So are you.

Good: Your son studies a lot in his room.
Bad: You find several pornographic videos hidden there.
Ugly: You’re in them.

Good: Your husband understands fashion.
Bad: He’s a cross-dresser.
Ugly: He looks better than you.

Good: You give “the birds and the bees” talk to your 14-year-old daughter.
Bad: She keeps interrupting.
Ugly: With corrections.

Good: You are hugging a really fit girl.
Bad: You can feel an erection coming.
Ugly: It’s not yours.
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December 31, 2015 7:52pm
Kimbo

@ Longknives

“All Black fan of the year: big bruv”

This is an Outrage! I’ve been cheated…

He he he. Just like the Wallabies, Springboks, Pumas, English, French, Welsh…

I thought of making a joint-nomination but remembered you are actually a good critic of sport, and not just a serial troll on the subject, so take it as a compliment 😉
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December 31, 2015 7:54pm
Kimbo

@ Johnboy

Nicest Catholic of 2015 is of course Don the Kiwi! 🙂

Agreed, but a joint award with Fletch, who, even he cops it from atheists on the left and the odd, ahem, rabid Protestant on the right, is unfailingly polite.

Catholic with the biggest martyr-complex: Nukuleka
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December 31, 2015 8:03pm
publicwatchdog

Ok Kiwibloggers – time to reopen that BIG file called “You Couldn’t Make This Sh*t Up”.

Seen THIS?

“Award for Auditor-General’s outstanding contribution

27 November 2015

The Controller and Auditor-General, Lyn Provost, last night received an award for her outstanding contribution to public administration in New Zealand from Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ).

CA ANZ’s Leadership in Government Awards have been recognising outstanding achievements by Australian public service leaders since 2009. This is the inaugural award for New Zealand, and the Office is very proud that Lyn has been recognised for her lifetime of exceptional public sector leadership.

As Auditor-General, Lyn has worked to strengthen public sector performance and accountability in New Zealand and overseas, particularly in the Pacific. She has advocated for financial and public management to ensure that the public sector can deliver quality services to citizens now and in the future.

Before her appointment in 2009 as New Zealand’s first woman Auditor-General, Lyn was New Zealand Police’s first woman and first civilian Deputy Commissioner. Lyn has also served in senior roles with the State Services Commission and Archives New Zealand, where she was also Acting Chief Executive.

Lyn received her award from global activist Sir Bob Geldof.”
___________________________________________________

Now here’s a WILD idea Kiwibloggers!

How about asking all those who have made complaints to the Auditor-General Lyn Provost, or formally asked her to investigate something, and check the response?

Wouldn’t that be a more meaningful way to gauge the effectiveness of the Auditor-General and her Office?

Surely?

Penny Bright

2016 Auckland Mayoral candidate.
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December 31, 2015 8:04pm
Captain Mainwaring

Penny.
It’s working, I’m getting you wound up.
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December 31, 2015 8:06pm
Awww C-mon

She-it Penny, you were so chilled after stroll with birds, now this has ruffled your feathers!

Short amswer to your question would be

Bahahahaha that’s fucking karma
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December 31, 2015 8:07pm
mikenmild

So, the Order of New Zealand. If you could invite three members to dinner, who would they be?

Your choices:
Dame Miriam Dell
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Sir Miles Warren
Rt. Hon. Jim Bolger
Ken Douglas
Dr Cliff Whiting
Rt. Hon. Mike Moore
H.E. Cardinal Tom Williams
Rt. Hon. Jonathan Hunt
Prof. Sir Lloyd Geering
Rt. Hon. Sir Kenneth Keith
Rt. Hon. Sir Don McKinnon
Sir Murray Halberg
Rt. Hon. Helen Clark
Sir Bob Charles
Emeritus Prof. Albert Wendt
Sir Ron Carter
Sir Peter Gluckman
Richie McCaw
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December 31, 2015 8:10pm
mikenmild

I also see there are currently 19 members of the ONZ. There can be 20 living members at any one time. Any suggestions to make up the quota?
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December 31, 2015 8:11pm
Awww C-mon

McAwesome
Gluckman
Helberg
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December 31, 2015 8:15pm
nasska

….” If you could invite three members to dinner”….

Are you allowed to poison it? What a miserable pack of bludgers to break bread with!

Probably McCaw, Charles & Mike Moore.
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December 31, 2015 8:16pm
nasska

….”Any suggestions to make up the quota?”….

David Bain……might add a bit of colour! 🙂
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December 31, 2015 8:17pm
Harriet

“……So, the Order of New Zealand. If you could invite three members to dinner, who would they be?…..”

McCaw and one or two others would be ok – but Sirs Bob Jones and Roger Douglas would be far more informative and entertaining than the others. Well to me anyway. 😎 That’s not to say that the others aren’t good people, or underserving of anything they have, or have received.
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December 31, 2015 8:19pm
Captain Mainwaring

Milky,

Kiri Te Kanawa used to be quite a hard case, as was Bolger.
With McCaw added, these would be my three.
The rest are either lefty twats or as boring as hell (or both).
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December 31, 2015 8:21pm
Longknives

” If you could invite three members to dinner, who would they be?”

Christ what a boring bloody bunch!
Seriously- Who would want to sit through dinner with Richie McCaw and Kiri Te Kanawa??

Give me a Jack Daniels with Lemmy (RIP by the way), Ozzy and Keith Richards any day…
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December 31, 2015 8:29pm
Jack5

The Order of NZ dinner guests…

You could eliminate a few for a start.

Jonathan Hunt, the former Minister of Wine and Cheese. You’d have to get in a truckload of cheese and wine if you invited him, so scratch Jonathan.

Bob Jones would want to smoke his bloody pipe, so sorry Bob.

Lloyd Geering is 97 or 98, and would soon nod off, so sorry, old heretic.

Mike Moore reads books in 90 minutes, so he would be too one-up for everyone-else. Sorry Mike.

Ken Douglas… Marxism and the Soviet Union are dead. Sorry Red Ken.

Jim Bolger … to be NZ’s first President? Nope, sorry Jim.

My invites would go to : McCaw, Kiri, in the hope she will get pissed and sing, and Roger Douglas.
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December 31, 2015 8:42pm
kowtow

Only the poor and marginalised become jihadis……

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/12075144/Cardiff-businessman-turned-Isil-cyber-expert-killed-in-air-strike.html
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December 31, 2015 8:42pm
Captain Mainwaring

Jack5, I didn’t see Bob Jones or Roger Douglas on that list, but I did see Bob Charles and Ken Douglas.
Are you pissed or just not paying attention?
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December 31, 2015 8:50pm
Jack5

Kowtow… you don’t think …

You don’t think … that the Stephieboys might be inside Kiwiblog running DPF’s IT department??????
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December 31, 2015 8:51pm
Jack5

General Debate might get pushed over 300 posts around midnight.

That would be a good omen for 2016 for Kiwiblog.
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December 31, 2015 8:52pm
mikenmild

Some of you fuckwits are naming people who aren’t ONZs.
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December 31, 2015 8:53pm
Don the Kiwi

That means, mn, that those people should be ONZ 🙂
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December 31, 2015 8:56pm
Awww C-mon

Is this the first time we have seen angry MM??

I like him!
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December 31, 2015 8:56pm
Brigitte

Order of NZ

If I was to add a 20th I’d go for Professor Emeritus Roy Kerr CMNZ.

I’ve actually met 7 of the list most of whom I’d dine with. Interesting character was Ken Douglas who was not as marxist as many think and very clever too.

And yes, shame about Lemmy, killed by death. A good innings none the less (especially given his lifestyle).
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December 31, 2015 8:57pm
Don the Kiwi

Awww C-mon

Hey man, do you live at the Mount?

My son lives there in Valley Rd. – probably an awesome party at his place tonite.

But his parties are way wilder than mine used to be, so i won’t go near the place. I’ll go and have a coffee with him in the morning. He’ll definitely need it.
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December 31, 2015 8:59pm
Maggy Wassilieff

I’d rather have dinner with 3 Kiwibloggers…

of course I’d have to invite our host…. and probably Johnboy and our Iman.

or if I wanted a girlie night… I’d have Waikato girl, Calendar girl and Harriet.
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December 31, 2015 9:01pm
Jack5

Re Milky at 8.56…

You are right. Bob Jones isn’t a member of the Order of NZ.

My mistake. Sorry Bob. You deserve to be there more than some of those on it.

Anyone know much about Cliff Whiting, for example?
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December 31, 2015 9:04pm
Awww C-mon

Hey Don, yup.

Used to live on Valley Rd and to be fair NYE is chaos along there. He will need coffee, a yard broom and a shovel! Good luck!

Edit: which end of valley?
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December 31, 2015 9:04pm
mikenmild

Jack
Cliff Whiting is an artist who was very influential in establishing Te Papa. There is a terrific documentary showing his scraps with Cheryl Southeran.
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December 31, 2015 9:08pm
Don the Kiwi

Edit: which end of valley?

About 100m east down from Tweed St on the south side.
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December 31, 2015 9:09pm
sam green

Multiple personality of the year ……. Shawn Herles.
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December 31, 2015 9:10pm
Jack5

Brigitte posted at 8.57 about the membership of the Order of NZ:

I’ve actually met 7 of the list most of whom I’d dine with. Interesting character was Ken Douglas who was not as marxist as many think and very clever too.

Douglas was smarter than the late Jim Knox, appointed in 1988.

Let’s face it, we Kiwis rate good guys and good gals above intellectual ranking, and maybe we’re right. I can’t imagine us swallowing the smoke and mirrors of Foucault and Sartre, for example, and I think we would have been aware of how far Left old Hobsbawm was.

Milky: thanks for that about Whiting. Over all, has Te Papa been a good development for NZ as well as for Wellington? Does it offer much more than the old Dominion Museum and Art Gallery did apart from more entertainment (I’m ashamed to say I haven’t visited Te Papa yet).
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December 31, 2015 9:13pm
Awww C-mon

2 mins from me, I’m on Oceanbeach Rd by Omanu. (Cheap side of the Rd ? )

Yeah he will get some mischief about 11pm if history is anything to go by, as the masses walk up to the mainbeach for midnight it all gets exciting!
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December 31, 2015 9:14pm
Don the Kiwi

“….or if I wanted a girlie night… I’d have Waikato girl, Calendar girl and Harriet.”

But Maggy, Harriet’s a bloke. 🙂
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December 31, 2015 9:19pm
sam green

@Jack5

Te Papa is great and worth a visit – not as great as it once was with some wicked funding cuts and the loss of some awesome curatorial and publishing staff.
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December 31, 2015 9:25pm
waikatogirl

Maggy, we’d have a great night categorising all the men on KB 🙂

Happy New Year Maggy!
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December 31, 2015 9:28pm
nasska

….”But Maggy, Harriet’s a bloke.”…..

Was, Don. I understand that the last op was a complete success. 🙂
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December 31, 2015 9:28pm
Don the Kiwi

Comments count 289.

JB loves tipping over 300 +

He should be here building the score.

Probably practicing his animal husbandry and checking a few ewes whose needs he can help with. 😉
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December 31, 2015 9:30pm
Maggy Wassilieff

@Don the Kiwi

But Maggy, Harriet’s a bloke

As long as his nylons are straight and his lippy isn’t smudged, we won’t mind.
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December 31, 2015 9:31pm
nasska

His pearl collar necklace hides his adam’s apple quite well Maggie. 🙂
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December 31, 2015 9:34pm
Longknives

“Some of you fuckwits are naming people who aren’t ONZs.”

That’s because there isn’t a single person on that list I would cross the road for.
A dinner party with Lemmy and Ozzy on the other hand would be quite something (I need Dime here to back me up!)..
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December 31, 2015 9:35pm
Don the Kiwi

“A dinner party with Lemmy and Ozzy on the other hand would be quite something ”

For Ozzy, you’d have to serve up live canaries. 🙂
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December 31, 2015 9:38pm
Longknives

I think it was a Bat Don- In his drug-fucked state Ozzy thought it was a fake…
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December 31, 2015 9:40pm
Don the Kiwi

I think he did a canary first many years ago.

A bat was his latest hors d’oevre. 🙂
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December 31, 2015 9:42pm
Maggy Wassilieff

@nasska

No need to overdress if you’re coming to Kaiti. A simple neckerchief will suffice.
http://images.freeimages.com/images/premium/previews/1864/18643153-mongrel-mob-gang-guard.jpg
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December 31, 2015 9:44pm
Don the Kiwi

This is it —300.

JB will be pleased.

Good night everyone. Have a great 2016.
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