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holysheet

In the past weeks we have been inundated with new ideas to help the
natives get ahead in life. They lead in all the wrong statistics. 50 %
of the prison population is Maori. 63% of these are illiterate, they
cannot even read or write the basics. These are abysmal figures when
they only make up 15% of the population. Maori prisons, whanau ora, te
reo in all schools are touted as the answer. But mention charter schools
and liabore and their co-boat crew are adamant that, despite the good
reports coming out how these Charter schools ARE making a difference,
they will close them down.
I cannot understand their opposition to something that is taking the
dropouts from the state schools and giving them a better education.
It’s not about helping the students, but all about protecting the
useless teachers in the state schools. After a minimum of 10 years in
the state school system, how can good teachers let any students leave
being unable to read and write.
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May 16, 2017 8:02am
- Longknives
  
  “how can good teachers let any students leave
  being unable to read and write.”
  
  Because that’s not the priority in our Schools anymore.
  A friend has a 5 year-old new entrant- The kid is already learning Maori and all about ‘Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi’..
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:05am
  - cmm
    
    A lot of this is due to putting short-term feelings ahead of achievement.
    
    The absolute best thing to do to a child that is not achieving is to fail them so they repeat the material and then go on to future years with a firm foundation.
    
    Instead they push the kid through because the kid might get upset (and it’s also easier for the teacher than dealing with the parents complaining).
    
    So the kid never gets their basics right and get pushed along with no learning until they’re old enough to leave school.
    
    On top of that, kids are less likely to thrive unless they have good role models and are surrounded by people who respect and value learning.
    
    If the parents don’t care, then there’s a problem. Then they get fed the tall-poppy lines by families and peers: “So you think you’re better than me and don’t want to be a labourer?”, “You’re acting white.”
    
    Damn hard to thrive in an environment than that. And unfortunately the taxpayer can’t fix that.
    
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    May 16, 2017 8:30am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Longknives etc , the usual crude off the cuff over the neighbour’s fence anecdotes.
    
    The typical morning grizzles and whinging guaranteed not to change anything.
    
    Why not give stupid Hillary Clinton and Obama conspiracy theories another spin ?
    
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    May 16, 2017 8:34am
    - 4077th
      
      Pot calling the kettle black there. Why not make a positive contribution to his comment instead of hurling abuse?
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:05am
      - stephieboy
        
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        Not abuse at all and the usual morning boring and whinging Maori bashing seems not to go amiss here .
        
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        May 16, 2017 9:10am
    - SteveEEE
      
      Stephieboy without wishing to comment positively or negatively on your attitudes or opinions, it would be better if you used the correct spelling of whingeing. Through misuse/abuse whinging as you put it may now be an alternative but it’s not good. Swingeing is the same. Would you write swinging? Please.
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:56am
      - holysheet
        
        Don’t waste your time trying to get stupidboy to write the correct way. He is one of the 60% who are illiterate. Why we continue to import such useless dumb trash is beyond my comprehension. We have more than enough of our own here.
        Stupidboy cannot even work out the the topic above is not bashing Maori, but the stupid liabores and their crazy crew in the co-boat
        
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        May 16, 2017 10:04am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    I can’t wait until November when I will have the opportunity to vote Labour out of office.
    
    ….Oh!
    
    wait a minute…
    
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    May 16, 2017 8:53am
  - Inandout
    
    The Maori Party (the tail that wags the dog) have realised that you must capture the young minds to keep the Treaty myth alive. It works like this:
    
    “When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.”
    ― Mark Twain,
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:01am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Inandout , it was as though Mark Twain was commnenting prophetically about Donald Trump and his disciples .
      
      Now who would of thought ?
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:12am
      - Inandout
        
        Who would ‘have’ thought that…
        
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        May 16, 2017 9:25am
      - Twinkletoes
        
        Sounds more like Islamic brainwashing.
        
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        May 16, 2017 10:05am
  - KevOB
    
    They will be learning hu and koti too. Does a teacher with a beard also have a koti?
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:28am
    - sooty
      
      More likely to have kootys! Edit you know them nits!
      
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      May 16, 2017 6:09pm
  - GazzaW
    
    That’s just a wee bit of an urban myth LK unless your friend’s child has a teacher who isn’t sticking by the curriculum. New entrants get 30 minutes a week te reo (nothing on the TOW) and as I recall back in the 50’s we got more than our fair share of Maori culture at my suburban primary school. I certainly do not endorse a heavy emphasis on Maori subjects but in this day and age rightly or wrongly kids should at least have a basic understanding.
    
    All schools run an excellent remedial programme for new entrants with a reading problem. Schools have a staff member who has completed an intense specialist course and children with reading difficulty receive weekly one on one sessions to either remedy the problem or make referrals in the event of specialist help being required eg dyslexia. Unfortunately these programmes need parental effort and input to succeed and all too often that does not happen.
    
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    May 16, 2017 3:28pm
- GoVege
  
  Don’t blame the teachers, holy.
  The kids are illiterate because mum keeps them out of school to babysit the latest baby/cashcow.
  I’ve seen it with my neighbours.
  One time the latest baby had a black eye from the 6 year old looking after it accidentally running it into a table corner.
  After missing large chunks of their education, the young baby minders get so far behind, they give up on learning.
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:13am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Poor attendance at school will explain why some children are failing to succeed in our education system, but it’s not the main reason.
    
    I’m about to head off for my volunteer literacy stint at a local secondary school.
    My charges can read, but their comprehension skills are very poor. As far as I can make out, no-one has ever asked them questions about the stuff put in front of them.
    They don’t seem to write stories/essays on a regular basis.
    Their vocabularies are limited.
    Their general knowledge (basic geography, famous people (ie today’s media/music stars)) is limited.
    
    I do blame teachers up to a point… it’s their job to engage with their pupils, provide feedback to them, chat with them about their work, pick up on missed basics..
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:30am
    - Kimbo
      
      Sounds also like their spirit of curiosity (which kids naturally have, certainly pre-teenage) has not been cultivated earlier. Difficult for a teacher if the home environment is not a place of ready intellectual stimulation. Is all very well saying “it takes a village”, but if the village/immediate social circle is limited…that is what it produces in succeeding generations.
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:33am
      - KevOB
        
        Isn’t that what teachers are paid for, to be able to engage with those who are not meeting acceptable standards or missing out?
        
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        May 16, 2017 12:12pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Yes, but parents still remain the primary educators. Despite the specialist skills teachers bring, in most cases they can only succeed to the point at which parents engage in the education process – by encouragement, supervision, and interest in their child’s education. If those are missing, then no matter how much money or teacher input are thrown at the problem, it is bloody hard. Is like a crab trying to escape a bucket of them – as soon as one gets up near the edge about to escape, another pulls it back.
        
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        May 16, 2017 12:15pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Parental input is crucial, which is why the kids of certain migrant groups end up going to university and into the professions, even though their parents could barely speak English when they arrived in the country.
        
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        May 16, 2017 12:23pm
    - Kimbo
      
      I remember once, in my high school days in the largely pre-computer age expressing my surprise that a Polynesian friend did not have a dictionary at home. I wasn’t very “culturally aware or sensitive”. Nonetheless, when he went home and said that to his parents (not my intention and in their defence they were hard working immigrants who loved their kids although their English was limited), in a sense of what was likely social shame or whatever, they bought one.
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:39am
    - Dafixeruppa
      
      Anecdotally and yes the usual suspects will shoot me down for posting without “hard evidence”…
      Primary schools are required to measure the students against achievement to national standards.
      BUT, how they measure that achievement is called an overall teacher judgement.
      There are a number of systems that are available to assist with that judgement, but I will use literacy as my example. Students can be measured in one system by how fast they can read, in another by how many words they recognise and in a third, by how many words they actually understand.
      Now a school will choose how they want to measure the students, not by how best it recognises the students ability, but by how best it represents the image that the school wants to present to the Ministry.
      If a school wants to show that they are successful in their teaching, they will use a system that shows the highest number at or above average, however, if the school doesn’t care about image and simply wants more “support’ funding, then they will use a system that shows more below average.
      NOTE: this is not all schools, but it is a large number.
      In all this though, they miss the key function, i.e. ensuring that students leave school with the ability to read AND understand what they are reading.
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:40am
    - Jack5
      
      At present great books are available in ample quantities and very cheaply at sales, such as by Rotary, and at charity shops and traditional second hand book shops.
      
      There seems to be a particular glut, perhaps caused by the surge in video and online watching (and bloody blogs?)
      
      Sadly, I rarely see folk from ethnic minorities at these sales and places. How can we encourage them to get books there for their kids?
      
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      May 16, 2017 10:23am
      - starboard
        
        Offer a free bucket of KFC at the gate.
        
        The blame for NZ’s crap society lays squarely at the feet of NZ’s politicians.
        Pay scummy uneducated feral ho’s to breed..and they will.
        
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        May 16, 2017 10:46am
      - Jack5
        
        Starboard, not all ho’s are uneducated and feral.
        
        If you listened to a more “sophisticated” radio station, you would even hear some of these ladies announcing themselves as “Ho X for Radio YZ” or similar.
        
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        May 16, 2017 10:57am
      - Interested
        
        I work in a 2nd hand bookshop and agree with Jack5.
        
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        May 16, 2017 11:05am
      - Postitrote
        
        “How can we encourage them to get books there for their kids” – that’s a hard one because if the parents don’t value books in the first place, they’re unlikely to want to spend even a small amount on them.
        
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        May 16, 2017 11:48am
      - stephieboy
        
        Jack5 , plenty of ethnic minorities ( Chinese ,Indian , Middle Eastern, Somali, Pacifica etc ) use Public libraries . Most usually Robert Ludlum , Lee Childs , Tom Clancy , Jackie Collins etc are not part of their and families reading agenda and tastes .
        
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        May 16, 2017 1:10pm
      - GazzaW
        
        No lack of Asian ethnic minorities though Jack judging by their outstanding academic success rates.
        
        Something to do with parental input and home environments.
        
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        May 16, 2017 3:35pm
      - Deadly pony
        
        Yes Jack5! RadioNZ constantly tells us to call Katrina Batten a Ho…
        
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        May 16, 2017 6:19pm
    - cmm
      
      Special “make it easy” stuff does not help either.
      
      Even science etc has been corrupted.
      
      Kids can choose between doing a project about something (requiring reading, writing, developing skills in analysing and presenting data) or they can do a rap (see how many times they can say fuckin mofo in a few minutes).
      
      Somehow the cuddles-oriented educators think these should be given equal value.
      
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      May 16, 2017 2:48pm
- Soffet
  
  My 7-year old son has learning difficulties that were not picked up in Year 1 and in Year 2 we were told he was not interested, easily distracted and bothered the other kids. His reading was terrible.
  
  We were quite concerned and we did hearing checks, eye checks that came back fine but he has a listening disorder (APD). The school deal in mainstream kids and accept that there is a percentage failure rate. We got my son a Speld teacher for additional learning and he’s improved out of sight. Our own research found that kids like him are not alone and can make their way all through the school system literally not learning anything so I’m not surprised that some teenagers leave school unable to read!
  
  Without our intervention, he might have ended up on the scrap heap. We see the same pattern with teenagers that go on to commit crime and go off the rails – learning difficulties then branded as “trouble” and that’s that.
  
  I think Charter Schools are able to recognise those patterns and respond with more one-on-one learning; more time for them to learn. That Labour want to kill off these schools and send these kids back to the mainstream schools is shocking. Seeing Chris Hipkins on the TV last night with a smug smile (he probably thought it was “looking confident”) said it all. What a bunch of dickheads.
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:01am
  - namron
    
    Learning takes place when a child has the desire to do it. There are a number of requirements which most children become familiar with from a stable and organised home background and/or pre-school attendance. It is often easy for a teacher to predict future “learning difficulties” from the language, attitude and manner of the mother and child from very early days at school. Parents are fond of discovering other reasons for their child not achieving to place blame on the school and so hide the fact that their basic development and practice of reasonable pre-school behaviours has not prepared their child for beginning at school nor continuing successfully with the rest of their education.
    [written after 48 years in Primary education!]
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:21am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Can only give you the one uptick.
      
      Mother was a teacher of intermediate children who had ‘special needs’ (the term in the 60’s) and my partner who is a DP some 50 years later and both would affirm the importance of the family with their combined input that is crucial in determining the child’s outcome.
      
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      May 16, 2017 10:21am
  - KevOB
    
    Charter schools are working because the teachers are engaged with the pupils. The parents may be too. It seems there is a shortage of even adequate teachers.
    
    Some children may not be involved; its a teacher’s duty to change that. That takes skill.
    
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    May 16, 2017 12:15pm
- G152
  
  Their union masters have decreed it and liebor will remove their noses in compliance
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:16am
- KevOB
  
  Only 50% Maori among the prison inmates? Have the figures been doctored or are they now arresting more others?
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:22am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Closer to 60% than 50, physiological step like 9.99 is not really $10.00 and petrol at $1.89.9; who is being fooled here?
    
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    May 16, 2017 2:50pm
Longknives

Crackpot Feminist ranting about James Bond-

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11856501

*Personally I think Idris Elba would make an excellent James Bond but this deranged rant against White Males/Western Imperialism etc etc is just a little unnecessary…
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May 16, 2017 8:03am
- Kimbo
  
  I’ve come to the conclusion Ian Fleming’s James Bond, and also the movie version that has developed over 50 years is a male adult’s version of Enid Blyton’s ‘Famous Five’.
  
  Bond, the quintessential English (yes, I know he was born in Scotland) whitebread male who built British Empire turns up, and shit starts happening, in the course of which he disposes of all manner of swarthy and unreliable foreigners (Blyton: gypsies) in a series of deus machina plot twists that see him prevail over evil in the course of a ripping adventure, interspersed with ready culinary delights that just appear (Fleming, like Blyton originally invented his character when rationing was still in place in Britain: beluga caviar and foie gras washed down with Château Mouton Rothschild 1947 = ham sandwiches with mustard, scones with jam and cream and homemade lemonade. Bond girls with kinky names and vodka martinis (shaken not stirred – even though that’s not how you are meant to make them) are just the next next step beyond the pre-pubescent version of gratifying Freudian appetites.
  
  But someone has probably already subjected both to that critique and gained a PhD from it.
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:02am
  - Kimbo
    
    Yep, someone beat me to it!
    
    ‘Mum says the books are like Enid Blyton’
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/may/18/fiction.jamesbond
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:09am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I got hooked on reading by Enid Blyton’s Famous Five series (I didn’t think much of the Secret Seven and didn’t care for Noddy much, either, but Hubby read all the Noddy books to our kids).
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:40am
      - Kimbo
        
        Hubby read all the Noddy books to our kids
        
        While I would never question your or your husband’s parenting skills Ialthough I’m confident the gtammatically-challenged stephieboy will), isn’t that classified by modern education experts as a form of child abuse, equivalent to teaching them race-porn like Mein Kampf*? 😉
        
        * A bloody dull book, btw.
        
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        May 16, 2017 9:45am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Kimbo
        
        How old are you?????
        
        Enid Blyton was starting to be rehabilitated by the 1980s.
        http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/book-details.php?id=331
        
        Anyway, our household was never very PC… as we lived in Wellington, we were confident that our kids would be daily exposed to correct thinking by the offspring of dedicated public servants.
        
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        May 16, 2017 4:55pm
  - KevOB
    
    I enjoyed both The Famous Five and Bond. Pity the PC mob got Enid Blyton.
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:47am
    - Kimbo
      
      PC? Or more educators, with good reason consider her stories are formulaic shit with cardboard cut-outs who never undergo character development? But yeah, kids should be allowed their version of pulp fiction. As long as they are reading something they like, it means they are developing, spelling, grammar and reading comprehension skills. I found this common sense advice:
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFpYj0E-yb4
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:56am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Oh, so the Enid Blyton books were censored for quality of writing. Gosh, who knew?
        Pity that doesn’t happen more often then. /
        
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        May 16, 2017 10:19am
      - KevOB
        
        And you think current novels are any better? The population feeds on pap including the puerile TV which our Government promotes.
        
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        May 16, 2017 12:20pm
    - Happychappy
      
      In my younger days I used to read a lot and read all of Nevil Shute books, A Town Like Alice and loved his books but in them days I ended up getting Migraine head aches and stopped reading apart from sports books which I read occasionly now days..
      
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      May 16, 2017 10:12am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I read quite a bit of Neville Shute, too.
        
        Really liked “On the Beach”… the first novel I ever read to mention NZ, and “No Highway”.
        
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        May 16, 2017 5:04pm
    - Ed Snack
      
      I preferred the “Secret Seven”, but neither really appealed. I was a “Swallows and Amazon’s” type myself. And we were brought up on A.A. Milne and did the same ourselves, never fancied Noddy.
      
      A family friend had all the Bond books, and when we were old enough we were allowed to read them – a bit “spicy” back then. Must say though that reading the books puts a damper on the films. They were hardly “high literature”, but often ripping good adventure yarns and great escapism.
      
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      May 16, 2017 10:35am
  - Fletch
    
    With ‘lashings’ of whipped cream…
    
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    May 16, 2017 6:39pm
duggledog

Holysheet

Sir Apirana Ngata predicted that the cradle to the grave Welfare State would be devastating for his people.

He was right.

I would like a politician – any politician, maybe Winston Peters, to advise all Maori who are struggling to find their whakapapa and return to their marae, to take advantage of that structure.

Basically put Maori problems back onto Maori.
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May 16, 2017 8:04am
- KevOB
  
  I believe Sir Apirana Ngata was also the elder who rejected Maori language as being a way forward in an expanding world.
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:20am
  - David Garrett
    
    KevOB: Quite so…it is also not widely known that it was HE, and not the horrible whitey, who mandated that no Maori would be spoken at school…His logic was that the kids spoke Maori at home, but they needed to be also fluent in English to succeed in the modern world, and the best way to achieve fluency was total immersion in English…Just like they do with Maori at those kupapa thingies…
    
    It was Ngata therefore – as Minister of Education – who introduced the “caning for speaking Maori” policy now boringly trotted out as yet another example of oppression by the honkey.
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:41am
    - cha
      
      Ngata therefore – as Minister of Education
      
      Cite?.
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:54am
      - holysheet
        
        Do your own research. you might just learn something.
        
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        May 16, 2017 10:08am
      - Kimbo
        
        The implication of cha’s rhetorical question is right in that Ngata was not Minister of Education. Nonetheless, DG is right in his intent because, as Minister of Native Affairs Ngata had much input into Maori education policies and practices as, in practical terms, before urbanisation, the Maori and Pakeha worlds were largely separate.
        
        But not always as much input as he desired however. For example, he wanted Maori prepared in school for entry into the professions, not just the labouring and manual jobs that paternalistic Pakeha politicians decided was more beneficial and pragmatically suitable for Maori at that time.
        
        Also, Ngata, while rejecting much of what he considered the then-regressive elements in Maoridom such as tangi, and tohunga during the time he was one of the “Young Maori Party”, always understood he and his people were Maori. Was a case of reforming and updating his culture, rather than rejecting it entirely to become brown-skinned Pakeha.
        
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        May 16, 2017 10:18am
      - GoVege
        
        Ngata was one of a kind.
        He was for Maori like Ataturk was for Turkey.
        Now they are both gone, their people are reverting back to their primitive roots.
        A tragedy.
        
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        May 16, 2017 11:32am
      - Kimbo
        
        Ngata was one of a kind.
        
        Don’t overlook his “Young Maori Party” Te Aute-educated contemporaries, Maui Pomare and Te Rangi Hīroa/Peter Buck.
        
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        May 16, 2017 11:36am
      - GoVege
        
        Thanks for that, Kimbo.
        Must look those dudes up.
        Yonks ago they thought Peter Sharples would be a leader….sadly not.
        
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        May 16, 2017 11:47am
Monique Watson

Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen! Weather is all good here.
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May 16, 2017 8:05am
- Dafixeruppa
  
  Good morning to you too.
  Weather here is a little overcast
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:23am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    And dry
    
    How are you on that front Monique? ?
    
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    May 16, 2017 8:31am
mikenmild

Expect more heat to go on the Auditor-General:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/330853/jailed-fraudster-got-friend-job-at-transport-ministry
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May 16, 2017 8:07am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Yup MM. I’m with you on this one.
  
  It is just plain staggering that the CE who showed a total absence of any common sense or judgment regarding this whole affair and the staggering misuse of public funds – got rewarded by being put in the role with a core function of spotting this sort of thing happening across the state sector.
  
  It’s as utterly crazy as putting Saudi Arabia on the UN Human Rights council! Or putting Roger Sutton in a gender respect in the workplace job.
  
  Joking aside – if this wasn’t doing a text book example of failing in your job as a CE and a slam-dunk disqualification from getting a similar job – nothing is!
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:02am
Albert_Ross

What is it with John Oliver? What is the point of his constant mockery, which is beginning to border on bullying? What did New Zealand and its politicians, who are no worse than any other country’s and a lot better than some, do to him?
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May 16, 2017 8:07am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Bill English told the truth. John Oliver isn’t really that funny.
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:09am
  - mikenmild
    
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    Your sense of humour seems to change if your beloved National Party makes itself the butt of jokes.
    
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    May 16, 2017 8:15am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Not at all mikenmild. His derision of Katie Bradford’s Kiwi accent was pretty pathetic, especially given he is a Pom presenting to a US audience. You’d hardly call Ms Bradford part of my “beloved National Party”.
      
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      May 16, 2017 8:35am
      - Kimbo
        
        …and not just any Pom – a Brummie! They are ok people from Birmingham/the Midlands, but like folks from Liverpool with their Scouse accent, they have the unfortunate quality that everything they say sounds like they are moaning 😉
        
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        May 16, 2017 9:16am
    - SGA
      
      I often enjoy John Oliver, including some of the NZ stuff. The recent Bill English piece I simply didn’t find that funny and seemed more mean-spirited than anything. Slow day for other material?
      
      Add – I must say that if Bill English has been advised to get “with it” by exposing himself more on social media, then it wasn’t a good idea.
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:14am
      - Jack5
        
        SGA is right. WTF are NZ politicians doing engaging with US TV comedians?
        
        John Key started it with that idiot Letterman.
        
        If our politicians want to engage with TV figures in America, let them talk to those with brains. On the Right, for example, Charles Krauthammer would generate an informative and productive exchange if he could be persuaded to engage with an NZ politician.
        
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        May 16, 2017 10:29am
  - B.L.Zeebub
    
    Fortunately his laughing at all his own “jokes” lets the producers know when to hit the canned laughter track.
    Stuff headlines this morn claims he shreds Bill English, the article suggests otherwise.
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:03am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Rather than shredding English I thought he looked like a nasty self-important vindictive little twat.
      
      Too many adjectives?
      
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      May 16, 2017 10:22am
      - Kimbo
        
        As your adverb count is one (“Rather”) and it was both necessary and not excessive (the point of you post was to make a comparison so it or an equivalent adverbial phrase had to be used), so don’t worry about it.
        
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        May 16, 2017 10:27am
      - SGA
        
        Can’t see Kimbo’s law taking off. Too much adverb/adjective confusion. Really, truly, sorry 🙂
        
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        May 16, 2017 11:26am
      - Kimbo
        
        No you aren’t sorry at all, and please note, as they are satirical, sarcastic and hyperbolic use of adverbs are not breaches of Kimbo’s law*.
        
        And after a comment like that I see I may to revise my opinion that you are the resident gentleman of Kiwiblog, SGA, and contemplate moving you to the “vile troll” category. Confusion over adverbs and adjectives?! They are basic f*&%ing parts of language! How hard is it?!
        
        Adjectives qualify nouns (like ‘f*&%ing’ in my second-to-last sentence),
        
        ….whereas advebs qualify verbs, and are often denoted by the suffix -ly. Or at least the rhetorical shills Kimbo’s law* is aimed against: truly, certainly, absolutely, utterly, completely…
        
        * “in blogworld the validity of an argument is in inverse proportion to the excessive and unnecessary use of adverbs”
        
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        May 16, 2017 12:09pm
      - SGA
        
        Confusion over adverbs and adjectives?! They are basic f*&%ing parts of language! How hard is it?!
        
        Alas, merely an empirical observation 🙂
        
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        May 16, 2017 12:45pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Please note, SGA, I have another category beyond “vile trolls”, known as “tawdry shits”! 😉
        
        And I provide empirical data to counter your specious anecdote and conclusion:
        
        Alas (qualifies the unstated yet implied verbal clause “it is”, so it is an adverb – and a sarcastic one at that),
        
        merely (as above, an adverb – and ordinarily – justified adverb! – an unnecessary and excessive one at that, if it weren’t for your hyperbolic and sarcastic intent)
        
        an (the indefinite article, qualifying the noun “observation”, so it is a form of adjective. Yes, I know some try and argue definite and indefinite articles are a separate part of speech, but as they do qualify nouns, they nonetheless function like an adjective)
        
        empirical (also qualifies the noun “observation”, so it is another adjective)
        
        observation (the name of something, so it is…a noun).
        
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        May 16, 2017 1:01pm
      - SGA
        
        ….whereas advebs qualify verbs, and are often denoted by the suffix -ly
        
        As I think about it, they can qualify adjectives as well.
        
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        May 16, 2017 1:07pm
      - SGA
        
        Alas (qualifies the unstated yet implied verbal clause “it is”, so it is an adverb – and a sarcastic one at that),
        
        Alas, the Oxford merely defines it as an exclamation. 🙂
        
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        May 16, 2017 1:10pm
      - Kimbo
        
        As I think about it, they can qualify adjectives as well
        
        True. But I see you attempt to obfuscate, confuse and flood the conversation with over-qualification and detail, and raise you:
        
        But those are not the sort of adverbs Kimbo’s law is aimed at. Neither are adverbs that give necessary nuance and precision. Instead Kimbo’s law’s adverbs stand out like dog’s balls, and can be detected by the test, “if you remove them, does the meaning stay the same?” For example,
        
        It is ~~utterly~~ clear SGA is attempting to rain on Kimbo’s parade
        
        Yep. Same meaning. Unnecessary and excessive adverb that is not paying the rent, but is just thrown in to emotionally seduce the reader into accepting that claim is somehow more credible than it is.
        
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        May 16, 2017 1:17pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Alas, the Oxford merely defines it as an exclamation. ?
        
        Bastard!! We can split the difference on whether that too is an exclamation or a noun.
        
        But (and yeah, ok, I’m doubling down on what seems like a busted flush)
        
        …in your overall intent, “alas” was the rhetorical equivalent of an adverb…such as “sadly” or “regrettably”.
        
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        May 16, 2017 1:21pm
      - SGA
        
        “alas” was the rhetorical equivalent of an adverb…such as “sadly” or “regrettably”
        
        Or the noun “Pity”. The difference, I suppose, is that while you can use such nouns and adverbs as an exclamation or interjection, you can only use “alas” as a exclamation or interjection (I think?). hmmm…
        
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        May 16, 2017 7:45pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        If we are going to be judged on our use of adverbs, I’d really like to be assured that we are generally in agreement as to what an adverb is.
        
        I am not going to be very happy with such a limited definition as a word that qualifies a verb.
        
        As we well know, an adverb can qualify an adjective, a verb, and an adverb. Probably most folks can (easily) recognise the -ly adverbs, but few can confidently recognise these as adverbs…the, just, tomorrow.
        
        And what of unnecessarily ugly adverbial phrases?…. Until such time that Kimbo calls taihoa on their presence, I’ll blithely abuse his law.
        
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        May 16, 2017 10:05pm
      - Kimbo
        
        And what of unnecessarily ugly adverbial phrases?…. Until such time that Kimbo calls taihoa on their presence, I’ll ~~blithely~~ abuse his law.
        
        There! Rather than define, I will avoid straying into the thorns and bushes over-qualification, and instruct by example. Same meaning? Yep. Any necessary nuance or precision sacrificed? Nope. Your rebellious and casual spirit remains.
        
        Problem sorted. Now kindly repent of your adverb sins and submit to Kimbo’s law, and enjoy the blessings of uncluttered and shill-free communication.
        
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        May 16, 2017 11:04pm
      - SGA
        
        Any necessary nuance or precision sacrificed? Nope. Your rebellious and casual spirit remains.
        
        Oh, I don’t know. I’ll sleep easier knowing Maggie’s abuse is more cheerful indifference than petulance or open hostility. I imagine she’s quite dangerous in those moods. 🙂 🙂 🙂
        Night all.
        
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        May 16, 2017 11:22pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Oh, come on!. I maliciously overloaded my wordy piece with too many adverbs.
        
        You could safely remove another 7 and one adverbial phrase.
        
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        May 16, 2017 11:25pm
      - Kimbo
        
        And in just one post my example of pruning has inculcated in you both self-knowledge and the awareness of unnecessary and excessive adverbs in your own communication. Plus we both know “safely” makes eight. My work here, for the moment, is done…
        
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        May 16, 2017 11:40pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Whereas “maliciously” gave nuance and precision as you could have overloaded the adverbs “carefully”, “carelessly”, or “deliberately”.
        
        But as pointed out earlier in this thread, hyperbolic use of adverbs for the sake of satire is not a breach of Kimbo’s law.
        
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        May 16, 2017 11:52pm
- Paulus
  
  Pathetic little sod from what I can understand – but confess have not heard or seen him as would not bother.
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:12am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    But of course TV3 took the opportunity to ramp up Oliver’s attack on English because, well, it’s the media’s job to undermine the National Government.
    
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    May 16, 2017 8:15am
    - howitis
      
      TV3 surviving on funding by the taxpayer (NZ on Air) with not very necessary crap like:-
      The Hui $540k pa
      Kiri and Boo $860k
      Both worlds 6 $340k
      The Moe Show 4 $1.1 million
      7 Days $1.056 million pa
      Jono and Ben $1.7 million
      Westside 3 $6.5 million
      My year with Hulun $200k
      About $17m per annum in taxpayer funding. Without it they would be gone burger.
      
      I think to a degree Alfred Ngaro was right.
      Constant criticism of the Govt is wrong when your survival is only because of Govt i.e. taxpayer donations.
      V3/Mediajerks are not a charity and not very charitable, or even grateful to the taxpayer that ensures their survival.
      The Filth can criticise…just cut the apron strings and do it on your own dime.
      
      Mediaworks are of course on moral high ground despite their OCR rate leak and collapsing the company to get out of a $24million tax debt in 2013. sarc/
      At least they got rid of the loophole gun gurl, dear Heather of Africa.
      
      Should we taxpayers feel smug that we subsidise the owner, the nearly USD 100 billion investment vehicle, Oaktree Capital Management?
      Those 1% Wall Street bastards!!
      
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      May 16, 2017 12:04pm
- itstricky
  
  border on bullying
  
  Snowflake. You can’t deny it, Bill lacks the same charisma that JK had. To say “Oliver ain’t that funny” was asking for it, and he got it. Walk-run. LOL. Dear me Bill, dear me.
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:34am
  - David Garrett
    
    tricky: Not often I agree with you son…
    
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    May 16, 2017 8:44am
    - itstricky
      
      You’ve said that at least four times now… Don’t be shy with that uptick, you know you can force yourself to do it…
      
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      May 16, 2017 8:49am
- David Garrett
  
  Albert: What do the yoof say? “Cry me a river”?
  
  Harden up man! If our polis can’t take some stick from some English funny man on the telly in the US of A then they sure as hell couldn’t stand the heat in the kitchen here.
  
  Oliver ISN’T that funny…but you have to be pretty sledge hammerish to get through to the yanks…Blackadder would go right over their heads…
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:43am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    Is it your contention that any response other than supine acceptance, to any rudeness, no matter how unmerited, is “snowflake”?
    
    Say one of your children is in a public park, quietly and harmlessly enjoying the sunshine on a non-school day, and I march up (not knowing the child at all) and say “Why aren’t you in school, you worthless little loser c*nt”, what would you think an appropriate response to that?
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:07am
    - itstricky
      
      I march up (not knowing the child at all) and say
      
      That’s not comedy and the child did not say “you’re not funny” beforehand so I fail to see how the two things are equivalent?
      
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      May 16, 2017 12:01pm
- Peter
  
  Jon Stewart was funny.
  
  I find John Oliver too bullying to be funny. It’s over-the-top. New Zealand is the joke country, like Kazakhstan was to Ali G.
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:56am
- MCos
  
  “What did we do to him”
  That should illicit an immediate apology to the nation.
  Either that or more derision!
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:03am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    I’m certainly not expecting or asking for an apology, or even that he should desist, but I am genuinely curious to know why he and his audience seem to think it so hilarious to repeatedly mock New Zealand and its politicians for – well, for nothing very much.
    
    Of course we’re not a perfect country; of course our politicians occasionally do, or get done to them, things that can be made to make them look foolish; of course Bill English isn’t a match, in a battle of comedic wit, for a professional comedian.
    
    But that’s true of every country, and every politician, in fact it’s true of every body.
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:13am
    - SGA
      
      but I am genuinely curious to know why he and his audience seem to think it so hilarious to repeatedly mock New Zealand and its politicians for – well, for nothing very much.
      
      Oh – I can understand why a politician getting a dildo thrown at him (for example) got attention. As Oliver said at the time “if it been in the US, she would have been shot dead before the dildo hit the ground” (or something like that). (Add: and Joyce did tweet something about John Oliver getting on to that story). And Oliver’s not the only way to enjoy the “laser-eye kiwi” flag.
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:30am
      - Deadly pony
        
        Yep the laser eye kiwi was totally awesome. I love that we’re a country so egalitarian we’ll give anyone a crack at drawing a new flag.
        
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        May 16, 2017 6:28pm
    - KevOB
      
      We can get back through denying immigration status to rich Americans who wish to escape their mess.
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:57am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Yup A_R – he’s just a typical leftie pommie loser!
  
  KBers know I’m as far away from being a fan of Mr 21% as it is possible to be – but John Oliver just moved me to being on Bill English’s side!
  
  Remember – he was the famously wrong person that dared (no double-dared) Trump to run for President.
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:05am
- G152
  
  One of his staff writers has an affliction about us. Envy I’d presume
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:20am
- Kimbo
  
  What is it with John Oliver? What is the point of his constant mockery, which is beginning to border on bullying? What did New Zealand and its politicians, who are no worse than any other country’s and a lot better than some, do to him?
  
  He trying to create a meme, you know like Kimbo’s law or ‘Postcards from Stars and Stripes’ here on Kiwiblog.
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:22am
Keeping Stock

Oh dear; you couldn’t make this up:

Labour leader Andrew Little has had some behind the scenes help from an acting coach.

At his speech at the party conference yesterday, an unassuming figure in the back row turned out to be respected stage and screen actor and director, Ross Jolly.

“He had not seen me in live performance and he came along to see the live performance,” Mr Little told Newshub.

Mr Jolly is best known for his work as John from Kiwi classic comedy Gliding On – but now he’s been tasked with providing “thespian assistance” to the leader of the opposition.

“Coaching me, not in acting, no I can assure you of that, no just to give me a few tips on presentation style for those big set piece speeches,” Mr Little said.

So now we know; Andrew Little isn’t at all sincere; it’s all a big act. Sadly though, he’s just playing the role of leader of the Labour Party as an understudy, while the real star turn waits in the wings for his turn…
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May 16, 2017 8:08am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  I don’t know why we should be so surprised.
  
  The unions have had their hand up his arse for years working him like a glove puppet.
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:35am
- SGA
  
  For heavens sake, most high profile politicians of all flavours get coaching of that sort or similar.
  Anyway, isn’t “a sincere politician” an oxymoron?
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:24am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Media training is fine SGA, because of the media-driven world we now live in. But acting? Consider the two definitions offered by the Oxford Living Dictionary:
    
    The art or occupation of performing fictional roles in plays, films, or television.
    
    or alternatively:
    
    Temporarily doing the duties of another person.
    
    Given the number of leadership changes in Labour since 2008, one could argue that Little is indeed the ACTING leader of the Labour Party. But in terms of “performing fictional roles”, he’s not likely to get through too many auditions. It’ll be “Don’t call us, we’ll call you”!
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:50am
    - SGA
      
      meh – communication skills in front of an audience are important for acting and public speaking – for example, how to use your voice and body effectively. I don’t find it unbelievable that an actor could give tips in this regard.
      Surely you’ve got bigger fish to fry?
      
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      May 16, 2017 11:01am
      - sooty
        
        They should get their money back, because they aint working!
        
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        May 16, 2017 6:23pm
- 4077th
  
  While the real star turn waits in the wings for HER turn…
  
  There, I fixed it for you!
  
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  May 16, 2017 10:02am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Who says I was talking about Jacinda Ardern 4077th?
    
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    May 16, 2017 10:28am
    - 4077th
      
      Grant Robertson may also be waiting HER turn 🙂
      
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      May 16, 2017 10:36am
- KevOB
  
  Coaching has been obvious but he can’t change his angry personality so the bluster is till there.
  
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  May 16, 2017 10:07am
Paulus

I am disappointed to learn that Mike King has resigned from his role in the area of principally the rapid deterioration in Maori Mental Health.
That he does not agree with the draft report on Mental Health relates in particular to Children taking their own life.
Surely Mike you would be better served carrying on the work you have and are doing, but would respectfully suggest you look for some answers to the problem – look at the source.
From what one reads today is that money is the answer to all the many New Zealand problems.
This is not – that is superficial – go back some time and put some real facts together so that simple people like me can see the cause.
From there we can judge the future better – complaining it is the Government’s fault is not the answer.
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May 16, 2017 8:09am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  And in the mean time New Zealanders kill themselves at 10 a week.
  No wonder King is begging for less hui and more dooey.
  
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  May 16, 2017 10:30am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Was Mike King unable to speak publically if he was on the board? Otherwise it sounds like grandstanding if he could have said the same thing anyway.
  Is Mike going to run for election?
  Sad statistics though.
  
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  May 16, 2017 10:42am
- waikatogirl
  
  Mike King has not given up the work he has been doing in the community. King resigned from the govt committee he was appointed to. King wanted, and believed he had secured a plan to reduce suicide by 20% , only to find after several 8 hour long meetings of the committee that the result was a flowery Maori name and a proposal to work toward every NZ’er having a happy life, or words to that effect.
  
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  May 16, 2017 11:07am
Inandout

Mike King on TV3 talking about endless meetings at mental health organisations, some meetings lasting 8 hours! Spending much time on choosing the ‘correct’ Maori names for meaningless initiatives. Welcome to NZ bureaucracy Mike, a nation run on talk fests. Now just imagine what a hurdle Trump faces trying to clean out Washington bureaucracy.
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May 16, 2017 8:12am
JasonJohns

Stand up white man! Your true identity as the ancient inhabitants of NZ is being revealed thanks to the heroism of Noel Hilliam and Kerry Bolton
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11854720
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May 16, 2017 8:16am
- fernglas
  
  Can white women stand up too?
  
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  May 16, 2017 10:44am
  - Jack5
    
    Fernglas, surely you aren’t implying they are always on their back?
    
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    May 16, 2017 11:02am
JasonJohns

Whites are the indigenous people of NZ. Uptick if you agree.
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May 16, 2017 8:17am
- itstricky
  
  How about if I just go:
  
  Snore…zzzzzzzzzz
  
  ?
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:38am
  - starboard
    
    “How about if I just go:
    Snore…zzzzzzzzzz”
    
    This is why you are so ignorant sticky. You don’t pay attention at the right time. Sit up straight boy, hand out of pocket..watch listen and learn.
    
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    May 16, 2017 11:49am
- Longknives
  
  New Zealand doesn’t have any ‘Indigenous’ people nutsack.
  Both Maori and European Cultures are very recent arrivals on these shores..
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:42am
  - MCos
    
    If you are going to get into some pedantic discussion about the definition of ‘indigenous’ as it applies to NZ you might as well resolve the centuries old question of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:15am
    - ross411
      
      “Any question that questions that which I (MCos) consider pointless is irrelevant to me (MCos), therefore it should be irrelevant to you.”
      
      That a fair summation?
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:24am
    - KevOB
      
      By Maori admission they arrived here, say, 800 years ago. That may make them an early settler group but not indigenous. Their rights are by virtue of being here earlier. Maori are tribal Pacific migrants like most of Polynesia. They have myths and language in common.
      
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      May 16, 2017 10:13am
    - fernglas
      
      MCos @9:15
      The question of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin is easily answered. Measure the area of the pin head. Measure the area of an angel’s foot, then double it. Divide the first by the second.
      
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      May 16, 2017 10:48am
  - stephieboy
    
    Longknives , like the Romans and Celts in ancient Britain ?
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:16am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  If you define ‘indigenous’ to mean having ancestors who were the first people here, then I am indigenous to the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, and probably other places. But none of those countries would even let me live or work there, let alone recognise me as having special indigenous rights. And nor should they, because the whole idea is a nonsense.
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:10am
  - Kimbo
    
    Not according to the first people who got here, nor how the courts (an imported European means of administering justice) have interpreted the original agreement between the indigenous peoples and the once-alien Crown that allowed the later to establish itself here as the undisputed ruler.
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:14am
- sam green
  
  How about “uptick if you are a moron”?
  
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  May 16, 2017 10:00am
  - Jack5
    
    Trolling early today, Sam?
    
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    May 16, 2017 10:38am
    - sam green
      
      Go mind the bags Jack5.
      
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      May 16, 2017 8:21pm
Happychappy

Does one Conference to your members make you a better person, speaker, policy deliverer or Leader I doubt it very much but the media are dribbling about how improved Andrew Little was at the Labour Conference. Maybe it was the Kiss or flowers that he gave his wife but he still looked the same spewed the same message about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer and announced his same under cooked poorly drafted policy that could take us back to the 1900’s. So the Policy might not help the Labour Party but the look and speech have enabled the media to say hes turned the corner so Labour now has a winner.
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May 16, 2017 8:22am
- RF
  
  You can put lipstick on a pig and at the end of the day it is still a pig.
  
  Lesson for Angry in case he had not caught on.
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:56am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    And in this instance, a total waste of lipstick
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:15am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Ouch.
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:21am
    - Dafixeruppa
      
      Do you really want to see Little with lipstick?
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:48am
      - 4077th
        
        I’m sure he has plenty of Jacindarella’s on his arse.
        
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        May 16, 2017 10:07am
peterwn

So the bus drivers unions are planning strikes over the change of contractors. Seems they have forgotten that the last two bus strikes fell flat on the face. Eastbourne bus drivers refused to collect fares and residents called into the council office to pay the uncollected fares. The last of the annual pre-Christmas bus strikes in Wellington failed when people just made other arrangements through clenched teeth and City Councillors (including Labour ones) held out against the union.
Seems any proposed strike would be illegal since the issue the unions want to strike over is beyond the control of the incumbent employers, Tranzit (the proposed major replacement contractor) is not their employer and there is no formal ‘industrial’ relationship with the Regional Council. In reality it is a strike against the Regional Council and passengers as shown by the unions ‘inviting’ local mayors to the proposed stop work meetings.
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May 16, 2017 8:22am
VicParking

Dont have “negative gearing” on my rental properties. Meeting with accountant yesterday. Says vote liebour as this will enable you to put up rents by $35 a week to match increases by those with “neg gearing”. A bit shocked until I saw his tongue in his cheek, but a smile on his face.
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May 16, 2017 8:36am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  People don’t quite understand that rents are held down by competition, and the floor is the level of rent that provides an acceptable rate of return compared to other investment choices.
  
  If house prices are not increasing as fast, that reduces returns. If losses cannot be attributed to other incomes, that reduces returns as well. Rents must therefore increase to achieve the desired rate of return on investment.
  
  There is a way to take the heat out of the housing market without creating upward pressure on rents. It is to reduce taxes and regulations on other forms of investment making them more attractive compared to property. Neither Red Labour nor Blue Labour is likely to do that though.
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:04am
  - Paulus
    
    Surly rents are governed by the return on capital being the current value of the property not CV.
    So if the current sale price of a house is $500,000 then the banks for such an investment will offer around 3.5% before tax say $14,000 net. From that the owner will have to pay rates, insurance and any repairs – say $3,000 pa. So net return by this measure is $11,000 pa.
    That is 2.2% return on property.
    A rental is worth say 4% or $20,000 pa on a good tenancy or $384 per week to stand still. Whilst repairs and maintenance are offsettable as an expense why bother.
    Financially it is not worth being a landlord.
    
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    May 16, 2017 11:25am
    - peterwn
      
      Don Brash was right in a way when he said it was more economic to rent (implying your capital could get a better return elsewhere). However people crave for the security home ownership brings.
      Bob Jones said industrial property (ie big tin sheds) returned 10% on value after expenses although that has eased back somewhat in modern times. If tin sheds were returning 10% (and the tenants are generally solvent and stable) I figured that residential rentals should give a 15% rate of return given the extra hassle of dealing with tenants, more wear and tear, vacant periods etc. But I would have to be joking suggesting such a rate of return.
      
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      May 16, 2017 1:03pm
VicParking

Bill English off to Japan. Has he gone to learn the finer points of Hari Kari/Seppuku so he instruct the National party before the election.
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May 16, 2017 8:42am
- itstricky
  
  Walk-run must’ve been his pre-trip training.
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:44am
- ross411
  
  Not a very advanced tip for you, because you seem like you need it.
  
  If you stop just dunking the teabag in your cup, and instead leave it in there for several minutes, your tea won’t taste weak.
  
  Now take the theory, and apply it to thinking about your posts before making them.
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:28am
- Keeping Stock
  
  If he returns to New Zealand with the foundations in place for an FTA with Japan, the trip will have been more than worthwhile. The New Zealand Tech sector certainly seems enthusiastic…
  
  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1705/S00493/trade-trip-to-japan-great-boost-for-nz-tech-exporters.htm
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:56am
  - 4077th
    
    An FTA with Japan would have a very positive impact for NZ agriculture with current tariffs of around 14% then added consumption tax of 8%. As far as my business goes, we export around $300k p/a directly to Japan and there are no tariffs. These negations will l hopefully go some way to correcting the trade imbalance the Japanese have enjoyed since the late 1980’s.
    
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    May 16, 2017 10:19am
- GazzaW
  
  No VP – he’s off to get the TPPA restarted much to the chagrin of the naysayers.
  
  It’s Andy who will need the seppuku knife but he won’t have to wield it himself – Jacinda & Robbo will plant it for him fair and square between his shoulder blades around 10pm 23 September.
  
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  May 16, 2017 3:56pm
Manolo

Macron chooses a PM:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/frances-macron-picks-pm-blowing-apart-old-boundaries-130349303–business.html
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May 16, 2017 8:44am
- Jack5
  
  ĀLLO, ĀLLO:
  
  In deference to the English-language spelling of our Māori fellow-citizens, should we spell the French leader’s name as Mācron, given his surname is also the name of the bar over the one of the Maori alphabet letters?
  
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  May 16, 2017 10:45am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    The macron is not part of the English language. This is why I despise seeing Tāupo on road signs (where someone has stuck a bit of white tape above the “a”).
    
    “Tāupo” is Maori; it is not English.
    
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    May 16, 2017 11:06am
    - Jack5
      
      I agree with Odakyu-sen.
      
      If we want to use the Maori language it should be in parallel with English.
      
      Borrowing words into English is one thing, but borrowing alphabetic symbols is a step too far. Should we also borrow the cedilla – Ç – or the umlaut – ë – or the streg – ø?
      
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      May 16, 2017 11:23am
      - Kimbo
        
        They are phonetic/linguistic tools designed to aid correct pronunciation, so why not?
        
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        May 16, 2017 11:25am
      - Jack5
        
        But Kimbo, what chaos if we introduce the diacritical remarks of other languages into English.
        
        Languages wisely co-opt each other’s words, but diacritical marks? I don’t think so.
        
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        May 16, 2017 12:06pm
      - Jack5
        
        Kimbo, a practical reason for not adopting foreign diacritical marks into English is that characters with these various marks don’t appear on English-language keyboards.
        
        Each time you want to use one you have to look up “special characters” or enter a code.
        
        If English were to use diacritical marks for the other languages it would be tiresome, time consuming, and sometimes impossible. Or, of course, someone might market a special politically correct keyboard with about eight rows of alphabet letters rather than three rows.
        
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        May 16, 2017 12:19pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Fair point. Was trying to find how to do an umlaut on the keyboard the other day – bloody nightmare for a casual user.
        
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        May 16, 2017 12:29pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Watched Coast NZ last night on Hawke’s Bay. A maori bloke was explaining about the wildlife using Maori names of, I presume native birds, but it could have been anything as he failed to repeat the name in English. While I guess he expects all NZ’ers to know all the maori names of our wildlife (complete fail with us), the programme is hosted by a Scottish TV presenter and presumably to be shown in Scotland and the UK. ?
        
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        May 16, 2017 3:03pm
    - Paulus
      
      But Aotearoa is their country so suck it up.
      
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      May 16, 2017 11:26am
      - itstricky
        
        Sigh. Does anyone understand phonetics or did Jack get his wish to initiate a Maori bash?
        
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        May 16, 2017 11:39am
      - Jack5
        
        Itstricky – more PC censorship, eh?
        
        We cannot discuss the use, in English language, of macrons over some vowels to indicate their pronunciation in Maori?
        
        Sorry, cannot agree with that.
        
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        May 16, 2017 12:11pm
      - Kea
        
        “But Aotearoa is their country so suck it up.”
        
        No the term “Aotearoa” is one introduced by the colonial oppressors, as is it’s written form.
        
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        May 16, 2017 12:22pm
      - itstricky
        
        Itstricky – more PC censorship, eh?
        
        No, I just disagree with your feeble attempt to Maori bait/bash by making some tenious relationship between the word ‘macron’ and those who might ask you to pronounce Maori words correctly.
        
        This was the intent of your original comment and it seems Paulus took you up on it.
        
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        May 16, 2017 4:50pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        (Channeling Agent 86)
        “Ah, the old ‘correct pronunciation’ trick, eh?”
        
        When you speak a language, you should communicate effectively through correct pronunciation. In English, Taupo is (I believe) correctly pronounced as “Tow” (as in “cow”) “po” (as in “go”). On the other hand, in Te Reo, Tāupo is pronounced as “Taw” (as in “saw”) “paw” (as in “saw”).
        It is pretentious and disrespectful to sprinkle your language with foreign words pronounced as they would be in their own languages.
        
        After all, would you expect a Japanese commercial for McDonalds to pronounce “McDonalds” the way the Americans do? I don’t think so.
        
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        May 16, 2017 5:10pm
      - itstricky
        
        It is pretentious and disrespectful to sprinkle your language with foreign words pronounced as they would be in their own languages.
        
        Since when did NZ not become “our country” and Maori not “our language”?
        
        You do live in NZ, don’t you? And Maori is an official, and native, language, isn’t it?
        
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        May 16, 2017 9:51pm
    - Kea
      
      This is very simple.
      
      Written Maori is 100% an English Taonga. We graciously allow the cheeky darkies to use it. It is not for Maori to determine how we use our sacred text.
      
      Maori is an oral language and imposing written Maori on them is probably colonial oppression anyway.
      
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      May 16, 2017 12:20pm
    - KevOB
      
      The macron in Taupo would only be appropriate if the “a” was long or a contraction of “aa”. Who’s to know? Is this some regional dialect claim?
      
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      May 16, 2017 12:29pm
  - itstricky
    
    Maori alphabet letters
    
    Except that it’s nothing to do with Maori, at all. A bit of a weak attempt to introduce your favourite topic. Or you don’t understand where the macron comes from.
    
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    May 16, 2017 11:36am
    - Jack5
      
      The Leftist troll, itstricky, says: ” …. you don’t understand where the macron comes from.”
      
      My understanding, itstricky, is that it’s a diacritical mark used in the Maori alphabet to show that the vowel it is above should not be formed into a dipthong with the immediately following vowel.
      
      The macron comes from marks used in the ancient classical European languages and had significance in poetic pronunciation. It is used in languages other than Maori for various purposes, for example, in Arabic and the languages of what used to be Yugoslavia.
      
      The macron is used in a number of Polynesian languages apart from Maori. That is, in their written forms, which were created after colonisation.
      
      I know the macron is sometimes and optionally used by young or less confident writers in cursive Russian to distinguish the Cyrillic version of “m” from the Cyrillic “t”.
      
      The macron is not used in modern English.
      
      Please correct me and elaborate if I misunderstand the meaning and use of this diacritical mark.
      
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      May 16, 2017 11:59am
      - KevOB
        
        The macron is frequently omitted through Polynesia. Users are expected to know the pronunciation.
        
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        May 16, 2017 12:31pm
      - itstricky
        
        The Leftist troll
        
        If you can’t make a comment without a direct insult, how do you expect me to respect you, or take you seriously?
        
        that it’s a diacritical mark
        
        At what point did you start Googling?
        
        It is used in languages other than Maori
        
        Exactly. It is a marker to suggest pronunciation that, fundamentally, has nothing to do with Maori itself.
        
        Hence your original comment is just a bit naff. And obviously a bait to try to introduce some sort of Maori bash.
        
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        May 16, 2017 4:58pm
      - Kea
        
        “If you can’t make a comment without a direct insult, how do you expect me to respect you, or take you seriously?”
        
        itstricky, no one takes your self congratulatory virtue signalling seriously and no one gives a shit about your wounded feelings.
        
        The comment raised a point that you failed to address, because you have no argument beyond vulgar and contrived PC virtue signalling.
        
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        May 16, 2017 5:18pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        It is a marker to suggest pronunciation that, fundamentally, has nothing to do with Maori itself.
        
        That is not my understanding of the use of macrons in written Maori.
        
        It is now standard practice to employ macrons… as recommended by Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Maori/Maori Language Commission.
        http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/translators-docs/Guidelines-for-Maori-Language-Orthography.pdf
        
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        May 16, 2017 5:57pm
      - itstricky
        
        itstricky, no one takes your self congratulatory virtue signalling seriously and no one gives a shit about your wounded feelings.
        
        What virtue signalling, and what wounded feelings?
        
        I’ve simply pointed out that gracious, grown up, people don’t call each other trolls and expect some sort of respect out the other end of that.
        
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        May 16, 2017 9:53pm
      - itstricky
        
        The comment raised a point that you failed to address, because you have no argument beyond vulgar and contrived PC virtue signalling.
        
        What point? Jack has no point. It’s just obfuscated to the point of non-existence by now.
        
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        May 16, 2017 9:57pm
      - itstricky
        
        That is not my understanding of the use of macrons in written Maori.
        
        All I’m saying is that the macron is a phonetic device, used by many languages, not just Maori.
        
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        May 16, 2017 9:58pm
Odakyu-sen

In a Herald article today “”Baltimore is a city defined by falling bodies” (Ref: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/united-states/news/article.cfm?l_id=110&objectid=11856765)
it is notable that the word “black” only appears twice in the entire, lengthy article.
1st time: “She sat in a gold-hued car with tinted black windows as her…”
2nd time: “…wearing a pink and white onesie under a black sweatsuit.”

The only mention of ” African-American” is in the sentence: “Baltimore has long struggled with violence and a strained relationship between its police force and many African-American residents.” (There is no mention of the cause of the “violence and a strained relationship.”) The implication is that the police are part of the problem.

The word “men” does not appear in the article.
“Violence” appears to be the culprit. What Baltimore needs, I guess, is a government-funded “War on Violence.” There. That ought to do it!
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May 16, 2017 8:48am
Keeping Stock

Oh dear again. Little’s attempt to attack National on housing has backfired:

Labour leader Andrew Little used his first house to highlight how housing had become unaffordable under the National-led Government.

However, analysis shows the value of his “starter home” in Wellington rose at a greater rate under a Labour Government than under National.

In his speech at Labour’s Congress on Sunday, Little said house prices were “out of control” and getting further and further out of reach for Kiwi families.

He spoke about he and his wife Leigh’s first home, a two-storey property in Brooklyn which cost $315,000.

“That wasn’t a small amount of money for us, but it was manageable. It got us a three-bedroom starter home, built on a hillside in Wellington.”

“Now, it would cost around $830,000. It’s gone up by half a million dollars in 17 years.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11856473&ref=rss

All good so far. We all know house prices have risen over the last few years. But here comes the kicker:

According to estimates about the Brooklyn property’s value by research firm CoreLogic, it is now worth around $845,000 – even more than Little suggested.

CoreLogic’s estimates also show that the property’s value rose at a greater rate under Labour than under National.

Under Labour, it rose by $255,000, or 81 per cent. Since 2008, when National came to power, it has risen by 48 per cent, or $273,000.

That’s a massive own goal for Little. His party’s election-year Congress, when the troops come together to get rallied before hitting the stump, and Little’s attack on the Government blows up in his face. Bugger.

I knew house prices rose a lot under Labour, but almost twice as much as they have under the current government? That really does undermine Labour’s claims of a “housing crisis” under John Key and Bill English’s watch.

Instead of getting acting coaching, perhaps Andrew Little needs to focus on getting his facts right, or there will surely be another Show Me the Money moment in his future.
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May 16, 2017 8:50am
- Rich Prick
  
  A little math coaching wouldn’t go amiss for Mr 7%.
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:00am
  - Dafixeruppa
    
    Technically, if he is looking solely at the $ value, then it rose more under National than under Labour.
    But since affordability is based on the percentage increase, then using the percent is correct.
    perhaps he should have clarified his comments better.
    NOTE: I am not a Little supporter, I just think occasionally he needs a little support. Just remember in some cases that a Little support can only go so far…
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:53am
- Happychappy
  
  What is Hugh going to say to Phil Twyford after this balls up and is Hugh going to retract some of the criticism that he has printed against National that he has posted on KB.
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:01am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Twyford will probably accuse the CoreLogic people of having Chinese-sounding surnames…
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:15am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    We may never know if Hugh apologised, someone has got to bite the bullet and read one of the horrendously long predictable bordering on boring posts to find out, sometimes copy and paste is not your friend
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:25am
    - 4077th
      
      Always TLDR.
      
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      May 16, 2017 10:21am
EAD

Pointing at the facts is now labelled “Anti-Semitism”. Oy Veyy!

http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/1.789307
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May 16, 2017 9:30am
stephieboy

EAD, what has George Soros done wrong that Trump’s inner circle cabinet of Jews hasn’t ?

http://www.jta.org/2017/01/26/news-opinion/politics/meet-the-jews-in-donald-trumps-administration

Oy Veyy! ??

LOL
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May 16, 2017 9:40am
- Paulus
  
  Soros (born Schwatz Gyorgy) lost reportedly over a Billion dollars on the election backing the Clinton Mafia.
  Of course I understand that he is Chelsea’s Uncle by marriage so expect to see the funding of the new Clinton mafia being well supported.
  
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  May 16, 2017 11:35am
  - stephieboy
    
    Paulus , keep nurturing your delusions .
    
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    May 16, 2017 1:21pm
- stephieboy
  
  17 downtickers who somehow are seduced by EAD anti semitism ?
  
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  May 16, 2017 1:20pm
Manolo

A “wonderful” mix: Mafia, corrupt priests, Islamic invaders.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39922085
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May 16, 2017 9:46am
gump

Remember all the allegations that Hillary Clinton wasn’t capable of handling classified information?

Here’s a challenge for all the Trumpists. Try to explain this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html
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May 16, 2017 9:49am
- Inandout
  
  WAPO has ferreted out another ‘expose’, from sources that are quick to break the official secrets act. What else did Trump say that will be leaked?
  
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  May 16, 2017 10:04am
- Ed Snack
  
  Gump, as Obama once explained, the President actually has the right to determine what is classified and what is not. He can release what others may think is secret or otherwise classified, and cannot be prosecuted for that. Effectively, POTUS can overrule any classification.
  
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  May 16, 2017 11:34am
  - Kimbo
    
    Is part of what Nixon meant when, in regard to the Huston Plan to deal with potential and real domestic American security problem such as the Weathermen and Black Panthers terrorism on his watch (and even though it was never implemented)
    
    “When the President does it, it’s not illegal”. That also includes researching, contemplating and planning.
    
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    May 16, 2017 11:45am
  - virtualmark
    
    Ed, sure, the President can determine what is classified and what isn’t.
    
    Except … using that to excuse blurting (previously) classified information to your biggest strategic rival is just dancing on the head of a pin.
    
    Trump is intellectually unqualified to be President.
    
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    May 16, 2017 7:44pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      hahahahaha, Trump is playing the media big time. They are being sucked in and destroying themselves.
      Only a moron would say “Trump is intellectually unqualified to be President.” when his achievement at becoming President totally belies that statement.
      You’ve got TDS sooooo bad.lol.
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:25pm
      - virtualmark
        
        All_on_Red,
        
        Typical comment from you eh? No attempt to deal with the facts, just a vomit over the keyboard. Troll 101. Must try to be more creative and at least funny.
        
        Do you enjoy being the tissue wiper for the Don?
        
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        May 17, 2017 6:36am
  - virtualmark
    
    Ed … damning paragraph in this mornings New York Times …
    
    In private, three administration officials conceded that they could no publicly articulate their most compelling – and honest – defense of the President: that Mr. Trump, a hasty and indifferent reader of printed briefing materials, simply did not possess the interest or knowledge of the granular details of intelligence gathering to leak specific sources and methods of intelligence gathering that would do harm to United States allies.
    
    Yep, that’s your man. Too dumb and ill-informed to do any real damage. #MAGA.
    
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    May 17, 2017 7:09am
- Ross12
  
  Tillerson , McMaster and Powell , who were all in the room for the discussion, have come out and refuted the whole story.
  
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  May 16, 2017 12:20pm
  - KevOB
    
    Any media item without direct personal attribution of the source should be consigned to the garbage bin.
    Opinions of journalists or their ilk are valueless and without intellectual rigour applied without bias are dangerous.
    
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    May 16, 2017 12:34pm
  - gump
    
    The story has been confirmed independently by other media outlets.
    
    https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/trump-russia-classified-information-isis.html
    
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    May 16, 2017 1:10pm
    - Ross12
      
      gump
      So you accepted unnamed sources over those who were in the room ?
      But, I accept the trick has worked to some extent and damage done as the MSM all over the world are sucked in.
      I think a lot of brown stuff is going to hit the fan in the coming weeks.
      
      Here is another take on how it all works
      
      https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
      
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      May 16, 2017 1:27pm
      - gump
        
        The “people in room” have all provided carefully worded statements that do not refute the allegations that have been leaked to the media by US intelligence officials.
        
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        May 16, 2017 2:23pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Meh, what don’t you understand about “I was in the room, it didn’t happen”?-General McMasters
        After accusing Trump of revealing classified info, the media have now officially accused the President of everything Hillary’s guilty of…
        Going to be interesting to see who gets appointed FBI Director. Hope it’s Trey Gowdy
        #HillaryforPrison
        
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        May 16, 2017 4:14pm
      - cha
        
        Hope it’s Trey Gowdy
        
        Trey ‘couldn’t make it stick’ Gowdy’s hoping to retain what’s left of his reputation.
        
        http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/fbi/333499-gowdy-im-not-the-right-person-to-replace-comey
        
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        May 16, 2017 7:50pm
    - Paulus
      
      More media liars I expect – or was the meeting bugged by ???
      Any lies to try and get rid of the duly elected President because he will not suck up to them.
      
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      May 16, 2017 1:51pm
  - Paulus
    
    But they are on Trump’s team so they cannot be right, says the only honest media in the USA the Washington Post, who will try every trick to get Trump.
    No wonder world wide the so called media ere treated as scum.
    Remember we have them in New Zealand too – try the Herald and TVNZ – performance liars.
    
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    May 16, 2017 1:19pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Paulus , thus Bannon and Breitbart , Foz etc are the sole arbiters of truth ?
      
      How and why ?
      
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      May 16, 2017 1:23pm
      - pentwig
        
        steffie
        can you not work out the logic of it for yourself?
        
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        May 16, 2017 9:28pm
    - KevOB
      
      Has anyone traced the Herald’s connections to USA media ownership?
      
      TVNZ is a crime against the NZ public. They are owned by US not the USA. The time has come to close them down. Their standard of programs renders them no different from the others. We once enjoyed a high quality public broadcaster which didn’t corrupt society. I expect that to be a requisite for a state owned broadcaster other than one set up for propaganda.
      
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      May 16, 2017 4:49pm
  - virtualmark
    
    Ross12,
    
    No. What McMaster and others have said is that no intelligence sources or methods were disclosed to the Russians.
    
    But. No. One. Alleged. They. Had. Been.
    
    What the WaPo has said is that Trump revealed classified information to the Russians. And that that information would likely allow them to deduce the source of the information.
    
    The Trump campaign is trying to misdirect, and you are one of the useful idiots who help that get traction.
    
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    May 16, 2017 7:41pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      He said the report is false. Watch his statement.You’re being a fuckwit grasping for straws. It’s pretty funny to watch you though. The desperation is hilarious. YOU are the useful idiot- well not that useful since you’re getting laughed at.
      Lol
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:19pm
      - virtualmark
        
        No. He said that something no one had even alleged was false. And completely ignored the allegation that actually was being made.
        
        But idiots like you lap up his misdirection because it’s a little figment that allows you to avoid facing up to the fact your Orange God King is wearing no clothes.
        
        Ignoring reality as a coping mechanism is what toddlers do. Reading your comments clearly shows me you are still, intellectually, a toddler. Full of vomit and poo but nothing else.
        
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        May 17, 2017 6:39am
      - virtualmark
        
        And now the Don’s tweeted during his morning dump that yes the WaPo story is correct.
        
        He dances on the pin that as President he can declassify info. That’s true. But there’s a big difference in this case between “legal” and “wise”. Spill the beans and people stop giving you beans …
        
        Meanwhile All_on_Red you’ve still got some left on your chin, better wipe that off before the Don sees it.
        
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        May 17, 2017 7:05am
      - virtualmark
        
        Hey, I wonder if McMaster saw Flynn on the underside of that bus that just ran over him?
        
        Probably still bits of Rosenstein under there too.
        
        Getting crowded under that bus. And they’ve still got to fit Spicer in there too in the next month or so.
        
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        May 17, 2017 7:26am
Inandout

Someone likened Andrew Little to an Easter Island statue. Mmm, some resemblance-

http://www.snopes.com/photos/arts/graphics/eheads1.jpg
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May 16, 2017 10:06am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  I think the Easter Island statue likeness should be reserved for Geoffrey Palmer.
  Little is more like this guy.
  
  https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=wallace+%26+gromit&rlz=1C2GGGE_enNZ489NZ681&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiUqprs_fLTAhWBtZQKHXskCe0Q_AUIBigB&biw=1787&bih=945&dpr=1#imgrc=pXFn5oeJFNxQwM:
  
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  May 16, 2017 10:51am
  - Jack5
    
    Yeah, stone heads.
    
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    May 16, 2017 11:47am
Inandout

Seems like the WAPO story on Trump leaking secrets is false. Gosh, I am surprised.
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May 16, 2017 10:15am
- virtualmark
  
  No it isn’t false. The Trump administration are just trying to redirect attention away from the truth by carefully parsing words to imply something no one said.
  
  But you just joined Ross12 in the list of useful idiots.
  
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  May 16, 2017 7:46pm
  - mikenmild
    
    Why do these numpties defend the toddler in the Oval Office?
    
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    May 16, 2017 7:48pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Unnamed sources- snigger
    VM’s got the TDS bigly.
    What an idiot.
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:17pm
    - pentwig
      
      As has Milkie
      Very sad to see.
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:31pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Rather oddly specific thing to be made up, isn’t it? Seems completely in character for an incompetent dilettante.
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:38pm
    - virtualmark
      
      So All_on_Red … do you accept that the WaPo and NYT have better sources in the White House than the right-wing conspiracy sites you prefer?
      
      Real news. Tapping sources. Getting to the heart of what’s going on. Knowing they will get sued or disciplined if they get it wrong.
      
      Calling it fake news is just a coping mechanism for you Trumpistas. And you know it.
      
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      May 17, 2017 6:43am
Michael

I have heard of Jamie Oliver, but who is John Oliver?
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May 16, 2017 10:22am
Manolo

The crooked hag refuses to go away:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/15/hillary-clinton-launches-onward-together-pac.html

Hillary Clinton officially jumped back into politics Monday by launching her new PAC, Onward Together.

The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee and former secretary of state announced the news on Twitter and in a blast email to supporters pushing people to sign up.
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May 16, 2017 10:25am
- KevOB
  
  But was it Hillary? I have proof that the women who fronted after the fainting episode was not Hillary. The hands are different.
  Does she still her neurologist in tow?
  
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  May 16, 2017 4:52pm
starboard

Huh..19 months for aggravated robbery?
They took their kids along as well !
Is it any wonder the feral scum just laugh at NZ’s pathetic limp ‘justice ‘ system.
19 months ?? !!
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May 16, 2017 10:27am
- itstricky
  
  Posting @ 05:30am? Thai parties go all night, huh?
  
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  May 16, 2017 11:44am
  - starboard
    
    Im in Auckland stalker. Get a job. Selling your ass doesn’t count.
    
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    May 16, 2017 12:03pm
    - itstricky
      
      Darn, not keeping up with my favorite human’s movements. What a shame.
      
      Selling your ass
      
      You’re always the first one to mention the ‘a’ word. Must be something in that.
      
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      May 16, 2017 5:01pm
      - sam green
        
        He’s a bum fiddler from wayyyyy back.
        
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        May 16, 2017 8:36pm
      - dirty harry
        
        how long you out on parole for bro
        
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        May 17, 2017 1:11am
Stars And Stripes

17 percent of students can’t afford food – study
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/330863/17-percent-of-students-can-t-afford-food-study.
“The survey found of the almost 2000 students at Unitec in Auckland, 17 percent are going hungry as they struggle to pay the bills”.

Students circumstances are obviously not very serious yet with them only being deprived of food.
Once the headlines start saying ” 17% of students can’t afford alcohol” or alternatively “17% of students can’t afford to use condoms” then you know things are at crisis point.
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May 16, 2017 10:29am
- Postitrote
  
  “The commitments of full-time study meant it was hard to keep a part-time job”… sigh.
  I’m afraid they’re going to find out it’s even harder to get by once the student allowances drop away and loan repayments start.
  
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  May 16, 2017 2:14pm
starboard

**Sultan Ali Abdul Ali Akbari must go**

Convicted sex offender Ali Akbari must be deported from NZ… now !!!

Michael WOODHOUSE..list mp and Immigration Minister..act NOW.
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May 16, 2017 10:30am
- Nermal
  
  I don’t think National want my vote, as I’ve not even had a reply to my email to Mr Woodhouse and Dr Reti on this subject.
  
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  May 16, 2017 11:10am
- starboard
  
  Am I able to paste Woodhouses reply to me on here ?
  
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  May 16, 2017 11:55am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    I am glad that you got one
    
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    May 16, 2017 1:33pm
    - starboard
      
      Yes indeed..however, was just one of those standard replies designed to appease..but I’m hardly satisfied as the convicted sexual deviant, kiddy fiddler and general dirtbag Sultan Ali Abdul Ali Akbari is still drawing oxygen in our country..and he must be deported forthwith.
      
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      May 16, 2017 1:50pm
4077th

Donald Trump to meet with the pope next week. Pope not happy with POTUS’ comments about building a wall to stop the beaners…Meanwhile, the Vatican, an Italian principality, remains closed off as it’s own state still has many fortifications to keep out the pizza munchers. Dear Mr Pope, what a massive glass house you live in!
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May 16, 2017 10:31am
starboard

Link from feral scum..my bad

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/92512533/meth-mum-acts-as-getaway-driver-takes-kids-along
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May 16, 2017 10:33am
Tarquin North

Ian Brady (moors murderer) has died. Never told the families where he buried the bodies. Hope he rots in hell.
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May 16, 2017 10:33am
- Longknives
  
  Rotting in Hell is too good for that piece of shit Tarquin.
  If there is a ‘Lake of Fire’ then it would be the perfect place for Ian Brady.
  I always remember watching a Documentary on Keith Bennett’s elderly Mum- Who used to drive up to the Moors on a regular basis with her shovel looking for her 12 year-old son..
  
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  May 16, 2017 11:03am
  - Tarquin North
    
    I know what you mean, my wife comes from up that way and has always followed any developments hoping he would do the decent thing. To leave people grieving with no end in sight when you could give them some form of closure takes a special kind of evil.
    
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    May 16, 2017 11:11am
  - Kimbo
    
    From time to time some would argue Myra Hindley (now dead) should have been granted parole. Never happened.
    
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    May 16, 2017 11:11am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Myra Hindley will now have company around t’Lake of Fire. She and Brady deserve one another for eternity.
    
    Thoughts and prayers are with the families of their victims who are now unlikely ever to have the closure that finding bodies would bring.
    
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    May 16, 2017 11:19am
Manolo

Who is the guilty party?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/05/15/nhs-cyber-attack-latest-authorities-warn-day-chaos-ransomware/

Security experts have disputed claims that the virus was spread through suspicious emails, saying that computers were vulnerable to the bug regardless of how vigilant users were. Experts said that unless IT departments patched the virus and backed up their files they could be hit by the attacks.
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May 16, 2017 11:25am
- Ed Snack
  
  Not entirely sure on this. It maybe possible that the SMB v1 vulnerability could be exploited directly by a remote computer, but very few people would normally allow the relevant ports to be open to the Internet, and especially in major corporate systems secured by reputable firewalls. Those ports are normally always blocked by default.
  
  It still seems likely that phishing emails were used with either clickable links or attachments.
  
  The major difference with wcrypt is that it contains a worm function as well as the encryption exploit. that is, once it gets onto one machine within an organization, it specifically searches for other vulnerable machines and infects them. Previous ransomware typically used the one machine and encrypted local and networked files but left other machines alone. That model was easier to block and clean up after; wcrypt may require almost all PCs in an organization to be reinstalled.
  
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  May 16, 2017 11:43am
- rangitoto
  
  This is false. No sane company allows TCP 445 to come in from the internet. The TCP 445 vector will only work for devices that are on the same local area network, or between networks that permit transport of TCP 445. There has to have been another method for the initial delivery to at least one PC on the inside and spearphishing is the most likely way that occurred.
  
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  May 16, 2017 12:58pm
- waikatogirl
  
  There are reports through the msm that the weekend virus attack has similarities to previous North Korean computer virus’.
  
  A small number of those affected paid the requested blackmail amount but have not had access to their computer data unlocked.
  
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  May 16, 2017 3:14pm
Happychappy

Every time I hear or see Loyd Burr or Tamati Coffey open their mouths and try to score points off the Leaders of other Parties I always have a chuckle to my self and think it is a pity we didn’t still have Sir Robert Muldoon around to put them in their place. I realize Homophobia comments are against the Law now days but these two have no problem at poking unwise comments at others.
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May 16, 2017 11:29am
- itstricky
  
  I realize Homophobia comments are against the Law now days
  
  Nothing like playing the man (pun intended) instead of the ball (more obscure pun intended), huh?
  
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  May 16, 2017 11:47am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Lloyd Burr has fired a shot at British “comedian” John Oliver.
  
  http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2017/05/lloyd-burr-hey-john-oliver-leave-new-zealand-alone.html
  
  The irony of this is that Burr’s employer, Newshub, featured the English/Oliver story as the second item on last night’s 6pm news. Newshub considered the story so newsworthy that they devoted nearly 2 1/2 minutes to it, even more than the lead story which was Labour’s housing announcement from the weekend.
  
  http://www.threenow.co.nz/shows/newshub-6pm/monday-15-may-2017/122217/M14570-785
  
  I wonder if Lloyd Burr will be getting a call from his bosses at Mediaworks, given he described what was dished up by Oliver and recycled by 3News as “clutching-at-straws comedy”, and described the Brit as “bigmouth British bore John Oliver”. I hope not, because he was actually right on the money.
  
  In the meantime, Newshub should probably talk to its staff about what actually constitutes news.
  
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  May 16, 2017 11:55am
nasska

Carrying on from Starboard’s 10.30am:

On & about the 27th Apr Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse announced that he was ” temporarily suspending Immigration NZ’s decision making authority until I have confidence that the decisions being made are consistent with my expectations.”

AND

“I expect to be able to return the decision making authority to Immigration NZ within a fortnight, provided I can be assured the decision making process aligns with my expectations.”

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/suspension-decision-making-authority

A Google search indicates that nineteen days later we haven’t heard a chirrup from the media, government or the minister about how re-educating the oxygen thieves in the department has progressed. We’ve heard less about who is currently making decisions.

Parliament doesn’t sit until the 23rd but I would hope that an opposition party is planning on asking the useless minister a few questions about his department.
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May 16, 2017 11:46am
- Happychappy
  
  We’ll give Andrew or Winston a text asking them to it seems to work for Whale.
  
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  May 16, 2017 12:50pm
Chuck Bird

This is excellent news.

Malcolm Rewa can be prosecuted for murder of Susan Burdett

Previously Police Minister Mike Bush has said there was no new evidence against Rewa, barring any possibility that he could be tried for the murder.

http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/05/general_debate_16_may_2017.html#comments
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May 16, 2017 1:34pm
- ex-golfer
  
  Yes – good news indeed.
  But I don’t think Mike Bush has ever been Police Minister……in fact he’s never been a member of Parliament.
  Either your copy and paste went a bit awry or its another case of inept reporting from our 4th estate.
  
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  May 16, 2017 2:27pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Thanks for pointing that out. It was a cut & paste from Stuff. It appears they corrected it.
    
    http://i.stuff.co.nz/national/92637503/malcolm-rewa-can-be-prosecuted-for-murder-of-susan-burdett
    
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    May 16, 2017 3:21pm
    - ex-golfer
      
      As I thought – another basic error by the less than useless reporter. No wonder MSM is rapidly descending into the pit of doom.
      
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      May 16, 2017 6:14pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  Let us hope some party will say they will pursue justice for Peter Ellis because it is the right thing to do. The claim by Adams that there is no new evidence is as credible as in the case against Rewa.
  
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  May 16, 2017 3:49pm
cmm

Special people….

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/92628519/family-on-drugs-while-baby-dies-in-hot-car
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May 16, 2017 2:39pm
- Longknives
  
  Yet we are always being told that ‘Whanau’ means more to Maori than it does to us other lowly Races/Cultures..
  
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  May 16, 2017 3:00pm
  - Kimbo
    
    True. And the horrific crime rate among certain groups in among Maori (the “feral sub-culture” is a good way to describe it) is a real problem that should not be ignored or disguised with platitudes, sentimentality or euphemisms. But we are also always being told, admittedly by other voices, that “there is no such thing as full-blooded Maori any more”.
    
    Is the old story – when Aaron Smith wins a game for the All Blacks he is a Kiwi, when he gets caught having sex with someone who isn’t his partner in a Christchurch Airport dunny he is a Maori.
    
    Plus, cmm did spend the first part of his life as a legally, socially and politically privileged ‘special person”.
    
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    May 16, 2017 3:09pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Blankes Gebied
      
      https://www.9marks.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/a10.jpg
      
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      May 16, 2017 3:15pm
    - Kimbo
      
      But in mitigation and as a down-payment on his then-“special people” status, cmm was conscripted and helped make Western democracy safe by chasing down Cubans and assorted communist guerrillas in Angola and other parts of the Southern African frontier.
      
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      May 16, 2017 3:46pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  cmm, Maori are not special just not inferior as you believe they have a lower average IQ like the blacks in South Africa where you come from with your racist views.
  
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  May 16, 2017 3:53pm
Stars And Stripes

Māori ancestral remains to return home from Swedish medical museum
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/201843955/maori-ancestral-remains-to-return-home-from-swedish-medical- museum.
“The Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm has two Māori skulls and a toi moko (tattooed preserved Māori head) in its collection, and announced this week it would be returning them to Te Papa.
We have already gone through with the repatriation ceremony, which was a joint effort, a very nice collaboration between us and the repatriation team at Te Papa.
We signed a document transferring the ancestors to the care of Te Papa… It was a very beautiful ceremony,” she said.
The pōwhiri (formal welcome) will be at Te Papa on Monday 29 May 2017″.

Yeah I can just about feel myself being overcome with emotion but more importantly how much is all this carry on going to cost the taxpayer.
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May 16, 2017 3:46pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Stars and Stripes:
  
  how much is all this carry on going to cost the taxpayer
  
  Will Lizzy Marvelly be asked to deliver a rousing rendition of our national anthem? That sort of no-frills event wouldn’t require much taxpayer money.
  
  On the other hand, if it’s a full-on traditional welcoming ceremony, then there’s bound to be lots of koha, hoo-ha and taxpayer money being spent!
  
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  May 16, 2017 4:21pm
  - fernglas
    
    If you believe the nonsense spouted by Jason Johns on this blog, the bones and skulls should stay where they are; that is where (roughly) they originated.
    
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    May 16, 2017 4:45pm
- RF
  
  In the early days it was common for Maori tribes to tattoo the faces of slaves and then wack their heads off for drying prior to flogging them off to visiting explorers.
  
  How many of these heads that are now being repatriated at great expense owing the numbers escorting them back actually belong to true warriors and not slaves.
  
  I suspect not many but that will not stop the gravy train.
  
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  May 16, 2017 6:29pm
mandk

We need more immigrants like Mr Singh to compensate for our home-grown low-life scum.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11857118
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May 16, 2017 4:19pm
- Kimbo
  
  Shades of that poor Sikh kid, Charanpreet Dhaliwa, who was killed on his first night guarding a West Auckland construction site.
  
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/70507885/slain-security-guard-charanpreet-dhaliwal-had-no-training
  
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  May 16, 2017 4:27pm
- fernglas
  
  NEVER fuck with a Sikh.
  
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  May 16, 2017 4:46pm
rangitoto

Pastor water walking event goes a bit wrong.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/804685/crocodile-attack-zimbabwe-pastor-walk-on-water-Jonathan-Mthethwa

“We still don’t understand how this happened because he fasted and prayed the whole week.”

Needed another week I guess.
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May 16, 2017 4:28pm
- Nostradamus
  
  A PASTOR attempting to demonstrate God’s power by walking on water has been eaten by crocodiles.
  
  He should have asked Dynamo (the magician) how it’s done!
  
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  May 16, 2017 5:00pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Do we have any crocs residing around Bishop Brians bishopric Nostradamus?
    
    If not what a fucking shame! 🙂
    
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    May 16, 2017 5:11pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Johnboy:
      
      I’m sure that can be arranged!
      
      Luxury Tamaki mansion for sale
      
      The lavish hilltop mansion owned by Destiny Church leader Bishop Brian Tamaki and his wife, Hannah, is for sale. The $1.6million property on a hilltop above Maraetai Beach, East Auckland, is described by the Mike Pero real estate team marketing the property as “500 square metres of pure luxury, style and elegance”. It boasts elevator access to three levels, a sauna, gymnasium, heated swimming pool and waterfall.
      
      Just imagine – getting eaten by a crocodile underneath a gushing three-storey waterfall – that’d be a spectacularly bishop-like way to depart this world!
      
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      May 16, 2017 5:16pm
      - Johnboy
        
        $1.6 mill sounds more like a do-er upper in Manurewa Nostra? 🙂
        
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        May 16, 2017 5:22pm
      - nasska
        
        ….” eaten by a crocodile underneath a gushing three-storey waterfall “…..
        
        How any Godnutters can a croc handle per week? 🙂
        
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        May 16, 2017 5:22pm
Johnboy

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/92626253/lorde-freaked-thinking-she-couldnt-release-another-album-got-sent-back-to-nz

I’m utterly shattered to think that the little darling should be so freaked! 🙂
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May 16, 2017 5:07pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Johnboy:
  
  Lorde has revealed the stress she faced working on her forthcoming album, saying friends sent her home after she freaked out in studio. … The expectations built up by her debut release, Pure Heroine, were too much for her, she said. “There was a real hit of, like, ‘I just don’t have another one’,” Lorde told Rolling Stone magazine.
  
  She just needs to spend a bit of time with you, old chap, as I’m sure you don’t have high expectations when it comes to her singing ability!
  
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  May 16, 2017 5:11pm
  - Johnboy
    
    I’d be only too happy to give the spoilt little shit another one after she wailed about the first one Nostra old chap! 🙂
    
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    May 16, 2017 5:15pm
  - Fletch
    
    It’s the same for almost any band – on their first album they put all the songs they’ve spent their life up-till-now writing. For the second album they’ve got six months or a year to come up with something new and they just can’t do it – unless they’ve got real talent. I mean, everyone has probably got at least one good song in them. If you don’t know the mechanics of composing a good tune then you’re in trouble, really.
    
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    May 16, 2017 6:44pm
- MCos
  
  Lorde hit the big time when she was sixteen, when most people are still at school. It’s hardly surprising that she’d be feeling the pressure from all sorts of people to keep the gravy train going, don’t you think?
  I’ve worked with grown adults who’ve ‘freaked out’ getting shit out to meet some deadline.
  
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  May 16, 2017 5:32pm
  - Kea
    
    Pretentious jumped up little bimbo.
    
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    May 16, 2017 5:37pm
    - Johnboy
      
      If she’s still got the Chinese boyfriend Kea she’s obviously not ready for the bigtime yet. 🙂
      
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      May 16, 2017 5:42pm
      - Kea
        
        Waaaaaaacist !!!
        
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        May 16, 2017 5:50pm
nasska

A week spent waiting in line with a sheep for attention would settle her down nicely.

Poor delicate little prima donna. 🙂
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May 16, 2017 5:19pm
Johnboy

Is her daddy still running her management? 🙂
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May 16, 2017 5:23pm
Longknives

Jesus is Lordy still a thing?
I thought all the kids would have moved on to the next manufactured, auto-tuned, Shit-Pop ‘One Hit Wonder’ by now?
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May 16, 2017 5:30pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Longknives:
  
  Well, by Lorde’s own admission, she’s a one-hit wonder (“I just don’t have another one’”). Her admiring fans will just have to find someone else from Brigitte’s NZ music month series!
  
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  May 16, 2017 5:38pm
- fernglas
  
  Hands up those of you in the preceding few posts who have ever had an international best seller album, performed at Coachella and had rave reviews for doing a Bowie song on world wide television. Before you turned twenty, or ever.
  
  I thought not. Those that can, do. Those that can’t, criticise.
  
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  May 16, 2017 5:40pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Fernglas:
    
    … had an international best seller album, performed at Coachella and had rave reviews for doing a Bowie song on world wide television …
    
    Are you saying that Lorde has already had her “helped with the formation of Fonterra” claim to fame? Bugger – it can only go downhill for her from here then!
    
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    May 16, 2017 5:47pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Now now Nostra. She did pop home to cuddle her sister old chap. She never bothered to give fernglas a nice cuddle even though he luvs her! 🙂
      
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      May 16, 2017 5:52pm
  - Kea
    
    She has done well and good on her. However, her target market is stupid young women who think American “reality” TV shows full of fake drama and emotion are a guide to how to behave. They are the people she is appealing to. In that respect she is no better or worse than others of her genre.
    
    The fact someone has done well at something, does not mean they are above criticism. Sleazy internet white knights aside.
    
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    May 16, 2017 5:49pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Wash your mouth out Kea. ‘The Little People’ and ‘Judge Judy’ are compulsory viewing at Chateau Johnboy! 🙂
      
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      May 16, 2017 5:54pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Johnboy:
        
        You like Judge Judy? I didn’t think you were a sucker for people in fancy dress. Nasska might have a second-hand priest costume he could lend you! (It probably hasn’t been washed recently, so may have a “dusty” smell…)
        
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        May 16, 2017 6:22pm
Johnboy

Then again old chap most of us think that jumped-up little sprogs that appeal to folk like you are just that! 🙂
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May 16, 2017 5:44pm
Brigitte

NZ MUSIC MONTH

From 2002, Elemeno P and Fast Times in Tahoe:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR2KsFa9ZJQ
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May 16, 2017 5:57pm
- Johnboy
  
  Thats not a real song….This is! 🙂
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tAWwqKNI7g
  
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  May 16, 2017 6:09pm
  - Brigitte
    
    What about AFFCO by the Skeptics – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR2KsFa9ZJQ
    
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    May 16, 2017 6:23pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Crap…… And it took you 24min to come up with that pathetic response! 🙂
      
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      May 16, 2017 6:51pm
- Brigitte
  
  And don’t forget to watch Prime tonight – woman in rock. Should be more than excellent.
  
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  May 16, 2017 6:21pm
  - Johnboy
    
    When I saw Moa was featured I crossed it off my list! 🙂
    
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    May 16, 2017 6:52pm
RF

Breaking TV one false news… sorry CNN – Clinton News Network. “White House shares confidential information with russians”

It has been proven that Trump did not share critical information with Russians but that does not stop the criminal Wolf Blitzer from CNN from mouthing off.

This is the same little prick that gave Crooked Hillary the questions prior to the pre election debate he ran.
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May 16, 2017 6:16pm
- Johnboy
  
  Don’t get upset RF. Never forget that Bill preferred to share critical DNA information with Monica instead of Hillary! 🙂
  
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  May 16, 2017 6:23pm
  - RF
    
    Johnboy. I used to enjoy a good cigar but after Billy boy found another use that in my alcohol induced dreams I used to fantasise about, I now hesitate before lighting up again.
    
    I may have solved the problem by downing several single malts to remove the taste.
    
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    May 16, 2017 6:42pm
- mikenmild
  
  Not proven, actually. The exculpatory statements from his minions appear to be carefully crafted to avoid the question.
  
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  May 16, 2017 7:02pm
Monique Watson

Sheep joke please
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May 16, 2017 6:21pm
- Johnboy
  
  I saw my aussie mate the other day, walking down the street with a sheep under each arm. I shouted ‘Hi mate, You shearing?’ then he said ‘naa mate, I’m gonna fuck ’em both meself’ 🙂
  
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  May 16, 2017 6:27pm
nasska

A Wainuiomata man has appeared in court after allegedly having sex with a sheep.

And I’m thinking, “How sick, depraved & perverted do you have to be to have sex with a man from Wainuiomata?”
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May 16, 2017 6:33pm
- Johnboy
  
  Slightly less depraved than if you have sex with a man from Eketahuna. 🙂
  
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  May 16, 2017 6:47pm
- GoVege
  
  My 45 year old edition of Encyclopedia Brittanica says 50% of boys raised on farms have sex with the farm animals, so why are they arresting this poor dude?
  It’s not like he killed and ate it!!
  
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  May 16, 2017 7:07pm
- GoVege
  
  Saw heaps of ducks sheltering from the shooters around the big smoke today.
  I was wondering…will the ones smart enough to hide here pass on their genes to produce a new species of super-brainy ducks?
  Will these new genius ducks one day take over the world?
  
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  May 16, 2017 7:18pm
  - nasska
    
    ….”will the ones smart enough to hide here pass on their genes to produce a new species of super-brainy ducks”…..
    
    Most shooters would probably go along with you. Come opening weekend there seems to be a mass movement from rivers & ponds to urban parks & lakes.
    
    The biggest factor although is the weather. If there’s a good Southerly or a howling Norwester on opening weekend conditions favour the hunters rather than the ducks.
    
    This year, once again, the quackers got lucky. 🙂
    
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    May 16, 2017 7:30pm
    - GoVege
      
      Mr Govege wants to know if these shooters actually eat the ducks they shoot.
      He was thinking of following them around and picking up the dead ducks if not.
      I told him no way!
      I’ve heard those idiots shoot anything that moves.
      (He ate duck at a Chinese restaurant the other night which is why he asks.)
      Do you reckon they actually eat them, nasska?
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:16pm
      - nasska
        
        Most hunters eat what they kill GoVege & duck shooters aren’t much different. Usually any surplus is given away to friends & family.
        
        Your side kick would likely not recognise the flavour of Chinese cooked duck compared with its wild counterpart. Domestic duck tends to be fairly fatty & bland. Wild duck is strong in taste.
        
        I can’t be bothered nowadays. My son & his mates shoot the three dams I own & they always drop us off a couple. Like Bluff oysters, crayfish, paua & wild pork so long as I get one good feed of each year I’m a happy camper.
        
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        May 16, 2017 9:31pm
  - RF
    
    Don’t forget the ducks are Wild Ducks hence the need to be armed. Only a fool takes a feather to a duck fight.
    
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    May 16, 2017 10:26pm
Rachael Membery

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11857145
Wow, there must be a lot of donations spent to retain charitable status by Family First.
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May 16, 2017 6:43pm
nasska

So Motormouth McCoskrie who would take us back to the God-saturated socially conservative 1950s has had his guns spiked.

How sad! //
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May 16, 2017 6:54pm
Johnboy

I really luv your name Rachael…Membery…sounds like a big flexible membery sort of thingy!! 🙂
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May 16, 2017 6:57pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Sounds to me like you think that my name makes you think of a dildo, or a penis. Very astute of you.
  Actually I do say ‘Member’ with a y when I have to spell it after I have had to spell Rachael, like Michael, it is both a bore and a chore. 😉
  I imagine that you are the same Johnboy.
  
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  May 16, 2017 7:21pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Nothing I luv better than boring Rachael my dear.
    It only becomes a chore after about 30 minutes. 🙂
    
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    May 16, 2017 7:25pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Not necessarily that long for the recipient. lol
      A chore way before then.
      I couldn’t think of many things worse than being bored by someone on viagra.
      
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      May 16, 2017 7:36pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Shall I place this item on hold then Rachael?
        http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stallion-Slow-Down-spray-delay-prolong-climax-sex-enhancer-INCREASE-STAMINA-5oz-/350698231976
        
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        May 16, 2017 7:41pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        I knew it was a mistake to say penis to Johnboy, but then as I have hapnis as a number plate, I guess I find them funny 😉 (it would be wrong to say that many had made me ‘happy,’ think of it more as irony, and just for kicks I have another number plate that says lickr, (which I am also not!!!) oh and one that says d0nky and one that says smerk.
        All as well as having Member in my name. Johnboy was soooooo right.
        Nothing really ‘special’ about it but I also have a signed picture of the ‘Hedgehog’ personalised to my not so good self. 🙂
        
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        May 16, 2017 8:00pm
  - GoVege
    
    Never occurred to me, Rachael.
    You must remember that most of the guys on here have one-track minds…like most guys I suppose.
    
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    May 16, 2017 7:31pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Bless them, a pat on the head and they are quite happy lol.
      
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      May 16, 2017 7:38pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Some of us prefer a nice stroke elsewhere! 🙂
        
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        May 16, 2017 7:43pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Not quite sure what it has to do with what men prefer, they should be happy with what they can get lol
        
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        May 16, 2017 8:10pm
dad4justice

As a young Hillbilly nasska were you gang raped by a mob of suffolk rams that belonged to the local pastor?
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May 16, 2017 7:00pm
- nasska
  
  No, but once a group of Romney ewes tried to chat me up! 🙂
  
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  May 16, 2017 7:04pm
  - GoVege
    
    I can just visualise that, nasska….did you have to take off your gumboots to make a quick getaway?
    
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    May 16, 2017 7:27pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    What, were they saying ‘eat me’?
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:05pm
- mikenmild
  
  Is that something that turns you on, D4J?
  
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  May 16, 2017 7:04pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Some numbers to turn you off Milkey.
    49/31……..37/35……. 🙂 🙂
    
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    May 16, 2017 7:09pm
    - mikenmild
      
      I have to admit that I felt pretty bad down at the Hutt Rec on Saturday, probably about as bad as the National list MP who was wandering around trying, unsuccessfully it appeared, to find anyone to talk with him.
      
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      May 16, 2017 7:14pm
      - Johnboy
        
        He keeps inviting me to morning tea. I will go the day after the election when he shafts that dreadful little labour creature that thinks she’s owed the place because the horrid Trev’s held it for a while after he was given it after that dreadful union woman who got given it after that useless bastard Fraser Coleman! 🙂
        
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        May 16, 2017 7:19pm
      - mikenmild
        
        He certainly was dressed as though he had asked a fashion consultant what to wear to a rugby match.
        
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        May 16, 2017 7:44pm
  - GoVege
    
    Don’t be mean, milky.
    Dad4Justice is probably very frustrated because his missus and kids have fled the house.
    Hence his need to start a dadsforjustice group….
    
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    May 16, 2017 7:24pm
    - dad4justice
      
      Go Vege go sit on another turnip you pathetic terp, my four children are very happy with their dad and my lovely lady is more than a turn on. Go rot in compost heap with all my other fan club nutters. Watch them go in a frenzy like maggots do to a decaying sheep carcass 🙂
      
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      May 16, 2017 7:51pm
      - GoVege
        
        So why do you call yourself “dadforjustice”, D4J?
        What’s this justice you’re after?
        
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        May 16, 2017 9:08pm
  - stigie
    
    Hope there’s something like that in your book Dad, then we’ll be able to tell if you’re a dud root or not..?
    
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    May 16, 2017 7:43pm
    - dad4justice
      
      stigfly can I suggest you seek professional help and medication with your bizarre fixation with me?
      
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      May 16, 2017 8:06pm
  - dad4justice
    
    mikeymould how’s Norma tonight is she still inflated or have you punctured her again?
    
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    May 16, 2017 7:58pm
    - sam green
      
      Hi dad ?. Missed ya face – well ya mouth really.
      
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      May 16, 2017 8:53pm
      - dad4justice
        
        Go back to school James Sleep you twisted sick aids infested son of Klarkula.
        
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        May 16, 2017 8:57pm
Rachael Membery

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11857132

Maggie, is there nothing much else for teenagers to do than have sex in Gisborne?
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May 16, 2017 7:02pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Nothing has changed much then, my last in laws came from Gisborne as newly weds.
  
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  May 16, 2017 7:27pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  There’s taking sheep for a ride
  http://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/stolen-sheep-packed-like-sardines-into-van-2014122413
  
  There’s tending your plantation
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/78260594/thousands-of-cannabis-plants-wiped-out-in-summer-raids
  
  There’s creating work for fire fighters
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/82182611/teen-charged-with-arson-following-early-morning-car-fire-in-gisborne
  
  There’s exercising police dogs
  (some kid has done a runner and the cops are combing my hill this evening)
  
  But basically, there’s no mall here… so may as well hang-out in each others’ bedrooms.
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:20pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Never heard it called ‘combing my hill’ before 😉 best not tell Johnboy.
    Beautiful beaches to surf at I believe?
    
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    May 16, 2017 8:29pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Beautiful beaches to surf at I believe?
      
      They’re beautiful even when there’s no surf…..
      http://tonysmithphotography.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/Waikanai-Beach-Gisborne.jpg
      (apart from my log-infested beach….. how it’s going to get cleaned up before the 2019 celebrations is beyond me)
      http://gisborneherald.co.nz/csp/mediapool/sites/dt.common.streams.StreamServer.cls?STREAMOID=fTrJnN1vr2crIOir5dpTPc$daE2N3K4ZzOUsqbU5sYuXlQGw5p2ZqfQjROLL9_3GWCsjLu883Ygn4B49Lvm9bPe2QeMKQdVeZmXF$9l$4uCZ8QDXhaHEp3rvzXRJFdy0KqPHLoMevcTLo3h8xh70Y6N_U_CryOsw6FTOdKL_jpQ-&CONTENTTYPE=image/jpg
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:03pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Seems like there could be value added product there, thank goodness that they don’t shift them by road.
        
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        May 16, 2017 10:24pm
    - Johnboy
      
      In my younger days Rachael I used to comb the breakers at Lyall and Houghton and Raglan and even Maggies wonderful Wainui in fact so there! 🙂
      
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      May 16, 2017 9:08pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        We were talking about combing Maggy’s ‘hill’ lol, not like you not to ‘get’ a euphemism.
        Don’t you just hate having to explain shit!!!
        
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        May 16, 2017 9:14pm
Monique Watson

Where’s the best place to fuck a sheep?
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May 16, 2017 7:03pm
- Johnboy
  
  Depends if you’re straight or gay Monique! 🙂
  
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  May 16, 2017 7:05pm
- mikenmild
  
  Somewhere you won’t get caught?
  
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  May 16, 2017 7:05pm
  - dad4justice
    
    Like the Bates Motel? Poor Norma.
    
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    May 16, 2017 8:00pm
    - stigie
      
      You are fascinated by Norma Bates aren’t you Dad, don’t think this beauty will take you on with you having a wife and 4 kids !~
      
      http://pop-cultured.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Norma_Bates_in_Bates_Motel.jpg
      
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      May 16, 2017 8:09pm
      - dad4justice
        
        As I said earlier stigfly get some help for your UNHEALTHY obsession with me. Maybe I could get my fan club all in the same psych ward as big bruv?
        
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        May 16, 2017 8:34pm
      - sam green
        
        Dad seems tetchy.
        
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        May 16, 2017 8:56pm
Monique Watson

Up against a cliff so it bunts back.
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May 16, 2017 7:49pm
- Johnboy
  
  A gorse bush is better. The pain makes it appreciate the pleasure at the other end. 🙂
  
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  May 16, 2017 7:52pm
  - RF
    
    The gum boots…. don’t forget the gum boots. Single farmers best friend.
    
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    May 16, 2017 10:33pm
Johnboy

Some of you will have to work a lot harder tonight to get this to 400! 🙂
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May 16, 2017 7:50pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Johnboy:
  
  What “work” do you have in mind? GoVege might be interested in “working” together with you – for 400+ strokes!
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:00pm
  - GoVege
    
    Nearly 5 hours later and I still can’t understand what Nostro means….
    
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    May 17, 2017 12:49am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      You all good? They were being the little engine that could….get to 400 comments or what ever by the ‘stroke ‘ of the pen.., the strike of a clock, the ‘stroke’ of a piston, or some other euphemism, which was more easily achieved with ‘help’.
      I used to have ‘help’ written on the back of business tee shirts instead of staff, it seemed more apt somehow lol. A cry for escape as much as an offer of assistance!!!
      
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      May 17, 2017 7:09am
nasska

Researchers at a London Hospital have invented the first marijuana based suppository.

The only draw back so far is that ten minutes after insertion you have a desire to shove a Moro bar up your arse.
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May 16, 2017 7:59pm
- dad4justice
  
  You have used the ole Hillbilly suppository on your farm for years that’s why your stock bleat nAAAAASSSSSSSSKKKKKKKKKKKaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Poor animals, beastality is a criminal offence 🙂
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:09pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    http://www.nascar.com/
    What, a race to the finish?
    
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    May 16, 2017 8:13pm
  - GoVege
    
    “Poor animals”…does this mean you’re GOIN VEGE Dad???
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:29pm
- cha
  
  Best be careful sticking things up there, though.
  
  Each pack contains 4 suppositories. A single serving contains 60mg of THC and 10mg of CBD, The vaginal suppository format helps deliver the medicine directly to where it is needed most.
  
  https://foriapleasure.com/products/relief-4-pack
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:11pm
  - nasska
    
    From cha’s link:
    
    “Discover new depths of pleasure with FORIA EXPLORE, the first cannabis suppository formulated for all-natural sensual enhancement and comfort during anal play.
    FORIA Explore delivers THC and CBD directly to the pelvic region, helping to induce relaxation and enhance pleasure, all without the psychoactive effects traditionally associated with cannabis.1 ”
    
    There you go Dad. Liberate the moths from your wallet & order FORIA Explore (8-Pack) Suppositories.
    
    Your turn backed up to the glory hole need not be painful! 🙂
    
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    May 16, 2017 8:31pm
    - dad4justice
      
      My lady gives me all the pleasure I need Hillbilly, you should invest in a made in China model when you retire I know the stock will be very happy if you do.
      
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      May 16, 2017 8:38pm
Johnboy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ci2ROhUH_k

Decisions…decisions…electric…one hand…two hand.

Will the sheep stay in the homepaddock while one is applying the shield and will the electric pump spook them or will they be more frightened by the one hand pumping or the two hand pumping??? 🙂
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May 16, 2017 8:24pm
Johnboy

52 to go! 🙂
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May 16, 2017 8:30pm
- mikenmild
  
  Quality, not quantity…
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:43pm
  - Johnboy
    
    With you and I and some help from our friends/enemies we can have both Milky! 🙂
    
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    May 16, 2017 8:46pm
  - dad4justice
    
    Haha you nearing 30, 000 comments of absolute shit incurring 500 trillion downticks have the cheek to talk about quality and quantity. Nurse please lock up the insane mouldymike again. I suppose shock treatment is needed again. Up the volts Doctor and give us all a much needed break. Thank you.
    
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    May 16, 2017 8:48pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Well said dad. Milkey deserves locking up for his insane support of the Catholics against the righteous of Wainui and Petone! 🙂
      
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      May 16, 2017 8:51pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Careful Johnboy, D4J might be depraved enough to associate with Marist Albion…
        
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        May 16, 2017 9:07pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Also, his maths are a bit wonky. 500 trillion downticks across 30,000 comments would be over 10,000 downticks per comment. Even Kea would need an extra few thousand troll identities to achieve that.
        Not a recommendation for his Catholic education…
        
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        May 16, 2017 9:11pm
Johnboy

Speaking of enemies I notice minus seems to have gone AWOL with my cunning plan to remain doggo for so long! 🙂
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May 16, 2017 8:48pm
- Johnboy
  
  Roused you at last from your long slumber I see minus. 🙂
  
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  May 16, 2017 8:54pm
Johnboy

You’ll have to try and stop being so predictable. 🙂
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May 16, 2017 8:56pm
stigie

“He’ll be back”
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May 16, 2017 8:58pm
Johnboy

36 can’t be hard to achieve?
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May 16, 2017 9:01pm
Odakyu-sen

Today’s General Debate comment tally stands at 365 as of 9:01 p.m. and the quality of comments from the peanut gallery is dropping fast. It sort of “jumped the sheep” at around 5:19 and then degenerated from there on in.
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May 16, 2017 9:13pm
- Johnboy
  
  I put the lack of fervour by the sword-wavers down to the joint effects of sushi nematode ingestion and the lack of firestorms to rark them all up enough Odakyu-sen! 🙂
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:18pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Sushi nematodes! You need to buy better sushi, by the sound of it. Here in Auckland, you can buy weapons-grade trevally that is worm free.
    
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    May 16, 2017 9:32pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I think you have overlooked my 5:57pm riposte to
  itstricky on Maori orthography.
  
  And I’m sure my forthcoming epistle on adverbs is going to elevate the evening’s efforts.
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:32pm
mikenmild

There’s always tomorrow, Odakyu-sen.
IDAHO, in case you didn’t know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_Against_Homophobia,_Transphobia_and_Biphobia
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May 16, 2017 9:16pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Do they have Triphobia as well? Mind you, with so many possible gender preferences, Quadrophobia and Pentaphobia (for the pent-up) could be celebrated next year…
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:36pm
Awww C-mon

Dad, please don’t mention how happy your kids are and how happy your wife makes you in the same sentence,or even post.

It’s rather disturbing even amongst all this talk of anal and animals.
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May 16, 2017 9:20pm
Johnboy

When are we ever going to get an International day against Heterophobia? 🙂
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May 16, 2017 9:22pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Heterophobia? That sounds awful! Can such a word exist?
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:27pm
GoVege

Saw some poor Maori dude from down the line on the news tonight, complaining that apparently the Maori King (and especially his Queen) are blowing the tribe’s dosh on travel/beauty stuff etc while the peasants are suffering.
Brave fella.
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May 16, 2017 9:24pm
- Johnboy
  
  I hope his queen is prettier than Princess Nanaia. 🙂
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:29pm
  - GoVege
    
    Let’s just say….I think she may have wasted their tribes money…
    
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    May 17, 2017 12:51am
mikenmild

Ah, the “I was only joking” defence:
Tory MP tells student to “fuck off back to Scotland.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/general-election-2017-james-heappey-tory-mp-referendum-scottish-national-party-a7735311.html
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May 16, 2017 9:35pm
- Johnboy
  
  Utterly fucking shocking Milkey. He should have told the little bint (at the 12,000 quid a year school) to fuck off back to her Scottish castle! 🙂
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:41pm
Johnboy

A converted try (league) will do it! 🙂
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May 16, 2017 9:45pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  Just a try JB, and from a real mans game not the 13 man disgrace you mentioned
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:53pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  Will we fall short of the uprights JB?
  
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  May 16, 2017 9:56pm
Johnboy

A conversion will do it…..where’s the HOBM team when you need them? 🙂
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May 16, 2017 9:57pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  What are you converting to?
  
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  May 17, 2017 8:22am
Johnboy

All over. As for HOBM Milkey says they were all in the showers picking up the soap! 🙂
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May 16, 2017 10:00pm
Awww C-mon

The rugby speech we all wanted to give but never could

Firstly to our opposition, you guys are a pack of cunts and we are glad to have beaten you again, you couldn’t win the game or the fight.
The ref, you are blind git, I’m glad we could take them game out of your control, hope the gold watch they bought you keeps good time.
To the slappers in the kitchen, your food is shit and you were an awful shag.

Bottoms Up!
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May 16, 2017 10:04pm
Harriet

I thought 404 comments seemed too high……I was right………JB’s hit a hundred of them!

Who’s ear did you chew off when you were away? – the poor bastard! 😎
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May 16, 2017 10:08pm
Manolo

Janus would be proud of these MSM hacks:
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/washpost-reporters-cheer-trump-russia-leak-story-just-like-obama-09-visit/
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