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mikenmild

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Happy Wanking!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Masturbation_Day
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May 7, 2017 8:02am
- dad4justice
  
  Oh look son of Norma is linking his favourite pastime other than spewing nonsense on kiwiblog.
  
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  May 7, 2017 8:14am
  - mikenmild
    
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    And you didn’t toss one off this morning, D4J? You should – it might settle you down for a wee while.
    So off you go, get out your gay porn and we’ll talk later.
    
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    May 7, 2017 8:17am
- dad4justice
  
  You are one very sick unit son of Norma. My lady satisfies my desires you stupid tug master. Get a wife or better still a life.
  
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  May 7, 2017 8:19am
  - mikenmild
    
    Who is this Norma character? One of your transgender police friends?
    
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    May 7, 2017 8:23am
  - Longknives
    
    This is like a really bad Rap battle!..
    
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    May 8, 2017 8:56am
    - Awww C-mon
      
      “There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom’s spaghetti”
      
      (credit to Eminem, don’t want another issue with the man)
      
      those lyrics could fit in very well with the running battle of twits these two are having?
      
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      May 8, 2017 12:10pm
- cha
  
  Happy Wanking!
  
  Please, think of the kittens……
  
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  May 8, 2017 9:19am
Captain Mainwaring

8 May ???
Getting ahead of yourself Kokila?
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May 7, 2017 8:11am
Happychappy

Speak for yourself my wifes body still attracts me more than that.
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May 7, 2017 8:12am
- stephieboy
  
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  Shouldn’t that be wives ?
  
  Deus vult !
  
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  May 7, 2017 8:17am
  - Jack5
    
    Do Stephiestanis not know that “Deus Volt!” was the battle cry of the First Crusade?
    
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    May 8, 2017 9:40am
    - Jack5
      
      Whoops! Deus Vult, not Deus ~~Volt~~.
      
      Latin for God’s Will.
      
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      May 8, 2017 10:53am
duggledog

Heather du Plessis Allan writes in today’s Herald: ‘Give Te Reo A Chance To Survive!’

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11850635

Give it a chance?

Does anybody want to make an estimate of how many hundreds of millions of dollars taxpayers have spent on Maori language over the years?

I do recall DPF telling us it would be cheaper to giver every Maori TV viewer a new car every two years than continue funding the channel.

Just like child neglect and the high Maori incarceration rates, continuation of the Reo is up to Maori
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May 7, 2017 8:13am
- mikenmild
  
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  Maori TV is the only broadcast channel left that provides any element of public service television. Worth every penny for the Anzac Day coverage alone.
  
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  May 7, 2017 8:24am
  - Jack5
    
    Whose penny, Milky? Taxpayers fund Maori TV, don’t they?
    
    Why are you commenting on Maori TV’s April 25 programmes on May 8? Did you record them?
    
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    May 8, 2017 9:41am
  - Jigsaw
    
    A racist TV channel that we are forced to fund but not forced to watch…yet. Public service—garbage!!
    
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    May 8, 2017 11:27am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  I really don’t understand why New Zealanders get so exercised about having to learn a few words of Te Reo. Learning languages is good for development of the brain.
  It wouldn’t be nearly so annoying if the moaners had a reasonable grasp of English. Like they have only one job.
  
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  May 8, 2017 6:43pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    It’s your 12th word. Get counting 🙂
    
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    May 8, 2017 6:51pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Fair call
      English is optional, even for people who are not proficient in any other language.
      
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      May 8, 2017 6:59pm
  - nasska
    
    Middle English is another dead language that I don’t want to “have” to learn.
    
    Mostly because I hate being compelled to do anything. Additionally because bugger all people speak it & it’s an anachronism……just like Mouldy!
    
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    May 8, 2017 7:08pm
    - mikenmild
      
      No one is going to make you learn te reo, nasska, any more than you will be forced to marry your favourite sheep.
      
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      May 8, 2017 7:13pm
      - nasska
        
        Thanks Mike. That’s a relief. 🙂
        
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        May 8, 2017 7:18pm
Odakyu-sen

Ah, debate of the future!
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May 7, 2017 8:21am
stephieboy

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The Battle of Hattin ( 1187 ) : Kingdom of Heaven that saw the decisive defeat to the Crusaders by the armies under the mighty Saladin. He lured the Crusader army out onto the hot desert plains and many succumbed to dehydration and thirst . Hattin was followed later in the same year by the fall of Jerusalem back into Muslim hands under Saladin’s command ( a siege lasting about a month ) . The Crusaders were never able to regain the initiative and reconquer the Holy lands and the much prized Jerusalem .
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igaDPFrGHV4

Allu Akbar !

Inshallah !

Off to St Albans to celebrate holy communion, 9.30am .

Enjoy

Cheers.
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May 7, 2017 8:43am
- holysheet
  
  Quick phone the cops, stupidboy has admitted he is going to St Albans. Will he be wearing a suicide vest? best stay away from there for a while.
  
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  May 8, 2017 9:44am
Nukuleka

The initial post of the day is a sad indication of the level to which KBGD has sunk. Tawdry and puerile.
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May 7, 2017 8:57am
- mikenmild
  
  I don’t know how some people live with themselves…
  
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  May 7, 2017 8:58am
  - starboard
    
    I dont know how a 40 plus still lives at home with his mum..and his bedside rubber bum. Sad wee man.
    
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    May 8, 2017 10:42am
- Jack5
  
  Nuk, it just shows how isolated some posters are.
  
  In the last couple of centuries, has it ever been easier to find a sexual partner?
  
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  May 8, 2017 9:48am
  - V
    
    As long as you can afford the child support payments. LOL
    
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    May 8, 2017 10:51am
3-coil

Is it true that NZ Rugby League are lobbying WADA to have cocaine removed from the list of banned performance enhancing substances? (using their numpties’ over-promise but under-performance record as evidence).
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May 7, 2017 9:05am
- Awww C-mon
  
  only white line the kiwis found all night….
  
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  May 8, 2017 12:11pm
Manolo

The future is here!
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May 7, 2017 9:53am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Thank Goodness it is now in the past.
  
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  May 8, 2017 8:05am
dime

Well done France! electing a non-weird “outsider” lol

at what point to france have to give up their nukes?
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May 8, 2017 8:04am
- EAD
  
  Well done France! electing a non-weird “outsider” lol
  
  What sort of stuffed up world are we living in when politicians who want to replace their people with 3rd world savages are classed as “centrists”?
  
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  May 8, 2017 8:29am
  - redqueen
    
    Ironically, it seems to have been a protest vote. If 60% of your ‘support’ doesn’t actually want you, but they don’t want ‘the other guy’, you know the situation isn’t good.
    
    And that’s before we recognise that Macron has no real platform and there is lots of idealistic nonsense being spouted by a biased media (if Macron is a vision of hope, we’re so buggered…).
    
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    May 8, 2017 8:32am
    - MickMac
      
      They are buggered already.
      Their Islamic demographic armageddon point is 2037……
      
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      May 8, 2017 8:53am
  - itstricky
    
    3rd world savages
    
    Always knew the truth of his world view would come out, eventually. Can’t bite his lip enough.
    
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    May 8, 2017 8:50am
    - cmm
      
      People who FGM are not savages?
      People who think it is Ok to turn gays into marionette puppets are not savages?
      
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      May 8, 2017 3:45pm
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My congratulations to the large majority of French voters who rejected the crude xenophobia and vicious bigotry of the preferred candidate of Putin, Trump, Farage and many of the commentators on this site. France has retained her honour, so it’s back to posturing on the sidelines for blondie.
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May 8, 2017 8:05am
- Inandout
  
  You may well end up eating your words. There is jubilation on our NZ breakfast shows this morning, and no doubt jubilation in French mosques, but the French people have merely delayed the inevitable.
  Paris tourism is suffering already.
  http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/paris-tourist-numbers-drop-franch-terror-attacks-further-charlie-hebdo-bataclan-shooting-isis-a7592836.html
  
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  May 8, 2017 8:14am
  - dime
    
    Dime is in paris next month 🙁 i dont wanna go but gf does
    
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    May 8, 2017 8:23am
    - holysheet
      
      time to change your gf? According to your past comments, a young stud like you must have plenty waiting in the wings.
      
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      May 8, 2017 8:30am
      - dime
        
        ha over 40 now. youth is gone 🙁
        
        gf = future mrs dime 😀
        
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        May 8, 2017 8:40am
      - krazykiwi
        
        So a mrs dime … and then some pennies and/or nickles?!?
        
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        May 8, 2017 9:02am
      - dime
        
        “So a mrs dime … and then some pennies and/or nickles?!?”
        
        thats the plan. gotta have someone to leave my empire too 🙂
        
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        May 8, 2017 9:11am
      - holysheet
        
        Oh no, you disappoint me dime. According to Mrs Holy, at 60+ I still have what it takes. Once you admit you are no longer young anymore, then you may as well shrivel up and retire.
        
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        May 8, 2017 9:40am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        gf = future mrs dime ?
        
        Congratulations.
        
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        May 8, 2017 9:41am
      - waikatogirl
        
        gf = future mrs dime
        dime is intending to propose in Paris?
        very romantic! ?
        
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        May 8, 2017 10:11am
      - holysheet
        
        Whats romantic about that shit hole?
        Since the importation of scum from the middle east, you would need to be mad to go there now.
        
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        May 8, 2017 10:27am
      - GoVege
        
        60 is the new 40 Holy!
        
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        May 8, 2017 12:30pm
    - Huevon
      
      Casually, and from a safe distance, take her to one of the vibrant parts of Paris (which pretty much includes the centre). Watch the realisation dawn on her face as she takes in the shocking contrast between the beauty of the French capital and cultural diversity. It strikes the soul(she’ll hug you a little bit tighter). Avoid trucks.
      
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      May 8, 2017 8:39am
    - lofty
      
      Me and mum are in Paris next month also…we do want to go, and will take our chances..mind you I will have my fingers and toes crossed while there ?
      
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      May 8, 2017 9:48am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Mum and I.
        It isn’t just Te Reo that needs preserving.
        
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        May 8, 2017 1:11pm
    - Flash
      
      @ Dime:
      gf=future Mrs Dime
      You’ve been saying that for years. What’s the delay?
      
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      May 8, 2017 11:20am
- EAD
  
  As Morgtoh highlights below, France had a choice of two futures – A future full of poverty, violence, terrorism and multculti division or they could have secured the existence of the French people and a future for their children..
  
  They choose wrongly.
  
  https://mobile.twitter.com/morgoth_rev/status/861288375898308611
  
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  May 8, 2017 8:26am
  - simonway
    
    Ironically, EAD, the neo-Nazi white supremacist you are quoting here (the one who said the infamous Fourteen Words “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”) was, in fact, a violent terrorist who belonged to a violent terrorist organisation, and is now in prison for being an accomplice to murder.
    
    An odd source of inspiration for someone who professes to be opposed to violence and terrorism!
    
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    May 8, 2017 11:27am
    - EAD
      
      Shocking isn’t it Simonway- how dare the French people want to secure a future for their people, in France and for their children that it not full of violence, poverty and terrorism where they’re reduced to a rump minority in a sea of Africans/Muslims.
      
      Much better not to appear “racist”, whatever that means.
      
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      May 8, 2017 3:02pm
- krazykiwi
  
  France has retained her honour
  
  French voters stayed away in record numbers.
  
  Of those that voted, a record number of them cast blank or informal votes.
  
  There is no honour in closing ones eyes and wishing it would all go away.
  
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  May 8, 2017 9:00am
  - cmm
    
    Didn’t work to get rid of the Germans in 1914/1939 either.
    
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    May 8, 2017 4:16pm
- V
  
  What honour, of suicide attacks every couple of months. Paris is still under a state of emergency for heavens sake.
  
  It’s only a flesh wound!
  
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  May 8, 2017 10:53am
G152

The next series of attacks on the French people by some mad muslim is guaranteed 🙁
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May 8, 2017 8:10am
- itstricky
  
  One act of terrorism since Trump took charge:
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabbing_of_Timothy_Caughman
  
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  May 8, 2017 8:57am
mikenmild

And I thought yesterday’s premature ejaculation of today’s General Debate had been lost forever.
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May 8, 2017 8:10am
simonway

Vive la France!
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May 8, 2017 8:13am
- kowtow
  
  How long will it remain French ?
  
  Allahu Akbar.
  
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  May 8, 2017 9:04am
Happychappy

After all those hours and trips to Australia to foster a relationship and gather the votes for Labour from the NZ people living there they have given Andrew Little the fingers and and are forming their own Party for the 2017 September elections. These are the same people that didn’t like the Clark Government Nanny State policies and left NZ for a better life in Australia and now it all gone wrong they expect with out paying taxes here for the NZ Government to jump when their needs arise.
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May 8, 2017 8:17am
Paulus Gnome

Well the English went over twice to save the French from the marauding Germanic hoardes and have been shit on ever since by the French, this time, the cheese eating surrender monkeys are on their own
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May 8, 2017 8:21am
- David Garrett
  
  Paulus: Do you know why many Parisian avenues have trees planted on either side?
  
  So the German soldiers can march in the shade….
  
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  May 8, 2017 9:02am
  - krazykiwi
    
    And this …
    
    The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from “Run” to “Hide”. The only two higher levels in France are “Surrender” and “Collaborate”. The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France’s white flag factory, effectively paralysing the country’s military capability.
    
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    May 8, 2017 9:04am
    - David Garrett
      
      krazy: How about “How many French soldiers does it take to successfully defend Paris?”
      
      Who knows, it’s never been done.
      
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      May 8, 2017 9:26am
    - holysheet
      
      Q: What do you call a French man killed defending his country?
      A: I don’t know either, its never happened!
      
      Q: What’s the difference between a Frenchman and a bucket of crap?
      A: The bucket
      
      Q: Why did the Post Office have to recall its series of stamps depicting famous Frenchmen?
      A: People were confused about which side to spit on.
      
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      May 8, 2017 9:49am
      - holysheet
        
        https://www.strategypage.com/humor/articles/military_humor_complete_list_of_french_jokes.asp
        
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        May 8, 2017 9:55am
      - rangitoto
        
        To be fair they did see off the invading army of the Caliph at Tours in 732. Can the Franks be considered French?
        
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        May 8, 2017 10:56am
      - Kimbo
        
        Yes. Or at least they formed the basis of the people who, over the centuries would emerge French Just as the Angles (along with the Saxons and Jutes) became…English.
        
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        May 8, 2017 10:58am
- jonar
  
  Any historians here? Didn’t the Brits have to withdraw to England from the German offensive, seems a bit harsh to give France shit about surrendering when the Brits had to do a runner to survive.
  
  Also
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/92041248/five-myths-about-france
  
  But while the French may choose their battles carefully, they’re no cowards: Recently, for example, French forces have been deeply involved in fighting extremists in Africa and the Middle East. In 2012, French troops went into Mali to hold back an Islamist advance there, followed by operations in Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad. France has also been the Western nation most involved in combating the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria. It has intervened to try to bring stability in the Central African Republic and took a leading role in the intervention in Libya, where its special forces are still fighting terrorism. Likewise, the French Foreign Legion – renowned for its strength and bravery – is still active globally.
  
  France began air actions against the Islamic State in Iraq in 2014, followed by missions in Syria. In fact, President François Hollande was ready to launch strikes against Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria after its use of chemical weapons in 2013 – but was held back by the refusal of the Obama administration to do so.
  
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  May 8, 2017 9:53am
  - Jack5
    
    This link is to a New Zealand soldier who undoubtedly would share your opinion, Jonar:
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Waddell_(army_officer)
    
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    May 8, 2017 10:15am
    - Jack5
      
      A couple of points to ponder when the French are accused of being ungrateful to their allies.
      
      Russia was also an ally of France and ours. While you will find streets called Stalingrad in some French towns, I doubt you will find Stalingrad streets in the towns of the other Western allies. ( I don’t think we need Stalingrad streets, but we don’t often acknowledge the Red Army’s part in Germany’s defeat.)
      
      When it comes to being ungrateful, we New Zealanders might also consider our response to the United States Navy, airmen, GIs and marines, who saved New Zealand in World War 2. Since then, we at times have given visiting ships from the US Navy a very ungrateful reception, and our fuckwitted-fringe Lefties have staged anti-American protests, at times quite virulent.
      
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      May 8, 2017 10:42am
      - Kimbo
        
        True. Every year on the anniversary, the French town of Le Quesnoy honours the New Zealand troops who scaled their stone walls and liberated it from German occupation a few days before the 1918 Armistice.
        
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        May 8, 2017 10:54am
  - Kimbo
    
    Any historians here? Didn’t the Brits have to withdraw to England from the German offensive, seems a bit harsh to give France shit about surrendering when the Brits had to do a runner to survive.
    
    They have a history of…inconsistency. Initially their planning prior to the outbreak of the Great War was to urn up with an “offensive spirit”, their famous red pantaloons and fight with elan, and that was deemed sufficient to beat the Germans. Not surprisingly, with such a lack of nuanced tactics they were mown down like wheat. About a million French casualties were incurred in the first month, until, with British help on their left flank, they won the crucial battle of the Marne in September 1914.
    
    But the French were bled white on the Western Front in the first two years of World War I, and then the British and Empire troops, who took some two years to be formed and trained into Kitchener’s “New Army” took up the slack for the remainder of the war.
    
    The Battle of the Somme in July 1916, and the awful British and Empire casualties incurred there, were in part to relieve the pressure of the awful French losses being incurred at Verdun. The French mutinied/refused to attack anymore in March 1917 after the failed and over-promised Nivelle Offensive, but somehow word never leaked to the enemy.
    
    But French Marshal Ferdinand Foch was an excellent Commander-in-Chief on the entire Western Front from the time he was appointed in the crisis of March 1918 until the end of the war.
    
    But the collapse in May 1940 was awful. Is a myth that the Maginot Line was the cause. The French (and British) had better tanks, and just at many troops as the the Wehrmacht. Poor/passive generalship and morale among their troops was the reason for the collapse once the Ardennes Forest had been successfully penetrated by the Panzers. Yes, the British had to withdraw, but their right flank was turned and if they hadn’t, they would have been surrounded and destroyed – as with the German Sixth Army in Stalingrad.
    
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    May 8, 2017 10:34am
    - Kiwi Dave
      
      Two additions to Kimbo’s corrective to all the anti-French sneering.
      
      The Somme’s horrific first day’s reputation is well justified, but 27000 Fenchmen died in one day in late August, 1914.
      
      In general, the French army fought more skillfully than the British army for the first three years of the war; as early as August 1914, Fayolle, an outstanding general, had worked out the key principles of the offensive – maximum preparation, maximum artillery, minimum infantry, though it took up to three years to successfully master the details.
      
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      May 8, 2017 2:49pm
      - Kimbo
        
        True. Perfected by the German stormtroopers in the March 21 1918 offensive (without armour!), and then by the Allies in the 100-days campaign from August 8 until the end of the war. But then everyone was “learning as they went” in the Great War. Contrary to expectations and pre-war theory, the weapons of the defensive such as machine guns, barbed wire, trenches, even trains that could swiftly move troops to plug a gap in the line compared to the offensive weapons such as artillery, infantry, field telephones, initially rudimentary aircraft, poison gas that could affect your own troops, and no tanks until 1916.
        
        The problem for the British was compounded in that they were a naval power, and other than their relatively tiny 100,000 strong BEF at the start of the war (smaller than Belgium’s army although they did, as I said, perform an important role at the Marne), they had no conscription as with continental nations, so they had to build their army from scratch.
        
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        May 8, 2017 3:02pm
- Kimbo
  
  Well the English went over twice to save the French from the marauding Germanic hoardes and have been shit on ever since by the French,
  
  Not just the British. In the mid-1960s, after French President Charles de Gaulle withdrew his country from NATO, he requested that the American troops stationed in France be removed. US President Lyndon Johnson gave the reply to his Secretary of State, Dean Rusk: “You ask Charles de-fucking Gaulle, ‘Does that include our boys buried at Omaha Beach?'” The French request was withdrawn. 😉
  
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  May 8, 2017 10:18am
- Lance
  
  Kind of interesting it was the French (Gauls) that attacked the Romans back when they never bothered anyone. So horrific was the carnage they militarised.
  And guess who was first on the list for revenge?
  Same with the Germans.. good old Napoleon.
  
  The French kind of keep asking for it historically.
  
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  May 8, 2017 11:28am
krazykiwi

Back in November Richard Hawking prognosticated a doomed earth within 1000 years, with mankind needing to flee to another planet in order to survive.

Apparently things must have become a whole lot more dire in the last 6 months as we now only have 100 years to escape earth on account of human caused problems.

For a smart guy he’s gone full Chicken Little on us. Apparently spending trillions of dollars to re-locate our human problems to another galaxy is a smart move.
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May 8, 2017 8:25am
- cmm
  
  There are quite a few people who believe that the earth is screwed and the only way forward is to modify another planet for human life.
  
  The thing these people don’t seem to realise is that even if the earth was 100x as polluted as itis, it would be far easier to use that as a starting point than start off with a new planet and try to build an atmosphere etc etc.
  
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  May 8, 2017 8:32am
  - itstricky
    
    So you’re going to start today, then?
    
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    May 8, 2017 8:45am
  - VicParking
    
    Sounds like the another problem the world is having but on a planetary scale. Fuck your own country and move to another, change its way of life and them fuck it as well.
    
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    May 8, 2017 8:48am
  - MickMac
    
    so maybe we need to cull the planet?
    
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    May 8, 2017 8:58am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  You mean Stephen Hawking.
  
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  May 8, 2017 9:42am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Ooops. Yes. Thanks!
    
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    May 8, 2017 7:57pm
Stars And Stripes

Countdown’s transgender policy ‘spectacular’ step
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11851328.
“Countdown today announced its transgender transitioning policy, promising trans employees support over correct name and pronoun use, and the right to use whichever toilets and changing rooms matched their gender identity.
The policy also included the right to use any available leave including sick leave for medical treatments needed while transitioning”.

Oh FFS what a crock of shit.
Correct pronoun usage and bathroom of your choice.
I bet Countdown if you took an anonymous survey of your staff they would not be so glowing of this policy and in fact a large number would ridicule it as it rightly deserves.
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May 8, 2017 8:27am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Countdown is the same PC-mad company that has huge signs in Maori over every department when all the Maori customers are at Pak’n Save.
  
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  May 8, 2017 8:58am
- David Garrett
  
  Stars: I wonder if Countdown actually HAS any transgender employees? Does anyone have a reliable estimate of how many such unfortunates there are in the whole country??
  
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  May 8, 2017 9:06am
  - Happychappy
    
    DG/ My wife informed me a month ago that they employed a he come she on checkouts at the store she is employed at.
    
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    May 8, 2017 9:26am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    I know one. He transformed himself from an OK looking bloke into the most horrendously ugly woman I have ever seen.
    Not sure what that achieved for his/her love life.
    
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    May 8, 2017 9:32am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      So that is where Caitlyn finally washed up, good to know
      
      Can’t wait for the first Fa’afafine to pitch up at Wack a slave on the till or deli!
      
      ‘Does my bum look big in this checkout?’
      
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      May 8, 2017 10:35am
  - starboard
    
    mm is one. He/she is half way thru the process, hence their bitchiness lately.
    
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    May 8, 2017 11:02am
  - Fletch
    
    ~~Shirley~~ Surely, there can’t be that many? I know there are even less trans than there are gays. According to a CDC report, gays make up around 1.6% of the American population, and trans about 0.7%
    
    https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr077.pdf
    
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    May 8, 2017 11:39am
- rightoverlabour
  
  You have spelt it incorrectly. Too many “o”s in the brand’s name
  
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  May 8, 2017 10:16am
- Fletch
  
  Yeh, Progressive Enterprises virtue signaling and showing how “progressive” they are. Watch this interview of a guy from the Herald interviewing the Corporate Affairs manager from Countdown. Yes, they both sound gay and look like they want to jump each others bones.
  
  “We want to be one of the most progressive and accepting employers in New Zealand”
  
  http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/video.cfm?c_id=1&gal_cid=1&gallery_id=175588
  
  Looks like it’s Pak ‘N Sav for me.
  
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  May 8, 2017 11:27am
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    Just watched that interview and it was probably one of the most scripted artificial events I have seen in a while.
    Heaps of patsy questions and jovial banter between interviewer and subject.
    Pure theatre bordering on free advertising.
    
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    May 8, 2017 11:51am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Fletch, I know he has a bit of a gay name but Tristram Clayton is definitely not gay. In fact he has a lovely French wife.
    Not so sure about the Countdown guy though.
    
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    May 8, 2017 1:10pm
- howitis
  
  Countdown owned by Woolies from Australia where they do not even have gay marriage!
  Yet pushing into trannie land.
  
  We let them have Carmen. What more do they want?
  
  Countdown is one big toilet to be fair, so no decision required on F or M doors to go through.
  
  Recent finances For Woolworths AU (FY June 2016) are none too flash even after screwing their suppliers.
  http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/woolworths-unveils-1235-billion-loss/news-story/5a6cd1f33658f536b47d95b305c5bc67
  
  WOOLWORTHS has reported a full-year loss of AUD1.235 billion and a 40.8 per cent decline in underlying earnings from its Australian food and petrol business.
  
  I think they might be better to concentrate on doing business better (plenty of headroom to work with) than virtue signalling.
  
  NZ grocers for me thanks as decided 2 years ago.
  
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  May 8, 2017 12:37pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  The policy is most beneficial to customers . . .
  It can be very hard to tell which gender or otherwise a supermarket worker is
  
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  May 8, 2017 4:23pm
cmm

News flash! Update in 30 minutes!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/92208905/christchurch-students-travel-the-equivalent-of-a-trip-to-the-moon-to-avoid-local-school

Kids in the country travel further to school than kids in the city.

Wow!
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May 8, 2017 8:36am
- VicParking
  
  Sounds like the another problem the world is having but on a planetary scale. Fuck your own country and move to another, change its way of life and them fuck it as well.
  
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  May 8, 2017 8:50am
waikatosinger

Because France.
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May 8, 2017 8:43am
krazykiwi

For once the polls got it right, with Macron taking 65.8% of the vote against a prediction consensus of 65%.

While Junker can call this a vote for Europe all he likes, there were a record number of informal/blank votes, and voter turnout was only 65.3%, down from 72% in 2012. It was the lowest voter turnout in 36 years.

A good observation from the Telegraph:

But Mr Juncker demonstrates precisely what is wrong with the EU. Even though close to 50 per cent of French voters supported anti-EU candidates – and 10 million did not vote at all – this is somehow taken as a triumph for the institution rather than the potential disaster it portends.
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May 8, 2017 8:46am
- kowtow
  
  Disaster it is. The EU are hell bent on admitting Turkey ,which is now basically an elected dictatorship.This admission process will continue under Macron .
  
  On the bright side we won’t have to listen to the MSM fake news constantly referring to the leftist Le Pen as being a “far right” candidate.
  
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  May 8, 2017 8:57am
  - MCos
    
    I somehow doubt Le Pen would consider herself to be left wing.
    
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    May 8, 2017 9:16am
Happychappy

Without not acknowledging that we do need more Police on our streets there is still a lack of accountability against Parents that allow their children out on the streets drinking alcohol and smoking to all hours of the night. Some of these Criminals that these shopkeepers are complaining about are only twelve or thirteen year olds and you can’t tell me their Parents don’t know what they are up to, so in my opinion it is time we went back in time when Police charged Parents for neglecting their duties when raising their children.
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May 8, 2017 8:50am
- VicParking
  
  We dont need more police on the street. We need more people to obey the law. Less wet bus tickets and more hard labour. I have seen how community service works in Whanganui. Travel round the town in a white van, go from one park to another, stop for a smoke and move on. If its raining you are not allowed to get out of the van incase you get wet. If they do get out they walk along, the van a few feet behind them incase they get tired, and pick up bits of paper. Anything greater than that they are not allowed to touch, anything that is food waste not allowed to touch. Whanganui a town that gives window washers, who sit at the lights pressing the pedestrian button to stop traffic, high visability vests and a licence, yes an actual “Licence”, to abuse drivers and damage cars.
  
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  May 8, 2017 9:04am
  - cha
    
    Aww, poor wee snoflake has a sad.
    
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    May 8, 2017 9:30am
    - VicParking
      
      cha do at all understand the term Snowflake. To call me a snow flake by your understanding you would also call the author of an article on democracy a Maxist.
      
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      May 8, 2017 3:41pm
- GoVege
  
  Their parents are probably in the pub or jail.
  
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  May 8, 2017 12:20pm
Chuck Bird

I am no fan of Chester Borrows but this is bloody ridiculous.

MP Chester Borrows to stand trial

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11851400
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May 8, 2017 9:10am
- Happychappy
  
  I bet if you asked Winston First he would not agree with you.
  
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  May 8, 2017 9:19am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Happy, you have a lot different view of Winston than Bill English.
    
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    May 8, 2017 12:12pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  You’re right Chuck. It is an absolute waste of the Court’s time. I would be extremely surprised if Borrows is convicted of Careless Driving Causing Injury; at the very worst, the Police could have charged him with a simple careless driving charge.
  
  Had the Police officers on duty done their jobs properly and ensured that the way was clear for him and Paula Bennett to leave the hotel car park, none of this would have happened. The Police were there because a threat had been made against Paula Bennett on social media the night before. The threat was made by a political activist who has the ear of a number of senior Labour Party MP’s (see the link below), and Borrows himself had requested a small police presence.
  
  http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2016/03/phillip_reweti_bear.html
  
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  May 8, 2017 9:20am
  - ztev
    
    Borrows is wasting court time.
    HE SHOULD HAVE PLEAD GUILTY.
    
    But you have the Judge looking after Chester:
    “He appeared in the Whanganui District Court last month[Nov 2016] when the judge, on his own motion, suppressed all evidence and argument in relation to the charge.”
    
    Its a judge only trial, the names are known, what possibly could be the reason for us mere voters not knowing Borrows pleadings?
    
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    May 8, 2017 10:58am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Your comment sounds defamatory. Are you saying the judge is corrupt?
      
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      May 8, 2017 12:14pm
      - ztev
        
        “judge, on his own motion”
        Highly unusual wouldnt you say.
        
        Borrows must be one of those delicate members of the community that the court steps in to make special considerations for.
        
        Silly old Shopkeeper has blown the suppression, but without me discussing the details plenty of defendants come up with far fetched excuses, but Mark Mitchell hes not !
        
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        May 8, 2017 1:44pm
      - Nookin
        
        Probably contempt of court rather than defamation, Chuck. Ignore him. He is a nasty but ineffectual troll who has yet to make a positive contribution to this blog.
        FWIW, Ztev, the judge hearing the case is Stephanie Edwards DCJ. I think it reasonable to assume that SHE is not the HE who made orders on HIS own motion and it is puerile to suggest that the judge is looking after Borrows. You may like to compare the complainants narrative with the film clip. She seemed to be describing an entirely different incident. Not that facts seems to play any part of your silly little game.
        
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        May 8, 2017 10:27pm
  - ztev
    
    You are breaching Court orders old toad.
    
    Your inside knowledge will get you banned – in the real world
    
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    May 8, 2017 11:01am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Bullshit ztev. I’m not reporting on anything given in evidence or argument in the District Court. I’m merely expressing an opinion based on information which is already in the public domain.
      
      Then again, when you have people like Mr Bear supporting your team, I can understand why you would want to obfuscate and try and divert attention away.
      
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      May 8, 2017 2:00pm
- VicParking
  
  Your right. We should just drag him out onto the street and linch him on a streetlight.
  
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  May 8, 2017 10:23am
- VicParking
  
  when you read the article and especially the witness statement of the women who was run over and compare it with the video of the incident you would assume she was on another planet. Personally with the cop had done his job it would not have happened. As usual the cops were late on the scene.
  
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  May 8, 2017 3:49pm
lazza

Dipped into General Debate for the first time “out of curiosity” only. Geez so much for that “trial”.

Apart from some thoughtful French Election comment (miles better off discussed within a less “general” topic) the GD is, it seems, a cesspit of the usual lowlife trolls of all persuasions just slinging the crap at each other.

Tip for DNF … “CAN IT”.

Along with the largely un-moderated trolled objectionable one eyed opinions on 2017-KB, this GD stuff further denigrates what used to be! a blog worth contributing to … so there!
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May 8, 2017 9:10am
- jims_whare
  
  DNF? Hmmm Don’t Knock Frogs?
  
  Did Not Finish?
  
  Dance No Further?
  
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  May 8, 2017 9:24am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    I assume typo of DPF
    
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    May 8, 2017 2:19pm
- KevinH
  
  Ooops another Labour supporter visiting from the Standard insisting on censorship.
  
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  May 8, 2017 11:01am
- AgentBallSack
  
  General Debate is a machine, not at all connected with the personalities residing therein. [banned until 3 years after the election]
  
  Feel more at home now?
  
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  May 8, 2017 11:21am
- Jack5
  
  Fuck off back to the Standard where you belong, Lazza.
  
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  May 8, 2017 2:44pm
- VicParking
  
  First time and only six down ticks to go
  
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  May 8, 2017 3:50pm
Manolo

The consequences of importing the finest…
Health officials are grappling with the largest outbreak of measles in Minnesota in almost 30 years, which is mainly sickening young children of Somali immigrants who fell under the sway of anti-vaccination activists.

The state has reported 44 confirmed cases of measles since April 11, and the outbreak is the largest this year in the United States, which had essentially eradicated the disease in 2000 before discredited research stoked fears of a link between vaccines and autism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/us/measles-minnesota-vaccines.html?_r=0
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May 8, 2017 10:05am
- holysheet
  
  Come on now,be fair. How can you blame the measles out break on Somali immigrants when they are too dumb to read the discredited research linking vaccines and autism.
  
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  May 8, 2017 10:21am
  - stephieboy
    
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    hoyturd , amazing coming from a Trumpist like of whom your POTUS is a supporter of that discredited research.
    
    As for you nasty innuendos about the Minnesota Somali community what more could one expect of an alt right Le pen and Trump/ Bannon looser .
    
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    May 8, 2017 10:34am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      @ Stephieboy – describing someone as a “looser” (I presume you meant loser) after calling them a peurile name is ever so slightly ironic; just sayin’…
      
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      May 8, 2017 11:28am
      - Longknives
        
        To be fair to Stephieboy- Stuff’s so-called ‘Journalists’ don’t know the difference between ‘Loser’ and ‘Looser’ these days either..
        
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        May 8, 2017 1:37pm
    - Jack5
      
      “Hoyturd” – WTF is that, Stephie X?
      
      I suspect its another of your coprophiliac expressions. Why are you so obsessed with them?
      
      Has it something to with arriving from backward Stephiestan to be fascinated with Western sewerage systems? Do you still get a kick out of pressing the “flush” button?
      
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      May 8, 2017 2:43pm
  - Postitrote
    
    To dumb to read or just following the president and friends? https://theintercept.com/2017/01/10/trump-names-anti-vaccine-activist-robert-kennedy-jr-lead-panel-vaccine-safety/
    
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    May 8, 2017 1:49pm
- Postitrote
  
  “The consequences of importing the finest…” – that British expat Andrew Wakefield sure does have a lot to answer for doesn’t he?! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/anti-vaccine-activists-spark-a-states-worst-measles-outbreak-in-decades/2017/05/04/a1fac952-2f39-11e7-9dec-764dc781686f_story.html?utm_term=.93561149ac06
  
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  May 8, 2017 1:56pm
Stars And Stripes

Budget set to boost Māori housing and marae
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/330308/budget-set-to-boost-maori-housing-and-marae.
“Māori housing initiatives and marae will receive $27 million over the next three to four years in the Budget.
Māori housing initiative Kāinga Ora was set to receive $8m, while $10m over four years was slated would help repair and restore marae buildings and maintain marae protocols”.

So the taxpayer is now shelling out to fix up marae buildings and “maintain protocols” which sounds suspiciously like a slush fund for whatever they want.
The selective race based troughing in NZ is really just getting beyond a joke.
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May 8, 2017 11:02am
- starboard
  
  Winston will clean up..Bill and National will get arse whipped, they will be left standing there gob smacked post election..scratching their empty fucking heads…” duh, didn’t see that coming Steve, what did we do wrong?”
  
  You didn’t listen.
  
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  May 8, 2017 11:08am
  - VicParking
    
    A pity but you will proberly be right
    
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    May 8, 2017 3:51pm
  - Happychappy
    
    They say that David Seymour made Winston First look amateurish yesterday.
    
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    May 8, 2017 5:12pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  See where you’re coming from S&S but I have no problem if this shifts several thousand Maori votes from Liabore to National at the risk of losing you and starboard to the drunken dwarf.
  
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  May 8, 2017 1:16pm
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    Losing me to the drunken dwarf?.
    About as much chance of that as me taking up residence in Mt Roskill again.
    
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    May 8, 2017 1:28pm
  - BananaLlama
    
    Except it wont be the two of them will it now.
    
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    May 8, 2017 1:29pm
starboard

***Sultan Ali Abdul Ali Akbari must go***

Convicted imported sexual predator Ali Akbari must be deported NOW.
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May 8, 2017 11:11am
- Longknives
  
  He is going Starboard- We just have to wait for him to sexually attack a child first..
  Shame on you Woodhouse you are a fucking disgrace!
  
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  May 8, 2017 1:40pm
  - starboard
    
    Another one? Why wait. The guy is a cretin. He speaks no english. He doesn’t believe he has done anything wrong. He won’t be working. He is an imported parasite, a ticking time bomb who will reoffend again. Deport him now !! Get off your arse Woodhouse. The buck should stop at you.
    
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    May 8, 2017 2:00pm
AgentBallSack

So it’s National Wanking day. Or as the rest of us call it:
Just another day of Milky pontificating about shit on Kiwiblog.
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May 8, 2017 11:15am
- All_on_Red
  
  Or in Stephies case- another day at the Mall
  lol
  
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  May 8, 2017 11:22am
waikatogirl

Warnings about future rising interest rates resulting in some paying 70% of their income on mortgage payments. The PM has warned that house buyers are responsible for their own borrowing decisions.

Does anyone really expect the taxpayer to bale out those who have over extended themselves to buy a house they cannot afford, really? Snowflakes apparently need warning they are responsible for their own poor financial decision making!
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May 8, 2017 11:31am
- GazzaW
  
  Cue Phil Twitford announcing that the NZ taxpayer will pick up the tab for all qualifying families should the greedy Aussie banks increase their mortgage rates. Probably to be announced on election eve just like the student loan interest-free taxpayer rort.
  
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  May 8, 2017 11:45am
- kowtow
  
  “Does anyone really expect the taxpayer to…….”
  
  Yep , see S and S at 1102 am above. Courtesy of Ngati Notional.
  
  “Māori housing initiatives and marae will receive $27 million over the next three to four years in the Budget.
  Māori housing initiative Kāinga Ora was set to receive $8m, while $10m over four years was slated would help repair and restore marae buildings and maintain marae protocols”.
  
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  May 8, 2017 1:53pm
Hugh Pavletich

Housing … the Sydney Shambles … watch video …

Sam Dastyari pops Sydney housing bubble – MacroBusiness Australia

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/05/sam-dastyari-pops-sydney-housing-bubble/

By Leith van Onselen

Labor Senator Sam Dastyari has posted the above video on Facebook that mocks the high cost of housing in Sydney. The video profiles various run-down and poorly-located houses across Western Sydney that have a price tag over $1 million, and is an effort to show just how ridiculously expensive Sydney housing has become. … view and read more via hyperlink above …
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- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Housing affordability: 87% of Australians fear for future generations | Australia news | The Guardian
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/07/housing-affordability-87-of-australians-fear-for-future-generations
  
  About 87% of Australians believe future generations will not be able to afford to buy a home, a new poll shows. …
  
  … One in five Australians were struggling to keep up with mortgage or rental payments, the poll showed, and 23% would be in financial difficulty if interest rates went up by two percentage points.
  
  The lead researcher, Jill Sheppard, said the survey showed home ownership was still viewed as part of the Australian way of life. But Sheppard said those surveyed believed it was fast becoming unrealistic.
  
  “Young Australians are particularly pessimistic and have little faith that they will be able to buy a home and replicate the levels of home ownership of previous generations,” Sheppard said. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
  2017 13th Annual demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
  
  http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
  
  Deluge of affordability data forces government’s hand | The New Daily
  
  http://thenewdaily.com.au/money/property/2017/02/02/housing-affordability/
  
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  May 8, 2017 12:28pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Hugh’s one-man echo chamber is in full cry once again.
    
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    May 8, 2017 1:18pm
    - GazzaW
      
      Empty vessels…………………..
      
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      May 8, 2017 2:13pm
- Ross12
  
  Hugh
  That was a worthwhile watch BUT what is the Aussie Labor Party’s answer?
  
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  May 8, 2017 1:56pm
krazykiwi

UK Labour keep looking for, and finding, ways to reduce their appeal

John McDonnell faces a Labour revolt to unseat him as shadow chancellor after he said there was “a lot to learn” from Karl Marx’s Das Kapital.

Shadow cabinet sources said Jeremy Corbyn’s right-hand man, who has described himself in the past as an “unapologetic Marxist”, had done nothing to help Labour’s cause with a month to go to the general election.
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Although he would not admit on air to being a Marxist, Mr McDonnell has made no secret of it in the past. He told activists in 2013: “I’m straight. I’m honest with people. I’m a Marxist.”
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Mr McDonnell, who announced plans for an income tax rise for anyone earning more than £80,000, also refused to rule out a 60p tax rate on people earning over £100,000 – a policy he has advocated in the past
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May 8, 2017 1:58pm
- RalphT
  
  Mr McDonnell should follow the example of the other Marx. No not (for a change) Groucho, but Harpo, who based his career on not saying anything.
  
  (I’m reminded of the old saying better to remain silentt and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.)
  
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  May 8, 2017 2:20pm
Keeping Stock

From the Borrows trial in the Whanganui District Court (and NOT suppressed):

A protester posted a photo on Facebook of a plastic sex toy with ‘Paula B’ written on it and a photo of Minister Paula Bennett captioned “see you shortly b****”, a court heard today.

The social media post, with the expletive word in capital letters, was made just prior to a Trans-Pacific Partnership protest in Whanganui last year.

The trial of Whanganui MP Chester Borrows on a careless driving charge stemming from the protest is underway at the Whanganui District Court.

Mr Borrows allegedly drove over the foot of a protester as he was leaving a breakfast at the Collegiate Motor Inn in Whanganui with Ms Bennett.

Members of the protest group have been giving evidence this morning.

Borrows’ lawyer Nathan Bourke said Phillip Reweti’s post and behaviour was vulgar.

“You chose to link a photo about Minister Bennett being told a bit of sexual violence didn’t hurt anyone and your addition to that was the text ‘see you soon b****’.

“You’ve said you protest for a number of causes. Do I take it that women’s rights are not one of those?”

Nice question from Mr Borrows’ lawyer!
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May 8, 2017 2:25pm
- Jack5
  
  Is that the same person as Phillip Reweti Bear?
  
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  May 8, 2017 2:37pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    One and the same.
    
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    May 8, 2017 3:27pm
Fisiani

Jeremy Corbyn Prime Minister.
John McDonnell Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Diane Abbott Home Secretary.
Emily Thornberry Foreign Sectretary.

Have a look at that list and then you will know why Labour are unfit for government in UK
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May 8, 2017 2:27pm
- stigie
  
  Can you do a list of NZ Liarbore Fisiani and see if they are fit for Government..?
  
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  May 8, 2017 3:34pm
Jack5

Here we go again?

The German Government is having Army barracks searched for Nazi paraphernalia.

This comes after the Army found at a base swastikas and one of the Wehrmacht’s best infantry weapons, an MG42 machinegun.
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May 8, 2017 2:34pm
- Kimbo
  
  I’d only begin to get worried if they brought back the famed 88mm gun. Took care of more Allied tanks – and planes for that matter too once they converted it into an anti-aircraft gun – than rust.
  
  But if they found some canisters of Zyklon B I’d panic. I realise that could be construed as in bad taste, but on second thoughts EAD has assured us the Holocaust was exaggerated and/or fabricated, so that’s all right then. /sarc
  
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  May 8, 2017 2:41pm
  - Jack5
    
    Zyklon B, Kimbo?
    
    Appallingly used by the concentration camp mass murderers, but wasn’t it basically a cyanide pesticide? Perhaps NZ possum trappers use – or used – something similar. Let’s hope they don’t form a political party.
    
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    May 8, 2017 2:47pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Appallingly used by the concentration camp mass murderers
      
      Nah, like I implied, the “research” of David Irving cleared up that misconception, and you can see the story of the triumph of his scholarship and performance in the witness stand at the movies. /sarc
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_(2016_film)
      
      And EAD will be delighted to know (((Steven Spielberg))) is not the director
      
      Btw, did mikenmild ever get the source – date and occasion – of that Churchill quote that EAD (or was it Reid? Doesn’t matter, same person) was throwing around? Stupid question, of course not…
      
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      May 8, 2017 2:52pm
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        Strangely enough, EAD hasn’t come back on that one, but asking him about it seems to cut down on his bullshit (a little). He’s a typical fanatic, unable to admit to any error.
        
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        May 8, 2017 3:43pm
      - Kimbo
        
        He’s a typical fanatic, unable to admit to any error.
        
        True, but to be fair to EAD (not that he deserves it), that is the standard MO once one enters Kiwiblog domain. I didn’t get to 10k+ posts by rolling over to the first, second or even third challenge to my David Bain/Global Warming/Political/Economic/religious/sporting/adverb prejudices. And it just ain’t gonna happen if I’m chipping Chuck Bird, David Garrett or DifferentPerspective 😉
        
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        May 8, 2017 3:46pm
  - EAD
    
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6ed25cac500bb6bcd7130bc2ff8479d691eaf0a062eb750bcb3fa4c16617c5f4.jpg
    
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    May 8, 2017 9:32pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Got any more bogus Churchill quotes for us?
      
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      May 8, 2017 9:55pm
waikatogirl

A new $4m entrance to Parliament is to be built in front of the Beehive. Building is due to start soon.

Is there a reason they require $4m spent on another entrance? Perhaps all those parliamentarians can’t use the same door as the staff?
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May 8, 2017 3:03pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  gotta have a nice big covered space for all the Powhiris – to keep the rain off the grass skirts and expensive suits.
  
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  May 8, 2017 3:35pm
- mikenmild
  
  They built a new entrance to the Beehive just a few years back, blocking off the alley between it and the Parliament House.
  Amusingly, I noticed one day a fellow trying to use the old shortcut. The guards stopped him and he protested that there was a door he could surely go through. No: “That’s the Governor-General’s entrance. Are you the Governor-General, sir?”
  
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  May 8, 2017 3:47pm
stephieboy

At the St Luke’s Shopping Mall this arvo I couldn’t but help and reflect on all the beautiful Asian women around . Contrasted with my white Euro rather flabby sisters who seem to be letting the side down . Maybe a history of too much red meat and dairy might explain things .
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May 8, 2017 3:18pm
- RalphT
  
  Why go to the mall? All you need to do is click on one of the links on this site.
  
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  May 8, 2017 3:24pm
- GazzaW
  
  Jeez stephie that’s a big call – Megan, Jacinda, Ruth, Sue and your other ‘white Euro rather flabby sisters’ (your words) are not going to be too happy with that description along with your claim that they are letting the side down.
  
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  May 8, 2017 3:26pm
- cmm
  
  Just remember only 72 of them are for you.
  
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  May 8, 2017 3:29pm
- All_on_Red
  
  ‘I couldn’t but help’
  Yeah,we know Stephie, we know..
  
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  May 8, 2017 3:32pm
  - mikenmild
    
    May is International Masturbation Month, after all…
    
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    May 8, 2017 3:50pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      You are making a meal of the topic mm!
      
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      May 8, 2017 5:14pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Wanking on about it?
        
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        May 8, 2017 6:12pm
- Inandout
  
  What about this fat Arab bitch?
  Too much fork and not enough pork.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDZJ6bKuniA
  
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  May 8, 2017 4:14pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  Sorry you don’t fool me Stephieboy as we all know that white people are extinct in the area you are referring too.
  
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  May 8, 2017 4:56pm
  - nasska
    
    There are probably a few white trash remnants left sleeping rough in the area S&S. The rest will have left for comparatively upmarket suburbs such as Mangere & Otara.
    
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    May 8, 2017 5:04pm
- Manolo
  
  Is ogling birds your favourite hobby, dear stephieboy? Allahu akbar.
  
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  May 8, 2017 10:17pm
- BassilFawlty
  
  Out and about in the wankmobile steph x ?
  
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  May 9, 2017 4:04am
GazzaW

The Herald is starting to smell blood in the water with the possible arrival of Cyclone Donna into our region.

Settle your staff down this time Shayne and deliver us hard facts and not idle alarmist speculation.

Same message to ZB, TV One & TV3.
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May 8, 2017 3:19pm
cmm

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/92326660/intoxicated-man-who-drove-speedboat-near-swimmers-discharged-without-conviction

Another slap with a wet bus ticket for a reckless boatie drink driving at over 40 knots (about 80kph) close to other boats and people in the water.

Got off because a conviction might hurt his travels.

Should have thought of that before hand!
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May 8, 2017 3:28pm
Morrissey

Jail This Thug

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/330300/women-describe-'horror'-as-mp's-vehicle-struck
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May 8, 2017 4:10pm
- mikenmild
  
  I think 50 hours of community work would be okay in this case.
  
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  May 8, 2017 4:11pm
  - Morrissey
    
    More like five years, surely?
    
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    May 8, 2017 4:18pm
- Inandout
  
  Jail the complainant, because she looks like a man.
  
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  May 8, 2017 4:17pm
  - mikenmild
    
    That’s a rather cruel thing to say about your Mum.
    
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    May 8, 2017 4:21pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Yes; one of them was in such “horror” that her first reaction was to screech “Did you get that on camera?”.
  
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  May 8, 2017 4:51pm
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    I think that if some lout drove into YOU or one of your loved ones, you would also check to see if someone had captured the crime on film.
    
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    May 8, 2017 5:56pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  What – when they were getting in the way of someone trying to drive off ?
  
  That’s their fault – who else stands next to a vehicle trying to leave ?
  
  Obviously they were obstructing the vehicle – what else were they doing if not ?
  
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  May 8, 2017 5:07pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Morrissey’s back, spouting crap like he never left.
  Where have you been, idiot?
  
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  May 8, 2017 5:27pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Good to be back, Cap’n. Love you and love your work.
    
    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/d1/bf/58/d1bf58303094a786b72cc9676dc9e18b.jpg
    
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    May 8, 2017 5:58pm
Morrissey

Before being hauled in front of court, did that thug from Whanganui happen to be in Taupo this morning?….

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/330327/woman-dies-after-being-hit-by-vehicle
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May 8, 2017 4:23pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  It’s lovely to see the nastiness of the Left on full view today. You really are a piece of work Morrissey…
  
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  May 8, 2017 4:50pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Morrissey’s back!
  
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  May 8, 2017 5:18pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Nice to see you again, Girl!
    
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    May 8, 2017 5:53pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  That’s low even for you Mossey.
  
  Welcome back Fuckwit
  
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  May 8, 2017 9:22pm
  - mikenmild
    
    We don’t usually see much sympathy for accused people on this blog.
    
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    May 8, 2017 9:27pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Really, mike? I seem to remember loud support here, and on Blubberblog, for this scoundrel….
      
      https://static2.stuff.co.nz/1367981067/906/8647906.jpg
      
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      May 9, 2017 11:00am
Brigitte

NZ MUSIC MONTH

Okay, seems the quieter music hasn’t gone down too well so let’s up the ante with Dead Flowers and Watch her play from 1994:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdZIGkf4k0E
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May 8, 2017 5:51pm
nasska

So why not some codes for seniors?

ATD – At the Doctor’s
BFF – Best Friends Funeral
BTW – Bring the Wheelchair
BYOT – Bring Your Own Teeth
CUATSC – See You at the Senior Center
FWIW – Forgot Where I Was
FYI – Found Your Insulin
GGPBL – Gotta Go, Pacemaker Battery Low
GHA – Got Heartburn Again
HGBM – Had Good Bowel Movement
IMHO – Is My Hearing-Aid On?
LMDO – Laughing My Dentures Out
OMSG – Oh My! Sorry, Gas
ROFL…CGU – Rolling on the Floor Laughing…Can’t get Up!
WAITT – Who Am I Talking To?
WTFA – Wet the Furniture Again
WWNO – Walker Wheels Need Oil
GGLKI – Gotta Go, Laxative Kicking in!
DTAF – Don’t Trust A Fart
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May 8, 2017 8:26pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Lol. Heading in uncharted age territory Nasska?
  
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  May 8, 2017 8:32pm
  - nasska
    
    I retire in another couple of months KK. Never thought I’d make it but at least I’ve proved that only the good die young. 🙂
    
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    May 8, 2017 8:38pm
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      Well done [semi] good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the joy of retirement 🙂
      
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      May 8, 2017 8:44pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Still grooving?
      http://www.thecultureconcept.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Old-Hippies.jpg
      
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      May 8, 2017 9:03pm
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        No one said we had to go gracefully with gravitas & dignity Maggy. 🙂
        
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        May 8, 2017 9:05pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I try to retain a degree of decorum.
        http://rs327.pbsrc.com/albums/k445/suehedtke/oldlady-1.jpg~c200
        
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        May 8, 2017 9:16pm
Jack5

The World Bank seems to want open entry to New Zealand and Australia for all Pacific Islanders. This is on global-warming grounds.

The globalist bureaucrats, unelected by anyone, want to rule the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/08/australia-and-nz-should-allow-open-migration-for-pacific-islanders-threatened-by-climate-says-report
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May 8, 2017 8:54pm
- Manolo
  
  Not a chance!
  
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  May 8, 2017 10:14pm
Jack5

By Golly and Goodness Gracious Me!

Stephieboys …. sad news. The Stephiestani troll team will be trapped in Mt Roskill for ever! Your great grandchildren will be Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Prime Minister Bill English says Australia regards NZ as a “soft entry point to Australia”.

Better send the signal back to Stephiestan:”The Aussie back door is closing. Don’t come to Mt Roskill unless you want to stay for ever.”

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11851773
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May 8, 2017 9:00pm
Manolo

The incompetent messiah cannot stay silent:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obama-idUSKBN1830KX?il=0

Former U.S. President Barack Obama expressed his “fervent hope” on Sunday that members of Congress would look beyond party lines when considering the future of the country’s healthcare system.
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