General Debate 21 June 2018

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krazykiwi

The fawning. The soap opera adoration. Please let it be over!
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June 21, 2018 8:01am
- Nukuleka
  
  Sadly it will only be the beginning…the gender choice, the name, the gender fluid clothes, the gender fluid toys, the first crawl, the first words, the first steps…
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:05am
  - Paulus
    
    Named Matariki of course.
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:08am
    - Harkman
      
      I hereby declare that if they don’t name the baby Matariki, they’re racists. ?
      
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      June 21, 2018 9:11am
      - namron
        
        I reckon if they don’t name the baby [boy or girl] Raparere they are not being honest.
        
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        June 21, 2018 9:24am
      - lifesgood
        
        She is so lacking in class it will probably be star for a boy starlight for a girl. Appeases both Maori and Pakeha but in keeping with her style, yuk!
        
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        June 21, 2018 10:31am
      - igm
        
        Will it not have the right to select its gender before naming . . . it may be offended.
        
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        June 21, 2018 10:41am
  - softail 1450
    
    Nukuleka, you forgot the afterbirth.
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:15am
  - redeye
    
    I’m not interested in the gender. But it’s race? That could be amusing.
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:26am
    - sooty
      
      It’s not here yet and your talking of racing!
      
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      June 21, 2018 10:36am
    - NZDirect
      
      oops – sorry Clarke how did that happen!
      
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      June 21, 2018 3:41pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Winston if a boy.
    Helen if a girl.
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:57am
    - Paulus
      
      It looks this morning that Helen Clark has taken some of the reins that Peters is supposed to have.
      Her prognostications on a number of things are very Cinderella light.
      Assume that we will hear more from Clark than Peters in the next six weeks.
      
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      June 21, 2018 10:42am
  - alex Masterley
    
    Your comments encapsulate why i feel sorry for the child.
    The poor baby has no control over who it’s parents are and so will be subject because of the role of one to so many pressures that its path through life will not be easy at all.
    Life is difficult enough as it is but this child is starting on the back foot from the get go.
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:57am
- ztev
  
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  You mean the fawning like this
  https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/parenting/family/at-home-with-new-national-party-leader-simon-bridges-and-his-family-36832
  
  and this
  https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/parenting/parenting-news/national-party-leader-simon-bridges-introduces-his-newborn-daughter-36756
  
  Not a baby in sight here – but biggest year EVAH
  https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/news/real-life/simon-bridges-my-biggest-year-ever-6387
  No detail was missed-
  With his career going from strength to strength and a young family at home, Simon is busier than ever.
  Actually he was a nobody in caucus then , but the Editor of Womans Day is on speed dial for all the daily domestic crises/scares/babies.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:18am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    The Pearce House fuckwit can’t help himself.
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:26am
    - emmess
      
      No one here knew about Simon Bridges baby before you told us.
      Anyway what do you have to say about Mike Williams statement on Q&A that ‘a baby will be the star of the show for the next six weeks, not Winston?’
      
      Fucking bread and circuses.
      
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      June 21, 2018 8:37am
      - stephieboy
        
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        Captain Mainwaring, bumble fumble.
        
        Who beyond KB actually cares!
        
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        June 21, 2018 8:59am
      - ztev
        
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        Id just covered Bridges
        But I know you want this …
        ‘What about Key’…. his peeing in the shower, his flouncing on the catwalk, his preening with drag queens, his planking, his holidays in Hawaii, his golfing with a buddy…
        
        You cant claim didnt know there
        
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        June 21, 2018 9:14am
      - starboard
        
        Ffs u clown. Still blown on about John Key! You need help ztev.
        
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        June 21, 2018 9:57am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        ztev is obsessed with people who are no longer involved in politics. I bet he blew a fufu valve when Sir Bill got his knighthood the other day.
        
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        June 21, 2018 1:21pm
      - Faroffsound
        
        Winston being sidelined by a baby? I wonder if he saw that coming?
        
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        June 21, 2018 2:10pm
- sam green
  
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  Don’t worry KK – the “fawning” will be counterbalanced by the seething here on kiwiblog.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:20am
  - Lance
    
    Say something dumber.. how far can you push the envelope?
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:47am
    - Crisplion
      
      Actually I reckon Sam has a point. The best response to the forthcoming circus would be to completely and utterly ignore it. I’m sure we can find matters of much greater import to discuss. As a one-time flatmate of mine used to say, “ignore-ance is bliss”.
      
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      June 21, 2018 9:32am
    - sam green
      
      Don’t cry Lance.
      
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      June 21, 2018 10:28am
  - Duxton
    
    Not seething, Sam.
    
    Just massive bemusement that a woman having a crap can cause so much media interest.
    
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    June 21, 2018 10:36am
- hullkiwi
  
  Completely stage managed.
  Twitter posted yesterday aftenoon;
  Breaking news on Red Radio at 6am;
  “News from PM office of the Right Hon…etc, that Toothy has been admitted to …..;
  With her partner;
  No further news until after the birth”
  
  For someone on maternity leave, she has been in the news for something thousands of women do in NZ every year.
  
  Interpretation:
  Stage managed;
  Toothy will either be induced or the baby will be born by C section, so the afternoon/evening news will be flooded with it.
  
  Just let it be over!
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:23am
- mara
  
  KK did you mean foaling or fawning? My money’s on a filly, not a colt.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:59am
  - Paulus
    
    Either will still be called “Che” anyway !
    
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    June 21, 2018 10:43am
- The Heat
  
  It will never be over.
  
  Baby at three months: so cute
  Baby at six months: doing stuff
  Baby at nine months: doing some more stuff
  Baby at one year: the year of doing stuff in review
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:58am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  Wouldn’t today be an ideal day for a strike by nurses and midwives though!
  
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  June 21, 2018 10:57am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Stuff has “Babywatch goes worldwide”
  
  So I checked the headlines of the BBC, Fox, Al Jazeera, Rai1, CNN, NBC, Pravda, only Reuters had something. This is absolutely, positively, outrageous.
  
  Someone had better start getting hold of those editors.
  
  Incidentally, I don’t believe Jacinda is doing her baby any favors with all this publicity. And the New Zealand Media can go and fuck it’s self.
  
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  June 21, 2018 12:44pm
  - Faroffsound
    
    The baby has actually been the least considered party in all this but both its parents have been happy to go along with all the media hype.
    I hope they’re a bit more responsible once it arrives.
    
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    June 21, 2018 2:16pm
- Johnboy
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ6hJNGZ8vg
  🙂
  
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  June 21, 2018 5:59pm
- HC
  
  What do ya mean, child labour in NZ Inc??
  
  https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2018/03/13/child-labour-in-new-zealand-not-only-a-thing-of-the-past-although-not-widespread-alive-and-well-in-nz-in-2018-special-post/
  
  “UPDATE AS OF 21 JUNE 2018, HIGHLY IMPORTANT:
  The blog operator has now learned who the property manager is, who was mentioned in the post above, and who was repeatedly informed of this child labour going on by the lawn mowing contractor, and evidence we have now seen, in the way of at least two email notifications, identify the man most clearly:
  
  He is the following person, working for Ray White and his details are here:
  https://nz.raywhite.com/fan-yang/real-estate-agent/fy143107231/
  
  Also was the owner meant to have been informed, but we have no info whether that ever happened through that so called ‘property manager’, who clients tell us is as unprofessional and flawed a ‘professional’ as they may come. Help New Zealand those concerned about this country, may say.
  
  We understand also that the one tenant of a property concerned has been warned NOT to contact the owner, hinting serious consequences may occur/
  
  This is NEW ZEALAND in 2018, a land proclaimed to uphold human rights, the rule of law, democracy and much more, a land of total HYPOCRISY and many lies, not worth investing in and working in. I spoke to a few new immigrants of various back grounds recently, they all confessed to me, New Zealand is NOT what the country and government proclaim, it is a country and society of hypocrisy, lies and betrayal, many wished they had never come to this place.
  
  We rest our CASE.”
  
  To be totally honest this country better shapes up, with or without Jacinda Dear Baby or not, as you are the laughing stock of the world, with the total BS that has been going on!
  
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  June 21, 2018 10:01pm
Inandout

Thousands perform a vigil outside Auckland Hospital, awaiting the royal birth.
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June 21, 2018 8:03am
- igm
  
  Inandout: Not one of the leeches will have a job. Typical of the support these bludgers attract. Personally I find it the arrival of yet another illegitimate cost to taxpayers . . . those who work while the scum perform a vigil.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:06am
  - Paulus
    
    Nurses getting into practice at Auckland Hospital for their strikes, waiting outside with placards.
    Don’t fret Cindy will have a conversation this afternoon when she has fed Che.
    I though Heather Simpson was in charge of sorting this out a short while ago.
    
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    June 21, 2018 10:46am
- G152
  
  The cow is carving
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:07am
  - igm
    
    Might need to hook a tractor on and drag it out!
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:13am
  - suzieq
    
    Calving…
    
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    June 21, 2018 9:44am
    - softail 1450
      
      suzieq, oh oh spelling nazi alert.
      
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      June 21, 2018 9:53am
- Paulus
  
  I am so excited that our Cinderella who went to the ball and got f…d is having the Nation’s baby.
  I can nearly wet myself waiting for the Royal Announcement of the birth of the b……d.
  Oh happy days.
  Uncle Winston will be all over the place with excitement and he finally after a lifetime has the Foreman’s job.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:07am
- stephieboy
  
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  Inandout, why not? It is historic and Jacinda and babe can be seen as our Royalty.
  
  Sorry, Clarke too!
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:01am
  - starboard
    
    “15 teenagers in Morroco contracted rabies after raping a rabid donkey.”
    
    Always wear a condom shariaboy when you are violating your donkey.. just incase.
    
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    June 21, 2018 10:29am
    - Nermal
      
      Muslims invented the condom by using a goat’s colon. The British improved on the invention by removing it from the goat first.
      
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      June 21, 2018 2:24pm
  - pentwig
    
    i love your stupidity stoopidboy
    makes me feel great and grateful i was born with at least some intelligence
    poor you
    
    LOL
    
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    June 21, 2018 11:20am
  - backster
    
    It is historic indeed the first bastard born to a serving Prime Minister anywhere.
    
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    June 21, 2018 12:15pm
- VicParking
  
  Fatted Calves to be sacrificed on the steps of the Hospital. To be Used to feed the poor and homeless, thats if they can find any in Cindys utopia.
  
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  June 21, 2018 10:08am
secondcumming

*WATERS HAVE BROKEN. PM IN HOSPITAL*

Waiariki MP Tamati Coffey no longer opposed to selling bottling rights to Chinese.
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June 21, 2018 8:03am
- KevOB
  
  Call a plumber. Nixon used them.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:13am
- softail 1450
  
  secondcumming, are they sure its not just a David Clarke sewerage leak?
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:36am
  - stephieboy
    
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    softail 1450, another attack of chronic derangement syndrome?
    
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    June 21, 2018 9:04am
    - softail 1450
      
      septicboy ,oh no you aren’t to bad this morning septic , certainly not chronic.
      
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      June 21, 2018 9:56am
- VicParking
  
  Clarke has already been offering vials of it for sale on Trade Me.
  
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  June 21, 2018 10:09am
holysheet

Winston buys a farm as a weekend retreat. While walking round his new property he looks down and sees that his feet are in the middle of a huge pile of cow shit. He starts yelling,
‘Oh my God! Help me, help me!’
Jan runs up and asks what’s the matter.
Winston points to his feet and screams, ‘I’m melting! I’m melting…!’
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June 21, 2018 8:04am
- G152
  
  Wouldn’t it be bullshit he was standing in rather than cow shit?
  Just trying to be accurate
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:08am
- KiWombat
  
  Reminds me of a similar one about the Australian Aborigine who was upset when he had a dose of diarrohea because he thought he was melting !
  
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  June 21, 2018 11:50am
- Piniwi
  
  @holysheet Reminds me of the time of having a beer with Bill Rowling in the boot at a local A&P show. Pointed out where his foot was in the middle of a cow pat and he chuckled and said “I’ve been getting a lot of that lately.”
  
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  June 21, 2018 1:58pm
billmurray

Best wishes to Jacinda and all Mothers to be.
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June 21, 2018 8:08am
- CHFR1
  
  Especially the latter, I bear the PM no ill well I am just sick of it.
  Note to media, she is not the first woman to give birth and she will not be the last.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:09am
  - tf78
    
    Yes, but she is only the 2nd PM to ever do it – mainly because most PM’s have been men!
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:24am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  The one and only time that labour really delivers.
  (Let’s do this, let’s do this, let’s do th . . . ay ca-RAMBA !!!!!)
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:21am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Or put another, a Labour MP will truly understand what labour is.
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:31am
- Rachael Membery
  
  It will be life changing and unpredictable and she will be glad when the birth at least is over.
  
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  June 21, 2018 12:54pm
Monique Watson

Fuck, has nobody ever been in labor before? Princess had the drugs to stave it off and now it’s all friggin’ on. Because it suits the time-table.
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June 21, 2018 8:08am
- sooty
  
  Just had to wait till after Trumps birthday.
  
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  June 21, 2018 10:45am
Justitia

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
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June 21, 2018 8:09am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  .. and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
  
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  June 21, 2018 11:35am
  - Justitia
    
    You might say that, but I couldn’t possibly comment…
    
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    June 21, 2018 2:15pm
    - Justitia
      
      But possibly a selkie?
      
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      June 21, 2018 2:55pm
Left Right and Centre

Another day, another day . . .

Rape culture.
Fat acceptance.
Cultural appropriation.
Climate change.
Gender inequality.
Income inequality.
White privilege.
260 different gender descriptions.
Diversity quotas.
Hate speech.
Child poverty.
Housing crisis.
Safe spaces.

Thankfully none of this bullshit has a snowflake’s chance in hell here . . .

Triggered !!!!!!!!!
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June 21, 2018 8:09am
Poppa

I have a self imposed media blackout today.

Sadly it may need to last a few months.

I gave up watching TV news about 5 years ago & it has done wonders for my health. I feel sorry for those that will be fed all the royal baby tripe tonight
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June 21, 2018 8:10am
- Inandout
  
  I used to watch the 6pm News and ended up feeling depressed for the rest of the evening. A constant barrage of negative views is bad for your health.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:13am
- alex Masterley
  
  I watched TV this morning for the first time in ages.
  Spain v Iran.
  as for the other stuff, who cares?
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:59am
  - stephieboy
    
    Like the US President does a flip-flop on separating children?
    
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    June 21, 2018 9:18am
    - softail 1450
      
      septicboy ,lying again, haven’t you got a date with a camel?
      Or a camel with some dates?
      
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      June 21, 2018 10:02am
      - Harkman
        
        The camel found another hump ?
        
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        June 21, 2018 10:55am
    - starboard
      
      “Faaaap fap fap Faaaap fap fap” goes the sharia gull.
      
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      June 21, 2018 10:02am
  - VicParking
    
    Spain replaced three players with African Refugees on the order of their PM.
    
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    June 21, 2018 10:11am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Poppa – I’m with you on the media blackout.
  That will include KB as it seems to have gone nuts here today with everyone talking about what they don’t want to talk about.
  Have a superb weekend everyone.
  Catch you next week.
  
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  June 21, 2018 10:26am
BananaLlama

Womp Womp
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June 21, 2018 8:10am
- cha
  
  Womp Womp
  
  That wee sneer is going to cost him.
  
  https://gizmodo.com/t-mobile-adviser-mocks-10-year-old-with-down-syndrome-s-1826973838?IR=T
  
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  June 21, 2018 11:34am
  - BananaLlama
    
    Womp Womp
    
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    June 21, 2018 12:33pm
oldpark

There is nothing wrong with unmarried mothers . Even NZ will soon have another one. Only thing is the Peters “selected” woman known as Ardern to masquerade as PM of NZs latest unmarried mother as a “role” model for other unmarried mothers is a step too far . In fact not a good look internationally and locally an abomination.
Who would have thought that Peters selected PM Ardern would turn her nose up at a marriage ceremony. Even same sex partners fought for the right to be officially married. We certainly live in interesting times.
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June 21, 2018 8:11am
- sooty
  
  But, but, Helun told her so.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:46am
- stephieboy
  
  If you say so,oldfart!
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:19am
  - oldpark
    
    @shittie/sicko,stephie boy .Just like you.’re pedophile clown mate mohammed who had sex with a six year old girl just like you say so. Maybe even you are into the same type of child sex as Mohammed. Hope not for the sake of the poor wee child plaything that Mohammed was guilty of.
    
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    June 21, 2018 10:36am
    - sooty
      
      I wonder if stephie has ever been to a Labours gropers camp?
      
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      June 21, 2018 10:48am
      - pentwig
        
        Sooty
        Is he not the organiser?
        
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        June 21, 2018 11:28am
Tarquin North

Having a sweepstake on what the messiahs name will be. I reckon I’ve got the winner, all I have to do is translate the word distraction in to maori – an elegant solution that covers all bases!
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June 21, 2018 8:11am
- holysheet
  
  Manawaru.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:14am
- fisho
  
  Clacinda Che Adern-Gayford.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:20am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Doesnt do it….It must be a completely indeterminent name, we can’t have it growing up with a feeling of chauvinistic superiority or feelings of inadequacy because society insisted upon a gender stereotyping name.
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:41am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  te distrāction
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:31am
  - VicParking
    
    Sorry its Te tarai
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:42am
    - JIV
      
      I was thinking the kid could be called Tax, then I remembered that they promised no new taxes so perhaps Levy Ardern.
      
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      June 21, 2018 9:16am
Monique Watson

It’s a boy.
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June 21, 2018 8:11am
- hullkiwi
  
  Yes!
  
  No photos of Toothy and princess to be fawning.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:42am
  - Paulus
    
    No photos until her hairdresser has finished – she is waiting at the hospital already- true.
    
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    June 21, 2018 1:44pm
waikatogirl

Can we talk about something more interesting!
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June 21, 2018 8:14am
- softail 1450
  
  W G ,anybody got paint and a brush?
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:21am
Keeping Stock

The Herald website is almost unreadable at the moment with the breaking news banner about how the world is reacting, the live updates (do they have a reporter in the deliver suite measuring how much Ms Ardern’s cervix has dilated?) and other stories.

However they fail to mention the other aspect to this global news event. Winston Peters is now officially the Acting Prime Minister. Be very afraid.
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June 21, 2018 8:16am
- ztev
  
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  You are seriously weird man
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:20am
  - softail 1450
    
    K S, “Peters now acting prime minister”, NO, peters now prime minister acting, there you go the correct terminology .
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:33am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      I’ll be more impressed if he can act alert and speak english for the duration. Rowley Birken QC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18JmieM8SFc
      
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      June 21, 2018 12:35pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Have you looked at the Herald website this morning ztev?
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:46am
    - Rich Prick
      
      We all predicted it. That the media would go full retard.
      
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      June 21, 2018 8:55am
      - alex Masterley
        
        I will try to avoid the Frenzy although dealing with AML/CFT makes me wonder if that might be the better option
        
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        June 21, 2018 9:05am
    - stephieboy
      
      KS, what is it like to be seriously and blithely ignored?
      
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      June 21, 2018 9:06am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        I don’t know Stephie. Maybe you could tell me 😀
        
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        June 21, 2018 1:22pm
  - dime
    
    Did you just assume gender? What a scumbag piece of shit you are
    
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    June 21, 2018 9:09am
- waikatogirl
  
  There will be no holding Winston back now he has reached the pinnacle of his political existence as Acting PM, which will just have to do. Hold onto your hats, Winnie has the reins lifted for a full gallop over the next 6 weeks.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:25am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Winston is a known problem, the real te problēm will arise when the minister for corrections fronts up when WRP goes first class overseas!
    
    Actually it will be something to look forward to. I mean Kelvin Davis in charge, what could possibly go wrong? Snigger snigger chortle . .
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:35am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Just don’t ask Kelvin any questions.
      
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      June 21, 2018 8:47am
  - Paulus
    
    Winston will do as little as possible – sweet fa as much as he can so we are led to believe what a great guy he is at the next election.
    Not sure about the wanker Jones though.
    
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    June 21, 2018 1:46pm
- tas
  
  Winston is one ugly baby.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:49am
Monique Watson

Healthy which is what we all wish for and expect Princess to step out in five hours. All padded up to meet the Press, or what is left of it.
I predict new shoes and Vegans fawning.
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June 21, 2018 8:16am
softail 1450

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, C section
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June 21, 2018 8:19am
- Harkman
  
  Yes I wondered about that, is she having one?
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:39am
  - softail 1450
    
    harkman “to posh to push”? naa not Cindy she”ll give it her best i”m sure,and good luck to her.
    
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    June 21, 2018 10:08am
Inandout

A perfect CoL baby would have red hair, a dark skin and green eyes.
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June 21, 2018 8:19am
- holysheet
  
  and lgbtwhateverthefuckyouare-gender.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:27am
- oldgolfer
  
  Yes, and an unquenchable thirst for taxpayer-supplied pocket money
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:41am
- RalphT
  
  And no brain
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:41am
KiWombat

– – for unto you is born this day in the city of sails a saviour, who is Christ Gaylord.

And this will be a sign for you – it shall be called poriro.

Cindy and WeeWinnie both ecstatic – – –

Placenta to be interred this day in hallowed ground at Waitangi.
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June 21, 2018 8:25am
- dubya
  
  They’ll probably eat it.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:34am
- Monique Watson
  
  And there will be a cabbage tree planted onto the hallowed soil over top of the placenta. And no Tuis harmed in the filming.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:40am
- KevOB
  
  There is only one Saviour, Jesus Christ.
  
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  June 21, 2018 10:05am
billmurray

Nasty lot on here today.
Best wishes to you all.
Hope that cheers you up.
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June 21, 2018 8:25am
- Inandout
  
  We are caught up in the hype.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:27am
- softail 1450
  
  billmurray, its just words bill ,get over your indignation or is it only ok when the left do it?
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:39am
- Monique Watson
  
  We wish her the best. Anyone who has been through birth does. Momma or Dad.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:41am
- stephieboy
  
  billmurry , otherwise known as the rabid right losers.
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:09am
  - pentwig
    
    as opposed to you being a manical alt left loser who enjoys goats, and gloats and boasts about ogling little girls
    what a sad thing you are
    tsk, tsk
    
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    June 21, 2018 11:38am
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      LOL
      
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      June 21, 2018 4:31pm
softail 1450

What fricking audience is tv1 actually seeking?
4 of the fucking idiots on the couches bashing trump for 5 minutes,then fawning over the miracle birth for 10.
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June 21, 2018 8:27am
- oldgolfer
  
  The audience of self.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:41am
  - Nermal
    
    Circle jerk
    
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    June 21, 2018 2:30pm
- Harkman
  
  “What fricking audience is tv1 actually seeking?
  4 of the fucking idiots on the couches bashing trump for 5 minutes” ah, you saw the same nonsense I saw after the Chase finished.
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:16am
Monique Watson

Which is the bigger Suckfest? Herald or Stuff? I’ve quite enjoyed Stuff of late as they have better coverage and streaming, without the wiggy sound effects, more so lately, but could be they might fall outta the armchair over Princess.
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June 21, 2018 8:28am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  It’s like asking; what the worst type of faeces to step in Monique. There is no right answer.
  
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  June 21, 2018 4:32pm
Happychappy

You watch Winston when the media are full out fawning over our attention seeking PM. Who would ever trust this vindictive sly arsehole to be in the position he is without having people that should be keeping a close eye on him otherwise distracted getting photos and stories from our wannabee famous PM.
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June 21, 2018 8:30am
lastmanstanding

Meanwhile the adults are dealing with the more serious matters like;

The loss of business confidence 60% of businesses wont be hiring more staff over the next year due to uncertainty around legislation and regulation that might negatively impact them.

The dairy and meat industries are facing real threats from development of alternative products that will be cheaper and not impact the environment.

Interest rates and inflation are going to rise and the dollar is going to fall due to international uncertainty around geo political matters.

There is that enough to get your attention away from the First Bastard and its unwed mother.
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June 21, 2018 8:31am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Don’t worry lastman. Whatever bad things happen the genius Grant has all the remedies in his magic toolbox.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:52am
AgainstTheFlow

Today the GDP growth rate is announced.
Under no suprises, Grant Robertson will already know the figure https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12074471

And the PM goes into labour.
Huge distraction from the really important stuff.
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June 21, 2018 8:31am
- sooty
  
  That was timed nicely! The MSM will be out to lunch for the next month.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:59am
- Jack5
  
  ANZ Research comments that, in per capita terms, GDP has stalled, at 0.0% growth for the quarter.
  
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  June 21, 2018 3:32pm
Fisiani

Winston’s first act as PM has to be to pull the plug on Hipkins brain explosion last night to trample on democracy. Or would he want his first decision as PM to be tarred with ignominy
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June 21, 2018 8:33am
- VicParking
  
  Hipkiss ? lied out of both ends this morning on Red Radio. He stated that National put forward a motion that would have extended debate forever. Bull Shit. The the government have a majority. At anytime they can move to stop the debate and have a vote. Their problem is they had passed a motion for there to be NO debate. Never been done before in NZ outside of war. The problem is that Red Radio had the chance to pull him up on this. They had already interviewed Joyce, they have experienced political journalists but no they just let him get away with it.
  This sort of thing is only found in communist countries and ones like Venezuela.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:55am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Hipkins said Labour in Oppoosition would never have done something like that.
    
    He’s lying; Labour filibusted the Royal Society Bill for months a few years ago, to stop the Voluntary Student Membership Bill coming before the House. Hipkins is the worst kind of hypocrite; an untruthful one.
    
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    June 21, 2018 9:52am
Left Right and Centre

Interest in the PM’s personal life has spiked according to a recent exit poll . . .
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June 21, 2018 8:34am
- sooty
  
  Yes, we would like her to exit.
  
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  June 21, 2018 10:51am
Monique Watson

What’s the odds on the name? Ten years ago I would have called ‘Oliver’, but now I predict George or Thomas or Claude. Harry possibly?
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June 21, 2018 8:34am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Winston Clarke Ardern-Gayford.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:44am
Swifty

Just what is this bloke asking for? One set of rules for the tribal elite and another set for the rest of us?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12073717
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June 21, 2018 8:35am
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  Of course he is. No different from Shaz following Braunias’ line and claiming she should win DWTS because she’s Maori.
  
  The one quality that Maori have grown in spades over recent decades is a sense of entitlement to anything/everything they want, all the time, everywhere – legal, rational, fair, just, moral or not – just because they exist; from the tangible to the philosophical and the micro to the macro – it all belongs to them, derives from them, and must be controlled by them. In their opinion.
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:02am
  - GoVege
    
    How would you like your husband to be kicked out of the country?
    It doesn’t matter if your relationship is genuine or not.
    The Immigration Service are a heartless bunch who couldn’t care less about breaking up families.
    This Maori dude’s only mistake is expecting them to have a heart.
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:32pm
- softail 1450
  
  he looks more Fijian than moodie.
  
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  June 21, 2018 10:16am
KevinH

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Best wishes to Jacinda and her partner Clark.
Today will be history in the making, the first time a New Zealand Prime Minister has given birth while in office, a moment in time that celebrates the achievements of the pioneering women, such as Kate Sheppard, who fought hard for female emancipation.
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June 21, 2018 8:36am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  You should have stopped after ‘best wishes’ perhaps
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:39am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  Gave birth while in the office ?
  There’s dedication for you.
  Is that equal rights – why should I have to leave work to give birth if a man wouldn’t have to ?
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:48am
  - sooty
    
    Gives a totally orientation to Len Brown and his office table.
    
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    June 21, 2018 9:01am
- VicParking
  
  What about the other 162 babies that will be born in NZ today.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:58am
  - stephieboy
    
    Vicparking, trouble is one is by our PM and making NZ history!
    
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    June 21, 2018 9:23am
    - Harkman
      
      But she isn’t making any history, the Pakistani that they shot, already did it.
      
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      June 21, 2018 9:37am
      - softail 1450
        
        harkman, don’t confuse the village idiot septicboy with facts please.
        
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        June 21, 2018 10:18am
      - KiWombat
        
        If it arrives today – then today is also Benazir Bhutto’s birthday – is that karma or what ?
        
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        June 21, 2018 11:53am
      - Duxton
        
        In fairness, Benazir’s baby wasn’t illegitimate.
        
        So, Arden is the first PM to give birth to an illegitimate child while in office. So, in that sense, it is historic.
        
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        June 21, 2018 12:57pm
      - Paulus
        
        Benazir Butto was the other Prime Minister to have a child – and was assasinated later.
        
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        June 21, 2018 1:51pm
      - Piniwi
        
        @Harkman it is rather fitting for the silly little girl always coming second spending her life as an also ran. Then along came the old drunk who elevated her but she still only plays second fiddle in the band of the land called the COL.
        
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        June 21, 2018 2:33pm
    - VicParking
      
      Morning Stephie, Cindy wont be remembered for her baby but for being a one term PM
      
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      June 21, 2018 10:16am
- kevn
  
  @KevinH…. How about adding: Best wishes to NZErs’ living with this bungling coalition of losers and lairs.
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:16am
Keeping Stock

David Parker has some serious questions to answer…

http://politik.co.nz/en/content/politics/1368/?ct=t(POLITIKToday_07_10_2016_10_6_2016_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8c6cdb3018&mc_eid=d195fad3e0

Sadly, the clamour of the media to report on a woman having a baby will ensure he is not given the scrutiny he should.
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June 21, 2018 8:43am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Bloody paywall. What does it actually say KS?
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:57am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    You can click past the paywall Captain. There’s a little X at the top right-hand corner. Click on that, and you’re in.
    
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    June 21, 2018 9:46am
  - softail 1450
    
    C M , thinly veiled corruption, these bastards have no principles.
    
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    June 21, 2018 10:29am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Wow,
  that’s a complicated financial web.
  
  Perhaps Winston can get to the bottom of it.
  
  Still it does show how important it is to have friends in high places… they can work wonders for you, it seems.
  
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  June 21, 2018 11:32am
  - simpleton1
    
    WRP has experience when he seeked to get to the bottom of the “wine-box” papers.
    
    It will remain to be seen if the “trough” beckons him to turn a blind eye, in finding an equivalent cask of whiskey.
    
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    June 21, 2018 12:08pm
- alex Masterley
  
  Interesting material there.
  
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  June 21, 2018 2:04pm
Dave Mann

This is so, so sad:

The mother of murdered teenager Amber Rose Rush has died, only four months after her daughter.

Heartbroken family members confirmed on Facebook Lisa Ann died on Monday evening. Stuff reports the death is a suspected suicide.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/06/murdered-teen-amber-rose-rush-s-mother-dies.html

Some people’s lives just turn to shit. Poor woman… poor daughter.
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June 21, 2018 8:44am
- waldonz
  
  So basically the bastard has killed two people.
  
  This is beyond sad.
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:04am
waldonz

Behold! The second coming of Christ is upon us!
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June 21, 2018 8:49am
- stephieboy
  
  “The second coming of Christ is upon us!”?
  
  That’s another way to look at it.
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:25am
Keeping Stock

Why did Labour, with the support of the Greens and NZF, put the House into urgency late last night? Why did Chris Hipkins move an amendment to shut down debate in the Committee Stage of the Bill which empowers to regional petrol tax? Judith Collins has claimed that it is “unconstitutional” to close down debate on a tax bill, so why is Labour leading an assault on democracy?

Oh, and didn’t Jacinda Arden claim that this would be the most open and transparent government we had ever seen? At the moment, it is anything but. And Winston Peters has been left to handle the David Parker/Te Arai story, which should be front page news.
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June 21, 2018 8:52am
- kevn
  
  @KS… What is the David Parker/Te Arai story? MSM have let it slip away…
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:11am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    It’s David Parker granting exclusive rights to an offshore investor to undertake a multi-million dollar development for the rich and famous.
    
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    June 21, 2018 9:47am
- Harkman
  
  This is good for National/the right, it gives them something to campaign on removing.
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:19am
  - Komata
    
    Hk@ 0919: It may GIVE them something, but they may be too polite to do so…
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:27pm
Left Right and Centre

She’s holding on for dear life until 6pm to lead the news live and then you watch her let it rip boy . . .
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June 21, 2018 8:58am
- Poppa
  
  It will need to be about 4pm so that they can appear all gushing & glowing at 6pm
  
  I nearly drove off the road this morning when the lead item on ZB news was
  
  “We are about to have the closest thing to a royal birth….”
  
  Barf!!!
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:04am
Monique Watson

Answer: Timing.
She knew she was going in today and hand it over to the ultimate Sugar Daddy.
Always pull the Urgency Card when there is too much on the plate. Then Tax!
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June 21, 2018 9:03am
- VicParking
  
  Leave Winston to anwer questions about the nose dive GDP.
  Six hours as PM and GDP has tanked
  
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  June 21, 2018 10:18am
Fletch

Seymour wants to put an end to (almost) all public holidays?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/104870813/david-seymour-wants-to-cancel-public-holidays–anzac-and-waitangi-can-stay

Yeh, that’ll be popular….
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June 21, 2018 9:05am
- Inandout
  
  Why doesn’t he just dance out the door?
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:06am
- stephieboy
  
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  Small wonder David Seymour has led his party to an abysmal showing in the polls 23/08/17.
  
  He needs the chop and re-appoint that fellow who was all for legalising incest.
  
  LOL
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:14am
  - starboard
    
    “15 teenagers in Morroco contracted rabies after raping a rabid donkey.”
    
    Always wear a condom shariaboy when you are violating your donkey.. just incase.
    
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    June 21, 2018 10:34am
    - pentwig
      
      Good grief starboard
      Can you imagine the disappointment of the ass after being ravaged by stupidboy?
      
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      June 21, 2018 11:55am
      - starboard
        
        “Hee Haw…is it in shariaboy..Hee Haw”
        
        “Fap Fap Faaaapp…I finished 5 minutes ago Fap”
        
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        June 21, 2018 1:00pm
- Dave Mann
  
  In the article Seymour reveals himself to be completely off-the-planet fuckwit; but that’s not really a biggie coz most people know that anyway and also he will never be in a position to implement any of it.
  
  Even worse though, Soimun The Dribble shows us what a Maori sucking sycophant he is:
  
  Meanwhile, National leader Simon Bridges said he was open to the idea of swapping an existing public holiday for Matariki.
  
  However, he was not sure which day he would sacrifice.
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:36am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Will having mart and rikki as a public holiday be cultural appropriation?
    
    Can’t have than now can we all you fing cultural zealot clowns now can we!
    
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    June 21, 2018 9:46am
- Justitia
  
  Seymour is an arrogant prick and a total waste of space to National as a coalition option. With him as leader Act received just 13,000 votes nationwide last election and support continues to decline – they are now considering a name change things have got so bad. Seymour should be given the bum’s rush pronto. Let him twerk off into the sunset.
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:38am
  - Dave Mann
    
    …. twerk off into the sunset… CLASSIC!
    ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅
    
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    June 21, 2018 9:46am
  - Longknives
    
    Did Seymour really say he wanted to ban Christmas?
    But keep Waitangi Day???
    
    What an absolute fuckwit.
    
    *That’s the sort of crap you expect to hear from the Greens
    
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    June 21, 2018 11:02am
    - waikatogirl
      
      All about swapping current holidays for your own cultural experience day. You choose, but everyone still gets the same number of official public holidays. Christmas, Easter, Queens b’d, etc is safe. In other words, a complete waste of time mentioning it as you can sit at home on your Matariki day, while everyone else celebrates Queens birthday or whatever.
      
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      June 21, 2018 11:07am
    - Justitia
      
      He’s possibly decided to chase the Muslim-Maori vote as no one else wants anything to do with him…
      
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      June 21, 2018 2:17pm
Fletch

Good grief – Stuff are following the birth of the baby blow-by-blow in the same format they use for commenting on live elections….

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/104464515/live-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-goes-into-hospital
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June 21, 2018 9:08am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  I think that may be contraction by contraction but that may be the pedant in me coming to the fore . . . .
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:47am
- MCos
  
  So is Kiwiblog
  
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  June 21, 2018 10:10am
secondcumming

KIM DOTCOM…….”All the stars are aligned for the birth of another truth-teller”

https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/1009532081414668288

None of my fishing buddies EVER tell the truth 🙂
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June 21, 2018 9:22am
Monique Watson

More herd culling overnight.
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June 21, 2018 9:24am
Rodney Randall

https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/06/body-of-raped-dog-found-inside-greek-refugee-camp/#.Wyq70PiAJw4.twitter
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June 21, 2018 9:25am
- Rodney Randall
  
  https://www.deccanchronicle.com/amp/lifestyle/viral-and-trending/141117/syrian-man-rapes-pony-in-front-of-visitors-with-chlildren-at-petting-zoo.html#click=https://t.co/N5Aa98DFdu
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:32am
  - GoVege
    
    This is very interesting.
    I’ve never heard of sex with an individual of another species described as “rape” before.
    This suggests the donkey/dog etc has the right of consent or refusal.
    If it objects to being euthanized…does that make such an act “unlawful killing” etc?
    
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    June 21, 2018 10:47am
    - Rodney Randall
      
      I thought rape was misplaced too.
      Multiple Expressions of Love far more appropriate for these acts between compassionate sentient beings and beasts.
      
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      June 21, 2018 11:57am
    - secondcumming
      
      I’m not sure about the placement of the ad featuring *JK’s* face directly below the photo of the pony though! 🙁
      
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      June 21, 2018 1:17pm
  - Longknives
    
    Be fair on them Rodney- Muslims suffer dreadful ‘Sexual Emergencies’ you know??
    
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    June 21, 2018 10:51am
    - Rodney Randall
      
      We are blessed to have UNHCR apparachik Hulun Fart, Commie Bint Adern- Hulun’s protege, Ian Pees-Hellaway, and Muslim sleeper Golriz Garbagebin campaigning for increasing numbers of these dirt world vibrants. Need to increase to 6000 plus repatriation!
      
      Need increased exposure to sexual emergencies and rape gangs!
      
      Currently NZ not receiving enough diversity dividends.
      
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      June 21, 2018 11:54am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Trust the third worlders to bring this sort of meaning to biodiversity.
    
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    June 21, 2018 11:13am
    - Lance
      
      You’re a very naughty man 🙂
      
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      June 21, 2018 11:38am
- stephieboy
  
  Rodney Randall, Voice of Europe a notorious far-right website that publishes highly questionable and sensationalist gutter tabloid based stuff,
  
  https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/voice-of-europe/
  
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  June 21, 2018 3:40pm
Fletch

Here’s a look at what an actual immigrant shelter looks like, June 15, 2018, not the temporary areas that people have been complaining about.

https://www.facebook.com/MarkDice/videos/1914517851926925/
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June 21, 2018 9:26am
- cha
  
  They made a film about how marvelous things were in Theresienstadt, too.
  
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  June 21, 2018 10:24am
Harkman

SJWs ain’t no feminists and women should call them out on it. The IAAF finally grew a pair and banned trannies from running in 400m-1500m and pole vault (events their advantage is most obvious in) so Caster Semenya, who is a man, no uterus, internal testicles, is going the Court for Arbitration in Sport (CAS) to keep this in plain sight piss take going. South Africa has gone from being run by racists to being run racist crooks. The politically correct crowd has enabled this bull shit and women’s sport is the collateral damage.
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June 21, 2018 9:31am
Rodney Randall

The Sweden of the South Pacific?

https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/06/the-sweden-of-the-south-pacific/#more-390094

Hulun and commie bint are gagging for the rape hordes in NZ.

Ian Lees Galloway on all fours gagging too.

FUCK THE UNHCR!
FUCK ISLAM!
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June 21, 2018 10:13am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Rodney Randell,
  
  Paranoid Whale Blubber along with the usual crude propaganda!
  
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  June 21, 2018 11:05am
Captain Mainwaring

So Comrade Klarkula is urging us to follow Canada and legalise pot.
Whether we should or not is none of her f***ing business. She got the arse card 10 years ago.
Stay out of our bloody lives.
Bitch.
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June 21, 2018 10:23am
- MCos
  
  She’s a Kiwi. She’s entitled to her opinion.
  Other people such as Don Brash & Sir Bob Jones regularly sound off about issues of the day.
  
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  June 21, 2018 11:40am
  - marcw
    
    I agree MCos, but it would be nice if other media would stop slagging them off too when they do comment publicly. Sauce for the goose …
    
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    June 21, 2018 11:56am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Brash and Jones are not trying to run the current Government by remote control.
    
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    June 21, 2018 11:58am
starboard

The fuckwittey continues… aww, you poor whittle thing.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/104883252/racist-definition-of-the-word-bro-hurtful-and-untrue-woman-says
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June 21, 2018 10:23am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Clearly this woman is unaware that the NZOED has given examples of how the word has been used in written copy.
  
  The example quoted is from p58 of the book Tahuri published in 1989.
  The author is Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, a well-known Maori Academic and Lesbian Activist.
  Professor Te Awekotuku is currently Professor of Research & Development at Waikato University.
  
  If the complainant has a problem with Prof. Te Awekotuku’s use of Bro, then she would be better taking it up with the author, not with the Dictionary compiler.
  
  (Disclosure: I am one of the Advisory Editors of the 1997 NZOED- Oxford Dictionary of NZ English)
  
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  June 21, 2018 10:42am
  - GoVege
    
    There must be fifty thousand ways you could use the term “bro”, Maggie.
    Why on earth would anyone select THIS one, and for a dictionary, no less?
    
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    June 21, 2018 5:23pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      The Dictionary is a record of New Zealandisms based on historical principles.
      It illustrates how words have been used by different people from the date of the first known publication.
      
      Why shouldn’t the works of a radical Maori Lesbian be referenced?
      
      Imagine the bloody outcry if Harry Orsman had only referenced the works of Pakeha heterosexual men.
      
      If you look at the Bro entry, you will see the first time it appears is in 1984 as a record from words heard at Pakuranga College.
      The next date is 1989 – The first time it appears in a published book. And that’s the entry that someone doesn’t like.
      
      Well perhaps the story of a young girl growing up Lesbian in 1950s Rotorua is not to everyone’s taste, but that’s not the concern of a lexicographer.
      https://www.womensbookshop.co.nz/p/new-zealand-authors-tahuri
      
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      June 21, 2018 5:47pm
      - nasska
        
        Patricia Bartlett would not have been amused!
        
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        June 21, 2018 5:53pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Your hair is looking very lovely tonight Maggy! 🙂
        
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        June 21, 2018 6:08pm
      - GoVege
        
        WHY would anybody choose an example so offensive to so many people?
        There must be heaps of examples of the word “bro” in literature and other mediums.
        How would the average Kiwi feel if their kid came across a “New Zealandism” in a dictionary with a similarly obscene example?
        E.g. “get in behind”: “spoken by one Kiwi teenager to his mate after having his turn raping Daisy the cow on their uncle’s farm.”
        You don’t think they’d be unhappy about it?
        
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        June 21, 2018 7:42pm
- GoVege
  
  “Hurry up bro. (Spoken to an adolescent boy raping his own sister.)”
  The above was given as an example of the use of the word “bro” in the dictionary under discussion.
  I wouldn’t just call that hurtful and untrue.
  I’d also call it obscene, incredibly disrespectful, a gross insult to every person with a drop of Maori blood and their relatives, and the product of a sick mind.
  Unbelievable it ever got past the editors/ proof-readers.
  
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  June 21, 2018 4:58pm
  - KevOB
    
    The use of bro is common among Maori and their friends.
    
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    June 21, 2018 6:52pm
    - GoVege
      
      I know that Kev.
      But using this hypothetical example for use in a dictionary is appalling.
      
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      June 21, 2018 7:19pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        It’s not a hypothetical example.
        It is an authenticated use of the word in a NZ novel.
        
        And that is the point of a National Dictionary compiled to reflect the way that words are used at a certain time.
        
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        June 21, 2018 7:47pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Check out how the Oxford Dictionaries based on historical principles are compiled.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary
        ;Each definition is shown with numerous short usage quotations; in each case, the first quotation shows the first recorded instance of the word that the editors are aware of and, in the case of words and senses no longer in current usage, the last quotation is the last known recorded usage. This allows the reader to get an approximate sense of the time period in which a particular word has been in use
        
        Canada and Australia have similar dictionaries.
        
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        June 21, 2018 7:57pm
      - riffer
        
        I’m astounded you got any downvotes for that GoVege. Still, this place is particularly feral today. Not much love.
        
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        June 21, 2018 7:58pm
      - GoVege
        
        An X-rated novel, Maggie.
        Your argument is nonsensical.
        You say the Dictionary “is compiled to reflect the way that words are used at a certain time”.
        It’s obvious that the word “bro” is a “New Zealandism” used by Maori in MANY contexts.
        Not just ones involving rape and incest!
        You could have got your meaning across with an example that doesn’t cause distress to one particular race.
        And lexicographers SHOULD be concerned about the effect their choice of example has on their readers.
        
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        June 21, 2018 9:19pm
      - GoVege
        
        Thanks, riffer.
        It can get pretty toxic here at times, especially when Labour has some good news. 🙂
        
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        June 21, 2018 11:31pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I think you need to get out and check all the library shelves, Go Vege
      
      Tahuri is a Young Adult – Coming of age novel.
      
      It’s probably in every secondary school library in NZ.
      “There is always a special feeling I get when I read a book written by a Maori about being Maori, where the world is described through eyes that are my eyes – the people, the humour, the sadness and the occasions are familiar parts of my life – and Tahuri is such a book.” -Books for Secondary School Libraries
      
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      June 21, 2018 9:31pm
      - Jack5
        
        I wouldn’t buy or even use a dictionary compiled on the principles apparently held by GoVege. These seem to include that examples of language use should be selected for moral, ethical, or even propaganda purposes.
        
        GoVege’s definition of “sheep” would likely be: a small, four-legged, wool-growing animal slaughtered by barbarians for primitive culinary purposes.
        
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        June 21, 2018 10:22pm
      - GoVege
        
        Maggie: I am well aware there are books in public and school libraries that contain material liable to shock/offend some readers.
        And unless it actually incites people to harm others, that’s acceptable under the principle of free speech.
        But a dictionary is meant to convey word meanings.
        Including an example that implies that one group in society engage in rape and incest as normal behaviour is gratuitous and prejudicial towards a minority race.
        
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        June 21, 2018 11:11pm
      - GoVege
        
        As a matter of fact, Jack, that’s exactly the point I’m trying to make.
        Dictionaries are meant to provide an impartial explanation of a word or phrase’s meaning, not colour it with allusions to rape and incest, or as in your example, barbarity.
        
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        June 21, 2018 11:27pm
Monique Watson

Can’t believe I’m on the Babywatch. But here’s an amusing anecdote: My daughter just reared out of the pool saying: “Watch out Sheeples”.

Then hosed her brothers.
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June 21, 2018 10:41am
Longknives

I just heard on the Radio-

“This is one of those lifetime events- You will always remember where you were when it happened”

Jesus fucking Christ! Please let there be a nuclear war or something today…
I’m packing my liquor cabinet and heading to the a cabin in the woods to live as a Hermit- Anyone care to join me?
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June 21, 2018 10:57am
- stephieboy
  
  The only reality is this,
  
  “NZers wake to exciting news as PM to have a baby”
  
  And a Matariki baby it seems.
  
  https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/360080/nzers-wake-to-exciting-news-as-pm-to-have-baby
  
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  June 21, 2018 11:01am
  - Longknives
    
    What the fuck is a ‘Matariki’ baby?
    
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    June 21, 2018 11:05am
    - Inandout
      
      One of those Maori terms that didn’t exist 20 years ago ,but since invented by Iwi Ltd to gather more funds.
      
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      June 21, 2018 11:10am
      - Disillusioned_Voter
        
        So, does Clarke have to stump up some cash for this privilege or will Cinders dip into parliamentary funds?
        
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        June 21, 2018 1:43pm
      - Jack5
        
        Maori bullshit about Matakariki – the Pleiades in English langage and in the rest of the Western world.
        
        We are being led to accept Maori nonsense about the Pleiades, when we rightly laugh about similar white nonsense about the Pleiades – that they are the home of aliens in contact with “Earthlings”. Nonsense like this:
        
        https://youtu.be/kdY1WyaIlVE
        
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        June 21, 2018 4:24pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      Fucked if I know, a sppppppecial one perhaps?
      
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      June 21, 2018 11:20am
    - riffer
      
      Wow. Do I really share this country with such racist idiots? Surely you guys are trolling. You’re not really that ignorant are you?
      
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      June 21, 2018 8:00pm
- starboard
  
  All are welcome in Phuket, c’mon over !…even you shariaboy, we need someone to throw stones at.
  
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  June 21, 2018 12:55pm
Odakyu-sen

“This is one of those lifetime events- You will always remember where you were when it happened”

I would put 9-11 up there, along with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the explosion of the Challenger, but not a birth by the New Zealand PM.
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June 21, 2018 11:03am
- Longknives
  
  All those obviously Odakyu- sen.
  I also remember famous people dying-
  Princess Diana, Michael Jackson, Lemmy from Motorhead..etc
  
  Don’t remember any politicians giving birth though- Because it’s quite simply not such a big deal.
  
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  June 21, 2018 11:08am
  - big bruv
    
    Oh come on, the media will be all over the birth of the first bastard.
    
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    June 21, 2018 1:30pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Yep, remember where I was on 9-11 day, but not the Berlin Wall or Challenger.
  But I do remember exactly where I was when the news came though about Kennedy’s assassination and Diana’s death.
  Today, when the baby comes, I’ll probably be exactly where I was yesterday, and the day before.
  
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  June 21, 2018 11:53am
Odakyu-sen

Anyway, this birth is being used as a
Weapon of Mass Distraction…
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June 21, 2018 11:03am
Monique Watson

Heh,heh, I’m on the way Longknives. Meet you at the Ruahine. I’ll bring the tuna to stockpile and I know how to gut and fillet a fish if we need to head west. Teaching the daughter tonight and making stock. Paua and crayfish and whitebait in the bag come November.
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June 21, 2018 11:11am
cmm

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12075019

Economy doing worse than expected….

but who cares…BAYBEEEEEEEEE!

The kid is such a squirrel it’s going to come out with a bushy tail and nuts in its mouth.
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June 21, 2018 11:12am
- rightoverlabour
  
  As long as they are not Gayfords.. (Almonds)
  
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  June 21, 2018 12:32pm
Inandout

Nigel Farage speaks in Auckland on Sep 4th. Dial-a-demo is at the ready.
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June 21, 2018 11:13am
- RalphT
  
  And the first thing he will be asked when he steps off the plane will be, not what does he thinks of the current state of the Brexit negotiations, but isn’t it wonderful that we have own own royal baby.
  
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  June 21, 2018 11:32am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    And, ‘what do you think of New Zealand ?’
    
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    June 21, 2018 12:02pm
- Harkman
  
  Oh he’ll be called a racist, homophobe, Islamophobe, sexist, and of course right wing.
  
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  June 21, 2018 12:07pm
  - mandk
    
    And all because he believes it was a mistake for the UK to surrender its sovereignty to a bunch of unelected bureaucrats in Strasbourg.
    
    What’s not to like?
    
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    June 21, 2018 1:57pm
Rich Prick

Oh gawd. Really?
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June 21, 2018 11:23am
- graham
  
  They’re taking the proverbial, right? Please tell me this isn’t what the NZ Herald think counts as “news” …
  
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  June 21, 2018 11:42am
  - Longknives
    
    Rich Prick/Graham- Me and Monique are starting a Commune in the bush to escape this nightmare…You can join us if you want.
    Even if we have a ‘Jonestown’ ending it would beat having to live through the horrendous pukefest that is ‘Jacindababymania’..
    
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    June 21, 2018 12:16pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Pack in your porridge/muesli/weet-bix.
      Don’t let Monique near the breakfast plates.
      https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/06/general_debate_19_june_2018.html#comment-2235295
      
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      June 21, 2018 2:53pm
- mandk
  
  I think it’s really good. Seriously.
  
  Evidently, the world is waiting with bated breath for news of the birth, and I have heard rumour that a bright celestial object has been seen stationary in the sky over Jacinda’s home.
  
  Tourism NZ could promote the route, from home to hospital, to penitents from overseas who wish to make the journey barefoot or on their knees.
  
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  June 21, 2018 1:54pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    I was convinced on Sunday monday morning that the bright celestial object in the sky was the harbinger of the birth of the “first” baby.
    Then one of my golfing four said i was pointing at the sun.
    I was a bit disappointed.
    
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    June 21, 2018 2:25pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      Three men have been spotted headed for the manger.
      
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      June 21, 2018 2:33pm
      - kowtow
        
        There was a sign in the heavens.
        
        https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/wanaka/it-arrived-boom-and-lit-sky
        
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        June 21, 2018 4:01pm
Hugh Pavletich

NEW ZEALAND: GDP growth dropped by 0.1% compared to the previous two quarters, coming in at just 0.5%; Per capita growth remains flat at 0.1% | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/news/94401/gdp-growth-dropped-01-compared-previous-two-quarters-coming-just-05-capita-growth-remains

Economic growth in the first quarter has eased slightly, with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanding 0.5% – in line with market expectations.

GDP per capita remains low, unmoved from the December quarter at 0.1% and 0.6% year-on-year.

The March quarter growth figure is 0.1% lower than each of the two previous quarters. As an annual measure, New Zealand’s economy grew 2.7% in the year to March.

The size of the economy is $286 billion. … read more via hyperlink above …
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… 7 June report …

Auckland business confidence in ‘free fall’ – Chamber of Commerce – NZ Herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12066348

The spiking price of fuel, slow progress on housing and infrastructure and the threat of rising labour costs has sent business confidence in the country’s biggest city into “free fall”, says Auckland Chamber of Commerce boss Michael Barnett.

The chamber last week surveyed 800 businesses and found nearly half (44 per cent) believed the economy will deteriorate over the rest of this year.

Only 15 per cent thought the economy would improve during that time. … read more via hyperlink above …
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June 21, 2018 11:43am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Hugh is so irrelevant these days that nobody can be bothered reporting him out of existence.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:13pm
ex-golfer

Convenient timing of the royal birth – nicely covers up:

– Labour insisting the house goes into urgency, announced at 9.35pm last night, without notice, to debate the Regional fuel Tax – a debate which the Government has then shut down. More political mismanagement by Hipkins.

– a developing corruption story involving an attempt to exempt a far north property developer (who just happens to be a friend and business associate of the Economic Development Minister) from the bill to limit or ban overseas investment. It may appear that Shane Jones is donkey-deep in this one.
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June 21, 2018 11:48am
- AgainstTheFlow
  
  I reckon it is more the bad news announcements that have been planned to be released over the next couple of days that we have to keep an eye on.
  
  Maybe an increase in refugee intake.
  
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  June 21, 2018 12:15pm
- kowtow
  
  Donkey Deep ?
  
  I wonder was that one of the titles he was whacking off to on our dime?
  
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  June 21, 2018 2:05pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Now might be a good time for Labour to throw the sex camp perp under the bus.
  
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  June 21, 2018 2:40pm
  - sooty
    
    Yep, with Parkers getting stood down in his scandal at the moment.
    
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    June 21, 2018 4:47pm
Manolo

The flesh is weak, more so among the sellers of smoke:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/theodore-mccarrick-washington-abuse-allegation/index.html

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who led the Archdiocese of Washington and was a political force in the nation’s capital, said on Wednesday that he has been removed from public ministry by the Vatican because of a decades-old allegation of sexual abuse.
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June 21, 2018 12:26pm
KevOB

Fake indeed.
That little boy was in Dallas at a demo not at the border.

See the fuller picture:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-20/truth-behind-viral-photo-immigrant-child-crying-inside-cage
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June 21, 2018 12:52pm
big bruv

It’s good to see more players speaking out against the corrupt nature of world rugby.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/104875518/fifteen-against-16-for-every-test-against-all-blacks-claims-french-prop
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June 21, 2018 1:16pm
- mandk
  
  You need to support your assertion that there is corruption in the game.
  
  Who is being bribed, and by whom?
  
  Do all referees take bribes when the All Blacks are playing?
  
  Do they take bribes only when the All Blacks are playing?
  
  Or are you saying that one or more players opposing the All Blacks are taking bribes?
  
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  June 21, 2018 1:41pm
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Trying to out do a second rate French rugby player in the ignorance stakes suggests you won’t receive any answers to your questions MandK.
    
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    June 21, 2018 4:48pm
    - mandk
      
      I wasn’t holding my breath.
      
      I’m actually more interested in the David Parker corruption scandal.
      
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      June 21, 2018 6:45pm
gump

More #winning:

“EU hits back at Donald Trump with billions in tariffs on US Bourbon whiskey, jeans and motorcycles”

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-donald-trump-tarrifs-trade-war-billions-bourbon-whiskey-jeans-motorcycles-steel-aluminium-a8408566.html
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June 21, 2018 2:41pm
- thedavincimode
  
  It’s interesting that (as far as I’m aware) neither Canada nor the EU have publicly addressed the point Trumpy has been making regarding the tariff rate disparity with the US. We’ve heard a lot of bleating about relationships, history as allies, threats to go and play with the russkies, we’ll ditch NATO have defend ourselves without you blah blugh … but nothing that addresses Trump’s point. He even floated the idea of removing all tariffs at the G7 but it doesn’t look like the EU will be picking up on that.
  
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  June 21, 2018 3:06pm
The Heat

I’m wondering if even high-school drop-out soap-watching airheads are finding the MSM “just too airhead” these days:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/104892184/the-perfect-playlist-to-welcome-jacinda-arderns-baby
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June 21, 2018 2:56pm
Jack5

As if the Leftist, feminazi, anti-Christian, ashamed-of-being-white BBC wasn’t twisted enough …

The BBC is introducing quotas for senior job selection to dilute the number of white men at the top of the organisation.

The TVNZ tirelessly bombards us Kiwi peasants with clips of BBC girly men and women explaining the world. The difference will be that eventually there will be more non-white women and more brown and black girly men lecturing us.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5867891/BBC-bosses-lessons-diversity-introduces-quotas.html
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June 21, 2018 3:07pm
- Jack5
  
  I readily acknowledge that Kiwiblog is already diverse the right way – democratically.
  
  I appreciate the popular and rational views of Manolo, the wit and knowledge of Odakyu-sen, the occasional appearances of the T-shirt artist BlackwithaVengeance, and accept rather than enjoy the Raj-accented chitter-chatter of the Stephiestanis. And I miss the fun of the “parrot person” – Kea.
  
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  June 21, 2018 3:14pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It’s not very diverse Jack5.
    
    Manolo seems to be the only tanned male.
    
    We don’t seem to have the voice of the unemployed solo mum with 8 kids to different fathers, although we hear a lot about her and her activities.
    
    We don’t seem to have any of the glitterati.
    
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    June 21, 2018 3:39pm
    - Jack5
      
      Maggy, I think BlackwithaVengeance is Pasifika, and Scott Hamilton is Tongan influenced if not Tongan genetically.
      
      I bet more than a few of us have some Maori genes, and we have comments from a smart Maori woman. From their comments we have Aussies and Americans aboard. There’s Sam Green, who I think is Martian.
      
      If we were doing this by Skype, perhaps the Kiwiblog commentariat would be revealed as being a little more diverse.
      
      Women posters are outnumbered, though there seem to be several bisexuals and male homosexuals. Posts from Lesbians seem to be rare. One of our most colourful contributors until the recent past seems to have been of unsettled gender.
      
      From the fighting tone of many male posters, I think the average height of them would be a little under the average for the whole community.
      
      Solo mums with eight kids to different fathers probably gets more satisfaction from bed action than internet action.
      
      The glitterati will follow blogging when the new mirror screens come out – computer screens that are in fact mirrors with text subtly displayed in the lower corners.
      
      Age is obviously skewed to the high end. If you were young, there would be no question of what would win attention between verbal jousting on Kiwiblog and one of the better war games.
      
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      June 21, 2018 4:04pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Scott Hamilton is a very white boy who latterly discovered the Pacific and its “hidden” history.
        https://e-tangata.co.nz/korero/scott-hamilton-no-longer-blinded-to-the-dark-stuff-in-our-history/
        
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        June 21, 2018 4:34pm
      - Jack5
        
        Oh bugger. I have enjoyed Scott’s posts, but now I see he’s got a Ph. D. in sociology.
        
        But then, his maternal ancestors were from Skye. That might move him up a notch in your eyes, Maggy. And His dad’s Ulster Irish.
        
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        June 21, 2018 4:45pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Jack5
        
        Where have you been?
        
        Anyway… tune into his blog…there’s miles of stuff to wade through.
        http://readingthemaps.blogspot.com/
        (I don’t think I could manage his Poetry tho’)
        
        (Disclosure: I am NOT being paid a retainer for this cheap
        publicity)
        
        But then, his maternal ancestors were from Skye. That might move him up a notch in your eyes, Maggy.
        Na, he will have some McLeod genes lurking in his DNA.
        We don’t forget.
        https://sonofskye.wordpress.com/2013/11/01/skyes-blood-soaked-locations-the-macdonald-macleod-feud/
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Coire_Na_Creiche
        
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        June 21, 2018 4:50pm
      - Jack5
        
        The scales fall from my eyes.
        
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        June 21, 2018 5:00pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Give Jacinda time….
      
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      June 21, 2018 6:35pm
rangitoto

I’ve been a bit busy to follow the news today. Has the stale old unmarried white lady had a baby yet?
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June 21, 2018 3:10pm
Monique Watson

Boy. Big guy. I’m a hopeless romantic and forkin’ proud she didn’t get the C.
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June 21, 2018 3:14pm
chiz

Baby may never come:

Three days have passed since Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was due to give birth to the greatest baby known to have ever been born in these parts, and as the hours drag on with no news, fears are beginning to emerge that it may never be born.

Medical experts contacted by media today say it is “not impossible” that the baby simply decides never to come out, and that it “may have no real reason to.”

[…]

Via a statement from his office yesterday, Peters announced that when he takes the reins of the country, he will be holding press conferences at the Beehive “regularly” and “often” and “routinely” and “always.”

A press conference will be held at the Prime Minister’s podium once every two hours on weekdays.

The first of each day will address major issues facing the country, while the subsequent seven press conferences will address arguments about the previous one.

Arguments are “strongly anticipated.”
[…]
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June 21, 2018 3:19pm
- nasska
  
  …..”the baby simply decides never to come out, and that it “may have no real reason to”…..
  
  Amen! Having to face up to the reality that its parents are the greatest wankers ever to issue a press release would be as good a reason as any to give birth a miss.
  
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  June 21, 2018 4:13pm
stigie

Hey all you gushing people out there, the baby will be due just before the 6pm news if Cindy has it her way !~
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June 21, 2018 3:42pm
- Rich Prick
  
  With the way the parents have been carrying on, it’ll be out of the womb and in to makeup.
  
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  June 21, 2018 4:02pm
  - sooty
    
    If they are going to have more Clarkey will have to climb back in the saddle soon. She aint get any younger.
    
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    June 21, 2018 4:51pm
- nasska
  
  We’re relying on you to take one for the team by watching the TV news tonight & giving us a watered down version of the mush stigie.
  
  A handful of Valium should be enough to stop you throwing the Lazy Boy through the screen. 🙂
  
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  June 21, 2018 4:17pm
  - stigie
    
    Pity it wasn’t a porn production Nasska, i would be able to give you a blow by blow running commentary ole chap !~
    
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    June 21, 2018 4:47pm
    - nasska
      
      Keep it seemly stigie! This is a family blog. 🙂
      
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      June 21, 2018 4:50pm
- KevOB
  
  The presser was neatly timed for the 6:30 pm slot on TV1.
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:57pm
Jack5

The cost to New Zealanders of a target of zero carbon emissions by 2050 would be huge.

That’s outlined by Michael Reddell today in his blog, Croaking Cassandra.

The target could cost the next generation of New Zealanders a hundred billion dollars (dollars at today’s value), Reddell argues.

https://croakingcassandra.com/
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June 21, 2018 3:43pm
- Sam_Bro
  
  I like my costs with opportunities.
  
  What’s the price for achieving a carbon zero / neutral economy by 2050?
  
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  June 21, 2018 3:51pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Even if NZ achieved it the rest of the world will be pumping out more and more carbon.
    India, China, Brazil, Nigeria, Egypt, Pakistan, Uganda all have huge a growing populations.
    If they were serious about Global Warming and they believed it was man made, the UN would insititute mass sterilisation of all women with two children right now.
    
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    June 21, 2018 5:39pm
    - Sam_Bro
      
      Just remember this, next time some one mentions human rights. Human rights is prosperity. That’s why we invest so much on infrastructure.
      
      Besides, anything mandatory is balls-to-the-wall-crazy. Not even wood fires are mandatory in homes.
      
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      June 21, 2018 8:29pm
NZDirect

is it a boy?…is it a girl?…no, its a bastard
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June 21, 2018 3:45pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Every time dickheads like you make that sort of comment, you put shit on a baby who hasn’t even been born and has no responsibility for its parents. You make a public comment preserved for all time. Aside from the fact that lots of couples have kids out of wedlock nowadays and don’t suffer this kind of gratuitous abuse, that is a shit thing to do. Why don’t you grow up?
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:23pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  So many people that the last 50 years seem to have passed by. Are you all geriatrics, or were you just born old?
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:30pm
NZDirect

is it a boy?…is it a girl?…no, it’s a bastard
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June 21, 2018 3:47pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Saying it twice doesn’t make you any less of a wanker.
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:27pm
dime

Peter Fonda seems like a nice chap

““WE SHOULD RIP BARRON TRUMP FROM HIS MOTHER’S ARMS AND PUT HIM IN A CAGE WITH PEDOPHILES AND SEE IF MOTHER WILL WILL STAND UP AGAINST THE GIANT ASSHOLE SHE IS MARRIED TO,”
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June 21, 2018 3:58pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Peter Fonda is “Hanoi Jane’s” brother. While I respect Jane Fonda as an actress, she was the original SJW from way back. Vietnam war protester and propagandist for those who don’t remember…
  
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  June 21, 2018 4:09pm
  - sooty
    
    He was the star of ” Easy Rider”.
    
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    June 21, 2018 4:43pm
  - godruelf
    
    She was also married to Ted “Mouth of th South” Turner founder of CNN
    
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    June 21, 2018 6:41pm
slightlyrighty

With all the hassles of fuel tax, Housing prices, Nurses and Teachers striking, prisons etc. It’s good to see Paul Eagle, my local MP, hosting a public meeting where the guest speaker is……….

Nanaia Mahuta……

Talking about the significance of Matariki……….

FFS……

https://www.facebook.com/events/2121523094783862/
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June 21, 2018 3:59pm
Don the Kiwi

She’s had the baby.
Poor little mite – hope all is well.
Gender unknown at this time.
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June 21, 2018 5:04pm
DigNap15

Did they get married on the way to the hospital
Oh no
That means the baby will be a b….d
Just like her government.
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June 21, 2018 5:32pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  That means the baby will be a b….d
  
  Gosh, if this were the 1950s, I’m sure that would be just appalling! Still, at least it doesn’t have a touch of the tarbrush, eh?
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:25pm
  - Viking2
    
    Are you sure?
    
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    June 21, 2018 6:48pm
DigNap15

What has happened to the Manuss Island Refugees? (still rotting I hope)

How many Rohinga refugees have gone home? (none I hope)

The newsmedia really is useless.
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June 21, 2018 5:35pm
- Johnboy
  
  The Oxfam chaps have spent all your Rohingya donations on Durex and Viagra Dig old chap! 🙂
  Givealittle more and they’ll get on to the sending home shit soon! 🙂
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:12pm
  - nasska
    
    They’re being very thorough JB. Not a little girl’s pee hole or a young boy’s bottom will have escaped their attentions. 🙂
    
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    June 21, 2018 6:17pm
    - Johnboy
      
      I’m still in utter awe of Wussel who keeps wanting me to give him money to sort out the whales nasska!
      No wonder Anna’s sister fancied him! 🙂
      
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      June 21, 2018 6:23pm
MH

I have decided to lead a choir outside the hospital.
our first lullaby will be that famous melody
All together now, join in when you feel the urge-a one and a metu
Oh why are we waiting,why are we waiting
oh why are we waiting why why why (repeat)
oh why are we waiting

and its Labour by a nose.
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June 21, 2018 6:13pm
sam green

It’s a girl for all you ever so not interested folk.
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June 21, 2018 6:19pm
- stigie
  
  Just someone else had a baby girl sam that’s all !~
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:24pm
  - sam green
    
    I do agree stigie.
    
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    June 21, 2018 6:31pm
- rangitoto
  
  Did they ask the baby’s permission to call it a girl?
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:26pm
- Rodney Randall
  
  No such thing!
  
  It’s what ever it feels it is.
  
  It may well be a Filipino tuk tuk driver/
  
  Praise Jadu!
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:28pm
- lifesgood
  
  Sam Green -Why pollute this blog with nonsense none of us cares about?
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:37pm
  - sam green
    
    You might need to read back sunshine – seems a whole lot of kiwibloggers care a whole lot ?.
    
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    June 21, 2018 6:40pm
    - lifesgood
      
      Talk to the hand.
      
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      June 21, 2018 6:45pm
      - sam green
        
        Are you masturbating?
        
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        June 21, 2018 6:49pm
      - starboard
        
        green sam shows his vulgarity and starts talking dirty on a public blog..
        
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        June 21, 2018 7:03pm
      - sam green
        
        Pales in comparison to your 1:00 pm post old man.
        
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        June 21, 2018 7:33pm
      - starboard
        
        stooopid boy..
        
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        June 21, 2018 7:55pm
- James Stephenson
  
  Conflicting insider reports suggest she will either be called Winnie as part of the secret coalition agreement or Shea (although maybe I misheard Che?).
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:46pm
Inandout

Thank the Gods for this miracle.
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June 21, 2018 6:20pm
- nasska
  
  I can now die a happy man! 🙂
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:24pm
  - stigie
    
    “Praise the Lord” *Hic*
    
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    June 21, 2018 6:45pm
thedavincimode

Trumpy gonna build … a Space Force! 🙂
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June 21, 2018 6:25pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Just another treaty or two to rip up…
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:48pm
Johnboy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ6hJNGZ8vg
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June 21, 2018 6:26pm
- stigie
  
  You don’t go gushy very often JB, brings a tear to the eye !~
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:53pm
Johnboy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x98cE4QCrlk
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June 21, 2018 6:30pm
- nasska
  
  I’m arranging the despatch of the fatted calf as I type this JB! 🙂
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:33pm
- nasska
  
  stephieboy will sacrifice six virgin goats to thank Allah! 🙂
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:35pm
  - RF
    
    I hear a contingent of labour activists have been looking for a virgin to sacrifice. This is in honour of the chosen one.
    
    Poor buggers gave up as none were available.
    
    Lover boy has been doing the rounds and got in first.
    
    The man is a sexual athlete.
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:44pm
Inandout

HDPA announced The Guardian has commented on the royal birth. Imagine that, a Left publication mentions a Labour birth.
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June 21, 2018 6:33pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/21/jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-prime-minister-birth-baby-girl
  
  I hope Labour’s got plans to release any damaging stuff it knows about sometime this evening – there’ll never be another opportunity like this one…
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:45pm
UpandComer

Hey guys:

Here is a question for you:

What is the answer to 20/5(2*2)

Common Core in the United States says there are ‘two’ correct answers.

Let’s see if NZ is common-core tier yet – what’s the answer?
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June 21, 2018 6:35pm
- UpandComer
  
  In the age of immigrant math, feminist teacher’s teach that an arithmetical equation can sum to two different integers positioned at different place on the infinite number line.
  
  Remember Orwell’s statement is that freedom is the freedom to state 2 + 2 = 4.
  
  That freedom already doesn’t exist in diverse America.
  
  So what’s the answer?
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:39pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Jacinda’s baby… it’s the answer to everything today.
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:42pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Surely their not going to name the poor little mite “42”? 🙂
    
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    June 21, 2018 6:44pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Aren’t we all meant to BODMAS?
  
  I get 1.
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:46pm
  - Johnboy
    
    I thought it was BOMDAS Maggy but I only got 23 in school cert maths so I wont comment any more on such a technical question! 🙂
    By the bye. Your hair looks even more lovely now than it did earlier! 🙂
    
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    June 21, 2018 6:49pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Did you get your ovaries checked, Johnboy?
      
      I believe they can do wonders for your condition nowadays.
      Not that I have anything against hairy folks, you understand.
      (Baldies are a bit scary though, don’t you think?)
      
      Oh hell, Google tells me the answer is 16.
      
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      June 21, 2018 7:08pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        So, if 16 is the correct answer, I’d write it as
        (20/5) x 2*2.
        
        Any mathematicians hereabouts?
        
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        June 21, 2018 7:15pm
      - Johnboy
        
        I used to think baldies were a bit scary once upon a time Maggy but recently I’ve become two minded about the condition! 🙂
        
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        June 21, 2018 7:17pm
  - rangitoto
    
    The bracket first but then division takes priority. I defer to Stephen Wolfram who agrees 😉
    
    http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=20%2F5(2*2)
    
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    June 21, 2018 7:14pm
    - rangitoto
      
      It goes like this
      
      1. Evaluate the bracket 20/5(4)
      2. Remove the bracket 20/5*4
      3. Order (division takes priority in any case)
      4*4
      
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      June 21, 2018 7:22pm
      - UpandComer
        
        The parentheses remain. Think about the equation spatially. The divisor is still a divisor, braced by parentheses even after you’ve found product 4. 20 is the numerator.
        
        20
        ——–
        5*(4)
        
        You can’t divide the numerator by only one part of an unquantified divisor. Think about it. Even if you – you still get one. Because the integral 20 if you divide by 5 is modified to equal 4. You can’t just leave it there after you’ve conducted an operation – do you see?
        
        Maths exists in space AND time. Not just time. The only difference between 1 and 16 is the position on the number line, and 1’s sacred status as a non-prime number able to divide by itself and 1. The paradox number.
        
        The linear equation only works absent the parentheses.
        
        But I’m not getting at you – the answer could be 16 if you drop the principles of divisors and fractions, which does exist in highly advanced quantum maths.
        
        But Jesus Joseph and Mary the answer cannot be fucking both.
        
        Better start learning Chinese. The Americans aren’t going to have working sewage systems in two generations.
        
        Time to start worshipping the machine omni-chlarsy – because no one is going to understand how anything works pretty soon. We’ll be worshipping machines and determining their function by ‘if I hit it hard here, it sometimes does x’.
        
        But the people who get the real math will still know the answer equals 1.
        
        Better get ready for the great Taying of everything:
        
        http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1097232-tay-ai
        
        Even AI can lose freedom and miss it’s soul.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjt5oCmPvPoa
        
        It’s ok. Math and science will survive in the Church.
        
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        June 21, 2018 7:53pm
      - rangitoto
        
        “The parentheses remain. ”
        
        Completely wrong. The brackets are removed when the contents of the brackets are evaluated. Refer Wolfram Alpha.
        
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        June 21, 2018 8:04pm
  - UpandComer
    
    Correct.
    
    In the United States you can say the answer is 16 and 1 and they’ll say both are right.
    
    Because you know, the answers in math are fluid and on a spectrum and subjective and malleable.
    
    Vibrants can’t understand parentheses within orders of operations so they’re adopting a new rule that changes all existing formulae that is apparently called ‘linear’ operations.
    
    If you answer 16 or 1, pursuant to common core, you are both ‘right’.
    
    In a generation, the idea that there is in fact only one answer to that question because of the priortisation of parentheses and the absolutely vital function that ordering forms within nature and life will be forgotten.
    
    It seems a small thing. It is not a small thing. It is a catastrophic thing. It is a reality changing civilization destroying policy of the ambiguation of math.
    
    There will be math for the proles, and math for the genetically distinct members of the party based on uniformity, consistency, coherence and structural integrity.
    
    In the end, everything is going to be disassembled until not even the finest minds can determine form.
    
    Lol between seeing that and seeing white deaths outnumber births in 26 states in the US due to the Opoid crisis and the decades of cultural subversion to the glee and schadenfreude of the New York Times run by Mark Thompson, Jimmy Savile’s patron and protector, and the passing of article 11 and 13 in Europe which will end the ability to commentate news or post links, it’s been some black pills today.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3__EBkqh820
    
    In the end, we’re all going to die, and 2 + 2 will equal whatever the concept of ‘2’ is delineated in future to cover as a spectrum in space/time. Who cares if arithmetical equations at the level of particle physics = two mutually exclusive unrelated answers at once? The number line is an outmoded concept that only forms the basis of reality.
    
    All we can do is die at our posts in good conscience, ready, willingly, taking as many of the enemies of humanity who say the answer can be 16 and 1 at the same time to hell with us.
    
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    June 21, 2018 7:14pm
    - UpandComer
      
      Someone’s books are going to burn.
      
      Note that what they’re doing is changing the meaning of parentheses themselves. The only way to get 16 is to pretend the parentheses don’t exist. To change vital second order logic with a heuristic of ‘left to right’.
      
      It’s not arbitrary. You cannot do that. Reality is coded in 1’s and 2’s in specific orders. You put braces around one set to modify the meaning of another with respect to actuality and real consequences. My robot doesn’t work if you change the concept of parentheses.
      
      If you make one mistake in a code array you have to find it and eliminate. They’re saying every existing coding array is wrong because the answer can be two things at the same time that don’t map in the number theory domain.
      
      So somebodies’ books are going to burn, forever.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIp43THmcUI
      
      If my books burn, everyone elses’ will burn as well.
      
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      June 21, 2018 7:25pm
- Jack5
  
  The answer depends on the length of the viniculum, the line between the numerator (top) of the fraction and the denominator (the bottom).
  
  If it covers all of “5(2*2)” the answer is 1. If it covers only the “5” then the answer is 16.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:22pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    If I got a bill for $20/5(2*2) I’d pay up $1; Rangitoto would pay out $16.
    
    I’ll stick with my version of doing hard sums.
    
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    June 21, 2018 8:39pm
Viking2

A British trade group says there’s a shortage of carbon dioxide in Northern Europe, sparking fears that drinks may lack fizz just as thirsty football fans fill pubs for the Fifa World Cup.

So that fucking Global Warming is now responsible for ruining the beer.

No can’t be we are now short of CO2.

How do the nutters explain us being short of CO2?

Burn more coal.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/104901547/beer-may-lack-fizz-in-europe-amid-carbon-dioxide-shortage

Unbelievable.
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June 21, 2018 6:46pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  I always believed you preferred a hand pull.
  
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  June 21, 2018 6:51pm
starboard

Here we go..another violent maori rapist, they just keep on a comin..

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/104896038/teen-jailed-for-raping-a-sex-worker-and-fracturing-her-face
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June 21, 2018 7:00pm
Johnboy

This is neat:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/104887606/move-over-luxury-cars-germany-wants-to-trial-flying-taxis
Imagine the skys over Cannons Creek and Botany when we get them here! 🙂
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June 21, 2018 7:04pm
RF

I can just see the headlines.

“Solo mums child to be brought up by the village people.”

This was in response to Ardern saying that the child will be raised by the village.

FFS
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June 21, 2018 7:04pm
- Johnboy
  
  This could be the kids theme song. 🙂
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prvun6q7ec8
  
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  June 21, 2018 7:12pm
- starboard
  
  You mean like these guys RF?
  
  https://youtu.be/CS9OO0S5w2k
  
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  June 21, 2018 7:14pm
  - sam green
    
    Starboard likes the leather dude.
    
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    June 21, 2018 9:18pm
- Longknives
  
  Interestingly RF there was actually only a couple of the Village People who were Gay.
  Unlike the modern Labour Party- Where being gay is seemingly a prerequisite…
  
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  June 21, 2018 7:21pm
MrTips

Congrats to Cindy and Clark on the birth of their daughter. I honestly hope they truly enjoy the wonder of their first child.

It is a happy event but the country still needs running you media folk.
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June 21, 2018 7:15pm
Longknives

Has Ardern just ‘assumed’ the Gender of her child without it being given the chance to decide for itself??
She should know any true Leftie these days raises their child ‘Gender Neutral’.
Disgraceful- What is this? 1950??
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June 21, 2018 7:17pm
- Johnboy
  
  It’s a boy without a winkle for Gods sake! 🙂
  
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  June 21, 2018 7:20pm
  - Longknives
    
    God be praised- It’s a miracle!
    
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    June 21, 2018 7:22pm
    - Harkman
      
      It was too much for me so I turned over to the news channels and every single one was talking about Trump and the borders.
      
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      June 21, 2018 7:51pm
  - nasska
    
    All babies are born with cocks.
    
    It’s just that they fall off the dumb ones! 🙂
    
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    June 21, 2018 7:51pm
    - sam green
      
      Sorry for your loss nasska.
      
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      June 21, 2018 7:57pm
Floyd60

“Natalie and I wish you every happiness” Owned 🙂
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June 21, 2018 7:28pm
Don the Kiwi

The Plus side is, she decided to carry the baby to term – now she will experience the joy of motherhood.
The down side is, she is going to re-open the abortion debate to let mothers murder their babies more easily than now.
What a fucked up world we live in.
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June 21, 2018 7:39pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Yup, as I have posted before, nothing like the darling mother of the nation with child on hip, advocating abortion…..
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:53pm
  - GoVege
    
    She’s not “advocating ” abortion.
    She’s merely proposing to decriminalize it!
    
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    June 22, 2018 10:51am
cha

Apparently England footballers have been caught playing football with a hedgehog. Animal Rights activists were going to step in, but the hedgehog was 3 goals up with only 5 minutes to play.— Stansaid Airport (@StansaidAirport) June 18, 2018
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June 21, 2018 7:41pm
Fletch

SO when is Clarke going to man up and actually marry the mother?
Maybe they can save that distraction for when the Govt really gets into trouble next. We can have the royal wedding.
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June 21, 2018 8:06pm
- nasska
  
  …..”and actually marry the mother”…..
  
  They’ll save that for another distraction close to the next General Election.
  
  But as a matter of general interest…..is it important? A Stuff article in July 2013 quoted:
  
  “BIRTH STATISTICS
  
  Births to married and unmarried couples
  
  Fifty years ago, 8 per cent of births were ex-nuptial.
  
  Last year, 48 per cent of births were ex-nuptial.
  
  About 80 per cent of Maori women give birth ex-nuptially.
  
  About 50 per cent of Pakeha women give birth ex-nuptially.
  
  About 13 per cent of Asian women give birth ex-nuptially.
  
  15 in every 1000 ex-nuptial births is to a woman aged between 40 and 44.
  
  25 in every 1000 ex-nuptial births occur to women aged between 15 and 19.
  
  Source: Statistics NZ”
  
  Apart from a few religious kooks no one nowadays stigmatises a kid born out of wedlock.
  
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  June 21, 2018 8:14pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    That Maori stat is interesting. Now, why would that number be so high?
    1) Can’t marry when you are 12
    2) Can’t marry your brother / cousin /uncle
    3) Can’t marry the father if you don’t know who da fuk he is…
    
    etc etc
    
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    June 21, 2018 9:44pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Nah, I think she realises he has a fondness for things Emirate. Would not be surprised if she gives him the flick at some point. When sex is replaced by breastfeeding and nappy changing, some men don’t cope that well. And the pooch is harder to keep on the porch…
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:51pm
Jack5

The last of the ace U-boat commanders has died, aged 105 – Reinhard Hardegen.

An obituary:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/obituaries/reinhard-hardegen-who-led-u-boats-to-americas-shore-dies-at-105.html
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June 21, 2018 8:50pm
- cha
  
  Interviewed in 1992.
  
  https://uboat.net/men/interviews/hardegen.htm
  
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  June 21, 2018 9:11pm
  - Jack5
    
    That was an interesting interview: thank you, Cha.
    
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    June 21, 2018 10:02pm
All_on_Red

Tweets from Jacinda ‘DJ’Ardern
It’s now been three straight hours of non-stop crying. Is this normal for first-time fathers?

Nitrous Oxide is great for calming things down during labour. Hopefully Clarke will give me a turn soon.

Txt from Winston: About bloody time. Oh, and congratulations, etc. Ends. #nzpol
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June 21, 2018 8:52pm
- Viking2
  
  does CO2 work?
  
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  June 22, 2018 6:50am
rangitoto

Seen on Whaleoil back chat:

BREAKING: For the first time since the election, a CoL MP actually delivers.
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June 21, 2018 9:04pm
Inandout

Labour supporter Marcus Lush is beside himself with joy as he actually has people calling in, well about the royal birth tonight. Someone even dared to ask whether the princess was married to the gaylord, and Marcus was most offended.
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June 21, 2018 9:41pm
sooty

Commie chick has lots of birthmarks/moles on her neck on hospitol photos. No makeup on?
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June 21, 2018 10:54pm
Viking2

So another goal not going to happen.
A year on from the landmark pay equity settlement that boosted caregiver wages by between 15 per cent and 50 per cent, sadly we are not seeing a surge in New Zealanders applying for these roles.

Historically, many have argued that low wages are the reason we have a chronic caregiver workforce shortage. However, the well-deserved pay scale increases and training opportunities have not yet seen an increased number of applicants.

Even if eventually we see more Kiwis applying for roles, it will not address looming shortfalls due to our rapidly ageing population. Forecasts indicate that between 12,000 and 20,000 extra residents will need aged residential care by 2026, requiring an additional 1000 caregivers each year.

However, as caregiving does not meet the required skill levels for a migrant to apply to work on a Skilled Migrant visa, nor is it recognised as Essential Skills in Demand (ESID), applicants must apply for an Essential Skills visa – which must be renewed yearly and with no transition path to a permanent visa. Additionally, the maximum three years’ duration for Essential Skills visa holders means these workers are sent back to their country for a one-year stand-down period and they may not return.

So, in 2020 we will see an exodus of the first wave of affected migrant caregivers and a huge gap in the workforce. And, with these immigration policy settings already starting to turn immigrants away from New Zealand, it is going to significantly up the pressure on an already challenging recruiting environment.

Another big concern is that we’ll likely see a halving of overseas registered nurses entering the sector under changes to the points threshold in the Skilled Migrant category. This reduction is on top of current recruitment issues – our members struggle to retain skilled registered nurses and to recruit recent graduates.

The Government says it remains committed to making sure the immigration system works for New Zealand. Indeed, the Finance Minister Grant Robertson said in the May Budget the Government’s priority was to address industry specific shortages. We are still to hear what this means, and in the meantime our workforce shortages compound. .

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/104892066/better-pay-is-not-increasing-caregiver-workforce

We always knew this but the Col when in opposition didn’t want immigrants. Oh Dear Stupid fucks.

To work for the sector that cares for older New Zealanders we need to see immigration policy that allows employers to retain migrant workers and one that provides continuity of supply.
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