General Debate 4 June 2018

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lifesgood

Whaaaat! Dame Catherine Healey for services to the sex industry! Talk about cheapening the honours but I guess what more could you expect from this government.
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June 4, 2018 8:15am
- Paulus
  
  Only cheapening in the Honours List – is that the best you could find –
  Typical feminist socialist one – Topp Twins heavy public supporters at last election of Cinderella’ exceptional leadership. Good electioneering list.
  Thought Rowles was long dead.
  Wot no Peters ?
  Never thought I would favour the abolition of the Honors List but this one takes the cake.
  
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  June 4, 2018 8:21am
  - Longknives
    
    Utterly ridiculous- I don’t know anyone who likes the Topp Twins or thinks they are funny.
    My Left-Leaning Mum can’t stand them- “They’ve been around for donkey’s years and they’ve never been funny”
    Even my Grandmother thinks they are “dreadful women”.
    
    I’m assuming this honour was for hoovering up millions in NZ on Air $$ over the years?
    
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    June 4, 2018 8:32am
    - Inandout
      
      Oh please longknives, they are rainbow and as such you must praise them. I used to consider them a female form of Crump, but mostly without his humour.
      
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      June 4, 2018 8:41am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I don’t know anyone who likes the Topp Twins or thinks they are funny.
      
      We obviously move in different circles.
      I think they are funny and talented.
      I especially applaud their work with the Breast Cancer Foundation.
      
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      June 4, 2018 9:16am
      - Anne Glen Eden
        
        It takes all kinds.
        
        There are three sounds that I really can’t stand – will turn the volume off while the TV takes it seconds to change channels. In order of priority:
        
        The Topp Twins, Te Karere, Infomercials
        
        I could say I don’t find them funny but then I haven’t watched them for any longer than forced to. Their ‘music’ is like someone scratching their nails down a blackboard.
        
        They have no visual or auditory appeal whatsoever to me and I, like Inandout, always assumed they’re everywhere simply because they’re ‘rainbow’. As I’m not, and am really not into ‘identities’ for the sake of it, that appeal is futile.
        
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        June 4, 2018 9:34am
      - Padriv Ustoev
        
        In some countries they find rotten yak milk a delicacy. Can’t argue with taste I guess.
        
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        June 4, 2018 9:43am
      - lofty
        
        I am with you Maggy, I find them funny and very clever.
        We have been seen them on stage, and they are extremely entertaining.
        They are amongst the very very very few so called comedians and entertainers in New Zealand that are worthy of the titles.
        I don’t have to like their political preferences.
        Talent is talent.
        
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        June 4, 2018 9:50am
      - stephieboy
        
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        Ann of Gen Eden,
        
        your tastes obviously move in far alt right circles out there with Pluto and beyond.
        
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        June 4, 2018 9:54am
      - Padriv Ustoev
        
        So Pluto is now an alt- right planet?
        Do you ever listen to yourself Stephie? Bloody insane.
        
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        June 4, 2018 9:57am
      - KiWombat
        
        The lift doesn’t go to the top floor with that one !
        
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        June 4, 2018 10:20am
      - Left Right and Centre
        
        yeah – does your circle have four sides ?
        Dames ? That’s mental.
        
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        June 4, 2018 10:28am
    - Piniwi
      
      But longknives the dykes all roll up to every appearance of the once were women performers.
      
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      June 4, 2018 8:50pm
  - Harkman
    
    The problem with these honours is that they are closed door/back room dealings for partisan purposes. There should only be one granted per year and two thirds of the public at least should be comfortable with it. As for these other honours, like nzer of the year, they sucks as well.
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:27am
    - namron
      
      A bit of googling shows that everyone can nominate people for the Queen’s Birthday and New Year awards.
      The decisions are made by the Cabinet Appointments & Honours Comm – chaired by the Prime Minister. [who are also permitted to make their own nominations]
      While the members of all other Govt Committees are listed, they are not for this Committee.
      [Perhaps my email to the Honours Comm might produce a result!]
      With us having an avowed Republican PM, I wonder she is attempting to denigrate these ROYAL Honours by manipulating the results this time with some outlandish awards.
      namron
      
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      June 4, 2018 5:09pm
  - Northland Wahine
    
    Topp twits. God their voices irritate the crap outta me.
    
    Happy for Sir Bill English tho. Well deserved.
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:33am
  - secondcumming
    
    “Well that’s a bit of alright then Ken”
    “It’s SIR Ken to you Ken”
    “Yeah, but don’t let it go to your head cunt”
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:47am
  - timmydevo
    
    Don’t worry team. After today, no one will care.
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:50am
    - timmydevo
      
      Honestly though, what did we expect would happen with these awards? That national would bring the awards back and labour would never get their sticky mitts on them? How naive!
      
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      June 4, 2018 9:58am
  - UpandComer
    
    ‘To Dame Healy, for services to whoredom’.
    
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    June 4, 2018 12:44pm
    - Morrissey
      
      To Sir Simon “Double Dipper” English,
      
      For diverting public funds to himself.
      
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      June 4, 2018 2:35pm
      - notrotsky
        
        To moz breen for services to 4th rate stenography and servicing to sailors at northcote point.
        
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        June 4, 2018 2:45pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! They give gongs for that?!?!?!?
        
        Oh happy day!
        
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        June 4, 2018 2:53pm
      - sooty
        
        No, but they clap!
        
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        June 4, 2018 3:50pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Well then, sooty, let’s hope that Sir Simon gets the clap he deserves when it comes to the big day….
        
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        June 4, 2018 5:37pm
- MrTips
  
  Indeed. It seems our transparent PM and GG love the idea of cheapening woman and promoting them being used by pervy men. Weird and sick.
  
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  June 4, 2018 8:31am
  - pentwig
    
    Haha MrTips
    Find the Topp twins and Cathy Healy today and we will find the sillyboy, tongue out – hands deep in pockets.
    Yep, weird and sick.
    
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    June 4, 2018 10:49am
  - Morrissey
    
    You’re thinking of this notorious and creepy ex-P.M., surely….
    
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3057020/PonyTailGate-People-post-awkward-pictures-NZ-Prime-Minister-John-Key-touching-girls-ponytails-social-media.html
    
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    June 4, 2018 5:39pm
- godruelf
  
  Dick Griffin for services to the delete button….
  
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  June 4, 2018 8:33am
  - Jack5
    
    Yep, Richard Griffin, recently chairman of Radio NZ, when he was conned by Wily Willie Jackson into in effect ceding control of the corporation to Maori.
    
    Griffin becomes a Companion of the NZ Order of Merit. When your radio barrages you in Maori early in the morning – “Wrong station, fucking Griffin.”
    
    Jackson’s con:
    
    https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/312240/rnz-signs-partnership-with-te-whakaruruhau
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:49am
- Longknives
  
  Did anyone on here actually ever experience Dame Catherine’s ‘Services’?
  Were they that good they were worth a Damehood??
  
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  June 4, 2018 8:34am
  - Inandout
    
    Yes Dame Cath did know a bespectacled older ZB announcer very well.
    
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    June 4, 2018 8:58am
- MCos
  
  I wonder how many Knights of the realm would be involved in an illegal activity if prostitution hadn’t been legalized?
  
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  June 4, 2018 8:41am
- doggone7
  
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  Services to the sex industry? Most appropriate for Bill then. The Clutha affair showed him to be a fucking liar (and weasel).
  
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  June 4, 2018 8:57am
  - Happychappy
    
    And it shows Winston telling lies that you believed saying he had all the texts, so you prove it you fucking weasel because your Messiah couldn’t.
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:05am
    - doggone7
      
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      Well there’s grounds for Peters to be on the New Years list then I guess! (I believed Peters had all the texts???)
      
      C’mon you know Bill lied, c’mon you want to admit he was deeply involved in the affair. It won’t stop him getting a knighthood.
      
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      June 4, 2018 9:19am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Is that you Slater?
        
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        June 4, 2018 10:02am
  - Jack5
    
    Doggone7, you really belong at the woeful Standard.
    
    Bill English was a decent, capable politician. He deserves his knighthood.
    
    Little’s Lefties, who are about to unleash a storm of violent criminals on the community, in contrast, deserve contempt.
    
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    June 4, 2018 10:00am
    - Jack5
      
      By the Clutha affair, the Leftist stirrer, Doggone7, is referring to the media lynching of the young, inexperienced MP for Clutha, Todd Barclay, over his handling of relations with staff he inherited from Bill English, the former electorate MP.
      
      Barclay was to say the least, inept, but he did not deserve to be virtually hounded out of the country for this scale of offence.
      
      There is a stark difference between what happened to Barclay and to those involved in the recording from an empty table of the conversation between John Key and John Banks in 2011, with copies of the tape handed to the media.
      
      A media professional forgot to leave a tape recorder running on a table? Mmmm.
      
      However, what of the staff Barclay so poorly managed, and whom he fell out with, leading to his nemesis? Did they end up supporting NZ First? One at least appears to have been seen at an NZ First meeting.
      
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      June 4, 2018 10:24am
      - Viking2
        
        One went to work for winny down there.
        
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        June 4, 2018 10:51am
      - doggone7
        
        Bill English was a decent, capable politician who did the sorts of things that decent, capable politicians do when they have to – tell lies and mislead.
        
        And then rely on one-eyed sycophantic supporters to back them up.
        
        Oh, woe is me someone picking on the poor, unfortunate, “young, inexperienced MP for Clutha.”
        
        The initial comments on here weren’t about the poor handling of staff by Barclay but the cover-up and dishonesty of the (now) new Knight.
        
        And now you want to get a hanging rope out to deal to some staff member from there who went to a NZ First meeting? If going to a political meeting of some drongo MP or party when you supported someone else were a hanging offence my quiet attendance at many meetings would have seen me well gone by now.
        
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        June 4, 2018 11:27am
- slightlyrighty
  
  It beggars belief that this government would award an Honour for someone who represents a profession which is anything but honourable.
  
  I admire Catherine Healy for the work she has done with those on the outers of society, but I simply cannot accept that this government considers her work worthy of the same honour and title awarded to the likes of Sir Edmund Hillary
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:40am
  - Viking2
    
    So Sir Ed climbed a fucking hill and lived off that forever.
    Healy has worked for the betterment of Kiwi women for a long time in an industry which is never going away and once was the preserve of those gangs you so vehemently abhor. Her work, along with others, has deprived the gangs of much of that income whist helping to educate and protect women from some vile men.
    
    Pity we don’t do the same with drugs.
    
    Give credit where credit is due.
    
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    June 4, 2018 10:54am
    - slightlyrighty
      
      And what do you think of Hillary’s philanthropic work for the Sherpa People of Nepal? His work for the government as High Commissioner to India and Bangladesh?
      
      I’m happy to give credit where it is due, but for work in a field that I would not want my offspring to work, a Damehood is not appropriate in my opinion.
      
      If that makes me a bit of a prude, then so be it. I have a great deal of respect for Healy and her work in helping vulnerable women, and keeping them safe in a industry that is normally an option of last resort, but I am concerned about the signal that might be sent by this gesture.
      
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      June 4, 2018 1:01pm
      - Viking2
        
        Sad. you don’t have any respect for her at all. If you did you would recognize her efforts for what they are.
        You would give a gong to some loudmouth but not to someone who cares about others.
        Well done.
        
        Prostitution ain’t never going away and the abuse of girls and ladies ain’t either.
        
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        June 4, 2018 3:26pm
      - slightlyrighty
        
        Viking, I respect what she is doing, but being recognized at the highest level for her work in the Sex Industry in this manner?
        
        Would you want your female relatives working in this industry? I certainly don’t. But if it came to that I would be grateful for the work of people such as Catherine Healy in making it safe, but not for making it a viable employment option.
        
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        June 4, 2018 5:03pm
    - lifesgood
      
      Excuse me! Supporting the exploitation of women is not good or honourable. If she encouraged women to give up their trade that would be honourable.
      
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      June 4, 2018 4:23pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Slightly, I quite agree -especially with your last sentence. A QSM/QSO would have sufficed, surely.
    Nominated someone for royal honour once. Sixty years service to community, sometimes involving threat to his own safety and that was only worth a QSO.
    What will Healy get if she sticks to the cause for sixty years? Sainthood?
    It isn’t the acknowledgement that sticks in my craw, it’s the politicisation that gets things all out of proportion.
    
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    June 4, 2018 7:23pm
- lifesgood
  
  Lol, that’s 5 KBers who are partial to the services Dame Healey provides.
  
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  June 4, 2018 11:17am
  - Viking2
    
    The honour was bestowed for the services to her community not to for the services she may or may not have given to customers.
    
    there is a difference.
    
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    June 4, 2018 3:28pm
    - slightlyrighty
      
      Quote from the list.
      
      Ms Catherine Alice Healy, of Lower Hutt. For services to the rights of sex workers.
      
      Not “To the community”
      
      Should Sex Workers have rights? Absolutely. Should someone be fighting for those rights? Yes. Should she be honoured for it? Perhaps. With this honour? Not in my opinion. It’s a step too far.
      
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      June 4, 2018 5:08pm
peterwn

I did not know that Kiwibank is starting to wage war on cheques until a $1 cheque clearance fee appeared on my account (I have to bank several cheques a year), and then found that new books of cheques and deposit slips will be 30c each (per page, bit book). Wonder if other banks are ramping up a war on cheques and paper deposit slips (fortunately you do not need deposit slips if you have an EFTPOS card).
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June 4, 2018 8:17am
- kowtow
  
  From 1 May they also will not automatically reissue your cheque book , you’ll have to order one for $25 !
  
  Also $2 for posting out paper statements and charges for counter services, even to deposit money!
  
  All this and they still have account fees.
  
  They’re not waging war on cheques , they’re waging war on their own customers.
  
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  June 4, 2018 8:24am
  - stephieboy
    
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    kowtow, and you a Luddite waging war on technological change and progress.
    
    Small wonder though coming from one who wants property-owning as the only criteria for the right to vote.
    
    And I’ll bet that is for only mortgage-free property owners.
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:21am
    - dime
      
      Yeah he’s the luddite. We all know Muslims are high tech.
      
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      June 4, 2018 9:46am
    - calendar girl
      
      Stephie, it’s also a Kiwibank war on many older people who have their superannuation direct-credited to Kiwibank, but who can’t use a computer themselves to deal with their finances online. That wouldn’t worry a with-it guy like you, though.
      
      Shame on the Bank owned by public institutions (incl. ACC and the Super fund) for kicking some of its most vulnerable customers.
      
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      June 4, 2018 9:54am
      - Piniwi
        
        @calendar girl funnier still is so many oldies still only use their bankbook so they get the chance to chat to a teller to break their solitary lifestyle. These dominate the Kiwibank/Post Shop customer queues as they followed on from the POSB school banking system to the “new” bank. Irritating at times but funny to watch as a “life’s funny like that” moment.
        
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        June 4, 2018 9:06pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Do you have a point to make?
      
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      June 4, 2018 10:06am
- Monique Watson
  
  Funny thing. Here, you can’t get on without a cheque book and bugger me if it’s one of the things I still notice about America. It’s a “check book”! And the missing “U” furrows my brow every time.
  Overnight transfer? No way Jose but you can’t get through a week without writing fifty or so in the old-fashioned way.
  There would be an uproar if you were charged for checks here.
  Surprising that the banks rort customers more in New Zealand given that America is always on the take.
  I blame the Aussie influence and the propensity to dip in the pocket of Little Bro.
  
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  June 4, 2018 8:33am
- freethinker
  
  Part of the Global Bankers/Politicians war on cash because they can’t control cash and they want a Crypto $ so they can totally manipulate another aspect of our lives. They should recall that those who prevent peaceful revolution guarantee a violent revolution.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:29am
  - Harkman
    
    Didn’t Henry Ford say if people understood the monetary system, there’d be a revolution tomorrow?
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:41am
    - Southern Raider
      
      Henry Ford also said “Hitlers my friend”
      
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      June 4, 2018 11:12am
      - Harkman
        
        Did he? Chalk that one up to the long list of Nazi sympathasizers: Charles Lindbergh, Edward 8th, Hergé, Joe Kennedy
        
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        June 4, 2018 5:17pm
- Harkman
  
  Kiwibank is a gigantic uneconomic screw up, a few years ago I switched my main in and out from kiwibank to ANZ because they gave me a pay wave no cost account. My Kiwibank account which I had for years and years (the account number shows I was an original because I lived right next to a post office at the time) drifted under $4k but I’d stopped using it, and it kept going down. The bastards changed the account from what I originally set up to one that takes out $10 a week if below $5k or something. This went on for over a year before I noticed and stopped it. It was $620 in fees, f’n pricks.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:39am
  - peterwn
    
    Kiwibank has been pushing paywave debit cards (at no cost to customer I think). It is indeed no cost in many cases – supermarkets, petrol stations, etc., However as far as I know airlines, rental car companies, hotels, etc slam on a hefty fee for debit card transactions to cover bank merchant fees even though the merchant bank gets paid pretty well immediately.
    
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    June 4, 2018 10:02am
    - Harkman
      
      True but this was about a year or 18 months after ANZ gave me one.
      
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      June 4, 2018 10:07am
    - Paulus
      
      But Paywave only takes a Debit from your Credit Card Account which I never use.
      Was in an expensive restaurant the other day and before I could say no the owner Paywaved. I protested that I want to pay with my EFTPOS account which I use all the time. He said effectively tough and tried to con me for a tip.
      Bye !
      I told him that with a credit card account he will not get paid for up to six weeks and a charge around four percent is deducted. He did not care.
      This expensive restaurant (Mt Maung) was packed.
      
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      June 4, 2018 10:26am
      - peterwn
        
        AFAIK the retailer’s bank settle credit card payments pretty promptly and do not delay them a month or so.
        
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        June 4, 2018 1:56pm
redeye

Arise Sir Bill. Well deserved.
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June 4, 2018 8:17am
- artemisia
  
  Yes well deserved. And excellent to see that his social investment approach figured fairly prominently.
  
  (Where is that approach these days? Gone? Not gone? Morphed into more money and that’s it?)
  
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  June 4, 2018 8:23am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    The only good thing about this list is that Bill got one and Winston didn’t. As for the rest………
    Topp Twins. WTF?
    Catherine Healy. WTF?
    I guess Klarkula would have been on the list if she hadn’t done away with the gongs during her reign of terror.
    
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    June 4, 2018 8:29am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Captain Mainwaring, in a state of paralytic shock?
      
      Tsk, tsk, tsk…
      
      Who cares Captain bumble, fumble?
      
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      June 4, 2018 9:23am
      - Harkman
        
        Durka, Durka, Allah hu akbar, jihad, jihad. Death to America, Durka, Durka.
        
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        June 4, 2018 9:46am
    - Harkman
      
      Vlad Klarkula, has a ring to it and she was pasty white.
      
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      June 4, 2018 9:44am
Monique Watson

And in the early morning’s news, a good honest Bloke and his Blokess have been made Sir Bill and Lady Mary. They exemplify a wonderful love story of a couple committed to each other and their duties. They look so cute in the interview.
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June 4, 2018 8:23am
- Muttonbird
  
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  Cold comfort for the people sleeping in cars tonight.
  
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  June 4, 2018 8:32am
  - igm
    
    Most people sleeping in cars have defaulted on rent, wrecked properties, or are just plain Labour/Green leeches who know no better.
    
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    June 4, 2018 8:42am
    - stephieboy
      
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      igm, based on your own research and in-depth analysis?
      
      LOL
      
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      June 4, 2018 9:25am
      - riffer
        
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        You gotta remember stephieboy, that poor igm has never actually met an unemployed or homeless person, poor thing. All he knows about them is what he’s read here.
        
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        June 4, 2018 9:37am
      - dime
        
        LOL it hasn’t and won’t change under your hateful government.
        
        Under labour the poor are getting poorer
        
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        June 4, 2018 9:47am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Do you have a point to make?
        
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        June 4, 2018 10:12am
      - Northland Wahine
        
        stephieboy, based on my experience of continuous payments of rent arrears issued, not a couple of $ hundreds, usually thousands. Of finding suitable emergency housing for people to stay to say, nahhhh. I won’t a motel. From finding a social housing home to hear nahhhh, too far from my family. To last resorts of placing them into motels, and having them evicted for parties, damage, threatening behaviour and intimidation.
        
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        June 4, 2018 10:38am
      - Longknives
        
        “poor igm has never actually met an unemployed or homeless person,”
        
        Lucky Bastard!
        So he’s never had to hold his breath as he walks into Grey Lynn Supermarket as the stench of piss is so overwhelming from the drunk Maori guy lying in the door?
        So he’s never had to refuse to give the guy money? then be forced to call the Cops because this drunken feral was threatening him and his family?
        
        Lucky,Lucky Bastard!
        
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        June 4, 2018 10:52am
    - artemisia
      
      Then there are those sleeping in cars because they have been promised a warm, dry, cheap place for the whole family. Correlation or causation?
      
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      June 4, 2018 10:11am
  - Happychappy
    
    They will get colder to muttonhead as like you their brain doesn’t comprehend that they made the situation for themselves by moving out of the digs they had allowing others coming to NZ a place to live. Labour created the housing crisis and quite a number of those that are homeless created their own demise by not being good tenants by filth,damage or not paying their rent. But I guess you like Labour think that they are unfortunate and we should pay their way.
    
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    June 4, 2018 8:49am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Happychappy,again based on your own in-depth research and analysis?
      
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      June 4, 2018 9:26am
      - Chris R
        
        Are you envious that your very limited skills do not stretch to analysis or even pondered thought?
        
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        June 4, 2018 9:30am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Do you have a point to make?
        
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        June 4, 2018 10:14am
  - Duxton
    
    Muttonbird: If people are sleeping in cars, it can only be because of nine months of underinvestment by the SFM and her cabal.
    
    Suffer in ya jocks!
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:02am
  - stigie
    
    And i thought the COLs fixed all that Muttonhead..?
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:03am
    - Paulus
      
      In 100 days too – wow – great !
      
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      June 4, 2018 10:28am
  - MrTips
    
    Their called tourists in campervans MB. We have a lot of them you know.
    
    The other type you might be alluding to are the ones who suffered most from the last two Labour govts, under whose watch property rose the most. Doesn’t matter to Cindy “capitalism is dead” Bullshit Ardern who trousered a cool $400K recently from Port Chev sale.
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:12am
  - VicParking
    
    Muttonbird: Direct that question to Phil of Shit
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:21am
  - Komata
    
    Muttonbird
    
    Re: ‘Cold comfort for the people sleeping in cars tonight’
    
    People sleeping in cars???? Really???
    
    Surely not; according to Jacinda et al, her Unicorn Dust was blown and ‘poof’, people sleeping in cars simply disappeared as if they never, ever existed. Sweetness and light had returned to the poor of New Zealand, those poor souls ‘ground down’ by evil capitalism.
    
    Since you’ve evidently found a patch of ‘car sleepers’ that didn’t get the memo that they didn’t exist ‘cos of the Unicorn Dust, you’d really better run along and report it to the PM, so that she can ‘dust’ the ‘offenders’ and get everything back into ‘sweetness and light’ mode – or (even better) tell them at the ‘Standard’ all about it; I’m sure they’ll be pleased – and Ilprent might even recommend you for a knighthood (since that seems to be what you are looking for / wanting although the irony seems to have escaped you).
    
    Anyway, thanks for telling us allll about it, and please, go and tell the PM, quickly, so that she can do a ‘Dust Off’ and get things back to (her) normal. Can’t have Unicorn Dust’ going to waste can we?
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:33am
    - GazzaW
      
      “No one will be sleeping in their cars next winter under my watch.”
      
      Bahahaha……………
      
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      June 4, 2018 10:47am
  - Prince
    
    Muttonbird, are you the Dompost editor ?
    I see they had a swipe at English in this morning’s comment.
    So mean spirited.
    
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    June 4, 2018 11:15am
  - starboard
    
    How many can you take mutton head?
    2 or 3 families?
    Thought not.
    
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    June 4, 2018 1:40pm
- stephieboy
  
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  Monique Watson, syrupy sentiments straight out of a Wimmins Mag.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:43am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    What’s wrong with wimmin’s magazines, stephieboy?
    
    They do a fabulous job of promoting our lovely PM.
    https://www.noted.co.nz/currently/politics/labours-jacinda-ardern-on-why-she-doesnt-want-to-be-prime-minister/
    I can’t wait for the baby pics.
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:59am
    - Longknives
      
      Who is the woman in that pic Maggy?
      Because that sure as fuck isn’t Jacinda Ardern!
      
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      June 4, 2018 10:56am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Are we looking at the same Pic(s)?
        
        They are pics of J.A. before she became PM… from Next Magazine.
        
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        June 4, 2018 11:04am
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        Been photoshopped, Lk.
        
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        June 4, 2018 12:10pm
  - calendar girl
    
    So you don’t like women’s magazines either, stephie. More than a little sexist on that score, aren’t you?
    
    And why shouldn’t Monique Watson applaud the marriage and family values that have under-scored Sir William English’s success in public life? There’s no need to get all bitter and twisted about it because Bill & Mary English don’t happen to be your personal heroes. (We were well aware of that already.)
    
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    June 4, 2018 10:08am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      NO NO NO
      Stephie has a reading disability.
      Feel for him
      You too would have trouble, if you had to, by political philosophy, leave out all sentences containing any of the following words
      Right
      Fact
      Centre
      National
      Act
      Truth
      honest
      forthright
      competent
      work
      etc
      
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      June 4, 2018 11:51am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Do you have a point to make?
    Or are you just going to scroll down the comments scattering put-downs as you go?
    Sqwark
    Alt-right
    Trumpeters
    Oooo, …. Stormy
    References please
    
    Sqwark
    
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    June 4, 2018 10:18am
  - Monique Watson
    
    DilliGAF.
    
    Do I look Like I Give A Fuck?
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a6EOyaMdqY
    
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    June 4, 2018 3:16pm
- KevOB
  
  Meanwhile an unwed mother to be is running the country.
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:19am
  - marcw
    
    Meanwhile an unwed mother to be is ~~running~~ ruining the country.
    
    Fixed your spelling Kev.
    
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    June 4, 2018 10:30am
    - KevOB
      
      Thanks for correcting my oversight.
      
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      June 4, 2018 2:02pm
    - Monique Watson
      
      Bit fucking careless on the part of the Mom, right? Confidence in running a country? Zero.
      
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      June 4, 2018 3:18pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Well, to be fair Kev, could any woman really commit themselves to that man for the rest of her life? He can’t even squeeze his own almonds!
    
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    June 4, 2018 1:24pm
  - Fletch
    
    Soon to be unwed mother with bastard.
    
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    June 4, 2018 3:44pm
NK

The Oxford Dictionary has updated its definition of “Virtue Signalling” to read “New Zealand’s Queens Birthday Honours List of 2018”.
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June 4, 2018 8:24am
- smttc
  
  Nick, you beat me to it.
  
  I hope Oxford have not seen the NZ Honours List. Because if they have then they are going to have to rewrite the definition of service in their dictionary.
  
  For services to triathlon. WTF????
  
  For getting up in the morning and running, swimming and riding a bike.
  
  For services to entertainment. WTF????
  
  For being a legend in their own lunchtime. For standing up and making crap jokes and speaking in silly voices and getting paid to do it. Probably by NZ on Air.
  
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  June 4, 2018 8:34am
  - tf78
    
    I guess the only one really entitled to the “service” title was the prostitute woman.
    
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    June 4, 2018 8:48am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Service to Cambodians? Really?
    
    My cat constantly blackballs my nomination for a ‘service’ gong because I won’t leave the heating on 365
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:09am
- Paulus
  
  Surely “Queen’s” Birthday “Honour’s” List ?
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:31am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Otherwise we’d be thinking that Freddie Mercury had come back to life, or someone like him.
    
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    June 4, 2018 11:54am
Tricati

I suspect the Micro Plasma Bovis issue has been mana from heaven for the COL in driving the reduction in stock numbers.
I find it no coincidence we have this weekend Greenpeace TV adverts demonising farmers at the same time the government announcing we have reached ‘Peak Cow’.
With all the work farmers have done to clean up waterways, and the recent results showing rural rivers have improved; why isn’t here a focus on urban areas that have heavily polluted rivers, or contaminated beachs after it rains.
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- stephieboy
  
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  Tricati, just keep up stoking your deluded paranoia.
  
  That will be something for an addition to Ian Wishart’s anthology of fairytales.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:33am
- freethinker
  
  Perhaps its time for Farmers to follow the COLL?Unions and demand fair prices by witholding stock from the market for say a month, empty meat counters and high prices work wonders and can bring down Governments as hungry peasants become angry and then violent peasants.Check out Venezuela Cats,Dogs Horses are currently substitutes what next Cannibalism?
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:36am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Labour: Destroying NZ one industry at a time.
  NZ will be 3rd world country in 3…2…1
  
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  June 4, 2018 11:56am
- Piniwi
  
  Or Tricati shit left by freedom campers closing beaches even is lightly populated locations.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:21pm
NK

Dame Winnie faasamaulii Pa’paleleeo Laban?

FFS.

The Topp Twins do not deserve to be Dames. An honour, yes, but Dames? Never. They’re not funny nor are they talented.
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June 4, 2018 8:28am
- VicParking
  
  But they are the Supporting Act for Jacinda’s Election Meetings.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:23am
  - sooty
    
    They are Hulens favorite aswell! Going to be Labour list next elction.
    
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    June 4, 2018 11:38am
- Soletrader
  
  NK pardon my ignorance who was the first name???
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:55pm
Hugh Pavletich

AUSTRALIA: Mortgage rejections soar to 40% of applications as (Loan to Income) LTI capped – MacroBusiness

Post at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/06/mortgage-rejections-soar-to-40-of-applications-as-lti-capped/#comment-3116671

Mortgage rejections soar to 40% of applications as (Loan to Income) LTI capped – MacroBusiness

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/06/mortgage-rejections-soar-to-40-of-applications-as-lti-capped/

Cross-posted from Martin North:

The root cause of the [house price] falls is simple; credit is harder to get. Our surveys show that up to 40% of applications for mortgages are now being turned down, compared with just 5% a year ago, as lenders apply more forensic analysis of applications received. For example, CBA is now looking at applications with a loan to income of 4.5 times and above.

And I am getting more reports of households who are finding their available borrowing power is as much as 35% down on a year ago. … VIEW & READ more via hyperlink above …
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A Deeper Dive Into Loan To Income Ratios … Martin North … DFA / Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4xudY2Z5lY&t=1s

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Mortgage Measures | Central Bank of Ireland
… also … access background research …

https://www.centralbank.ie/financial-system/financial-stability/macro-prudential-policy/mortgage-measures
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Sydney auction clearance rate plunges into 40s – MacroBusiness
… behind paywall …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/06/sydney-auction-clearance-rate-plunges-40s/
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“Bank of Mum & Dad,” Huge Prop under UK Housing Bubble, is Running Out of Liquidity … Don Quijones … Wolf Street
h/t GF

https://wolfstreet.com/2018/05/31/bank-of-mum-dad-huge-prop-under-uk-housing-bubble-is-running-out-of-liquidity/

Bank of mum and dad could be NZ’s sixth largest first-home mortgage lender | Stuff.co.nz

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/money/103712810/bank-of-mum-and-dad-could-be-nzs-sixth-largest-firsthome-mortgage-lender
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June 4, 2018 8:29am
Hugh Pavletich

NEW ZEALAND: LATEST DUMB HOUSING (FINANCIAL FUEL) IDEA (LIKELY MIS- SPOKEN … WATCH TAIL END ‘THE NATION’ INTERVIEW) : NEW RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR ADRIAN ORR …

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/06/weekend-reading-2-3-june-2018/#comment-3116345

… NEW ZEALAND: LATEST DUMB HOUSING (FINANCIAL FUEL) IDEA (LIKELY MIS- SPOKEN … WATCH TAIL END ‘THE NATION’ INTERVIEW) : NEW RESERVE BANK GOVERNOR ADRIAN ORR …

… IS ADRIAN ORR OUT OF HIS DEPTH ? …

Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr says if the aim is to get more people into houses, it makes sense restrictions don’t apply to KiwiBuild | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/94068/reserve-bank-governor-adrian-orr-says-if-aim-get-more-people-houses-it-makes-sense

Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr thinks KiwiBuild homes should be exempt from loan-to-value ratio (LVR) restrictions.

Speaking to The Nation on Saturday, Orr said this makes sense as the policy is aiming to get people with lower incomes and families into homes. … read more via hyperlink above …

… Roger Witherspoon comments on thread above …

How do you make the unaffordable affordable? By making credit freely available to sub prime borrowers. Or am I missing something here?

Surely all these well intentioned schemes just inflate the price of housing? Like National’s laughable first home buyer subsidy, effectively adding $50,000 or more to the price of all entry level housing. If you give someone an extra 5% towards their deposit then they can borrow an extra $50,000 at a 10% deposit rate. So they can bid $50,000 more for a house.

All these bright, well intentioned bods are all from the same intelligentsia caste that created the house price problem in the first place, not to mention the leaky home fiasco. When will they actually identify the real causes of the house price bubble and stop believing in comfortable platitudes?

The Texans make us look really dumb:

https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/Gainesville-TX/pmf,pf_pt/house_type/87245387_zpid/45382_rid/globalrelevanceex_sort/33.768017,-96.960869,33.524223,-97.329941_rect/11_zm/
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… New Zealand Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr interview on Newshub The Nation …

Reserve Bank Governor ‘scared’ by level of mortgage debt in NZ | Newshub

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2018/06/reserve-bank-governor-scared-by-level-of-mortgage-debt-in-nz.html

… Has Adrian Orr learnt anything from the Irish 2007 experience ? … access Central Bank Of Ireland research via …

Central Bank Of Ireland – Mortgage Measures

https://www.centralbank.ie/financial-system/financial-stability/macro-prudential-policy/mortgage-measures

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/04/links-24-april-2018/#comment-3092390
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June 4, 2018 8:34am
- stigie
  
  Gone very soon !~
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:08am
Happychappy

Has the show pony come out and asked James Shaw to create a climate change cooking book with alternatives to help people not eat meat. The next thing it will be fish to save sea levels, for fucks sake when is Winston going to stop this stupidity.
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June 4, 2018 8:36am
- igm
  
  Winston is getting baubles, he will say nothing.
  
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  June 4, 2018 8:44am
  - Surely Knott
    
    Winston took his website down after the election. He has just now relaunched his website which is bizarre. Gone is all information, no history, no team, no 15 principles, no policies. Nothing. No information about who they are or what they stand for, or what they promised. Here is a link to their website before the election. https://web.archive.org/web/20170406093216/http://www.nzfirst.org.nz/ where the lead quote next to the winston Pic is “New Zealand First is not afraid to confront Parliament head on and we refuse to accept defeat in any cause we believe in.”
    Rt Hon Winston Peters”
    
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    June 4, 2018 8:10pm
- oldgolfer
  
  The remote nearly went the TV last night.
  Pasty Shaw looks like he needs a ribeye or three.
  Useless sod.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:09am
Longknives

I’ve never watched an episode of Dancing with the Stars.
But seeing as David Seymour’s mere presence is upsetting so many Left Wing Commentators-

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12064007

I intend voting for him tonight!! (Anyone know how I do this?)

*Remember last week Ali Mau was shrieking about a ‘Right Wing Conspiracy’ that involved John Key! The Left are losing their shit over a TV show…
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June 4, 2018 8:37am
- NK
  
  Text David to 3333.
  
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  June 4, 2018 8:57am
- SGA
  
  Steve Braunias’s article was OTT and mean spirited, granted. That said, from the few snippets of David Seymour that I have seen on the internet, he is pretty bloody awful. On the other hand, good on him for giving it a go, and Marama Fox had only nice things to say about his behaviour after she was eliminated.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:03am
- Inandout
  
  Ali Mau is losing it. Probably feels very guilty about her breakup, and is now barking to camouflage this flaw.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:04am
  - SGA
    
    Probably feels very guilty about her breakup
    
    Odd comment. What makes you think that? Just curious.
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:07am
    - Inandout
      
      ‘Odd’ perhaps to some.
      
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      June 4, 2018 9:47am
      - SGA
        
        Help us out then 🙂
        
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        June 4, 2018 10:06am
  - Longknives
    
    I think Ali Mau has completely lost her marbles.
    She ended up with egg all over her face after her #MeToo Femnazis (who were going to change the World) refused to even acknowledge the Labour Party Sex Camp allegations (She sneered ‘Old White men with Tinfoil Hats’ or something) and as such her whole ‘movement’ has been exposed as a hypocritical joke.
    This ridiculous woman tries to start a #MeToo movement and promises to investigate any allegation/name and shame etc- Then ignores the biggest Sex Scandal to hit New Zealand in years?
    Pathetic- But you expect as much from the Left.
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:11am
    - Harkman
      
      I’ll pay someone to go on her twitter page and call her a ‘Lickety Slit.’ Imagine the eruption? ?
      
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      June 4, 2018 9:52am
      - Piniwi
        
        But Harkman the PC of that is “clitty licker” apparently as it is so much more warm and fuzzy.
        
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        June 4, 2018 9:27pm
    - lifesgood
      
      Simon’s well rid. She’s a repulsive, Aussie, loud mouth, wannabe. I’ve had the misfortune to be in a cafe when she came sweeping in talking at the top of her lungs and expecting everyone to notice and admire her. Most completely ignored her, deliberately.
      
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      June 4, 2018 11:22am
- Duxton
  
  “Remember last week Alison Mau was shrieking.”
  
  There. Fixed it for ya. She is always shrieking. The only thing that ever changes is the shriekee.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:08am
- stephieboy
  
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  Longknives and NK, both voted for Rodney Hide?
  
  https://www.noted.co.nz/culture/television/dancing-with-the-stars-nz-david-seymour/
  
  LOL
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:34am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    What is your point?
    
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    June 4, 2018 10:22am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Stupidboy only said that in order to get 50 more downticks. An average of 50 multiplied by 23,393 comments equals 1,169,650 people who think he’s a total fuckwit.
      Nobody else on here comes close, not even Muttonhead or Morris Dancer.
      
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      June 4, 2018 12:00pm
- freethinker
  
  Alison Mau just a piece of left wing lesbian shit.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:39am
- MCos
  
  At the end of the year there might as well be a DWTS and the winners get to be made Knights & Dames.
  It certainly doesn’t seem like dancing has much to do with it!
  I can picture it now Dame Ella, Sir Simon/Dame Judith (whoever the Nat leader is at the time), Dame Penny, Sir Bishop Brian.
  All those people could probably rack up far more votes than David Seymour in the current farce.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:44am
  - sooty
    
    I hope that’s not Penny Bright you are damming?
    
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    June 4, 2018 11:48am
igm

Once more I ask when are Crockery, the illegitimate lump, and Gayboy moving into one of Gluckman’s meth approved homes to prove their safety?
This not too much to ask, after all, “Think of the Children” is Crockery’s catch cry!
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June 4, 2018 8:39am
- doggone7
  
  You want them to move in to see whether it destroys people’s minds, their ability to reason and be reasonable? Any of the places you’ve lived in been tested?
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:02am
  - igm
    
    Crockery and her cohorts are berating National for booting people out of unsafe houses that were safe. Let her prove to NZ that she concurs with Gluckman and finds these homes safe, and maybe you are the result of one of these meth homes.
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:10am
    - Paulus
      
      Lawyers, Estate Agents and Insurance Companies (EQ zoning) are still asking for tests irrespective of Gluckman when buying a property. I would.
      And Builder’s Inspections.
      My younger family are in the middle of a purchase in Wellington, having returned from overseas posting – and what a performance. One house failed so far.
      
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      June 4, 2018 10:41am
    - doggone7
      
      The result of ordinary homes with ordinary hard working folk who produced hard-working off-spring. Where the values were such that people grew up to treat others reasonably, not have a nasty streak and realise that intelligence was important.
      
      But got older and realised there are ignoramuses peddling nastiness and ignorance who need to be told. I suppose because some in the Government talk about detention camps in Australia they should live there too, and talk about oil supplies so shouldn’t ride in vehicles using fossil fuels.
      
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      June 4, 2018 3:10pm
  - Duxton
    
    Actually, you have a point there, doggone.
    
    Crockery’s and Sprat Catchery’s minds are already f*cked, and neither of them has the ability to reason or be reasonable.
    
    Hopefully the state authorities will keep an eye on the NB (Nation’s Baby).
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:56am
- MCos
  
  Translation:
  It’s raining.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:05am
Wangas Feral

OK – I am not as young a feral as I once was. Was chopping/splitting a trailer of wood the old fashioned way with an axe and seem to have pulled a muscle or two. My back and ab obliques are in utter agony. Barely slept last night as every time I moved the muscles spasmed. How the fuck do you rest abd muscles to give them a chance to settle down?
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June 4, 2018 8:44am
- tf78
  
  Magnesium is pretty good for muscle pain.
  
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  June 4, 2018 8:55am
  - Wangas Feral
    
    I am 40km from nearest diary let alone chemist.
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:29am
    - Harkman
      
      Ibuprofen?
      
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      June 4, 2018 9:54am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        …is apparently long-term bad for your testicles and fertility.
        
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        June 4, 2018 3:02pm
      - Harkman
        
        I wonder if Lance Armstrong was taking it?
        
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        June 4, 2018 6:07pm
    - milkmaid
      
      If you have Epsom Salts, you can soak in that in a bath.
      
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      June 4, 2018 10:20am
- Inandout
  
  In future keep your axe sharpened and your body straight, and I shouldn’t have to mention (most) green wood splits better than dry.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:07am
  - Wangas Feral
    
    I think I should have warmed up first.
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:30am
    - Fletch
      
      Best to rent the engine-powered logsplitter. Fairly cheap to rent and depending on the logs you can get it done in a day.
      
      Ps, when doing it the manual way is probably best to use a maul to split wood the old fashioned way, not an axe. (I think Mitre10 just calls them a log splitter). I think the head is heavier and makes it easier.
      
      I have to admit, I’d probably be very much in pain if I tried to split wood these days…lol
      
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      June 4, 2018 3:55pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Ah WF that is the key right there and even a performance car needs a key to start before going from 0 to 100 in the blink of an eye.
      
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      June 4, 2018 9:49pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Retire and reserve the axe for crooks, and get a log splitter
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:16am
  - Wangas Feral
    
    Can’t afford a log splitter as I have just ordered a Dane Axe.
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:31am
    - Paulus
      
      Hire a log splitter – I have for years – great fun too.
      
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      June 4, 2018 1:43pm
- Colville
  
  Voltaren. You can buy it at the chemist no Dr needed. Take 100 mg with a meal.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:31am
  - Wangas Feral
    
    See my comment about distance from town. Not sure I am up to an hour or more in the car. If it is bad tomorrow I will go into town.
    
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    June 4, 2018 9:33am
    - Piniwi
      
      @WF try the relaxation method which already on hand. Lay down an a firm but comfortable surface. Relax you entire body and place hands at waist level. Let the muscles all relax from head to toe, chin down and mouth comfortably open. Then “find” the painful muscle group by simply flexing each until you find the one that hurts the most. Easiest done after relaxing as each group can be found one at a time and you will be surprised that they are easy to find.
      Then the process is simple to tense just that muscle until the pain is felt and hold 5 seconds. Release and rest 5 seconds then repeat the process noting that with each tension it is going a little further.
      Be patient and continue for as long as gains are made or move on to another pained area. Between each set drink lots of water which is the only additive needed.
      After the completing the first series it will be easier to find a comfortable position for your body to rest. Next session lift to 10 sec hold and release with the understanding that it keeps getting better with every squeeze.
      In fact the muscle has become a pump for the dead matter that causes the inflammation and is being pumped away by the controlled flexing plus the hydration of the water. While the average pain killer like paracetamol will help it is short term and can mask the pain. The simple process suggested will ensure your body recovers more completely. The key is getting the body to relax completely then target the pained areas one set at a time. So time to lie down.
      
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      June 4, 2018 10:20pm
- dime
  
  Protein. You probably haven’t pulled anything, just had a big work out.
  
  Hydrate lots too
  
  And voltarin
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:51am
- Duxton
  
  I take it that you won’t be calling on Dame Cath Healey’s services today, then. I hear she is in the mood to celebrate.
  
  SFM had better keep an eye on Clarke today!
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:58am
- Wangas Feral
  
  Mrs Feral suggested lying down in bed with a couple of hotties. I was all for that but thought it might actually make my back worse.
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:01am
  - Piniwi
    
    @No bed rest, hottie or alcohol. Lay down on the floor carpet with head support and use the relaxation method suggested above. Mrs F can help most by talking you quietly through the relaxation of your body then counting the squeeze and release process.
    
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    June 4, 2018 10:24pm
- double d
  
  HTFU
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:06am
  - Wangas Feral
    
    I am trying – I can barely move.
    
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    June 4, 2018 10:17am
    - Viking2
      
      Shout yourself a heat pump. Easier than splitting wood.
      Decided i couldn’t be bothered anymore so did just that.
      Great.
      
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      June 4, 2018 11:13am
    - double d
      
      ?
      
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      June 4, 2018 2:17pm
- calendar girl
  
  Sounds like you’ve reached an age where some daily 5-minute home exercises (inside is fine) are necessary for your back. Might help to get some medical / physio advice, but ultimately success will depend on your own commitment to the exercise regime you adopt.
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:21am
  - Wangas Feral
    
    Yep – was thinking same.
    
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    June 4, 2018 11:17am
- KevOB
  
  Our Rubiton works well on muscle spasm. Contact me at flix@slingshot.co.nz and I will send a free supply.
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:27am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Spa bath and spa pool. Works for me. But seriously, massage at one of those Asian places in the malls, when you get to town
  
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  June 4, 2018 11:51am
- Monique Watson
  
  We’ve gotta suck it back as we aren’t as young as we once were. I pulled a fucking chest muscle recently. Who the fuck pulls a chest muscle? And this week I started officially getting fat. Didn’t see that Mother on the rearview mirror.
  Friends and I were texting this morning saying how we really are giving up the drink and food this week.
  Becoming Breath-aterian is our only hope.
  
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  June 4, 2018 12:32pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Na, it’s not fat Monique.
    It’s gravity…
    Gravity pulls your top assets down and pushes your bottom ones up to meet in the roly poly middle.
    
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    June 4, 2018 1:27pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Booze. Chairs with arms. Care getting into and out of bed.
  
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  June 4, 2018 3:04pm
- Piniwi
  
  @Wangras Feral sorry to hear you are so out of shape but if such discomfort is the result of a bit of wood splitting it is your technique that is the problem more that you body. However there is a very effective method of relaxation that is taught by most hospital physiotherapists and possibly private practitioners. Very effective for what ails you as well as helping those with problems getting to sleep. Better than any medication as the mind helps to mend the body in the simplest of ways.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:44pm
Left Right and Centre

Did someone say it’s Samoan Family Planning Week in NZ ?
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June 4, 2018 8:48am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  Planning to go on the benefit week more like it.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:59am
- GazzaW
  
  ‘Planning On How Many More To Have Week’ more like.
  
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  June 4, 2018 11:00am
- Viking2
  
  Here is how its done in Samoa.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12060527
  
  No wonder we have trouble here.
  Send them all back and refuse to take any more.
  
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  June 4, 2018 11:15am
kowtow

Welcome to Glasgow.

No guns allowed , plenty of machetes!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5800167/Shocking-moment-thug-waving-MACHETE-chases-man-street-broad-daylight.html
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June 4, 2018 9:01am
- Komata
  
  Nae a Glasgae Kiss then; how things have changed…
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:40am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    There were Razor gangs back in the ’20s when my daddy was a laddie there.
    https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history/rise-fall-glasgow-young-teams-12243019
    
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    June 4, 2018 10:06am
- stephieboy
  
  kowtow, let Glasgow be awash waving AR 15s and AK 12s instead, eh?
  
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  June 4, 2018 11:09am
- cha
  
  Nothing quite like a Glasgow smile.
  
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  June 4, 2018 1:48pm
greybeard

This article in today’s Stuff must be satire surely.
And appears to be unfinished.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/houses/104220351/at-home-with-wellington-students
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June 4, 2018 9:09am
- oldgolfer
  
  Jesus. I was not ready for that so soon after learning the unfunny Topp twins had a gong.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:12am
- Longknives
  
  Stuff have really outdone themselves there!
  The quality of New Zealand Journalism is just outstanding Ha Ha
  Doesn’t Ali Mau work for Stuff?
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:14am
- SGA
  
  Hope it is satire – 21 year olds with One Direction on the wall, yikes.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:16am
- Inandout
  
  What I can’t understand is how Stuff can continue to publish this free ‘news’ online while their newspaper subscriptions tank? They must eventually run out of money.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:20am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  Wow – daddy buys uni student daughter a house to live in while studying ?
  
  ‘At home with student from very well-off parents’.
  Moronic lightweight shit from ‘journalist / reporter’ – qualification – ‘can use a keyboard’.
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:38am
stigie

Hugh went quick this morning, the blighter couldn’t hang around for a coffee..?
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June 4, 2018 9:15am
- Monique Watson
  
  Something’s truly wrong if you can’t hang around for a coffee and a wank, I always say.
  
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  June 4, 2018 12:26pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Bugger, I missed him, too busy watching motor racing and golf.
  Glad there are others who help make him disappear in my absence.
  
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  June 4, 2018 1:47pm
Inandout

Was getting veges from a roadside seller and they were packed in a plastic bag. I naturally asked when they would stop using the bags and she said they won’t because the bags they are now using decompose within 2 years. They cost an extra cent each. I wondered why the supermarkets don’t use these bags that break down, or is the slightly dearer cost the reason? I seem to remember New World tried this years ago and the bags would break up into small pieces if left for a time. I don’t trust supermarkets acting in the customer’s favour.
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June 4, 2018 9:15am
- GazzaW
  
  Removing plastic bags will save the likes of Countdown hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Sure, there will be some initial ‘feel good’ donations to green causes but they will inevitably be phased out. No doubt biodegradable bin-liners will become all time big sellers with a decent profit margin for Countdown.
  
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  June 4, 2018 11:08am
  - Viking2
    
    Wife commented that some weeks back she was getting a rebate for having her own bags.
    That has now stopped.
    
    Why do businesses set out to piss off their customers at the behest of a noisy few?
    
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    June 4, 2018 11:19am
    - lifesgood
      
      I have managed to stockpile at least a couple of hundred plastic bags…bins liners for 4 years. I get as many as I can each time I go to the supermarket.
      I don’t believe for one minute the supermarkets are doing this for the environment, they are doing this for the money. Go onto youtube to find a nifty way to fold plastic bags to make for their easy storage,
      
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      June 4, 2018 11:26am
      - starboard
        
        Next time I am in Nil Ziland, I will go to Countdown, find the biggest shopping trolley and fill it to overflowing with groceries. Then I shall proceed to the checkout, no doubt get the question ” do you have something to pack your groceries in sir”.. “No, I dont”..”You will need to purchase these recyclable bags then”… I shall then turn, and walk out the door. Heh.
        
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        June 4, 2018 12:24pm
      - VicParking
        
        Ditto. Visited an old couple to give them some firewood. She had bundles of supermarket plastic bags. Been saving them for years and has never used them. Only to pleased to give me about 100
        
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        June 4, 2018 4:22pm
    - Paulus
      
      Our New World gives 10c for each of your own bags used.
      
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      June 4, 2018 1:45pm
      - Viking2
        
        Did, but that’s gone apparently.
        
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        June 4, 2018 3:39pm
    - VicParking
      
      Cloth bags for a dollar. By Xmas they will be $4.99
      
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      June 4, 2018 4:19pm
      - Steve (North Shore)
        
        Other cloth bags or cardboard bags we have many. We will use them. Amazing the amount of advertising will be done – shit, bags from Hawaii, Australia, Alaska, KFC, Hunting and Fishing, ffs
        
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        June 4, 2018 7:09pm
Tauhei Notts

I watched the Al Jazeera documentary about match fixing of cricket matches. It is a very serious matter.
But it all comes from the sub-continent.
They are such different people. For example, we ordered an Italian take away meal last night and asked if we could have anchovies on the pizza. The shop assistant, who would know more about curry than I will learn in my lifetime, had never ever heard of people having anchovies on their pizza. He did not know what an anchovy was!
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June 4, 2018 9:18am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  If an assistant works in a shop that sells pizza, he ought to become familiar with pizza and their common toppings.
  There is more to life than curry.
  There’s CoCo Curry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP3xRhfRJJQ
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:22am
- Komata
  
  Tauhei
  
  And does anyone find the idea of a Chinaman or a Thai making ‘Gelato’s’ (which are Italian ice creams for those who may not know) just a trifle odd?
  
  ‘They’re everywhere, they’re everywhere…’
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:44am
  - stephieboy
    
    Komato, import some Italians fit for purpose making up and serving Gelatos?
    
    Or don’t they as “wogs” qualify?
    
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    June 4, 2018 11:23am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  Shut up and enjoy you cultural enrichment to filthy white New Zealanders.
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:01am
  - Komata
    
    Padriv
    
    Knowing the ‘hygeine’ habits of those from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, ‘shutting up’ while eating a Gelato made by their hands is not necessarily a good idea – better to avoid the establishments all together; rectal bacteria are no respecters of culture..
    
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    June 4, 2018 11:20am
    - stephieboy
      
      Komato , forgetting to wash your hands after wiping your bum?
      
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      June 4, 2018 11:24am
      - GazzaW
        
        Juvenile comment stiffie. Even you can do better than that.
        
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        June 4, 2018 2:06pm
Ross12

There seems to be a few IT/techy people on here. I watched a very well presented and produced Discovery program on Saturday night — Smart China -Start Up Revolution. Well worth watching if they scene it again or if it is on Netflix or somewhere else. Amazing advancements and engineering. Quite a bit about AI.
Even if you are not a techy, like me, it is worth a watch.
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June 4, 2018 9:28am
- VicParking
  
  You need to look at that program with a grain of salt.
  For every one success there are 1000 failures. China is a big Country. See the article and Video of a whole group of massive apartment buildings being blown up with one person even living in them.
  
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  June 4, 2018 4:17pm
DifferentPerspective

That’s awkward! Trump approval

Sufferers of TDS will need special medication once they’ve seen this.

Gallup show that the ordinary, decent folk in the US like what Trump is doing and it’s only “feckless c*nts” in the media who are utterly out of touch with reality.
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June 4, 2018 9:29am
- stephieboy
  
  DP , do note ” own party approval” rating.
  
  Sigh!
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:40am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    do note – I did say “ordinary, decent folks in the US” by which of course I mean conservatives and GOP members
    
    I’ve long ago given up on libtards so wouldn’t have thought to include the lost in my thinking
    
    “sigh”
    
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    June 4, 2018 11:58am
- GazzaW
  
  The very significant reductions in US unemployment right across the board is becoming very irksome and awkward to explain for the lefty MSM.
  
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  June 4, 2018 11:13am
- kowtow
  
  I’d warrant that most ordinary decent citizens , throughout the west ,are all similarly concerned about the same things.
  
  Security , personal and economic.
  Then tied to that are the interconnected issues of mass immigration , Islam and terror , the future of work, rapid social change.
  
  The people who “embrace” and “celebrate” all these changes are few and far between and tend to be your elites , leftists , media , NGO types, churches and public tit dependants.
  
  But as these people control the output of the media you’d think you were in a tiny minority , but you’re not.
  
  Samoan Language Week anybody?
  
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  June 4, 2018 11:21am
Ross12

SB –it is own party approval rating compared to other President’s own approval rating at the same time in their presidency including your mates Obama and Clinton.
What is wrong with that?
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June 4, 2018 9:47am
Catons

By cheapening Damehoods and Knighthoods they will gradually disappear. Today’s list is a good start towards that process.
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June 4, 2018 9:49am
- dime
  
  That appears to be the strategy
  
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  June 4, 2018 9:53am
- Psycho Milt
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Agreed – fancy giving Bill English one. Mind you, knighthoods have been a cheap pay-off for retired politicians for a very long time now, so it would be hard to cheapen them much further.
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:11am
  - GazzaW
    
    Sir Michael Cullen and Sir Geoffrey Palmer being shining examples Psycho.
    
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    June 4, 2018 11:14am
    - stephieboy
      
      Gazza, not forgetting Sir Hohn Keys, Sir Jim Bolger, ACTS Sir Roger Douglas. Let’s add Dame Jenny Shipley.
      
      Fixed.
      
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      June 4, 2018 1:04pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Who the fuck is Sir Hohn Keys?
        
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        June 4, 2018 1:08pm
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Lets see:
        Palmer and cullen left massive recessions in their wake.
        Key and Shipley left growing economies after international economic hardship
        Bolger turned it around from Moore’s (bull shit “the books balance”)
        Roger Douglas gave light to much of the economic theory that works today ( in NZ) and the only Labour MP I would have considered voting for.
        
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        June 4, 2018 1:40pm
      - GazzaW
        
        I’m not forgetting them at all stiffie. You forgot Sir Keith Holyoake, Sir Robert Muldoon and Sir Jack Marshall in more recent times and displayed your total ignorance by granting a knighthood to Jim Bolger. He was of course an ardent republican as anyone with a basic knowledge of NZ politics is very much aware and declined the title.
        
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        June 4, 2018 2:15pm
    - Psycho Milt
      
      Sir Michael Cullen and Sir Geoffrey Palmer being shining examples Psycho.
      
      Well, yes, exactly. Both major parties have a long history of dishing out titles to retired party hacks or, worse, as a “Thank you very much for your kind donations.”
      
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      June 4, 2018 2:44pm
Manolo

Out with the African invaders:
https://apnews.com/2c3771ee21c045c3ac87c1d6369f89fc/New-Italian-govt-vows-to-create-jobs,-deport-migrants

Italy’s new populist leaders commemorated the founding of the Italian republic by attending a pomp-filled military parade Saturday — and then promised to get to work creating jobs and expelling migrants.

“The free ride is over,” League leader Matteo Salvini, Italy’s new interior minister, warned migrants at a rally in northern Italy. “It’s time to pack your bags.”
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June 4, 2018 9:50am
- Psycho Milt
  
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  Remind us again which of Trump’s “shithole countries” you come from?
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:09am
Manolo

The words of an egotist…and stephieboy’s wet dream:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/opinion/sunday/obama-ben-rhodes-world-as-it-is.html

As president, Obama always found us wanting. We were constantly disappointing him. He would tell us the right thing to do and then sigh and purse his lips when his instructions were not followed.
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June 4, 2018 9:53am
- Harkman
  
  Hey ya see Samantha Bee? She apologized at 11:15AM saying she was sorry but by that night when collected some award for not actually being funny (like the top twins) she wasn’t sorry and was thanking Time Warner for having her back?
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:01am
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Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
HOUSING NZ OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT (OIA) REPLY on the ‘P’ contamination SCAM (22 June 2016).

Read it for yourself – 72 pages.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VWZx3Y9ce-ukuCKoWrGp7mZwlIGslYOs/view

When are mainstream media going to GRILL former Housing Minister Nick Smith on the P contamination SCAM?

Why, IMO, is the main culprit and perpetrator Nick Smith – being effectively ignored by mainstream media and the ‘flak catching’ being effectively left to Paula Bennett?

Here is my OIA request (originally to Nick Smith as Minister of Housing – which he transferred to Housing NZ):

Did Paula Bennett (or Judith Collins) ask these questions of Nick Smith (Minister of Housing) regarding testing of HNZ properties for suspected “P” contamination?

As I did on 31 May 2016?
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31 May 2016

Minister of Housing
Nick Smith

‘Open Letter’ /OIA request to Minister of Housing Nick Smith, about the testing of HNZ properties for suspected “P” contamination.

Dear Minister,

Can you please provide copies of the following:

A) The information which provides the legislative/ policy / procedures which cover the TESTING of Housing NZ properties for suspected “P” contamination:

1) Legislation
2) Standards
3) Regulation
4) Policy
5) Procedures
6) Protocol

? The information which provides the legislative/ policy / procedures which cover the DECONTAMINATION of Housing NZ properties for actual “P” contamination, discovered through testing:

1) Legislation
2) Standards
3) Regulation
4) Policy
5) Procedures
6) Protocol

C) Copies of the nformation which explains when, and why HNZ properties are tested for “P”:

1) What ‘triggers’ a “P” test?
2) What triggers “P” decontamination?
3) At what point is it decided that the risk of “P” contamination warrants tenants having to leave the HNZ property?

D) What exactly are the official ‘levels’ upon which HNZ is relying in order to define that a property is ‘contaminated’.

E) What exactly are the official ‘levels’ upon which HNZ is relying in order to decide that a property is so ‘contaminated’ with “P” that it needs to be demolished.

F) Names of the company / companies employed by HNZ who carry out testing for “P” contamination.

1) A copy of the ‘qualifications’ which confirm these companies are ‘fit for duty’.

G) Names of the company / companies employed by HNZ who carry out “P” ‘decontamination’.

1) A copy of the ‘qualifications’ which confirm these companies are ‘fit for duty’.

H) When did HNZ start testing properties for ‘P’ contamination.

I) What are the total numbers of HNZ properties on an annual basis, since ‘P’ testing was initiated by HNZ, that have been found to have ‘P’ contamination.

J) What are the total numbers of HNZ properties that have been demolished because of ‘P’ contamination.

K) How does HNZ determine WHO caused the ‘P’ contamination.

L) What is the HNZ process / policy / procedure for deciding on potential consequences for HNZ tenants who have been allegedly responsible for ‘P’ contamination.

Yours sincerely

Penny Bright

2016 Auckland Mayoral candidate
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June 4, 2018 9:58am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  Oh my God Penny.
  How have you not learner anything from what happened to you over the last 10 years. Like a bloody child you are honestly.
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:03am
- stigie
  
  Imagine if National had run with the P houses and done nothing, Penny would have been down on them like 2 tons of bricks !~
  It’s called “between a rock and a hard place” Penny..!
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:15am
- big bruv
  
  Hey Penny,
  Firstly, sorry to hear about your health, even though I have no time for you I would not wish that on you.
  Secondly, I pissed myself with laughter at the news that you lost your rates battle. Now that you are nothing more than an insignificant nutter would you not be better spending your time fighting your illness than desperately seeking to stay in the spotlight?
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:15am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  See?
  I Spray and Walk Away
  Rubbish Stays
  I walk away
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:59am
- lifesgood
  
  I thought you were ill.
  
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  June 4, 2018 11:29am
Harkman

P labs aren’t safe Penny, go pay your taxes (or move to Monaco).
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June 4, 2018 10:02am
artemisia

Dr Sarah Phear is scrambling to backtrack after initial enthusiasm and near certainty a tree was a waka under construction.

“Project archaeologist Sarah Phear was excited at the find, which she believed was the first waka to be found still under construction.”

Not a good look for a professional archaeologist. The internet is forever, hopefully she has learnt a lesson about chickens hatching.
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June 4, 2018 10:04am
- VicParking
  
  Last week I found a carved stone that dates back to the Pre-Maori colonisation of New Zealand. Woops sorry it was just a old dog shit
  
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  June 4, 2018 4:12pm
big bruv

I wonder what other crimes one can get away with if you’re a gormless looking, International rugby playing oaf from Taranaki?
We already know that members of the NZ national rugby team can get away with bashing their partners, beating up innocent people for no reason at all and for taking illegal drugs but it’s now clear that you can add home invasion to that list of crimes that NZ rugby players get a free pass from.
There are a few questions I have about this crime.
1. Just how did the gormless rugby player get into the house? I don’t buy the line “the door was unlocked” at all.
2. If two young ladies awoke to find these morons in their house and the police were called why the hell were the pair of them not arrested on the spot?
3. Would a brown kid from South Auckland be let off scott free if he walked into the wrong house and started eating burgers?
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June 4, 2018 10:08am
- Morrissey
  
  Watch for this idiot in the next edition of Gropers.
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:26am
  - sooty
    
    Not untill you put the Labour party pervert on your list!
    
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    June 4, 2018 12:02pm
- SGA
  
  @big bruv
  Steve Hansen was with them too, by the way. He broke the door down with an axe. He was stark naked in the living room doing lines of cocaine when the armed defenders burst in.
  
  It’s all been covered up, of course 😉 .
  
  (Agree with you about the brown kid from South Auckland, btw.)
  
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  June 4, 2018 12:45pm
- doggone7
  
  The rugby player from Taranaki kicks a ball around which has more intelligence than some of those who’ve made comments about the incident given the information out about it from the various sources.
  1. You don’t buy the line “the door was unlocked” because you hate rugby. Students not locking doors in Dunedin? hell that’ll be new.
  
  2. If the pair of them weren’t arrested on the spot it’s because the cops found out what happened and since they weren’t fuckwits with a hatred of rugby and rugby players and had more than half a brain they did what they had to do.
  
  3. If a brown kid from South Auckland walked into the wrong house and started eating burgers in the same circumstances there’d have been the same result.
  
  From the nonsense you’ve written the only free pass in evidence is the brain bypass you display.
  
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  June 4, 2018 8:41pm
Morrissey

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The brilliant Frankie Boyle

On a day that a notorious housing rorter is not jailed, but KNIGHTED, it’s important to remember that there are thoughtful and decent people in the world. ….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyFZX39joSM
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June 4, 2018 10:24am
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One down vote immediately. National Party drones are on the job!
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June 4, 2018 10:27am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Na, that down vote was from me.
  I don’t belong to the National Party (or any Political party).
  It was just to indicate that you are still exhibiting difficulty in formulating logical premises.
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:50am
  - stephieboy
    
    MW , logical premises?
    
    Like here?
    
    ,https://skepticalscience.com/Judith_Curry_blog.htm
    
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    June 4, 2018 11:04am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      What’s your point, stephieboy?
      
      Do you think Professor Curry can’t formulate a logical argument?
      
      Show me where she is going wrong in her latest little quest to clarify the scientific debate about attribution in Climate Science.
      https://judithcurry.com/2018/05/30/fundamental-disagreement-about-climate-change/
      
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      June 4, 2018 11:12am
      - DifferentPerspective
        
        He’s having a bad day Maggy – it appears the “warmest May evah!” claim from the Met Service in the UK is just another AGW lie – May 1833 appears to blow May 2018 completely out of the water.
        
        By now most ordinary, decent folks are thinking the exact opposite is true when an official says something about Climate Change.
        
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        June 4, 2018 12:09pm
      - William of Ockham
        
        @DifferentPerspective
        https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2735/april-2018-was-third-warmest-april-on-record/
        
        Just as well the government is ignoring ignorant twerps like you.
        
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        June 4, 2018 12:15pm
    - William of Ockham
      
      Zeke Hausfather, Berkeley Earth:
      https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-scientists-think-100-of-global-warming-is-due-to-humans
      
      Hope the young will have time to act once the Farrar-Followers and other mad old fuckers have died off.
      
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      June 4, 2018 12:11pm
      - Ross12
        
        WoO
        Since you are such a saint, can you tell us what you do personally, to help avert the oncoming disaster that you continue to blast us about.
        
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        June 4, 2018 1:47pm
- Harkman
  
  Morri until you place the Labour party sexual abuser at the top of your list, you’ll be overwhelmed with thumbs down votes.
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:58am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    And remember, we know it’s a son of a prominent Labour Cabinet Minister because the Commissioner of Police hasn’t issued a statement categorically stating that it isn’t!
    
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    June 4, 2018 12:10pm
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    Harkman. already tried and found guilty?
    
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    June 4, 2018 1:06pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Got off scott free more like.
      
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      June 4, 2018 2:59pm
stigie

You’re popular Morris Princess, no doubt about that !~
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June 4, 2018 10:46am
Steve (North Shore)

And now for something different -if it works:
https://www.facebook.com/MichelleMalkinCRTV/videos/468371733582648/
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June 4, 2018 10:51am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Let’s do this
  
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  June 4, 2018 10:54am
- Harkman
  
  I bet that she is a tiger in bed grrrrrrh!
  
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  June 4, 2018 11:04am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    I did think that as well!
    
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    June 4, 2018 11:06am
  - cha
    
    An anchor babe.
    
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    June 4, 2018 1:52pm
RW Capitalist

More on CGT
CAPITAL GAINS TAX:
ANALYSIS OF REFORM OPTIONS
FOR AUSTRALIA
Alan Reynolds
Senior Fellow and Director of
Economic Research, Hudson Institute
(Washington D.C., United States)
Taxing the Aged
A capital gains tax on individuals is, above all else, a tax on the old. As Table 4 shows, the
capital gains tax U.S. individuals under the age of 65 amounted to only 5.2% of individual
income tax for those under age 65, but to 17.5% for those over age 65. The capital gains tax
accounted for a larger share of the tax burden on elderly taxpayers earning less than $20,000 than
it was for younger taxpayers earning more than $100,000. If such figures were constructed for
Australia, they would surely indicate a similar pattern, with capital gains being particularly
important (relative to ordinary income) among the retired.
U.S. Taxes on Capital Gains As Percent of Personal Income Tax, 1993
Table 4
Income Under Age 65 Over Age 65
Less than $10,000 2.0 1.3
$10,000 – $20,000 1.3 6.8
$20,000 – $30,000 1.0 7.3
$30,000 – $40,000 0.9 11.5
$40,000 – $50,000 1.2 11.6
$50,000 – $75,000 1.8 14.6
$75,000 – $100,000 2.7 17.3
$100,000 – $200,000 5.1 21.7
$200,000 and Over 15.8 31.1
Total 5.2 17.5
Congressional Budget Office
They want to bring in a CGT, like Australia’s, this is a report after 15 years of CGT in Australia
Note we have Kiwi saver and National super, both use capital gains on shares to EARN you a retirement fund. In Australia CGT applies to shares.
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June 4, 2018 10:58am
stephieboy

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Back to the real world,

More idiocy on the Trump Front,

Trump can probably pardon himself, but has no plan to: Giuliani

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump, under pressure from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S. election, probably has the power to pardon himself but does not plan to do so, his attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Sunday….”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/trump-can-probably-pardon-himself-but-has-no-plan-to-giuliani-idUSKCN1IZ0K
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June 4, 2018 11:00am
- Don the Kiwi
  
  I stopped when I read.”……back to the real world”
  
  Coming from stupidboy – Oh the Irony !!
  
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  June 4, 2018 11:26am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Don’t use the word “Irony” around stephie.
    He thinks his shirts aren’t creased.
    
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    June 4, 2018 11:58am
  - VicParking
    
    Stephie you need to put this into context as to the Question Giuliani was asked.
    I.E. Stephie when did you stop humping your Goats?
    
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    June 4, 2018 4:09pm
Steve (North Shore)

2018 QB Honours,
stephieboy should have got a gong for services to himself, seeing as he is a right wanker
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June 4, 2018 11:05am
Harkman

And his crime is?
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June 4, 2018 11:05am
- VicParking
  
  Being a alt-Left Troll who is not a real person but a group of people. An analysis of the writing style shows this up clearly. Either that or he is psychotic.
  
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  June 4, 2018 4:06pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/06/ramadan-nz-police-dinner-has-nothing-to-do-with-diversity/

“This would appear to be a variant of Stockholm syndrome. The Police seem to be trying to ingratiate themselves with a particular section of the community because of fears that it poses a threat of sudden, unpredictable violence due to radicalization.Those fears may be supported by intelligence assessments, who knows? It has nothing to do with diversity however and is likely to fail in its unstated objectives. The actual solution is not to allow a potential threat to take root in the first place.” – Archilochus
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June 4, 2018 11:19am
UpandComer

Won’t be long now until they’re knighting the next set of the LGBTQIP proponents. Keep a very close eye on Labour’s Safe Schools. Look how mainstream it is. There is no logical or conceptual way they can stop it, so it will happen. That P is going to be added.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/paedophilia-sexual-orientation-straight-gay-criminal-psychologist-child-sex-abuse-a6965956.html

http://nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/pedophilia-a-disorder-not-a-crime.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/3216b48d-3195-4f67-8149-54586689ae3c

http://www.bbc.com/news/amp/magazine-34858350

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/10948796/Paedophilia-is-natural-and-normal-for-males.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/not-all-paedophiles-are-bad-people-we-need-to-have-a-sense-of-proportion-a6704201.html

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/01/many-experts-now-view-pedophilia-as-a-sexual-orientation-google-hangout.html

https://www.charismanews.com/us/41571-pedophilia-officially-classified-as-sexual-orientation-by-american-psychology-association

https://www.pressherald.com/2013/01/20/in-focus-sex-and-society_2013-01-20/
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June 4, 2018 11:46am
- Psycho Milt
  
  Well, duh. Of course the things said in those articles are true – if they were untrue we wouldn’t need a law putting a minimum age on consent to sex.
  
  However, the conclusion you’re inferring from these articles can only be drawn by someone who has no concept of what “consent” means in a sexual context. Such people are as much of a danger to others as pedophiles are.
  
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  June 4, 2018 12:47pm
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    ‘Of course those things are true’. Exactly – add that P Psycho.
    
    Oh, indeed. Please educate us as to what consent means. I’m sure you’ll get it right. 100% you won’t misconstrue what actually is being pumped out of the halls of the pedophile feminist progressive left.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSo1tJZCMkc
    
    The conclusion I’m inferring from these articles is the correct one. I can’t wait for this to be advanced. Lets get it all out of the closet. The last closet.
    
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    June 4, 2018 1:24pm
    - Psycho Milt
      
      It’s not exactly rocket science, which is why it worries me that so many right-wingers seem to have a hard time grasping it. Consent in the sexual context is about whether the other participant(s) want to do that stuff or not.
      
      Which means, when it comes to adults, it’s nobody else’s business what sexual activity two people get up to as long as they’re both willing participants. Which in turn means it’s fairly obvious that homosexuality or whatever other “perverted” sex people want to engage in and come up with a letter for are all fine, as long as it involves consenting adults.
      
      However, consent represents a huge hurdle for anyone trying add “P for pedophilia” to that list, because society knows damn well it can’t trust adults to fairly negotiate sexual consent with children. For that reason, the only explanation for people trying to claim pedophilia will be treated the same as homosexuality is that those people have no idea what consent is. Hence my assumption that you have no idea what consent is.
      
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      June 4, 2018 2:32pm
      - UpandComer
        
        That’s not what consent is.
        
        https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/world/europe/sweden-rape-consent-sex.html
        
        Consent actually means what a woman thinks. If a woman decides she doesn’t like a thing, it’s rape. That’s what consent is. In Sweden the real import of their legislation is that any sexual act is rape if a women decides it is. The consideration of evidence to the contrary is superseded by the woman’s subjective determination.
        
        The actual rape of women by rapefugees is so high and exclusive the Swedish paedophile feminist left in government had to devise social engineering to manufacture some culpability for the natives. So now natural sex acts are rape in Sweden if the women decides it is thus. It’s academic in the case of the rapefugees due to the extreme violence with which they act.
        
        Exactly the same conceptual framework is now in place in university campsuses in America under Title XI and the ‘dear colleague’ letter.
        
        It’s not just ‘consent’ it’s ‘continuing explicit consent’. You can do all the foreplay and all the action and on the last thrust it become rape because an SJW wants a pay day.
        
        So conversely, if a child as adult decides they do like a thing – then it’s consensual.
        
        I respect that you draw a distinction between child and adult. But many, many of your leftist friends do not and will not.
        
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        June 4, 2018 3:13pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        That’s not what consent is.
        
        It’s not what consent is for people with an axe to grind against women and Muslims, sure. But for everyone else, that’s exactly what consent is.
        
        You can do all the foreplay and all the action and on the last thrust it become rape because an SJW wants a pay day.
        
        Have you considered having sex only with people who actually want to have sex with you? I’ve found that works a treat.
        
        But many, many of your leftist friends do not and will not.
        
        Many, many of your rightist friends too. That’s because it’s not a left-vs-right thing.
        
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        June 4, 2018 3:37pm
  - UpandComer
    
    Well, put forward your theses. Then, the left will have an opportunity to fight this out in court. Because it will be going to court if they dare push this in New Zealand. And all the hidden material they think they memory holed will be rolled out on an assembly line. Because it isn’t memory holed.
    
    There are lots of Pacific Island, Maori and Asian families sharpening their machetes.
    
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    June 4, 2018 1:41pm
    - Psycho Milt
      
      1. There’s no doubt that some children are well capable of consenting to sexual activity with adults (I know this for a fact because I was one, have known plenty of others, and have seen plenty of reports by others), but the risk inherent in accepting a “children’s right of consent to sex with adults” is way too high to justify removing the legal minimum. For that reason, there might be argument about what age should be that minimum, but there won’t be any about removing the age of consent entirely.
      
      2. Your idea that pedophilia is something to do with the political left is laughable. Leaving aside Graham Capill and many other conservative child-molesters, interest in NAMBLA and age-of-consent issues were as common among libertarians as among leftists.
      
      3. In the last sentence of your above comment, you manage to combine enthusiasm for murder with a fantasy of other ethnic groups as violent savages – classy.
      
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      June 4, 2018 2:39pm
      - UpandComer
        
        You’re one of the more intelligent posters at the Standard.
        
        Can I ask why you think you were capable of consenting, and just how common it is?
        
        Can I ask if you’re homosexual?
        
        Can I ask how early it started?
        
        How do you determine which particular children are capable of enthusiastic consent to sex with adults? How did you and your friends determine that for themselves?
        
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        June 4, 2018 3:30pm
      - UpandComer
        
        1. Lowering the age threshold is de facto legalisation. Patricia Hewitt and many others understand this, which is why it’s always being pushed in the context of ‘cultural sensitivity’ to immigrant cultures.
        
        Honestly, it’s been changed to an orientation by the American Psychological Association. The books are all being moved from the illness sections to the lifestyle sections in the congressional and medical and royal libraries. The academic and institutional support is mobilised and operative. It’s already well advanced on the trajectory and formula used for all the other progressive projects. What makes you think the P is not going to be added?
        
        2. Capill and Haggard et al can rot. I laugh at lolbertarians.
        
        3. Not enthusiasm. I just want the people trying to force this on New Zealanders & Australians to stop and think.
        
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        June 4, 2018 3:40pm
      - UpandComer
        
        1, I’m genuinely, without being patronising, sorry to hear that you were groomed and exploited when you were a young person.
        
        Erotic play, as even Alfred Kinsey had to concede, is not naturally occurring. It is a learned behaviour.
        
        Thanks for being so honest. I wish more of the activist left would be as forthright about the genesis of their ‘genetic identities’ and ideologies. The comment boards they inhabit are not secret.
        
        It’s better that all of this just gets discussed in the open rather then hidden in pedagogy like SAFE schools and the ‘identarian curricula’ so that the ideas are planted amongst unrelated domains, like maths, economics, science, history. Or hidden in culture, like in every Disney movie and most music videos. And of course porn – which parents should note is now riven with incest themes.
        
        Thank-you for your comment.
        
        I think I’ll take a break from kiwiblog for a while. Enjoy reading you at the Standard.
        
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        June 4, 2018 3:47pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        Can I ask why you think you were capable of consenting, and just how common it is?
        
        Because consent is about wanting to do and be done to with someone else, and as a child I was as capable of understanding what it is to want something as I am now. No idea how common it is, but no doubt there are studies. I assume it’s fairly common, unless I grew up among an unusually perverted cohort.
        
        Can I ask if you’re homosexual?
        
        I’m a flagrant heterosexual. It would be foolish to assume that the only children with an interest in sex are future gays.
        
        Can I ask how early it started?
        
        Can’t remember, but I had much more of an interest in it once puberty hit than before, obviously.
        
        How do you determine which particular children are capable of enthusiastic consent to sex with adults?
        
        Well, that’s the point, isn’t it? If it were possible to determine such a thing, we wouldn’t need a minimum age of consent. And even then, there are so many adults who clearly don’t know what consent is that you wouldn’t want those children exposed to them.
        
        How did you and your friends determine that for themselves?
        
        Easy – consent isn’t a difficult concept to grasp. Anyone who knows there’s a difference between someone liking what’s being done to them and not liking it doesn’t have a problem determining such things, child or not.
        
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        June 4, 2018 3:59pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        I’m genuinely, without being patronising, sorry to hear that you were groomed and exploited when you were a young person.
        
        No need! I wasn’t groomed or exploited. The only actual sexual encounter with an adult I had as a child was when I was 15, which was a casual one-off instance and you hardly count as a child by then. I was referring more to the fact that there were plenty of adults who I would have welcomed taking a sexual interest in me when I was a kid, not that any of them did.
        
        Enjoy reading you at the Standard.
        
        Thank you! I copped a 12-month ban though, so no commenting there for me for a while.
        
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        June 4, 2018 4:08pm
      - UpandComer
        
        Thanks for your responses Psycho Milt.
        
        Sorry to hear you got banned. I remember reading you back in the day.
        
        What about the problem of a child liking what’s being done to them physiologically, but that affect creating a cascade of catastrophic changes to their brain function?
        
        I mean as BF Skinner showed, you can stimulate an organism or reward it’s behaviour with a dopamine inducing stimulus. The subject clearly consents to the stimulation, and enjoys it, and seeks more of it. The problem is that the entity concerned will continue to seek out the reward until it dies, and simulation of reward centres at stages of immaturity irreparably alter brain patters for life.
        
        I have to confess, you seem to be implying that the only way to find out if a child consents to sexual activity with a child is for the adult to test boundaries and determine if the child ‘likes it’.
        
        I find that extremely worrisome and anxiety inducing.
        
        Grooming is real. It is easy to make a young person feel like they ‘like’ something or identify with something that is really bad for them.
        
        The status quo is surely preferable, where the ‘probing’ of particular children’s consent is simply curtailed and prohibited by strict age thresholds. It would simply be nightmarish for my children to be having their sexual psychologies probed and massaged in order to develop and determine their sexual receptivity. That should be an organic coming of age experience. Not catalysed by adults seeking their own gratification.
        
        The revolutionary mindset always seeks to ‘benchmark’ normative standards against it’s own outlier values. I just question whether or not homosexual sexual relations which are so vastly different in aspect to heterosexual should be adopted as the benchmark for normative standards. You know.
        
        I respect that you may have had much more animated sexual predilections at a younger age then most children. But the affects of bench-marking society to your needs are catastrophic.
        
        We’re in Weimar.
        
        I just ask that you caution your friends against pushing this. Because erotic play and class consciousness will lead to post-weimar.
        
        Anyway, thanks for your response.
        
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        June 4, 2018 5:18pm
      - EAD_TWO
        
        “We’re in Weimar”
        
        And most people are so ignorant of history due to years of propaganda, they don’t even know we’ve seen this shit before.
        
        Because if they did, they’d realise there is an answer to the mess we’re in which is why it must be vilified by every organ of state and the controlled MSM:
        
        https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lgbtq-institute-in-germany-was-burned-down-by-nazis
        
        Interesting to note that the Globalists think they’ve got us so pozzed that we’d be outraged by the burning of books that promote little boys “transforming” into girls and all sorts of other degenerate cr*p.
        
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        June 4, 2018 7:40pm
- Gravelroad
  
  As per usual with these poor misunderstood pedophiles, it is all about them: how they feel, what they want, how their needs and urges are someone else’s fault – not their responsibility.
  Never a thought for the physical and psychological damage done to the babies and children they use.
  
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  June 4, 2018 3:09pm
- Fletch
  
  In 5 years the pedo who contributed services to helping normalize relationships between children and adults will be getting a gong…
  
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  June 4, 2018 4:03pm
  - Psycho Milt
    
    Ah, speaking of people who can’t grasp the concept of consent…
    
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    June 4, 2018 4:12pm
    - UpandComer
      
      Can you respond to my question above?
      
      Hypothetically – how would you advise that adults determine a child’s consent to sexual relations?
      
      Isn’t the only way to determine a child’s consent to having sex with an adult to effectively engage in gradations of testing? So you just probe the sexual receptivity until the kid makes it apparent?
      
      To me that seems like the only possible way you could determine consent from a child given the vagaries and subtleties of sexual relations.
      
      How does that not constitute grooming?
      
      In many of these cases in Sweden/Norway/Finland/Germany I’ve been reading very young girls are effectively being imputed with consent simply because they ‘asked’ for the sex with much older Muslim men after a period of congenial relations over time.
      
      How is it not grooming?
      
      I simply want to be able to think that my sons and my daughter won’t have their sexual natures elicited as opposed to naturally developed.
      
      If you go on Instapundit as well there is a hashtag called hashtagTeachWomenNottoRape which details countless examples of women engaged in the same behaviour, with boys and girls, most often as teachers.
      
      There is no question the children are consenting. Many of these teachers are attractive. But just because they’re attractive surely it’s wrong for them to respond to solicitations from children?
      
      People who retain their virginity until marriage have an 85% higher chance of staying married for life. The ‘conjugal fire’ is real and it’s loss is a major reason for the destruction of the family unit – as queer theorists are well aware.
      
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      June 4, 2018 5:25pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        Can you respond to my question above?
        
        Hypothetically – how would you advise that adults determine a child’s consent to sexual relations?
        
        I’d advise them not to, ever, under any circumstances. There’s an excellent reason we have a minimum age of consent: adults can’t be trusted to negotiate sexual consent with children. It’s true that some men find children sexually attractive and at least some children would be interested in participating, but allowing those men to act on that sexual attraction would expose all children to high risk of sexual predation, so we don’t and won’t allow it.
        
        Re your comments on grooming, yes that’s exactly why we have an age of consent and won’t be scrapping it. We seem to have a hell of a lot of men who think that manipulating someone into sexual activity they’ll later profoundly regret is “consensual sex,” and they cause enough misery among adults, without being let loose on children as well.
        
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        June 4, 2018 6:57pm
sooty

Reported Penny and went back to do it again and she had gone. Good ridance. Your a bad penny.
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June 4, 2018 12:05pm
Monique Watson

Showed Lee C’s joke re, George the Cocksucker to from yesterdays GD to the oldest.
At 8.am. Got the grin and then he straightaway said, “Mom I’ve seen the same joke but it was George the Goat Fucker”.

I’ve had many a mammal fucking joke pass past my desk in my time. Am hoping I’ll be surprised with a new one on Queen’s Birthday.
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June 4, 2018 12:09pm
sooty

Well done Sir Bill. Did you ever hear his lovely wife in the papers and tv, but she was always in the background supporting. Not like the show ponies friend. Shut your cake hole idiot, it’s not about you!
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June 4, 2018 12:09pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  As it happens, yes I did hear his lovely wife in the papers and on TV. A lot. A quick Google search turns up plenty of examples, including such simpering pap as “Their most intimate interview!” (Women’s Weekly), “Bill and Mary English’s Private Love Story” (not, as you might think, pornographic fan fiction), “Why My Partner Should be the next Prime Minister” (NZ Herald), “The English Doctor” (NZ Herald) and “Watch: Mary English Makes Touching Tribute to Husband Bill” (TVNZ).
  
  I don’t recall any obnoxious Kiwiblog commenters reacting to those stories with “Shut your cake hole idiot, it’s not about you!” or by coming up with fanciful rumours about who she fucks or what drugs she might have done, but maybe I just wasn’t paying enough attention at the time…
  
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  June 4, 2018 12:58pm
  - UpandComer
    
    But Gayeford likes to milk almonds, and Poppies.
    
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    June 4, 2018 1:44pm
  - Longknives
    
    “or by coming up with fanciful rumours about who she fucks”
    
    Fanciful Rumours??
    You clearly don’t live in Auckland…
    
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    June 4, 2018 3:41pm
MCos

Today I walked along Coronation Rd in downtown Mangere Bridge and noticed that someone had attacked the notice board displaying the timetables at the bustop. A year or two ago someone had smashed the sides of the bustop up the road.
Why do people want to do shit like that?
Where is people’s sense of civic responsibility?

Around the corner is a motorway on ramp with two lanes controlled by lights during peak hours plus an uncontrolled T2 lane.
Most people follow the rules, but quite a few single occupancy cars don’t wait and use the wrong lane.
Where is their sense of civic responsibility?

The latter example is fairly minor in the big scheme of things and the chances of getting caught are infinitesimal, but to me it’s disappointing to see people not taking pride in their society either way.
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June 4, 2018 1:00pm
- nasska
  
  From the Situations Vacant columns:
  
  Anchor Milk seek an experienced rear gunner for the morning milk run operating in the South Auckland area.
  
  Minimum 3 years experience necessary. Must be familiar with the operation of MK19 belt fed grenade launcher, Mk 44 Bushmaster II 30mm Autocannon, and BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile system.
  
  Salary negotiable depending on experience.
  
  Full Life Insurance provided.
  
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  June 4, 2018 1:38pm
  - Monique Watson
    
    Don’t bother with the union membership, right Nasska?
    And just don’t turn up stoned or with a belly crease that means you might need to take nine months plus off work. Until retirement, in which case a belly crease is practically mandatory.
    
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    June 4, 2018 3:25pm
cha

Guess who’s getting himself some nukes?

https://www.axios.com/report-syrias-assad-plans-to-visit-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-8323a400-0a27-4429-9dc5-540b74093970.html?
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June 4, 2018 1:54pm
- Monique Watson
  
  Oh yeah. Assad and Kim are cosy as fuck which is why Ohio shipped out 8500 troops from Ohio in the last ten days.
  There are three aircraft carriers, on high alert, Edward’s has bombers locked and loaded; ready to go and how do I know this shit?
  In the direct flight path.
  Twenty US carriers in deployment but three on high alert. Nimitz, H.W. and Ford and the French have skin in the game as well.
  
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  June 4, 2018 3:29pm
UpandComer

https://politicaluk.com/2018/06/anger-as-firefighter-suspended-from-duty-after-posting-support-for-tommy-robinson-on-facebook/

Firefighter fired after 22 years of service for supporting Tommy Robinson over the islamic/#JeSuisMuslim supported holocaust of rape of 1million women in the UK.

His facebook account has been deleted. He is probably in prison.
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June 4, 2018 2:11pm
UpandComer

http://www.nme.com/blogs/tv-blogs/lord-of-the-rings-tv-series-release-date-plot-cast-2170413

New Lord of the Rings series.

Try and guess how many progressive pedophile left tropes will be administered like forced medicine to the populous.

The elves will definitely be gay, camp, and Nazi at the same time.

Aragorn will be gay or some form of sexual spectrum identification, and will support euthanasia because of the long life of the Numenorians.

The hobbits will be bisexual. A very young Frodo will have conflicted feelings about his uncle Bilbo.

There will be noble orcs who dindu nuffin. These orcs will talk about being misunderstood, and cast to the periphery. They will be victims, just trying to get access to the lands of middle-earth from Mordor for a better life for themselves and their families – they just want to build their temples and be tavern keeper in Bree and Lothlorien. There will be a revised history of middle-earth where the Orcs were cruelly dispossessed of their lands and oppressed by colonising elves and men. They dindu nuffin.

There will be a central character who will be the offspring of an orc and elf. She will be the best of all the characters.

There will be ‘fascist’ elves marching in lockstep -an evil core of anti-progressive elves led by Elrond. Aragorn will be a social justice warrior trying to reconcile the elves to the Orcs. Aragorn will be played by John Boyenga.

Glorfindel will be black, and played by Idris Elba.

Galadriel will be black – and played by Queen Latifah or Oprah.

Merry or Pippin will be black, and female, played by Jayden Smith.

Rohan will be presented as fascist and backward and anti-progressive, and the best elements will be animal lovers and vegetarians.

Legolas will be played by Emma Stone or by Emma Watson.

The men of the East from Rhun will be the muslims. They will all be cast as the noble Saladin, and will be given a central focus in the new story. They will be simultaneously superior victims. They will bring their Easterling religion to Gondor and Arnor and be regarded as the only civilized faction.

There will be gay black elves. There will be gay black hobbits. There will be gay black dwarves. There will be white orcs who will be the worst ones.

At least some of the key characters will be Hispanic, Asian and differently abled.

Gandalf will be a transexual – his nobility and virtue will be due to his true feminine nature.

Every female character will be a Mary Sue.

The idea of the ring will be changed from concupiscence and conscience to something like ‘a barrier to self actualisation’ – there will be complex twisted theological ideas espoused.

Sauron will be implicitly Donald Trump.

Aragorn will have been trained by a female ranger who was the best one in a relationship with a black elf.

There will be a female wizard who is the founder of the Istari.

Arwen will be a lesbian, and she will come into conflict with her evil white father Elrond because she wants to have a gay relationship with an Orc.

All of the plots will be driven by the idea of destroying outmoded pasts and obsolete ideas for the purpose of advancing superior social progressivism.

Every Christian element of the story will be removed.

Gondor will be depicted as failing and fading only due to a lack of immigration from the Men of Rhun, racism towards Mordor, and the evil Kings who will be cast as Edward Longshanks from Braveheart. The suspiciously semitic looking stewards will be presented as the superior and natural rulers of Gondor, and Arnor.

Tom Bombadil will be back and will be a gay trannie as well.

The key issues in the new series will be racism, sexism, homophobia, and outmoded ancient religion which excludes that of the men of the East.

It will be a shit show just like Soylo.

Cast your bets.
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June 4, 2018 2:57pm
- Longknives
  
  Is it true that they sacrificed one of their greatest characters to Political Correctness and made Lando ‘LGBTQ’ (or whatever) in the new Star Wars film?
  
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  June 4, 2018 3:39pm
  - UpandComer
    
    Yeah he’s a pansexual. Pan sexualism or omni-sexualism is an extension of the bi-sexual spectrum to incorporate all the ‘new’ genders. So you’re not just attracted to both genders. Gender is not a determining factor in your attraction at all. You can be attracted to sex dolls, or vacuum cleaners, or one of the new genders of which I think there are approximately 15 thousand all told. It’s meant to also incorporate all ages, but they pulled it back just slightly.a
    
    The Droid character was described by Kathleen Kennedy as the ‘social justice droid’ seeking droid rights and droid emancipation.
    
    Soylo is a shit show. The progressive left have no ideas left anymore. All they can do is take existing IP, and then like a virus that converts other organisms into itself, corrupt them into a manifestation of itself.
    
    That’s why all Hollywood can do is take existing ideas and make them SJW.
    
    They’re going to do to ‘the Witcher’ what they’re about to do to ‘Lord of the Rings’ and what they’re doing to ‘Warhammer’.
    
    They are going to lose in the culture wars because they are incapable of originality or creativity.
    
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    June 4, 2018 3:55pm
    - Longknives
      
      A ‘Social Justice Droid’??
      Jeesus Christ- Might give that one a miss then…
      
      *Shame- I used to love Star Wars when I was a kid
      
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      June 4, 2018 4:36pm
Manolo

Will the new government deliver? A clash between Italy and Brussels looms.
http://www.france24.com/en/20180603-get-ready-pack-bags-italys-interior-minister-tells-migrants

Salvini had said after being sworn in that he would ask his ministry’s experts “how to reduce the number of arriving migrants and increase the number of expulsions”.

“The good times for illegals is over — get ready to pack your bags,” he said Saturday at a rally in Italy’s north.
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June 4, 2018 3:24pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12063987

Paul Moon: Human Rights move endangers our free speech

“Anyone hoping that the current purge of the Human Rights Commission will go far enough to flush out the hubris at its core is likely to be disappointed.

Indeed, despite staff changes, and a damning report into its culture, the commission will continue with its march towards introducing a damaging change to our society: its plan to make what it calls “disharmonious speech” aimed at religions an offence.”

FUCK THE HRC AND FUCK THE UNHCR
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June 4, 2018 3:27pm
- Longknives
  
  ” its plan to make what it calls “disharmonious speech” aimed at religions ”
  
  Ha Ha there is only ONE Religion the ‘Hate Speech’ legislation will cover.
  You can say what you want about Christianity…
  
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  June 4, 2018 3:35pm
Fletch

Delingpole points out an article in the Daily Telegraph saying that Trump, by not attending the Paris climate accords, has “broken the spell” of the climate change mania.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Charles Moore hails Trump’s exit from Paris as the moment when the “global warmists” lost “the levers of control”.

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Since Mr Trump walked out, it has been fascinating to watch the decline of media interest in “saving the planet”. There was the most tremendous rumpus when he made his announcement, but the End-Of-The-World-Is-Nigh-Unless feeling that made headlines before Rio, Kyoto, Copenhagen, Paris, and numerous other gatherings, has gone. This feeling was essential to achieve the “Everybody’s doing it, so we must do it” effect the organisers sought.

The media barely noticed the recent Bonn meeting. I doubt if they will get apocalyptic about the next big show, “COP24” in Katowice, Poland, this December. The Poles are among the nations emerging as “climate realists” – people with their own coal and a very strong wish not to depend on the Russians. Climate-change zealotry is looking like CND after the installation of cruise and Pershing missiles in the 1980s – a bit beside the point.

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Trump has performed the same service as the little boy who pointed out that the Emperor was wearing no clothes. Man-made global warming is the biggest lie of our age and the only reason it survived so long is that all the world’s nations politely agreed to pretend, for various reasons ranging from self-interest to moral posturing, that it was true.

With the U.S. no longer playing that game it’s much, much harder for everyone else to go on pretending there’s a consensus.

Trump deserves our eternal thanks for having the bad manners to point out this basic truth when so many lesser politicians preferred to go along with the convenient lie.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/06/03/delingpole-one-year-on-from-quitting-paris-accord-trump-has-broken-the-spell-of-climate-change-mania/
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June 4, 2018 4:08pm
cha

Gotta keep Jarad’s financers happy.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/390428-trump-to-host-his-first-ever-ramadan-dinner
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June 4, 2018 5:34pm
EAD_TWO

The Hee BBC has has run a story called:
“The English question: Young are less proud of nationality” and features 2 dark as coal Africans to lead the story:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-44142843

What next from hee BBC? Perhaps one called “The Nigerian Question” featuring 2 Japanese girls?
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June 4, 2018 5:48pm
- itstricky
  
  Do tell me why they’re not English. Also tell me why it matters how dark one’s skin is, as to ones’s nationality.
  
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  June 4, 2018 7:17pm
cha

Remembering Ignacio Echeverría, who used his skate board to clock one of the pricks who stabbed a woman in the London Bridge attack.

Ignacio lost his life when he was stabbed by another attacker.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/07/spaniard-ignacio-echeverria-confirmed-as-killed-in-london-attack
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June 4, 2018 6:08pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  one of the pricks who stabbed a woman in the London Bridge attack.
  
  You mean one of the Mad Mohammedians who stabbed a woman…..
  
  You make it sound like this act of pure evil was carried by some Jack the lad cockney having a bad day❗
  
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  June 4, 2018 6:47pm
cha

The plot thickens.

NEW: First Lady Melania Trump will not attend the G7 or Singapore summit with President Trump, @FLOTUS Communications Director Stephanie Grisham tells me— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) June 3, 2018

#Where’sMelania
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June 4, 2018 7:51pm
- nasska
  
  Your TDS really acting up today cha? 🙂
  
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  June 4, 2018 8:07pm
Viking2

a bit of our past.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POsXROLd27g&feature=share
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