General Debate 13 August 2018

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duggledog

I think Jan the Ban Thomas’s extraordinary behaviour is actually very easy to understand and entirely predictable.

She has simply been imprinted.

As a very recent arrival to NZ, and an Intellectual to boot, she will have had total grievance saturation from the moment she got off the plane.

She will have been schooled up 100% about what the evil Pakeha colonizers did, and continue to do, to the poor Tangata Whenua. Maori have done this for years and years

So, monkey see, monkey do. The folks back home will be V impressed.

I’ve seen it many times especially in places like local government; mostly Pommie women who start correcting your Maori pronunciation when they’ve been here for two years.

Anyway; the smart thing to do with this particular Aussie bush fire would have been to put it out very quickly; the Uni hierarchy should have been onto this immediately, it would have been forgotten about in a day or 2.

The more Massey delay and dig in, the worse it will be, but their arrogance and deluded belief in their own priesthood prevents them from doing so.
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August 13, 2018 8:02am
- kowtow
  
  ‘mostly Pommie women who start correcting ‘
  
  I’ve noticed a lot of same wear ostentatious greenstone pendants , as if to signal , ” I really embrace all that indigenous stuff ” …….constant war, slavery ,hunger, cannibalism, masculine hierarchical structures , filth , brutality and barbarism.
  
  They’re a fucken joke.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:10am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    The size of the stone is directly proportional to ones commitment to understanding maori angst, a bone carving is a whole new level of signalling both trumped by the scribble on the chin.
    
    The surge in little strappy tops is so one can see the other chip on their shoulder . . . .
    
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    August 13, 2018 8:50am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    The correction of maori by a brummie ends up sounding like the Swedish chef on speed with a speech impediment.
    
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    August 13, 2018 8:52am
    - starboard
      
      Ive reposted this from yesterdays GD because I know it makes shariaboy hyperventilate.
      
      Please, everybody read this and forward to as many people as you can.
      About time we had some balance to the bullshit.
      
      http://1law4all.kiwi.nz/2018/08/12/remembrance/
      
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      August 13, 2018 10:16am
  - softail 1450
    
    kowtow,,,some may remember when Winston “gnome” Peters regularly could be heard spouting, “Don’t believe half of what you hear from the bone wearing Maori about the noble savage ,most of it is lies” FFS can you imagine the 3/4 Italian Maori Luigi saying that now?
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:07am
  - GazzaW
    
    I don’t think that Pommie women have a monopoly on the adoption of faux-Maori culture. Californian and Canadian immigrants rank right up there as well.
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:24am
  - MH
    
    and jaded to boot…
    
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    August 13, 2018 2:33pm
- DigNap15
  
  We need to deport her, as an undesirable citizen.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:18am
  - mandk
    
    Correction:
    Undesirable alien – she’s not from the same planet as you and me.
    
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    August 13, 2018 8:52am
- Maxx
  
  I consider myself an even-minded, middle-aged white male. I am open to seeing an issue from anyone side, even if I think you’re bat-eyed crazy. I will still listen, as I’ve been wrong before, and will likely be wrong again in my life. I believe in self-responsibility, equality of opportunity, and supporting those that can either not support themselves, or have fallen down and need help to get back up. I believe in the free market first and foremost and secondly, in the power of regulation to reign in the market when it exhibits behaviour that is not in the best interest.
  
  More and more I find myself being driven to the extreme right on my views as I am evil male Pakeha colonizer, who is a rich prick (I do alright) who wants to oppress the indigent peoples.
  
  On a side note, I find with mirth that the word Pakeha has become such a negative word. More and more it is used in a derogatory sense, perhaps without the intent, but as the outcome. But I forget, that as we’re the majority we can’t take offence to words describing our race in a negative manner as we are not oppressed.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:18am
  - OTGO
    
    If you don’t like the word “Pakeha” you could always try referring to yourself as “white”.
    
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    August 13, 2018 1:26pm
- Dave Mann
  
  the smart thing to do with this particular Aussie bush fire would have been to put it out very quickly; the Uni hierarchy should have been onto this immediately
  
  That was never going to happen because this woman was acting one hundred percent according to the values of the fake ‘university’ which employed her, as kowtow so accurately describes them above.
  
  This institution adheres to tribalism and authoritarian mind control rather than freedom of the intellect – which is why they employed her in the first place.
  
  And she’s certainly not an ‘intellectual’. She’s a mindless brown shirt. A drone.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:21am
- flipper
  
  Surely, Dear Duggles, you know that Massey specialises in elevating risible fiction to truth.
  
  Good post.
  Massey should be merged INTO the DRI, with the DRI imparting and exporting its values for the benefit of the Nation. At the moment MU seems to exist only for “cracademics”.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:37am
  - Psycho Milt
    
    As an example of just how well qualified flipper is to be giving advice on how to organise the country’s research institutions, the DRI hasn’t existed since 2001, when it became the Fonterra Research Institute, and more recently just Fonterra Research.
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:52am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Bloody Hell, today’s and tomorrow’s GD are here at the same time.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:39am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    ‘So good they named it twice’
    
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    August 13, 2018 8:54am
  - DigNap15
    
    yes this is luxury. some Saturdays or Sundays we don’t even get one!
    
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    August 13, 2018 8:57am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Tough crowd.
    Complain no GD then when tomorrow’s is loaded in advance, there they all head, saving nothing for a rainy day.
    
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    August 13, 2018 10:05am
    - MH
      
      some of tomorrows comments I can’t remember writing.
      
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      August 13, 2018 2:35pm
  - Dave Stringer
    
    ?
    
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    August 13, 2018 11:58am
- Longknives
  
  Academics tend to live strange, sheltered lives.
  They almost never leave the safe little confines of their University,and never actually live in the real world.
  Exceptionally highly paid- They live in a very exclusive little bubble and very rarely face the life challenges the rest of us do.
  As such- They are overwhelmingly Left Wing and tend to look down their noses at us ‘working class’ types…
  ‘Oh he hasn’t got a Doctorate- His opinion doesn’t count’
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:19am
- starboard
  
  Molyneux speaking out about being banned from speaking in NZ
  
  https://youtu.be/UzL4za_8u4o
  
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  August 13, 2018 10:21am
- Dave Stringer
  
  Just having one of those wonderful moments to appreciate that. My birthday, which is a Tuesday Aug 14th, has been extended by 16 hours. Thank you Kokila, my grandchildren are besides themselves at the bounty they have gained from my birthday morning Lilly scramble ( which their parents are not permitted to veto).
  
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  August 13, 2018 11:53am
  - MH
    
    who’s Lilly, does your partner know how to enact the veto?
    
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    August 13, 2018 2:37pm
Paulus

Thought she was a Veterinarian ?
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August 13, 2018 8:05am
- KevOB
  
  Jan Ban needs deworming–call the vet.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:34am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  She thought she was an intellectual
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:55am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    So does she.
    You’re both wrong.
    
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    August 13, 2018 10:05am
Maxx

I don’t understand the purpose of this “Trade for All” agenda apart from just another conversation with people to placate them and the feelz.

I would hazard a guess that less than 1 in 1000 people genuinely understand the ways that trade affects them and its benefits, and I would argue that less than 1 in 100 small business owners also fall into the same category.
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August 13, 2018 8:06am
- hullkiwi
  
  You re not alone Jacinda doesn’t understand either. That is why she is frustrated we are not all singing praise Jacinda for coming up with a make work scheme for those on the dole.
  
  You have to ask did she or the brains trust behind the idea do any thinking before they announced it last week?
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:16am
  - Maxx
    
    That’s another one that I have struggled with over the last week.
    
    Surely the path to getting an apprenticeship is to approach a potential employer in October/November, quit your current job and go on the dole for six months over the summer, and then take up the apprenticeship.
    
    Now I think this would be extreme, but I am in no doubt this will happen. The other side will be that it’s only the dregs that will get taken on as apprentices as the person doing the training will have little or no say. Instead, the main decision maker will be the person looking at ho much money they get for taking this person on. On the down side I see apprenticeships drying up for those that need to start straight away, who are those that you want as they generally have some sort of external motivation.
    
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    August 13, 2018 8:24am
    - artemisia
      
      Better if these young people are required to do a trades foundation course first. Then a prospective employer can get a handle on their ability and stickability.
      
      I have I think mentioned here before that our tradie apprentice did the foundation course couple of years ago. Over 20 started, 4 finished. Most were there as required by WINZ so would have been getting at least the dole and fees paid.
      
      PS ‘ho much money’? Yep.
      
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      August 13, 2018 9:26am
  - KevOB
    
    Unmotivated benes are hard work for prospective trainers. Been tried before and the trainers dropped out.
    
    Takes a Jacinda to revive futility.
    
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    August 13, 2018 8:38am
    - DigNap15
      
      Fudlidy?
      
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      August 13, 2018 8:58am
  - Longknives
    
    Jacinda gets ‘Fustrated’ not ‘Frustrated’.
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:20am
    - Harkman
      
      Absolutely ?
      
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      August 13, 2018 9:29am
  - kaykaybee
    
    “Brains Trust”
    
    The lack of cohesive strategy is staggering.
    
    In essence we’re talking “Work for the Dole” something the left rail against.
    
    Who thought this up?
    
    Shane to get the “nephies” off the couch? Winnie, late night Whisky brain? Ardern – another napkin on her friend’s flat floor? Grant and Alf on a romantic weekend away?
    
    A clusterfcuk any way you cut it.
    
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    August 13, 2018 11:09am
- Simon
  
  Trade for All, not sure. It looks like designed to suit a range of Marxist agendas. Primary appears to the extension of government control & regulation of the means of production in NZ.
  
  NZ already has laws about gender, labour, environment, health & safety etc etc.
  
  It looks like typical Marxist shit. The mongs in Wellington have zero chance of enforcing labour laws etc in China. It all looks like just another way to fuck the productive here in NZ.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:36am
  - Komata
    
    Simon: Mention of ‘Marxism’ promptss the question; Which version of that faith does the PM subscribe to? Knowing that could perhaps give an insight into the probable path she intends to take us down.
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:40am
    - MH
      
      the one about the valley and the shadow of death..
      
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      August 13, 2018 2:40pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Quoted from the mfat web site:
    “…..part of what we are asking New Zealanders to consider is how trade can support:
    
    sustainable economic development that takes into account the impact on the environment we work and live in; and
    inclusive economic development that supports all New Zealanders in all regions of New Zealand to succeed on the global stage, including women, Māori and people in small and medium sized enterprises.
    1. My business is none of the govt.’s business
    2. My business is none of the rest of NZs business
    3. I am not responsible for “supporting” the regions, or anyone else for that matter.
    4. I promise not to pollute the environment, treat people badly or impact anyone negatively. (Can the govt. promise the same?)
    5. How I achieve this is MY business.
    6. I also promise not to interfere with anyone else’s ability to do as I do (can the govt. promise that?)
    
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    August 13, 2018 10:02am
    - double d
      
      A-fucking-men
      
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      August 13, 2018 8:10pm
  - Piniwi
    
    But Simon part of the answer is in the branding by tagging it with gibberish even though their targeted participants will struggle like the majority do. A secondary driver might revealed by this news : “Unions are acknowledging the need to change to stay relevant as numbers continue to decrease.
    Despite thousands of workers taking to the streets several times this year, only 18 per cent of employees in New Zealand are members of unions.” As we have seen pandering to beneficiaries has no direct gain for Labour since most don’t vote, pay tax or need to join a union. Yes the benefit is taxed but it is from money given to them so they are Claytons tax payers. More importantly it could be a major loss for the unions coffers creating a serious limit of the funds they provide for Labour.
    
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    August 13, 2018 1:05pm
- VicParking
  
  Easy. We will run down the economy so that we can trade one $NZ Dollar for one Venezuelan Bolívar.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:45am
  - Maxx
    
    Thats great. I’ve found the exchange rate confusing of late and it will simplify things.
    
    I heard that Kelvin Davis had an idea to make tourism to NZ easier by pegging the NZ exchange rate to all foreign currencies. Amazing work.
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:06am
  - softail 1450
    
    V P,,with the added bonus that as a population we will lose 10kg each ,,,less hospital visits, Robertson isn’t as stupid as he looks…
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:15am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      I know right? Who’d ‘ave thunk he could actually turn out dumber than he looks.
      
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      August 13, 2018 10:07am
- backster
  
  Its to have conversations to allow Tangata whenua ,workers and Unions to share in the benefits of trade.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:53am
  - Maxx
    
    After all of this, I am still no more informed as to what it actually does.
    
    Have Labour taken a leaf out of Theresa Gattung’s playbook of making everything confusing so no one actually can make an informed decision…
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:09am
- waikatogirl
  
  Labour in opposition = Trade BAD
  Labour in power = Trade for All
  Selling it to the people = hypocrites.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:57am
holysheet

2 GDs=2jokes

In a terrible car accident, 3 nuns die at the same time. They all appear in front of the gates of Heaven to meet Saint Peter. When they arrive, Peter informs them that those who lived a life of the cloth must answer some basic questions about theology before they are permitted to enter Heaven. Each of the nuns has studied their bible well, so they don’t feel worried by this. The first nun steps forward and tells the saint that she’s ready. “Who was the first woman?” Peter asks. “That’s easy!” exclaims the nun. “Eve!” Peter smiles, the bells toll, and the gates of Heaven open. The second nun, encouraged by her colleagues easy pass, steps forwards and tells Peter that she’s ready, as well. “Who was the first man?” Peter asks. “Easy! That’s Adam!” says the nun, excitedly. Peter smiles, the bells toll, and the gates of Heaven open. The third nun is now confident that she won’t have any trouble, and steps up to face Peter’s question. “What were Eve’s first words to Adam?” he asks. “My, that’s a hard one,” the nun replies worriedly, but St Peter smiles, the bells toll, and the gates of Heaven open…
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August 13, 2018 8:06am
- Rich Prick
  
  Naughty, but nice. I like that.
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:03am
- softail 1450
  
  holysheet, Paddy is shocked when the vet tells him all his cows have “blue tongue”, ” Be Jaysus” says Paddy “I didn’t even know they had mobile phones”…
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:21am
- Lance
  
  Hear about the guy who had a dog with no legs….
  
  He took it for a drag everyday
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:56am
Nukuleka

At the risk of being banned from KB I’d like to take issue with DPF about his description in a post yesterday in which he described Trump as ‘a terrible human being’. Trump can be described using many negative terms and rightly so, perhaps. But the idea of labelling someone as a ‘terrible human being’ is in my view akin to the nutty alt left’s comparing Trump to Hitler, or Clinton’s description of Trump supporters as ‘deplorables’.

Few people in the world deserve to be so called- willful mass murderers such as Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot. Trump is, as we all are, a deeply flawed human being, that is the nature of humanity, but he is is not in any way to be compared with such monsters.

I view the beliefs of those who promote the dismemberment of children in the womb as pretty terrible but no way would I describe the people holding such views as ‘terrible human beings’.
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August 13, 2018 8:09am
- All_on_Red
  
  Since you touch on abortion I was surprised to learn that last year Planned Parenthood in the US performed 328,000 abortions.
  I’m pro choice but that seems a lot.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:17am
  - VicParking
    
    NZ about 21 per 1000 women = 2.1%
    US 328,000 per 152,000,00o women = 2,1%
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:31am
    - All_on_Red
      
      That was only PP
      “652,639 abortions (in the US) were reported in the CDC’s 2014 study. The abortion rate decreased 2% compared to 2013. There were 12.1 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44.”
      
      It’s been dropping though.
      1990 was 1,429,290
      
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      August 13, 2018 3:03pm
  - ross411
    
    Yes, me too! People should only be having sex on every third sunday, and maybe Lent. And only people I approve of should be doing it. Tut!
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:35am
    - VicParking
      
      Yippee that will double my sex life.
      
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      August 13, 2018 1:24pm
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        With your self does not count but you know that.
        
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        August 13, 2018 2:42pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Better than another 330000 unwanted kids being raised in shit circumstances by mothers not able to manage economically. Abortions in US now lower than they have been for 45 years. Also about 0.1-0.2% of fetuses are Downs syndrome – it’s going up with older mothers.
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:50am
    - Nukuleka
      
      Human life is human life whatever the socio-economic circumstances. Who are you to decide who is worthy to live and who isn’t?
      
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      August 13, 2018 1:34pm
- calendar girl
  
  No likelihood of a ban from DPF, Nukuleka; unlike the Massey Vice-Chancellor, he respects the right of people to have and express different views from his own. Few could take issue with the moderate way in which you have made your comment.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:25am
  - Dave Mann
    
    Well said calendar girl!
    
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    August 13, 2018 8:28am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  “terrible” isn’t as bad as it used to be. Words tend to lose their force through over-use. Trump is well below average human being compared to the general population, and somewhat below average compared to other politicians. That’s what “terrible” means now.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:35am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Yet Trump has received praise and thanks from many segments of the community for his charitable work.
    People include Rev Jesse Jackson, Alveda King (Martin Luther Kings niece) and Al Sharpton.
    In 1986 he received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for helping inner city black youth.
    Mohammed Ali and Rosa Parks were also awarded on that day. There’s a photo of them all standing together with their medals.
    Yet you say he is ‘below average compared to other politicians’.
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:29am
- KevOB
  
  Seconded.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:40am
- VicParking
  
  My beef has he said, as a throw away, that Trump was a horrible man yet did nothing to explain WHY.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:46am
  - ross411
    
    As I said elsewhere, exactly the same way the taxpayer union guy said something in the vein of “I find Molyneux and Southern’s views reprehensible but..”
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:36am
- flipper
  
  David, I regret to say, is still (for more than 2 years now) suffering from a bad (near fatal?) case of T D S. BUT FEAR NOT DPF.
  A dose of reality and the avoidance of DTS infected people and publications will effect a cure !!!!!!!!
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:48am
- DigNap15
  
  Ive seen Trump live on stage, and he comes across as a very caring guy, even though he is rich.
  He feels for the common American! and Black ones as well!
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:00am
  - VicParking
    
    He has been called out as a Flip Flopper but when you look at it, it’s really Carrot and Stick
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:33am
- Longknives
  
  “Few people in the world deserve to be so called”
  
  In the eyes of the Left we are all ‘Terrible Human Beings’.
  Anyone who votes for a Right Wing Party, thinks Don Brash may have a point, thinks the Canadians had a right to be heard etc etc
  I have seen plenty of comments on The Standard comparing all Kiwibloggers to ‘Nazis’ and the like…
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:25am
  - Harkman
    
    Ha, I was checking my MySky recordings yesterday and there was “Churchill and the Fascist Plot.” Moseley’s blackshirts would threaten anyone who disagreed with them and wanted to overturn elections, hated rich Jews (Jeremy Corbyn and anti-Israeli groups). Sounds like the anti Trump sentiment to me.
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:43am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Nukuleka
  
  “At the risk of being banned from KB I’d like to take issue with DPF …”
  
  This isn’t WhaleOil.
  Our gracious host does not cascade into tears of indignation if someone respectfully disagrees with his opinion.
  That’s another reason we’re here and not there.
  
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  August 13, 2018 10:11am
kowtow

‘Dr Farah Karim-Cooper, the Head of Higher Education & Research at Shakespeare’s Globe, said: “Using the same lighting and stage design as you do for white actors puts actors of colour at a disadvantage. There is a danger with traditionally dark, tragic, stage settings, that actors of colour merge into the background.”‘

Was never a problem for the Black and White Minstrel Show.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/12/traditional-theatre-lighting-stage-design-discriminates-against/
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August 13, 2018 8:12am
DigNap15

Is this a back to the future or Dr Who blog post?
August 14th !
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August 13, 2018 8:16am
DJ Ward

I’m wondering when the coroner will release the examination of the death of the guy who burnt himself to death at parliament.

How will the 1 month of illegally imprisoned buy the family court be accounted for.
I wonder how banning him from ever seeing or communicating with his kids for no good reason will be accounted for.

Maybe we have to wait until the judge retires before blame is justly attributed to people’s actions. Maybe the Men’s Minister looks after our appalling male, family court suicide statistics.
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August 13, 2018 8:16am
- Nermal
  
  While I don’t know the background of this case, I have to say that his setting himself on fire vindicates the decision to keep his children safely away from what is obviously a very disturbed person.
  
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  August 13, 2018 4:35pm
  - DJ Ward
    
    His missus joined a cult. Abducted his kids to Japan and used the DV system to remove him permanently. He didn’t agree with them, they put him in prison, high court rules this was illegal.
    They banned him from seeing his kids 100%. No supervised visits, no complying with Hague convention. No convictions and destroyed financially. Revenge for his non compliance of the process, and his taking them to high court. Evil.
    
    He was not a disturbed person. He had is life destroyed by an evil ex and a court that hates men.
    
    He no longer had anything to live for.
    He was being forced to pay child support for his kids, kids he would never see again just because he is male.
    He protested for awhile.
    He protested on the steps of those responsible.
    
    You have no idea about suicide.
    It does not require mental illness.
    
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    August 13, 2018 7:03pm
aquataur

Another GD joke

What Kiwis say when someone complains about their lot in life
Harden the fuck up

What Kiwis say when someone complains about the country going down the gurgler
Ardern the fuck up
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August 13, 2018 8:18am
Hugh Pavletich

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Sydney one of world’s most ‘overvalued’ cities: The Economist … The New Daily

https://thenewdaily.com.au/money/property/2018/08/10/global-house-price-index-sydney/

Sydney is one of the world’s most “overvalued” cities, according to a new global house-price index, but declining property prices mean that could be set to change.

In its annual global house-price index London-based news magazineThe Economist compared residential property prices in the world’s most popular cities against each city’s median household income.

According to The Economist, post-global-financial-crisis property price booms that occurred in many famous metropolises, including Sydney, are “unsustainable” when compared to household incomes. … read more via hyperlink above …
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(New South Wales Premier) Gladys Berejiklian ‘extremely comfortable’ with falling Sydney house prices | afr.com
… behind paywall …

https://www.afr.com/real-estate/gladys-berejiklian-extremely-comfortable-with-falling-sydney-house-prices-20180724-h132q8

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is “extremely comfortable” with where house prices in Sydney have gone and expects the recent slide in Sydney house prices is a welcome turn of events for those trying to break into the market. … read more via hyperlink above …
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… Detached housing … artificial bubble generated apartment stock excluded …

2018 14th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey (pdf)

http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
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August 13, 2018 8:18am
- Dave Mann
  
  Three more reports needed and this asshole will be deleted.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:32am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    In case you missed this one from yesterday …
    
    … UPDATE … CHRISTCHURCH CENTRAL …
    
    NOW … North Island investor exiting … 16 units individually for sale … Salisbury Street, Christchurch … Harcourts agents …
    
    http://harcourts.co.nz/Property/Residential?pageid=-1&search=&formsearch=true&OriginalTermText=&OriginalLocation=1419&location=1419&proptype=13&min=&max=&minbed=&maxbed=&sold=false
    
    Why no mention of the current tenancy arrangem,ents within the above ?
    
    April 2017 total property auction … Colliers agent …
    
    http://www.colliers.co.nz/news/2017/some%20of%20the%20first%20post-quake%20christchurch%20townhouses%20for%20sale/
    
    What happened at the April auction ? …
    
    Investors / speculators exiting … new owner occupiers emerging.
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    … CHRISTCHURCH NZ … HOUSE PRICES SINK … SPECULATORS FLEE …
    
    ‘Severely unaffordable’ Christchurch NZ ( 5.4 Median Multiple … Demographia Survey … http://www.demographia.com ) prices sink as speculators ( investors ? ) flee … due to sustained new housing production …
    
    … Ignore inappropriate title … focus on CoreLogic suburban price and price trends graphs …
    
    Christchurch house prices may pick up as city buyers enjoy most affordable market in more than a decade | Stuff.co.nz
    
    https://i.stuff.co.nz/the-press/105774354/christchurch-house-prices-may-pick-up-as-city-buyers-enjoy-most-affordable-market-in-more-than-a-decade
    
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    August 13, 2018 8:40am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      AUSTRALIA: Sydney one of world’s most ‘overvalued’ cities: The Economist … The New Daily
      
      Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/08/weekend-reading-11-12-august-2018/#comment-3164243
      
      Sydney one of world’s most ‘overvalued’ cities: The Economist … The New Daily
      
      https://thenewdaily.com.au/money/property/2018/08/10/global-house-price-index-sydney/
      
      Sydney is one of the world’s most “overvalued” cities, according to a new global house-price index, but declining property prices mean that could be set to change.
      
      In its annual global house-price index London-based news magazineThe Economist compared residential property prices in the world’s most popular cities against each city’s median household income.
      
      According to The Economist, post-global-financial-crisis property price booms that occurred in many famous metropolises, including Sydney, are “unsustainable” when compared to household incomes. … read more via hyperlink above …
      .
      .
      (New South Wales Premier) Gladys Berejiklian ‘extremely comfortable’ with falling Sydney house prices | afr.com
      … behind paywall …
      
      https://www.afr.com/real-estate/gladys-berejiklian-extremely-comfortable-with-falling-sydney-house-prices-20180724-h132q8
      
      NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is “extremely comfortable” with where house prices in Sydney have gone and expects the recent slide in Sydney house prices is a welcome turn of events for those trying to break into the market. … read more via hyperlink above …
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      … Detached housing … artificial bubble generated apartment stock excluded …
      
      2018 14th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey (pdf)
      
      http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
      
      … Distribute & discuss … thank you …
      
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      August 13, 2018 8:47am
Fletch

Will post this on here as well –

Have you seen this? Patients with kidney disorders in NZ are having their dialysis rationed because immigrants (who aren’t eligible) are turning up at emergency departments to be treated. Dialysis is supposed to be three times a week – the minimum standard – but treatment is being rationed down to two times a week which Immigration New Zealand’s chief medical officer says will make patients “get sick and die quicker”. ?

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/363933/dialysis-for-nz-patients-rationed-as-ineligible-immigrants-treated
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August 13, 2018 8:18am
- kowtow
  
  ‘refer to the world-wide numbers of diagnosed diabetes cases, many of which come from New Zealand’s immigrant source countries in Asia and the Pacific. ‘
  
  The gubmint knows all too well the cost of these immigrants to the health ( and other budgets) Why do they let so many in?
  
  The problem is created by gubmint.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:36am
- hullkiwi
  
  I heard the item on the Morning Report this morning. Health or Medical treatment tourism is a problem in those countries which provide free medical treatment at the point of delivery like NZ & the UK.
  
  NZ seems to have the same problems as the UK with people from developing countries arriving in country, getting the health treatment & not being able to pay. Yet, because our system is based on in country demand, the system rations treatment to local citizens because of foreign health tourists.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:56am
  - softail 1450
    
    hullkiwi, national had cash registers in hospitals decades ago to stop this but were nearly kicked out of office because of it by the screaming left morons that started the story that full cost charging was the end game…..the same noisey fucks are now running the country…
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:34am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Yes softail, and if you hear the piece from this morning, these people cost the Auckland DHBs about $5.5m per annum and locals are receiving rationed services. As the Poms found out the only way is prepaid up front on the credit card.
      
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      August 13, 2018 12:16pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  The tourist from Swizerland requiring dialysis during his time as a visitor will have made provision for his condition with insurance or being prepared to pay with perhaps an advanced booking.
  
  Our Tongan cousin on the other hand, will not so well prepared with the dialysis being the purpose of the visit, oh and a suitcase full of KFC to go back with if indeed, he ever goes back.
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:05am
- marcw
  
  A simple solution – every year the amount of unpaid medical costs for illegal immigrants is deducted from their country’s foreign aid payment due. The DHB’s are then reimbursed with that withheld aid money, and the financial and administrative cost problems are solved.
  
  So foreign aid is converted into medical aid, books are balanced, people needing medical treatment are fixed, and DHB debt problems go away.
  
  In time, the other countries will see it is better that they use their foreign aid to actually set up medical care in their own country, as it will benefit more of their people at home.
  
  Ignoring the abuse now just encourages more abuse and more costs.
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:15am
  - ross411
    
    Indeed Marcy. Broken window theory.
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:38am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Common sense solutions not welcome marcw. Impossible, cruel and of course, racist!
    It’s only taxpayers money, plenty more where that comes from, right?
    
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    August 13, 2018 10:44am
Happychappy

I wonder if our host shares Mike William’s views on the last two polls and does he believe political bias gives National a 2% head start in most polls nowadays.
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August 13, 2018 8:21am
VicParking

The Ngapuhi treaty settlement issue is quite simple.
Maori want six fleets of BMW’s the Government want just one.
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August 13, 2018 8:23am
secondcumming

*WTF!!??*

A man deported back here from Oz after committing a series of violent offenses there, has narrowly avoided jail again for an assault on two men in New Plymouth.

The SST reports that Steven Des Thompson, 30, was jailed three times in Australia for serious criminal offending, including assaults and robbery.

In February of this year, without provocation, Thompson assaulted two young men at the Crowded House Bar & Cafe….. Thompson kicked and punched one of the men as he laid on the ground, and when a second victim came to the aid of the injured man, Thompson told him to “fuck off”, before punching and kicking him as well.

At his sentencing, *Judge Warren Cathcart* said the violence was extreme, unprovoked and gratuitous, and the effect on the victims was profound. He noted Thompson’s troubling criminal history in Australia, and said it indicated he had a propensity to serious violence.

However, *Judge Cathcart* gave Thompson credit for an early guilty plea, noted he was attending councelling, and sentenced him to….. *7 1/2 months home detention*.

https://twitter.com/SundayStarTimes/status/1028356812972552192

Another dud judge. No wonder this country has become a free-range asylum.
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August 13, 2018 8:27am
- KevOB
  
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  If a judge does not give credit for someone attempting to change for the better do you think forced incarceration is going to rehabilitate?
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:48am
  - Dave Mann
    
    Fuck his ‘rehabilitation’. What about the two people he attacked? This scum is a serial violent offender and he should be locked away where he can’t do any more damage to innocent citizens.
    
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    August 13, 2018 8:55am
    - KevOB
      
      I have sat through enough trials to know judges weigh carefully the risks of freedom against the reasonable wish to see the errant reform.
      
      There are cohorts among offenders related to maturity. That will have been tested. The judge will have had reports to help. There are well known drop out ages and the offender may have been at that point.
      
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      August 13, 2018 12:59pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        Sorry Kev, do you really believe this person is going to reform? To reform this guy will need a support network & a home environment second to none to avoid a repeat of his past. I bet he doesn’t have the network, support & home environment needed and before long he will return to do a stretch at Her Majesty’s pleasure.
        
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        August 13, 2018 2:00pm
    - starboard
      
      Ppfftt.. Its only collateral damage, fuck the victims.
      
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      August 13, 2018 2:17pm
  - DigNap15
    
    I’d rehabilitate him with some forced hard labour.
    Breaking rocks all day fro the rest of his miserable life.
    Then put that on Youtube every day, as an example to other thugs.
    And I ‘d put that judge in there too.
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:03am
  - Maxx
    
    He has shown so much ability to rehabilitate that he was deported and then carried on with the same behaviour.
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:10am
  - Longknives
    
    KevOB
    
    What is more important- Public Safety? Or this guy’s ‘Rehabilitation’??
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:30am
    - KevOB
      
      The Judge would have made that decisions as criminal trial judges do every day.
      
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      August 13, 2018 1:00pm
  - softail 1450
    
    KevOB, would you feel that way if he beat the shit out of 2 of your kids ?
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:44am
    - KevOB
      
      Nothing is to be gained except vengeance. Even the Courts do not pursue that which is reserved to God,
      
      It’s strange in human terms but there is peace in forgiveness which enables you to get on with your life.
      
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      August 13, 2018 1:08pm
      - secondcumming
        
        You had me there for a while Kev………now I KNOW you’re taking the piss!!
        LOL.
        
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        August 13, 2018 1:50pm
- DigNap15
  
  Home D is not a punishment.
  I stay home most of the time anyway.
  You can order pizza, shop online, get naughty girls to come and visit you, friends can come round, barbecues, watch DVDs, sport.
  Hell it sounds great!
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:08am
  - Longknives
    
    I had a relative on Home Detention.
    He played Playstation almost 24/7 when he wasn’t pissing up or banging one of his many skanky young female visitors…
    
    It’s not exactly ‘Punishment’.
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:32am
    - Paulus
      
      Do people on Home Detention get some sort of Taxpayers money ?
      After all they cannot go out to work, if they ever did.
      Perhaps they are better off that way as cannot get to the TAB or Pokies.
      
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      August 13, 2018 11:14am
      - Longknives
        
        Unemployment Benefit Paulus.
        
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        August 13, 2018 11:35am
Left Right and Centre

A day in the life of a teacher in NZ

Teacher Charlee Jobson says there’s not even any time to go to the bathroom. Ouch.

I’m sorry – you lost me at ‘Charlee’. You really did.
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August 13, 2018 8:36am
- Longknives
  
  Charlee looks about 20 years old.
  I doubt the precious wee thing has experienced a ‘real job’.
  Maybe she should go spend a night with the Nurses in Auckland A&E?
  Or ride along nightshift Saturday with Otahuhu Cops?
  What’s that? working nights or on a weekend? Didn’t think so Charlee…
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:37am
  - softail 1450
    
    LongKnives,,,to be fair i would rather be a cop than a teacher ,having to put up with the half fucked up children of the same people the cops are arresting wouldn’t be what I’d call fun….
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:50am
  - Psycho Milt
    
    I doubt the precious wee thing has experienced a ‘real job’.
    
    I doubt you have either, snowflake. Our doubts about other people’s jobs and $4 would get us a cup of coffee.
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:59am
- dime
  
  lmao oh no, she has to actually work for a living.
  
  does she find time for her morning dump during the 12 weeks holidays she gets a year?
  
  I’m over teacher bitching. we get it, you suck at time management and you’re slow. that just makes you not worth 80k a year.
  
  as a side note, this charlee chick reminds me of the teachers I used to bang back in the day.
  
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  August 13, 2018 2:27pm
Wangas Feral

Well we got a new puppy so despite all the trials and tribulations in the world, life is joyous and happy in this feral household.
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August 13, 2018 8:46am
- hullkiwi
  
  There is nothing like your home being turned into an oversized kennel. Especially when your chosen dogs are Rottweilers (2 of them, was 4 up until a month ago).
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:07am
  - tf78
    
    Rottweilers are amazingly good natured dogs – I was really surprised as I thought they would be as seen on TV.
    
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    August 13, 2018 10:32am
    - hullkiwi
      
      They are amazing dogs, at first I was a sceptic (too much bad press). But my wife’s family had bred Rotties in South Africa and when we were moving back to England from Germany, my wife pressured me to get one, that dog is still with us.
      
      The eldest of our dogs is now 11. He and one of the girls we had (she was put down recently because she had cancer in her limbs and shoulder) were brought out from England 5 years ago. We bought two more 2 years ago (a brother and sister). Sadly, the sister had behavioural problems and for everybody’s safety we had to have her put down. So we are left with 2 males. Both have wonderful natures and are great family dogs.
      
      We do not have them as guard or security dogs, they are family pets. However, there size can make them intimidating to strangers, but both of them want are happy to have attention and adoration.
      
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      August 13, 2018 10:39pm
Dave Mann

At the risk of being banned, I want to complain bitterly to DPF about his terrible act in shutting down free speech on this blog.

What has happened to GD for 15th August? Why hasn’t it appeared yet? Hugh Pavlova and Stiffy are not going to be happy about this…..
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August 13, 2018 8:47am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Stop yer fing whinging, you have got two today so go over there and complain as well!
  
  There is no pleasing some people . . . .
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:09am
  - Dave Mann
    
    😀 😀 😀
    
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    August 13, 2018 10:00am
- SGA
  
  What has happened to GD for 15th August?
  
  Don’t worry, it looks great. Some great comments from someone called Marty McFly.
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:10am
  - Dave Mann
    
    Good one!
    
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    August 13, 2018 10:00am
DigNap15

I think Kokila should set up all the GD’s for the whole week ahead on every Monday.
It will be a great time saver for them, and will give us a guaranteed GD every day.
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August 13, 2018 9:05am
- brett68
  
  Needs to set up a cron job.
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:20am
- GazzaW
  
  Don’t set them up too far in advance otherwise ztev will serve out his sentence prematurely 😉
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:37am
  - Nostradamus
    
    And Hugh (despite his stamina and lack of self-awareness) can only spam us with so many links a day!
    
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    August 13, 2018 2:56pm
lifesgood

Curious to know why some posts don’t have a “reply” option.
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August 13, 2018 9:17am
- marcw
  
  I think WP only allows a certain number of ‘nested’ replies, then the option drops out. It is a nuisance when you hit what you think will be ‘Reply’, and it is actually “Report” instead.
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:22am
  - DigNap15
    
    yes that has happened to me several times!
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:29am
    - VicParking
      
      Not to Stephie and the Pavalova enough thou!
      
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      August 13, 2018 9:40am
  - Dave Mann
    
    Correct. It makes sense not to have unlimited nested replies… otherwise it would become unworkable and all the nest would slide off the page.
    
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    August 13, 2018 10:09am
artemisia

But wait, there’s more – but no worries it’s a Council not a working group. All good then. Nothing to do with business confidence or a charm offensive.

Government acknowledges reliance on SMEs, implements Small Business Council

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/small-business-sme/news/article.cfm?c_id=85&objectid=12104769
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August 13, 2018 9:18am
- alex Masterley
  
  It will all talk and no walk.
  Complete waste of time for all concerned.
  
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  August 13, 2018 10:56am
Maggy Wassilieff

“we could get a generation of people who don’t get the bus.”

So an ex-Labour MP, Chris Laidlaw, and one of the architects of the Resource Management Act, leading guru of “super-city Auckland”, Environmental bureaucrat, etc, etc, Roger Blakely, can’t get Wellington’s Buses to run on time.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/106209854/standing-room-only-at-fiery-meeting-as-wellingtonians-speak-out-on-capitals-buses
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August 13, 2018 9:25am
- GazzaW
  
  Where’s Mussolini when you need him?
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:41am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Mussolini only got 1 train to arrive on time. The rest were on Italian time.
    
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    August 13, 2018 10:54am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Last seen hanging around under a lamppost, 1945 . . . .
    
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    August 13, 2018 2:49pm
- kevn
  
  @MW… I wonder if anyone has asked the bus drivers for opinions and solutions?
  Bet you not.
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:53am
- KevOB
  
  There’s no room left in the city for buses. It was good while it lasted.
  
  One solution might be to enlarge the reclamation. If that was sufficient it could provide for a transport corridor and business. The latter could fund the project.
  The high rise canyons on narrow 19th century streets don’t facilitate people movement or planning. Plenty of room at Kaiwharawhara for expansion if only one could get through town.
  
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  August 13, 2018 1:26pm
  - MrLovebucket
    
    Wellington needs to get rid of the Basin Reserve. Build a quaint cricket ground in the botanic gardens instead and unblock the gridlock.
    
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    August 13, 2018 3:02pm
Simon

Trump is taking apart Erdogan. He is learning him real good. Masterclass.
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August 13, 2018 9:30am
- stephieboy
  
  “He is learning him real good”
  
  In what ways? Military junta?
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:45am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1001770/Turkey-lira-crisis-live-Erdogan-Donald-Trump-sell-off-steel
    There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
    
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    August 13, 2018 10:26am
  - Nermal
    
    Good suggestion, stephie. That has worked to Turkey’s benefit in the past, so could be a good option.
    
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    August 13, 2018 4:44pm
- SGA
  
  When I read Trump’s attack Turkey, I was left wondering whether that was just going to move Turkey closer (politically speaking) to Russia. Anyone else have that reaction?
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:56am
Harkman

While I suspected Alan Bollard was a political appointee nonetheless Labour would disagree. However, the new governor is a sock puppet, without a doubt.
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August 13, 2018 9:35am
artemisia

Petition of Connor Sharp – Expand protections related to freedom of speech to prevent de-platforming

Numbers clicking up – now over 1700.

http://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/petitions/document/PET_78922/petition-of-connor-sharp-expand-protections-related-to
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August 13, 2018 9:35am
stephieboy

Name change contest for ACT!

Suggestions,

Vanishing ACT

The Greedies

Carry on..
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August 13, 2018 9:43am
- All_on_Red
  
  Name change contest for Stephieboy
  
  I think Stoooopidboy is my fave
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:46am
  - Harkman
    
    Ralph will do, what a loser.
    
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    August 13, 2018 9:52am
    - softail 1450
      
      Harkman, “goat fancier”
      
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      August 13, 2018 9:59am
  - softail 1450
    
    A O R,,the septic squirrel….
    
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    August 13, 2018 10:00am
  - geoff3012
    
    How about “camel fucker”
    
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    August 13, 2018 10:13am
  - dime
    
    he should be known as creepy sex pest
    
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    August 13, 2018 2:28pm
  - Nermal
    
    Nigel Nomates
    
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    August 13, 2018 4:45pm
- DigNap15
  
  Give Up?
  
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  August 13, 2018 10:01am
kevn

septicboy ?
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August 13, 2018 9:50am
- softail 1450
  
  you gotta go a long way to top “the sharia gull” squawk,squawk,squawk ,flap,flap,flap…..
  
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  August 13, 2018 9:56am
Rich Prick

Why do Muslims just shit where ever they feel the urge? One snapped a log off in a fountain. Travel advisory: never visit Algiers. It’s an Islamic shithole.
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August 13, 2018 9:55am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  And that’s why they can’t have nice things.
  
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  August 13, 2018 10:01am
- alex Masterley
  
  Dropping the kids off at the pool?
  
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  August 13, 2018 11:14am
- Manolo
  
  Most Muslims have the sanitary habits of goats and donkeys, that is none!
  
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  August 13, 2018 11:20am
- GazzaW
  
  You must be there on business RP because no one in their right mind…………
  
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  August 13, 2018 11:21am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Heh, slightly long story, but I decided that as I am such a critic of what the Satanic Death Cult has brought to the West, I really ought to experience it first hand in its natural setting (albeit, I chose some of the tamer countries, not ones that chop hands, feet and heads off, but any country that incorporates a sword on car registration plates means business). All of my prejudices have been substantiated with one exception. Education moderates the literal excesses of the Koran. I had a lovey bloke as a guide, he went to Cambridge on a scholarship and filled me in a bit on the intolerance we see. Another casual observation, a lack of access to beer makes people very miserable. I’ve also discovered where the world’s 1970’s Mercedes Benz’s have ended up.
    
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    August 14, 2018 2:30am
GazzaW

The NZ peso has slipped further against ALL of the currencies of our trading partners which effectively means that our economy is doing worse than theirs. Devaluation is usually perceived as a positive for exporters but it’s a double-edge sword once essential the increased costs of imported plant such as tractors and agricultural equipment, fertiliser, palm nuts and building materials hit the rural economies. International loan repayments have increased for both the Government and private sector. Let’s not forget Joe Public who faces increases in fuel, food and overseas travel costs and the Kiwi’s newly found love affair with online shopping.

This is all about Steven Joyce’s much derided fiscal black hole. The only error he made was recognising the magnitude of that black hole. International money markets haven’t.
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August 13, 2018 10:02am
- rangitoto
  
  I heard a news report on the radio trying to spin a tanking dollar as a good thing. Have they checked out Venezuela lately? How long will it be before we have to win powerball to afford a loaf of bread.
  
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  August 13, 2018 10:35am
- KevOB
  
  With a floating dollar how can you tell what has been recognised?
  
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  August 13, 2018 1:36pm
- MrLovebucket
  
  The NZD has actually risen against the VEF (Venezuelan bolívar) and I expect our Minister of Finance to start celebrating this as the one true measure of economic success. The other currencies are junk and clearly don’t like Labour governments.
  
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  August 13, 2018 2:59pm
- Piniwi
  
  oh gee GazzaW don’t knock the Peso as it is falling in sympathy with the NZ$ so the next 4 weekly pension day due 21 August might hold up within the recent range. Thanks to El President who’s rating slipped like a falling coconut recently. With the amount of Chinese money flowing in they might soon expand their “nation” with 7200 more island that make up the Philippines.
  One local bus company has a continuous fleet of new replacement coaches flowing through and their big new depot is in the colour scheme as the coaches. Perhaps that is what keeps a 4 hour coach trip around the southern end of Cebu Island down to about NZ$4.50. They do operate to a sort of loose timetable but are always full when they depart and any others picked up en route sit in the aisle.
  
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  August 13, 2018 5:58pm
Komata

Simon: Mention of ‘Marxism’ prompts the question; Which version of that faith does the PM subscribe to? Knowing that could perhaps give an insight into the probable path she intends to take us down.
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August 13, 2018 10:02am
softail 1450

R P,, Turkey was the country most quoted as a successful Islamic democracy ,Erdogan has fucked that place up in record time and unlike in the past he will suffer immediate consequences for doing so…
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August 13, 2018 10:05am
Cunningham

Terrible interview by Bridges on the AM show. He supports Maori seats being removed but had a weak excuse of it being too hard. The last week he went to Massey to speak where he should have told them to get f***ed and refuse to speak there until Jan Thomas reversed her ban on Brash speaking. He is becoming a very disappointing leader, lacking any courage to make any difficult calls.
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August 13, 2018 10:05am
- Manolo
  
  Ah, the enfeebled Notional Party and its piss weak “leader”!
  
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  August 13, 2018 10:24am
- Prince
  
  Sure, he needs to move harder right, to soak up all those Act party supporters. Sure you’ll lose 15-20% of the centre, but think of the gains.
  
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  August 13, 2018 11:13am
  - GazzaW
    
    15-20% of the centre and the only gain would be for Labour.
    
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    August 13, 2018 11:23am
  - lifesgood
    
    How many voted Act again?
    
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    August 13, 2018 11:53am
  - Cunningham
    
    It’s not necessarily what he says, it’s how he says it. He comes across as weak and the media and opposition are picking up on it.
    
    Like after the National Party conference, he should have come out and said he was not going into government with Winston while he was leader yet when asked by Garner he just couldn’t give a straight answer to the question. Grow a pair FFS, I would guess that 99% of his supporters would probably rather eat a dog turd then go into government with that corrupt prick. I know it’s politics but there’s still room for taking a moral stand even if the stakes are high.
    
    He needs to take some risks to get a profile but he seems incapable.
    
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    August 13, 2018 12:49pm
  - KevOB
    
    Best left alone.
    
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    August 13, 2018 1:44pm
- KevOB
  
  Isn’t it nice having a Leader of the Opposition on a string so you can twirl him around your head.
  
  If only we had a PM under control like that.
  
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  August 13, 2018 1:43pm
Fletch

Another Dem, the Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee, being accused of domestic abuse…

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/08/12/whoa-if-true-mn-dem-debra-hilstrom-tweets-shocking-facebook-post-accusing-keith-ellison-of-domestic-violence/

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/08/12/holy-cow-karen-monahan-responds-to-ellisons-denial-of-domestic-abuse-charges-with-alleged-texts-with-him/
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August 13, 2018 10:12am
DigNap15

Every rich country has a strong currency.
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August 13, 2018 10:40am
- stephieboy
  
  DigNap15, like the USA?
  
  https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/25/trump-weak-dollar-policy-could-kill-economy-analyst-bove-says.html
  
  LOL!
  
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  August 13, 2018 11:26am
marquess

Swedish far-right fascist arrested thankfully before getting a chance to murder those he disagrees with. Clearly all we needed to do beforehand was have a debate with him and discuss his views ?
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August 13, 2018 10:51am
- rangitoto
  
  Looks like a he’s perfect fit for the CoL.
  
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  August 13, 2018 10:57am
  - marquess
    
    Possibly. I don’t think the nats would have him, but act might.
    
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    August 13, 2018 11:03am
    - rangitoto
      
      At least the Swedes are arresting their fascists threatening violence. Here we just appease them and ban anything they don’t like.
      
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      August 13, 2018 11:09am
      - stephieboy
        
        But not murdering their opponents like that Swedish rabid righter was attempting to do.
        
        Aye?
        
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        August 13, 2018 11:21am
- DigNap15
  
  I’d be ashamed to be a Viking
  
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  August 13, 2018 11:26am
starboard

Hat tip Hobsons Pledge

“Taniwha surfaces in Christchurch.

The taniwha has surfaced in the Christchurch district, this time seeking a share of whopping consenting costs for a nine-metre long two-metre high retaining wall.

A Banks Peninsula couple wants to build a concrete block wall along a bare earth bank which was dug out during earthquake rebuild work.

The couple, who live on Governors Bay Rd, say they are “sickened” by consenting costs of about $20,000 – the same amount as budgeted for the wall’s construction.

Their project will also need iwi approval, including a processing cost of $800, because their property is within the area of the Mahaanui Iwi Management Plan Silent Files and Kaitorete Spit cultural zone in the Christchurch District Plan.

A silent file area is an area given protection because it contains significant wahi tapu (sacred places) or wahi taonga (treasured possessions). The area is larger than the wahi tapu to ensure the exact location of the sacred place remains secret or “silent”. “
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August 13, 2018 10:51am
- stephieboy
  
  starboard, while you’re at it give us your take on pre-Celtic New Zealand?
  
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  August 13, 2018 11:23am
- Longknives
  
  Does the mythical Taniwha take cheques? Or just cash deposits??
  
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  August 13, 2018 11:50am
  - GazzaW
    
    Just cash in brown paper bags.
    
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    August 13, 2018 12:51pm
secondcumming

Well, butter my but and call me a biscuit.

*Philip John Smith*….convicted murderer, pedophile, and wig-wearing escapee, may again be considering an appeal directly to the Minister of Justice, for his fundamental human right to wear a custom-made toupee in prison…..

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkUcHkgXsAE8eBY.jpg
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August 13, 2018 10:57am
- GazzaW
  
  …….and this Minister of Justice might just accommodate his appeal. Heh, he might even ask Smith where he buys his custom-made wigs.
  
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  August 13, 2018 11:28am
DigNap15

People in jail have no rights!
He needs to be told to stop wasting our time
And his scummy lawyer needs to get a real job and stop sucking off the tax payer.
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August 13, 2018 11:25am
Komata

DN15

But, But, that IS the lawyer’s real job. Leave him alone for long enough and he might even become a politician (they have form for doing so. Apparently it’s seen as a ‘promotion’…)
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August 13, 2018 11:42am
Tom Barker

There are half a dozen Muslim families (of various nationalities and ethnicities) within a short walk of my place. I’ve chatted with all of them from time to time, over the fence and in the living room. Not once I have heard the offensive attitudes that this site constantly attributes to followers of their religion. (Of course, if I want to find evidence of vicious homophobia, crude bigotry and bizarrely archaic attitudes to women, I have only to look at the comments on this very site.)
Instead, my Muslim neighbours appear to have the same concerns and preoccupations that I do – the health and wellbeing of our families, the discomforts of the local climate in midwinter, and the difficulty of obtaining staple foodstuffs like teff in this backward country.
What is it I’m supposed to hate about them?
(And by the way – if anyone here knows of a reliable source of teff at a reasonable price, please let me know. I’d happily eat njera at every meal, and can’t beat freshly made.)
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August 13, 2018 12:04pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  They are non-integrating cultural supremacists that practise a life-long insidious misogynistic control over their daughters – who will be ostracised if they rebel. Those daughters are brainwashed from birth to male subjugation. Other religious cults that do this are equally evil.
  
  Their articles of faith also excuse and encourage evil and murderous treatment of infidels. Rape, slavery, murder, religious genocide, theft and torture are all sanctioned and carried out by Mr Perfect Mohammed. It is a license for antisocial and unacceptable behaviour. Eg in UK Muslims a 4x over-represented in jail, NZ 2x, Australia 3x.
  
  Lying to infidels (taqiyya) is part of their religion and culture, an article of faith. They are instructed by the most perfect man to lie to you to advance Islam – so how can you trust their words, explanations or proferred opinions for anything?
  
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  August 13, 2018 12:30pm
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    When you used the term ‘they’, did you mean all Muslims, or just specifically the Muslim families encountered by Tom in his neighbourhood?
    
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    August 13, 2018 3:05pm
- secondcumming
  
  As a food importer, I know *Teff* is certainly available in Ethiopia. Maybe you could emigrate there Tom?
  
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  August 13, 2018 12:41pm
- ross411
  
  Did you ask them if their daughters have to shroud themselves? Refrain from interaction with males? Were circumcised? Did you show them a hand-drawn picture of mohammed holding his 9 year old wife Aisha’s hand as he led her to the room he was going to molest her in?
  
  No? Huh.. strange that. Superficial chats and the superficial judgement that gets paraded about based on them.
  
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  August 13, 2018 12:56pm
- DigNap15
  
  Perhaps they can go back home where they wil be able to get as much teff as they want.
  You are a very trusting sort of person, the sort that sits back and watches whilst western civilization is taken over.
  
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  August 13, 2018 1:20pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Most of the Organic shops online are selling Teff flour…at least 2 in Auckland, One in Wanaka.
  Or try direct through Ceres
  https://www.ceres.co.nz/products/grocery/ceres-organics/flours/organic-teff-flour/
  
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  August 13, 2018 3:17pm
- Nermal
  
  Look up photos and films of rural Germany in the mid to late 30’s and you’ll see friendly jolly Germans who were all normal nice people, with happy cute children and pets. No Jews or untermenschen hanging from the lampposts. Then check out the photos and films of atrocities in Eastern Europe a few years later.
  
  I’m sure the people you spoke to were lovely. But I’ve seen the photos and videos of Muslim atrocities in almost all parts of the world.
  
  Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
  
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  August 13, 2018 4:58pm
thetiedarch

Maybe I missed it, but no one seems to have commented on this:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12104190

A public lambasting of the CoL government of this quality is rare! I’m surprised the Herald actually printed it!
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August 13, 2018 12:04pm
- ross411
  
  What a mongolian clusterfunk this government is making 😥
  
  No surprise the comments are turned off. They’d have to turn the comments off for the leftist diatribes due to the outcry over the nonsense in them, and this would mean that if they enabled them in the non-leftist opinions, it’d stick out like a sort thumb. 😆
  
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  August 13, 2018 12:52pm
- KevOB
  
  The real problem is that Ardern, Robertson and the rest of the Labour crew were either incapable, too lazy or too distracted to do any policy work during nine years in opposition.
  
  The warnings of pending global economic correction were obvious prior to the election. Timing is hard to predict but the if-factor is not–over borrowed money has to be repaid eventually.
  
  There has been an excess of credit creation world wide and that splashed around pushing up values excessively. The effects of this have been seen previously time and again.
  
  The CoL didn’t have enough nous to know what they were taking on. Now their plans will meet a head on international firestorm. As they only accept like minded advisors NZ will be the worse for wear.
  
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  August 13, 2018 2:03pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Not only that but Winston said there would be a downturn at his COL announcement.
    
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    August 13, 2018 2:09pm
kevn

@tta… There has been similar comment from Watkins. DupeAllan and Soper.
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August 13, 2018 12:41pm
waikatogirl

The last couple of nights there has been a story about a young guy with Downs Syndrome who works for Countdown. He approached Kiwi Saver to be able to withdraw his retirement fund early as life expectancy is not high for DS. The Retirement Commissioner has been fighting his corner to have DS recognised as a valid reason for early release of Kiwi Saver funds. It seems he has now been successful and will use some of the funds for him and his carer (his mum) to visit his brother overseas.

Some viewers took it upon themselves to offer to be helpful and offer cash to help him out. It was refreshing for this young man with Down’s Syndrome to say “I want to spend my own money”. His mother added, No thank you, we don’t need money or Give a Little.
Nice One!
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August 13, 2018 12:44pm
- ross411
  
  Kids been brought up well. Bravo mum.
  
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  August 13, 2018 12:54pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Yes he has, thoroughly decent and they are the neighbours i would have in my living room with pleasure rather than Tom B’s (above)
    
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    August 13, 2018 3:00pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Paradoxically, there’s a cause I wouldn’t mind giving to. Hope they have a wonderful time on their travels.
  
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  August 13, 2018 1:14pm
- KevOB
  
  I’m sympathetic too to the young man’s plight.
  His is the classic retirement age issue. One size does not fit all. Plumbers “on the tools” can be physically finished by 55. Labourers and other tradies likewise.
  
  We should acknowledge these life patterns and make provision. It would not be difficult to craft rules allowing for an adjustment to notional retirement ages for different groups. With a discretionary provision and basic review rights that should cover most anomalies.
  
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  August 13, 2018 2:19pm
- Piniwi
  
  Sadly waikatogirl those rushing to assist this young guy are not so willing to provide the increasing amount of care he will need later when that saving could be of most benefit. There is a lot of unseen complication for those with Downs Syndrome with their body shutting down progressively towards the end. This can mean 24/7 care needs to be provided by the state. Which could also the appropriate time for the use of those savings.
  While it seems a fair thing for him to “spend his own money” the accumulated value of his Kiwi Saver is partly his and equally subsidized by his employer as well as a tax refund if within the limits. We must question the mother’s wisdom in choosing to enroll him in Kiwi Saver where because of his disadvantaged condition he was always unlikely to work to anywhere near retirement age.
  The purpose of Kiwi Saver is for people to save for retirement with the added growth factor of employer contributions and the prudent investment management of a good fund operator. While making a portion available for getting a leg up into the housing market is a logical substitute investment for the recipient is was never intended as funding source for other whims. Though Labour did want to get their hands on it to control inflation that failed too.
  However as seen during years in the care industry these people are very easy manipulated and susceptible to ideas being planted. Usually by the staff member who will most likely be needed to accompany them. In the community houses where this carry on is rampant they usually end up being poorly catered for with virtually every meal content measured down to the last gram.
  Amusing to see Mum has been the driver of this fiasco and it is she who will accompany him as his carer. A roll that recently became a paying occupation that could have just as easily have been saved for this trip along with some of juniors income. That way his savings could have stayed intact for those rainy days that are surely in his future where there might be no mum to help out.
  It could also be the springboard to a rush of sob stories for more wanting early access to their Kiwi Savings.
  Truth is the easy out is there if he has been in it for so long to simply opt out of the current scheme then make a fresh start after the holiday. He is well past the minimum term but would have been less likely to get so much Media party attention.
  
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  August 13, 2018 6:45pm
Hugh Pavletich

NZ Labour to ban foreign home buyers – MacroBusiness Australia

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/08/nz-labour-ban-foreign-home-buyers/

By Leith van Onselen

Later this week, New Zealand’s Labour-led coalition Government will introduce legislation to implement the first tranche of its demand-side housing reforms, amending the Overseas Investment Act to preclude foreign buyers from purchasing residential property. From The Canberra Times: … read more via hyperlink above …

… Access comprehensive Pavletich post on thread …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/08/nz-labour-ban-foreign-home-buyers/#comment-3164601
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August 13, 2018 12:52pm
- ross411
  
  Can I advertise my shit here too, or does only Hugh get away with doing it daily?
  
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  August 13, 2018 12:59pm
  - stephieboy
    
    roos411, whats wares do have on offer?
    
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    August 13, 2018 1:04pm
    - stigie
      
      Would be no use selling your used goats on here..?
      
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      August 13, 2018 1:39pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Stephieboy:
      
      whats wares do have on offer?
      
      No one wants to see your St Lukes photo album. Maybe try your luck at Celebrity Jihad, which you’ve linked to previously?
      
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      August 13, 2018 3:04pm
  - Harkman
    
    But nobody reads his spam.
    
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    August 13, 2018 1:07pm
    - DigNap15
      
      My girl friend loves spam, the sort you buy at the smkt.
      
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      August 13, 2018 1:22pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        … New Zealand’s politically induced low productivity ‘costs out of control’ economy …
        
        Confidence in the economy is wavering, and there are at least five key reasons, most related to some big public policy changes, and how households have reacted to the consequences | interest.co.nz
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/personal-finance/95278/confidence-economy-wavering-and-there-are-least-five-key-reasons-most-related
        
        Business confidence is falling fast.
        
        But Government ministers say that is an over-reaction. They point to the growing economy. They point to rising wage settlements, both for minimum wage workers and Government health and education workers. Economic growth and higher payrolls are not being properly accounted for, they say. They are about to start a charm offensive, trying to head off another ‘winter of discontent’ in the business and investment community. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        August 13, 2018 4:36pm
oldgolfer

Kiwibank is offering Kiwibuild buyers loans on a 10 per cent deposit.
I don’t think that is going to end well.
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August 13, 2018 1:26pm
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Why?
  
  The government is holding a lottery and winners get a house partially funded by taxpayers. If the buyer has a $50k deposit, the bank lends $450k, but the market value of the property is $650k, I’d say the bank’s money is pretty safe, even if the borrower has an above average likelihood of defaulting.
  
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  August 13, 2018 1:40pm
- DigNap15
  
  Yes, cheap loans to high risk buyers was what set off the Global Financial crisis.
  This was one of Bill Clintons policies, everyone should have their own home.
  
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  August 13, 2018 1:40pm
- rangitoto
  
  NZ’s version of subprime mortgages.
  
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  August 13, 2018 1:42pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Tell me how that ends Freddie!
    
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    August 13, 2018 3:02pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Right rangitoto ad at a time when we read this : “Economists warn Auckland housing market could suffer same price falls as some bug Australian cities.”
    Interestingly Orr indicated a similar thing but guess he will get a course correction before the RBNZ report is broadcast.
    
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    August 13, 2018 6:50pm
- Paulus
  
  But remember KiwiBank is a taxpayer owned company who were extensively bailed out in the formative years by NZ Post.
  In a real market their capital also taxpayer funded would be at a low Standard & Poors level and not really financially viable as a bank.
  But is is only taxpayers money only when required to be viable.
  Remember their market is still those whom the real banks would not have as a customer.
  
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  August 13, 2018 1:52pm
DigNap15

Here is a new Maori word for Jacinda and her followers to learn.
Its Claustrophobic.
I’m sorry the Maori word for claustrophobic is not in my printed Maori dictionary.
We’ll try another one tomorrow.
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August 13, 2018 1:38pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  it’s not in my dictionaries, either…
  
  How about
  mataku = fearful, afraid ?
  
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  August 13, 2018 2:03pm
  - MH
    
    macrons, pls dear readers, macrons….tut tut.
    The omnipresent oppressive bar must be used willingly but is not to be used for ceremonial purposes. East coasters do not emphasis the wh pronunciation as in claustrowhobic.
    
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    August 13, 2018 2:26pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Laughable MW when Google NZ offers it in gibberish but still red lines so many of the newly added words “developed” for the modern world. Or is that a result of some primary filtering by Dr Google?
    
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    August 13, 2018 6:54pm
- KevOB
  
  kal0satafoupiki
  
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  August 13, 2018 2:23pm
- rangitoto
  
  I tried entering “Coalition of Losers” into google translate. The Maori came out as “Tuhinga o mua”
  
  I wonder if the reverse translation was a censored rude word as it just came out as “Of the”.
  
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  August 13, 2018 2:27pm
Prince

I understand the Dompost has advised subscriber(s) of a 15% increase in price.
15% more for a substantially reduced publication with an editorial policy and opinion pieces almost universally attacking capitalism, thrift and all things ‘pale, male and stale ‘.
And wrapped in a plastic bag, while running a campaign to ban plastic bags.
Any publication that bashes 50% of its market (the section more likely to buy their product), hikes their price 15% while attacking business, and has opinion writers that run 90% in favour of the left wing deserve the backlash they are about to experience.
Time for any readers to the right of Labour/Green to wean themselves from this failed business model.
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August 13, 2018 2:25pm
- ross411
  
  People like their morning paper in hand, to get their daily fill of fake news. A price rise isn’t going to shake many of the subscribers, I suspect.
  
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  August 13, 2018 2:38pm
  - Prince
    
    I disagree. The Dompost runs similar material to The Standard, which is free.
    
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    August 13, 2018 2:47pm
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      The Doom has more pictures and a crossword puzzle (had to write puzzle as there are many cross words in the cat tray liner)
      
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      August 13, 2018 3:05pm
      - Piniwi
        
        Like WO GM and even Sudoku for subscribers. How cool is that?
        
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        August 13, 2018 6:56pm
graham

Are more people finally starting to wake up to the madness of “I don’t care what my body thinks I’m really a woman dammit!”?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12106161

There’s currently a recommendation from a committee looking at the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill. If it was accepted it would allow people to change genders on their birth certificate by way of a statutory declaration instead of needing confirmation by a judge.

As an aside there would also be options other than male or female, such as “intersex” or “X (unspecified)”.

But the Lesbian Rights Alliance Aotearoa says this will put women and girls in danger – because they couldn’t then retain the right to female-only or lesbian-only spaces, services and provisions, because any male could simply declare he was female and have every legal right to use them.

The LRAA refers to this as “a blatant disregard for women’s human rights”.

Oh, you mean like the guy that decided he was a she, tried to join a women-only gym even though he hasn’t had any gender-reassignment surgery, and complained bitterly when the gym said no? Quite right – under this amendment, he will simply have his birth certificate changed, go back to the gym and insist they let him join, with the full backing of the law.

Welcome to reality, folks.
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August 13, 2018 3:11pm
- Nermal
  
  If I changed my gender could I get regular breast screening for my manboobs?
  
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  August 13, 2018 5:04pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    2 yes, but all 6? prob not
    
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    August 13, 2018 5:36pm
stephieboy

Is this what the President’s Rustbelt voter had on mind when they voted for him ?.

I would add his NZ supporters also,

“Trump backs Harley boycott”

US President Donald Trump has backed boycotting American motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson, the latest salvo in a dispute between the company and Mr Trump over tariffs on steel.

The American motorcycle manufacturer announced a plan earlier this year to move production of motorcycles for the European Union from the US to its overseas facilities to avoid the tariffs imposed by the trading bloc in retaliation for Mr Trump’s duties on steel and aluminum,

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2018/08/trump-backs-harley-boycott.html

It just can’t get more surreal than this kind of Trumponomics KB Trump supporters.? O

Or should I say more acutely the Presidents’, useful idiots?
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August 13, 2018 3:25pm
- Jack5
  
  What bullshit. The world knows Stephiestanis ride camels and goats, not Harleys.
  
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  August 13, 2018 3:29pm
- rangitoto
  
  You will be keen to join “Bikers for Trump” to make sure Harley stay at home.
  
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  August 13, 2018 3:35pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Actually HD has been moving production offshore well before the Tarrifs were introduced.
  HD blaming going to the EU on Tarrifs has been well debunked.
  Good on Trump for supporting Buy US made.
  Just like we should support Buy NZ made.
  
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  August 13, 2018 3:35pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Its good to say you support NZ made.
    But people nearly always buy on price.
    So that was why Briggs And Stratton moved to China and that is why HD were or are moving.
    
    Do you want to go back to $100 childrens outfits? and $120 jeans?
    
    You need a big population to support manufacturing.
    Countries like Iran and Indonesia can do it as they have 100 million people.
    
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    August 13, 2018 3:58pm
- Nostradamus
  
  For Stephieboy – on the St Lukes what’s happening page
  
  Epiphany Café has arrived at Westfield St Lukes
  
  The home of pillow soft, melt in your mouth donuts has arrived at Westfield St Lukes!
  
  You can enjoy a feast in your mouth while feasting your eyes on… (what was it you told us you look at again)…?
  
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  August 13, 2018 3:35pm
  - Jack5
    
    Donuts for the Stephies after a night out raiding clothes lines?
    
    As Nostradamus pointed out last night on Genderal Debate:
    
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/06/four_charges_laid_in_relation_to_labour_summer_camp.html#comment-2241205
    
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    August 13, 2018 3:51pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Jack5:
      
      Genderal Debate
      
      The mind boggles 🙂
      
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      August 13, 2018 4:06pm
    - Longknives
      
      Are they Halal Donuts?
      
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      August 13, 2018 4:10pm
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Holy, bad luck halalists!
        
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        August 13, 2018 5:31pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Harley Davidsons have been niche-popular in Japan for decades.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cazZ0W6hxTU
  
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  August 13, 2018 6:11pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Short piece in (always excellent) Quilette on high heritability of intelligence from studies of separated twins:
https://quillette.com/2018/08/09/a-striking-similarity-the-revolutionary-findings-of-twin-studies/

For twins raised apart “IQ is significantly influenced by genetics, and that heritability increases with age—the correlation at age five is 0.22, at age seven it rises to 0.40, at age 10 to 0.54, and from 18 years of age into adulthood the heritability of intelligence approaches 0.80”

So benefits of nurture diminish as we reach adulthood, and we are left with what our genes grant us (excepting negative impacts of brain injuries etc).

The central tenant of socialism – that all men are born equal and improvable is sadly bullshit. Adjust your welfare policies accordingly.
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August 13, 2018 3:31pm
Jack5

The Labour Green Coalition was going to end the student visa rorts.

It’s backed down, and the changes are minimal.

Watch NZ’s GDP per capita dive over the rest of the Labour-Green term. Political suicide by student-visa rort.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/363658/student-visa-regime-govt-confirms-changes-on-way
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August 13, 2018 3:47pm
- DigNap15
  
  I’d like to see a complete end to students from the sub continent. And the ones that are here sent back when their “course” has finished.
  
  I’m sick of seeing them everywhere, pizza parlours, service stations, supermarkets. etc etc
  
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  August 13, 2018 4:00pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Can we keep them as at least they work, and send our non-working ‘couch potatoes’ over to the subcontinent instead? ?
    
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    August 13, 2018 4:33pm
    - Jack5
      
      They work? I hope not work for peanuts because the trade off is citizenship in a country sliding out of the Third World, but still with a living standard higher than that of most South-east and South Asian countries (not including Singapore).
      
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      August 13, 2018 9:00pm
  - MCos
    
    If you’d been round at our house a couple of years ago you would have seen a number of them here too. Fine young people from Thailand, Korea & Japan.
    I think one of them may even have been Muslim.
    Her grandmother, my wife’s sister in law, certainly is.
    Shock Horror
    
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    August 13, 2018 4:54pm
rangitoto

Just ten rivers dump up to 95% of the plastic waste entering the oceans.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4970214/95-plastic-oceans-comes-just-TEN-rivers.html
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August 13, 2018 3:52pm
- DigNap15
  
  I knew that Asian countries were the main problem.
  I don’t litter.
  And I have bought some single use bags.
  I hope Jacinda reads that and come sup with a working pardy on it.
  
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  August 13, 2018 4:03pm
- Piniwi
  
  But rangitoto in these locations it might be a better return for fishermen who’s catches are failing to gather plastic to fuel the growing boom in 3D printing. The process of recycling plastic into suitable filament for printing is already being introduced to these highly populated high waste locations. Even children can make up to US$1.50 per day recovering it from the local dump. Meanwhile NZ’z bag lady has decided to ban the humble plastic bag while the unions are whinging about job loses for bag makers who shut down. You can’t make up stuff as good as this. Lol
  
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  August 13, 2018 7:04pm
Jack5

The kiwi dollar is sliding, but what’s happening in other currencies is the real worry.

The Turkish lira continues to dive, and contagion has spread to the South African rand, and the Mexican peso.

Time to put on life jackets:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-13/turkey-contagion-infects-rand-with-steepest-plunge-since-2008-jkroyflu
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August 13, 2018 4:03pm
- Longknives
  
  Don’t worry- Jacinda ‘Mother of the Nation’ will save us all!
  
  ‘I absowutely refuse to accept our dollar is crashing’
  
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  August 13, 2018 4:09pm
- Piniwi
  
  @Jack5 it is of note that those currencies noted suffer more form serious internal problems that causes their currency woes. Here in NZ it is the Peoples Princess who is taking it down as we await the next big move ahead of her UN visit where impressions are everything. Hell they even hired H1.
  
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  August 13, 2018 7:09pm
  - Jack5
    
    Also, Piniwi, more than 40 years of current account deficits, and now static to falling GDP per capita.
    
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    August 13, 2018 8:53pm
    - realityczech
      
      Jacksie it was better when the Chews were running the show, don’t ya reckon?
      
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      August 13, 2018 9:02pm
Morrissey

Joke nomination

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/363965/don-brash-nominated-for-new-zealander-of-the-year
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August 13, 2018 4:10pm
- Nostradamus
  
  The Kiwibank New Zealander of Year nominations to date:
  
  – Dr Don Brash (Auckland) – former National Party leader, free speech advocate
  – Annah Stretton (Hamilton) – fashion designer, philanthropist and entrepreneur
  – Peter Burling (Auckland) – Team New Zealand yachting skipper
  – Sue Kedgley (Wellington) – former Greens MP, Wellington regional councillor
  – Mike King (Auckland) – mental health advocate
  – Dave Letele (Manurewa) – athlete and weight-loss coach
  – Alan Halse (Hamilton) – director of Culturesafe NZ
  – Mary O’Hagan (Wellington) – mental health innovator and advocate
  – Simone Anderson (Auckland) – lifestyle influencer and weight-loss star
  
  This is your moment to shine, Morrissey! Step up and show the Kiwibank New Zealander of Year organisers why your name should be added to the list! (We’re listening…)
  
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  August 13, 2018 4:18pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Of course, Nostradamus, it is for others to nominate me, but in case you or someone else here decides to send it through, it will possibly be something like the following….
    
    Morrissey Breen (Northcote Point) — bon vivant, agent provocateur, bloggeur, playboy, philosopher, oenophile, sportsman, flâneur, playwright, novelist.
    
    Felicidades, meus amigos!
    
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    August 13, 2018 4:31pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Morrissey:
      
      That’s a start, but my sense is that you’ll need to identify a specific claim to justify your nomination.
      
      playboy
      
      Were you a hit with the ladies back in the day? Any stories that might warrant a high-priority nomination?
      
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      August 13, 2018 4:33pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Were you a hit with the ladies back in the day?
        
        Well, I was no Colin Craig….
        
        Any stories that might warrant a high-priority nomination?
        
        Many. Here’s one of the more well known ones….
        
        https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/bernadine-or-hell-hath-no-fury-aug-29.html
        
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        August 13, 2018 4:41pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Morrissey:
        
        I was no Colin Craig
        
        Now you’re teasing us, surely? I reckon you’ve got an original poem inside you just waiting to come out… please release your inner literary genius and entertain us!
        
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        August 13, 2018 4:56pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        We haven’t had any decent poetry on here since what’s his name used to serenade us each morning…
        
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        August 13, 2018 5:00pm
      - nasska
        
        He may have a BO problem like Colin Nostra: 🙂
        
        …..”Ms MacGregor said Mr Craig “smelt really bad but I felt stuck. I had rent to pay … he was disgusting.”…….
        
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        August 13, 2018 5:04pm
      - Morrissey
        
        please release your inner literary genius and entertain us!
        
        All right, my friend, just for you…..
        
        https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/nz.general/88Kfwt_kQI8/443wOHlZ5fAJ;context-place=forum/nz.general
        
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        August 13, 2018 5:05pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Dennis Horne on 25 May 2016:
        
        Welcome to General Debate
        Where deniers congregate
        They have no proof
        Warming is a spoof
        Don’t they get so very irate
        
        Of course, just to state the obvious, he hadn’t read How to Win Friends and Influence People at that stage!
        
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        August 13, 2018 5:06pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Note, Nasska, that I stated I was NO COLIN CRAIG. He does sound a bit like a recent Prime Minister, though, I must say.
        
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        August 13, 2018 5:11pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Morrissey:
        
        Here’s one of the more well known [stories]….
        
        My goodness – you’ve linked to Let’s Sing Out! (with Redbaiter)
        
        SCENE: The King’s Arms Tavern, Newton, Auckland. A large crowd has gathered to watch one of the great characters of the nz.general newsgroup making his first public appearance since being turfed out of this same bar following an unseemly row with MORRISSEY BREEN.
        …
        A low murmur begins, and steadily starts to build. Excitement is in the air. The lights dim, and a spotlight picks out a gaunt, driven, fanatical-looking figure, shuffling and mumbling obscenities. This is REDBAITER, the star of the evening. He shuffles on stage, looking like a gentle troubador. He carries a guitar, and a blues harp is mounted on a frame in front of him.
        …
        REDBAITER: Folks, I’d like to sing a song about the American dream. (Even though I’m living in commie f*^Łing New Zealand.)
        
        AUDIENCE: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!
        
        VOICE FROM AUDIENCE: We came to hear you sing, you bugger! Don’t start foisting your politics on us!
        
        How did we miss this?!
        
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        August 13, 2018 5:12pm
      - nasska
        
        …..”The looney right’s version of Bob Dylan first speaks a few words by way of preamble”…. 🙂
        
        “progressive, homosexual, Marxist leftist scum”
        
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        August 13, 2018 5:20pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        Do you remember when Pete George received a spray:
        
        Hery Georgie, you time wasting effete left wing propaganda sucker, did you read the fucking article EAD referenced? (about the UKIP?)
        …
        James Delingpole (who wrote the article) is the man Georgie. He’s not some MSM socialist suckhole or like you a pretentious time wasting political ignoramus who is attached to the status quo like a demented child is attached to his security blanket.
        
        Pete didn’t see that one coming!
        
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        August 13, 2018 5:29pm
      - nasska
        
        Missed that one Nostra. Good to see PG taking one for the team.
        
        Usually Baity had me lined up in the crosshairs. 🙂
        
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        August 13, 2018 5:33pm
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Should’t have poked that non-descript plastic bag on the pavement outside you house Maggie or in Irwins case, that stingray, no good will come of it . . . .
        
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        August 13, 2018 5:36pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        Usually Baity had me lined up in the crosshairs.
        
        Redbaiter had a special place for you in his heart:
        
        Nasska, you sad bald pot smoking derelict old hill billy drop kick, why don’t you go to church and confess you fuck your sister?
        
        He was clearly close to your family 🙂
        
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        August 13, 2018 5:48pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Sue Kedgley? For being brave to drink dihydrogen monoxide?
    
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    August 13, 2018 5:33pm
    - rangitoto
      
      That’s only for wimps. I drink hydroxylic acid.
      
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      August 13, 2018 5:51pm
wreck1080

My goodness, 500 million bucks to plant some trees….and labour reckons they are going to use all the unemployed maori in South Auckland to plant them.
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August 13, 2018 4:16pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  “Unemployed” or “unemployable”?
  
  There is a difference.
  
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  August 13, 2018 4:24pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    There is, but not is this instance as one is the same as the other along with their island cuzzie bro’s who should all be 9’6″ tall according to their weight for height chart . . . .
    
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    August 13, 2018 5:42pm
Morrissey

Howler of the Day
No. 3: DigNap15

“Ive seen Trump live on stage, and he comes across as a very caring guy, even though he is rich.
He feels for the common American! and Black ones as well!”

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/08/general_debate_14_august_2018.html/comment-page-1#comment-2280468

Howler of the Day is a series designed to highlight the most deranged, crazed, bizarre, paranoid, stupid, mindless, ignorant posts on the Internet. It is compiled by Hector Stoop, for Daisycutter Sports, Inc.

No. 1: Chris R (“Brash is NOT a bigot.”)
No. 2: Lucia Maria (“No need to read”)
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August 13, 2018 4:23pm
nasska

Rosemary McLeod in today’s Northern Advocate comes out with her inevitable put-down of Don Brash but while doing so highlights the crap that went with the era she (& I) grew up in:

…..and anyway kids had long hair. Long hair was wicked…..

…..Germaine Greer…….used the word “bullshit” & was arrested for using obscene language……

…Schoolboys were forced to have short-back-and-sides haircuts because humiliation was good for them…..

…..the miniskirt had adults terrified……

….abortions were illegal & contraception was not available to unmarried women because sex was something they might like to get to like but it wasn’t good for them unless they had a wedding first……

…..illegal drugs were just beginning to appear, probably among people with long hair…

The “good old days”.// An era when religio/conservatives were cool & pterodactyls ruled the skies! 🙂
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August 13, 2018 5:10pm
- Morrissey
  
  Rosemary McLeod? Silly cow….
  
  https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/why-is-stephen-franks-being-interviewed.html
  
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  August 13, 2018 5:17pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Yeah nasska! Way back before the war, before dirt was invented!
  
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  August 13, 2018 5:30pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  and the taniwha was a myth . .
  
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  August 13, 2018 5:45pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    But taniwha are real…as real as Jesus.
    
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    August 13, 2018 8:36pm
Monique Watson

“Who hid the bottle of wine in the shower”?
“Oh Yeah”! “That’d be me”.”Was there a packet of Camels beside it”?
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August 13, 2018 6:01pm
MrTips

Is Ardern part Italian? Happened to walk by TV at time she was talking about some thing and her hands were going faster than the sign language dude behind her!
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August 13, 2018 6:10pm
- Nostradamus
  
  MrTips:
  
  Did she resemble (computer geek alert!) Stan the Salesman from the Secret of Monkey Island?
  
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  August 13, 2018 6:28pm
  - MrTips
    
    Lol. No I thought she had Tourettes for a minute
    
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    August 13, 2018 6:34pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      Anxiety issues beginning to surface?
      
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      August 13, 2018 6:42pm
  - nasska
    
    I have a theory that the hand speed of Mother of the Nation’s Baby is directionally proportional to the density of the bullshit she’s mouthing!
    
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    August 13, 2018 6:41pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Say “aaahhh” then wait. Ok nanny, do this for the BABY. We the NZ Nation have stuff to do.
      “What was that H1?”
      
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      August 13, 2018 7:23pm
nasska

You are driving in a car at a constant speed. On your left side is a sheer drop and on your right side is a fire engine travelling at the same speed as you. In front of you is a galloping pig, which is the same size as your car, and you cannot overtake it. Behind you is a helicopter flying at ground level. Both the giant pig and the helicopter are also travelling at the same speed as you. What must you do to safely get out of this highly dangerous situation?

Get off the children’s Merry Go Round, you’re pissed.
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August 13, 2018 8:17pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Good one. Couldn’t tell it myself without laughing too much.
  
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  August 13, 2018 8:33pm
Hugh Pavletich

AUSTRALIA: Crashing investor mortgages ominous for house prices – MacroBusiness Australia

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/08/crashing-investor-mortgages-ominous-house-prices/

By Leith van Onselen

With the recent release of the ABS’ lending finance data for June, it’s an opportune time to once again chart how capital city house prices are tracking against both investor and total housing finance.

As readers no doubt already know, housing finance has historically been strongly correlated with values, therefore it remains one of the best predictors of price growth.

The below charts plot both CoreLogic’s monthly dwelling values index against the value of investor and total finance, as measured by the ABS. … read more via hyperlink above …

… Pavletich comment on thread …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/08/crashing-investor-mortgages-ominous-house-prices/#comment-3165136

When speculators (mis – named ‘investors’) don’t see easy housing inflation ahead, they exit the market.

The only question is … when will the trickle turn in to a flood … on both sides of the Tasman ?

The large speculator segment of the market is particularly fragile. They frighten easy..

Fear is a far more powerful motivator than greed.
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- Hugh Pavletich
  
  UPDATE … CHRISTCHURCH NZ … HOUSE PRICES SINK … SPECULATORS FLEE …
  
  … UPDATE … CHRISTCHURCH CENTRAL …
  
  NOW … North Island investor exiting … 16 units individually for sale … Salisbury Street, Christchurch … Harcourts agents …
  
  http://harcourts.co.nz/Property/Residential?pageid=-1&search=&formsearch=true&OriginalTermText=&OriginalLocation=1419&location=1419&proptype=13&min=&max=&minbed=&maxbed=&sold=false
  
  April 2017 total property auction … Colliers agent …
  
  http://www.colliers.co.nz/news/2017/some%20of%20the%20first%20post-quake%20christchurch%20townhouses%20for%20sale/
  
  What happened at the April 2017 auction ? …
  
  Investors / speculators exiting … new owner occupiers emerging ?
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  .
  ‘Severely unaffordable’ Christchurch NZ ( 5.4 Median Multiple … Demographia Survey … http://www.demographia.com ) prices sink as speculators ( investors ? ) flee … due to sustained new housing production …
  
  … Ignore inappropriate title … focus on CoreLogic suburban price and price trends graphs …
  
  Christchurch house prices may pick up as city buyers enjoy most affordable market in more than a decade | Stuff.co.nz
  
  https://i.stuff.co.nz/the-press/105774354/christchurch-house-prices-may-pick-up-as-city-buyers-enjoy-most-affordable-market-in-more-than-a-decade
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  Recent comment by Government Property Consultancy Quotable Value …
  
  QV’s average property values have fallen in Auckland, Tauranga and Wellington over the last three months – vendors warned against unrealistic price expectations … Interest Co NZ
  
  https://www.interest.co.nz/property/94608/qvs-average-property-values-have-fallen-auckland-tauranga-and-wellington-over-last
  
  Quotable Value is warning flattening or falling house prices mean we are now in a buyer’s market and some vendors may have unrealistic expectations about what their property is worth …
  
  … In Christchurch sales activity was slowing while property values were flat overall, according to QV Christchurch property consultant Hamish Collins.
  
  There was growing interest for new builds in and around the city centre, but an oversupply of land and developments in fringe districts and on the outskirts of the city, he said.
  
  These included areas such as Halswell, Wigram, Preston and the Selwyn and Waimakariri districts.
  
  “We are seeing some developers offering new builds or recently constructed properties at discounts as a way to free up cash for their next project,” Collins said.
  
  “This is having a flow on effect on the overall value of new builds or existing properties in these areas,” he said. … read more via hyperlink above …
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  … An important earlier report …
  
  … A few further lessons from Greater Christchurch … (The GREATS are the smaller and functional Selwyn and Waimakariri Councils) …
  
  Lincoln (South Christchurch): From mill town to boom town … John McCrone … The Press
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/103331085/lincoln-from-mill-town-to-boom-town
  
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