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Manolo

Have the Frogs had enough of the “progressive” Macron?
https://apnews.com/7fc2ad5b931243a0aca9e56f4f0dc39b

Anticipating a fifth straight weekend of violent protests, France’s president on Friday called for calm and the Paris police chief warned that armored vehicles and thousands of officers will be deployed again in the French capital.

Police chief Michel Delpuech told RTL radio that security services intend to deploy Saturday in the same numbers as last weekend, with about 8,000 officers and 14 armored vehicles protecting the streets of Paris during a planned anti-government protest by the yellow vest movement.
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December 15, 2018 8:01am
- G152
  
  Those troops are going to get annoyed at being put up against their fellows for protesting the same things that affect them.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:25am
- Fletch
  
  Trump kind of put it into perspective in an interview –
  
  “Let me tell you, the Paris accord’s not working out too well for Paris,” Trump said in a Fox News interview with host Harris Faulkner. “Because of the Paris accord, that whole country is burning down.”
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:56am
- the conservative
  
  I find it quite amusing to see the progressive left protesting against the progressive left.
  
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  December 15, 2018 10:05am
Humble Capitalist

Simply awful ‘government’
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December 15, 2018 8:01am
- flipper
  
  Agree that Macron is goneburger…… BUT …. why are we throwing stones??? Our mob is surely also goneburger. If only we had their passion and could bring back the big French knife ….. 🙂
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:07am
  - sooty
    
    Simply awful goverment!
    Just like ours!
    Corrupt! CORRUPT, I SAY!
    With a complaisant media!
    It was a different story when John Key was PM!
    But then he was a rich prick and don’t the lefties love them!
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:30am
Woz

‘Recently, Catherine decided to get her tubes tied. She says when she told Oranga Tamariki, they were surprised. “They said ‘Don’t you want any more kids?’ And I said ‘No, because I’m sick of you stealing them.’ I’ve had enough trauma and heartbreak.”‘

There is so much wrong, right there, in that one paragraph.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/108878803/catherine-loves-her-kids-but-they-will-never-be-in-her-custody-again
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December 15, 2018 8:01am
- realityczech
  
  Oh I see the problem. If they take the meal ticket they don’t get the benefit. Not much use having kids if you don’t get a benefit.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:08am
  - DigNap15
    
    Thats all children are to many of our ferals.
    Meal tickets and a job for life.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:11am
    - Longknives
      
      Talk to any Cop or WINZ case worker about how many of these ferals spit out 8 or 9 kids to assorted gangmembers.
      Never mind what we pay them in benefits- It is the social cost that is horrendous..
      
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      December 15, 2018 8:29am
      - realityczech
        
        Correct. The benefit is cheap compared to the overall cost of this.
        
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        December 15, 2018 8:52am
      - SaltyCroc
        
        LK – never has a truer comment been made!
        
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        December 15, 2018 4:29pm
    - igm
      
      DigNap15: It is a meal ticket but not a job for life . . . taxpayers end up totally caring for them with accommodation, food, and taxpayer-funded care, etc., etc.
      
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      December 15, 2018 9:21am
    - GazzaW
      
      @DigNap
      
      …..and as soon as mum’s popped out a few and getting beyond it the teenage daughters take over and keep the family income rolling in. We must be real suckers to put up with this shit.
      
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      December 15, 2018 12:51pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Pay women to have children, and you shall have more children.
    Didn’t the lawmakers ever consider this?
    
    A draconian, intrusive welfare system + non-granting of citizenship to aliens is the key to encouraging guest workers to leave, once their work contracts are finished. Japan understands this.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:58am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Authorities must ensure that the security net of welfare cannot be mis-used as a hammock. It’s there to save your life when you fall; not for you to spend years living on it.
      
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      December 15, 2018 10:39am
  - suzieq
    
    Time we paid the Benefit for two kids only … No employer will pay a staffer extra just because another kid is on the way. Why should taxpayers?
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:10pm
- DigNap15
  
  Who in their right mind would inseminate her?
  
  WINZ don’t take children away for fun!
  
  What is Oranga Tamariki
  
  Its not in my Oxford Dictionary!
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:10am
  - KevOB
    
    Its pidgeon Maori–Living Child
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:42am
    - flipper
      
      Actually, the Maori name applied to the relatively newly minted Department, is apt. It identifies the problem!
      
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      December 15, 2018 8:53am
      - sam green
        
        Bloody fraudsters aye – that’s all they are.
        
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        December 15, 2018 9:41am
    - cha
      
      Its pidgeon Maori–Living Child
      
      Pidgin.
      
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      December 15, 2018 12:26pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        I dunno, silly pestilent birds that shit all over everything and frequently live off handouts. Pigeon seems appropriate
        
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        December 15, 2018 3:26pm
  - stephieboy
    
    DigNap15 , who an earth would have sired you?
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:45am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Stuffy the Rape-Denier comments on sexual issues…
      
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      December 15, 2018 10:23am
      - sooty
        
        He would know, like having sex with his goat!
        
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        December 15, 2018 10:33am
      - calendar girl
        
        That was a gratuitous personal insult by stephie to DigNap15, so I had little hesitation in using the ‘Report’ button.
        
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        December 15, 2018 11:54am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        I think “rape apologist” is the descriptor you’re looking for CL.
        
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        December 15, 2018 1:23pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Oranga Tamariki is probably a phrase newly minted by a committee of experts in Wellington.
    
    It’s an example of “synthetic Te Reo” that a native speaker would likely be unfamiliar with.
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:52am
- GoVege
  
  Thank heavens Catherine obviously has more brains than her social workers at Oranga Tamariki.
  A person from her extremely troubled background should concentrate on looking after herself, not pushing out more kids to lives of abuse and trauma.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:45am
  - Niz
    
    Yes, I wondered if it event occurred to any of them that it might be better for _everybody_ if she refrained from breeding, and encouraged her to consider that option.
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:00am
    - GoVege
      
      It’s pretty obvious that Oranga Tamariki is in the business of encouraging vulnerable women to have masses of children.
      Ironic when you consider that the mention of contraception leads to instant dismissal.
      Must be down to that idiotic half -American dame who apparently says that young girls having heaps of babies (single and on the benny of course)=”our fertility”.
      
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      December 15, 2018 3:11pm
- Niz
  
  “They’re happy, and I see that they’ve got a lot of love. I just wish it was different.”
  I hope to Christ something was lost in translation there.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:58am
- artemisia
  
  Only one side of the story there, though the journalist did make an effort.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:59am
  - sooty
    
    Unusual for a media person. Feeling off that day?
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:34am
- Southern Raider
  
  Stuff running another set of liberal progressive families to make out how bad the conservative white privileged are.
  
  Tariana Turin actively encouraged young maoris to very early making kids and keep it going for as many as they could
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:05am
mandk

I wonder if the Pythons had any inkling of the madness that was soon to be visited upon the world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c
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December 15, 2018 8:02am
- Tall Man
  
  Oh god, I think I’ll have to blame them for all this shit being visited upon us.
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:27am
  - sooty
    
    Yep! Old white men. That’s the worlds problem!
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:35am
holysheet

I see the winner of westpac’s Credit cards 5000 air points dollars went to David from Wellington.
Wouldn’t it be nice if this was our gracious host DPF.
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December 15, 2018 8:02am
- pdm
  
  We have a nephew David who lives in Wellington.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:26am
  - Igotta Numbum
    
    My next door neighbour is David, they must be related.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:48am
  - holysheet
    
    So what, you missed the point entirely.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:50am
    - pdm
      
      So what, you missed the point entirely.
      
      Not in my case Holy – just taking the mickey.
      
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      December 15, 2018 9:20am
    - Tall Man
      
      Probably but..I met a David recently and it wasn’t him, so maybe it is DPF……..
      
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      December 15, 2018 9:29am
- Sacha
  
  I have a son who lives in Wellington –
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:44am
  - VicParking
    
    Wellington is a town in the Western Cape Winelands, a 45-minute drive from Cape Town, in South Africa with a population of approximately 62,000. Of which 59,000 wish to imigrate to New Zealand
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:49am
    - mark15
      
      There goes the neighbourhood!
      
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      December 15, 2018 11:28am
holysheet

A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter.

“What are you doing?” she asked.

“Hunting flies,” He responded.

“Oh, killing any?” She asked.

“Yep, three males, two females,” he replied.

Intrigued, she asked, How can you tell?

He responded, “Three were on a beer can, two were on the phone.”
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December 15, 2018 8:03am
Scott

Two seemingly unrelated items on Fox news today – Californian legislators are wanting to tax text messages

– Apple are going to open a $1 billion facility in Texas that will have 10,000 employees.

Why isn’t Apple investing more in San Francisco, California? California is taxing more and more even including text messages!

This is the trouble with liberal high tax economies. Eventually they drive out even the liberal high tech companies like Apple. Texas has lower taxes and less regulation, the opposite of California.

This is what will happen to NZ if we follow on the California path of high tax, excessive regulation and a tax on everything. Businesses will not locate here. Existing businesses will leave NZ and relocate somewhere with lower taxes and lighter regulation.
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December 15, 2018 8:04am
- realityczech
  
  Why do you insist on calling these people – Liberals?
  
  That is a name they gave themselves along with -Progressive.
  
  The reality is they are neither.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:11am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Thanks RC. They are authoritarian socialists.
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:36am
    - realityczech
      
      Much better 🙂
      
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      December 15, 2018 3:33pm
- peterwn
  
  There are similar sorts of taxes on telecommunications services in NZ. These include recovery of regulator’s costs, levies to subsidise rural communications and mandatory provision of services such as 111, facilication of surveillance etc.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:19am
- waikatogirl
  
  Ah, but Grant Robertson, our guru finance minister says businesses are busy “MAKING PROFITS”. Can’t have that now, can we!
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:28am
  - DigNap15
    
    So will the Business Confidence survey go through the roof?
    I don’t think so
    And I hope not.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:52am
Humble Capitalist

In his infinite wisdom what will porno choose to throw our money at today?
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December 15, 2018 8:04am
- VicParking
  
  Hes going to invest in the edible seaweed industry.
  The ‘Nephews’ are going to plant one Billion seaweed plants off the east coast of Northand. This will create 5,000 new jobs over five years. The upside being nobody will be able to count the number planted.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:36am
  - Niz
    
    You know, I can’t tell if you’re taking the piss or not.
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:04am
- Dave Mann
  
  It’s not a slush fund for his mates, it’s a vital regional development project. Absoludely.
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:16am
Southern Raider

Watkins at it again in Stuff

Politician of the year with 9.5/10 is …….Cindy

James Shaw even gets a 8.5 and Twitford and 6.5
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December 15, 2018 8:07am
- Woz
  
  Audrey Young has a commendably different view.
  
  Tracey Watkins must be retarded.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:09am
  - MrsAnnie
    
    Audrey rated the tops Nats as Nikki Kaye and Maureen Pugh- really?
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:05am
    - Tall Man
      
      The “journalists” are concerned that you think they are idiots so they are doing their best to remove any doubts you may have.
      
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      December 15, 2018 9:32am
  - RF
    
    Just wait. Watkins will soon be on Arderns payroll.
    
    She is just preparing the ground work.
    
    On another matter Ardern’s crown is losing its sparkle. My few remaining hard core Labour friends have recently gone very quiet when I have great pleasure pointing out the SLAGs many lies.
    
    It will take time but I am confident her lies will trip her up.
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:52am
    - Paulus
      
      Not till the end of February !
      
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      December 15, 2018 1:44pm
    - GazzaW
      
      Another slip up or negative exposure to do with Sroubek will certainly encourage the usual culprits to go out and buy some extra snags for the holiday barbies.
      
      I’m expecting Judith to seriously line up Twyford early in the first 2019 session over housing with Goldsmith chipping in as a double act on transport. They have just been toying with Twyford to date.
      
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      December 15, 2018 1:55pm
- MrTips
  
  She’s a shocker isn’t she? Doesn’t even try and hide her infatuated bias. Even a cursory OIA glance revealed a little bit too casual relationship with PM office staff imo. At least her old Pravda buddy Vernon Small came honest and went to work for David Parker.
  
  So to repay the compliment of print media hacks, I would give:
  Audrey Young 7.5/10
  Stacey Kirk 7/10
  Henry Cooke 5/10
  John Roughan 7.5/10
  Mike Hosking 7/10
  Watkins and Wilson 1/10 for turning up print copy, but they really should just announce their job applications to Parliament.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:19am
- pdm
  
  There can only be one winner – Peters.
  
  He runs the government, shafts Labour when he feels like it and basically just does what he wants without any accountability.
  
  An unbeatable combination.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:29am
  - Liberty
    
    How can Peters be a winner? When the populace is being shafted.
    Then Peters thinks he is more equal.
    
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    December 15, 2018 12:06pm
  - suzieq
    
    Yup, it’s the Winston Peters-led Government…
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:15pm
- redeye
  
  I looked up ‘Objective’ in the dictionary and the antonym was Tracey Watkins.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:42am
  - gump
    
    Antonyms are listed in a thesaurus – not a dictionary.
    
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    December 15, 2018 4:08pm
- Harkman
  
  Watkins is a waste of space. Perhaps she’ll be Moron of the Year for 2018.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:48am
- Gravelroad
  
  Eh? James Shaw rates a 7/10?
  For doing what exactly – flying around the world to lecture people about climate change?
  What else?
  Nothing.
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:09am
  - Colville
    
    Talleys would score Shaw at least a 7 for banning cameras on fishing boats.
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:35am
- Humble Capitalist
  
  Who is this Tracy Wadkins anyway?
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:21am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Labour List candidate #3
    
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    December 15, 2018 12:28pm
- Morrissey
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  What did Strugglin’ Si get?
  
  Let me guess: seven per cent?
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:36am
  - Awww C-mon
    
    Fuck off
    
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    December 15, 2018 2:42pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Rude!
      
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      December 15, 2018 7:44pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        How was Underwear Patrol today you dirty little pervert?
        
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        December 15, 2018 8:00pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red, tsk, tsk. Just because you never change yours!
        
        Ugh!
        
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        December 15, 2018 8:16pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Visiting your very good friend and fellow perving Christian Graham Capill this holidays?
        Birds of a feather and all that.
        Lol
        
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        December 15, 2018 8:34pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Watkins pretty shocking with her Taxinda bum-licking: “The prime minister is at the height of her powers and has barely stumbled in her first year on the job.”
  
  WTF? While admitting that Twitford is “struggling to sell [kiwibuild] as a success story at the moment”, somehow Taxinda ‘barely stumbled’. She had nothing to do with kiwibuild, then? Let alone with Stroubek.
  
  And this: “Her international cachet is huge”. Except for deeply insulting the POTUS. Never mind that.
  
  But one thing she got slightly closer to correct:
  
  ” Best overall front bench
  
  Too many of Labour’s front bench are yet to shine and they are leaning heavily on Ardern, Peters and Robertson. National’s front bench, in contrast, has been a machine, picking up in Opposition where they left off in government. They have consistently scored hits against the Government, have run hard on issues and scandals, and have made question time a ‘must watch’ again after years of irrelevance.
  
  In short, National is fielding the best Opposition front bench we have seen in years and if it wasn’t for the Jami-Lee Ross train wreck, would get a near perfect score.
  
  National 7.5/10. Labour 6/10″
  
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  December 15, 2018 11:08am
  - Woz
    
    Ardern barely stumbled? Bahahahahahaha! That was the Moron Comment of the Year by a political writer. Ardern barely ever picked her sagging bum up off the floor all year. Most dozy, incompetent, unself-aware PM ever, and only somebody living in Watkins’ myopic bubble could think Comrade Cindy had any international cachet. It was evident to anybody who spent five minutes on Google during her big overseas moments that the world really gave not one fuck.
    
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    December 15, 2018 12:41pm
  - suzieq
    
    So we believe the bits of Watkins’ column we like and dismiss those we do not? Sheesh.
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:17pm
- madamezucchininz
  
  I have read the rubbish article by Watkins….and have compiled my own…….Top of my list is….
  
  Simon Bridges: 10/10….for holding this government to account…..for playing the “long game”……for his handling of the Jamie Lee TossPot Saga……absolutely rate this man for his intellect and skill at getting the PM to flounce and pout….
  
  Mark Mitchell: 10/10 for his perseverance in question time over the Bad Czech
  
  Paul Goldsmith: 10/10 for his perseverance in holding the Minister Sleeze Galloway to account.
  
  Judith Collins: 10/10 in holding Twitford to account on the Kiwi Farce….absolutely amazing in the way she gets some media attention when the media are so biased….
  
  Gerry Brownlee: 10/10 for his points of order during Question time….and trying to hold the Speaker to account….
  
  Louise Upton: 8/10….for her passion in holding the Minister for Social Development to account….
  
  Amy Adams: 8/10….for her Questions to G Robo and her facts and figures…
  10/10 to the whole National caucus for working so hard in opposition
  
  whilst on the Liarbor side:
  
  PM SLG 0/10….for her virtue signalling…..days absent….her failure to handle absolutely everything…and mostly…her ridiculous Captain’s Calls…..and her constant lying…
  Twford 0/10: for wasting tax payer dollars on the kiwi farce…..making a huge mess that the Nats will no doubt spend years having to clean up….
  
  Hipkins 0/10: on all matters to do with education….the strikes…..the tomorrows schools etc…..
  
  Galloway 0/10: for the Bad Czech debacle….his absolute incompetence ….or is it corruption….whatever…..
  
  The entire caucus get 0/10 for their laziness and incompetence….destruction of industry….scoffing at the trough…..and the unbelievable waste of tax payer dollars….
  I could go on and on but you would all get bored reading it as the list is so extensive….
  
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  December 15, 2018 12:11pm
DigNap15

Now I finally know what the UK lawa on name
supression are.

Thanks to this article on Stuff.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/109377937/two-transtasman-cases-show-up-failings-in-containing-suppression-orders

Its a great article, but please don’t view it if horrible pictures offend you……

So in the UK it seems they don’t not have Name Supression, and their media go all out to publish names!
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December 15, 2018 8:07am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  You bastard! The picture was bad enough and most certainly an insult to garden gnome models everywhere!
  
  But to not tell us the article was written by Vance is beyond the pale!
  
  May muhammed arrive in your Santa sack!
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:28am
- KevOB
  
  Some rely on geoblockers and they work for most. However much to my surprise I accidentally found my browser has a feature which went straight through.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:50am
Simon

“Two former prime ministers are among prominent women calling on men and the Government to make changes in the wake of English backpacker Grace Millane’s death.”

What the fuck? Shouldn’t they wait until after the hearing? You know wait until establishing guilt or not. Presumption of innocence. Keep it up tards “he” is going to walk at this rate.

And if these mongs really want to help reduce violence in society then push to reintroduce the death penalty for murder.
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December 15, 2018 8:08am
- realityczech
  
  You don’t think the media beat-up was for nothing do you?
  
  This is all about more anti male legislation. It has nothing to do with keeping women safe either. It is already illegal to kill them. The only purpose of new laws will be to further marginalise men.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:15am
  - G152
    
    I noticed how the story about the old man beheaded in his own flat had a 2 day news span.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:29am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Along the lines of the silly bit of news last night.
      
      Since the anti strangulation clause in the Crimes Act came into force on Monday. 29 men have been charged under this piece of legislation.
      
      Excuse, is there something I’m not getting?
      
      I thought putting your hands around someone’s neck to strangle them was already an offence ranging from
      
      Assault, serious assault, manslaughter, or murder depending on the outcome and intent.
      
      Why do we need legislation that is so specific that the mere hint of a technicality will have some violent moron walk free with the right legal advice and weak judge?
      
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      December 15, 2018 8:49am
      - KevOB
        
        We had for a while with wife rape. There was an immediate prosecution and doubt if there has been one since.
        
        Where’s all the choking suddenly coming from? That looks like an excess of Police zeal– an abuse of discretion in charging. In short an abuse of Police power and in another context a crime against the citizens.
        
        This govt is toppling.
        
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        December 15, 2018 10:03am
      - cha
        
        Excuse, is there something I’m not getting?
        
        Apparently.
        
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        Strangulation is to be made a specific crime after a recommendation by the Law Commission that has been welcomed by Justice Minister Amy Adams.
        
        Ms Adams said strangulation was “an abhorrent act”, that was a deeply personal and intimidating form of violence.
        
        “In a domestic violence context, it’s more than just a physical attack and can have a devastating and long-lasting psychological impact on victims,” Ms Adams said.
        
        Family violence victims who have been strangled previously are seven times more likely to end up being killed than those who have suffered other non-strangulation forms of violence.
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11601980
        
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        December 15, 2018 12:33pm
      - realityczech
        
        I said months ago – it will get ugly when Labour start changing the laws.
        
        Notice all the changes are targeted at prosecuting and marginalising men?
        
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        December 15, 2018 3:54pm
      - gump
        
        @realityczech
        
        The law change that criminalised strangulation is a National Party policy that was introduced by Amy Adams when she was the Justice Minister.
        
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        December 15, 2018 4:14pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        You don’t get it.
        1. Adam’s received the recommendation and did not put it into law. Labour did.
        2. All the words about violence against women & strangulation are BS. Violence, strangulation etc against anybody is violence irrespective of gender or cause.
        3. All violence should be treated with equal weight of the law.
        
        Differentiation in such a way, means the law is not being equal in its application. The law being used for virtue signaling in this manner is a dangerous step.
        
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        December 15, 2018 9:31pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      There is nothing more valuable to society than a young woman, and nothing less valuable than a young man.
      
      As it has always been.
      
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      December 15, 2018 10:31am
      - artemisia
        
        Ask any cult leader.
        
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        December 15, 2018 11:05am
      - realityczech
        
        Odakyu-sen, outstanding way of saying it.
        
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        December 15, 2018 3:56pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        A young man must prove his worth to society, to be valued.
        A young woman stands before society complete with those attributes that society most values.
        
        (Yes, I know this is a gross generalization…)
        
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        December 15, 2018 5:32pm
      - GoVege
        
        I don’t think young women would agree with that! 🙂
        
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        December 15, 2018 8:21pm
    - madamezucchininz
      
      ……and the young father in Christchurch….stabbed to death….news on this gone in a day or so….if women want to be safe….then they need to engage in behaviour that keeps them safe….(not blaming the victim)….but meeting someone for the first time….drinking…..flirting etc is fine….but then going to a strange mans apartment/hotel room is risky behaviour….instead of male bashing the media could perhaps talk about safety with regards to dating apps…..I have a number of young female clientele who use dating apps …as it is how you meet someone in today’s world apparently….but they have rules and boundaries that go something like this…..swipe right for like….then message chats for about a week….then actual phone calls for at least another week (apparently the losers drop off quick)….then it is a coffee in a public place in broad daylight….for the first date…..
      
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      December 15, 2018 2:09pm
  - Simon
    
    Its about eroding the principal of presumption of innocence in regards to alleged crimes man vs woman. NZ already has an appalling conviction rate.
    
    This is what they want for NZ. 90% of arrests will be men.
    
    Arrest is Mandatory
    
    In California, there is a mandatory arrest policy where police believe domestic violence has taken place. If an officer has probable cause to think someone has “abused” a spouse, partner, or family member, then the officer must make an arrest. It doesn’t matter if you are male or female, straight or gay, the officer will make an arrest! Even in cases where the alleged victim says they no longer wish to press charges, the authorities must still make an arrest. In some cases, this may mean both parties are arrested and charged.
    
    https://www.gorelick-law.com/Criminal_Defense/Domestic_Violence.aspx
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:29am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      I do get pretty annoyed knowing Women’s Refuge still needs to exist. If anyone, male or female, is being physically abused by their spouse/partner, it’s the abuser who should be removed.
      
      Including women who physically abuse men.
      
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      December 15, 2018 11:17am
- DigNap15
  
  If they really want to help reduce violence in NZ
  
  Ban the Haka
  Ban Boxing and martial arts
  Jail anyone using foul language in public
  Jail anyone swearing in their house with young children around.
  Jail anyone walking round our streets under the influence of P
  Jail for life (real life) anyone who randomly assaults anyone (king hit etc)
  Ban all violent movies
  Make women be nice to their husbands and boyfriends and not be unfaithful
  Ban all street gangs
  Jail for life (life means life) all P and cocaine importers, manufactures and dealers.
  Make it compulsory that everyone speaks nice clear English.
  Send all muslims home (evil religion)
  Send all Indians home (evil culture)
  
  Follow Ardern and be kind
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:18am
  - realityczech
    
    Jesus Diggy, you make Kim Jong-un look like a bleeding heart liberal 🙂
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:26am
  - MCos
    
    ISIS is always on the lookout for blokes like you.
    They don’t seem to like anything much, particularly Muslims.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:51am
- KevOB
  
  I would be more impressed if they gave equal weight to all murders.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:52am
jp_1983

Jacinda Arden – 2018 politican of the year according to Tracey Watkins…

Winston Peters 2018 politician of the year according to Audrey Young

Interesting views on the world.
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December 15, 2018 8:08am
- Simon
  
  Have you got Jacinduh cell number? She has totally met expectations in handling child poverty.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:11am
  - DigNap15
    
    Yes I’d like it, so that I can use her contacts to buy some lawnmowers.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:26am
- slightlyrighty
  
  I have to agree with Audrey on this one. Ardern is only PM because Peters said she could be. Our current political reality in NZ is all due to Peters.
  
  I still don’t like the man, and despise his politics, but he has gamed the system masterfully.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:19am
  - holysheet
    
    “gamed the system masterfully” my arse.
    He was only allowed to do this because of fuckwits like Chucky, who all voted for the drunken short arse prick.
    
    All in the name of keeping National honest.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:31am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Hey moran. Do you want National to get elected? If the answer is yes do you think attacks on me is going to help? You attitude it not like the attitude of National MPs I communicate with in person or by email.
      
      What are you doing to help National get elected?
      
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      December 15, 2018 8:50am
      - holysheet
        
        Hey MORON, did I strike a nerve there?
        You wouldn’t need to try and help get them elected if you and other fuckwits didn’t vote for the drunken dwarf in the first place.
        
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        December 15, 2018 8:57am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Holy, Peters at least is prepared to use his name unlike keyboard warriors like you.
      
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      December 15, 2018 8:53am
      - holysheet
        
        There are plenty of people here who know who I am. It’s MORONS like you and the stoooopidboy pervert that make it necessary to keep our privacy.
        
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        December 15, 2018 9:00am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        Hey Moron, there are certain values that democracies respect. One that we have been discussing is the right to the presumption of innocence. Another is the right to vote.
        
        Do you think it would have been possible for National and ACT to have one the last election? If not would you have prefered Peters to have good with National?
        
        Another thing that happens in democracies is that governments change due to swinging voters. That happens to be a voter right in a democracy.
        
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        December 15, 2018 9:13am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        “There are plenty of people here who know who I am.”
        
        So are you a paid-up member of the National Party and vote at their conventions?
        
        For your information this almost 2019 not 2017. You should focus on not the past.
        
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        December 15, 2018 9:16am
      - holysheet
        
        Yay chucky you can read. If you take nothing else away from our discussion this morning, you have learnt how to spell moron.
        Good on ya mate, go to the top of the class.
        
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        December 15, 2018 9:17am
      - softail 1450
        
        chuck bird, having just read this line of comments ,admittedly fairly quickly the most tragic thing about it is that a mother and father named their child “Chuck Bird” FFS.
        
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        December 15, 2018 4:39pm
    - stigie
      
      “All in the name of keeping National honest.”
      
      So true, even Dad comes on here very sparingly now, afraid of getting his arse kicked multiple times..?
      
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      December 15, 2018 9:21am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        Stigie, why should I be afraid of cowardly keyboard warriors? If you are at the next National Convention why not come up to me when I am talking to an MP and say to them why do you waste your time with this fool who voted for Peters?
        
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        December 15, 2018 9:54am
      - holysheet
        
        Bullshit chucky. To go to a national convention you have to be a delegate from the local branch. To become a delegate, you have to be elected by that branch. I don’t think anyone would be so stupid as to make you such a delegate. Have you revealed to them that you are a closet drunken dwarf voter? I guess not.
        
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        December 15, 2018 10:56am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        Holy, I can easily prove I was at the National Convention. If I prove this will you apologize for calling me a bullshitter and use your full real name?
        
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        December 15, 2018 11:11am
      - holysheet
        
        I used to go to these things back in the day.
        That’s where I first met the drunken dwarf among others. Giving my real name proves nothing to anyone.
        Have you told them you are a closet drunken dwarf supporter?
        
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        December 15, 2018 12:46pm
      - Chuck Bird
        
        Holy, you are a special sort of stupid. Unlike a coward like you I use my real name. Do you think our host is stupid as you? I met him, shook his hand and had a brief conversation.
        
        You are the bullshitter. You do not use your real name because of me and other bloggers here. You like many other cowards here would be scared of looking like a fool to your friends and family.
        
        When you met Peters as you say back in the day did you call him a drunken dwarf to his face?
        
        The other cowards who support you do more harm to National than good with anti-Maori rants and referring to Comrade Arderns tooth. They would be too cowardly to say it to her face or repeat their anti-Maori rants to National MPs.
        
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        December 15, 2018 4:16pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    And when the wheels fall off completely Winston will be able to say he wasn’t responsible – he has Cindy as his fall-guy. Sadly, there will be enough NZF voters sucked in by this to return him at the next election.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:37am
    - stigie
      
      Who do you think Winston could push around the most and bully to get what he wanted……Bill English or the S.L.A.G. ?
      
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      December 15, 2018 9:27am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      WG, There will only be enough former NZF voters if National MPs were as stupid as holy and did not welcome former members of any other party who wished to join National.
      
      If one listens to talk back it is clear there are very many disillusioned former NZF voters.
      
      National is a lot more likely to succeed if there is little infighting between MPs and even members. I am a member of Hamilton West. What is you electorate?
      
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      December 15, 2018 5:51pm
  - MrsAnnie
    
    and he is polling at 4%- yes he is a great player but politicians are expected to deliver for their country, their electorate. The only person he is delivering to is Winston.
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:08am
- oldpark
  
  @jp_1983 8.08am
  My Politicans of the Year are. Bill English and Stephen Joyce. They got out of the Peters selected cabal and also rans who are now in the Parliamentary Cess Pit.English and Joyce made sure they didnt want to be contaminated by the facade that Peters created.Bet they are enjoying their well deserved decision. Both men protected NZs in their hours of need . With GFC and Two Earthquakes.A Happy Christmas and a superb New Year to both of them.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:49am
Sofia

Despite Judge Evangelos Thomas refusing to grant the application, the man’s lawyer, Ian Brookie, indicated he would appeal the decision to the High Court, which invokes an automatic 20-working-day suppression order.

I take it from this report that Judge Evangelos Thomas did not see naming the man as jeopardising the judicial process.

And it would seem another group of prominent New Zealanders see no problem in their timing –

In an open letter, more than 40 women including Helen Clark and Dame Jenny Shipley, former governor-general Dame Silvia Cartwright, business leaders Theresa Gattung, Joan Withers and Dame Trelise Cooper, along with stars from the arts, science and media, call on men and the Government to make changes in the wake of English backpacker Grace Millane’s death.

Can Andrew Little explain how this action is at the moment acceptable, with its potential to focus the nation’s horror on the perpetrator of this crime, and likely influencing a possible juror somewhat more negatively than just knowing the person’s name.

A name which is somewhat forgettable – since I came across it by accident yesterday (Googling an associated word, but not one I would have expected to include the man’s name in the Results, let alone any link) – and although I can now recall the first name, I can not remember the surname. It’s not very memorable or influencing.

But when was the last time – any time – that such importance was attached to a murder by other reports?
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December 15, 2018 8:09am
- Chuck Bird
  
  It says as a man I should respect all women. Does that include child abusers including child killers?
  
  Does the include the lying commie chick?
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:18am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    It says you shouldn’t do physical violence to them, and yes that does include /all/ women. If they are guilty of crimes or otherwise unworthy of respect, there are legitimate legal, political and social processes in place to deal with that.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:25am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      It says I should respect all woman. Did you not bother to read what it said?
      
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      December 15, 2018 8:31am
      - Sacha
        
        all woman?
        or
        all women?
        Spelling can make such a difference in meaning –
        
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        December 15, 2018 9:57am
      - waikatogirl
        
        That is a bugbear of mine Sasha. So many people mispronounce it:
        – Woman is one woman
        – Women is plural
        
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        December 15, 2018 4:05pm
- Albert_Ross
  
  The purpose of the trial, and the jury’s job, is to decide whether the man accused actually did commit the murder. That is something which has not been established and which should not therefore be treated as a given fact.
  
  However, it is not in question that the poor lass was murdered, and it is not in question that it would be preferable if women did not have to go in fear of their lives for exercising freedom. These are not matters that the trial will examine, or that the jury will have to decide on. There is therefore no reason for public debate on them to be constrained.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:21am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    “However, it is not in question that the poor lass was murdered”
    
    You say that without hearing the defence. She may have slipped in the shower and hit her head.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:27am
    - Notsofast
      
      This is not plausible for a 22 year old without a known medical history, yet I have met no serious analyst who still believes Oscar Pistorius knew who was behind the bathroom door.
      
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      December 15, 2018 8:32am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        In English please.
        
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        December 15, 2018 8:37am
      - softail 1450
        
        Notsofast, do you spend a lot of time seeking out
        “serious analysts”? that explains a lot actually,
        whens your next appointment ?
        
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        December 15, 2018 8:47am
      - Notsofast
        
        softail 1450:
        Yes, which is why the mystery and complexity in murder cases is resolved remarkably quickly when the crime is analysed from all angles. Look for motive, means and opportunity. It works every time.
        But all fails when these are missing, and the plods make them up.
        
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        December 15, 2018 8:57am
      - lifesgood
        
        Oh you idiot. Of course he knew. My god I suppose you still believe the world is flat. Please don’t come up with all sorts of rubbish to try to prove he didn’t, nobody here is interested.
        
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        December 15, 2018 9:40am
      - Notsofast
        
        The proof is quite straightforward, I will post accordingly when I have time. No good purpose is achieved by keeping him in jail, he suffers like no man before.
        
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        December 15, 2018 9:45am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Or, been accidently hit from behind when not looking causing her to fall, knock her head and subsequently die.
      
      We know that that will get him 10 months home detention and probably golf lessons.
      
      Or is that option only available to maori?
      
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      December 15, 2018 8:36am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        Paulus, I am not saying it is likely that Grace fell in the shower. What I am saying is that anyone is entitled to a fair trial and these women presuming his guilt are more likely to affect a jury than the British press publishing his name when no one has heard of him.
        
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        December 15, 2018 8:45am
      - sooty
        
        Chuckie are filling in for stoopidboy. You are getting to be a drone like hughie!
        
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        December 15, 2018 9:04am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Yes, Chuck – she slipped in the shower, hit her head, then flew to the Waitaks and buried herself in a hole. Clever girl. Can’t wait to see her do it again.
      
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      December 15, 2018 1:17pm
      - Chuck Bird
        
        Shaun, Obviously if there is a not guilty plea he could claim the death was accidental and he panicked.
        
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        December 15, 2018 6:13pm
  - VicParking
    
    What in the world/New Zealand has changed from before this Tinder Date Murder? and after. Why was this Murder? Any different from the five other ones that occured about the same time. It has just been adopted by the Snowflakes to create a Snow storm against white males, mainly due to the impowering apology/Cry Feast from our beloved Prime Minister. The sooner we get to the Core of the matter and the Hard truth behind her ex-boyfriends solicitations are exposed and she resigns the better it will be.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:57am
    - SGA
      
      VicParking
      
      What in the world/New Zealand has changed from before this Tinder Date Murder?
      
      It’s a case that elicits a stronger emotional response than others. In the same way that some particular cases make people raise the issue of the death penalty again, or reexamine the issue of trying to use “provocation” as a defense in murder (i.e., Clayton Weatherston).
      
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      December 15, 2018 9:34am
      - VicParking
        
        Having someones head cut off, but in a bag, and thrown from a two story window should warrant “a stronger emotional response than others”. But no, That is because our useless Prime Minister did not stand up and Cry on Television over it.
        
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        December 15, 2018 10:55am
      - SGA
        
        Vic, I don’t make the “rules”, but the killing of young woman like Grace (or Sophie Elliot or Heidi Paakkonen or Olivia Hope) tend to generate more public sympathy than murders of prostitutes, drug addicts or middle aged men. The PM may have added to it, but that’s always been the case, hasn’t it?
        
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        December 15, 2018 11:29am
      - calendar girl
        
        SGA, it hasn’t been common in New Zealand for a struggling Prime Minister to use the circumstances of a dreadful murder case to make a statement to the world’s media that her country is in “shame”.
        
        And I for one am past irrational finger-pointing at men (in general) which cases like this can have the effect of igniting spontaneously.
        
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        December 15, 2018 12:44pm
      - Jack5
        
        Calendar Girl, the only similar case of grovelling was by another Labour Prime Minister, Helen Clark.
        
        That was when a person died in an Auckland house from wjocj the power company had cut off the electricity, I think over some sort of billing foul up.
        
        Clark went to the house and grovelled on her knees and apologised – for the power company’s stuff-up.
        
        If Jacinderella and Helen Clark had been born into some religious family in Spain or South America, they would likely have been flagellants in annual Catholic processions.
        
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        December 15, 2018 1:22pm
      - SGA
        
        @calendargirl
        The question that Vic asked was
        
        What in the world/New Zealand has changed from before this Tinder Date Murder? and after. Why was this Murder? Any different from the five other ones that occured about the same time.
        
        I tried to give him a sensible answer. Nothing more, nothing less.
        
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        December 15, 2018 1:29pm
      - VicParking
        
        SGA: What about the South Auckland mother who was killed in Flatbush on the 11th while her toddler was nearby. The woman lived in an upstairs flat with her young son. “She was a very kind lady.”
        “I’m feeling horrible … I’m feeling sad for her son especially.”
        
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        December 15, 2018 2:40pm
      - SGA
        
        @Vic
        What about it? I don’t make the “rules”. All I’m saying is victims like Grace (e.g., Sophie Elliot, Heidi Paakkonen, or Olivia Hope) often generate a lot attention, outrage and sympathy than other victims. I was only a boy when Mona Blades went missing, but I remember that dominating the news. I’m not saying that’s fair or proper – just that, to me anyway, it’s not new.
        
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        December 15, 2018 3:03pm
    - Albert_Ross
      
      “It has been used by the snowflakes to create a storm against white males”.
      
      Be honest now. How do you think the Kiwiblog community would have reacted if the name of the guy accused had turned out to be Mohammed?
      
      Before an arrest had been made there were people on here convinced that it must have been an immigrant what done it, and practically salivating at the thought that at last their anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim rhetoric would be supportable by reference to an actual example. Once the arrest had been made, there were people on here convinced that the fact that we were not being told about the accused’s ethnicity, must mean that he was an immigrant or maybe a Maori. Now that it seems he’s neither, we are objecting to the same conclusions and accusations being leveled at all white males as we daily level, with no more justification, at all non-white males.
      
      In any case I haven’t seen anything focused specifically on /white/ males. Men in general, certainly, although it’s less clear what the ones who don’t murder women are supposed to do other than carry on not murdering women. There may well be a constructive and profitable conversation to be had about that, but it won’t happen unless people start listening carefully and thoughtfully to each other and also listening honestly to themselves.
      
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      December 15, 2018 12:35pm
    - artemisia
      
      It might not turn out to be a murder at all. Charges are one thing but can change as evidence comes in.
      
      What say autopsy results show a drug overdose for example?
      
      And who is mates with who emerges.
      
      Some of the tearful candle lighters might feel a bit dumb.
      
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      December 15, 2018 6:53pm
      - rightoverlabour
        
        The only problem is why did he dispose of the body. Assuming she overdosed or accidentally died, most normal people would call an ambulance the police or take her to hospital. Not bury the body in the fucking Waitakeres and hope nobody notices. My take is he wanted a shag, she said no, so he offed her.
        
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        December 15, 2018 11:08pm
  - realityczech
    
    “However, it is not in question that the poor lass was murdered,”
    
    Really?
    
    Perhaps you should contact the police with your information.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:58am
  - KevOB
    
    The whole facts of the supposed murder are all in question. No plea has been entered and no evidence offered in Court. Murder has not been publicly established only suspicions and allegations. Meanwhile a suspect is held in custody on spec pending a call over while Police sort out how they can make a case.
    
    How can women be respected who so vigorously express hate and domination? Compulsory sterilization of male children next?
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:02am
  - kiwiracer
    
    Here is a starting point, no bail for any person charged with a violent offence, that will reduce the offending while on bail, at least the supermarket security guard would still be alive.
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:26am
    - KevOB
      
      The Police invariably oppose bail in such violence cases and Judges are not that soft either.
      
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      December 15, 2018 10:07am
- Stars And Stripes
  
  Personally I can’t take this open letter seriously as when you look at the list of signatories it includes the usual who’s who of anti male media commentators, feminists and other troughers who head various women’s welfare organisations who of course want more government money to carry on their “good work”.
  Oh and the description “Aotearoa New Zealand” is another give away to the ideological bent of a lot of this group.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:40am
  - DigNap15
    
    I despise any group with the description Aotearoa in its name.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:56am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    You don’t like their proposals – Fine. Have you better ideas as to how we can bring about a society in which your mother, wife and daughters can feel as safe, confident and free to move about where and when they want, as do you, your father, brothers and sons? Or don’t you think women deserve that?
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:59am
    - KevOB
      
      Why shouldn’t men deserve it too? I believe there are more male murder victims than females. Is equality for all?
      Stupid does as stupid advocates. No law change is needed but feminist zeal may be producing a backlash.
      
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      December 15, 2018 9:13am
    - Stars And Stripes
      
      Actually the basic problem Albert is that I don’t believe in this “collective responsibilty” nonsense.
      I hold no responsibility at all for what other men choose to do or not to do as they are individuals who make their own choices.
      So the answer to your question then regarding my solution is quite simple,target and punish violent individuals more harshly and leave the rest of the innocent alone instead of trying to suggest somehow we are to blame as well.
      
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      December 15, 2018 9:21am
      - KevOB
        
        Agreed. I don’t identify with imputed groups. These identitarians have no personality otherwise. Refuge for ideologues who are bereft of discriminatory thinking hence unfit for executive functions. OK as a Pierpont not a PM.
        
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        December 15, 2018 10:12am
      - Albert_Ross
        
        You don’t believe in this “collective responsibility” nonsense.
        
        In fairness, I don’t know whether you personally or any of your uptickers are the same individuals as those who respond so savagely whenever Stephie attempts to point out that Muslims are not collectively responsible, and so should not be collectively penalised, for the actions of Islamic terrorists.
        
        But I think it would be fair to say that there are many Kiwibloggers who seem ready to assign collective responsibility for the acts of individuals to some groups, but not to others.
        
        Female/Asian driver stuffs up: Women/Asians shouldn’t be allowed to drive. Muslim commits crime (anywhere in the world): Muslims should be expelled from our society. Maori commits crime: Maori are criminals. White man commits crime: That particular man should be duly punished, but also women should be more careful.
        
        All of these are reactions that gain traction on this blog (though never, to his credit, expressed by our host). There are examples in this very thread.
        
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        December 15, 2018 1:13pm
    - Sacha
      
      Why should everyone else be responsible for female safety? They want to have the freedom to go wherever they wish, and behave as freely as they desire, but everyone else (especially men) should concentrate on THEM, and their welfare!
      The vast majority of men and women of all ages go about their lives without fearing for their safety, having learnt from experience, but there will always be some who fail the self preservation test.
      And there are some who follow their best instincts, and still die, because we are all fallible, and cannot always interpret other peoples’ intentions and motivations.
      
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      December 15, 2018 10:24am
    - Nukuleka
      
      Albert Ross. I was brought up to show respect in every way to women- to open car doors, to walk on the traffic side of the street, to stand when a woman entered a room and so on. I have never struck a woman and have rarely used abusive language to a woman. My behaviour has been scoffed at by a generation of women who don’t want me to show that type of respect. Well then maybe women themselves should shoulder some of the responsibility for their own actions and consequences just as I have to.
      
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      December 15, 2018 1:08pm
- Notsofast
  
  This whole question highlights the problem entrusting lawyers to manage murder investigations. The man’s name is quite irrelevant to connecting him to a crime, and I recall no reticence in naming
  Arthur Thomas or David Tamihere. The latter was paraded by the dreadful John Banks and neither of these were guilty.
  There are others.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:42am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Notsofast:
    
    [N]either of these were guilty.
    There are others.
    
    Oh go on then. Say “Mark Lundy” and then you’ll feel better!
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:24am
    - Notsofast
      
      I won’t fall for that one.
      
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      December 15, 2018 9:49am
- Huevon
  
  I shall reflect on the contents of this letter next time I go out to murder a woman. Hell, just this morning I felt like a good ol’ raping but then I thought “what would Helen Clark and former governor general Silvia Cartwright say?”
  
  How have other guys toned down the uncontrollable appetites for violence in the wake of this historical announcement?
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:46am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Mate, thinking of old Helen would make me celibate in a whore house…
    
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    December 15, 2018 11:11pm
- calendar girl
  
  Sofia, do you have a link to that open letter, please?
  
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  December 15, 2018 1:04pm
Komata

A thought concerning the ‘Fisherman’ and his friends:

Is it possible that the ‘lurv’ is still being spread in very high places as evidenced by various pallors and ‘gauntness’ exhibited at least one individual with which he has a known association?

‘Deprivation’ has been known to have such an effect…

Just wondering…
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December 15, 2018 8:15am
- Souvlaki
  
  Not beyond the realms of possibility….but anxiety/ depression a more likely reason IMO.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:55am
Fixit

Called in to Ashburton gardens yesterday and found the advertised multicultural garden. It was just a small patch of geraniums. I think they spent more on signs than on plants. Later I expect they will have a bed of pansies with some of the anthers snipped off. And next spring perhaps a show of part-black tulips.
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December 15, 2018 8:20am
- realityczech
  
  In other news – Wellingtons super expensive -rainbow pedestrian – crossing is looking very scruffy now the photo shoots are over.
  
  Meanwhile homos and straights go about their business just as they always have.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:23am
  - realityczech
    
    I see one TERF down ticked me. 🙂
    
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    December 15, 2018 5:46pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  You were not looking hard enough at the flowers, all the stamens had been removed . . .
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:41am
  - waikatogirl
    
    The flowers represent the diversity of AotearoaNZ’s cultural, ethic mix and LGBTQ…. and should not be judged on their appearance or how they make you FEELZ.
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    December 15, 2018 9:00am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Seems the multicultural garden is meant to celebrate
  Indian culture this year
  https://www.ashburtondc.govt.nz/our-council/news/articles/Pages/Domain's-first-cultural-themed-garden-to-help-celebrate-diversity.aspx
  
  I would have thought the marigolds would have been looking fine.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:58am
  - realityczech
    
    Maggy, is it true that male flowers randomly impregnate females without consent, often employing armed and dangerous bees?
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:03am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Don’t worry about the bees… they get a reward for doing their hard work…
      It’s the wind that cares not where it deposits pollen…
      sexual relations are attempted across species and even genera in cases.
      
      I dare tell you no more….
      
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      December 15, 2018 9:46am
      - Jack5
        
        I wonder whether the multicultural trust is one of the multicultural organisations set up in the provinces, apparently by Dame Devoid’s emissary, her Marxist predecessor as race relations commisioner – Joris de Bres.
        
        What has become of Devoid? Has she converted to Islam and donned a niqab? Race relations seem smoother now. She’s not hogging the headlines, stir, stir, stir …
        
        Maggy posts above that “sexual relations are attempted across species and even genera …”
        
        Could that … could that … could that account for the high rate of fuckwittedness in Stephiestanis?
        
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        December 15, 2018 12:24pm
      - realityczech
        
        Interesting Maggy. Stupidboy’s friends in Germany have attempted to replicate the mass random fertilization concept in humans, with mixed results.
        
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        December 15, 2018 3:40pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @realityczech
        
        Of course most plants have cunning physical/temporal/biochemical means to prevent fertilisation from ‘alien” pollen.
        
        Human females are a bit more vulnerable….
        even if a successful fertilisation doesn’t ensue… forced penetration can do a lot of damage to a female’s reproductive parts.
        
        As the winner of 2018 Nobel Peace Prize well knows… after having stitched up/reconstructed the internals of thousands of raped women.
        https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/nobel-peace-prize-winner-denis-mukwege-demands-justice-for-rape-victims-18453103
        
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        December 15, 2018 4:11pm
      - realityczech
        
        I will try and say this delicately. The reason they are injured is not because of normal penetration, notwithstanding the rape part. Victims are often small children and the older ones suffer indignities you can research yourself. In Mandela’s rainbow paradise, most women would not bother to report the odd raping. The frequency [and medical details] of infant rape won’t be shared on KB even by me.
        
        Yet it is Western countries that have the “rape culture”.
        
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        December 15, 2018 5:15pm
- softail 1450
  
  Fixit, went for a motorcycle trip with a few others circumnavigating the south ,we spent less time getting a sit down feed north of Ashburton than we spent getting thru that dog leg in the middle of town.
  That’s what happens when people find out what a great little town it is ,a human flood and higher house prices,and a shite multicultural garden to boot.
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:06am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    14TH ANNUAL DEMOGRAPHIA HOUSING SURVEY 2018
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    ALL EDITIONS: http://demographia.com/dhi.pdf
    
    PERFORMANCE URBAN PLANNING
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    http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org
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    December 15, 2018 8:13pm
oldpark

Fools rush in. Yes once more the Chameleon pest known as Winston Peters has changed his stance on immigration. It is all about will NZ sign the Islamic Federation fuelled UN Migration Pact. Although many countries are refusing to sign it. It appears that Peters selected gang now in Government Commie Chic Comrade Ardern and far left Lunatic Green Party are chomping on the bit to sign it.
Today in Auckland there is a huge protest outside the house of Peters selected PM Ardern.The message will be “do not sign it NZ”.
Also earlier in the week Newstalkzbs gift to NZ a guy called Hosking dilly dallied around the Islamic Federations UN Migration Pact. “Not binding” said he. When pointed out that might be the case ,except smart arsed lawyers would make sure the essence of it would get into NZs Law.
Hosking yesterday got a text message once more asking for his opinion on the Islamic Federations ambush UN Migration Pact. Which will in fact open the flood gates to NZ for refugees any which way. Hosking also now realises the so called “Not Binding “airy fairy words ,may not be as “airy fairy” as he may have believed. Hosking quickly said .He would not sign it
One less to worry about. Now for the once Paragon of anti immigration into NZ. Yes the two faced Chameleon Peters. What a fughing disgrace.
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December 15, 2018 8:20am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  I am unable to attend the protest outside SLGs house today.
  Can I text in to let her know I support the protesters?
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:29am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Yes, try 0800worstgovernmentever or 0800maaaaaate! being the one Hardcore uses
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:43am
- Doubledimp
  
  I just realised something. The signing of the Migration Pact will avoid the scrutiny that an official policy document would go through, like select committees, debate in the house, treasury analysis etc. This is policy change via the back door, and quite frankly a rather contemptuous way to treat the NZ public.
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:58am
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    Way to treat the Nz public…..again
    
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    December 15, 2018 11:02am
Happychappy

You have to wonder If someone had given the information to Nicky Hagar about a email that The Show Pony had received whether it would be in the courts by now and Judges saying he has every right to have them as it is in the public’s interest.
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December 15, 2018 8:22am
flipper

Milner death?
Sad, unjustified, and the guilty party must be found and punished according to existing law.

The media and advocacy mob?
Obscene, and in a way as bad as the murderer.
When I look at that ex Gweenie MP leading the pack …. J H C on a Bike.
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December 15, 2018 8:22am
DigNap15

From every interview of a COL politician I have heard you can tell they are going to sign it. (they all say they have not decided yet! – Really?)
They all say there in nothing wrong with it.
Bastards..
Keep our country safe!

I’m so pleased that 20 countries at least are not going to sign it.
And many of them are major countries!
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December 15, 2018 8:24am
- simpleton1
  
  23 countries that will not sign
  
  Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Switzerland, United States.
  
  Belgium’s government is now a minority government over this signing issue.
  
  As soon as “Non-binding” convention is adopted, the NGOs and ‘liberal’ law professors will be urging the courts to hold that it constitutes binding customary international law.
  It will be angled to be “best international practice”.
  
  It would seem that other countries though not named will not sign, like North Korea?
  
  Then consider what adjustment some other countries will allow for if they sign the ‘Pact’. Yeah right.
  Saudi Arabia? Somalia? Sudan? Zimbabwe? Malayisa?
  
  The government is supposed to protect its own citizens, its own economics, pensions, health systems, education.
  
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  December 15, 2018 11:24am
Odakyu-sen

People may squirm with the Dow dropping, but it needs to drop another 8,000 points to get back down to the 16,000 point zone where it was before the bull market kicked off 2 years ago.
Think of the profile of Rangitoto.
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December 15, 2018 8:24am
- rangitoto
  
  My profile is impeccable thank you very much.
  
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  December 15, 2018 11:17am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    I see what you did there…
    
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    December 15, 2018 4:42pm
Tauhei Notts

I glanced at all of the headlines in this morning’s NZ Herald and wondered;
“Why did they select the editor from the Women’s Weekly staff?” Surely there was a wider talent pool.
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December 15, 2018 8:25am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Yeah nah.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:46am
- KevOB
  
  It’s a dying tabloid–why pay top dollar?
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:17am
- VicParking
  
  The English papers are awash with the Royal Christmas card photos. It wont be long before our “Royal” one, her “Fisher” friend and Little Neve release their Xmas offering.
  
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  December 15, 2018 11:01am
secondcumming

Ever found yourself standing around with a group mates, having a quiet drink, telling a few jokes and sharing better work stories, when out of the blue someone you don’t really like, or even know all that well, comes over and tries to ‘horn in’ on the conversation?

Suddenly you see watches being checked, half-empty cans being placed on the bar, iPhones being turned on, unsolicited txts being read, and calls being made to the wife letting her know you’re on the way early so make sure dinners ready……

I was heading home from the gun-club last evening, when for no real reason it crossed my mind that the words ‘GINGA’ and ‘GINGER’, are actually both anagrams of the ‘N’ word.

Just saying…….
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December 15, 2018 8:27am
- Woz
  
  Wussel Norman visited the gun club?!
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:02am
DigNap15

Yes, we no longer have any newspapers.
But lots of womens magazines with social justice Argendas.
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December 15, 2018 8:28am
Lee C

…when out of the blue someone you don’t really like, or even know all that well, comes over and tries to ‘horn in’ on the conversation?

With unintended irony, you did exactly that with your last comment…
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December 15, 2018 8:33am
Sofia

Regarding the contents of a text message of Richie Hardcore to Jacinda Ardern, Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier says “Even if an obligation of confidence existed, I consider it is outweighed by the high public interest in the information.”

Does that confirmation of public interest not contradict the Minister of Immigration? –
Hon IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY: … I do not consider it in the public interest to release the names of those who provided support or information regarding Mr Sroubek. Some have requested anonymity, and I consider it likely that naming people would expose them to unwarranted attention. None of those who made representations were known to me; none were MPs or former MPs, or MPs’ partners. I am unaware if any of the people had or have links to any political party … – Hansard

I assume, in normal English usage, “I am unaware if any of the people had or have links to any political party” does not mean “no person has links to any political party” but just “I am unaware” – a statement of a further lack of information in the matter.
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December 15, 2018 8:38am
- waikatogirl
  
  More like, I choose not to be aware…
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:03am
  - realityczech
    
    “I choose not to be aware…”
    
    To be fair, that is pretty convincing from a Labour politician.
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:05am
- septic skeptic
  
  I’m sure in true COL fashion these words will have been carefully crafted. Look at the qualifiers, look at what is not said and read between the lines.
  
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  December 15, 2018 11:53am
Longknives

I see Ali Mau has waded in and jumped onboard the Grace Millane ’cause celebre’.
The same Ali Mau who has been shrieking for all our prisoners to be released..
Irony and hypocrisy are completely lost on the Left aren’t they?
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December 15, 2018 8:39am
- Woz
  
  Ali Mau is another self-perceived intellectual with all the mental acuity of a stoned koala. She fights for a spot on the bottom of the social commentary garbage barrel with the likes of little Verity Johnson and Joel Maxwell.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:58am
  - Gravelroad
    
    You forgot to mention Lizzie Marvellous, Woz.
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:13am
    - Woz
      
      I did, but I really only needed a couple of examples. The full list would take a lot of scrolling to get through.
      
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      December 15, 2018 9:16am
  - stigie
    
    Verity (i hate old white men in senior business positions) Johnson !~
    Unfortunately that’s how iv’e summed that snowflake up..?
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:01am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Verity Johnson – 20 something, going on 14.
      
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      December 15, 2018 4:18pm
  - Paulus
    
    They will all be unhappy now that finally it is agreed by the Supreme Court that their Prison friends cannot vote.
    
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    December 15, 2018 2:16pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  It is also worth noting that Ali or none of the prominent women will have anything to say about the alleged Labour Youth Camp offender.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:59am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Mau was too busy to comment and thought the matter was tinfoil hat territory IIRC.
    
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    December 15, 2018 1:22pm
- oldpark
  
  @Longknives
  Even worse Mau. is a Misandrist and an Australian. Go figure.
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:02am
  - waikatogirl
    
    …from Melbourne
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:06am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    She is another man-hating lesbian.
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:44am
    - Morrissey
      
      Did someone say “lesbian”?
      
      http://media.beam.usnews.com/1d/47/d7f5a173446899808909a5efb751/170202-donaldtrump-editorial.jpg
      
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      December 15, 2018 9:54am
Harkman

Is there a Doc or nurse on here? How do you tell when you need to get stitches?
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December 15, 2018 8:51am
- secondcumming
  
  My missus will be home from her ED shift about 2pm.
  
  How bad is it?
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:55am
- jp_1983
  
  @harkman – you get stitches when you snitch
  
  But seriously if you are in doubt head down to your local after hours doctors
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:59am
- Niz
  
  If you need to push stuff back inside it’s a fair bet you’ll need one or two.
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:12am
- Harkman
  
  Thanks folks, the sharp corner of the shower caught my heel/achilles last night. Only 13-15 mm but a perfect cut. It really bleed. More worried about an infection, I’ve had cellulitis before.
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:25am
  - RF
    
    Friendly advice. Go to your after hours medical clinic.
    
    Those injuries can bite you on your arse.
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:03am
  - G152
    
    One of the reasons to have Steri Strips in your first aid kit.
    Butterfly plasters are worse than useless if you’re bleeding.
    And try RICE
    Rest
    No sub four minute miles for a week
    Ice
    That bag of peas in the freezer is multitasking
    Compression
    Just wrap the wound unless you’ve lopped a leg off THEN you can go all out on a tourniquet
    Elevation
    Get the wound above heart level
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:12am
  - Sacha
    
    A bit of bleeding cleans the wound, and starts the healing process. I have Steristrips and clear Telfa dressings at home because I quite often get cuts and skin tears working around my garden. The secret is to clean the site and cover it immediately, before it can get infected. Depending on the site of the injury you may not need to use a dressing.
    Mop away the spare blood, and when the skin around is dry, use the steristrips to put the cut skin together, or hold it over the skinned place. Then put a clear Telfa over the whole, covering the steristrips if its an are that might get dirty. Apply a bit of tension to help hold the skin edges together.
    You can leave the dressing on for over a week – or until it gets too unsightly (just replace). It will stay on in the shower and you can see how its healing. 5-6 days should see it healed enough to stop dressing.
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:51am
  - secondcumming
    
    Harkman – Still haven’t heard back from my missus at this stage sorry, but if you were to go up to the *Auckland ED* and just tell Main Reception you’re looking for a nurse Cumming, they’ll be able to page her for you. She’ll look after it.
    
    By the sound of it, I wouldn’t fuck around any longer if I were you…….
    
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    December 15, 2018 2:12pm
- softail 1450
  
  Harkman, if you can see bone ,otherwise it should be fine..
  
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  December 15, 2018 1:26pm
Woz

Does anybody else think that the new non-NZ-made Cadbury Roses are shit?
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December 15, 2018 8:53am
- VicParking
  
  Is the chocolate real. Are we being fooled by Kangaroo shit mixed with sugar.
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:06am
- waikatogirl
  
  Change to Whittakers. Much more delicious. Real chocolate. ?
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:08am
  - DigNap15
    
    I changed 5 years ago, I never buy Cadbury even if it is half price.
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:11am
    - Harkman
      
      I only have milkybar, but in terms of plain chocolate and dark chocolate Whittakers is the best in this part of the world. In Europe they have lots of rich chocolate.
      
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      December 15, 2018 9:30am
    - wiseowl
      
      Bugger you guys.
      I have a craving for Creamy Caramel now.
      I’ll have to go get some.
      
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      December 15, 2018 10:22am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Have you tried the Whittakers dark salted caramel wiseowl?
        
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        December 15, 2018 4:22pm
      - secondcumming
        
        Not a patch on the*Lindt Dark Salted Caramel*, WG .
        That one is quite special…..
        
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        December 15, 2018 4:43pm
  - Woz
    
    I switched almost entirely to Whittakers in the wake of the palm oil debacle years ago, and never looked back. The odd box of Roses would show up in the house though, and I’d enjoy them, but not any more. They’re sugary, insipid garbage now. The decline in quality is astonishing.
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:20am
    - Swifty
      
      I grew up on Cadbury – and loved it.
      
      Now? Whittakers only. Cadbury lost me about five years ago.
      
      Agreed on the Roses too.
      
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      December 15, 2018 9:50am
    - Jack5
      
      Ah, the palm oil.
      
      Some of the chocolate lovers virtue signalling are or were buying imported palm kernel to feed their cows.
      
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      December 15, 2018 12:30pm
      - Woz
        
        Perhaps, but you don’t have to be environmentally conscious to dislike what palm kernel does to chocolate.
        
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        December 15, 2018 12:44pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Stephie bought lots of ‘Palm’ oil because he thought it would improve his sex life
        
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        December 15, 2018 1:02pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Was offered Roses at the hairdresser this morning.
      Chose my favourite Turkish Delight and was underwhelmed.
      TD should be jelly, not a liquid. Ew.
      
      And Whittaker’s isn’t a patch on what they used to be.
      Haven’t been right since they overpaid that coke-addled soft-porn Lawson to promote their products.
      
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      December 15, 2018 1:27pm
  - igm
    
    Won’t touch Whittakers either, they have Muslim halal shit on the labels.
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:48am
    - Sacha
      
      Lindt.
      
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      December 15, 2018 10:52am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Oh YUM. Have you tried their raspeberry and cranberry dark chocolate balls. Fruity and delicious!!
        
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        December 15, 2018 4:26pm
      - rightoverlabour
        
        Absolutely, or most stuff from Belguim, and anything from Italy, especially Perugina
        
        Cadburys is crap, Nestle is slightly better, Whittakers is OK, but nothing compares to European chocolate. UK Cadbury is not too bad, as is South African.
        
        But Lindt is amazing and it’s not fucking Halal
        
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        December 15, 2018 11:18pm
- Fletch
  
  Yep, shit. I am of an age now where I don’t like hard things in my chokkies. The mint ones have this hard, white gravel stuff, and the hazelnut has hard things, too. Don’t they know these are aimed more at elderly people?
  
  As Mike Love from the Beach Boys purportedly told Brian Wilson during his experimental musical stage, “don’t f*ck with the formula”.
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:36am
- Morrissey
  
  Agree wholeheartedly.
  
  Bring back Winning Post!
  
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  December 15, 2018 10:08am
- septic skeptic
  
  I think the “Cadbury” on the box is a big clue.
  
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  December 15, 2018 11:57am
DigNap15

I refuse to touch anything made by Crudburys/Mondeleza.
They were once a great brand and made great chocolate.
Now they make sugary shit.
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December 15, 2018 8:58am
- sooty
  
  Because they are shit not made in nz. Do fonterra see the writing on the wall and bailing on tip top. Overseas firm advertises on tv, with no aditives Have you read whats in the local icecream?
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:15am
MCos

If you’re on holiday make sure you have travel insurance & make sure you read the fine print.
That’s the first thing to be taken from this rather sad story.
When you take risks some places just don’t have the same facilities to look after people that you might be used to.
https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1073094-diving-accident-british-backpacker-is-stuck-in-a-hospital-in-thailand-unless-she-raises-£60000-to-fly-home/?utm_source=newsletter-20181214-0645&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news
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December 15, 2018 9:02am
- Inandout
  
  Diving into a pool with disregard for the depth is rather dumb behaviour, The insurer is named ‘Insure & Go’; now that sounds a tad like Ryan Air. Many clients who answer copious amounts of medical questions and pay a loaded premium for the slightest risk of an ’emergency’ will say they don’t care a jot for stupid people.
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:18am
  - MCos
    
    Some people go on holiday and chuck common sense out the window. Driving around on motorbikes without crash helmets is the most obvious example.
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:43am
    - sooty
      
      Or cycling, when they haven’tb een on a bike since 10yrs old.
      
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      December 15, 2018 10:48am
Dave Mann

I do not associate with drug dealers and I certainly don’t have drug dealers as my friends. Absoludely.
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December 15, 2018 9:03am
Inandout

Auckland Airport ‘welcome’ with wooden Maori entrance and audio sounding like a constipated person straining at the bog; not needed.
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December 15, 2018 9:07am
- sooty
  
  At least they don’t have a plastic maori doing the haka!
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:17am
- Woz
  
  The horification is nearly complete.
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:22am
DigNap15

Great, a nice Maori welcome in Auckland.
Then will bash you in Northland, and rob you in Rotorua.
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December 15, 2018 9:19am
- stephieboy
  
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  DigNap15, a Maori or two may but not all Maoris.
  
  Right!
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:47am
  - sooty
    
    I think it is more than one or two stupid. You would think it’s the fastest growing industry.
    Shane will be out next to put gates and sentries out to rob you as you drive thru, just to make sure everbody is robbed equally!
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:52am
    - lifesgood
      
      I’m certainly very nervous about going to Rotorua now, and they sure ain’t white boys assaulting and attacking visitors down there. Won’t be long before there’s nowhere safe in this country
      
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      December 15, 2018 10:57am
    - Woz
      
      That’s Maori socialism, is it not?
      
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      December 15, 2018 1:00pm
    - softail 1450
      
      sooty ,myself and my mrs were driving on a back road in the far north about 4 years ago when a carload of natives come up behind us and got so close i couldnt see the front of his car,i pulled over to let the fools pass and they roared passed all with their windows open giving us the black power salute,
      the imbecile of a driver was so busy doing the salute he ran off the road down about a 1 metre bank and into a ti tree about 300 mm thick, as we went passed they were all scrambling out of the car ,I couldnt help myself , I had the horn blowing and we were laughing like drains as we left the scene….
      
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      December 15, 2018 1:36pm
      - Woz
        
        Would you have stopped and pissed on them if they’d caught fire?
        
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        December 15, 2018 7:35pm
Inandout

sooty, I would imagine the cost is factored into airport fees.
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December 15, 2018 9:21am
NK

I see there are reports that Trump is considering his son in law, Jared Kushner, as his next CoS.

Of course, this type of corrupt nepotism is fine if done by Republicans. But if Crooked Hillary should hire someone from within the family all of you here would be outraged.
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December 15, 2018 9:23am
- All_on_Red
  
  NK’s a sucker for Fake News
  #TDS
  
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  December 15, 2018 1:07pm
Morrissey

GROPERS
No. 57: Samuel Cooper

Six years’ jail for pervert whose mum found underage girls in his van… The 39-year-old was jailed for six years at the Victorian County Court on Wednesday after pleading guilty to more than 20 offences. Cooper sent dozens of messages and sexually explicit images to girls over Facebook between January 2016 and November 2017, the court heard. He offered two teenagers hundreds of dollars for sex, but they declined his advances.

“Over a period of nearly two years you persistently preyed on a large number of underage females using social media,” Judge Meryl Sexton said. “The internet makes it all too easy for sexually deviant people like you to access girls for your own sexual gratification. Further, you followed through with personal contact with three of them, who were not emotionally or socially mature enough to realise the danger they were placing themselves in.” Judge Sexton said Cooper, who lied about his age, had sought to take sexual advantage of the teenagers.

He was arrested in August last year, after meeting up with two 15-year-old girls in NSW, taking them to a motel and then to his home in Victoria. They were discovered in Cooper’s van by his mother while he was at work and the girls later contacted their families, who alerted police. At the time of his offending Cooper was on the sex offenders’ register after a 2009 conviction for sexual activity with a child and was required to report contact with anyone underage.

“In my view you have no insight into your paraphilic attraction to post-pubertal females,” Judge Sexton said. …

https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/six-years-jail-for-pervert-who-s-mum-found-underage-girls-in-his-van-20181212-p50ltu.html

https://www.news.com.au/news/serial-sex-predator-jailed-for-luring-teen-girls-to-his-van-with-drugs/news-story/f2c620a74bce25957dd9cd6b5aaa8494

“GROPERS” is presented by GroperWatch®, a division of Daisycutter Sports Inc.
1 George Herbert Walker Bush; 2 Bill O’Reilly; 3 Al Franken; 4 Robin Brooke; 5 Lester Beck; No. 6 Arnold Schwarzenegger; 7 Joe Biden; 8 Rolf Harris; 9 Harold Bloom; 10 Sir Jimmy Savile; 11 Dr Morgan Fahey; 12 Prince Harry; 13 Bill Clinton; 14 Judge Roy Moore; 15 Matt Lauer; 16 Richard Branson; 17 Warren Moon; 18 Donald John Trump; 19 Damian Green; 20 Gene Simmons; 21 Sylvester Stallone; 22 Louise’s husband Charlie; 23 Father O’Hagan (AKA “Father Gropius”); 24 David Lloyd George; 25 James Franco; 26 Joel Kramer; 27 Rene Naufahu; 28 Steve Wynn; 29 Vince McMahon; 30 Rob Porter; 31 The old buffers at Russell McVeagh; 32 Otago law students; 33 Tom Brokaw; 34 David Scott; 35 Justin Trudeau; 36 Morgan Freeman; 37 Hugh Hefner’s guests; 38 Brock Turner; 39 Les Moonves; 40 Asia Argento; 41 [name withheld]; 42 NY subway groper; 43 His Dishonor Brett Kavanaugh; 44 Corey Lewandowski; 45 Brooke Howard-Smith; 46 Dr. Filth McGraw; 47 Dominique Strauss-Kahn; 48 Roger Ailes; 49 Louis C.K.; 50 Geoffrey Rush; 51 Michael Douglas; 52 Bill Cosby; 53 Andy Rubin; 54 Marcelo Vanzuita; 55 Al Gore; 56 Neil deGrasse Tyson
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December 15, 2018 9:31am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Who unlocked the Mason Clinic?
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:43am
  - Morrissey
    
    Ha ha ha ha ha! Is it a Free Saturday at the Home for the Terminally Bewildered?
    
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    December 15, 2018 9:45am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Fuck off, CUNT. Your post is defamatory. It has in the past been reported to the Govenor General who is aware of your demation of Prince Harry. They have replied to my complaint and I intend to remind them again of your illegal behavior. DPF please take note.
  
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  December 15, 2018 10:13am
  - Morrissey
    
    It has in the past been reported to the Govenor General who is aware of your demation of Prince Harry.
    
    Catch of the Day!
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:16am
Captain Mainwaring

“GROPERS” is presented by GroperWatch®, a division of Daisycutter Sports Inc.

Daisycutter Sports Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Breen Enterprises Ltd., purveyors of fuckwittery to the world.
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December 15, 2018 9:45am
- Morrissey
  
  Nice one, Keith.
  
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  December 15, 2018 9:50am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Not according to some at daisy cutters. They reckon Breen the perv used their computers without authorisation.
  
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  December 15, 2018 10:15am
  - sooty
    
    Watching porn was he?
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:53am
- Manolo
  
  Endless, continuous, non-stop fuckwittery.
  
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  December 15, 2018 11:04am
Fletch

An American woman, about the same age as Grace Millane, just got stabbed and killed by a room-mate in the Netherlands. Are we hearing much about that? I bet their PM won’t be apologizing on behalf of the country or any candlelit vigils be held. Her killer is supposed to be male as well.

http://time.com/5479764/american-student-sarah-papenheim-stabbed-netherlands/
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December 15, 2018 9:53am
- Morrissey
  
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  That’s one reason our P.M. is so popular internationally as well as domestically. She is a genuinely caring person.
  
  Yes, she has her faults: fifteen years ago she was unwise enough and callow enough to accept a job on the staff of the notorious Tony Setworldonfiar, and some of her Cabinet appointments—Shane Jones, Stuart Nash—have been poor, but she’s a superstar nonetheless; she and her very cool partner are the closest thing this country has ever had to JFK and Jackie.
  
  The National Party and its small, bitter band of supporters are reduced to misogynistically abusing her and taunting him as “gay”. That’s going to be the scenario in this country until at least November 2026.
  
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  December 15, 2018 10:04am
  - Fletch
    
    It’s not her personality that worries me though. Thatcher was a hardass. It’s that Cindy is an avowed socialist on the one hand, and hasn’t a clue what she is doing on the other. Ignorance and arrogance in a person are a recipe for disaster.
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:06am
    - Morrissey
      
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      Why do you say she has no clue? Do you think she hasn’t studied seriously? Do you think she can’t handle herself in a political crisis? Do you think she knows LESS than John Key or Bill English?
      
      We saw how tough she was on that memorable televised leaders’ debate last year when she reduced Bill English to even more of a resentful silence than usual after she pointed out that every reputable economist in the country had dismissed Steven Joyce’s fiscal hole fantasy, and told him: “Nobody believes you.”
      
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      December 15, 2018 10:14am
      - Fletch
        
        Do you think she hasn’t studied seriously? Do you think she can’t handle herself in a political crisis? Do you think she knows LESS than John Key or Bill English?
        
        I do think all of that. As far as the fiscal hole, it will be readily apparent come the next budget.
        
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        December 15, 2018 10:28am
      - lifesgood
        
        Are you insane, Morrie?, sorry rhetorical question.
        
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        December 15, 2018 10:54am
      - Morrissey
        
        I do think all of that.
        
        No you don’t Fletch. Stop kiddin’ around.
        
        As far as the fiscal hole, it will be readily apparent come the next budget.
        
        Now that is a faith-based statement worthy of the late Gordon Coupland.
        
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        December 15, 2018 11:55am
      - Morrissey
        
        Are you insane, Morrie?, sorry rhetorical question.
        
        Never draw attention to the fact you’ve asked a rhetorical question, wifesadog. It ruins it. It’s almost as pathetic as those drones over on the Stranded who insist on adding “/sarc” after they’ve written something, errrr, sarcastic.
        
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        December 15, 2018 12:07pm
      - Jack5
        
        Morrissey Breen asks in regard to Jacinderella:”Do you think she hasn’t studied seriously?”
        
        Morrissey, she studied communications – public relations.
        
        Bricklaying, plastering, holding stop signs on road works are more intellectually challenging than that. ?
        
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        December 15, 2018 12:15pm
      - Woz
        
        The fiscal hole that is becoming and more apparent as the Financial Fairy frantically juggles the fiscal balls to keep everything looking black?
        
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        December 15, 2018 1:04pm
      - calendar girl
        
        Jack5: And at Waikato University, no less!
        
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        December 15, 2018 1:24pm
  - stigie
    
    Gawd, where is the fucking nurse and medication..?
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:09am
    - Morrissey
      
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      I can give you what you want, stiggers—but ya gotta come back for more.
      
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      December 15, 2018 10:17am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Mad Morrie Minor’s ‘Gropers’ thread has been dispatched to the bowels of the internet where it belongs.
        
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        December 15, 2018 10:32am
      - stigie
        
        “I can give you what you want, stiggers”
        
        Now im concerned whether Morris thinks im a homo and camp as a row of tents.
        Im straight Morris and think you have spent too much time on your gropers list which makes one think that it gets you off in your sordid way of thinking ?
        
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        December 15, 2018 11:26am
  - Lance
    
    “Small bitter band of supporters” with 46% of the vote…………………………………
    What a cock
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:20am
    - Morrissey
      
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      Rogue poll. The internal polling of the National Party is bleak. For the National Party, that is.
      
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      December 15, 2018 10:26am
      - Lance
        
        Snigger
        
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        December 15, 2018 10:40am
  - KevOB
    
    Ardern is a self abuser: her ignorant self belief takes her and NZ into very hard places. She is seriously strained because of her inherent defects.
    If the Sroubek connections or other drug taking in close associates or friends is revealed Ardern will be quickly gone.
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:22am
  - Woz
    
    Morrissey’s turn to do the Comedy Post of the Day?
    
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    December 15, 2018 1:02pm
    - Morrissey
      
      I’ve often done that, buddy. No doubt I will again.
      
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      December 15, 2018 4:28pm
      - SaltyCroc
        
        Compared to SB you’re a good sport even when you get hammered on this site!
        
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        December 15, 2018 4:33pm
      - realityczech
        
        KB needs Mozzies. Ranting and foaming into an echo chamber gets pretty dull. Like that grey pit of authoritarian socialism – The Standard.
        
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        December 15, 2018 4:44pm
  - Sideoiler
    
    ……..she and her very cool partner are the closest thing this country has ever had to JFK and Jackie…..
    
    BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
    
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    December 15, 2018 1:12pm
- RF
  
  Quick tell Cindy about the American woman killed in the Netherlands. She will want to be involved….
  
  She’s picked up Cunners disease and throwing apologies around.
  
  So desperate for publicity she would attend the opening of a book. Just a sick joke.
  
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  December 15, 2018 10:40pm
secondcumming

Will *glass coffins* be popular some day?

Remains to be seen.
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December 15, 2018 10:09am
- G152
  
  I’ll look into it
  
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  December 15, 2018 10:16am
  - stigie
    
    Look between the lines !~
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:17am
stigie

Look between the lines !~
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December 15, 2018 10:18am
MCos

Rolls-Royce has announced that it will be shifting work from Derby to Germany.
This is a direct result of the forthcoming Brexit.
I wonder what Nigel’s got to say about that.
RR had a part in preventing the invasion of GB by Germany, but now they’ll be speaking German in the Rolls Royce factory.
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December 15, 2018 10:33am
- Lance
  
  Who wants a RR from Germany?
  
  The reason why RR failed in USA, everybody wanted a RR from Britain
  
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  December 15, 2018 10:41am
  - MCos
    
    Don’t they still provide engines that keep an awful lot of aeroplanes in the sky?
    
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    December 15, 2018 10:55am
    - Woz
      
      The aero engine and car companies have shared nothing but a name since 1971. Rolls-Royce Motors is now simply a division of BMW. What was actually Rolls-Royce Motors is now Bentley, owned in turn by Volkswagen. Some sleight of hand by BMW saw them grab the rights to the RR brand from under VW’s nose.
      
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      December 15, 2018 1:08pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Silliest thing I saw in London was a Bently 4wd. Too much money and no class. ?
        
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        December 15, 2018 4:37pm
      - Woz
        
        There’s a Rolls SUV now, WG. The elegantly named Cullinane.
        
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        December 15, 2018 7:38pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Didn’t the British cars use Lucas electrics?
    
    (Lucas, Prince of Darkness.)
    
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    December 15, 2018 2:24pm
  - Paulus
    
    But remember Rolls Royce is German owned by BMW.
    So it looks as though Germany finally won the War, but the 1920’s Irish problem still exists.
    
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    December 15, 2018 2:25pm
- All_on_Red
  
  They are moving Design approval for their jet engines not any manufacturing.
  
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  December 15, 2018 1:04pm
- howitis
  
  Roll Royce cars are owned by BMW so it makes sense.
  BMW also owns Mini.
  Tata of India owns Land Rover and Jaguar
  VW owns Bentley
  The Froggies own Vauxhall and before that it was GM .
  MG is owned from China
  British owned car manufacturers= SFA.
  
  It probably helps that Britain gives Annual Aid to India of GBP 50 million but that is chump change and only covers one wedding that Crooked Hilary attended (no doubt for appearance money) .
  Britain also gives nearly GBP 50 million a year to China .
  This has such astounding uses as
  …A £133,584 grant for the project was handed over by the publicly funded Medical Research Council in 2015-16 to scientists at Sun Yat-Sen University for a study into smoking habits. It included 400 workers being given ‘intensive tobacco-related education’….
  
  Both Aid amounts to India and China were much, much only higher a few years ago.
  Pakistan gets Half a billion pounds a year.
  Nigeria gets GBP 320 million a year but probably they are much better than India at working the phones and email schemes and have so many people with unclaimed inheritances they can’t get their hands on!
  
  Both China and India have space programs.
  Now that NZ has Rocket Lab I wonder if we can get handouts from Britain?
  After all we have sent many, men to help them in wars in the last 120 years mainly against the Germans.
  Never against Russians because they were our allies. Mmmm.
  Confused. Let’s be ruled by Europe say T May.
  It is like she is still fighting WW2 for Germany and trying to turn Britain into a vassal state ruled by Germany via the Jean Claude Drunker tool in Brussels.
  
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  December 15, 2018 2:09pm
  - Paulus
    
    Last time I saw which was some years ago is that Britain still owned more assets overseas than the rest of the world put together.
    
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    December 15, 2018 2:27pm
- Inandout
  
  Speaking of Rolls-Royce, their Dreamliner aircraft engines are very troublesome and Portugal has spare aircraft, together with a full crew, for immediate deployment should a DL shit itself. RR is paying out millions in compensation.
  
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  December 15, 2018 3:25pm
Manolo

Where is my mate stephieboy today? 😀
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December 15, 2018 10:43am
- sooty
  
  Still donkey deep in a goat!
  
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  December 15, 2018 10:56am
MrTips

At child’s swim lesson, on bleachers with punters. Mrs Tips stares and accuses moi of fart. I, legitimately, deny. She looks around and then places mental blame on father two seats away. I say “how do you know it wasn’t that guys infant daughter?”

She replies “That was vile. It was definitely a MAN fart”.

What the hell is a man fart?! Do the Greens know about this?
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December 15, 2018 10:47am
- MCos
  
  If anyone farts around here it’s invariably the dog two doors away.
  
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  December 15, 2018 10:59am
Huevon

Lots of lag using the comments box, at least with Chrome or Opera. Anyone else having issues?
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December 15, 2018 10:51am
- stigie
  
  Fine with Firefox. Is anyone having trouble deleting ones comment ?
  
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  December 15, 2018 11:33am
Lee C

… she reduced Bill English to even more of a resentful silence than usual after she pointed out that every reputable economist in the country had dismissed Steven Joyce’s fiscal hole fantasy, and told him: “Nobody believes you!”

… Then six months later it turned out to be an under-estimate of the actual situation. Oh sorry, my bad, it’d not a ‘Fiscal Hole” it’s a ‘Timing Issue” according to that cuddly chortler, Grant Robertson
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December 15, 2018 10:56am
- sooty
  
  The future leader of the Labour party, because who have they got that has risen out of the carpark puddle? Won’t be Angry, they are not that stuupid! Won’t be anyone else on the front bench, when Comrade goes. As much as she loves the money and has everything on tick, she will not be there long. Can not see her staying on tbe backbenchers long. She would have a tantrum and piss off, as soon as shafted. But were would she go? Brand Ardern is turning to custard. Nothing in the business world would have her. Too dumb! It would have to be some NGO or similar, but relies on compliant goverment.
  
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  December 15, 2018 12:14pm
  - Inandout
    
    Grant will not become leader of Labour, not while 60,000 NZ Muslims infest. Also he will be excluded from many parts of the world given his ‘marriage’.
    
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    December 15, 2018 3:21pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    She would be due a pension by now, and surely a larger amount for having been PM?
    
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    December 15, 2018 4:43pm
Kabull

I posted this on another blog earlier this morning and it has generated a lot of supportive comment. I share it here as it may find similar support.

Here is a theory: once upon a time women expected to be treated with courtesy. Responsible parents taught their sons how to behave towards women. But the growing ‘feminist’ mantra that maintains women are equal and it is offensive to do things like open a door, let them go first, offer assistance and so on is simply destroying a standard of behaviour that was once considered normal. And it is because women insist they do not need special consideration. Feminists – ask yourselves whether your equality expectations have had a big part in the (perceived) breakdown of mens’ behaviour towards you.
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December 15, 2018 11:08am
- sooty
  
  Woman would raise 99% of all male babies.
  So are they growing the problem?
  
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  December 15, 2018 12:04pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Yes, we grow the babies and the state is an also absent parent.
    
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    December 15, 2018 4:40pm
- secondcumming
  
  I accidentally opened a door for a feminist last month.
  
  Wish me luck….my trial starts next week.
  
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  December 15, 2018 12:49pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Hi Kabull
  
  I accidentally reported your post as I was doing my civic duty and trying to report Cunt Moron Morrisey’s defamatory post into oblivion. I humbly and most unreservedly apologise. As for that moronic cunt Morrisey, doesn’t constant defamation deserve an outright ban?
  
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  December 15, 2018 1:13pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! It was friendly fire, Kabull, but he still shot you.
    
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    December 15, 2018 4:11pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  True feminists just want equal rights before the law and equal opportunities. Most people are sensible and see that equal rights do not mean people will all be equal in every achievement or choice in life.
  
  True feminists also enjoy being women and being treated politely by a gentleman. In fact, a true gentleman is a feminist too: simply wanting women to have equal opportunities and rights.
  
  It’s only this latest generation of crazies looking for things to feel angry about who seem to really hate men. Unless the men are from a truly misogynist other culture – they’re OK with that.
  There really is no logic to it.
  
  They really shouldn’t steal the originally fine concept and name of feminism.
  
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  December 15, 2018 1:49pm
Morrissey

GROPERS
No. 58: Craig Graham Wright

A spiritual medium who sexually assaulted a 17-year-old boy during a procedure to remove a spirit from his body has lost his appeal to have his conviction lifted.

Craig Graham Wright was asked by the boy’s father to rid their house of so-called paranormal activity. While there, Wright put his finger into the victim’s belly button, and said the boy had a spiritual entity inside him which would need to be removed in a private room. He then touched the boy’s genitals before taking off his own pants.
In his appeal, Wright argued the trial was unfair because the victim’s video statement was replayed to the jury, and claims his lawyer gave him poor advice. However the judges dismissed the claim, and Wright will serve his sentence of eight months’ home detention and 100-hours’ community work.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/378332/spiritual-medium-who-assaulted-17-year-old-loses-appeal

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=12056339

“GROPERS” is presented by GroperWatch®, a division of Daisycutter Sports Inc.
1 George Herbert Walker Bush; 2 Bill O’Reilly; 3 Al Franken; 4 Robin Brooke; 5 Lester Beck; No. 6 Arnold Schwarzenegger; 7 Joe Biden; 8 Rolf Harris; 9 Harold Bloom; 10 Sir Jimmy Savile; 11 Dr Morgan Fahey; 12 Prince Harry; 13 Bill Clinton; 14 Judge Roy Moore; 15 Matt Lauer; 16 Richard Branson; 17 Warren Moon; 18 Donald John Trump; 19 Damian Green; 20 Gene Simmons; 21 Sylvester Stallone; 22 Louise’s husband Charlie; 23 Father O’Hagan (AKA “Father Gropius”); 24 David Lloyd George; 25 James Franco; 26 Joel Kramer; 27 Rene Naufahu; 28 Steve Wynn; 29 Vince McMahon; 30 Rob Porter; 31 The old buffers at Russell McVeagh; 32 Otago law students; 33 Tom Brokaw; 34 David Scott; 35 Justin Trudeau; 36 Morgan Freeman; 37 Hugh Hefner’s guests; 38 Brock Turner; 39 Les Moonves; 40 Asia Argento; 41 [name withheld]; 42 NY subway groper; 43 His Dishonor Brett Kavanaugh; 44 Corey Lewandowski; 45 Brooke Howard-Smith; 46 Dr. Filth McGraw; 47 Dominique Strauss-Kahn; 48 Roger Ailes; 49 Louis C.K.; 50 Geoffrey Rush; 51 Michael Douglas; 52 Bill Cosby; 53 Andy Rubin; 54 Marcelo Vanzuita; 55 Al Gore; 56 Neil deGrasse Tyson; 57 Samuel Cooper
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December 15, 2018 11:49am
- stigie
  
  Go out and mow the lawn Morrie for some good old fashion therapy !~
  
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  December 15, 2018 11:57am
  - Morrissey
    
    Good advice, old buddy. It’s a lovely day.
    
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    December 15, 2018 11:59am
    - sooty
      
      Post written by the biggest groper of them all, the morris dancer.
      
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      December 15, 2018 12:01pm
      - Morrissey
        
        That was just mean, sooty? Do you feel better now.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFE6qQ3ySXE
        
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        December 15, 2018 12:10pm
Morrissey

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
As of 11:57 a.m., three supporters of this disturbing form of therapy have signed in with us.

Cripes!
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December 15, 2018 11:57am
secondcumming

BREAKING!

Some here may have seen my comment yesterday, raising concerns about the fact the quality of *TIP TOP WHITE BREAD* has turned to shit 🙁

Well butter my butt and call me a sandwich…….
I hear this morning that the manufacturers are now sourcing the flour from CHINA!
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December 15, 2018 12:24pm
- Jack5
  
  At first glance that’s surprising, Secondcumming. I hope you are correct about the brand you name, because it could cause the firm problems.
  
  China imports wheat, but apparently it has built a huge stockpile, and is even exporting flour to Canada, which unlike NZ, is a big wheat exporter. However, the flour to Canada is for dumplings, presumably for Western Canada’s Chinese.
  
  Two years ago, the United States Department of Agriculture estimated China’s wheat stocks at 111.6 million tonnes, or about 44 percent of total world stocks.
  
  If Chinese flour is going into NZ bread, it will likely be coming from China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation, which has its own office in Canada, and says it is following China Government policy to reduce the national wheat stockpile.
  
  Meanwhile, China continues to import wheat – $NZ90.5 million worth in October alone.
  
  China’s economy is wacky – half communist, half capitalist. How can China economically import wheat and export flour? Milling is a very low-labour business, and capital costs of flour mills aren’t high by today’s standards.
  
  However, New Zealand bakers using Chinese flour might get a surprising emotional backlash from consumers. Place of origin is a big selling point in a country with high food standards, such as New Zealand.
  
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  December 15, 2018 2:02pm
  - Jack5
    
    TipTop is owned by Associated British Foods, an English company with annual revenue of about $NZ31 billion.
    
    TipTop is big in Australia as well as in NZ.
    
    I wouldn’t condemn Tip Top on an unsubstantiated allegation that it is using Chinese flour, and also without knowledge of what flour its rivals use. You don’t want to be unfair.
    
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    December 15, 2018 2:22pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    What percentage of the flour is melamine?
    
    That product used by those clever Chinese capitalists to bulk out milk powder.
    
    If Vogels start to use Chinese flour, I stand to loose some weight; on the plus side, I will probably develop a smooth hard wearing exterior in a variety of colours and patterns
    
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    December 15, 2018 3:30pm
  - Paulus
    
    According to The Economist Australia is the largest wheat growing country, which I found hard to believe.
    Latest magazine.
    
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    December 15, 2018 4:25pm
- stephieboy
  
  sceondcumming,
  
  as a matter of interest, the bulk of our flour and related products come from Australia ( 55%) and China ( 6.4%),
  
  https://tradingeconomics.com/new-zealand/imports/cereal-flour-starch-milk-preparations-products
  
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  December 15, 2018 2:54pm
- Jules99
  
  The source of flour can make a huge difference to recipes. Many Brits complain that they can’t make their old recipes with the type of flour we have here. I find the idea of flour from China concerning – do you think it could be GM?
  
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  December 15, 2018 4:01pm
  - softail 1450
    
    Jules99, Who knows what comes from that polluted unregulated market,the only thing our commie led govt has done that we may find useful is country of origin labelling,I for one am sick of reading labels to make sure Im not buying Chinese rubbish…
    How are you handling the whole Brexit fiasco?
    
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    December 15, 2018 4:55pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Any experienced cook knows the quality of the flour affects the outcome of the product. I won’t be buying TipTop bread anymore.
  
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  December 15, 2018 5:33pm
Manolo

Some French army generals do not like Macron either:
https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/12/macron-accused-of-treason-by-french-generals-for-signing-un-migration-pact/
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December 15, 2018 12:25pm
- Jack5
  
  Peters Pan reckons the compact won’t be signed until Thursday. Peters has denied that his visit to the United States next week is to sign the compact.
  
  The whole of Labour, the Melon Greens, and Peters (he makes all the decisions in NZ First) will be working on propaganda to deflect the contempt incurred if they sign NZ up to this compact.
  
  Jacinderella, as a world socialist activist, undoubtedly will be committed to it.
  
  A report from earlier this week:
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/109272941/government-decision-on-signing-united-nations-migration-pact-delayed-further
  
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  December 15, 2018 1:43pm
Viking2

Newly Minted Middle Eastern Women’s Coalition Throws Support Behind Trump

WASHINGTON—Sixteen women gathered behind a podium at the National Press Club in Washington waving, clapping, cheering, and thanking President Donald Trump for fighting radical Islam.

“I’m Kurdish, from Kurdistan,” said Chiman Zebari, an activist working to eradicate the practice of honor killings. “We are women from Kurdistan, and I would say we are women for Trump.”

“President Trump may not be perfect, but he is the most perfect we’ve had in a very long time,” said Nahren Anweya, an Assyrian-American, who works to support the protection of Christians in Iraq.

https://www.ntd.com/newly-minted-middle-eastern-womens-coalition-throws-support-behind-trump_266065.html?fbclid=IwAR2gv1-a2fPCH5xbyVeLlejFXXchqV8zn12o_9lOHs3AzUh3KecBaU4czZU
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December 15, 2018 12:50pm
- Jack5
  
  That is significant, Viking2, because the UN migration compact will give more power to the pro-Muslim management of world refugee flow.
  
  There is discrimination against Middle East Christians (see the link below by a report by a respected NZ journalist), and how many of those brave Kurdish and Yazidi women have been in the UN-directed refugee flow to NZ?
  
  https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/03/20/iraqs-christian-refugees-face-double-discrimination/
  
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  December 15, 2018 2:08pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Jack5 , we need to ask what have you personally done to correct this kind of discriminatory practice? Surely it possible to lobby both the government and opposition on this to redress the injustice of this?
    
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    December 15, 2018 2:39pm
    - Jack5
      
      Stephie X: who is the royal “we” on behalf of whom ye ask?
      
      Is it the whole of the Stephiestani syndicate, or are you having one of those alleged split-personality problems?
      
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      December 15, 2018 2:46pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Whatever. The facts are you have not done a single thing about the predicament of Middle Eastern Christians other than from the security and comfort of your keyboards.
        
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        December 15, 2018 2:56pm
      - Jack5
        
        No, no – who are the royal “we” of your 2.39 post?
        
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        December 15, 2018 3:14pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Fuck off stephie you little cuck, sitting in your stinking little hovel throwing rocks at people you know nothing about while perving away on pornhub until the viagra wears off.
        
        What have you done fuck knuckle?
        
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        December 15, 2018 4:40pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        You know he gets a hard-on every time you bother to respond to him don’t you?
        
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        December 15, 2018 5:08pm
  - realityczech
    
    Jacksie, are these the Middle East Christians in Israel, who have their churches burned, are attacked and spat on etc, or some other Middle East Christians?
    
    You know we could avoid all this if you were just honest enough to express your real thoughts. You hate Muslims, Russians, Chinese, Indians, Maori… just say so. Your fake concern is just a vehicle for your real motivation of hating Muslims.
    
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    December 15, 2018 3:32pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Moslems like to blow themselves up, I like to blow things up, you’d think we’d get on better!
      
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      December 15, 2018 5:34pm
      - realityczech
        
        If you bumped into a typical Muslim in daily life I am confident you would get on fine. It takes nothing away from your valid concerns, but I doubt you have had much contact with the average working joe Muslim. You rely on the media for info and we all agree that is not a good idea.
        
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        December 15, 2018 5:49pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Sorry czech but you are wrong. I have them as clients, plus I also have had associations with them privately here and overseas and I do not find them as pleasant to deal with as you assume.
        
        I find their attitude towards women disturbing and their propensity to lie annoying. When challenged about lying, the moslem woman said it wasn’t considered lying when directed towards christians. This was in a still ongoing court case.
        
        In another incident overseas, 3 moslem males assumed a woman alone in an elevator in a hotel was “fair game” for sexual assault so no, they are not my favourite type of person.
        
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        December 16, 2018 9:08am
- stephieboy
  
  V2, this captures the flavour of your “impeccable” sources,
  
  https://www.ntd.com/?s=Obama
  
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  December 15, 2018 2:47pm
  - Viking2
    
    What the fuck u talking about you nut case?
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:10pm
pentwig

Hey JAFFA’s (Just Another Fucken Friendly Aucklander)
Any truth in the rumour that something was apprehended in a St Lukes mall for perving this morning?
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December 15, 2018 1:38pm
- holysheet
  
  Some perv donkey deep in a goat?
  
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  December 15, 2018 2:23pm
softail 1450

pentwig , as an aside ive just had the unfortunate experience of seeing a picture of M Breen of northcote on the net.
FFS the rumours floating around must have some substance if you judge a book by its cover,
those photos scream “sexual confusion”
The neighbours would be worried about having that skinny drawn out creature living nearby….
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December 15, 2018 1:47pm
- pentwig
  
  I wonder if they meet up for coffee and perving softail.
  They certainly seem to be of similar ilk.
  IE braindead.
  I guess we need our regular idiots to compare with, even if only to assure ourselves that we are the sane ones in this insane world the commie, progressive-liberals are turning it into.
  
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  December 15, 2018 3:01pm
Philview

There was a Pro Brexit March in London last weekend led by Tommy Robinson that was barely reported on. Media reports said only a few hundred people turned up.
Interested therefore to see this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxiLCF6fJqc

I can see big problems ahead.
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December 15, 2018 1:51pm
- stephieboy
  
  Philview, this MSM report from the Independent mentions thousands turning up as in your YouTube clip,
  
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-march-live-updates-betrayal-protest-latest-tommy-robinson-ukip-met-police-london-theresa-may-a8674561.html
  
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  December 15, 2018 2:35pm
Odakyu-sen

I wonder how a 4-year-old could be killed by a scrum machine.
Ref: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12177500

I figure that she would be too small to move the metal frame of the machine. I don’t think she was playing on it and then fell off and hit her head (the frame is not that high off the grass).

What might have happended is that other (likely unsupervised) children raised one end of the framework or upended it so that it was balancing precariously, and the little girl got caught underneath it (like a mouse in a mousetrap). I am only guessing.

I used to see this kind of thing a lot at a local park where the adults would be way over in one corner of the park, and the older kids (all under 12) would be with the toddlers and preschoolers as they thrashed the heavy swing seats around. If one of the little kids were to walk into the path of the swing, they would have been brained. Again, no sign of adult supervision.
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December 15, 2018 2:16pm
- waikatogirl
  
  I wondered that too. Apparently her and her sister were playing on it and it fell on the girl. I have no idea how unless they were both standing on top, on one side of it, and physics did the rest?
  No parental supervision???
  
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  December 15, 2018 5:45pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Very sad but is bad luck/freak accident. In a sensible world nothing will change as a result of it. But in our world the safety elves will go nuts and screw our lives up a little more.
  
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  December 16, 2018 12:22am
Swifty

Loving and fun-filled school days Palestinian style:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6498175/British-taxpayers-funding-lessons-hate-Palestinian-schools.html
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December 15, 2018 3:30pm
- Morrissey
  
  Moron. Not that you would have a clue, of course, but the Daily Wail is still as fascist-sympathizing a paper as it was in the 1930s, when it vehemently supported Hitler.
  
  Question No. 10: Who are the main enemies of Israel?
  
  GIDEON LEVY: Those who support the occupation, who keep it strong, and who pay for it. Of course I’m talking about the United States here. The U.S. could stop this masquerade in a matter of months. The U.S. routinely condemns the illegal settlements and scolds Israel, but it does nothing. The European Union: nothing but lip service. India, Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E.—they all buy Israeli weapons.
  
  https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2017/12/soon-even-notion-that-israel-is.html
  
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  December 15, 2018 4:16pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Please stop referencing your pathetic blog. We are well aware that it exists and our lack of interest should be well known to you by now.
    
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    December 15, 2018 4:18pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Thanks, but I use the blog in order to save massive downloads here. It’s something I agreed to with other posters about a year ago.
      
      Capisci?
      
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      December 15, 2018 4:26pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        I find it amazing that DPF hasn’t permanently banned you for blatantly using his resources for your own perceived advantage.
        
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        December 15, 2018 5:16pm
  - Swifty
    
    Reported for linkwhoring.
    
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    December 15, 2018 4:22pm
  - realityczech
    
    Mozzie is right about this one. Ultimately the current unhappy business will bite Israel in the arse. You all don’t see it now, but it will.
    
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    December 15, 2018 4:23pm
    - Morrissey
      
      These folks see it all right. They just support it, is all. Like the Daily Wail, they would have supported Nazi Germany if they’d lived a few generations earlier.
      
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      December 15, 2018 4:25pm
      - realityczech
        
        Exactly my point. It is why I call them out and replace Muslims with Jews in my rants. The principle they allow is the same. Today its Muslims and tomorrow it is someone else.
        
        No one remembers, but I have stated my normal position many times. I don’t hate Jews and prefer them over the other Abrahamic faiths. Which is not saying much !
        
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        December 15, 2018 5:54pm
      - Jack5
        
        Tripe, ❗❗Kea?Realityczech.
        
        In September you got your 6th strike under your Realityczech pseudonym for the line:
        
        “The Jews would be treated like normal people if not for the lies and treachery.”
        
        In your earlier guise – ❗❗Kea? – you were finally banned from the blog for a ranting string that included this phrase:
        
        “You should see the shit that comes out when I am censored for not venerating Jews and their apologists hard enough.”
        
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        December 15, 2018 8:42pm
      - mandk
        
        @ realityczech aka kea, of course you hate Jews.
        
        Everyone knows you hate Jews, so please don’t pretend otherwise.
        
        You wouldn’t write disgusting things about them, if you didn’t hate them.
        
        Do you want me to quote some examples of your anti-Jewish filth to demonstrate that you are a liar?
        
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        December 15, 2018 10:46pm
      - realityczech
        
        So what Jacksie? Do you think that Jews should be singled out as Hitler did?
        
        My mate Eddy got a strike for quoting a Jew with a link to a Jewish website by Jews for Jews. I would not make too much of the strike thing.
        
        mandk, so what if I did hate Jews, compared to your hatred of Muslims, Maori, Indians, Chinese, Slavic…?
        
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        December 16, 2018 2:25am
  - Viking2
    
    I see that Morrison has now said that Australia will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:14pm
    - mandk
      
      Scotty is a good bloke.
      
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      December 15, 2018 10:47pm
      - Morrissey
        
        “Scotty” is a moron. Even for an Australian politician, he is a particularly stupid and crass individual.
        
        https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-20-11-2018/#comment-1552152
        
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        December 16, 2018 8:19am
Ross12

Interesting post from another site on what the EU has done British industry:

This is what the EU is doing for Britain.

By Allan P Huntley

Cadbury moved factory to Poland 2011 with EU grant.
Ford Transit moved to Turkey 2013 with EU grant.
Jaguar Land Rover has recently agreed to build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, the same company who have trashed our steel works and emptied the workers pension funds.
Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU grant.
British Army’s new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in SPAIN using SWEDISH steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU grant, rather than Wales.
Dyson gone to Malaysia, with an EU loan.
Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was METAL BOX), gone to Poland with EU grant, once employed 1,200.
M&S manufacturing gone to far east with EU loan.
Hornby models gone. In fact all toys and models now gone from UK along with the patents all with with EU grants.
Gillette gone to eastern Europe with EU grant.
Texas Instruments Greenock gone to Germany with EU grant.
Indesit at Bodelwyddan Wales gone with EU grant.
Sekisui Alveo said production at its Merthyr Tydfil Industrial Park foam plant will relocate production to Roermond in the Netherlands, with EU funding.
Hoover Merthyr factory moved out of UK to Czech Republic and the Far East by Italian company Candy with EU backing.
ICI integration into Holland’s AkzoNobel with EU bank loan and within days of the merger, several factories in the UK, were closed, eliminating 3,500 jobs
Boots sold to Italians Stefano Pessina who have based their HQ in Switzerland to avoid tax to the tune of £80 million a year, using an EU loan for the purchase.
JDS Uniphase run by two Dutch men, bought up companies in the UK with £20 million in EU ‘regeneration’ grants, created a pollution nightmare and just closed it all down leaving 1,200 out of work and an environmental clean-up paid for by the UK tax-payer. They also raided the pension fund and drained it dry.
UK airports are owned by a Spanish company.
Scottish Power is owned by a Spanish company.
Most London buses are run by Spanish and German companies.
The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to be built by French company EDF, part owned by the French government, using cheap Chinese steel that has catastrophically failed in other nuclear installations. Now EDF say the costs will be double or more and it will be very late even if it does come online.
Swindon was once our producer of rail locomotives and rolling stock. Not any more, it’s Bombardier in Derby and due to their losses in the aviation market, that could see the end of the British railways manufacturing altogether even though Bombardier had EU grants to keep Derby going which they diverted to their loss-making aviation side in Canada.
39% of British invention patents have been passed to foreign companies, many of them in the EU
The Mini cars that Cameron stood in front of as an example of British engineering, are built by BMW mostly in Holland and Austria. His campaign bus was made in Germany even though we have Plaxton, Optare, Bluebird, Dennis etc., in the UK. The bicycle for the Greens was made in the far east, not by Raleigh UK but then they are probably going to move to the Netherlands too as they have said recently.

Anyone who thinks the EU is good for British industry or any other business simply hasn’t paid attention to what has been systematically asset-stripped from the UK. Name me one major technology company still running in the UK, I used to contract out to many, then the work just dried up as they were sold off to companies from France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, etc., and now we don’t even teach electronic technology for technicians any more, due to EU regulations.

I haven’t detailed our non-existent fishing industry the EU paid to destroy, nor the farmers being paid NOT to produce food they could sell for more than they get paid to do nothing, don’t even go there.
I haven’t mentioned what it costs us to be asset-stripped like this, nor have I mentioned immigration, nor the risk to our security if control of our armed forces is passed to Brussels or Germany.

Find something that’s gone the other way, I’ve looked and I just can’t. If you think the EU is a good idea,
1/ You haven’t read the party manifesto of The European Peoples’ Party.
2/ You haven’t had to deal with EU petty bureaucracy tearing your business down.
3/ You don’t think it matters.

OUT OF EUROPE we need to be out of it
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- Odakyu-sen
  
  Can’t the British get by through selling houses to each other like we do in New Zealand?
  
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  December 15, 2018 5:08pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    DEMOGRAPHIA HOUSING SURVEY: ALL EDITIONS:
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    demographia.org
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:15pm
- gump
  
  ”Name me one major technology company still running in the UK”
  
  ARM holdings.
  
  Recently acquired by the Japanese, but still operating entirely in the UK.
  
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  December 15, 2018 5:12pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Yayyy!
    
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    December 15, 2018 5:22pm
    - realityczech
      
      Odakyu-sen, you are being a real smart arse today bro. Keep it up 😉
      
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      December 15, 2018 5:25pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        realityczech,
        
        My humble apologies.
        I had a nice day Christmas shopping after a Yum-Cha lunch with my family in Newmarket. I was feeling good with life in general.
        I won’t let it happen again… 😉
        
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        December 15, 2018 5:38pm
      - realityczech
        
        Love Yum-Cha in Auckland. Many happy memories.
        
        Love how old Chinese ladies stare at me openly, then we get talking. And how it is so communal and chaotic.
        
        I loathe formal white table cloth dinning European style.
        
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        December 15, 2018 5:42pm
- DigNap15
  
  Gee, that is sad.
  I am sure there are many others.
  But what about all the EU workers cleaning potatoes on UK farms?
  
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  December 15, 2018 6:08pm
- wiseowl
  
  Would be interesting to make a list re New Zealand over the last 10-15 years.
  I think people would be surprised at what has happened.
  
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  December 15, 2018 6:17pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    yep..
    Methven about to go to the Ozzies
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12176959
    
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    December 15, 2018 7:29pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      If the cost-cutting they say they can achieve actually happens, that would be a good thing for the cost of building houses in NZ.
      Now let someone take over the monopoly Fletcher group with an eye to the same outcome.
      
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      December 15, 2018 8:59pm
secondcumming

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION

Have you ever heard two *softer cocks* than this pair of morons calling themselves “The Two Tims” currently on 1ZB. Honestly, where do they find these leftie fuking retards?
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December 15, 2018 4:35pm
- Inandout
  
  Worse than the Lush, surely not?
  
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  December 15, 2018 5:17pm
  - sooty
    
    That surfing ad on tv is brillant!
    Even I would beat him up!
    
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    December 15, 2018 5:24pm
Awww C-mon

Been feeling rather grumpy lately, my natural grinch gets over eager this time of year.

Get to the point where I just can’t handle any more stupid,

Stephie, Mossey, Cunts who can’t drive, ppl who are rude to retail and hospo staff, lefties … you know, thick cunts… just wanna slap the stupid out them till my hands bleed….

#rantover
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December 15, 2018 4:46pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Violence in NZ.
  Is it increasing?
  Who are the “violent” ones?
  – One-off “I don’t know what came over me” types
  – Psychologically violent nuts
  – From cultures where “it’s not violence; it’s how we roll”
  – People with no reason for “self restraint”
  – People who have nothing to lose (no job, no assets, nothing that can be taken away)
  – People of low cognitive ability and high levels of impulsiveness
  – People repeating what has been done to them
  
  If you witness violence in New Zealand, what factors inhibit you from taking immediate action?
  
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  December 15, 2018 5:15pm
  - sooty
    
    Not been able to carry arms!
    
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    December 15, 2018 5:22pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Arms like AR15s with bump stock modification?
      
      Peace at last!
      
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      December 15, 2018 5:29pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        There is something about those Americans. Can you think of any other nation in which one could say:
        
        “I’m done talkin.
        “I’ll let my piece do the talkin from now on.
        
        I love the English language (in all its forms).
        
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        December 15, 2018 5:49pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      I think sooty is on to something…
      
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      December 15, 2018 5:40pm
  - Awww C-mon
    
    Not letting go… I came, I ranted… I beat the living daylights out of a Kumara which is now in the oven ?
    
    So many times we blokes bottle up to we explode harming others or ourselves.
    
    When do we stop violence? Dunno.
    
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    December 15, 2018 5:26pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      That is one noble kumara who has sacrified much for his country.
      
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      December 15, 2018 5:41pm
    - nasska
      
      What wine do you serve to accompany mashed kumara? 🙂
      
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      December 15, 2018 5:46pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Whiskey
        
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        December 15, 2018 6:04pm
  - Tall Man
    
    None.
    
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    December 15, 2018 5:28pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Actually, that’s a very good summary.
    
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    December 15, 2018 6:04pm
- realityczech
  
  “Cunts who can’t drive”
  
  Now that is original 🙂
  
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  December 15, 2018 6:04pm
  - nasska
    
    What part of NZ has the worst drivers? Apart from Auckland where the road code hasn’t been heard of in forty years. My nominations are:
    
    Tauranga. Elderly nutters who look right three times, left two, check upstairs for low flying choppers then pull out straight in front of you.
    
    Gisborne. Most learnt to drive in a paddock & never progressed.
    
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    December 15, 2018 6:14pm
    - Awww C-mon
      
      Tauranga by a long long way.
      
      Especially now we are chocka with Aucklanders!
      
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      December 15, 2018 7:48pm
Fletch

The media still going on about this march for women, yada yada yada when actually – men are the ones most at risk in society – more likely to be incarcerated, commit suicide, be homeless, die in war or in the workplace and yes, be the victims of violent crime.

http://www.realsexism.com/

Helen Clark and these other liberal women are standing on the body of Grace Millane and using it to attack men.
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December 15, 2018 6:17pm
Odakyu-sen

I have got to go on a holiday to Osaka (the Manchester of Japan).

This English guy really knows his stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7efZG282TN8

With the 2019 World Cup Rugby to be held in Japan, and the 2020 Summer Olympics, there is going to be a lot more media coverage of Nihon.
Do you own research, and Abroad in Japan (on YouTube) has some great nuggets in it.
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December 15, 2018 6:19pm
secondcumming

FFS……

I see *Kev* is talking up the prospects of Joe’s opponent in tonight’s fight 😎

LOL!!!!!!!!!!
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December 15, 2018 6:27pm
noskire

I can’t quite work out what the print on Masport’s hemp suit is supposed to be – mistletoe or marijuana?
http://www.campaignbrief.com/nz/assets_c/2018/12/47316576_2219929714693522_1750430066266865664_n-309777.html
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December 15, 2018 7:12pm
- nasska
  
  Pray God that it’s mistletoe.
  
  That’s the sort of wanker who gives marijuana users a bad name! 🙂
  
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  December 15, 2018 7:15pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It’s holly
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/9740540/Why-is-holly-prickly.html
    
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    December 15, 2018 7:37pm
    - nasska
      
      That’s a relief Maggy. On behalf of tokers everywhere I thank you. 🙂
      
      Your link referred to holly as having prickles to discourage grazing herbivores. I was once told that varieties of Pseudopanax (eg ferox) developed their serrated juvenile leaves for the same reason but against browsing Moa.
      
      Is this true?
      
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      December 15, 2018 7:49pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I wasn’t around when Moa first decided to browse upon fierce lancewood..
        
        I’m a bit more of a fan for climate/physiological explanations for our plant adaptations.
        As we can’t test the moa hypothesis, I’m happy to confine it to story-tales.
        
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        December 15, 2018 7:59pm
Fletch

Just started watching Christmas in the Park on channel 3 and I haven’t seen any Christmas songs yet…
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December 15, 2018 7:22pm
- nasska
  
  Not even Snoopy’s Christmas?
  
  I always liked that one even if the carols were shit! 🙂
  
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  December 15, 2018 7:25pm
  - Fletch
    
    I just had another peek at the TV – now some Polynesian guy is singing Michael Jackson’s ‘Man in the Mirror’…. Really?
    
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    December 15, 2018 7:32pm
    - noskire
      
      You’re joking?
      
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      December 15, 2018 7:34pm
      - Fletch
        
        Nope. Is true. It’s all songs about anything but Christmas. It should just be called Concert in the Park. And every song has a backup of line dancers all gyrating. Stan Walker is on now singing his new single…
        
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        December 15, 2018 7:43pm
      - noskire
        
        Hence I haven’t watched free-to-air TV for the last eight months at least.
        
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        December 15, 2018 7:57pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  And it’s not even live (unless it’s dark in Auckland when it’s daylight in Wellington).
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:46pm
stigie

What the fuck is wrong with our country when i hear on the news that some schools are going to provide food over the holidays ?
Where is the fucking parents role in all this that they have to send their kids to school to get fed ?
I really am fucking gobsmacked !~
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December 15, 2018 8:02pm
- noskire
  
  They would rather play the pokies, smoke and booze up.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:07pm
- GoVege
  
  It’s not only useless parents on the take.
  I have read that many rest homes don’t bother to look after their residents well, knowing that they can just get an ambulance to take them to hospital and the taxpayers will pick up the tab, while they still collect their fees.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:29pm
Viking2

A U.S. federal judge in Texas has ruled Obamacare is unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, Texas agreed on Dec. 14 with a coalition of 20 states that a 2017 change in tax law to eliminate a penalty for not having health insurance invalidates the entire the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

President Trump quickly praised the ruling in a pair of tweets and challenged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and likely incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to get a new healthcare law passed in Congress.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-federal-judge-rules-obamacare-unconstitutional_2739770.html?fbclid=IwAR1iZCt_YdqdKCpnui5zxPBPFbNyRp71jwLsrlNjKsaiG0EVV6oLKp8zpSk

This guy in the White House is a winner.
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December 15, 2018 8:05pm
- stephieboy
  
  V2 , where to now for affordable health care in the USA.
  
  Trump’s plan of action?
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:20pm
  - Viking2
    
    Why don’t you email him and ask you lazy prick.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:23pm
    - stephieboy
      
      V2, very deep.
      
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      December 15, 2018 8:31pm
      - stigie
        
        How deep were you in the billy goat this morning..?
        
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        December 15, 2018 8:43pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Balls deep Stigie, so about 35mm
        
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        December 15, 2018 8:47pm
      - stigie
        
        Fuck all satisfaction for the goat then Awww ?
        
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        December 15, 2018 8:49pm
      - nasska
        
        The life of a goat in Mt Roskill is not a happy one! 🙂
        
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        December 15, 2018 8:53pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Goat is probably a tad relieved to be fair…
        
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        December 15, 2018 9:01pm
      - stigie
        
        Yeah, and i bet Stiffy relieved himself before the billy goat felt relief..?
        
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        December 15, 2018 9:07pm
      - nasska
        
        Bloody inconsiderate of our co-respondent when you think about it.
        
        That “wham-bam, thank you Mam (Sir) is such 20th Century behaviour.
        
        The goat was probably ticking off a Tinder performance card! 🙂
        
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        December 15, 2018 9:14pm
      - stigie
        
        Stiffy’s preferred position !~
        
        https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/aplus-media/vc/8d1f20c8-73a0-4f98-9bbe-771ee69a3fb9.jpg
        
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        December 15, 2018 9:22pm
- Cobolt24
  
  This is wonderful news, now the Republicans can work to reform the US healthcare system which is in dire need of overhauling, if that ruling didn’t happen, they wouldn’t as easily attract swing voters that easily for 2020, since healthcare is a major topic in the US.
  It’s up for the Republicans to come up with something decent to lower healthcare costs, not sure what or how exactly, as long as they don’t screw it up.
  
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  December 15, 2018 8:26pm
  - nasska
    
    …..”not sure what or how exactly, as long as they don’t screw it up.”…..
    
    Well, for a kick off they could get the bloody lawyers out of the scene. The bitching that goes on in NZ, especially on this forum, about ACC beggars belief but it beats the hell out of medical professionals spending fortunes on malpractice insurance.
    
    There’s plenty wrong about the way we do things in NZ but socialised medicine ain’t one of them.
    
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    December 15, 2018 8:35pm
DigNap15

At least its not Holidays in the Park.
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