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krazykiwi

The patronising, nanny’ness of our roadside preaching is not getting any less one-dimensional.

So I’ve suggested some helpful balance.

Less Speed
~~Less harm~~
More time in the car
More cars on the road
More grumpy kids
More tiredness
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December 31, 2018 8:00am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Indeed. Reduce speed from 100 to 90 and there are 11% more cars on road and 21% more head-on passes of cars going opposite direction (the greatest danger) occurring.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:53am
  - realityczech
    
    People constantly ignore that point. Also lowering speed increases congestion as you get less car movements per unit of time.
    
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    December 31, 2018 8:55am
    - James Stephenson
      
      Except that lower speed when traffic is congested means that it flows more smoothly, which is why the M25 uses variable speed limits. It reduces the “shockwave” effect.
      
      The speed that gets the maximum traffic down a road is actually just under 100km/h, this is because as traffic travels faster, the safe following distance needs to increase.
      
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      December 31, 2018 12:31pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Plus longer overtaking manoeuvres leading to more drivers spending more time on the opposite side of the road
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:02am
    - realityczech
      
      Well not really as that depends on speed differential and is relative.
      
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      December 31, 2018 9:05am
      - septic skeptic
        
        Yes, that delightful phenomenon has more to do with zero or 5 km tolerances combined with speed cameras in passing lanes.
        
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        December 31, 2018 9:50am
dirty harry

Sir Kim Workman !
Is it April fools already ?
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December 31, 2018 8:01am
- igm
  
  No he is a disciple of that dirty Little bastard.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:02am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  ‘for services to Māori carving and bone art.’
  
  No end of credibility in the list then.
  
  In the same category as Lt General Tim Keating.
  
  The talent pool has really dried up, flax basket weaving honour next, can’t wait.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:05am
  - Jazzby
    
    Some years ago, Waikato University awarded a Maori crone an honorary doctorate for her flax weaving work. So there is a precedent!
    
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    December 31, 2018 8:16am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Perhaps, however, lemmings rush over cliff edges to their doom therefore all precedents are not the same, some may have more value than others.
      
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      December 31, 2018 8:23am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        No lemmings don’t, urban myth I am afraid.
        
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        December 31, 2018 9:58am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        More like manufactured animal cruelty courtesy of Disney Studios
        
        Lemming Suicide Myth
        Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior
        
        https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=56
        
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        December 31, 2018 4:14pm
      - realityczech
        
        “Lemming Suicide Myth
        Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior”
        
        Yet another mass death people believe is real. Shows how easily they are fooled. Nothing has changed.
        
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        December 31, 2018 5:55pm
    - Inandout
      
      And at Massey he got an honourary for some shit.
      
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      December 31, 2018 9:40am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Well, at least flax weaving is pretty useful. Just think how necessary baskets and flax bags will be once there is no plastic allowed any more!
      
      I’m semi-serious actually, at least regarding basketwork: I have some baskets that are decades old and still functional: strong, light and nice looking.
      
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      December 31, 2018 9:48am
      - igm
        
        Workman fits the Labour mould having lived his life leeching off taxpayers and crawling to crims . . . where do these mongrels originate? Surely their parents disown them.
        
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        January 1, 2019 8:07am
stephieboy

Time for nominations for NZ Man/ Woman of the year.2018. Unquestionably it goes to Our PM, Jacinda Adern with two defining moments namely her overwhelming successful audience with the Queen.,

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/pm-jacinda-ardern-leaves-world-stunned-after-attending-dinner-queen-in-striking-korowai?variant=tb_v_1

Next the outstanding appearance at Heads of Government Commonwealth meeting,

PM Jacinda Ardern leaves world stunned after attending dinner with Queen in striking Korowai

“Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has gained major approval on the internet by attending a dinner with the Queen dressed in a striking korowai…”

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/pm-jacinda-ardern-leaves-world-stunned-after-attending-dinner-queen-in-striking-korowai?variant=tb_v

Then the birth and presentation of Neve to the nation,

Exhilarating! Stunning!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12076728

After a rocky start out PM’s leadership goes from strength to strength,

Rottweiler Guyon Espiner turns into a cuddly puppy, praises politicians

( notably the PM)

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/19-12-2018/rottweiler-guyon-espiner-turns-into-a-cuddly-puppy-praises-politicians/

Dizzy with success as the polls are on a roll for her and the economy remains buoyant leaving KBs’ rabid right in fear and trembling as they go into survivalist mode and head to the hills.
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December 31, 2018 8:04am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Oh shit, the lunacy has started early this morning.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:09am
  - dirty harry
    
    Its troll number 6 from the stefistan network. No 6 can string a sentence together unlike number 4 troll. Dead loss that one.
    
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    December 31, 2018 8:14am
  - Viking2
    
    wont be here for long, again.
    
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    December 31, 2018 8:16am
  - Biscuit
    
    Talking of that, Captain, it’s interesting that stephieboy uses the word ‘buoyant’ about our economy.
    
    Even shit floats, right?
    
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    December 31, 2018 8:18am
- harvey wilson
  
  History is going to treat Ardern fanboys horribly.
  The cynicism of tearing up on camera when a murder in NZ got international attention should render this drivel invalid to any objective analysis .
  
  Labour only care about victims of crime when it is politically useful to them, they tried to overturn three strikes , want to shut down prisons and when four kids were sexually assaulted at youth camp tried to smear Chris Bishop as a distraction and trotted out a former labour staffer to say that not telling the parents was best practice. Basically they tried to sweep the whole thing under the carpet and make it go away like they did on all the other occasions that kids were sexually assaulted at their grooming camps.
  
  All Arderns virtue signalling and hiding behind her baby has a useby date and its very rapidly approaching.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:14am
  - Viking2
    
    Due another indoctrination Party shortly. any word where?
    
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    December 31, 2018 8:18am
    - harvey wilson
      
      Not sure of location but they are running a poll to see who they want as their guest speaker, Josef Fritzl, Bill Cosby or Stewart Murray Wilson.
      
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      December 31, 2018 8:23am
  - harvey wilson
    
    Is the downvotes on its drivel a record? Its going to disappear before 9 I reckon.
    
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    December 31, 2018 8:20am
- holysheet
  
  Hey Stooooooopidboy, how about answering my question from yesterday, in the spirit of openness and transparency. LOL
  
  holysheet
  
  Is this you Ralphie?
  
  http://nostalgia-nz.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-fiddler-ralph-taylor-doesnt-want.html#comment-form
  
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  Nostradamus
  
  Ralph Taylor, like Robin Bain – has skeletons in his closet and Taylor now shows the same type of seething anger at being caught out, just like his sick mate that thought it was ‘okay’ for a father to teach a daughter to put her fingers inside herself – remember that person folks – a counterspin administrator. A devo right at the top. These people are sick deviates. Ralph Taylor is losing the plot so much now he seems totally comparable with his idol when he decided to ‘tidy up’ his sick life. Buy the book Taylor, let your pervert mates read it and weep.
  
  Ouch!
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  December 31, 2018 8:19am
  - stephieboy
    
    Nostalgia at that time was highly abusive identifying any Robin Bain supporters ( like me and many, many others ) as like the former, allegedly, kiddie fiddlers.
    
    It is now known Robin Bain was not one and there was nothing at all to suggest that he ever was such.
    
    You are now be reported and hopefully, David Farrar will see fit to banning you ( and others ) for life for making a such a blatantly defamatory post!
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:12am
artemisia

Couple of days ago I had a grizzle on here about no investigative journalists reporting on NZ implications, if any, of the Sydney Opal Towers building problems especially as the builder is constructing a high profile Auckland apartment block.

Imagine my delight when I saw a long article in the Herald headlined

NZ and the devastating consequences of Sydney’s cracked apartment block

But no, churned article from the Australian media with one short para about NZ and leaky buildings. Still it was something I suppose.

http://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/35802
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December 31, 2018 8:08am
- Viking2
  
  true that. Look what’s happening close to home.
  
  Tauranga City Council Exposed – Group
  Page · 1.3K like this · Community
  13 hrs · · Why are the cayman apartment owners so quiet…oh wait…their lawyers tell them to be. To what end ? ? ? Where is Stuff / Matt Shand??? Bay of plenty times / Scott Yeoman??? Why are these reporters NOT reporting this when they were all over Bella Vista???
  
  https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=tauranga%20city%20council%20exposed%20-%202018&epa=SEARCH_BOX
  
  http://www.cbcconstruction.co.nz/projects/apartments/cayman-apartments/
  
  coming down it seems.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:26am
  - sam green
    
    On a Facebook page set up by a crook?
    
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    December 31, 2018 11:29am
  - realityczech
    
    “Extensive foundations and retaining walls were required to construct this coastal building, with its basement below sea level. ”
    
    Clearly they intend selling the complex to Labour as part of their coastal buy back scheme because – SEA LEVEL RISE !!!!!!
    
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    December 31, 2018 11:34am
stephieboy

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Oh, I forgot to add this stupendous moment,

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/09/all_hail_dear_leader.html

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/promotions/news/article.cfm?c_id=500848&objectid=12124506
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December 31, 2018 8:09am
- harvey wilson
  
  Have you ever seen the film Primary Colours Stefaknee? You and the other losers who worship Ardern remind me of Kathy Bates character.
  
  I don’t want to clean up the mess when you realise that you have been worshipping a false idol like Bates character did.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:17am
  - stephieboy
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    harvey wilson, Kathy Bates? The famous and illustrious Actor and Film Director,
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Bates
    
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    December 31, 2018 8:51am
    - harvey wilson
      
      The character not the actor. She’s a cautionary tale for morons who hero worship politicians .
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_Colors_(film)
      
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      December 31, 2018 9:01am
- Jazzby
  
  There’s a brand of French cheese available in the supermarkets, called “La Vache Qui Rit” (the laughing cow). Am I alone in thinking that the label of said cheese bears a remarkable resemblance to our Dear Leader in that poster?
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:19am
  - G152
    
    That processed cheese (Laughing Cow) has been around since Adam.
    Creamy segments.
    For that mid morning coffee and bun
    
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    December 31, 2018 8:38am
secondcumming

Very sad to read of the devastating fire that destroyed the wonderful old historic and *Heritage-Listed St James Church* in Mt Eden yesterday.

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1079271133273382912

It appears the local community can at least take some consolation, it has been reported Developers may already have had plans on the drawing board for the construction of high-rise apartments on the site.

As my mother-in-law said, “God moves in mysterious ways…..”
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December 31, 2018 8:14am
- calendar girl
  
  I thought it was “mothers-in-law move in mysterious ways”.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:26am
- GT Build
  
  I will say one word “Kiwibuild”
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:28am
- Komata
  
  The old Four Square advert’ about ‘Convenience’ did come to mind…
  
  Coffers will shortly be filled…
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:18am
  - MH
    
    to honour and obey, I give you my trough, till death and taxis I depart.
    
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    December 31, 2018 12:14pm
- skyblue
  
  Probably replace with a Mosque with railings to stop camels and Stephies goat go wondering.
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:55am
Inandout

stephieboy: for servicing of tethered goats.
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December 31, 2018 8:16am
- igm
  
  Inandout: Does he not also perv on little girls and boys at a mall?
  
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  December 31, 2018 11:23am
DigNap15

That tv ad about not littering speaks of Aoeteoroa.
Where is Aoeteoroa?

I am sick of that word being pushed down our throats.

We need to push back!
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December 31, 2018 8:23am
- SGA
  
  We need to push back!
  
  Well, what do you suggest? Complaining on Kiwiblog doesn’t count.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:43am
  - DigNap15
    
    I am going to email them
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:21am
    - SGA
      
      That’ll do it 🙂
      
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      December 31, 2018 9:31am
- lifesgood
  
  Wallace Chapman on RNZ NEVER says New Zealand, it’s always Aotearoa…a non existent country. I will never respect the man, thick as pig…….t. T
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:44am
  - sooty
    
    I must admit that he does suit his name!
    
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    December 31, 2018 8:52am
- mandk
  
  I don’t mind if people refer to the country as Aotearoa.
  
  But only if they are talking in Maori.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:55am
  - Nukuleka
    
    mandk: and so are you happy enough to therefore be called an Aotearoan? Cos surely that is the consequence? What an ugly false manufactured construct that would be!
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:15am
    - mandk
      
      Not sure your comment makes sense.
      
      I would only be happy to be referred to as a citizen of Aotearoa if the person concerned was speaking Maori. And I’m sure they wouldn’t use the word Aotearoan.
      
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      December 31, 2018 9:48am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        ‘Kiwi’ is so much quicker…
        
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        December 31, 2018 9:53am
      - sooty
        
        Aoteaistan?
        
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        December 31, 2018 12:41pm
    - MH
      
      NO macrons, no Aotearoa, we must make a stand , to the barricodes fallow Jacobeanstalks, the lines must be drawn, shop till we drop !!!
      Anyone heard God save the Queenie in Maori?
      
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      December 31, 2018 11:06am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Aotearoan seems an ugly melding of an English adjectival ending to a Maori word.
      (Various spellings – Aotearoan, Aoteroan, Aotearoaian… noted in the Dictionaryof NZ English).
      
      Probably better to label New Zealanders as Tangata Aotearoa if we are to be described in Te Reo.
      
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      December 31, 2018 11:10am
- igm
  
  Isn’t that what the illegitimate sprog has for a second name?
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:59am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Neve Te Aroha (the love)
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:09am
    - igm
      
      To be quite frank, who effen cares?
      
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      December 31, 2018 10:25am
    - VicParking
      
      Supprised she did not get an OBE
      
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      December 31, 2018 11:04am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        For services to 9th floor media obfuscation strategies?
        
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        December 31, 2018 1:13pm
      - Tall Man
        
        ardern is a liar.
        
        What she has is all she will ever get. She will be consigned to history with a very bad report card…..
        
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        December 31, 2018 3:21pm
- MCos
  
  Personally I’ve never particularly liked the second hand Dutch name New Zealand, anglicized by Cap’n Cook, but we’re stuck with it as we are with the flag and the two national anthems.
  There’s about fifty theories on the origin of ‘Aotearoa’.
  Whatever.
  We’re stuck with that too so get over it.
  You might as well go and hit yourself on the head with a hammer as rail against something that ain’t going to change.
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:21am
  - dime
    
    It’s a great name that reflects our glorious past and the culture that bought peace, human rights and prosperity to nz.
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:35am
    - stephieboy
      
      dime , much like the Romans and Normans doing the same to England?
      
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      December 31, 2018 9:49am
      - dime
        
        And the Greeks to Rome..
        
        Isn’t western civilization the best!
        
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        December 31, 2018 9:54am
    - Piniwi
      
      While dime posing the question do they kill as many of their own today as they used to eat when there was only “their”culture?
      
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      December 31, 2018 1:14pm
      - Tall Man
        
        That’s actually a good point.
        
        Have a read of Te Wiremu, the number of feasts catered by the neighbouring tribe was substantial.
        
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        December 31, 2018 3:26pm
- Jules99
  
  When I hear that I assume the speaker is talking to the Maori fullas, not me. If they were talking to people like me they would say New Zealand. I’m probably not alone in thinking that. And, I would never drop litter – in fact I often pick it up when I take my dog for her first walk of the day.
  
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  December 31, 2018 12:28pm
- Piniwi
  
  Sadly DigNap 15 it might be too little too late since the mythical country is already being promoted by Tourism Industry Aotearoa. Tourists looking for somewhere new are in for a shock to find the same old grass skirts and bare bums that all now seem bleached by the sun.
  
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  December 31, 2018 1:09pm
Chuck Bird

It appears the Mayor of Chch is missing in action. Maybe the citizens of Chch would vote for a right wing mayor who would do something a law and order.
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December 31, 2018 8:25am
- Viking2
  
  Not her job Chuck.
  We have police to look after people who break the Law.
  
  Unless of course you are suggesting that she organizes a place for these people to entertain themselves such as a skid pan or race place.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:28am
  - holysheet
    
    Whats wrong with the red zone? All those vacant properties would be ideal and if another earthquake came and swallowed them all up, so much the better.
    
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    December 31, 2018 8:39am
    - harvey wilson
      
      Let them play in the red zone as much as they want but only if they ticked organ donor on their drivers licence.
      
      A win win for everyone.
      
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      December 31, 2018 8:43am
    - secondcumming
      
      In the words of *Commissioner Mike Bush*…..
      
      “We are no longer a Police Force. We are now a Police Service”
      
      Where’s Wally?
      
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      December 31, 2018 8:55am
      - sooty
        
        Only good for asking directions when you are lost then!
        
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        December 31, 2018 12:38pm
  - SGA
    
    Viking2
    
    a place for these people to entertain themselves such as a skid pan or race place.
    
    I wonder what the OSH-like regulations for something like that would do to the cost (and whether the council could be held responsible for any injuries or deaths). 🙂
    
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    December 31, 2018 8:46am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      ACC and other taxes. You and I pay for their stupid accidents.
      
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      December 31, 2018 9:59am
      - Viking2
        
        Um No we don’t. They contribute from their wages and the rego’s and so on. Maybe no enough but then hurt yourself and they contribute to your recovery.
        Ain’t the state great!
        
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        December 31, 2018 5:46pm
    - Paulus
      
      Could be like the Tauranga Council having crashed the Phoenix Car Park in the center of Mt Maunganui, then they secretly changed the plans from a grass and tree retreat to a Skateboard place which they say the skateboarders cannot use, although as it is almost all concrete.
      Then they gave it a five ? word Maori name which nobody can pronounce representing sweet fa.
      Even the toilet upgrade didn’t happen.
      If you want to know how stupid Councils can be look at this, albeit the Councillors are as usual the front space for the usual executive lobby groups and Executive – who you cannot fire – like the Councillors every three years to be replaced by similar lobby group people.
      
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      December 31, 2018 10:52am
      - Viking2
        
        Probably going to turn the Cayman Appartment section into another one once they demolish the building.
        
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        December 31, 2018 5:48pm
Salacious Crumb

I recently discovered that my family received a diversity dividend just before Christmas when my elderly Aunt (81) was accosted by a women in a niqab. The reason? My Aunt was wearing a shirt patterned with Christian symbolism. The woman, of middle eastern origin, pushed her several times and rudely suggested my Aunt should not be wearing this publicly. She was told in no uncertain terms what part of the world she was now living in and to return to the cesspool she came from if she was so offended. This all occurred in an eastern suburb of Auckland. They grow emboldened.
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December 31, 2018 8:27am
- sooty
  
  Where was her man?
  How come she was out roaming the streets alone?
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:35am
- artemisia
  
  Your aunt gets a big tick in her report card from me. Good for her.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:41am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    I am sending over a gun licence application for the Aunt to complete, I’ll take it from there . . .
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:19am
- realityczech
  
  That is appalling. Aside from the religious aspect, it shows utter contempt for the mores of the host culture.
  
  I blame our immigration system that encourages new people to maintain their incompatible beliefs, rather than fit in.
  
  We need to be more selective and give rigorous guidance on what is expected.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:47am
- stephieboy
  
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  Salacious Crumb, an impossible to verify or authenticate piece of salacious eastern suburbs neighbourhood goss.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:55am
  - secondcumming
    
    I can certainly verify it. We’ve already seen one or two of them driving thru Remuera.
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:04am
  - double d
    
    What a dick
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:06am
  - GazzaW
    
    Are you calling longtime commenter SC a liar steffie? Sounds like grounds for a banning from KB.
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:07am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Stephieboy: In English please retard.
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:15am
    - stephieboy
      
      Independent verification of the incident with your 81-year-old aunt?
      
      Police notified ( assault- pushed several times )??
      
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      December 31, 2018 9:55am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        What motivation would an 81yo have for fabricating such a thing? I take it that you are an apologist for the actions of this Muslim woman?
        
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        December 31, 2018 9:59am
    - Tall Man
      
      Don’t respond to this pathetic excuse for a human. She is a sad little girl with no mates to talk to so she comes on here looking for verification.
      
      Just down tick and ignore her.
      
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      December 31, 2018 11:44am
  - pentwig
    
    stoopidthing
    our very own muslim apologist
    idiot
    sigh
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:34am
- SGA
  
  Salacious Crumb
  
  My Aunt was wearing a shirt patterned with Christian symbolism.
  
  Sheer curiosity, no axe to grind… what does a shirt patterned with Christian symbolism look like?
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:10am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    It was multiple depictions of the main figure associated with Catholicism.
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:14am
    - secondcumming
      
      I’ve got similar T-Shirt…
      
      https://i.imgflip.com/2pywyr.jpg
      
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      December 31, 2018 9:20am
      - SGA
        
        You are going to hell, you realise…
        
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        December 31, 2018 9:27am
    - SGA
      
      Sorry, I’m not sure I completely understand that. Your 81-year-old aunt’s shirt had lots of pictures of Jesus on it?
      
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      December 31, 2018 9:25am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        No his mum.
        
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        December 31, 2018 9:32am
      - SGA
        
        Sorry, reported you by mistake. Didn’t notice “Reply” had disappeared.
        
        Interesting. I’m surprised that the woman recognised Mary (who, oddly enough, is usually depicted with her head covered in what we would think of here as an almost islamic style), and even if she did, why she would find that particularly offensive. Bizarre incident.
        
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        December 31, 2018 9:44am
      - stephieboy
        
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        Bizarre incident?
        
        If it actually occurred!
        
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        December 31, 2018 9:57am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        You’re not all there are you Ralph.
        
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        December 31, 2018 10:00am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      As seen in southpark:
      https://finallyhumanblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/vaticanqueenspider.jpg?w=700
      
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      December 31, 2018 1:16pm
    - Tall Man
      
      So the moslem was “cross” I suppose.
      
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      December 31, 2018 3:32pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  SC: I think she was *assaulted* by that woman, and I hope she reported it to the Police?
  
  ‘Accosted’ implies bold or aggressive speaking, but not physical assault.
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:34am
- Thompy
  
  Should have ripped her niqab off.
  
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  December 31, 2018 11:24am
- EAD_THREE
  
  This persecution of Christians is worldwide as *they* grow emboldened. They are even being hounded out of the home of Christianity.
  
  https://forward.com/schmooze/145816/jerusalem-judge-to-jews-dont-spit-on-christians/
  
  Christians in Israel are spat at, persecuted and their churches fire-bombed.
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11786802/Burning-of-Christian-churches-in-Israel-justified-far-Right-Jewish-leader-says.html
  
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  December 31, 2018 11:56am
  - realityczech
    
    Oh Eddie where do you get these ideas of yours? I read Israeli news and see lots of stories about the Christians.
    
    Like this one reported in Haaretz:
    
    Christians Are ‘Blood Sucking Vampires’ Who Should Be Expelled From Israel
    
    Benzi Gopstein, head of Lehava, calls to ban Christmas in the Holy Land: ‘Let us remove the vampires before they once again drink our blood.’
    
    Gopstein wrote in the article that he is disturbed by “the fall of the line of defense of the Jewish people against our deadly enemy for hundreds of years – the Christian Church.”
    
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    December 31, 2018 12:19pm
  - Cobolt24
    
    Words from a (((Rosenthal))) https://mobile.twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/status/1079365862245785600/photo/1
    
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    December 31, 2018 12:45pm
Manolo

Why would civilised women around the world like to wear this sign of oppression?
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/12/26/world-hijab-day-encourages-all-women-wear-veil-solidarity-muslims/

The World Hijab Day (WHD) non-profit organization launched its 2019 campaign Wednesday, encouraging women and girls of all faiths, backgrounds, and ethnicities to “voice their choice” of wearing the headscarf for 24 hours on February 1, in solidarity with Muslim women across the world.
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December 31, 2018 8:27am
- Woz
  
  Let’s all celebrate repression, superstition, ignorance and primitive male chauvinism. Where’s the feminism in all this?
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:33am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Real feminists in the 80s and 90s just wanted equal opportunities. Then they *took* those opportunities: got jobs or their own businesses and have families too. Basically all they wanted was the same opportunities as blokes and decent blokes helped them out in that.
    
    The people calling themselves ‘feminists’ these days have a contradictory ideology of wanting equal opportunities but also wanting us to respect misogynist cultures that don’t give women even basic equal rights.
    
    There’s a choice to be made, but they are not prepared to make it.
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:31am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Downticker, I’m interested in your PoV.
      
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      December 31, 2018 10:33am
- holysheet
  
  you mean like this?
  
  https://www.barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/13533×650-vi.jpg
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:34am
- realityczech
  
  Dunno, ask a Nun.
  
  You have fallen into the trap that Islam is imposed on women. Muslim women are just as much Muslims as the men and share the same beliefs.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:48am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Stockholm syndrome. People raised in religious opression under constant threat of violence for any dissent lack true agency/free will.
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:05am
    - realityczech
      
      Same applies to the men. Another thing people forget. Look at the close American ally of Saudi Arabia for examples. The level of brutality against men is appalling.
      
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      December 31, 2018 9:07am
- simpleton1
  
  Make it a truly interesting international hijab day 🙂
  
  The hijab day would be very interesting, if the material had a lot of Christian symbolism, as in above by SC’s Aunt shirt.
  
  No reason why there can not be Hinduism symbolic material. In our summery weather Indian women have no problems showing a bit of mid riff.
  
  Buddha symbolism, would be great.
  
  The Star of David on a hijhab would prove interesting.
  
  Take it over in whatever form or way as we wish. 😉
  
  Good point RC, have a nunnery hijab shape.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:52am
  - realityczech
    
    We should also have – Sexual Revolution Day – and women can wear mini skirts and go topless. If they choose to wear anything at all.
    
    We should hold it in East Auckland to add to the abundant diversity there.
    
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    December 31, 2018 8:58am
- KevOB
  
  Does that apply to xgendered too?
  
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  December 31, 2018 12:52pm
- Rich Prick
  
  World Empty Your Landry Hamper on Your Chattels Day more like. Does beating them make for a more authentic experience?
  
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  December 31, 2018 12:53pm
holysheet

Q. If Winston, Jimmy two mums and Cindy were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and it started to sink, who would be saved?
A. New Zealand!
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December 31, 2018 8:28am
- MH
  
  waka jumping experts would overbalance the boat for sure.
  
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  December 31, 2018 11:13am
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“In 1995, in a joint project involving police and ESR, New Zealand created the National DNA Profile Databank. It involved the collection of DNA profiles from convicted offenders and volunteers onto a central database that is matched against DNA profiles obtained from unsolved crimes in an attempt to “identify any individual that could be linked to an offence through biological material left at the crime scene”.”

From granny herald today on the Kirsty Bentley case.

It should be clearly understood that the dna in paraffin block 2 and in the fingernail clippings of Christine and Amber Lundy will solve the crime. This is a future hazard for current courts to consider when expressing certainty Mark Lundy is guilty.
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December 31, 2018 8:31am
- harvey wilson
  
  Another Notsofast post, usual rules apply get those downvotes up quickly people.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:41am
  - Notsofast
    
    From which I conclude you consider crime solving something other than a public good. I am surprised you can’t all see where this train wreck is heading. DNA everywhere in the case, where it should be, where it should not be.
    The record of obfuscation is held in my kiwiblog posts. My contribution to correcting the historical record of crime and punishment in New Zealand, a job traditionally undertaken by the fearsome and relentless media, who are missing in action.
    
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    December 31, 2018 8:46am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Done my 3 reports.
    Maybe he won’t last much longer than stupidboy’s earlier post.
    
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    December 31, 2018 8:52am
    - Notsofast
      
      I would be long ago banned if my posts were false.
      
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      December 31, 2018 8:54am
      - holysheet
        
        We live in hope.
        
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        December 31, 2018 9:16am
- stephieboy
  
  Notsofast, the latter the so-called ESR Crown Forensic conspiracies?
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:45am
  - Notsofast
    
    Not sure what you mean, the existence and absence of dna is agreed by all parties in the case. The appeal court said it is irrelevant but they are wrong.
    But it sure as hell will be inconvenient going forward.
    
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    December 31, 2018 8:49am
secondcumming

I was coming out of the local Countdown last night and this poor old lady fainted in the car park. At least I assume she was poor, she only had $3.70 in her handbag.
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December 31, 2018 8:43am
- Stars And Stripes
  
  If the setting for this joke was Mt Roskill you would have to somehow incorporate her being indecently assaulted as well.
  
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  December 31, 2018 10:19am
Doubledimp

I had to do a text search on “Turei” on the honours page, just to make sure they were not being that contemptuous. Does she have another official name she could have snuck in under?
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December 31, 2018 8:48am
- sooty
  
  Did you try “Me Too”.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:58am
krazykiwi

A informative read : You can wipe that plastic smile off your face

Taking into account the land, water and energy — hence carbon emissions — required in their manufacture, the Environment Agency concluded that a paper bag would have to be used three times before it could be regarded as more environmentally correct than a lightweight plastic bag used only once. In fact those plastic bags are typically reused — roughly 40% of them when they were free — as pedal bin liners. On that basis, said the report, a cotton bag would have to be used 173 times before its “global warming potential” dropped below that of each of those flimsy plastic bags
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December 31, 2018 8:52am
- tf78
  
  I read that it was 42 times for a paper bag. Had one rip and the bottom fall out the other day because of too much weight in it. I have about 10 paper bags with my grocery deliveries because of that.
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:08am
  - Wangas Feral
    
    The worst thing about those paper bags is that you can hold about three of them before you are dropping shit all over the place. Plastic bags with handles are a lot easier to move about with.
    
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    December 31, 2018 1:15pm
- jcuk
  
  We should send this to the SLG ???
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:32am
  - Paulus
    
    What makes you think that SLG would take any notice of what anybody she does not have on her phone.
    She is so far above it all – like my Princess Diana SLG.
    Hope its raining in Gizzy, but think of her Protection Squad.
    
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    December 31, 2018 10:58am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      It’s pretty hot already here in Gisborne (24C in the shade).
      Too much solar radiation for me to be venturing outdoors currently.
      The hubby (dark-skinned ) has just retreated indoors.
      Looks like we are in for quite a sunny spell over the next week or two.
      
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      December 31, 2018 11:24am
      - Paulus
        
        Did you see SLG and other at the R&V Concert ?
        
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        December 31, 2018 1:32pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        It is a nightmare negotiating the city at the moment.
        Crikey, we even got caught in a cue of cars at Kaiti Mall.
        No way are we venturing out towards R&V.
        
        I’m hoping we don’t have to descend our hill for the next few days.
        
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        December 31, 2018 1:43pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Can I just remind folk who are going to R&V:
        1. You can’t just put glitter on your tits and pretend people won’t notice you’re naked.
        2. You shouldn’t grab other peoples’ tits without permission even if they are covered in glitter to attract attention.
        
        Following that advice may save days of faux victimhood in the media with drunken assaults and .. er .. tit-for-tat assaults like last year.
        
        Thank you
        
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        December 31, 2018 6:20pm
  - Tall Man
    
    She only learns from the television so pointless sending her something to read.
    
    She’ll wait for the mini series….
    
    Plastic and Where you Shouldn’t Put it”.
    
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    December 31, 2018 3:40pm
- Albert_Ross
  
  The point that alternatives might actually be worse for the environment overall, if they’re not re-used multiple times, is acknowledged in the Ministry’s Regulatory Impact Statement. They propose to address it by encouraging shoppers to use the alternatives properly through education, publicity, incentives etc.
  
  Still doesn’t make much sense though. If you could ensure that everybody did the right thing through education, publicity, incentives etc – there would be no need to ban plastic bags through regulation in the first place
  
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  December 31, 2018 11:41am
  - jcuk
    
    A useful first step would be to have re-inforced holes for our fingers so that they are easier to carry.*
    The paper bags my groceries come in go into the recycle bin as soon of they are emptied. They come half full so worse than plastic bags
    * or string handles like they used to have.
    
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    December 31, 2018 1:54pm
    - artemisia
      
      Paper grocery bags. For those of us still allowed to have a woodburner or open fire, they are useful to stack kindling and firestarters like dried twigs and cabbage tree leaves. One fire’s worth in a bag, neat and easy.
      
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      December 31, 2018 3:34pm
  - Viking2
    
    Yep went into Mega yesterday. bought a bunch of bits and bobs. Can I have a basketplease.
    No sorry not allowed out of the shop.
    My retort, stupid fucking shopkeepers.
    And they wonder why people buy on line. Must cost them quite a few million in turnover.
    
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    December 31, 2018 5:57pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh dear,

Greenpeace sends it’s old Rainbow Warrior 2 to be scrapped on a Bangladeshi Beach.

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/greenpeace-rainbow-warrior-ii-in-bangladesch-abgewrackt-a-1245722.html
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December 31, 2018 8:55am
- realityczech
  
  Bwaaaaa ha ha ha ha ha 🙂
  
  They will have to fly around the planet in jets now to discuss how to manage this PR disaster. They do love their jets and even use them to get to work.
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/23/greenpeace-defends-top-executive-flying-to-work
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:02am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Pascal Husting should ride his bike. It’s only 23hrs in each direction. Practice what he preaches.
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:22am
- stephieboy
  
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  MW, oh dear indeed. Green peace itself gives an account of their flagship that went beyond its service life at 60 years old to be broken up a Bangladesh shipyard,
  
  https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/19341/statement-on-the-decommissioning-of-the-rongdhonu/
  
  Next time please have the courtesy and provide an English translation.
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:05am
  - JibberJabber
    
    Most up to date browsers have automatic translation, shit for Brains.
    Tho` possibly you`d have to download a middle eastern one that translates into Goat.
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:35am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Stuffy the Rape-Denier tells us about ‘courtesy’.
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:41am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Oh, I am so sorry.
    
    Try these articles then, if your viewing technology lacks translation facilities.
    
    https://www.imarest.org/themarineprofessional/item/4588-greenpeace-regrets-beach-recycling-fate-of-rainbow-warrior-ii
    
    https://www.newsarticleinsiders.com/pr-disaster-rainbow-warrior-ii-will-be-scrapped-in-bangladesh
    
    http://notrickszone.com/2018/12/30/scrapping-on-the-cheap-greenpeace-caught-dumping-decommissioned-rainbow-warrior-2-on-bangladeshi-beach/
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:49am
    - stephieboy
      
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      MW, thank you which confirms what Greenpeace has already stated about the disposal of their flagship.
      
      I fail to see your point!
      
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      December 31, 2018 10:00am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I fail to see your point!
        Yes, you frequently fail to see the point of my posts.
        I haven’t had complaints from anyone else.
        
        So here’s a few of them regarding this latest display of Greenpeace’s disregard of good environmental practice.
        
        1. The MSM in NZ has not reported on this incident of environmental dumping
        2. The hypocrisy of Greenpeace – re campaigns for clean beaches.
        3. The hypocrisy of Greenpeace in failing to use accepted ship-wreckers
        4. The hypocrisy of Greenpeace using cheap (often bonded) labour working under filthy, unsafe conditions.
        5. The fact that Greenpeace failed to be open and transparent about its “mistake”… and failed to provide a GERMAN translation of their “apology”.. so did not show up on the German Greenpeace website.
        
        These are the conditions at the Chittagong wrecking yards
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5waCscf2a00
        
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        December 31, 2018 10:17am
      - JibberJabber
        
        I fail to see your point!
        
        Situation normal then?
        You fail at reading comprehension, colour us all surprised…?
        
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        December 31, 2018 10:23am
      - harvey wilson
        
        I fail to see the point of Stefaknee yet here I am commenting on its post.
        
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        December 31, 2018 11:02am
      - stephieboy
        
        M W ,
        
        Greenpeace clearly published their regret about the incident.
        
        Like Der Spiegel and maybe unlike yourself they are not perfect and cannot be perfectly consistent all the time.
        
        At least they owned up to the error on their part which is more I can say for your confederates and yourself
        
        “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
        
        ― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Self-Reliance
        
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        December 31, 2018 12:49pm
  - pentwig
    
    stoopidthing
    attempting to bully MW again
    1, 2, 3, …..
    
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    December 31, 2018 10:13am
    - JibberJabber
      
      Once again Stupidboy saddles his goat, straps on a jousting stick and enters the arena for a battle of wits unarmed.
      
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      December 31, 2018 11:01am
    - harvey wilson
      
      Attempting yet failing. The story of its life unfortunately.
      
      Much like Muttonbird, poor life choices lead to resentment, lead to acting out, lead to embracing left wing politics etc etc etc.
      
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      December 31, 2018 11:03am
- GazzaW
  
  Oh the hypocrisy of Greenpeace. The demolition workers in those Bangladeshi ‘shipyards’ are paid slave labour wages and work under extremely dangerous conditions with minimal safety equipment. There are too many telling entries on Google to list.
  
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  December 31, 2018 10:03am
  - LTA1955
    
    That MW blog about the shipyard information has just been broadcast far and wide to our email listings…..anything to destroy Green Party sanctimonious hypocrites. 🙂
    
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    December 31, 2018 10:46am
    - LTA1955
      
      The real laugh is I updated Maggy W’s blog content with full references to the original content on WO and they deleted it. Are they still wondering why their blog is now an empty army mess hall with a few flies buzzing around in it? Have they joined with the sanctimonious hypocrites? It’s just disappointing after all these years Cameron
      
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      December 31, 2018 1:34pm
      - Monique Watson
        
        I tried to get back on WO but my ban never got lifted. There was a period of time after the hacking debacle WO went on lockdown. Nothing to do with the price of fish but the memory just got jogged.
        
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        December 31, 2018 6:06pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Me neither Monique. I got banned for pointing out a spelling error in the editorial and it was when WO was at the peak of its power. Pete couldn’t be bothered answering me so I flagged WO and turned up here. Best move ever.
        
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        December 31, 2018 7:38pm
- kowtow
  
  Now that speigel have broken the story , there’s no excuse from the rest of the int’l msm to not run that story.
  
  Any reporter worth their salt could do what I’ve done , a quick google and find this 2005 paper from Greenpeace on exactly this dirty and dangerous practise.
  
  But they won’t , they’ll obsess about Trump , climate change , the need for migrants to be cared for etc etc
  
  ‘ Greenpeace started its shipbreaking campaign
  by highlighting this environmental and human rights
  disaster in 1998.’
  
  https://www.shipbreakingbd.info/report/End%20of%20life%20ship.pdf
  
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  December 31, 2018 12:15pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Two mums…two faced…
    
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    December 31, 2018 3:48pm
    - RF
      
      Two mums and the boy wonder with the false beard are having a contest to see who can clock up the most air miles.
      
      Their carbon footprints have to be seen to be believed…
      
      The Gweens cannot believe their good fortune being part of the COL.
      
      Happy as pigs in muck.
      
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      December 31, 2018 4:13pm
- Viking2
  
  We should all report this to DPF.
  
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  December 31, 2018 5:58pm
RF

Well well well. Boy racers in Christchurch appear to have won the latest battle with the Police. No arrests or vehicles seized.

Maybe it stems from Uncle Mike Bush taking pains to point out that we no longer have a Police Force as it’s now a Police Service.

It’s good that he has taken time off from baby sitting Squirrel to make this announcement.

Unfortunately we are going the same way as Victoria Police who are getting their arses kicked by African gangs.

Many years ago Christchurch had problems with Street crime and Gid Tait the local Police boss took old cops out of the offices and put them on the street calling them Dads Army.

Old style Policing and it worked.
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December 31, 2018 8:57am
- waikatogirl
  
  Judith fixed the irritating behaviour of “boy racers” by crushing a car or 2. Stopped them in their tracks.
  Now, how can the CoL make doing the exact same thing a new policy without anyone remembering “Crusher” did it first? ?
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:22am
  - realityczech
    
    “Stopped them in their tracks.”
    
    No it did not. Clearly.
    
    A couple of cars were crushed for PR. It was a scam for low information law and order nuts. The boy racers laughed their heads off at it and carried on.
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:46am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Crusher’s error was not crushing enough of them.
    These soap-dodging cop-teasers thought the car crushing was all a hoot.
    They’re slow learners, but they’ll get the idea after a few months when they start losing half a dozen a week and cops target the more expensive ones.
    This business of an all out game of cat’n’mouse has to stop because it is only encouraging the little wankers.
    A few cameras + sustained loss of traction = permanent loss of car.
    
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    December 31, 2018 6:38pm
    - realityczech
      
      It was a policy to appeal to low information law and order nuts (is there another kind?) to win votes. It was never about addressing the problem.
      
      Clearly it worked a treat on its intended target – dimwited National fanboys.
      
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      December 31, 2018 6:45pm
- skyblue
  
  Our pig force are being castrated by this govt. Main focus is revenue gathering. Commit a ‘real’ crime and you are let off as Little wants you on the streets to vote Labour. Hell you might get a payout.
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:59am
  - realityczech
    
    The filth are more concerned about social engineering now days and criminalising legal things like booze.
    
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    December 31, 2018 11:01am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Skyblue you are spot on about our “highway police”. They are more interested in revenue collection for speeding and drunk driving as opposed to keeping the highways moving.
    
    For example, the northern motorway on SH1 ends at Johnstons Hill Tunnel, everyday up until today has been traffic tail backs from Pukeko Bridge (Hillcrest Road) to the tunnel and then bumper to bumper to Warjworth north, today no such queues. Everyday of the traffic build up, not a sign of a traffic cop. However, today between Puhoi and Silverdale (a distance of 12 km) I counted four police patrol cars and 1 police traffic safety control van (vans that photograph speedsters). It is not about keeping the highways safe or moving, it is all about revenue collection.
    
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    December 31, 2018 4:03pm
hullkiwi

Proof that the sad city urban lefties are taking over and live in an unreal universe…..

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12182002

While the Horrid is no longer a true reporting newspaper. The article was about a very real situation that those of us living in the rural fringe of Auckland experience every weekend on the narrow, unsealed dangerous goat tracks that pass for Auckland’s rural roads.

However, as I wrote in modern NZ, we live now in parallel universes where the dangerous riding habits of cyclists are ok, and reporting about them is deemed unfair. What bu*****t!

Every weekend those of us who live on the forgotten goat tracks that pass for roads experience the arrogant, ignorant city urban hordes who descend upon our communities to ride their bikes.

They ride the goat tracks that pass for our local roads as though they own the entire road. They ride across the road, never staying to the left, they are dangerous and in our area it is miraculous there has not been an accident yet.

Because of the way they ride their bikes these people do not endear themselves to local folk and I repeat sooner or later there will be an accident caused by the dangerous antics of these cyclists.

Rant over…..
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December 31, 2018 8:59am
- double d
  
  Umm
  Roads are not exclusively for cars. Just so you are aware.
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:12am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Maybe so, but when one of these recreational cyclists riding across the road is taken out by a car or a milk tanker coming the opposite direction around a blind corner on a goat track of an unsealed round, don’t be surprised if the cyclist becomes a fatality.
    
    Secondly in our area, these so called recreational cyclists illegally trespass over farm properties leaving stock gates open. They have made themselves very unpopular in our area because of their behaviour. I have yet to witness one them following cycling road rules that I was taught as a school boy in the 1960s and 1970s.
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:20am
  - realityczech
    
    double d, roads are not for playing on. Just so you are aware.
    
    Cyclists should have to have third party insurance to pay for damages when they hit cars. Plus compensation for the car driver when a cyclist is squashed dead, as filling out forms is a hassle.
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:44am
    - sooty
      
      ACC and registration aswell!
      
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      December 31, 2018 10:27am
  - rockape
    
    Nor are the road rules!
    
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    December 31, 2018 12:51pm
- VicParking
  
  What gets me in Whanganui is that our far sited Council has built cycle ways everywhere. The problems is cyclists still rather ride on the road while the cycleway beside them is empty.
  They have removed one car lane for these cycleways so cars that are turning left and straight ahead are in the same lane. Ok BUT they have removed the pedestrian only phase so if a car in the front wants to turn left you have to wait until the pedestrian phase has ended before it can turn. All the cars behind who want to go straight ahead have to wait.
  Three phases to get through the lights. The idiots in the council building right by one corners have yet to realised the problem.
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:28am
  - DigNap15
    
    Its sad to see that they have the same sort of idiots in Wanganui as they do in Tauranga.
    Buses with tinted windows so you can’t see the person riding it it. (if there is one)
    Cycle lanes everywhere and narrow roads.
    New subdivisions going up everywhere, when there is grid lock to get to them.
    
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    December 31, 2018 10:12am
    - Viking2
      
      Ha, its more fun counting the buses than the passengers. There’s more buses these days.
      Full weekday service running right through.
      
      Give Thruston a call and tell him what a fuckwit he is.
      
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      December 31, 2018 6:09pm
- Komata
  
  Hk
  
  You aren’t alone. I have the misfortune to live near a rural town that fancies itself as being NZ’s home of cycling and the road lice are everywhere: all ages, all sizes, and all lycra-clad. Most are well-behaved and keep to the cycle lanes thoughtfully provided by the local Council. HOWEVER, inevitably there are those who don’t believe it necessary to stay in their own areas , and who weave and piroette and swarm as if they are the owners of the tarmac. For these individals, it’s all about them, Rules are for others and if they can inconvenience other motorists then so much the better. Riding in formation across a local heavily-trafficked bridge seems to be a speciality. So far no cyclists has been damaged as a result of such actions but there have been some very near misses, all of which are never, of course, the fault of the two-wheelers. It is however only a matter of time, and when something nasty does happen, watch for the hysteria as the cyclists go into full defensive and accusatory mode. That they might in fact be part of the problem simply doesn’t occur to such people and Cycling NZ (supposedly the controlling body for the ‘profession’) seems to be totally ineffective.
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:46am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    MAMIL’s Middle Aged Men In Lycra
    
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    December 31, 2018 1:21pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    Komata I agree, your description sounds like Orewa.
    
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    December 31, 2018 4:05pm
- Wangas Feral
  
  Live 40km from town and we regularly have cyclists 2-3 abreast on the narrowest part of the windy hill road into and out of our valley. There is literally no where to pass. They are going about 5kph up the hill, we have to sit behind them fuming. Single effing file and stay left you bastards.
  
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  December 31, 2018 1:20pm
  - RF
    
    Sounds like our typical commie greens who have a grand plan to stuff up our lives.
    
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    December 31, 2018 4:01pm
- The Heat
  
  Cyclists need to be registered and pay road taxes, like everyone else. The excuse that they “have cars as well” doesn’t wash. I have a car and a motorbike, and saying I “have a car as well” doesn’t wash with Land Transport, either.
  
  Once registered, we can identify them and report them for dangerous riding, as required.
  
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  December 31, 2018 1:35pm
  - realityczech
    
    They should have to have a registration plate. A big one shaped like a wind sock, for improved visibility from the side.
    
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    December 31, 2018 1:38pm
sooty

Yep, out there with the “Minto” stick!
That’ll learn um!
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December 31, 2018 9:01am
hullkiwi

…..and from the world of “let’s keep NZ an unproductive, lazy welfare dependent sh**hole, we get……

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/child-poverty-group-wants-tax-credit-for-all-low-income-families/ar-BBRAfuA?ocid=spartandhp

FFS, when are people in this country going to wake up to:
1. Tax credits is part of the problem as to why NZ is unproductive;
2. How can you give a tax credit to someone not earning income?…It is called being a lazy sh*t living on benefit.

May be this Child Poverdy out fit should talk to Indiana Bones about his lazy coussies in the North!!!!!

NZ is clearly returning to the worst of the 1970s lazy welfare mentality that almost made the country broke in the mid 1980s.

These dumb groups have to realise that despite all the foreign media hype about the SLG, the world doesn’t know NZ exists. Yet NZ needs to trade to sustain our standard of living.

With fewer than 1 million people in productive work that has the potential to earn foreign exchange dollars, the government runs the risk of killing the “goose” that lays the “golden eggs” to sustain the welfare system for the feckless.

It is time the Poverty groups are told the larder is bare and it is time for them to get a job rather than holding their hands out for more welfare!
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December 31, 2018 9:14am
- tf78
  
  I thought WFF was a ‘tax credit’.
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:25am
  - KevOB
    
    This is independent of WFF which is based on dependency. I have a single bloke client who qualified for a years credits as he was self employed all year and his income was in the required range.
    
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    December 31, 2018 1:02pm
- VicParking
  
  If you feed the animals they forget how to feed themselves
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:30am
- KevOB
  
  The purpose of the tax credit was to distinguish those working from those on welfare and to provide a phaseout over an income range. Reasonable in its context.
  
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  December 31, 2018 12:59pm
Lee C

The Herald got pinged for publishing a one-sided bias diatribe without balancing the article with any suggestion of opposing views, or verification of details presented.

And I can’t for the life of me understand why this is considered news.
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December 31, 2018 9:22am
- Blackbob
  
  Because in this instance it qualifies as “virtue signalling”, the truly amazing thing is the original article got published in the first place!
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:28am
infused

A happy new years eve to you all. I hope next years good to you
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December 31, 2018 9:24am
- waikatogirl
  
  Anyone have a 2019 New Year resolution?
  
  Mine is not allowing ar**holes in my life… ? ?
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:41am
  - nasska
    
    I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions because doing so would imply imperfection. 🙂
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:45am
  - realityczech
    
    “Mine is not allowing ar**holes in my life…”
    
    Like that is gonna work on KB 🙂
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:56am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Yes, but I choose to come to KB and can close it down anytime I’ve had enough. It’s those who crash into your life with their expectations and expect you to comply!!! ?
      I include the COL in my list of ar**holes!
      In the words of Lady McBeth: “Out, damn’d spot! out, I say!”
      
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      December 31, 2018 10:25am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Mine is similar; I am not prepared to let the aholes continue without being aware that their behavior is ahloeish (imo), pretty much like 2018, 2017, 2016 . . .
    
    I am an obstinate bastard and not going to change in the near future.
    
    Children have Granny and Grampy, I am known as Grumpy, and it fits!
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:57am
  - skyblue
    
    How shit?
    
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    December 31, 2018 10:04am
  - mandk
    
    I’ll be 65 this year, so I’m going to fulfill my resolution to be a curmudgeon.
    
    Now, bugger off, the lot of you.
    
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    December 31, 2018 10:17am
  - tf78
    
    Yep – Ban the Bans!
    
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    December 31, 2018 12:02pm
Manolo

Will our own stephieboy call her a “honeypot”?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6539807/Thylane-Blondeau-17-lands-title-beautiful-girl-world-second-time.html
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December 31, 2018 9:25am
- VicParking
  
  Stephies no 3 goat is called honeypot, وعاء العسل Or wiea’ aleasl. Translated its either a place to keep honey or a FGM’d vagina.
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:36am
- realityczech
  
  10 years past her prime in stupidboys view.
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:40am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Plus: how dare she show her hair – hussy!
    
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    December 31, 2018 10:08am
kiwitoffee

I fear this sort of thing will become more common, if the numbers of Muslims increases (which appears likely) and in the absence of a more public and generalised response of the sort sensibly made by your aunt.

I suggest your aunt would be wasting her time if she were to call the Police regarding this incident – they are away on a course called ‘reaching out to the Muslim community.’
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December 31, 2018 9:44am
- kowtow
  
  If aunty went to Plod and related that assault , they’d ignore aunty’s complaint but give her a warning for “hate crime” . See she offended the minority .
  
  Or had the Muz been charged to court the judge would dismiss on cultural grounds.
  
  In our upside down world both those scenarios are plausible . The judge one has already happened with sex assauts .
  
  ‘A Middle Eastern refugee who grabbed, groped and licked female joggers on a popular running route in Christchurch has today avoided jail and been granted permanent name suppression.’
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11186746
  
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  December 31, 2018 10:02am
  - Longknives
    
    But us privileged Westerners don’t understand ‘Sexual Emergencies’ Kowtow!
    Take heart that his family have a ‘plan’ in place to stop his offending!
    Jesus wept….
    
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    December 31, 2018 10:49am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Longknives, that makes me think about the Labour Youth Camp sexual predator. You may have a point that it could be possible.
      
      However, there some differences. One is that it is alleged that the Youth Camp Offender put his hand down the victims pants.
      
      If found guilty and the facts are correct I cannot see him avoiding jail. It would be too political.
      
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      December 31, 2018 11:48am
      - realityczech
        
        There was more than one victim. Also little boys, as well as wee girls, were attacked.
        
        The scant details released indicate a premeditated and carefully planned assault on the kiddies. They were first intoxicated before the party officials gave the nod for the pedophiles to move in.
        
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        December 31, 2018 11:59am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Ha, ha, ha The judge put a restriction on naming his religion. I somehow do not think he is a Mormon. Does the stupid judge thing the public is stupid?
    
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    December 31, 2018 11:34am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Yep, no one has the understanding of a judge, ask anyone of them!
      
      Misleading Cases – one of the best TV shows ever imo
      
      https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061279/
      
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      December 31, 2018 1:27pm
    - Tall Man
      
      ardern the liar is a mormon…or was it moron..I know, it’s both.
      
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      December 31, 2018 3:11pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  I can’t agree. The Police and SC’s Aunt’s local MP and Taxinda and Bridges need to be informed. There is no way an islamist assault should go unreported. It’s no waste of time, even if the Police don’t ‘do’ anything.
  
  True though that the Leftards would love to bring in idiotic hate speech laws against any criticism of religion. They don’t understand the difference between physical assault or threats vs. debate.
  
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  December 31, 2018 10:17am
secondcumming

Does anyone know if Briscoes have a sale on this week?
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December 31, 2018 9:46am
- skyblue
  
  Can anyone tell me if bears shit in the woods and is a ducks arse watertight?
  
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  December 31, 2018 10:03am
  - Tall Man
    
    I think we know that the “duck’s” arse isn’t watertight considering the amount of shit he pours out in parliament.
    
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    December 31, 2018 3:00pm
- DigNap15
  
  I think it may be from 30 to 70% off everything
  
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  December 31, 2018 10:05am
- DigNap15
  
  Does anyone buy anything at full price from Briscoes?
  
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  December 31, 2018 10:05am
- Jules99
  
  I was there yesterday and no sale. They’ve cut back the number of sales they use to have. Still sell junk though – mind you, doesn’t every NZ retailer these days.
  
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  December 31, 2018 12:17pm
  - DigNap15
    
    I think that Briscoes probably sells the best quality junk in NZ. Other than maybe Farmers
    Would you prefer K-Mart or the Warehouse?
    Or high priced Payless Plastics or Freedom or Bed Bath & Beyond.
    
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    December 31, 2018 2:48pm
    - Tall Man
      
      I now get all my casual clothing from K Mart both here and in Oz. They’ve up marketed themselves a bit.
      
      Or I’ve down marketed myself a bit 🙂
      
      Rivers in Oz is good for jeans and shoes 🙂
      
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      December 31, 2018 3:08pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Amazon for my casual clothing is proving excellent value. Great selection and even better pricing.
        
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        December 31, 2018 7:46pm
      - GoVege
        
        There were hundreds of people queuing to buy stuff at the usual price at K Mart on boxing day.
        I asked a staff member why there were no % off signs.
        “We don’t really have sales”.
        Fair enough….but how come the queues of eager customers?
        
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        December 31, 2018 9:32pm
Morrissey

Encounter with Nun

This old bloke is driving along in Mt Albert one Saturday evening when, all of a sudden, he sees this young nun walking on the road up ahead. Dude stops his car and says, “Sister, can I help you?”

She says, “Why yes, my son, bless you,” and with that she hops into the old bloke’s car. After a while the nun notices that the old fellow seems nervous, jumpy, unsettled. She asks him what the trouble is.

Old dude replies, “Well, Sister, I, I… no, I can’t tell you!”

The nun says, “Son, you must. You can not hold secrets inside, it will destroy your soul.”

So the old guy begins, “I’m sorry, Sister, but ever since I was a youth, I’ve always had this fantasy about fu— … well, about … making love with a nun.”

Nun says, “Tell me about that fantasy, my son.”

Old dude continues, “Well, I’m alone with this nun in the front seat of my car and she leans down and, and…”

“Yes, my son?”

“And she… she… well, she, she… she…”

“She … ‘blows your mind’, so to speak?”

“I’m sorry, Sister.”

The nun gasps, “Good Lord! My son, you must not go through life harbouring such sinful thoughts. You might as well get it over with and then go to confession. Let’s see, pull off the road up ahead, by that mosque.”

Old dude stops his car, pronto.

The nun says, “I just have two requirements, my son. One, that you be single. Two, that you be Catholic. And three, that you tell me your name.”

Old dude is suddenly panting like a bloodhound, coming on like an utter galoot: “Yes, yes, Sister. I’m single, I’m Catholic, and my name is, errrrrr…. David Garrett.”

The nun nods her head, “All right then, David.” She reaches over and unzips him and, unbelievably, proceeds to “blow his mind.”
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Afterwards the old man says, “Sister, I’m so ashamed. I have a confession to make. One, I’m not single, I’m married! Two, I’m not Catholic, I’m a lapsed Presbyterian. And three, my name is not David Garrett, it’s KEITH, and I post on Kiwiblog as ‘Captain Mainwaring’.”

And the nun says, “That’s okay — I’m not really a Nun… I’m on my way to a fancy dress party. And by the way, my name is Stephieboy.”
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December 31, 2018 9:51am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Yeah, nah.
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:59am
  - pentwig
    
    you just don’t have it morris
    take lessons from holysheet
    
    as an aside, cindy is a joke, so maybe a subject change
    
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    December 31, 2018 10:29am
    - Morrissey
      
      you just don’t have it morris
      take lessons from holysheet
      
      Thanks for the thoughtful critique, newtpig.
      
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      December 31, 2018 1:52pm
- waikatogirl
  
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  December 31, 2018 10:30am
  - Morrissey
    
    waikatogirl, RE that emoji of yours:
    
    It looks like you’re “gagging for it.”
    
    Is that a reasonably accurate reading there?
    
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    December 31, 2018 1:54pm
Morrissey

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Three downticks. Okay, so Cap’n Mainwaring and Garrett and Stephieboy have voted. I expect nothing other than upticks from the rest of the Kiwiblog fraternity/sorority.
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December 31, 2018 9:59am
- JibberJabber
  
  It`s the way that you tell `em…
  
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  December 31, 2018 10:17am
  - sooty
    
    Because it’s you aswell.
    
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    December 31, 2018 10:23am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Yay, I’m famous.
  I’m a character in Morris Moron’s joke.
  
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  December 31, 2018 10:32am
  - Morrissey
    
    The Cap’n actually imagines THIS as the final paragraph….
    
    And the nun says, “That’s okay — I’m not really a Nun… I’m on my way to a fancy dress party. And by the way, my name is Jacinda.”
    
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    December 31, 2018 1:49pm
DigNap15

I’m so glad I hardly ever watch mainstream tv.

The other day I started ti watch a movie.
Then they wasted 30 minutes of my life pumping in ads every 5 minutes at the end.
F You Tv1 and TV3
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December 31, 2018 10:07am
- VicParking
  
  They are making up for Xmas day when they could only show promo’s
  
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  December 31, 2018 11:13am
- Albert_Ross
  
  You’d rather pay for TV through taxation?
  
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  December 31, 2018 11:45am
  - Tall Man
    
    I’d rather they stopped paying their “stars” stupid money. Any fool can read a teleprompter and if maori want a channel they should pay for it. They certainly have enough money after the taxpayer has funded their settlements.
    
    There is no way being a newsreader/commenter should get celebrity status.
    
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    December 31, 2018 3:04pm
DigNap15

Then I watched home selling / renno program about Vancouver houses.
It was on Duke or Bravo.
And there were ads every 5 minutes from start to end.
Made it totally unwatchable
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December 31, 2018 10:08am
- sooty
  
  But you just had to sit there, so you could do a review and save us all, with your thoughts.
  We all thank you, kind sir! You should be knighted for you public service!
  
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  December 31, 2018 10:21am
- dime
  
  Standard TV is brutal eh!
  
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  December 31, 2018 10:48am
  - JibberJabber
    
    Nutflux rools…
    
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    December 31, 2018 10:58am
secondcumming

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION…..

Is *Bruce Russell* now the only one worth listening to on 1Zb?
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December 31, 2018 10:22am
- Inandout
  
  When does Leighton start his podcasts?
  
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  December 31, 2018 11:10am
- Morrissey
  
  Bruce Russell is a fool. A typical NewzzzztalkZzzzB host, in other words….
  
  https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/and-why-hell-are-police-showing-bloody.html
  
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  December 31, 2018 11:21am
  - secondcumming
    
    You a married man Morrissey?
    
    Asking for a friend up here at Tindalls….
    
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    December 31, 2018 12:15pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Married to my job, Mr. cumming.
      
      But tell your friend to drop round to Chez Breen some time and we can discuss the matter further.
      
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      December 31, 2018 1:51pm
    - softail 1450
      
      S C,How could morronissey be married he’s banned
      from the blind institute ,his only possible chance of finding a date …..
      
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      December 31, 2018 3:10pm
JibberJabber

Fuckin` idiot gets a headline for New Year,
how the fuck did we get to this situation where people are proud of their sheer fucking stupidity and the media thinks it`s newsworthy?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12183871
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December 31, 2018 10:56am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Leaving keys in the car at a gas station (especially in Northland) should qualify for a darwin award.
  You only have to look at the guy’s name to work out how stupid he is.
  
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  December 31, 2018 11:07am
  - Inandout
    
    Don’t jump to conclusions on that incident Captain. He is a builder and probably worked hard to get where he is. There is one problem for him though regarding insurance; they will ask ‘did you take reasonable precautions to prevent this happening?’
    
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    December 31, 2018 11:19am
    - secondcumming
      
      When my mother-in-law just read this, she said, “Fucking lucky he hadn’t left his missus and two snotty nosed kids in the old heap of shit”
      
      BoL!!
      
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      December 31, 2018 12:22pm
  - softail 1450
    
    C M , My neighbour left his keys in his brand new Aston Martin Vanquish about 4 years ago and some lout pinched it ,he’s never recovered from the shit he got thrown at him by every man and his cat .
    luckily it was recovered less than a km down the road but it made nationwide news at the time to his never ending embarrassment…..
    He went from being a successful business man to “that fucking fool that lost his Aston”
    
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    December 31, 2018 3:18pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  A symbol of an immoral society in which people do things to others that they know that they shouldn’t do and which they wouldn’t want done to them.
  
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  December 31, 2018 11:24am
- realityczech
  
  Gibbering Loon, thinks leaving the keys in the car was the crime, not the theft.
  
  His fellow crims seemed to agree.
  
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  December 31, 2018 11:47am
  - JibberJabber
    
    Fantasyczech thinks no one is responsible for their own stupidity whilst travelling in Feralistan and nanny state should hold everyones hand and pick up the tab.
    
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    December 31, 2018 12:22pm
    - realityczech
      
      No, I just think you people should not steal cars.
      
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      December 31, 2018 12:24pm
      - JibberJabber
        
        Hmm, ur mate Jacinduh wants us all to ride Unicorns and fart rainbows.
        Meanwhile, in the real world most of us take steps to ensure reality doesn`t bite us in the arse.
        
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        December 31, 2018 12:28pm
      - realityczech
        
        Can’t stand her and if I had it my way we could carry guns to defend ourselves and our property.
        
        I would cut assaults and robberies by 90% within weeks.
        
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        December 31, 2018 12:32pm
MH

happy new year to all in Swanndri.

Is it still made in NZ ? Like Norsewear made in China from NZ wool, TUI ANYONE?
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December 31, 2018 11:29am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The Company is still owned in NZ (by Longbeach Holdings), but the big woollen swannis have been manufactured in China for yonks.
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10459774
  
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  December 31, 2018 11:43am
- Inandout
  
  Even Swazi import material from China.
  
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  December 31, 2018 1:13pm
- DigNap15
  
  Because Kiwis wont or can’t pay the high prices that making them in NZ would need to be.
  Our wages are too high, and our costs are too high, and our market is too small.
  
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  December 31, 2018 2:44pm
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dp, sorry
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December 31, 2018 11:46am
realityczech

Christians Are ‘Blood Sucking Vampires’ Who Should Be Expelled From Israel

Benzi Gopstein, head of Lehava, calls to ban Christmas in the Holy Land: ‘Let us remove the vampires before they once again drink our blood.’

Gopstein wrote in the article that he is disturbed by “the fall of the line of defense of the Jewish people against our deadly enemy for hundreds of years – the Christian Church.”

…Gopstein said that the “fear that every Jew felt, the disgust that we described above at Christianity – disgust that was the only thing that saved us from the dark days in Europe – has disappeared with the ‘good life’ of the democratic ageand the missionary is on the prowl for prey.”

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-jewish-extremist-group-wants-to-ban-christmas-in-israel-1.5380284

[The article gives more details of the treachery and trickery of the Christian]
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December 31, 2018 12:30pm
- realityczech
  
  Gosh a lot of anti Semitic Jew hating Nazi out today, impotently down ticking the facts 🙂
  
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  December 31, 2018 1:40pm
- Cobolt24
  
  MK Danny Danon asked Australian MP Michael Danby on Wednesday to propose, in parliament in Canberra, sending African migrants from Israel to Australia.
  
  https://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Danny-Danon-Send-African-migrants-to-Australia
  
  QUOTE: ““The arrival of thousands of Muslim infiltrators to Israeli territory is a clear threat to the state’s Jewish identity,” Danon told The Jerusalem Post.”
  
  But not to the the Australian identity?
  
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  December 31, 2018 1:42pm
  - Morrissey
    
    These Israeli and Australian racists sound just like the American, British and Australian racists of eighty years ago when they were targeting Jewish refugees.
    
    “In Canberra last week I met some Australian members of parliament. It gave me hope, because until I heard them speak I had always thought that Israel’s right wing politicians were the worst. —-(LAUGHTER)— I’ve never heard any Israeli politician speak about the Palestinian people the way that those Australian politicians did. But they are Australia’s problem, not mine. (LAUGHTER) I spoke with the Australian foreign minister; she talked and she was very nice but we could not agree on anything. (LAUGHTER)”
    
    —Gideon Levy, speaking in Auckland, Dec. 3, 2017
    https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-16-12-2017/#comment-1426789
    
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    December 31, 2018 2:46pm
    - realityczech
      
      “These Israeli and Australian racists sound just like the American, British and Australian racists of eighty years ago when they were targeting Jewish refugees.”
      
      Yes Mozzie, they use the same arguments that were used by the Nazi’s and those who refused Jewish refugees from Europe, just a few decades ago.
      
      These vile hate filled filth have now changed targets and now use defense of Jews to cloak their racist hatred of everyone else. But they are exactly the same type of people who have persecuted the Jews.
      
      Jews like Benzi Gopstein and not fooled. They know they will be back for them.
      
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      December 31, 2018 3:05pm
  - realityczech
    
    “But not to the the Australian identity?”
    
    Of course not !
    
    JEWISH MORALITY – NON-JEWS DON’T HAVE SOULS
    
    “What you do to the goyim is not the same as what you do to Jews,” said Samuel Heilman
    
    The whole understanding of that was that you need to keep a distance from them, that they are a different level of human being,” Heilman told Haaretz.
    
    According to Samuel Katz, who was brought up as a Satmar but later became secular, boys in the community are taught that non-Jews aren’t quite human.
    
    There are Jews and then there are non-Jews, who don’t have souls.”
    
    When the messiah comes, “every boy is taught that the bad goyim will be killed and the good gentiles will have the privilege of serving us, of being our slaves,” he told Haaretz.
    
    https://cintayati.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/jewish-morality-non-jews-dont-have-souls/
    
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    December 31, 2018 3:36pm
- mandk
  
  My goodness, there are a few hate-filled nutters everywhere.
  
  We even have one or two of them on KB, don’t we, Kea?
  
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  December 31, 2018 2:25pm
  - realityczech
    
    Yes mandk, 9 and counting. They clearly are Nazi who deny the right of Israel to exist.
    
    Why else would they down tick that post sharing the view of a massively popular Israeli with a huge following in Israel?
    
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    December 31, 2018 2:52pm
    - mandk
      
      You have created a problem for yourself, Kea.
      
      You might occasionally have a valid point, but people tend to downtick you automatically because of your vile anti-Jewish utterances.
      
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      December 31, 2018 5:12pm
      - realityczech
        
        Can you show one vile utterance? Or do you mean I tell the truth?
        
        I am delighted not to have the approval of bigoted scum btw. I have no problem with it.
        
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        December 31, 2018 5:30pm
      - mandk
        
        Do you really want me to parade some of your vile utterances, Kea?
        
        Remind me, how many strikes have you had (counting both of your personas)?
        
        15 last time I looked
        
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        December 31, 2018 7:24pm
      - realityczech
        
        Yes well those who base their beliefs on lies don’t respond well to the truth.
        
        Try and be a better person in the new year. Do something right for the first time in your miserable bigoted life.
        
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        December 31, 2018 9:45pm
Cobolt24

UN IPCC Official (Ottmar Edenhofer) Admits ‘We Redistribute World’s Wealth By Climate Policy’

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/noel-sheppard/2010/11/18/un-ipcc-official-admits-we-redistribute-worlds-wealth-climate

https://web.archive.org/web/20101201123618/http://thegwpf.org/ipcc-news/1877-ipcc-official-climate-policy-is-redistributing-the-worlds-wealth.html

Translated from this article: https://www.nzz.ch/klimapolitik_verteilt_das_weltvermoegen_neu-1.8373227
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December 31, 2018 1:36pm
- wiseowl
  
  Quite frankly the whole IPCC, all members should face court over this rort.
  There is $100 billion being stolen from western countries every year to ‘redistribute’ to so called poor countries.
  That means we as tax payers are paying unnecessarily to this bogus scheme while they at the UN watch as we pull ourselves apart.
  Charge the bastards now.
  
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  December 31, 2018 2:58pm
Morrissey

GROPERS
No. 64: The “Port Hills Groper”

A Middle Eastern refugee who grabbed, groped and licked female joggers on a popular running route in Christchurch has today avoided jail and been granted permanent name suppression. The man, dubbed the ‘Port Hills Groper’, pleaded guilty last November to eight charges of indecent assault.

He approached the women on the running and biking trails and touched seven on the breasts and one on the buttocks. The youngest was aged just 16.

When the 64-year-old appeared before Christchurch District Court for sentencing today one of his targets read out her victim impact statement. She said she was “frightened, humiliated and eventually angry” after the assault. The man walked up to her smiled, touched, her breast and walked away.

“I was so shocked he did that. I felt quite frightened for a long time afterwards.”

She still walks in the area six times a week because she wouldn’t let him “spoil” her outings. “I have a right to do that without someone putting their hands on me.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11186746

……
The first offence was in September 2010, when he spoke to a woman, tweaked her nipple, and then “burst into fits of laughter” before walking away, talking to himself. He commented to the woman: “Lovely titties.” The second happened in August 2012, when he grabbed the breast of another woman, and the third was last November, when he grabbed the buttocks of a woman who slowed as she passed him while running on the Rapaki Track.

Last December, he stopped, hugged, kissed and licked the faces of a mother and daughter who were walking with a dog. He intentionally made contact with both their breasts. He said “Nice boobies” as he walked away. On December 29, he squeezed the breast of a 16-year-old girl who was running on the Rapaki Track.

There were two incidents on December 31. In the first, he tried to kiss a woman on the Rapaki Track and squeezed her breast, before saying, “Aah, beautiful; happy New Year”. He squeezed a second woman’s breast a few minutes later. …
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/hills-and-harbour/9363286/Port-Hills-groper-admits-eight-indecencies

https://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/port-hills-groper-gets-community-work-2014011516

“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; 58 Craig Graham Wright; 59 Jeffrey Epstein; 60 Gary Glitter; 61 Michael Harris; 62 His Dishonor Clarence Thomas; 63 Santa Claus
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December 31, 2018 2:08pm
- Inandout
  
  Just like in Bagdad, but then we expect this sort of behaviour from creepy ME types. We don’t expect it from the majority of Hollywood directors, and many many actors.
  
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  December 31, 2018 3:01pm
Morrissey

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
It beggars belief, I know, but one supporter of this sort of thing has immediately downticked this notice.

Piss off, pervert. (Was it you, Cap’n?)
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December 31, 2018 2:12pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It was me Morrissey.
  Why the dickens do you persist in posting screes of stuff that can be viewed on the link?
  Why do you persist in posting name after name?
  Some of us view KB on little screens. Why persist in pissing people off?
  
  What is the point of calling me, an old married house-wife, a pervert?
  
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  December 31, 2018 2:22pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Sorry, Maggy.
    
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    December 31, 2018 2:41pm
- realityczech
  
  Mozzie, Yes you are triggering a lot of sex offenders here on KB. They are shit scared they might be named next, at least the ones not already on your list.
  
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  December 31, 2018 2:54pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  You really are obsessed with me aren’t you Morris Moron.
  Thanks Maggy for taking one for the team.
  
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  December 31, 2018 3:20pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Morning-after pill in hot demand at Rhythm and Vines
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2018/12/morning-after-pill-in-hot-demand-at-rhythm-and-vines.html

Don’t chaps carry packs of condoms any longer?

Don’t these guys know that Gizzy has NZ’s highest rate of STDs?
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December 31, 2018 2:25pm
- Tall Man
  
  They might shortly 😉
  
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  December 31, 2018 2:45pm
  - Morrissey
    
    That’s an uptick for you, Ballman, you rascal.
    
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    December 31, 2018 2:49pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Sorry Tallman, fat fingers
    
    To make up I downticked Morrissey for no other reason than I could
    
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    December 31, 2018 4:55pm
- softail 1450
  
  M W,Most kiwi men would tell you the morning after pill and condoms have two totally different uses Maggy…….
  One could save you from death,the other a fate worse than death LOL.
  
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  December 31, 2018 2:54pm
- realityczech
  
  Apparently they wear raincoats in the shower up Gisborne way.
  
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  December 31, 2018 2:58pm
wiseowl

Cobolt
Quite frankly the whole IPCC, all members should face court over this rort.
There is $100 billion being stolen from western countries every year to ‘redistribute’ to so called poor countries.
That means we as tax payers are paying unnecessarily to this bogus scheme while they at the UN watch as we pull ourselves apart.
Charge the bastards now.
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December 31, 2018 2:59pm
Komata

Concerning the UN ‘distribution of Western wealth’ to poorer countries, I would suggest that the only individuals in the latter to actually ‘see’ said wealth would be the leaders and the Managers of the local state bank and their counterpart in Zurich or the Cayman islands.

Very elusive stuff this redistributed wealth, it seems to disappear when it crosses borders although the rulers of said poor states are always appreciative of the UN / ‘West’ largese and quite happy to spin any number of tales to acquire more ‘donations’.

That other ‘locals’ might not actually benefit is, of course a minor detail and one which the UN, its ‘distribution’ done, is quite happy to ‘leave to the local administration’ as it is now a ‘national’ matter to be handled by the country concerned.

Noticeably, the UN is very, very careful to not ask for accountability….

All very strange really…

Perhaps we should ask aunty Helen (who has a lot to say about many things) how she managed in such situations…
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December 31, 2018 3:18pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It’s all a big talk fest..
  
  The aim of the GCF was to have $100bn by 2020 for projects to satisfy the Paris agreement.
  But to date, only about $10bn has been pledged.
  There are 72 projects in the pipeline…
  but nothing has been actioned as far as I can make-out.
  https://www.devex.com/news/q-a-behind-the-breakdown-at-un-s-green-climate-fund-93250
  Something I read stated the $10bn was required for admin start-up.
  As at 17 May 2017, a total of US$10.3 billion has been pledged, which is mostly meant to cover start-up costs
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Climate_Fund
  
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  December 31, 2018 3:45pm
  - Tall Man
    
    A nice bid trough…..
    
    Nothing more, nothing less.
    
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    December 31, 2018 4:16pm
starboard

Dickhead boy racers run rings around the NZ Police Service. NZ Police are fools. Just read the blurb from shiny arse Lane Todd below.

“Boy racers were out for another night on Sunday, despite threats of arrest after weekend chaos.
Todd said on Monday it was “unfortunate that mentality is still there”.

“We will still be actively trying to communicate with the organisers but we’ve got a fairly clear message to them – the behaviour over the weekend will definitely not be tolerated and we will be taking strong enforcement action.”

“We will be gathering as much evidence as possible and, if there’s sufficient evidence, we certainly will be charging people,” Todd said.

Sergeant Mike Jackson said 67 complaints about boy racing and 120 general traffic complaints were made to police in Christchurch between 6pm on Friday and 6am on Monday.
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December 31, 2018 3:49pm
Monique Watson

Aotearoa New Zealand. Re National identity.

I sell it as the youngest nation in the World and unique in that the colonists and the brown folks settled their differences with a whole lot of mutual shit kicking. Right. Sure there’s problems, primarily in that the Prime Minister is a communist (it makes me long for the simple days under Socialist Helen) and the PC victim championing brigade has taken over. But in the whole, Aotearoa New Zealand ?? is the shiz.
Just had my fill alongside other families at Pinky’s Pizza, Petaluma. Kids are playing pinball inside. Sitting outside enjoying a Marlborough Red. It’s a free country after all. NZ should aspire to that regardless.
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December 31, 2018 3:56pm
- Tall Man
  
  And defeat the communist liar asap.
  
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  December 31, 2018 4:12pm
- Monique Watson
  
  Marlboro Red I mean. Now listening to some Roy Rogers. Seven years today since we emigrated from New Zealand to California with five kids aged seven and under. Left on New Year’s Eve and landed in SFO on NYE.
  How many years is that in Goat ? years, Stephieboy?
  
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  December 31, 2018 6:20pm
  - realityczech
    
    How much for a packet of ciggies? Apparently a 25 pack will be $40.00 here tomorrow.
    
    All because National sold us out to a evil hateful racist, who spread nothing but misery to maori and non maori alike.
    
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    December 31, 2018 6:33pm
    - Manolo
      
      That is Notional for you. A lighter hue of red than the despised Labour Party.
      
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      December 31, 2018 7:09pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Monique.
    Been to your part of California, have a cousin who still lives there with his American wife.
    Amazing part of the world.
    Will never forget the giant crabs we bought from a cookpot on the side of the road near Bodega Bay and had them for lunch in Jenner, a town which had reticulated water through hollowed out logs.
    
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    December 31, 2018 7:38pm
waikatogirl

Happy New Year Monique. I hope you and everyone on KB have a great NY! May 2019 bring you all that you wish for. ?

Everyone in NZ, strap yourself in, it could be a bumpy ride.
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December 31, 2018 6:41pm
waitakereman

Happy new year from West Auckland!
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December 31, 2018 7:11pm
nasska

Little known fact:

In a few hours we will be living in 2019 AD whereas the current Islamic year is 1440 AH.

Sounds about right.
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December 31, 2018 7:36pm
secondcumming

All the very best to our great *Host*…. and everyone else here on KB for a Prosperous & Safe 2019!

We’re about to head out to a few different venues so may not be back till next year……
will leave you with this tweet just thru from my 14yo niece 😎

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DupaZ5GW0AApZ4o.jpg
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December 31, 2018 7:54pm
- DigNap15
  
  You may not be back till next year! ?
  Its only one day!
  Actually its only a few hours till you may be back!
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:27pm
DigNap15

This will be one of the last such crimes of the year.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12184238

The police are looking into it.
Most of us can probably guess what happened, and why and by whom.
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December 31, 2018 8:25pm
- waikatogirl
  
  3 1/2 weeks old. What chance will this baby have of a decent life?? Nil, I’m guessing. Why do they allow such abuse to continue…………..????????????????????????????????????????????? ? ? ?
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:42pm
  - GoVege
    
    Now, now…. “every child is a gift from God”….”13 to 17 year old girls having babies =our fertility”….”there is no such thing as an unwanted child”….Etc Etc..
    
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    December 31, 2018 9:38pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Because Ardern loves Babies and getting such peoples votes.
    
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    December 31, 2018 11:25pm
Don the Kiwi

Happy New Year, and all the blessings of the new year to all on KB.
2019 for me, should be much better than 2017/18. Had my last (of four) operation on my face for skin cancer which invaded much of the tissue on my left cheek, on right lower eyelid, and the nerve on the left of my nose and top lip had to go. After a full facial rotation on the left of my face, and a cheek rotation on my right side, I am almost back to normal – not quite as handsome as before 😉 ‘cos now I have to shave beside my left eye – because that skin was previously down by my jawbone. 🙂
But its all good. Come on in, 2019.
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December 31, 2018 8:27pm
- secondcumming
  
  All the best Don!
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:56pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yeeeks,
  that sounds painful.
  Have a great recovery.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:57pm
- Manolo
  
  Best wishes and a speedy recovery, dear Don.
  
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  December 31, 2018 8:58pm
- alloytoo
  
  @Don
  
  Recently completed my own adventures with Auckland Oncology. Surgery followed by Chemo.
  
  All good now.
  
  Glad you’ve come out OK.
  
  Roll on 2019 – Happy New Year to everyone.
  
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  December 31, 2018 9:28pm
  - Jack5
    
    Best wishes to Don and Alloytoo.
    
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    December 31, 2018 10:03pm
stoptheboats

Resident doctors 2 day strike announced, that union boss -witch Powell lady out of control and drunk with power
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December 31, 2018 9:05pm
Shaun the Sheep

With about five minutes to go until next year, it is a very muggy 23deg here in the Bay.
Fiesta of Lights done and dusted with great fireworks display, and very tired grand kids tucked up in their beds. So it’s good night from me.
Thank you to KBers for your wisdom and entertainment during 2018.
To those who suffered loss or poor health this year I wish you well as you keep taking one day at a time.
Here’s to 2019 and more happy mischief.
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December 31, 2018 11:54pm
Jack5

It’s 2019. Have a great year, Kiwibloggers. ?
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January 1, 2019 12:04am
skyblue

Happy NY to you all incl goat fuckers.
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