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mikenmildagain

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For those in the US, happy Human Trafficking Awareness Day.
For you eccentric Catholics, here’s to Saint Anastasius of Suppentonia, whose feast is today. An angel appeared to summon Abbot Anastasius and all of the abbot’s monks. Anastasius and all of his monks all subsequently died one after the other within the next eight days.
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January 11, 2019 8:01am
- Longknives
  
  God moves in mysterious ways Mikey!
  As you will soon discover when your post miraculously disappears….
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:18am
  - Tall Man
    
    Gone to where it belongs. Like it’s writer, irrelevant.
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:35am
- Monique Watson
  
  the Wall will go a ways to preventing human trafficking.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:33am
- MCos
  
  In 1938 Bishop Pompallier arrived at Hokianga with missionaries
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:45am
  - nasska
    
    That’s when the rot started.
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:50am
    - stigie
      
      And the Cardinals and Bishops are having a wonderful time today !~
      
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      January 11, 2019 8:54am
      - Nostradamus
        
        Can you tell us about the entertainment line-up, Stigie?
        
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        January 11, 2019 9:14am
    - Tall Man
      
      No offense but find and read Te Wiremu. Worth a read.
      
      http://www.unitybooksonline.co.nz/nz-non-fiction/maori-history/te-wiremu-henry-williams-early-years-in-the-north
      
      Well rotten society before then.
      
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      January 11, 2019 3:32pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    1838?
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:52am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Most probably ..as he died in 1871
      
      But perhaps it was one of his digits…
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=1442368
      
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      January 11, 2019 9:17am
      - Tall Man
        
        I can’t see a missionary giving the finger…
        
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        January 11, 2019 3:33pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Perhaps I was getting muddled between St Thomas’ finger and St Anthony’s tongue….
        one withered relic looks like another….
        https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/nov/18/st-peters-bones-christian-relics
        
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        January 11, 2019 4:16pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Ah, relics…
        https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Holy_Foreskin
        
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        January 11, 2019 4:31pm
  - calendar girl
    
    .
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:24am
  - Komata
    
    McCos
    
    By 1938 Bishop Pompallier was in no position to ‘arrive’ anywhere on the planet, and indeed, would possibly have found ‘movement’ of any sort somewhat ‘difficult’…
    
    (Just saying).
    
    I think you may need to correct something.
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:39am
  - Tall Man
    
    Henry Williams, also a missionary had already been there for 116 years or so…or 16 depending on your math.
    
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    January 11, 2019 3:29pm
- dime
  
  “For those in the US, happy Human Trafficking Awareness Day.”
  
  God bless Donald Trump and his fight against Human Trafficking.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:56am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Didn’t take you for the religious type. But you prayers to Saint Anastasius might be ass effective against human trafficking as anything Trump ever does.
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:29am
    - dime
      
      I thought you’d be all for a new law and millions of tax payers money going towards something.
      
      You are a “democratic socialist” after all.
      
      (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed a bill against human trafficking in the Oval Office Wednesday.
      
      The trafficking victims protection re-authorization act tightens criteria to make sure countries are working to eliminate the crime.
      
      The legislation joins three other recent bills signed by President Trump on the. It allocate millions of dollars to fight sex trafficking and resources for survivors.
      
      The president used the moment to continue to push Congress toward a border wall, which he claims will help prevent human trafficking across the southern border.
      
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      January 11, 2019 11:26am
    - softail 1450
      
      MMA ,Totally obsessed with ass…..
      
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      January 12, 2019 6:34am
  - ldypen
    
    Says it all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywGHQywPB2w
    
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    January 11, 2019 5:59pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Anastasius and all of his monks all subsequently died one after the other within the next eight days.
  
  This sort of thing isn’t uncommon milky. Likely it was the salmon mousse.
  
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  January 11, 2019 12:01pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Used tinned slamon?
    
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    January 11, 2019 1:27pm
starboard

There is something seriously wrong with this country.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/109828843/a-92yearold-widow-assaulted-during-home-invasion-in-northland.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/109802792/vandals-defecate-do-drugs-and-destroy-dead-mans-house-in-morrinsville
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January 11, 2019 8:02am
- kowtow
  
  This country or Aotearoa ?
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:11am
  - stigie
    
    Fuck that, im living in New Zealand !~
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:13am
    - Dave Mann
      
      Yes…. but I think kowtow was referring to the ethnic origin of most of our violent criminals. They live in Aotearoa, whereas we live in New Zealand.
      
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      January 11, 2019 12:36pm
      - kowtow
        
        Thank you Dave.
        
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        January 11, 2019 12:57pm
  - Harkman
    
    A Oh where?
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:03am
- oldgolfer
  
  Yes, and don’t expect an improvement any time soon.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:11am
  - MrLovebucket
    
    The Left is in charge and it’s not in their interest to make anything better.
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:22am
- brett68
  
  Nothing new, go back 20 years and you’ll find similar crimes.
  
  New Zealand has always had violent ferals.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:11am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    Every country has them, but overly generous welfare tends to increase the number.
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:03am
    - kowtow
      
      As does ethnic victim mentality , hawked by the Establishment , media , NGO’s , education , the lot .
      
      Very divisive and very violent outcomes .
      
      Most of the victims are ironically from the very same ethnic group .
      
      We see that here , in the US and now Canada with rampant out of control drug and gun violence and in the UK with drug and knife violence. Melbourne’s another enriched city as is Malmo.
      
      Embrace the vibrancy of diversity .
      
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      January 11, 2019 9:46am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        kowtow,
        Those are the factors.
        – Low average IQ
        – A culture that suppresses locus of control
        – A collective culture in which no one is responsible
        – Government departments where jobs and budgets depend on there being “problems to solve”
        – NGOs (as above)
        – Political agendas in which “oppressor-victim” perfectly fits the narrative
        The list goes on.
        
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        January 11, 2019 10:54am
  - Tall Man
    
    Labour in charge then as well 😉
    
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    January 11, 2019 3:35pm
- Longknives
  
  Read what those two mongrel bitches did to that poor old woman.
  Then consider that Labour want to close down ALL prisons…
  
  I detest this Government.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:16am
  - igm
    
    As said before, the sooner crimes of these bastards directly affect those in unwanted CoL or in positions of influence the better.
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:48am
  - hello
    
    Where did they say that they want to close all prisons?
    
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    January 11, 2019 11:22am
    - Tall Man
      
      FFS, keep up will you…..
      
      From the manifesto 2017
      
      “Labour believes that prison should be a last resort. Prisons can increase reoffending and make
      us poorer and less safe in the long-term. Too often they have become dumping grounds for
      people who need treatment more than they need punishment. ”
      
      I would see that as a first stage with an underlying goal to remove all but a few extremely unpalatable people from society.
      
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      January 11, 2019 3:36pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  What is a 92-year-old women doing living in a rural property in a feral part of the country? Where is her family?
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:18am
  - SGA
    
    Who knows what the story is Odakyu-sen. She might be fiercely independent (my elderly mum is like that), has lived there most of her life, and doesn’t want to move. Let’s not judge too quickly.
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:42am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      In Japanese culture, the elderly tend to be infantalized, so it is hard to comprehend why such an elderly woman would not be living with family (as it would be their duty to look after her).
      
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      January 11, 2019 8:45am
      - SGA
        
        Well, yes, we realise that, but this isn’t Japan.
        
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        January 11, 2019 8:50am
      - MCos
        
        This ain’t Japan.
        
        My mother lived alone until the age of 95 down in Timaru because that’s what she wanted. She was fortunate enough to be able to cope quite well on her on until one day she had a stroke and died.
        Many people don’t have that option.
        
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        January 11, 2019 8:59am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Our kids are under strict instructions to either leave us to rot or drop us off in a dark, cold wet location where we can wander off a cliff or something similar.
        
        https://allthatsinteresting.com/ubasute
        
        https://www.businessinsider.com.au/japanese-people-reviving-granny-dumping-practice-2017-1?r=US&IR=T
        
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        January 11, 2019 9:24am
      - Pascal
        
        It was interesting being in Japan over New Year. The amount of respect and attention young people show their elders over that time was really uplifting to see. Something you’d like all year around, I suspect, but just that familial connection – it was wonderful to see.
        
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        January 11, 2019 9:47am
  - starboard
    
    She should be allowed to live wherever she wants.
    The scum who robbed and assaulted her deserve to have their heads removed, slowly, with a blunt rusty knife.
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:43am
    - igm
      
      Wait till MSM get their family telling us they are lovely little girls and it is out of character.
      
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      January 11, 2019 8:50am
      - toby1845
        
        Agreed. I suspect colonisation will be involved as well.
        
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        January 11, 2019 12:44pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Or a greenstone mere. I have one
      
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      January 11, 2019 2:50pm
  - dubya
    
    Perhaps she never had children? My great aunt died a few months ago at 91, still living alone by choice. She lived in a five bedroom house on a large section until she was 87, too. My grandmother is 89 and lives independently. No one should have to feel unsafe on their own property, regardless of their family status. I’m happily single, childless, and occupy my own home. I plan to remain that way, God help anyone who tries to cross my threshold without permission!
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:45am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
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      Choosing not to have kids is parasitical – freeloading off others child rearing efforts, and boosts the slide towards idiocracy. Who’s going to provide all the goods and services you need after retirement? Do you not think our culture is worth promulgating? If you’ve got brains and a degree of conscientiousness then you should stop fucking for fun and start fucking for effect.
      
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      January 11, 2019 9:21am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Rubbish
        
        Have a check of who provides many of the volunteer services in your community.
        
        Most of my childless mates/rellies/acquaintances are definitely not parasites.
        
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        January 11, 2019 9:36am
      - Komata
        
        UC
        
        And your response to those who are unable to have children would be?
        
        Thanks.
        
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        January 11, 2019 9:45am
      - fernglas
        
        Save the money you would otherwise have squandered on school fees, orthodonture, Uni loans, holidays, food clothing etc. and then spend it buying the goods and services off the children of those who want to have more than their fair share. Simple
        
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        January 11, 2019 10:18am
      - dubya
        
        UrbanNeocolonialist, I am a gay man, and as such our ideas on fun and effectivity with regards to fucking are probably a little disparate. I also get the feeling that if I did get especially clucky and pay a lesbian to put a turkey baster in her, you might not think that is valuable to the culture you wish to promulgate.
        
        My great aunt mentioned above never married or had children, but left nearly two million dollars to various charities in her will, and a substantial amount whilst alive. I’d say she contributed just as much as anyone who ever got pregnant.
        
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        January 11, 2019 10:37am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Komata; the key is in the first word of my post ‘Choosing’. If you are educated and able and don’t suffer from any nasty heritable issues you should have kids – to better the future of the human race (Darwin and all that)
        
        fernglas: Middle class parents put in a few 10’s of thousands of hours of free labour to provide society with a taxpayer who will generally contribute more than a million bucks in tax over their life time at a typical cost to the state of $1-200k in education and health. And they have to work hard (and pay a lot of tax) to support those kids, each of which also costs middle class parents a few $100k to raise – money they can’t spend on swanning off overseas on expensive holidays or indulging in dissipative hobbies like the childless can. Good parents are in effect incredibly generous to the state.
        
        Maggy: a few might, but are they putting 30-50 hours a week on top of working like good parents do?
        
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        January 11, 2019 10:39am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        dubya, I’m a liberal. Sexual preferences are irrelevant so long as you can provide a stable loving home life to your kids, instilling positive society enhancing values and preferably with more than one parental figure. My real bugbear is that I think the west is the best, and we should not allow the pinnacle of human freedoms and happiness that we represent to be eroded and allowed to fade away through lack of procreative activity.
        
        Raising children into successful contributing adults is far more valuable to our society and the future of humanity than any non-R&D charity work.
        
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        January 11, 2019 11:50am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Un, “the key is in the first word of my post ‘Choosing’. ”
        
        How can you be sure why people haven’t got kids? They are hardly going to explain to a bunch of nosey questioners what the real reason is.
        
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        January 11, 2019 3:08pm
  - GazzaW
    
    A good question but she has the right to live where she wants (as we all do) without the risk of being assaulted by two young ferals.
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:20am
  - Tall Man
    
    Minding her own business?
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:36am
- Chuck Bird
  
  I heard on ZB an interview someone professor for U of W suggest degrees of murder and going soft on women who kill their alleged abusive partners.
  
  Dead men cannot defend themselves. Gay Oakes was also violent. It was premeditated murder.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:32am
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    That relates to the Law Commission report that I was in charge of on extended self defence where people (usually women) kill a partner when they are in fear of their life.
    Australia, the UK and many states in the US have this concept. The jury has to assess whether the accused person had a genuine fear for their life.
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:20am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      So then Wayne what do you know of Gay Oakes getting out in 8 years when sentenced to a minimum 10 years for premeditated murder?
      
      Also, what do you think of her accomplices not even being charged?
      
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      January 11, 2019 10:32am
  - peterwn
    
    If the professor is who I think she is, she has been arguing this line for years and upset Peter Zohrab and others. Peter pushed debate too far on this when she gave lectures on provocation as a partial defence for murder (when the defence existed it enabled murder to be downgraded to manslaughter historically meaning the offender did not swing on the end of a rope). She effectively ‘blackballed’ Peter’s admission to the bar and he still has not been admitted because he cannot keep his mouth shut. IMO her judgment on this was impeccable.
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:07am
  - toby1845
    
    I heard the interview as well. I must admit that the fact that she worked for Waikato’s Law School (a.k.a ‘Te Law’) rather reduced her credibility.
    
    Any lawyers on here care to comment about how Te Law graduates are perceived in the legal fraternity?
    
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    January 11, 2019 12:48pm
    - Chuck Bird
      
      I emailed her and mentioned the case where Gay Oakes murdered Doug Gardner and a number of lesbians as some woman’s refuge at the very least were accessories after the fact.
      
      Oakes could have left any time. She murdered Gardner because he was going to go back with his wife. The motive was that same as many men who kill their wives or partners.
      
      I told her I know very much about the case and offered her to take a copy of the trial transcripts which I have.
      
      She replied politely but was not interested in the transcripts.
      
      It sounds like she only believes in equality if it does not disadvantage woman.
      
      https://www.waikato.ac.nz/news-opinion/media/2019/children-who-kill-and-child-killers-is-the-current-system-fair
      
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      January 11, 2019 1:33pm
- MCos
  
  The other day on TV there was a drama about Chopper Read. I watched his 60 minute interview on YouTube and when it finished it automatically came up with an interview with some bloke on Teesside, UK, called The Taxman, and then an interview with Reggie Kray and some of his mates.
  These blokes were absolutely vicious, but they were treated are celebrities.
  They are far worse than these people in those articles, despicable that they might be.
  And here they are on TV and viewers can’t get enough of them.
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:18am
  - GazzaW
    
    The difference with Read and the Krays is that they did not directly target the average joe. Their victims were mainly criminals from rival organisations and it was rare for a member of the public be seriously hurt by London or Melbourne gang activity. Both the Krays and Read were (Read still is) very marketable items for the media.
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:31am
    - MCos
      
      Those articles above are very marketable too, as are all the ones about dairy owners getting robbed etc etc
      They’re all there so we can be outraged, and buy the sponsors products.
      Maybe the victims should demands royalties!
      
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      January 11, 2019 9:53am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        What an extraordinary concept.
        
        So you think it is the dairy owners’ fault that they get robbed?
        
        If it is legal for them to sell booze, fags and lollies and other crap products, why should they bear the cost of dealing with the dregs of our society?
        
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        January 11, 2019 10:21am
      - MCos
        
        That’s quite a jump from what I said.
        For a start dairies don’t sell alcohol anymore.
        They get robbed because they sell tobacco products that are now outrageously expensive.
        They don’t deal with scum. They sell stuff to customers like me who need a bottle of milk or a loaf of bread or crap energy drink.
        
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        January 11, 2019 11:25am
    - kowtow
      
      The drugs they push fuel the epidemic of violent crime we now see.
      
      Robberies and burglaries , especially of vulnerable folk , to fund their “addiction”.
      
      Do the media who hawk these scum for profit ever depict those victims ?
      
      Not likely , that might affect the ratings as well as help to denormalise drugs , which is another aim of the scriptwriters , producers, directors etc many of whom are drug addled c#nts themselves.
      
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      January 11, 2019 11:05am
  - SGA
    
    Gangsters (real or fictionalised – think, Tony Soprano) are more “acceptable” if most of their violence is directed toward other members of their underworld, not to beating the crap out of pensioners. Not saying that they should attract a fascinated fan base, just that it plays a big role in the distinction.
    
    GazzaW – SNAP 🙂
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:34am
    - peterwn
      
      This is an argument used by penal reform groups – if let out of jail they would only be violent to other crims, gang members etc. They presumably think the Panmure RSA crime (a serious attack against workers who were neither crims nor ferals) was a one off never to be repeated.
      
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      January 11, 2019 10:12am
    - GazzaW
      
      Back in its heyday Kings Cross was one of Sydney’s safest entertainment areas because the underworld bosses such as Lennie McPherson and George Freeman did not want petty criminals disrupting their well established networks. A tourist or serviceman on R&R assaulted or worse just led to unwanted police intervention.
      
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      January 11, 2019 12:24pm
  - Tall Man
    
    As previously mentioned, some dimwit, probably related to steffy girl, married david bain.
    
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    January 11, 2019 3:42pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Jacinda will fix it bro. Have patience – OR you could blame it on nine long years of neglect.
  
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  January 11, 2019 10:38am
G152

I see where Kapiti cheeses have named one of their cheeses after the highest point on Kapiti Island.
And would you believe it, the koha crew are onto it making demands.
How about the fact that that point was used by the locals to throw slaves and prisoners off to their deaths ?
Or is that just a titch to much history ????
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January 11, 2019 8:08am
- godruelf
  
  Interesting that the cheese has been around for 10 years. Takes a while to get offended I guess.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:17am
  - howitis
    
    Just the next $$$grievance to get to.
    There are many perceived slights.
    You just have to think them up.
    
    Good bludging takes time!
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:17am
  - septic skeptic
    
    I guess you have to wait a decent length of time for the brand to develop some value. If you claimed at launch they might just tell you to naff off and rebrand as Captain Cook.
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:19am
  - Wangas Feral
    
    Good cheese is always aged. Grievances too apparently.
    
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    January 11, 2019 12:34pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Apparently, the name of the highest point on Kapiti Island is named after one of the tribe’s chiefs. The large gentleman on the TV was horrified the chief’s name had been used on a famous, and very delicious cheese.
  Why not be pleased your tribal history is being publicised. I learnt something new. Isn’t that the point? Well no. Koha is I expect!
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:18am
  - srylands
    
    Why does this even get any air time?
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:35am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Maori snowflakes are popular with the msm.
      
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      January 11, 2019 8:56am
      - kowtow
        
        The msm popularise snowflakes.
        
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        January 11, 2019 9:00am
  - Biscuit
    
    Reverse the situation.
    
    Imagine a local Maori cheesemaker had named one of its cheeses something like ‘Henry VIII Brie’.
    
    Who would be ‘offended’ then? Would there be Englishfolk weeping on TV about the cultural insensitivity? The hurt? ‘But he was one of our famous leaders!’
    
    Get over it…
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:38am
    - kiwitoffee
      
      I’d be getting out my knotted hanky, jangly bells and thingy stick and doing a Morris Dance in protest.
      
      That would fix things.
      
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      January 11, 2019 9:13am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I will not even mention sandwich, chesterfield, hoover, bowler, diesel, nachos, eggs Benedict, Cumberland sauce, carpaccio, frangipane, lamingtons….etc, etc
      
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      January 11, 2019 9:48am
      - Biscuit
        
        Maggie, mention Eggs Benedict all you like.
        
        I have just suggested to my kind loving partner that she should, erm, move her bottom and make her (unfed as at 9.58am) partner some.
        
        I am interpreting her ‘Bite yer bum!’ as an ‘I am considering that, my sweet’.
        
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        January 11, 2019 9:58am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Biscuit
        
        Best Eggs Benedict I’ve ever had were made by men.
        
        Surprise your little woman and show her that you can make a better brekkie than she can.
        
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        January 11, 2019 10:25am
      - Biscuit
        
        We are full of ‘bright’ suggestions for each other, Maggy.
        
        But you are right.
        
        Strange, isn’t it, that loads of occupations you think of as being feminine-orientated – Cooking, Fashion, Hairdressing etc – more often than not are ruled by male operatives?
        
        Oops…
        Better use a Pennyism and qualify that:
        ‘Said in a loving way…’
        
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        January 11, 2019 10:54am
    - igm
      
      Maori would not create anything . . . it requires work. Better suck the tit of us white guys.
      
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      January 11, 2019 10:34am
  - toby1845
    
    I must say that I am highly offended that such a fine cheese would be named after such a disreputable scumbag.
    
    They should name it after someone less objectionable……like Osama Bin Laden, or someone.
    
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    January 11, 2019 12:53pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  What happens if the koha is not paid?
  (If you do pay it, there will be demands for more of it.)
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:20am
  - kevn
    
    @oda… I wonder if hallal tax has been paid as well by the Cheese maker?
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:29am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Can companies opt out of the hallal tax or is it mandated by the law?
      
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      January 11, 2019 8:46am
      - GazzaW
        
        I don’t think its mandatory but if it’s an export item then forget about marketing in the Middle East, Indonesia and Malaysia.
        
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        January 11, 2019 9:36am
      - JibberJabber
        
        I believe you apply for the certification and pay for the privilege to be told how to manufacture your product, it`s part of the reason Cadbury and Whittakers chocolate has turned to shit, interestingly the halal stamp is very minuscule so as not to scare the punters that are unaware of this development.
        
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        January 11, 2019 9:40am
  - KevOB
    
    UTU.
    
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    January 11, 2019 12:53pm
- JibberJabber
  
  https://www.tastekapiti.co.nz/
  
  Just went and ordered some said cheesy comestibles because I came over all peckish like.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPN3KTtrnZM
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:44am
  - JibberJabber
    
    I wonder if the protagonists in this outrageous colonial cultural appropriation circus understand the Streisand Effect?
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:19am
- Durden
  
  Well Resene might be in deep trouble then with their naming of paint shades.
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:29am
Humble Capitalist

Another day another young staff member calls in sick with ‘headache and diarrhoea’. Weve had a lot of these young ones calling in sick this season. A lot of them the same ones that are trying to drum up support for union membership. Wages going up but whats the great plan to increase productivity? Extra breaks, extra meal allowances and days off well help im sure!
Maybe 10 beach days a year as well on the agreement that they will be taken on fine days only so we can plan to run a business
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January 11, 2019 8:11am
- brett68
  
  Can you automate? or contract out the work?
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:15am
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    Cant automate. We do use some contracting which can be even more unreliable and frustrating with the endless training involved.
    Ive had 2 or 3 sick days in 22 years. I learned early on that I hated having to cover for my team mates when they did it so I couldnt do it to anyone else.
    Today’s sickie guy was travelling in the work vehicle with me last year when a news item with Jacinduh came on. He said shes really good aye? I said I dont like her. Awkward silence for next 5 minutes travelling back to work.
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:38am
    - toby1845
      
      You should have dropped him off and made him walk. That way he would have enjoyed the feelz about not creating unnecessary carbon.
      
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      January 11, 2019 12:56pm
- Harkman
  
  Where abouts and what work do you do?
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:05am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Doubt they have the willpower to stay off Instagram for a whole day so they may incriminate themselves.
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:07am
- ex-golfer
  
  Surprise, surprise…..its Friday.
  If it becomes a regular thing then insist on a medical certificate.
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:16am
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    Fridays and Mondays are busy days for doc certs
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:20am
    - Biscuit
      
      HC, way back in the day (early 1980s?) the office I worked in had a New Zealand netballer ‘working’ there.
      
      She won a World Championship and was a really nice lass…
      
      But she was (in)famous for her sick days.
      
      Eventually, one day, the Personnel Manager (he’d be ‘Human Resources’ now, grrr) called her into his office and showed her a calendar.
      
      One of those long things columned by Mondays, Tuesdays etc.
      
      Each of her sickies had been coloured in.
      
      Solid lines on Fridays and Mondays.
      
      She took the hint and left quietly, heh heh.
      
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      January 11, 2019 10:16am
      - Tauhei Notts
        
        I employed a girl straight of school, about 30 years ago. At the beginning of her ninth week in the job I pointed out that she had had six days off sick, and every one of them was a Friday. I told her that what she did on Thursday nights was none of my business, it was her own business and that whatever it was it was obviously bad for her health.
        She never had another sick Friday for the next three years and is still a very valued employee, with another firm, commanding an above average salary. She is also a wonderful mother and particularly fine woman.
        
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        January 11, 2019 1:19pm
- Pascal
  
  Did you see the story with McDonalds in Australia yesterday?
  
  Company was allowing it’s team members to have a drink / toilet break as required with no concerns. The employees started pushing for a 10 minute per 4 hour shift break for drink / toilet. The company pointed out that their allowance is already better than that and forcing that system will worsen their situation – are you idiots sure?
  
  Next thing the union is involved to get this evil employer to give the people their 10 minute break per 4 hours.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12188448
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:58am
- Psycho Milt
  
  Wages going up but whats the great plan to increase productivity?
  
  Wage increases haven’t kept up with productivity increases in NZ since the early ’90s, so why would your workers have any incentive to increase productivity?
  
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  January 11, 2019 10:02am
  - Tall Man
    
    Please list your source for that rubbish….
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:23am
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      The simplistic way to look at productivity is something like total output divided by total worker hours. If you replace workers with machines that number will obviously increase a lot.
      
      If you go into McDonalds now you will see fewer people on the counter and customers ordering on screens instead. That’s what Psycho Milt is calling a ‘productivity increase’. But it is not an increase in the value of the work done by the remaining workers.
      
      The people who actually build and program these automated processes tend not to be based in NZ, because other countries have more favourable tax and regulatory environments for business. That’s where the productivity gains are really happening.
      
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      January 11, 2019 10:41am
    - Psycho Milt
      
      Please list your source…
      
      The Productivity Commission. However, it’s not exactly news, people who pay attention to things other than the blatherings of fellow wingnuts are well aware of it. If you do some looking, there are many reports like this one from Acuity.
      
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      January 11, 2019 12:14pm
      - Tall Man
        
        So I guess these put your bullshit into the realm of “blathering”.
        
        “Sure, the international wellbeing statistics paint us as pretty happy as a nation. But our average incomes lag behind, a direct reflection of our poor productivity record.”
        
        “The answer, unfortunately, is not that well compared with other developed economies. Indeed, for the past 40 years New Zealand’s labour productivity has been slowly but surely falling behind other OECD economies. New Zealand’s labour productivity now ranks in the lower third of OECD countries and is similar to in Slovenia”
        
        https://www.productivity.govt.nz/blog/how-does-nz%E2%80%99s-productivity-performance-stack-up
        
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        January 11, 2019 7:49pm
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    Psycho you dont seem to understand. We are a good employer. These people hold out their hand wanting more more more and expect to do less less less.
    It doesnt add up. If Ardern and her union mates had to run my business it would be tits up within a year. In my business we dont have a cash cow called the tax payer as a revenue source. We have to sweat it out to earn revenue. Costs are high and margins are low.
    
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    January 11, 2019 11:04am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Best thing we ever did was work with a marketing co who now employ all sales staff. We concentrate on production without any employee problems. Bliss! Good luck HC.
      
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      January 11, 2019 6:27pm
- Stephen James
  
  Been there Humble Capitalist.
  I suggest you start the verbal warning process and make sure you confirm each warning in writing. It’s easy to find wrongful behaviour if you look. Maybe have a witness at meetings. Start with one staff, then move on to the next.
  They are like a cancer in your business. Get rid of them.
  
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  January 11, 2019 10:02am
  - Tall Man
    
    If you don’t have access to an HR advisor, contact an employment lawyer first..it may be the best $500 odd you ever spend.
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:25am
  - septic skeptic
    
    I concur. Once you get a “sickie” culture established in the workplace it is practically impossible to remove it. You need to root it out in the early stages when it is only one or two people. Left alone, your other staff will soon get sick of covering for sickies and will start taking them as well to even up the ledger.
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:30am
- igm
  
  The answer to this problem is employ mature people, do some snouting around to see who they are and what they are. Best try local pubs and clubs as someone always knows someone or something, even if it costs you a beer or two. Interesting to find out who has a real unionised family and known troublemakers. It pays to make the effort.
  
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  January 11, 2019 10:38am
  - mark15
    
    Whoa hoss,that’s spying.
    Well that’s what MSM would say…
    
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    January 11, 2019 12:12pm
    - igm
      
      I did it for many years, having very few confrontations, even when union membership was compulsory.
      
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      January 11, 2019 2:01pm
- Southern Raider
  
  Same problem with summer intern not arriving and having to be chased up
  
  Who is doing who a favour here
  
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  January 11, 2019 10:57am
Longknives

I see Stuff got a hammering over the past few days for their rather dubious claims that Mia and Aria are ‘Te Reo’ names….

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/109829269/nzs-most-popular-baby-names-did-you-kid-make-the-cut

“Mia and Nikau were also the most loved Māori names, both overseas and in New Zealand.”

Predictably they got thrashed in the comments for this.
They simply won’t back down either- Now writing follow up articles claiming that if Maori consider them ‘Te Reo’ then they are!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/pregnancy/expecting/109838627/mia-and-aria-are-the-most-popular-mori-baby-names-of-2018

I’m sure Mia Farrow and Mia Sara (to name just two) are greatly amused…
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January 11, 2019 8:12am
- Than
  
  So to inflate the number of “Maori” names they include names from any other culture which are just coincidentally close-ish to one in Maori. Works if you don’t care about your credibility I guess.
  
  I used to think Stuff was one of the most balanced MSM sources NZ had, but in the last couple of months they have shifted radically pro-left.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:51am
  - RiP NZ
    
    Yep
    Deleted the Stuff ap, now I have no ‘news’ apps.
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:06am
    - Dave Mann
      
      Try the MSN news app for Android. Pretty sure it’s available on that other platform too, if you’ve got one of those peculiar phones.
      
      Also, the Bing News site on the interweb thingy is really excellent and has news from all different sources:
      
      https://www.bing.com/news
      
      I gave up on Google News a long time ago. Too superficial.
      
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      January 11, 2019 9:54am
      - Pascal
        
        Yeah, I recently starting reading BBC as an alternative source as well and quite enjoy the depth of their Futures section. I may not always agree with it, but it’s normally well written and put together.
        
        They wrote about the EIU two years ago and this piece was quite in-depth:
        
        http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170330-the-uncertain-future-of-democracy
        
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        January 11, 2019 10:03am
  - howitis
    
    It’s the supernova effect.
    The big bright burn before dying.
    
    Fairfax and Nine TV have recently merged in Australia.
    They were probably trying to ditch the pesky Stuff/NZ Fairfax via a merger with the Horrid mob.
    That was rejected again 2 months ago.
    Much of the overseas stuff is from a feed and in the 21st century we can get a cleaner version closer to source.
    The local stuff is largely low res opinion’n’shit.
    Mandatory minimum 6 ‘I hate The Donald’ articles per diem.
    
    It may be Fair Fax but the wrapping should say 99.5% Fact free.
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:33am
- Jack5
  
  Maori folk should relax. It’s okay to have a name that’s not exclusive to Maori.
  
  Just as it’s okay for white New Zealanders to have Maori names, though for them this seems less popular than it was a century ago, when “Rata” and “Rewi” were quite common names from non-Maori New Zealanders.
  
  “Mia” has been used as a name in the West since Latin times.
  
  “Maori” names in the top five also included Ariana and Nina.
  
  Both Ariana and Aria come from Latin and Greek times, when they were terms for what is roughly now Persia. Ariana Grande, the American singer, is of Italian descent. “Aria” goes back to Hebrew, Persian, and ancient Teutonic origins.
  
  “Nina” goes back to Ancient Greece, but is also a native name for the Quechua people of South America, and for Indian, Spanish, Slavic, and English people – at least.
  
  I find more interesting the sensible practice of many Chinese, who both retain their Chinese name and adopt a parallel English name for use in business or at work or socially.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:58am
  - calendar girl
    
    Great information, Jack5.
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:39am
- dime
  
  yeah i saw that garbage article yesterday.
  
  with a bub on the way i wanted to see the list..
  
  Mia is a Maori name BAHAHAHA
  
  That Leb pornstar Mia Khalifas parents must love maoriodom eh!
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:03am
  - Longknives
    
    No idea whatsoever who Mia Khalifa is Dime..
    Never heard of her.
    Ever.
    *Cough..
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:08am
    - dubya
      
      Probably best not to Google her at work?
      
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      January 11, 2019 10:00am
  - Biscuit
    
    Porn, dime?
    
    What is this word ‘Porn’.
    
    Lemme go Google…
    
    ..
    
    ..
    
    ..
    
    Wow, 52735478275423773745732547767376733467 pages!
    
    I still have 52735478275423773745732547767376733465 to peruse…
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:19am
    - Tall Man
      
      Use “vicks” not “vaseline”. It’ll get your faster…much faster…..
      
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      January 11, 2019 10:22am
  - alex Masterley
    
    Dime. Thanks for the lead….
    
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    January 11, 2019 11:04am
  - KevOB
    
    Puketifinau. Maori or modified Anglo Saxon?
    
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    January 11, 2019 12:58pm
secondcumming

*…….BUT I DID NOT SHOOT THE DEPUTY*

Over at YawnNZ, one of the few commenters worth reading goes by the stage-name, ‘lurcher1498’.

Yesterday, he posts this little gem on ‘Open Forum’ –

“PG 12 posts of mine have are under moderation today, wonder if Kiwiblog have it right and you don’t allow posts and ARE the sheriff…..just pointing it out PG…..have i been banned?”

PG responds-

“No. I have been out all afternoon at the pools with the great-grandchildren and have taken some time out from policing comments. Quite a bit of the shit you write is not up to standard so will never get through. You should be aware of this”.

BOL!!

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- All_on_Red
  
  ” have taken some time out from policing comments. ”
  
  But no, I’m not the Sherriff…
  
  ” you write is not up to standard so will never get through. ”
  
  And no, I don’t engage in censorship…
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:41am
DifferentPerspective

The question of the year….

Putting Cindy’s feral assault of the Taranaki economy and the nation’s long-term energy security into context.

Green energy poverty – coming to your household in the most open and transparent way ever!
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January 11, 2019 8:21am
- Scott
  
  Yes I grew up in New Plymouth when it was a small city of 30,000. It’s now over 70,000 people. The region has been doing well with its bedrock industry of dairy farming and over the last decades energy. Unfortunately this government has declared war on oil and gas exploration so the energy sector is in turmoil. It doesn’t like dairy farming either so dairy farmers in Taranaki can expect no favours from this government.
  
  One does wonder who this government is supposed to represent? New Zealand first is supposed to be about the regions. Labour is supposed to be for the ordinary working person. The Greens are supposed to be about the environment. The fact of the matter is that labour and the Greens now represent the urban liberal who loves the countryside and loves the animals but doesn’t want to live there.
  
  There is an opportunity in the political landscape for a party or a person to represent the ordinary New Zealand worker, to encourage our manufacturing base, to encourage our energy sector and to focus on jobs and economic growth. This is what has happened in the United States and could easily happen here.
  
  The spectre of an out of touch government shafting the regions has not gone down well. We need alternative leaders that will present a new vision of prosperity for our nation and jobs for our workers.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:43am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    That party you are talking about is National.
    They just need to get their message out but the MSM won’t let them.
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:57am
    - freethinker
      
      There are ways of by passing MSM as The Don has shown and there are others.
      
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      January 11, 2019 9:24am
    - Komata
      
      Captain
      
      The problem is that ‘National’ is currently indistinguishable from the COL!
      
      Simon might be a good debater and be able to take the SLG apart with ease, but he also ‘appears’ to support most of the CoL’s ideas and has yet to show us in the provinces any reason why we should vote for him and, inter alia, his party.
      
      We would certainly like to, but the term ‘Labour Lite’ is unfortunaterly an accurate one, and always leads back to the question; ‘Exactly WHAT do the Nats stand for’?
      
      It’s difficult to know…
      
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      January 11, 2019 9:56am
      - Tall Man
        
        I hear you but please, explain the policies that he supports…
        
        I didn’t think that the 152 committees had reported back so exactly, what are the coalition’s “policies”.
        
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        January 11, 2019 10:20am
Longknives

If you are anywhere near Central Otago just be careful- There are some idiot drivers on the roads..

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12188391
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January 11, 2019 8:21am
- kevn
  
  @Lk…. One of the golden rules for ‘them’ is deny , deny, deny everything. We see that happening with O’Connor (toothless labour lapdog)
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:31am
  - Longknives
    
    Will Police treat the complaint appropriately?
    Considering he is a Labour MP who is still closely affiliated to NZPA I would have grave concerns about this matter if I were National’s Police Spokesperson…
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:42am
    - GazzaW
      
      Chris Bishop’s antennae will now be in ‘active’ mode.
      
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      January 11, 2019 9:48am
    - RF
      
      Be aware since flip flop O’Connor back tracked on support for arming the Police the plods use a picture of his face on the mess rooms dart boards.
      
      He makes a right dick of himself when speaking in the house and word from the 9th floor is that his services will not be required after 2020.
      
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      January 11, 2019 10:40am
      - Paulus
        
        Thanks to Dunne the seat will be a loss to Labour anyway at the next election – would have been earlier if Dunne had decided earlier that he was unelectable.
        
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        January 11, 2019 11:14am
- dime
  
  what a cock. instantly weaves into his “it wasnt me” bullshit that his son has autism.
  
  fuck off.
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:04am
  - JibberJabber
    
    Autistic is so last century, this millennium the prefered parental accessory du jour is a gender disoriented snowflake.
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:34am
- Tall Man
  
  My 2 questions would be, who reported him and who advised the media….
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:38am
  - dubya
    
    Labour and O’Connor appear to be on a strong defensive line on this one, without the nature of the allegations being made public yet. Haven’t they learned this just makes the public even more suspicious, after the whole Bush/Gayford farce?
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:07am
    - Tall Man
      
      You think he did a “wynston” and released the info himself?
      
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      January 11, 2019 10:18am
      - Longknives
        
        Just guessing here- But considering turncoat O’Connor stuck a knife in all his former Police colleagues when he stuck his snout in the Labour trough- There might be plenty of Cops willing to leak such information to the Media?
        
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        January 11, 2019 10:29am
    - GazzaW
      
      Are you referring to Labour youth camps dubya? They never learn. Central Otago is but a small village and true blue territory. The truth will out if it hasn’t already done so.
      
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      January 11, 2019 12:31pm
- Northland Wahine
  
  Snorts…I live in Auckland. Don’t talk to me about shit drivers.
  
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  January 11, 2019 6:09pm
holysheet

It is said that sex between two people can be a wonderful experience.
The real secret to success is…first you have to find the right two people.
And no, goats don’t count
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January 11, 2019 8:21am
- stigie
  
  Camels can be a step too far !~
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:27am
  - G152
    
    And, so I’m told, can get the hump
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:14am
    - Tall Man
      
      Only if you’re married to them…
      
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      January 11, 2019 10:17am
  - dubya
    
    A stepladder too far, you mean.
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:16am
    - Northland Wahine
      
      Crap you beat me to it!
      
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  - starboard
    
    ..way too tall, but I’m sure shariaboy would find a way to insert his noodle.
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:18am
    - Northland Wahine
      
      I like noodles. You just ruined my day
      
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      January 11, 2019 6:11pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Ahhh, 2 steps I think.
    
    steffy girl will be along soon to confirm that, that’s when she’s identifying as a boy..the rest of the time she identifies as a moron. She’s actually quite good at it as well…very convincing performance.
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:16am
  - Northland Wahine
    
    That’s coz you’d need a step ladder,
    
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    January 11, 2019 6:10pm
oldpark

Another pending disaster. The return of NZs agony aunt from her knitting group Kerry Mckay/nee Woodham, to mornings on Newstalkzb. Seems the channel owned by NZME will continue putting the boot into National at every twist and turn. Just check out their other news outlet . Australian owned NZ Herald.
What with Barely Sobers squeeze on their Wellington morning show and such a dumbo as Sobers squeeze who daily rants and raves worse than him. NZME has the country covered with their anti National Propaganda. Certainly anyone wanting a balance on talkback will get the bums rush if they make any mention about Foxy Peters or the little town twerp Ardern,or even the far left misandrist Lunatic Green Party. What a bloody disgrace.
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January 11, 2019 8:25am
- marquess
  
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  anti National Propaganda
  
  ????
  
  Just because the media stopped fawning over key doesn’t mean everything they do is anti-nat propaganda. Lol.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:36am
  - lifesgood
    
    Who rattled your cage?
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:43am
  - Tall Man
    
    2020…bye bye ardern the liar and back to your beneficiary status..remember..”bludger” not “willing supporter of a lazy dishonest leader”.
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:15am
- RF
  
  oldpark.
  
  I see the son in law broke his leg chasing an Uber in the UK so Woodham flew over to assist the family. That why she has been off the air.
  
  That’s given me an idea. Any contributions towards my first class air fare to the UK ?
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:35pm
Happychappy

Opposition MP’s have asked 40,000 written questions in 2018 with three MP’s contributing more than a quarter of the total figure and Duty Minister and Immigration Minister Iain Lee’s Galloway saying although the opposition has a important role in holding the Government to account the public would have valid concerns if public resources were being wasted on ” trival questions and fishing expeditions “. This Minister has the audacity and cheek to make comments like this when fact and lies are being hidden from the opposition in the case of the drug smuggler that he gave residency to until the opposition produce facts that it should not have happened, also they have still not come clean on what has happened or why Jacinda’s personal friends are and were involved. If any policy or case like this had the smell of corruption this is it and when a Minister like the duty Minister tries to make out it is trivial and resources were being wasted on fishing expeditions you know they are hiding even more.
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January 11, 2019 8:27am
- marquess
  
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  what has happened or why Jacinda’s personal friends are and were involved
  
  This is why we need simon in charge. Something like this would never happen under his watch, as he doesn’t have any friends. Twoticksblue.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:35am
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    That’s just not true: Bridges has many friends. And the ratio of his Chinese friends to his Indian friends is 2:1.
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:59am
    - JibberJabber
      
      Dat`s Waysist!
      
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      January 11, 2019 9:42am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        It’s not my fauilt he was taped making racist comments.
        
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        January 11, 2019 10:10am
      - JibberJabber
        
        Yeah nah, the rules state that it is impossible for Simon to make racist comments for obvious reasons.
        
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        January 11, 2019 1:10pm
- Inandout
  
  The entire ILG affair is mana from heaven to an effective Opposition. I have alluded before as to why I think they are dragging their feet on this issue, rather than tearing the CoL to pieces. White powder has a tendency to float some distance.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:42am
  - Tall Man
    
    That’s drawing a long bow.
    
    I think it is more likely that they do not want to shoot their arrows too early plus like a good wine, the longer they wait the better the effect.
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:12am
    - Inandout
      
      Tall Man, I don’t know whether you are aware of what goes on in Auckland’s well healed areas, but here is a sample:
      
      https://www.noted.co.nz/life/life-in-nz/blow-time-inside-the-cocaine-world-of-aucklands-smart-set/
      
      Long bow, or long line?
      
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      January 11, 2019 12:08pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Not intimately but that article was 5 years old and while I would accept that National does have a few loose cannons, like all groups, they aren’t as inflicted with out and out idiots as is labour.
        
        Simon Bridges is the leader and I would think the senior strategist and I very much doubt that he would buy into the “don’t push it boss because he’s been selling me shit as well” strategy.
        
        The soon to be opened Parliamentary term may prove me wrong and we don’t have long to wait.
        
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        January 11, 2019 8:02pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  The reason for so many questions is the cute answers Ministers gave in their first few months. When questioned about who they may have had meetings with or received briefings from in a particular month, the Ministers insisted that was too broad a period, and asked for more specific questions.
  
  So they got them. Some of the questions were so specific that they asked Ministers to account for each hour of any given day, at one question per hour. The Ministers got what they asked for, now they’re complaining that the process has been abused. Oh dear; how sad; never mind. That’s what happens when you profess to be the “most open and transparent government ever” then play fast and loose with the truth.
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:53am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    The COL had a dreadful habit of forgetting little details…
    such as Clare Curran having a meeting with Derek Handley in February 2018
    
    Minister Clare Curran’s forgotten meeting to cost her $46,000 a year in lost salary
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12113467
    
    or Jacinda forgetting she had been receiving texts from friend Derek Handley
    https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/367204/derek-handley-releases-correspondence-with-jacinda-ardern-and-clare-curran
    
    Jacinda Ardern and staff involved in Derek Handley process, National claims
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12132915
    
    No wonder Nats need to ask lots of questions..
    CoL seems to be full of folks with severe memory Loss.
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:39am
    - GazzaW
      
      When Mallard had to officially warn Ministers prior to QT back in November of the need for urgent action on written replies and giving them until the following Thursday to clear the backlog then you know that Ministers have been severely derelict in their duties.
      
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      January 11, 2019 12:38pm
secondcumming

16 ounces in a pound. Worse fucking zoo ever.
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January 11, 2019 8:32am
- Keeping Stock
  
  I went to a zoo once and the only animal on display was a dog. It was a shit zoo.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:37am
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    Sneaky
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:16am
harvey wilson

Morrisey immortalised a Kiwiblog thread on his blog yesterday, we should all be very proud.

Also has anyone noticed he’s really ramped up the double entendres and sexual innuendos in his posts recently? In other news this years labour youth camp is coming up soon.
I’m sure the two things aren’t related
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January 11, 2019 8:34am
- srylands
  
  Could you please post a link?
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:38am
  - harvey wilson
    
    Not exactly his finest hour, he got a bit humiliated in the end
    
    http://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/01/why-f-are-we-in-afghanistan-jan-10-2019.html?m=1
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:46am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Jeez, can I get royalties for having my bon mots appearing on someone else’s blog?
      
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      January 11, 2019 10:45am
      - harvey wilson
        
        I can’t see why not unless Breen wants to be seen as a parasite on the working class
        
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        January 11, 2019 11:02am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Oh he probably thinks we are all rich pricks on KB.
        
        (Hey Morrissey… I’m the daughter of the Dunny Cleaner at Imlay Freezing Works)
        
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        January 11, 2019 11:22am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Oh crikey dick,
        Now Morrissey is REPEATING everything on The Standard
        https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-11-01-2019/#comment-1570403
        How will I live it down??????
        
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        January 11, 2019 11:38am
      - harvey wilson
        
        Awesome, just awesome you know you’ve really hit a nerve when the loserati at the standard thrashwank themselves into that sort of state .
        
        My work here is done.
        
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        January 11, 2019 12:00pm
      - harvey wilson
        
        Calling George Monbiot an unhinged fringe American journalist is a bit of a stretch even for Morrisey .
        
        To think he got huffy when I pointed out he assigns positions to people to suit his narrative even if they don’t actually hold those positions. What a bloody loon.
        
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        January 11, 2019 12:27pm
      - Morrissey
        
        “Thrashwank”.
        
        ????
        
        Harv, you’re a genius. That is the word of the year so far!
        
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        January 11, 2019 12:36pm
      - harvey wilson
        
        Morrisey , I can’t claim credit for that . I think I got it from Roger Mellie in the Viz comic .
        
        While I’ve got you, in what world is George Monbiot a fringe American journalist?
        
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        January 11, 2019 1:08pm
      - harvey wilson
        
        Morrisey?
        
        This may help a bit since you seem quite out of your depth on this one. George Monbiot is a British writer who writes a weekly column for the Guardian. You know if you have to lie to the degree that you do to try and discredit others when you get caught out you actually look even more pathetic
        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Monbiot
        
        Btw are you a Rwandan genocide denier like that old fraud Chomsky was?
        
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        January 11, 2019 1:30pm
      - Pascal
        
        Damnit, why does the reply button disappear leaving only report! Aargh. Apologies, that was meant to be a reply.
        
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        January 11, 2019 1:35pm
      - Jack5
        
        Morrissey has damned mikenmildagain!
        
        On the Old Bolshevik site, The Substandard,Morrissey describes Milky as “one of the sane people” on the Kiwiblog site. ???
        
        Remember the old saying, “it goes in one ear and out the other.”
        
        With Morrissey, it comes through both ears at once and the result is nuke scale confusion.
        
        Too much radio monitoring has rooted your brain, Morrissey.
        
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        January 11, 2019 2:17pm
      - Jack5
        
        If you’re going to blabber outside the office, Morrissey, get your facts right.
        
        What was said here about the Leftist nutter Noam Chomsky was NOT that he was a tool of the US military.
        
        It was pointed out (I think by Maggie W. ) that Chomsky’s initial research in linguistics was financed by the American military as part of research into the feasibility of computer inter-language translation.
        
        Rightly or wrongly Chomsky made his mark as a linguist. The old-man, far-Left political protester Chomsky phase came later. Chomsky’s a Leftist flake.
        
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        January 11, 2019 2:29pm
      - Longknives
        
        I’m gutted I didn’t get a mention- I will have to up my game!
        Did I mention I freaking love Israel and everything they do Morrissey?
        
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        January 11, 2019 3:21pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Our very good friend harvey wilson writes;
        
        I think I got it from Roger Mellie in the Viz comic .
        
        Roger Mellie? Oh yes, that creep. I was more of a Sid the Sexist man myself. I also liked Paul Whicker the Tall Vicar—very much a doppelganger of our own Dr. Don Brash (himself the son of a clergyman)—and Millie Tant.
        
        And as for Monbiot. He’s a Brit, of course. And a shit.
        
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        January 11, 2019 7:03pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      @Jack 5
      What was said here about the Leftist nutter Noam Chomsky was NOT that he was a tool of the US military.
      
      Oh YES, he was
      
      He was intimately connected with the US Military Machine all his working life.
      
      Read Decoding Chomsky
      (especially if you know anything about the development of computer languages/ language translation… and the Cold war era)
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoding_Chomsky
      
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      January 11, 2019 3:39pm
      - harvey wilson
        
        Long knives I’ve had good results pointing what a massive hypocrite Morrinpc is for saying Assanges alleged rape victims are liars while maintaining a file of men he calls gropers on his website . You could give that a go , also like most npc leftists he can’t stand any criticism of that old dishonest fraud Chomsky either so there’s plenty of scope there .
        
        I’ve noticed he harbours a dislike for Thatcher too and seems incapable of understanding that she was Britain’s saviour, to be honest I think it’s long overdue they declared a national day in the great woman’s honour .
        It would be nice after he has passed if we do a similar thing for Roger Douglas too . I shudder to think of where we would be if he hadn’t freed us of the shackles of socialism.
        
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        January 11, 2019 3:50pm
Inandout

Clint Eastwood made a movie named ‘The Mule’ and he is subsequently loathed by the Hollywood aunties because he won’t announce he is anti Trump. It won’t obviously get an Oscar because it has no ‘message’, unlike the usual movie line up. Personally, I am weary of movies that set out to instruct me on how to think.
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January 11, 2019 8:37am
- harvey wilson
  
  Eastwood has said he’s pro gay marriage and gun control too . I don’t think Hollywood likes people having nuanced opinions or thinking for themselves
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:39am
  - Inandout
    
    Exactly harvey, and one of the main contenders in the other camp is De Niro, close friend of the Weinstein. For decades Hollywood producers of the Warner and Mayo ilk ruled with an iron fist, and soft couch. Underneath the McCarthy craziness lay a kernel of truth; Hollywood is progressive in the extreme. There is now one problem of course and that is viewers are far more savvy than when movie going was a weekly ritual. I really don’t care if the actors are gay or not because they were commonly rooting anything that moved anyway.
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:54am
    - dime
      
      De Niro – what a wimp he turned out to be.
      
      has to do shitty c grade movie after c grade movie cause his younger wife is a spender HAHAHAHA
      
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      January 11, 2019 9:42am
      - harvey wilson
        
        I haven’t seen it but Rocky and Bullwinkle wouldn’t even be C grade would it? The tool is an anti vaxxer too
        
        https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0131704/
        
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        January 11, 2019 10:12am
      - Longknives
        
        He is a prize twat.
        Shame because in the days of The Godfather, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull he was phenomenal..
        
        I liken it to Roger Waters- I love his music but despise the man.
        
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        January 11, 2019 10:26am
- Biscuit
  
  Inandout, I get a little bored at the wankfests that are the Oscars.
  
  Once, just once, I’d like to see the presenter announce that ‘There will be no Best Picture Award this year because, as 25546256263 voters pointed out, the only one you could possibly vote for was ‘None Of The Above’.
  
  If he could then follow that comment up with ‘Oh, and Will, getting your 3535 Twitter pals to tick ‘Will Smith’s Latest Epic’ didn’t work!’
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:44am
  - septic skeptic
    
    The only ones worth watching are the Golden Globes when they have Ricki Gervais as MC.
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:08am
- Maggie Pie
  
  And if anybody thinks there’s no way an actress with a lisp
  could make it in Hollywood……think Anne Hathaway.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:47am
  - Biscuit
    
    Maggie, do you, too, think that the person who dreamed up the word ‘lisp’ was having a cruel laugh. ‘Imagine them trying to say THAT!’
    
    Much as the term for folk with difficulty with letters have to call themselves – and try to spell – ‘dyslexic’…
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:58am
    - secondcumming
      
      It’s the dyslexics I feel sorry for Bikkie when *Daylight Saving* ends.
      Their cocks go black 😎
      
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      January 11, 2019 9:07am
      - Biscuit
        
        I will tell that to my (Maori) pal, Witi, secondcumming.
        
        He is an enlightened Maori who, gasp, took advantage of New Zealand’s education system to get himself a law degree and, double gasp, make a decent living for himself.
        
        He uses ‘TN’ as a joke email moniker. The T is for TE. The N, erm, I won’t expand on.
        
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        January 11, 2019 9:24am
    - kowtow
      
      Doctor ,examining young lady ……
      
      “Big breaths ” he instructs and she replies ,
      
      “Yeth , and I’m only thixteen”
      
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      January 11, 2019 9:09am
    - Peter S
      
      Easy to recognise a dyslexic at a toga party, they are the one in the goat costume.
      
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      January 11, 2019 11:05am
      - kowtow
        
        Dyslexia Rules , K O.
        
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        January 11, 2019 11:12am
      - Morrissey
        
        Not dyslexic. That was stephieboy.
        
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        January 11, 2019 12:43pm
- stephieboy
  
  Inandout, like Dinesh D’Souza’s, The Death of a Nation?
  
  Hic!
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:30am
- Morrissey
  
  Can he get an Award? You do realize that since 2012 poor, senile Clint Eastwood has been non compos mentis?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=933hKyKNPFQ
  
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  January 11, 2019 12:40pm
waikatogirl

Sir Peter Jackson has scored a nomination at the 2019 British Academy Film and Television Arts Awards for his World War I documentary They Shall Not Grow Old.
The film, made from restored archival footage from Britain’s Imperial War Museum and the BBC, is up for the BAFTA documentary award.
The BAFTAs take place in London on February 10.
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January 11, 2019 9:08am
- Keeping Stock
  
  That doco from Sir Peter is a superb piece of film-making craft.
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:54am
- mikenmildagain
  
  I still don’t understand why the title got garbled from ‘They shall grow not old’.
  
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  January 11, 2019 10:11am
- Morrissey
  
  He needs to pay his workers decently.
  
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  January 11, 2019 12:51pm
  - harvey wilson
    
    Christ Morrisey really is an npc isn’t he? Any topic you mention and the approved npc narrative spews forth .
    
    He probably finds it quite tiring on the odd occasion he has to think for himself.
    
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    January 11, 2019 1:34pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I must be out of the loop.
      What is an npc?
      
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      January 11, 2019 3:19pm
      - Morrissey
        
        n is for numbskull.
        
        p is for preposterous.
        
        c is for…. sorry, I can’t think of anything.
        
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        January 11, 2019 3:23pm
      - harvey wilson
        
        Non player character , it’s a gaming term for the background characters that can only spit out a few programmed responses and are incapable of thinking or acting independently for themselves .
        
        For example mention Assange allegedly raped two women and Morrisey will give a programmed response that the charges are false despite both victims claiming to this day that they were raped by the creep .
        
        Hilariously he has a list of gropers on his website, a few of which have less evidence that they did anything untoward than Assange has . #metoo #believewomen
        
        I suspect he has no idea what Peter Jackson pays his staff but as an npc he can only give the response he did .
        
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        January 11, 2019 3:31pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Stupid man. My neighbours work for him when required.
    
    They’ve got more than me and I’m not skint….
    
    I put you down as an envious and bitter little man.
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:14pm
The Heat

Global warming activists have a problem.

Their problem is that their team won the election. Their problem is that their team leader has named their cause as “this generations nuclear free moment”. Their problem is that they now have to act rather than talk.

Curiously, winning the election has lead to confusion amongst activists.

A couple of days ago, we had an opinion piece in Stuff calling on…. the opposition…. to act. We’ve seen similar confusing behaviour before, namely a Green MP protesting against herself.

It should be obvious, but if your side wins the election, then you get to set the rules. There is no need for chanting and protests and self-righteous editorial against National as National are not the government.

Like the dog that finally catches the car, winning can be a problem.

Many kiwis will virtue signal all day long about the climate. And why not? Talk is cheap. A light bulb here, a cotton bag there, nodding along to David Attenborough, feeling sorry for a turtle and supporting empty cycleways whilst driving beside one in a car. That’s all people need do to be “concerned about the planet” and reach a state of moral righteousness.

But governments create rules that force people to act.

“Saving the planet” involves sacrifice. Fuel prices must rise, as will the cost of living. Taxes must be increased. Consumption must be reigned in and most people are going to need to adjust to a diminished standard of living. Many of those who professed to be concerned about the planet might need to rethink their non-ironic trips in 747s.

It’s no longer a virtue signal, it’s virtue action. The trouble is, I don’t think the feelingz crowd do action.

Just recently, when fuel prices rose and the people shouted loudly in protest, did Adhern and the Greens remain on the stage and tell New Zealand about how good for the planet this was and to expect a lot more price rises in future? No. At the very first hurdle, Adhern caved faster than a Wellington working group off to lunch and the Greens were nowhere to be found, possibly in transit. Perhaps she was very concerned about that “nuclear moment” that’s even more important than saving the planet, namely Labour’s polling numbers.

We’ve seen what happened in France. Those protests against the rising cost of living won’t be lost on Labour. The reality is that virtue signalling in opposition is easy, but concrete action in government is hard. Climate virtue action is going to be deeply unpopular. It’s likely to sink the Greens below 5%, and swing voters will trebuchet to an opposition that promises an easier ride. Have the government got what it takes to be deeply unpopular? And for what? No change in temperature, just some virtue signalling to a half-empty UN auditorium.

It will be an interesting – and amusing – year. Stay resolute, National. Play to the virtue signallers but hold off on action. Virtue signalling turkeys will not vote themselves an early Christmas.
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January 11, 2019 9:13am
- stephieboy
  
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  hic! 91 is now $2.12!
  
  Rejoice!
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:26am
  - Tall Man
    
    I look forward to the schools going back so we get a respite from your juvenile behaviour.
    
    Just for interest’s sake steffy girl, how old are you…12ish?
    
    ardern is a liar
    
    steffy will be back at school soon..waste of time though, she’s as thick as a plank.
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:01am
  - Komata
    
    sb
    
    If you are paying that much, then your local petrol supplier is extorting you!!
    
    I live outside Auckland and have been paying significantly under $2 a litre for 91 for several weeks!!
    
    Perhaps you should get out more…
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:08am
    - starboard
      
      NPD has 91 @ 1.95 in Picton of all places.
      
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      January 11, 2019 3:38pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Nah, leave her at home.
      
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      January 11, 2019 8:16pm
- srylands
  
  I recall that James Shaw asked a question in Parliament about why the government did not welcome high petrol prices. The response was along the lines that it wasn’t fair. The best way to reduce transport emissions was to provide public transport and cycleways and nudge people out of their cars. Fat chance of that.
  
  Transport emissions will reduce as cars become more fuel efficient and there is a gradual increase in the take up of electric vehicles. And it will have nothing whatsoever to do with cycleways.
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:39am
  - Tall Man
    
    That’s a joke isn’t it?
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:01am
  - GazzaW
    
    There must be a multi-million dollar industry involved in urban cycle and bus lane creation. I wonder how big a proportion of that spend falls off the back of the truck.
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:19am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Global warming activists have a problem.
  Yep,
  
  Much of Europe is in a freezing lockdown
  https://weather.com/news/news/2019-01-10-europe-snow-impacts
  
  https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/heavy-snow-in-germany-austria-greece-causes-chaos-for-travellers/news-story/0aa605686ccf93c27db642b9933806c4
  
  https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8143818/alps-avalanche-germany-austria-seven-killed-ski-resorts-snow/
  
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  January 11, 2019 10:04am
  - rangitoto
    
    I laughed when I saw two articles on the Horrid home page. One reporting on “snow chaos in Europe” and the other on “Catastrophic warming” effects for sea life.
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:32am
  - Ross12
    
    I think this is called “putting it all in perspective”
    
    https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/05/wind-turbines-are-neither-clean-nor-green-and-they-provide-zero-global-energy/
    
    “Here’s a quiz; no conferring. To the nearest whole number, what percentage of the world’s energy consumption was supplied by wind power in 2014, the last year for which there are reliable figures? Was it 20 per cent, 10 per cent or 5 per cent? None of the above: it was 0 per cent. That is to say, to the nearest whole number, there is still no wind power on Earth.”
    
    The young PhD student who wrote the article on Stuff, the other day, might learn something from the piece.
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:32am
    - The Heat
      
      Stuff are screeching and wailing about global warming and how we all must “do something” RIGHT NOW….whilst also featuring breaking news about an IKEA opening in Auckland.
      
      I’m not sure these climate alarmist airheads have joined the dots. Consumerism and climate alarmism cannot co-exist. That loud static fizzing in their empty heads is cognitive dissonance.
      
      Personally, I don’t care about global warming, but they claim to. So when will Stuff stop running advertising and stories encouraging more consumption? Can’t have it both ways.
      
      Welcome IKEA, btw.
      
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      January 11, 2019 10:48am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Wonder if it will snow in the Sahara desert AGAIN this northern winter?
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:56am
  - stephieboy
    
    MW, what do your quacks like Anthony Watts and Christopher Monckton have to say about this kind of extreme weather events”
    
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    January 11, 2019 12:30pm
    - starboard
      
      “these kind of extreme weather events” it should read, shariaboy.
      Only went to school to eat your halal lunch ?
      Pea brain.
      
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      January 11, 2019 3:44pm
    - KevOB
      
      Why should they say anything? The IPCC has already said it all: the extreme events have nothing to do with global warming. Read their 1,000 page reports not the political briefs.
      
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      January 11, 2019 5:26pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Did you know that
      
      ardern is a liar.
      
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      January 11, 2019 8:18pm
Huevon

There’s not been a peep out of Jacinda for over 3 weeks. Good! But fark is she lazy.
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January 11, 2019 9:16am
- stephieboy
  
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  Huevon, she has not heard a peep from you too. Fantastic! Being an anti-COL keyboard warrior is such hard work?
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:24am
  - starboard
    
    “fffaarrrtttt”..goes the sharia bird
    
    LOL !
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:25am
  - Tall Man
    
    And as you have found, being a dickhead is just so easy isn’t it steffy girl.
    
    You must be thrilled, you’re just like the leader you worship, irrelevant, useless and lazy as well as
    
    ardern is a liar
    
    steffy is tryinng to be the same as ardern, lazy, irrelevant and dishonest.
    
    Chin up steffy, you’re nearly there.
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:54am
- starboard
  
  Maybe her nose is blocked up?
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:24am
  - skyblue
    
    Clarke will need to buy another lawn mower for her.
    
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    January 11, 2019 11:49am
- Biscuit
  
  Huevon, I’m no Jacinda fan (you may have gathered!) but, be fair to her, there have been several recent Prime Ministers who have gone similarly awol at this time of the year.
  
  HC used to go mountaineering, Key would go to his Hawaii home, English would holiday with his ‘Brat Pack’ mates…
  
  Nothing has happened that needed Jacinda’s personal and urgent attention.
  
  There’ll be a Duty Minister caring for things … and alerting her, no doubt, if things change.
  
  The only people who tend to fret during our Prime Ministerial ‘absences’ are the media folk…
  
  Long may that continue!
  
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  January 11, 2019 10:06am
  - ex-golfer
    
    True – but at the very least PMs in our recent past have always done a Christmas message and publicly congratulated New Years Honours recipients.
    JA did not do either.
    She is lazy, incompetent and not fit for the role.
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:10am
    - Biscuit
      
      Aw c’mon ex-golfer.
      
      I was – shockingly – again overlooked in this year’s New Years Honours.
      
      But if I had made the cut I doubt I’d be murmuring ‘So I am now an ONZ. Yay me. So well deserved. But where’s Jassy’s (or Bill’s, John’s, Helen’s…) congratulatory message? Sniff!’
      
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      January 11, 2019 10:24am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Things are running better than they have all year. Perhaps Cindy could stay ‘on holiday’ permanently? ?
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:13am
  - GazzaW
    
    I had to laugh when I heard that Sleaze-Galloway is Duty Minister. Did he draw the short straw because of the shit storm he has created for Ardern over the last couple of months?
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:25am
    - starboard
      
      “There’ll be a Duty Minister caring for things ”
      
      Luckily, its not special K .
      
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      January 11, 2019 3:47pm
  - calendar girl
    
    “HC used to go mountaineering, Key would go to his Hawaii home, English would holiday with his ‘Brat Pack’ mates…”
    
    Which is all fair enough, and I don’t begrudge Ardern her holiday break. But unlike the instances that you quote above, I know nothing about:
    a) is Ardern actually in the country?
    b) if not, and if a major emergency should occur during the current close-down, who will be running the country. Is Peters in charge? If he’s overseas by any chance, who is here who will be next in line? Lees-Galloway?
    
    The resources appear to be very thin on the ground.
    
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    January 11, 2019 11:39am
  - Inandout
    
    Well even the best laid plans go awry sometimes:
    https://www.bustle.com/p/where-is-donald-trump-going-for-christmas-in-2018-hes-returning-to-a-favorite-getaway-15525098
    
    But getting back to Cindy, well figureheads are rarely missed.
    
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    January 11, 2019 2:36pm
- JibberJabber
  
  I`m guessing she`s trying to recover from her “be careful what you wish for moment…” amongst other issues that are probably going to blow up in the coming months that she will be, er …strategising for with some media help.
  
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  January 11, 2019 10:18am
- MickMac
  
  I hope she’s enjoying time with her daughter.
  
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  January 11, 2019 11:09am
- freethinker
  
  Rehab is not an overnight fix.
  
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  January 11, 2019 2:59pm
Humble Capitalist

All these stories from these redmelons and airheads crying about the increased living costs. A leftie relative of mine shared a facebook story about it today. DUH dont cry about it now! Your guys are running the show and fuelling it more. Its only going to get worse cupcake! I told you this in October 2017
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January 11, 2019 9:28am
Humble Capitalist

Father in law moaning this morning that pensioners havent had an increase and everythings gone up so much.
I told him never fear next year is election year so expect a good increase and some promised further entitlements
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January 11, 2019 9:30am
- Tall Man
  
  But will they be “bottom lines”… so they can be the first to drop off the “list”.
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:39am
- ex-golfer
  
  They get an increase on 1 April every year.
  Not to mention the “winter energy payment” they get.
  So his moaning is misplaced.
  
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  January 11, 2019 10:06am
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    Thanks I will remind him of that EG
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:35am
- igm
  
  Nothing for pensioners, they do not fit the mould of unelected Huckery Harridan . . . she likes useless lazy unemployable leeches, the types that support Labour/Greens.
  Notice the increase in crime since her last increase in taxpayer-funded feeding for breeding campaign, yet so-called poverddy increased.
  
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  January 11, 2019 11:00am
Poppa

Over Xmas had several discussions with various people about politics. There seemed to be a general agreement that Ardern is hopeless & far too young & inexperienced for the job. That is from a wide cross section of people

It got me thinking…..Is she the worst PM of this fine land?

I thought Rowling was bad but Ardern I believe is worse than him & that is saying something
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January 11, 2019 9:43am
- stephieboy
  
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  Then we can expect her to exit in a 1975 type landslide come 2020?
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:45am
  - Tall Man
    
    Yep, so who will you use to thrill yourself over?
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:56am
  - Inandout
    
    Under MMP ‘landslides’ are merely ‘movements’. You rabbit on about the Electoral College allowing Trump to win as being unfair, yet you embrace MMP.
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:05am
    - GazzaW
      
      The steffies just do as they are told. Willis House puppets.
      
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      January 11, 2019 12:45pm
- Humble Capitalist
  
  I totally agree with you Poppa – but while you say a cross section do you genuinely believe many of these people openly knocking her would be swing voters?
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:57am
  - Poppa
    
    At least a couple of them would be. A couple of them know her family personally
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:06am
  - Inandout
    
    HC, by ‘swing’ do you mean Labour camp types?
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:07am
    - Humble Capitalist
      
      Yes I meant swingers. Moi and LOL types
      
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      January 11, 2019 10:34am
  - Tall Man
    
    2 out of 3 at the checkout today were extremely unpleasant about ardern the liar, 3 out of 3 at the service centre were openly anti her, especially the young woman who had her baby a year before ardern the liar and is having to work in a relatively low wage job to make end meet while the shit for brains we call ardern the liar pulls faces and prattles about “poverdy” but knows nothing about it.
    
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    January 11, 2019 1:20pm
- Dave Mann
  
  I really hope you’re not embellishing your story for dramatic effect, and that you really did find a lot of people who think Ardern is hopeless. I haven’t found this…. but maybe I am just in the wrong circles….?
  
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  January 11, 2019 10:29am
  - Tall Man
    
    Get out into the real world not the socialist posers and you might be surprised.
    
    The boss and I were chatting on the way after the shopping and she remarked that she has never seen so much bullshit in the media that is so far removed from the reality that the people are dealing with.
    
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    January 11, 2019 1:27pm
    - JibberJabber
      
      Colour me gobsmacked when I heard the exact same sentiment about bullshit in the media from a couple of my wife’s relatives (who I`d picked for hardcore chardonnay lefties) a little while ago, especially when it was to do with SLG.
      Pleasantly surprised and thought if they could see thru the Bullshit, there are others out there also.
      
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      January 11, 2019 6:00pm
- toby1845
  
  I think Kirk was worse than Rowling: indeed, he set Rowling up by leaving such a mess.
  
  I commented a while ago that there are a lot of similarities between Kirk and Ardern. Both were too young when they became PM, excessively idealistic, and inclined to make policy on the fly.
  
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  January 11, 2019 1:15pm
  - Inandout
    
    Kirk was a bit of an enigma, but he distrusted academics as did his admirer, Rob Muldoon. His habit of shooting pigeons from his parliament office window was rather unusual for a man of his importance. Perhaps his unhappy marriage and poor health may have been a contributing factor. I would say that Norm was pretty much respected by many kiwis, unlike Jacinda who is merely a show horse.
    
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    January 11, 2019 2:56pm
- KevOB
  
  Bill Rowling was competent and an excellent #2. Charisma: -3.
  
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  January 11, 2019 5:30pm
  - Tall Man
    
    The father of a long term acquaintance of mine attended many cabinet meetings when his department was the focus.
    
    He had the highest regard for Bill Rowling and described him as the best PM work wise he had ever dealt with. Muldoon was an organisational disaster but the depended on the level of “juice” in his system.
    
    Lange was not an improvement.
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:30pm
- Happychappy
  
  No one could be worse than Geoffrey Palmer even those that were staunch Labour voters could not stand him.
  
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  January 11, 2019 7:05pm
secondcumming

There’s a very attractive Maori girl who works in a Ponsonby bar that me and a few mates frequent after work. Last night I asked her, “Why don’t you find yourself a man and settle down?” She said, “One day some guy is gonna see me parked up in my car eating a whole rotisserie chicken with my bare hands, and think “That’s her, she’s the one”

😎
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January 11, 2019 9:54am
- MCos
  
  “Why don’t you find yourself a man and settle down?”
  
  “Things have changed since your day, Dad”
  
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  January 11, 2019 10:06am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    “It’s a hard road finding the perfect woman, boy”
    
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    January 11, 2019 10:18am
Durden

Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro withdraws Brazil from UNs global compact on immigration.
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“Immigration should not be treated as a global issue, but rather according to the reality and sovereignty of each country,” Araújo said at the time.

According to Araújo, Brazil will now seek a ‘regulatory framework compatible with the national reality and with the well-being of Brazilians and foreigners’.

“The Brazilians and the immigrants who live here will be safer with the rules we will define on their own, without pressure from outside,” concluded Bolsonaro.
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What does that mean ? If Brazil is a member of the UN and the majority vote for the compact, Brazil automatically remains in the compact whether it wants it or not (according to Merkel).

So is the next step withdrawing from the UN too?

https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-politics/brazil-leaves-the-global-migration-pact/
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January 11, 2019 10:00am
- Tall Man
  
  Give that man a beer, maybe 2.
  
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  January 11, 2019 1:14pm
MCos

I see Michael Cohen is going to testify publicly before congress next month.
That should be interesting.
I wonder who else is in the queue?
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January 11, 2019 10:09am
igm

Where there is smoke there is fire:
https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2019/01/sroubeks-parents-enter-the-fray/
I reckon there will be some eruptions in the House next session.
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January 11, 2019 10:40am
- Inandout
  
  igm, where there is powder there is cocaine.
  
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  January 11, 2019 10:52am
  - igm
    
    Best let it ride, the Huckery Harridan may call her Labour friendly “Top Cop”!
    
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    January 11, 2019 11:41am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Didn’t we discuss this on KB a couple of days ago?
  Nice of WO to join us belatedly.//
  Why bother going there?
  
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  January 11, 2019 6:50pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Prime Minister is not going to Ratana; she is swanning off to Switzerland.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/379895/labour-maori-mps-face-demands-for-action-as-pm-misses-ratana-celebrations
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January 11, 2019 11:11am
- ex-golfer
  
  I hope the First Child has been fully vaccinated.
  It would be expensive for the Airforce to be making trips back and forth to Switzerland.
  
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  January 11, 2019 11:15am
  - JibberJabber
    
    That`s if they can even get there.
    
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    January 11, 2019 1:23pm
  - RF
    
    Presuming that Jethro will be going with SLAG & Squirrel on Ardern One he will be keen to announce to his twitter followers that he is now a member of the Ardern One mile high club.
    
    Another notch to his already well used belt.
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:06pm
    - sooty
      
      Or the bedpost?
      
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      January 11, 2019 10:11pm
- Longknives
  
  Labour HQ will be on the phone as we speak ordering Radio NZ to change that photo of Dear Leader to one of their airbrushed, ‘approved’ ones…
  
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  January 11, 2019 11:24am
- thedavincimode
  
  Well, she’s got what she wanted from them. Why bother? She can start sucking up again in a about 18 months time and in the meantime there are plenty of other liars to attend in her place.
  
  There’ll be wailing and gnashing of gums in the meantime but the ruckus will be healed with some taxpayer dosh just in time for them to trot off again and vote for liebour like good little children in 2019.
  
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  January 11, 2019 11:44am
- rangitoto
  
  She has to do something to keep up her CO2 output
  
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  January 11, 2019 12:05pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Talking bullshit not coping?
    
    Mind you, she has been quiet for a week or 3.
    
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    January 11, 2019 1:12pm
- stephieboy
  
  MW, would you not agree that the World Economic Forum has some laudable objectives and I think the Ratana Church will understand,
  
  https://www.weforum.org
  
  Her actions do not seem to be ostentatious or irresponsible as you suggest.
  
  How so?
  
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  January 11, 2019 12:21pm
  - Inandout
    
    stephie, you did mean ‘laughable’ eh?
    
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    January 11, 2019 2:58pm
  - Longknives
    
    What on Earth could Jacinda Ardern possibly contribute to a ‘World Economic Forum’??
    
    A ‘Capitalism has failed’ speech?
    Her patented ‘frowny face’?
    Her Jesus Christ Pose?
    Or maybe ‘Hey everyone look at my little wee Baybeeee….’?
    
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    January 11, 2019 3:40pm
    - Tall Man
      
      I think she’s patented the “flomp” and is taking it to the world…..
      
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      January 11, 2019 8:33pm
      - RF
        
        The Ardern Flop.
        
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        January 11, 2019 9:10pm
  - KevOB
    
    What relevance has Davos to an ideological communist? Being a banshee doesn’t cut it among accomplished world leaders.
    
    Ardern’s lack of competency and her honorific role as PM has been snubbed several times as her lack of status has been noted. She will get her ego bruised again.
    
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    January 11, 2019 5:39pm
    - Tall Man
      
      You have to be “aware” to realise your place in the world.
      
      Her head is too full of bullshit to notice.
      
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      January 11, 2019 8:34pm
howitis

Since Sheriff Pete George and good friend of the Nottinghams and MikeC/Frankie/Kathy Maddren is on KB to correct us all I thought I’d have a look at his tumbleweed territory.

Wow! Pete that corrects us can’t even do simple arithmetic.
Imagine my horror!
https://yournz.org/2019/01/10/nz-population-5-million-in-the-next-year-or-so/
I thought he was a computer guy. Better check your Y2K kit coz Pete is so wrong!

“The population is closing in on 5 million and should get there in about a year at current growth rates.
The million milestones:
 1 million – 1908
 2 million – 1952
 3 million – 1973
 4 million – 2003
 5 million – 2019/2020

The gap between 1 and 2 million would have been affected in particular by two world wars and the influenza epidemic just after WW1, but it was a doubling of the population in 44 years. The population will also have approximately doubled in my lifetime (to date).
The next millions were added in 21 years, >>20 years<< and about 17 years, all largely due to immigration."

Old geezer Pete George can't do math and does not understand politics.
The difference between 2003 less 1973 = 30 years
Not 20.
If Sheriff Pete understood politics and society he would get this.
The population increased from 2 mill to 3 mill in 21 years because NZ had a lot to offer; there were Ten Pound Poms; and there was a baby boom.
Then 1973 struck : the 3rd Labour govt; the oil shocks, inflation, rising unemployment and lots of people hopping the ditch to Australia.

Sheriff Pete is not only lousy at simple maths he can't use logic.
Next time you are corrected by the Sheriff of Nottingham, ah Freudian slip, the Sheriff of Dunedin just ignore the old coot.

Dizzy old Pete then quotes Radio NZ who quotes NIWA about the warmest year eva or whateva.
These sources are suspect and poor old Pete gets significantly down ticked by his own 'band of angels' and followers.
Oh Dear. Poor old Pete is not respected on his own followers who call him out on bullshit.
Is that why dizzy old Pete George comes to Kiwiblog to try to instil some Sheriff-dom?
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January 11, 2019 11:26am
- dime
  
  what worries me is mentioning his name here.
  
  hes like the candyman – say it 3 times, he turns up and leaves… 30,000 comments later.
  
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  January 11, 2019 12:23pm
  - howitis
    
    You are quite right, Dime.
    He can’t let go.
    He has to have the last word.
    This is in contrast to our low-level resident pest Hugo Pavletich.
    Hugo mostly ignores the taunts but regularly answers his own posts with embedded replies to drown out the cacophony of crickets.
    
    Both are an example of people who like to point others to their own blogs or repeat what is in the media because that is in their interest realm …but not necessarily to others.
    I think dizzy old Pete has OCD.
    Old Codgers Disease!
    Candyman, Candyman, Pete George 🙂
    Uh Oh.
    
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    January 11, 2019 12:53pm
- Pete George
  
  Someone else attempting to dredge up old stuff. Familiar writing style with false and misleading information. Some factual context:
  
  In 2015, Dermot Nottingham, aided by Earle McKinney, Marc Spring and Cameron Slater, started private prosecutions against APN Ltd, Lynn Prentice, Allied Press and myself. These were split into two proceedings, one in Auckland, one in Dunedin. Attempts were made to shut down websites and imprison, all rejected by courts.
  
  After delays and failures to comply with court requirements and law the Auckland cases (APN and Prentice) were dismissed during the trial, and and son after he withdrew the charges in Dunedin. Costs were subsequently awarded to all four ex-defendants, and these became part of bankruptcy proceedings against Nottingham by other ex-defendants in another failed private prosecution.
  
  Last September Nottingham was adjudged bankrupt owing about a quarter of a million dollars in court costs and with claimed debts of $2 million (in a statement of affairs that was largely unsupported by evidence of claims except for the court costs).
  
  Nottingham tried multiple appeals in all cases and failed to get anything overturned, accruing more court costs while insolvent.
  
  Also last year Nottingham was found guilty by a jury on multiple charges of breaches of non-publication orders (related to Lauda Finem) and five counts of criminal harassment.
  
  Much of this is documented in court decisions.
  
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  January 11, 2019 12:50pm
  - Pete George
    
    NZ Herald: Blogger dodges prison over court suppression breaches, harassment campaigns
    
    Insolvency judgment: HONEY v NOTTINGHAM [2018] NZHC 2382 [11 September 2018]
    
    NOTTINGHAM v APN NEWS & MEDIA LTD [2018] NZHC 1004 [9 May 2018]
    
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    January 11, 2019 1:06pm
  - Longknives
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFjb447gMIM
    
    Dime nailed that one!
    
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    January 11, 2019 3:37pm
  - starboard
    
    PG..
    
    ZZZZZZZZ….
    
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    January 11, 2019 4:08pm
  - KevOB
    
    Thanks for an insight into this vexatious litigation.
    It’s a bit like our present COL, blinded by their ignorant self belief.
    
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    January 11, 2019 6:02pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  If you look at a graph of world population you can’t even see WWII – except that it lead to a rapid rise in population soon after as health technology started to have a big impact on the world.
  https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0eae4088aac3ce5a7cb65f8ecfcddd34
  
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  January 11, 2019 3:38pm
Notsofast

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Scott Beard attends the funeral of Grace Millane while he bides his time on an arrest in the Kayo Matsuzawa case. DNA under her fingernails shows the way to the suspect.

In the Lundy case dna under the fingernails is deemed not particularly cogent by Cooper j, Winkelmann j and Asher j.

Does anyone know why not?

I plan to ask Scott Beard to explain this. He will be more than a little surprised to learn this.
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January 11, 2019 11:28am
- thedavincimode
  
  Why not content yourself with making a dick of yourself here rather than bothering Beard. He’s got far more important things to do than deal with you and besides, after the first call, you won’t get through to him again.
  
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  January 11, 2019 11:50am
  - Notsofast
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    This shows you have no idea how proper police work is undertaken. Scott Beard has a reputation for following where the evidence leads, unlike the village plods in PN.
    
    Here is detail from the “judgement”.
    
    [357] Mr Eaton also referred to other matters that had been raised by the defence at the trial, including:
    (a) There were a number of unidentified fingerprints at the scene as well
    as an unidentified footprint.
    
    (d) Scrapings taken from under the fingernails of both the deceased, after
    being analysed in 2014, were shown to contain the DNA of unknown
    males.
    (e) A number of fibres were found under the fingernails of both deceased.
    These were analysed and could not be attributed to Mr Lundy’s
    polo shirt.
    
    [358] All of these matters must have been rejected by the jury as not raising a
    reasonable doubt about Mr Lundy’s guilt. None of them are particularly cogent as an indicator of another person being responsible for the crime.
    
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    January 11, 2019 11:56am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Ah, so Notsofast is not only legally superior to Justices Asher, Cooper and Winkelmann, but he also has a better knowledge of policing tghan “the village plods in PN”.
      
      Here’s a genuine hint for you Notsofast. People might actually read your posts and respond to them in a positive way if they weren’t laced with ad hominems and conspiracy theories.
      
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      January 11, 2019 1:05pm
      - Notsofast
        
        People do read them. The ad hominems are targeted at police who manipulated and withheld evidence, and ignored the evidence that can lead to a savage killer. I don’t understand your complacency when they attacked again 10 kilometers away and 10 years later shooting Scott Guy and fleeing in a car that left tracks in the grass.
        Your nearby gangsters are heartened by police gutlessness and ineptitude.
        
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        January 11, 2019 1:14pm
    - Tall Man
      
      FFS someone please…another down tick or 3…
      
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      January 11, 2019 8:37pm
    - Tall Man
      
      What sound did the axe make as you/lundy cleaved that little girl’s skull?
      
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      January 11, 2019 8:39pm
- stephieboy
  
  Notsofast, to date the DNA under Kayo Matsuzawa fingernails has not led to the arrest of her murderer,
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12106272
  
  Like the Lundy, the case, (with the” crucial” evidence ) has led to know where.
  
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  January 11, 2019 12:11pm
  - Notsofast
    
    stephieboy I am sure you are fully aware that unknown male dna under the fingernails of Christine and Amber is in fact “particularly cogent”.
    (to a higher degree than is usual or average, clear, logical, and convincing evidence).
    
    The appeal judgement is an expensive load of nonsense totally unexpected from high level judges and a chief justice appointee.
    We shall see where this leads on Molesworth Street.
    
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    January 11, 2019 12:36pm
- JibberJabber
  
  A bit hard to scratch your Hubby after he`s caved ur head in with a tomahawk.
  
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  January 11, 2019 1:28pm
  - Notsofast
    
    Crime scene evidence shows Amber lying on her night dress concealing projectile blood that came from her mother. Defensive wounds to Christine show she was fighting off her attacker, and the cloth fiber and dna under her fingernails matched that under Amber’s fingernails, so this is what happened.
    
    When the lights went out the attacker knew everyone was in bed. He was looking for Mark Lundy but he was in Petone, and instead woke Christine who, experiencing a home invasion, screamed and woke her daughter, who came through and dragged the assailant from behind. He then silenced Christine by cleaving her skull, and the blood went onto Amber’s front. Amber tried to flee and was felled from behind.
    This narrative explains all the evidence.
    This is what happened while Mark was in Petone.
    
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    January 11, 2019 1:40pm
    - Keeping Stock
      
      That’s right. His alibi, rejected by TWO juries and the Court of Appeal was that he was in Petone, in bed with a prostitute.
      
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      January 11, 2019 3:30pm
      - Notsofast
        
        Yes but they are all wrong KS, and I bet you know it.
        This has become a game for the prosecutors and courts, and they are losing.
        I bet both arms both legs and my life.
        Note there has been no suggestion I have been posting false facts.
        
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        January 11, 2019 3:35pm
      - Nookin
        
        and they are losing
        
        They seem to be ahead at the moment.
        
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        January 11, 2019 3:45pm
      - Notsofast
        
        I have been posting rock hard detail that you must realise will win this case.
        
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        January 11, 2019 3:52pm
      - Keeping Stock
        
        That’s what you said during the Court of Appeal hearing, and in the time before the decision came back. You were so certain that the reason it was taking so long was because the three Judges were taking note of the points made by Lundy’s counsel, and were going to overturn the conviction. Insteazd, they summed it up in four words:
        
        The appeal is dismissed
        
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        January 11, 2019 4:36pm
    - Nermal
      
      Almost sounds like you were there
      
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      January 11, 2019 4:14pm
      - Notsofast
        
        I have the 2002 trial transcripts explaining the crime scene. I guess I better start posting important elements showing the tide out on the police story the media got.
        
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        January 11, 2019 6:29pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Please don’t. Go get help.
        
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        January 11, 2019 8:41pm
- ex-golfer
  
  I doubt Scott Beard will have any interest in talking with you.
  
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  January 11, 2019 1:58pm
  - Notsofast
    
    I know he will for sure, but thanks for the caution.
    
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    January 11, 2019 2:46pm
Sir Leslie Bottocks

Some good work from AIU regarding latest hate crime against the blacks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-C6k4mn-Ig&feature=youtu.be
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January 11, 2019 12:13pm
secondcumming

*BREAKING*

IKEA has announced it will be opening in New Zealand! First store destined for Auckland.

Although as my father-in-law just said, “The thing to remember is that they no longer manufacture their furniture in Sweden. Nowadays, it’s just like most of the other cheap shit out there…..sourced from Asia”

He did say their *Meatballs* were good though.
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January 11, 2019 12:34pm
- GazzaW
  
  It might be cheap shit but it’s good shit and just like Amazon they have all their systems together including quality control and customer service. There’s plenty that Kiwi retailers can learn from Ikea.
  
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  January 11, 2019 2:54pm
  - Jules99
    
    Yeah there is some good stuff comes out of China – sadly NZ retailers don’t buy it.
    
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    January 11, 2019 5:08pm
- KevOB
  
  But my reports are that design and quality has not been compromised. My daughter is very appreciative of what is available in the UK.
  
  A doco showed Ikea staff inspecting production at a Chinese factory. I buy bulk plastic medicine bottles from China and they meet sample and spec. They can produce well but buyers always need to be watchful.
  
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  January 11, 2019 6:08pm
- Tall Man
  
  Wasn’t keen on the meatballs myself.
  
  Correct, not the same quality anymore but I did grab a couple of kitchen sinks last time I was there. A bit thin but vastly cheaper and better than the Chinese offerings here on trademe.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:44pm
Manolo

Europe on the brink, the barbarians at the gates.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6577929/Hungarys-PM-calls-anti-immigrant-forces-EU-says-hell-fight-Macron.html

Hungarian PM Viktor Orban warned of two civilisations in Europe – one Christian, the other mixed Islamic – as he called for an ‘anti-immigrant’ coup in the EU.

Speaking at a news conference in Budapest, Orban predicted there would be two civilisations, ‘one mixed Muslim-Christian in the West, and one traditional European-Christian in Central Europe.’
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January 11, 2019 12:34pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  I think you’ll find Orban is well inside the gates.
  
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  January 11, 2019 1:06pm
  - Tall Man
    
    But right.
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:46pm
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo, a third civilisation also?
  
  https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Hungarys-Viktor-Orban-fosters-antisemitism-563642
  
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  January 11, 2019 3:09pm
  - Tall Man
    
    But is he as big a liar as ardern?
    
    ardern is a liar
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:47pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh dear,

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jan/10/uk-councils-invest-566m-in-arms-firms-implicated-in-saudis-yemen-campaign

Now take a guess which political party runs the Councils in Leeds, Bradford, Tameside..

and its affiliate…for
E.Lothian and W. Lothian?
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January 11, 2019 1:41pm
- stephieboy
  
  MW, the named councils need to head hunt you to ethically scrutinise their investment funds given your reputation for 100% perfect consistency in all your affairs.
  
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  January 11, 2019 3:02pm
  - Tall Man
    
    ardern is a liar
    
    steffy is a slow witted learner.
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:49pm
- skyblue
  
  Probably a lot of camel and goat fuckers have an influence at these councils.
  
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  January 11, 2019 3:45pm
- GazzaW
  
  Those northern industrial cities in England are still solid left wing Labour. They still haven’t forgotten the Great March in 1926 or the miners’ strikes of the 70s. I hail from Yorkshire steelworking stock and my dear old aunt (now departed) would not allow Churchill or Thatcher’s names mentioned in her house. The current generation have not changed one iota.
  
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  January 11, 2019 5:01pm
secondcumming

*RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION*

Is their any truth in the rumor that members of Greenpeace criuse around
stuffing *single-use plastic bags* into the blowholes of dead & dying dolphins?

Asking for a friend…..
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January 11, 2019 2:33pm
- Poppa
  
  I thought they fed the turtles with them, I have been assured turtles love them & eat them like lollies
  
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  January 11, 2019 2:49pm
- stephieboy
  
  secondcoming , hows the summer r and r going for you in twerps ville?
  
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  January 11, 2019 3:05pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Stephieboy on 9 January 2019:
    
    Lee C , good one! As you suggest many come to KB and try to turn it into a feral children’s playground, with their vitriol of hate and abuse!
    
    And today (so far):
    
    MW, what do your quacks like Anthony Watts and Christopher Monckton have to say about this kind of extreme weather events”
    
    Huevon, she has not heard a peep from you too. Fantastic! Being an anti-COL keyboard warrior is such hard work?
    
    MW, the named councils need to head hunt you to ethically scrutinise their investment funds given your reputation for 100% perfect consistency in all your affairs.
    
    secondcoming , hows the summer r and r going for you in twerps ville?
    
    More St Albans-grade hypocrisy from the resident pervert!
    
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    January 11, 2019 3:33pm
    - secondcumming
      
      Understandable in my case Nostra.
      Stephieboy has never forgiven me for publishing the pic of his car showing it parked behind St Lukes last week, with his ‘nearest & dearest’ standing on the roof and pissing on each other 😎
      
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      January 11, 2019 3:45pm
    - GazzaW
      
      Oh, this one is a real ‘keeper’ for the steffie squad Nostra. Willis House selectors have to pick the team around him/her/it.
      
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      January 11, 2019 4:03pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      @Nostradamus
      
      How did stephieboy know about all my affairs?
      
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      January 11, 2019 4:38pm
      - nasska
        
        Who knows what goes on in the weird & whacky space between stephieboy’s ears Maggy? I envisage it as an unlaned highway system of neurons perpetually colliding with each other
        
        But at least you can rest content in the verified knowledge that your “affairs” are perfectly consistent. 🙂
        
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        January 11, 2019 5:16pm
      - sooty
        
        How does stephie know everything?
        By perving in the windows.
        How else?
        
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        January 11, 2019 10:03pm
  - Tall Man
    
    How’s you moron.
    
    ardern is a liar
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:50pm
- JibberJabber
  
  There is a great episode of Seinfeld where George is trying to impress some woman telling her he is a Marine Biologist, meanwhile Kramer is hitting golf balls off the beach, later when George and his girl are having romantic stroll along the beach, a whale washes up struggling to breathe, George doesn`t know what to do, girlfriend is not impressed, turns out there’s a golf ball stuck in its blowhole.
  
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  January 11, 2019 3:46pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Was it a Titleist?
    
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    January 11, 2019 6:55pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  I can well believe it. my eldest boy was saying hes even seen some maori chaps up at 90 mile beech cutting teeth from a whale and they had ‘greenpeace’ sprayed on the boot of their car.
  
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  January 11, 2019 4:15pm
- Nermal
  
  No way! They just use them as props for the photos. Then take them along to the next photo shoot. They do recycle after all
  
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  January 11, 2019 4:17pm
GazzaW

Question from a curious and slightly miffed consumer for orchardists or supermarketers:

Why at the heart of the Royal Gala apple season am I only able to buy Royal Galas imported from the US at about twice the going rate and out of cold storage. I haven’t spotted a fresh NZ Royal Gala apple yet. Are they all being exported, are they rotting on the ground due lack of pickers or aren’t Royal Galas being grown any more?
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January 11, 2019 3:39pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  @Gazza W
  
  You don’t grow apples do you?
  
  They are pretty small and green at the moment.
  
  Mid-February will be the start of the Pick..
  March is the main Pick… should all be picked by end of April.
  
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  January 11, 2019 4:07pm
- Inandout
  
  Try tree ripened Cox’s Orange, just flowing with juice and flavour. Sadly the birds also favour this variety.
  
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  January 11, 2019 4:43pm
wiseowl

gazza.
The Royal Gala crop is not ready yet.
February and the corporates will put immature fruit on the market early to get a premium so beware maturity.
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January 11, 2019 3:58pm
- GazzaW
  
  Thank you wiseowl & Maggie. I was getting ahead of myself. I rate the first fresh Gala apple of the season as one of life’s delicacies.
  
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  January 11, 2019 4:08pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I love them too… usually manage about 3-4/day when they are fresh.
    
    There’s been a massive plant-out of apples on the Gisborne flats in the last couple of years… but Royal Gala is not the main variety being planted, sadly.
    Jazz, Envy and Fuji are favoured.
    http://gisborneherald.co.nz/localnews/3185226-135/apple-industry-surges-back-here
    
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    January 11, 2019 4:36pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Ozzie Youth deported back to OZ after bomb threat on Air NZ flight.

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/grossly-stupid-sydney-teen-deported-from-new-zealand-after-airline-bomb-threat-20190110-p50qnk.html
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January 11, 2019 5:18pm
- DigNap15
  
  Was he found guilty and punished?
  
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  January 11, 2019 5:35pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yep,
    His father in Sydney paid up $3000.
    
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    January 11, 2019 5:38pm
    - GazzaW
      
      ….and deported for an aviation crime. He will be blacklisted by major airlines and find it a challenge to get visae or entry to many countries given the nature of the crime.
      
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      January 11, 2019 6:41pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Consequences.
        Good.
        
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        January 11, 2019 6:52pm
      - sooty
        
        Having trouble getting a seat on an areoplane as well! Might have to go by boat!
        
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        January 11, 2019 9:56pm
      - GazzaW
        
        He’s buggered sooty. His name and details will be sitting in airline, aviation security and immigration computer systems around the world with a little red flag beside it.
        
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        January 11, 2019 11:28pm
- Inandout
  
  The Cranberry Times are another anti Trump paper, and the comments from TDS people are very telling, mind you the Times is in public servant land.
  
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  January 11, 2019 5:44pm
- nasska
  
  From Maggy’s 5.18pm:
  
  His wetter than wet lawyer said, “she was “gravely concerned” for his safety being remanded in Mt Eden prison, with no family support in New Zealand”.
  
  Poor wee petal that he is. Nineteen years old & separated from his family by an ocean & prison walls.
  
  My heart pumps raw sewage for him.
  
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  January 11, 2019 5:45pm
- KevOB
  
  The outcome seems fair.
  
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  January 11, 2019 6:20pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  That boy is not too bright.
  
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  January 11, 2019 6:42pm
nasska

I notice that Northland Wahine has commented above.

If you scroll down this far could you comment on Shane Jones’ pedigree within the tribal system of the Far North? Thanks.
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January 11, 2019 6:18pm
KevOB

A good backgrounder on far North tribal chiefly contenders would be most interesting
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January 11, 2019 6:24pm
Niz

I just watched a news article where some woman said she had sex with R Kelly and a 14 year old girl, and this made him a paedophile. Doesn’t it then also make _her_ a paedophile?
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January 11, 2019 6:29pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  True. She will probably go to jail now. R. Kelly won’t, of course, because among other things he is a popular, wealthy and powerful male musician.
  
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  January 11, 2019 6:59pm
  - nasska
    
    I’d never heard of the ‘man’ or his music but Wikipedia came to the rescue. Apparently he has earned the nicknames “King of R&B” and “King of Pop-Soul” while his name has been associated with “hip hop”.
    
    For those crimes against good taste, music & humanity alone he deserves LWP.
    
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    January 11, 2019 7:30pm
- Morrissey
  
  We featured him in our “Gropers” series the other day. He’s No. 66…
  
  https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2019/01/gropers-no-66-r-kelly-nov-9-2019.html
  
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  January 11, 2019 7:57pm
  - Swifty
    
    Reported for linkwhoring.
    
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    January 11, 2019 8:34pm
    - sooty
      
      And again.
      
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      January 11, 2019 9:52pm
Morrissey

Gropers Special ALERT!
Did Groper No. 18 say a TWELVE year old was “beautiful and sexually attractive”?

An urgent message from Daisycutter Sports Inc. Groper Division head HECTOR STOOP:

RE: Groper No. 18 (Donald John Trump)

This is too disgusting for comment by anyone at this organization. We advise anyone interested to proceed immediately to the following link….

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-paris-hilton/

This Gropers Special Alert was activated by HECTOR STOOP, for Daisycutter Sports Inc.
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January 11, 2019 7:46pm
- starboard
  
  Reported for link whoring.
  
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  January 12, 2019 6:56am
nasska

As a deeply concerned citizen of NZ who professes little interest in the domestic affairs of the USA I am challenged by your refusal to ignore the predations of local Labour politicians & their enablers.

I refer of course to:

1) The queer bastard whose sick behaviour forced an innocent young man to hitch hike naked in Kilbirnie.

2) The well connected groper who preyed on stupefied teenagers at the Karangaheke youth camp a year or so back held to provide fresh meat to Labour’s hierarchy of perverts & fiddlers.

Won’t someone think of our children?
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January 11, 2019 8:19pm
- sooty
  
  Certainly not Morrissy is going to look after the children!
  Probably graduated the camp in 1923 himself!
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:51pm
stoptheboats

Just looking at the news after a busy day.
Stuffed has a write up on the trams proposed for Wellington that is hilarious -if it wasn’t going to be curtains for businesses and traffic flow!
Featuring a 6 meter wide pathway required for twin tracks, major carpark and lane losses, raised tracks by 1.5 metres cos Warming dont ya know , the $1.5 billion cost yeah right just ask Sydney about their trams project.

Meanwhile not a dogs show of a 2nd Mt Vic car tunnel and Basin flyover we are screaming for with Lester te ora Makariki Mayor and JulieBikeGenter pulling hard on the handbrake.
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January 11, 2019 8:41pm
- Niz
  
  I know it will be resisted by those that don’t care about other people’s money, but you’d think that there would be some way to ensure these projects had to go through some (legitimate) cost/benefit analysis, and meet some kind of threshold.
  The cycle ways business that is being imposed on us seems to be little more than some fools’ pet project.
  Same goes for the Hamilton/Auckland train.
  It’s our money they’re wasting, ffs.
  
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  January 11, 2019 8:51pm
Nostradamus

From Australia: Most uni students get a job within months of finishing but some courses do better than others

The Federal Government surveyed more than 120,000 university graduates last year and found almost three-quarters had gained a job four months after leaving university. But there was wide variation between courses.

Summarising the rest of the article:

1. Full-time employment for:
– pharmacy graduates (97.2% in full-time employment after 4 months)
– medicine graduates (94.9%)
– graduates from the rehabilitation, dentistry, veterinary science and engineering fields.

2. Mixed bag for: science and mathematics (64.6% in full-time employment after 4 months).

3. Dole prospects for:
– creative arts graduates (52.2% in full-time employment after 4 months)
– graduates from the tourism, hospitality, personal services, sport and recreation (59.6%) and psychology (33%) fields.

So, in New Zealand, if you complete a gender studies course, or Cat Pause’s fat studies course, or something equally useless… it’s the dole queue for you!
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January 11, 2019 8:57pm
- Tall Man
  
  Degree in communication seems lucrative……
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:26pm
  - sooty
    
    Might earn some money.
    But all you are doing is flapping your gums and making noise!
    Will the even remember you next year?
    
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    January 11, 2019 9:45pm
stoptheboats

How many weeks holiday does the PM get?
Hardly heard a peep for weeks. The rest of us wages slaves are back on the tools.
Not good enough, theres issues needing sorted in this nation.For example thousands of tonnes of coal are being imported from Indonesia to keep the lights on via Huntly power station. Next up is large scale imports of LNG from Oz will be required if new gas isnt found- which it wont be thanks to 2Pies ,PWCShaw to Rise and Cindykindergarten at UN.
People , its time to get active in rolling back the fantasy land lunatics in the Cabinet .
Get boned up on the facts at a good website I came across recently energy voices. co.nz
Let’s do this
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January 11, 2019 9:15pm
- sooty
  
  Get real. She does nothing when she is ment to be working! Floncing around the country going to kindys, is about all she does. As Whiney to sort it for you. She’s useless!
  
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  January 11, 2019 9:42pm
  - DigNap15
    
    She may be useless, but her policies are very bad for NZ.
    These are what has to be stopped and reversed.
    
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    January 12, 2019 7:08am

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