General Debate 11 March 2019

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radvad

Just wondering if Julie Ann Genter saw the old white men on TV1s Good Sorts last night, raising money for Fred Hollows foundation by chopping and selling firewood. Perhaps she will demand these guys “move on”, after all we need more young, coloured female wood choppers.
If she had kept watching she would then have seen on Country Calendar the old white man and his family milking cows, putting the milk in recyclable glass bottles and selling them locally. A very Green objective.
Then if she had kept watching she would have seen on Sunday the surgeon from Nelson who actually pays to be a volunteer to provide medical care to impoverished and desperate people in African countries, based aboard a Mercy ship. Guess what, the surgeon just happened to be pale male and stale.
Just a few examples of the contributions made by JAGs least favourite people. I wonder if she believes they should stop doing their great work and “move on”. If not she could perhaps swallow her pride and revisit that school where she disparaged old white men, apologise for her bigotry and acknowledge the huge contributions made by pale stale males.
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March 11, 2019 8:00am
- KiWombat
  
  Not to mention that the driver of her daily airbus to WellyWood would often be a stale male too.
  
  London to a brick that’s OK though !
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:04am
- Chuck Bird
  
  Another thing I noticed was that the hospital ship was funded by a Christian organization and most of the volunteers were Christian and the African country was about 85% Muslim. Why does no Muslim country offer assistance?
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:10am
  - waikatogirl
    
    6000 sick people in Ghana lined up when the hospital ship docked to see if they would be the lucky ones to get medical attention for their hideous deformities and life-threatening sicknesses.
    Despite all the problems with the NZ health system we are blessed to have access to a functioning health system.
    
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    March 11, 2019 8:22am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      I wonder what the CGT rate is in Ghana.
      Oh, I see the problem right there.
      
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      March 11, 2019 8:38am
      - Jack5
        
        That’s CGT phobia, Shaun.
        
        NZ is one of three countries in the 36-member OECD – the developed nations – without capital gains tax.
        
        Of the other two, Belgium has fairly heavy land transfer taxes and Singapore has property taxes.
        
        Meanwhile NZ is just 48th in the world in GDP per capita, and 114th in the world in real growth (growth net of inflation) in GDP.
        
        It’s not as though present economic policies are great.
        
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        March 11, 2019 10:51am
      - labrator
        
        Meanwhile NZ is just 48th in the world in GDP per capita, and 114th in the world in real growth (growth net of inflation) in GDP.
        
        Are you suggesting we can tax our way to prosperity?
        
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        March 11, 2019 1:56pm
  - Scott
    
    Chuck Bird – that’s a very good question? The idea of charity is Christian. As it says in the Bible, “if you give so much as a cup of cold water to 1 of these little ones because he is my disciple then you will not lose your reward” (Matthew 10:42).
    The teaching about looking after fellow Christians was extended by the disciples who realised that the mission of faith and good works extended not just to the people of Israel, not just to fellow believers, but to our neighbours, whoever they may be.
    
    Muslims are supposed to look after other Muslims? People who are not Muslim, not so much.
    
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    March 11, 2019 8:30am
    - Swifty
      
      So if I was to identify to you examples of charity which predated Christianity – would that negate your proposition that the idea of charity is Christian?
      
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      March 11, 2019 8:45am
    - slightlyrighty
      
      Regardless of your faith, or lack of faith, I take my morals from 2 statements attributed to Jesus Christ.
      
      “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”
      
      “Let he who is without sin throw the first stone”
      
      For the sake of simplicity, I have distilled these down to one easy to remember mantra.
      
      Don’t be a dick.
      
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      March 11, 2019 8:48am
      - Viking2
        
        Add to that.
        Be nice to people and help those that can’t help themselves.
        
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        March 11, 2019 9:02am
      - sooty
        
        Yer, help all the bennies that sit on the couch and don’t want look after their own kids!
        
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        March 11, 2019 9:13am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Yep, that is the way it goes because we are a civilised society in the first world in spite of the muppet party trying to transform us into a socialists utopia
        
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        March 11, 2019 9:53am
      - Random Punter
        
        Or, as George Bernard Shaw said, “Do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Their tastes may be different”.
        
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        March 11, 2019 10:09am
      - Nigel Kearney
        
        Don’t forget the corollary: if someone is both a Christian and a masochist, do not live next door to that person.
        
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        March 11, 2019 1:35pm
    - freethinker
      
      I haven’t noticed other large Muslim countries – Saudi/Qatar/Emirates/Indonesia/Pakistan providing much aid to their fellow Muslims. Considering the level of Muslim hatred of White Christians from Western Capitalist countries just wonder why the hatred when their own faith followers stand idly by?????????????????????
      
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      March 11, 2019 11:03am
      - Scott
        
        Freethinker – according to the Guardian “Saudi Arabia has been funding mosques in Europe that have become hotbeds of extremism”. So there is aid in a sense to fellow Muslims to build a mosque in western countries. But it does seem that Saudi Arabia in the process wants to overthrow western countries by establishing Islam as the main religion.
        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/13/saudi-arabia-boosting-extremism-in-europe-says-former-ambassador
        
        Unfortunately Muslims are divided amongst themselves as to who are the true heirs of Mohammed – Sunni or Shiite. And they hate each other and much of the violence in the Islamic world stems from this division.
        
        I believe there is some charity in Islam? They are supposed to donate something like 2% of their income to help the poor among themselves.
        
        But as others have mentioned Muslims see the idea of helping non-Muslims as a bad thing. It is literally against their religion.
        
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        March 11, 2019 12:24pm
  - MCos
    
    I remember watching a series on Al Jeeza called Indian Hospital about a hospital in Bangalore that was able to use profits from treating well resoursed patients to provide free treatment to the desperately poor, which is another variation of the same thing.
    I’m sure this is just the tip of the iceberg.
    Colour, age or religious is not a factor for any of these people, I would have thought.
    
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    March 11, 2019 9:33am
  - Komata
    
    Chuck@0810
    
    Re: ‘Why does no Muslim country offer assistance’?
    
    Why no Muslims?
    
    Put simply, they DON’T CARE!!
    
    In the Muslim world it’s every man (since women don’t count) for themselves and if you die, so what!
    
    Your loss, my gain…
    
    Christianity is the ONLY religion which advocates caring for others, often to the detriment of self, a state of affairs that Muslims can’t comprehend, and, because they don’t comprehend, deride it as a ‘weakness’, and call Christian believers who practice such things ‘fools’, when it’s far from it.
    
    Noticeably, the self-same muslims are not averse to acepting ‘Christian’ aid when it suits their purposes, although the fact that said Christians even offer such aid only serves to confirm the ‘fools’ appelation.
    
    Far easier to kill your enemy, take his possessions and show no ‘weakness’; the policies advocated by mohammed.
    
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    March 11, 2019 11:44am
    - Paulus
      
      Surely it is like the Moslems in Invercargill where funds have been made available – almost certainly from Saudi Arabia, for them to purchase the Freemason’s Hall.
      Sadly as a service organisation for hundreds of years there is now insufficient members to join the service provided by the Lodges. It is said that as they do not accept women members in New Zealand (or Australia or the UK) that they are almost no more.
      Sign of the times where service organisation are rapidly dying.
      
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      March 11, 2019 12:33pm
- The Heat
  
  It’s a joke many of these far-left people call themselves progressive.
  
  In typical left-speak, they are the polar opposite. They want to regress to 18th century life, advocating bicycles, trains, wind power and craft production methods.
  
  Dressing up their bigotry wearing a different mask.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:20am
  - Ed Snack
    
    Not so funny where they are espousing basically the same ideas as the Nazi’s. Hitler’s idea was to classify people by their race, so for example Slav’s were inferior to Aryans, and Jews inferior to all.
    
    This group membership defines one’s position and rights is simply repurposing that same ideology.
    
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    March 11, 2019 10:17am
- pdm
  
  The milkman on Country Calendar was a white middle aged male too.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:36am
  - sooty
    
    Stale pale male, employing family and lots of others, while using glass bottles!
    You deserve a beer! Well done!
    
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    March 11, 2019 9:20am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Now that she is the mother of a pale male and the partner of a pale male, I wonder if she will make exceptions for her special people.
  
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  March 11, 2019 9:40am
- Gravelroad
  
  Well said radvad.
  Ms Genter is a shallow, immature individual – now with a pale, male child who, all going well, will one day grow old.
  I feel sorry for Genter – she lives in a bubble shielded from real life and judges from a position of ignorance.
  
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  March 11, 2019 9:56am
  - sooty
    
    Till the next election.
    
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    March 11, 2019 1:36pm
DigNap15

I just wonder if Genter has seen all the big empty buses driving around our cities.
They are all empty
And the empty seats hidden by tinted windows.
No wonder they can’t get drivers, as there is no job satisfaction from driving an empty bus round all day.
We are paying for this via our taxes and our rates, and it also clogs up our roads with useless bus lanes.
Also using(wasting a lot of diesel.)
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March 11, 2019 8:03am
- Evadne
  
  But they discontinued the bus routes which were popular and well patronised, because they didn’t fit with the grand Master Plan.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:11am
- hullkiwi
  
  Just wait in 5 years time Auckland is due to begin a programme to replace those diesels with even more expensive electric buses.
  
  Don’t worry though, the need will be for even more buses than currently, because of the weight displacement of the batteries, means each bus Carrie’s 8 fewer people than a conventional 12 metre bus.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:18am
  - sooty
    
    HA, HAAA, HAAAAAAAA!!!!!
    So does that mean there will be two buses on every run. One big bus followed by one little one to pick up the rest?
    
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    March 11, 2019 9:25am
- freethinker
  
  Same thing in ChCh and I question why use 17 Ton buses when Minivans as used as shuttles would be a better use of resources on suitable routes. Answer arseholes in the Regional Councils prefer to subsidize the corporates like Maori tribes who pay no taxes on profits so undercut private operators and now those same regional authoriteis like e-can want to appoint (not elcet) Maori to their boards which in Canterbury means the two reps normally elected and Ngai Tahu aligned will be joined by two more making 4 out of 16 members Maori aligned and far in excess of Maori population. Time to tax Maori the same as Pakeha – no exceptions.
  
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  March 11, 2019 11:10am
Shut the hell up you Fascist!

Julie Ann Genter has a mental illness called ‘Narcissistic Personality Disorder’.

The condition is almost untreatable. Don’t try.
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March 11, 2019 8:04am
- harvey wilson
  
  She said in an interview she thinks the patriarchy is an organisation that actually exists and it’s really scary .
  
  Who’s Npd is worse in the Green Party ? Hers or Golly G?
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:10am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Marama “C Bomb” Davidson would be up there. She was going full Communist Manfiesto on the news last night and yet she goes unchallenged.
    
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    March 11, 2019 8:14am
    - harvey wilson
      
      That photo of C bomb announcing she’s reclaiming the c word and her colleagues expressions in the background is an absolute classic.
      
      You’d think if she had an actual concern for the environment she wouldn’t have had 6 kids.
      
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      March 11, 2019 8:18am
      - sooty
        
        Her problem is easly fixed.
        Don’t vote green!
        
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        March 11, 2019 9:26am
      - Nibbles
        
        Right there, that’s it. Anybody who has kids is contributing to the problem, right? And any couple who has more than two (replacing themselves, in other words) is downright irresponsible towards Planet Earth, yes? So why doesn’t somebody call out C-bomb on this apparent hypocrisy?
        
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        March 11, 2019 9:49am
      - Ruahine
        
        She needs the C word because her vocabulary is somewhat limited.
        
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        March 11, 2019 11:16am
  - dime
    
    of course it exists! I’m a paid-up member. $99 a year for full membership.
    
    The Annual Patriarchy Picnic is great. The best sandwiches ever. Made by women of course.
    
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    March 11, 2019 11:03am
    - freethinker
      
      You do sarcasm so well – keep it up.
      
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      March 11, 2019 11:12am
    - alloytoo
      
      I get the wife to pay my subs. She insists.
      
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      March 11, 2019 11:31am
      - harvey wilson
        
        I’m going to mansplain to my mrs why she should pay my membership to the patriarchy
        
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        March 11, 2019 1:14pm
    - Nibbles
      
      Down at the Rover Club, our monthly pot luck dinner is a fine example of old white men doing all the talking, and old white women doing the cooking. Only $50 a year subs. It seems to work for everybody. Why fix what ain’t broke?
      
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      March 11, 2019 12:31pm
- LTA1955
  
  It’s the most common disorder in the feminazi ranks. It morphs into dancing around the “cauldron” at any PPTA meetings as they celebrate any demise of hapless stale pale males.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:17am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    One male teacher at my partners school, one in a staff of 30
    
    There needs to be a quota to address this imbalance, it’s not fair, it’s an organised matriarchy, there needs to be a seperate government department with it’s own dedicated minister because all these measures are working so well now
    
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    March 11, 2019 8:26am
    - DigNap15
      
      yes where is the equalidy?
      
      @Male teachers madda
      
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      March 11, 2019 9:10am
    - MH
      
      very few even know the rules of Rugby Football, however women’s rugby is increasing in player representation.
      
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      March 11, 2019 1:49pm
      - calendar girl
        
        I’m fine with women playing rugby if that’s their choice, and I hope that those involved enjoy the game. But I’m coming to the end of my patience with women rugby commentators and comments people on TV becoming involved with men’s rugby in increasing numbers.
        
        Broadcasters in NZ seem to have decided that male and female rugby media people should be deployed in near-equal numbers, and the same for the ‘experts’ who provide special comments during breaks in play. It’s all just PC rubbish, of course, and it relegates the game to mere virtue-signalling ‘equality’ of the species.
        
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        March 11, 2019 4:29pm
      - dave_c_
        
        Yes calendar girl – I agree 100 percent – The other elephant in the room for me is the increasing use of ‘In Aohteearower’
        
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        March 11, 2019 4:57pm
Yvette

One minor truth that Tova O’Brien didn’t seem to know about the leaked expenses –
New disclosure notes issued alongside today’s expenses reveal that Bridges is charged $171 per hour for VIP travel services while ministers are charged only $68 an hour.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12208261

Simon Bridges’ $83,693 in transport costs – which triggered the Jami-Lee Ross revelations – would have been $33,281 if he had been charged at the same rate as ministers.

So, Labour ministerial transport seems to be charged at a rate less than 40% (39.76% in fact) of what Simon Bridges is charged.
Why?
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March 11, 2019 8:05am
- waikatogirl
  
  Tax the opposition!
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:33am
- jonno1
  
  I think that relates to how the charges are calculated. Parliamentary Services charges out in full (fixed + variable) but Ministerial Services charges out variable only. The overall cost is the same, but reported differently. Or something like that, someone may have a better understanding of it than I.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:44am
marcw

The Dompost has an article declaring summer is never ending in Wellington “even as we march through autumn” apparently. It’s 11th March – not yet 2 weeks into the “official” technical start of autumn.

Two days of cricket; washed out. Cool temperatures for the last 4 days. Yet according to their headline, summer will never end. Lol “journalism”. It’s really really dead.
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March 11, 2019 8:07am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Yeah how do they spin out a course for 3 years to teach kids “Ctrl C” and “Ctrl V”?
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:16am
- kowtow
  
  “Journalism” is committing suicide , slow but sure.
  
  They’ve beat us round the head with wimmins’ issues due to the UN mandated day and now they’re doin’ the same with the young ‘uns climate rage shite.
  
  Real people see that real wimmin’s rights are being smothered by the left/progressive/crony capitalists flooding the west with hordes of angry dangerous third worlders and thinking people can see the climate scam for what it is , another attempt by the left/progressive/crony capitalists to exert even more control and change on us.
  
  Then they wonder why “populism” is becoming so popular and the media / govts so distrusted.
  
  https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/10/swedish-conservative-leader-mass-migration-has-led-insecurity-women/
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:31am
  - Ed Snack
    
    I don’t have a problem with striking kids over climate change – not sure that it is legal though…
    
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    March 11, 2019 10:19am
    - alloytoo
      
      If you strike your mate’s children and visa versa it’s just assault as apposed to parental child abuse (sarc)
      
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      March 11, 2019 10:43am
- rangitoto
  
  Autumn for us starts at the March equinox, when the Sun crosses to the northern side of the celestial equator.
  
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  March 11, 2019 10:11am
holysheet

Back in the day in Morrinsville, Cindy and her parents were out walking their dog. During our friendly conversation, I asked Cindy what she wanted to be when she grew up. She said she wanted to be Prime minister someday.
Both of her parents, Liarbour Party members, were standing there with her, so I asked her,”If you were PM what would be the first thing you would do?”
She replied.. “I’d give food and houses to all the homeless people.”
Her parents beamed with pride!
Wow… what a worthy goal!” I said . . . But you don’t have to wait until you’re PM to do that!”
What do you mean?” she replied.
So I told her, You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and trim my hedge, and I’ll pay you $50. Then you can go over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the $50 to use toward food and a new house.
She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, Why doesn’t the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?”
I said, “Welcome to the National Party…”
Her parents aren’t speaking to me anymore, but like Cindy, I don’t give a shit.
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March 11, 2019 8:08am
- MT_Tinman
  
  She thought that over for a few seconds
  
  This is the bit I find unconvincing.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:13am
  - Tall Man
    
    Lost me there as well.
    
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    March 11, 2019 9:33am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Yes – it implies acutal understanding of the transactional nature of life which we know Ardern is completely bamboozled by.
    
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    March 11, 2019 10:33am
    - sooty
      
      She could think it over while lawnmowing!
      
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      March 11, 2019 1:42pm
DigNap15

I hope Countdown withdraw their gift voucher offer.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/111064745/hindu-mans-beef-with-blenheim-supermarket-after-mislabelling

And tell him to suck it up.
Its over
He’s still alive.
Take your stupid religion back to India!
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March 11, 2019 8:08am
- MT_Tinman
  
  Along with 8,915 of your relatives.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:14am
- kowtow
  
  “I don’t want to go to court against a big corporation. I just want to go home,”
  
  Bye , bye.
  
  I see stuffed didn’t have comments on the story , how very queer.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:36am
  - harvey wilson
    
    Stuff seem to have stopped comments on most of their articles now.
    
    Have you heard of dissenter ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_Dissenter
    
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    March 11, 2019 8:50am
    - kowtow
      
      They don’t like it up ’em.
      
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      March 11, 2019 8:59am
    - DigNap15
      
      The Comments section on Stuff is a good feature.
      The Herald need to copy it.
      And STOP CENSORING THEM!
      
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      March 11, 2019 9:12am
- fernglas
  
  Jaswinder is a Sikh name. He is wearing what looks like a Sikh bracelet on his wrist. There is no dietary prohibition on Sikhs eating beef.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:40am
  - sam green
    
    No – “Jaswinder” is a Hindu boys name.
    
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    March 11, 2019 1:21pm
    - sooty
      
      I think he’s just winding up for some free shit!
      
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      March 11, 2019 1:44pm
      - kowtow
        
        Yep I reckon his real name is Pisstaker .
        
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        March 11, 2019 2:48pm
- Swifty
  
  I’d quite like to see this claim tested in court.
  
  Quite apart from the fact that lamb and beef mince looks and smells quite different, I’d like to see this man argue what ‘loss’ he has suffered and why all of this compensation for travel, accom and business losses is necessary.
  
  I guess we’ll soon see much more labelling up at the supermarket from now on.
  
  ‘While we do our best to label correctly, we do not warrant that all meat is correctly labelled and that you buy this meat at your own risk.’
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:56am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Oh dear, do I have to run off to the media to virtue signal… we have bought 3 packets of the wrong sized coffee capsules for our new machine from the supermarkets. Who knew that as well as the capsules that fit our particular brand machine, other coffee machine makers have a different pod size that is not interchangeable! The packets don’t appear to have different sizes noted on the packets. Yes I am out of pocket, but hey, live and learn. ?
    
    Caveat emptor
    
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    March 11, 2019 9:22am
- Tall Man
  
  FFS, it was labelled “Lamb Roast” and it was mince…
  
  Wouldn’t you think there was something wrong about that?
  
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  March 11, 2019 9:37am
- Straight arrow
  
  This is guy who deliberately ripped off workers. According to Employment Relations Authority member Christine Hickey said Paul’s practise of underpayment was “widespread” and he had taken advantage of “vulnerable” workers on transient visas, some of whom had poor English skills and were not aware of their rights.
  
  His actions were “deliberate, not inadvertant,” she said. Not a mistake like the meat then…
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/108783728/marlborough-vineyard-workers-paid-less-than-half-of-minimum-wage
  https://www.bizdb.co.nz/company/9429046110381/
  
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  March 11, 2019 9:42am
  - alloytoo
    
    He should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
    
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    March 11, 2019 10:47am
  - fernglas
    
    He also fronted an application for a liquor licence in Blenheim on behalf of a company owned by two Sikh men. It was refused. The application was heard an effectively treated him as the company’s alter ego. The two Sikhs had little or no English.
    
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    March 11, 2019 10:55am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  Don’t have a cow, man!
  
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  March 11, 2019 2:22pm
- wombatge
  
  Looks like this guy has a little more on his mind than eating a little beef.
  I am guessing there is only one individual of that name at the hair dressing shop?
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/108783728/marlborough-vineyard-workers-paid-less-than-half-of-minimum-wage
  
  Business registration
  https://www.bizdb.co.nz/company/9429046110381/
  
  Wonder if he bought the business from this poor struggling lady, or she is still part of the deal.
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/inspire-me/87948084/indian-barber-kuldip-kaur-makes-her-mark-on-marlborough
  
  She appears to have a liking to the vineyard contracting business also. What a coincidence.
  Hit me with a feather.
  https://www.bizdb.co.nz/company/9429046110381/
  
  I just make the comment, sometimes you can bring undue attention to yourself that can end up being very negative.
  Just love diversity, screwing the lower casts in india is the normal way of life, why not continue it in NZ. Could move onto Aussie, we also welcome these practises with open arms.
  I just hope they don’t cut hair on Tuesday’s, this is a much bigger sin than eating beef, in Fact Hindu’s have eaten beef for hundreds of years, it is in Indian school text books. Individuals, it is up to them.
  I hope the supermarket gives him the bird.
  
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  March 11, 2019 3:42pm
secondcumming

The person I feel the most sorry for ……. is that silly bastard from Hong Kong who paid *$420k* for the sequined glove at Jacko’s memorabilia auction 😎
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March 11, 2019 8:11am
- G152
  
  Did it come with contents ?
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:15am
- toby1845
  
  Apparently the other glove was found during Freddie Mercury’s post mortem.
  
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  March 11, 2019 10:17am
DigNap15

Has there been any coverage of Marama Davidson’s CGT speech where she says its only the beginning?

National just need to keep playing this
And the fact that there are 500,000 small bushiness owners
And that there are 500,000 lifestyle block owners.
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March 11, 2019 8:12am
- hullkiwi
  
  Yep, she was interviewed on Red Radio this morning. She and her friends are lining up to support Taxcinda and Robbo on the CGT. How it unfolds within the CoL, will be fun to watch.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:28am
- Colville
  
  no way there are 500,000 lifestyle blocks in NZ.
  IIRC lifestyle blocks are circa 5 – 7% of total.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:29am
- Surely Knott
  
  A few questions re the lifetyle block CGT:
  1. Can I put my business on the second acre? – If you currently own two acres, and you currently have a home business. You would want your house and acre 1 to be exempt from cgt so can no longer run my business from your home. So if you put a minor dwelling on the second acre away from your house which is subject to cgt anyways, can you then have acre 1 and your house tax free, and on acre 2 build a minor dwelling to run you business, and then deduct the minor dwelling and 2 acre of lands mortgage and business costs ? Who determines which area is the acre that goes with your house? Can I determine the shape? 2. Valuation – They’re also treating the second acre of land as if it’s the same value as the first. If you live in an area that is protected and can only build one house on a property, then the cost of 1 acre of land under your house is makes up almost the entire value of the land. The second acre is only marginally more in value. 3. Bush Sections – they are defining lifestyle blocks by acreage – so does that also include native bush sections. What about areas that council required to be planted in Natives, can we deduct that value. Going to be a lot of Greenies in the West, Waiheke who are going to have to put their money where their mouth is.
  
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  March 11, 2019 9:12am
hullkiwi

Why does Davidson pretend she is a Green? She isn’t, she is a good old unreformed, red blooded true Communist and thick with it.

Listening to her this morning at 7.20am being interviewed by Espiner.

In her world if you own a home and have low debt levels you are the reason people in Manurewa are sleeping in cars, so you should be taxed heavily to redistribute to these people.

I hope the latte sippers of Epsom and Grey Lynn are happy with themselves, giving their party votes to the dumb tougher and her equally useless colleagues.
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March 11, 2019 8:14am
- harvey wilson
  
  I hope she keeps talking, she’s the best reason not to vote green since the material girl said she wanted to crash property values.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:27am
  - Swifty
    
    Yep, just imagine if they had chosen a leader more reasonable, pragmatic and with broad electoral appeal.
    
    Labour must be pleased they chose Davidson.
    
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    March 11, 2019 8:59am
- ex-golfer
  
  And yet I frequently see her and her shadow, GG, gracing the Koru lounges around the country, gourging themselves on the buffet.
  She us just another fake hypocrite…..like most of the Green MPs.
  #DoAsISay,NotAsIDo
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:45am
  - jonno1
    
    Surely a real hypocrite, not a fake? Credit where credit is due please!
    
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    March 11, 2019 8:55am
    - ex-golfer
      
      Yep – good point……I need coffee!!!
      
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      March 11, 2019 9:08am
  - Swifty
    
    Best gig they’ve ever had.
    
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    March 11, 2019 9:00am
  - srylands
    
    If I see them I will request that they use their fame and power to persuade Air New Zealand to renew the buffet menu which has not changed 2001.
    
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    March 11, 2019 9:00am
    - Lance
      
      I don’t even bother with Air NZ Koru lounge at Auckland anymore.
      What a fucking joke that has become, usually seating is max’ed out with shit food, if available at all.
      
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      March 11, 2019 9:56am
      - BeaB
        
        I love it. I order my coffee as I go in, there is always something to eat if I need a snack (I don’t expect a full meal in Koru) and I can relax with a drink while I await my flight. What is there to complain about?
        
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        March 11, 2019 10:20am
      - lifesgood
        
        Totally agree, Lance. I was meant to renew my membership last week but didn’t. Having been loyal to AirNZ for many years I now find they are not competitive so am flying on other airlines on good deals. It is way better to just pay a per visit fee and use the Strata Lounge in Auckland. The Koru Lounge is way too expensive, packed to the rafters and is no longer peaceful with kids running everywhere too. You may as well sit with the plebs out in the open.
        
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        March 11, 2019 10:42am
    - dubya
      
      I have recounted on here before about the time I saw Golly the Wog pretended to slum it in the plebs departure lounge because she was being followed by a camerawoman (presumably for self promotion purposes). The next week she was back in the Koru Lounge.
      
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      March 11, 2019 10:16am
      - Nibbles
        
        She loves a camera, does Golly. You’ll notice every TV news report she appears in includes an obviously staged shot in which she minces about and pretends to talk importantly into her phone. It’s more than I can stomach most nights.
        
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        March 11, 2019 12:35pm
      - harvey wilson
        
        Does she drag her beta to Wellington with her or leave him at home to spend his days cucking it out on twitter?
        
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        March 11, 2019 1:18pm
      - Nermal
        
        Her beta should learn there’s a difference in being a comedian and being a joke
        
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        March 11, 2019 3:43pm
  - lifesgood
    
    The Koru is regularly packed with union officials too. Using the money (fees) scabbed off the workers, I guess.
    
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    March 11, 2019 10:45am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Yes, Laila Harry, that socialist to the core, is another one I’ve seen in the Koru lounge.
      
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      March 11, 2019 11:34am
- Komata
  
  hk@0814
  
  Re:: ‘In her world if you own a home and have low debt levels you are the reason people in Manurewa are sleeping in cars, so you should be taxed heavily to redistribute to these people’.
  
  Any bets that that she will put up a fight to make sure that is exactly what she WON’T be doing (being ‘heavily taxed’), despite (I’m told) owning a home etc. etc. etc.?
  
  ‘One rule for thee, another for me’; the Communists are very good at it…
  
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  March 11, 2019 12:30pm
Happychappy

It’s fine for the American backers of Hillary Clinton to suggest NZ could be a target for Russian hackers at the next Election but it would be nice to see that our NZ receiver of hacked information the horrible Hager is monitored also. The Left in NZ Politics will be praying that information is made available to this excuse for a Journalist as the Coalition death rattle is continually getting louder.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/03/2020-new-zealand-election-a-juicy-target-for-major-hack-john-podesta.html
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March 11, 2019 8:15am
Yvette

We are probably in need of a new word – perhaps twyfordism, because Phil Twyford was notably the first doing it, where we are told more than one version of something, or similar things – like one story about 10 houses in Wanaka, and another about 20 in Pakakura – that just meld into one jumble of information and no one then has any idea what he has said – and more importantly: no fucking idea of what he is actually doing.

Shane Jones is the same with his trees: explaining who is growing them and how many – then an iwi is, and next that iwi isn’t.
And Twyford (again) is doing it with transport and infrastructure, particularly “light rail to Auckland airport”.
And Jami-Lee Ross too, with slightly differing confessions concerning his “mental meltdown”, which will eventually shift all blame from himself to everyone else.

But in terms of motivation, Twyford and Jones seem to be aiming at just obscuring everything so you can’t tell they have failed abysmally – that they haven’t met their stated targets. What targets – they were done away with about three versions ago – please, keep up!

And the Ardern idea of a “debate” to fill the two month vacuum following the Tax Working Group report back. I thought that was an utter mockery of her Waikato Uni Bachelor of Communication Studies (BCS) in politics and public relations, and another total lack of planning, but I realise now it is a further example of twyfordism.

It will allow her or Winston, or both, to ride in, out of the clouds of confusion, shooting down the trash Cullen identifies and leaving a simplified and watered down version of the skurge that Simon and the media are erecting, and we will be so grateful – marvelling at their brilliant translabourency, that we will agree to the legislation by voting them back into power and forgetting they were the ones to dump all this crap on us to start with.

Veni, vidi, vici – ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’
Veni, confusi, vidi, vici – “I came, I confused, they saw, I conquered”
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March 11, 2019 8:18am
- DigNap15
  
  Yes Ardern!
  When is the debate, because I want to be there!
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:31am
  - Yvette
    
    DigNap15 – When is the debate, because I want to be there! 
    
    The “debate” is apparently now.
    
    But that is the tricky point alluded to above –
    With whom and exactly about what, and how?
    And – I guess in that context – Why?
    
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    March 11, 2019 12:00pm
Maggie Pie

Caught that interview on Newshub last night with Tova O’Brian and ly’in Hilarys campaign manager, John Podesta. I thort it was quiet interesting and there were a couple of things that really stood out for me – just how high Tova’s forehead appears to be, and, if John Podesta is so smart, how come he forget to put his socks on?
Link here if you missed it.

https://twitter.com/NewshubBreaking/status/1104621227803463681
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March 11, 2019 8:23am
- waikatogirl
  
  I noticed Tova’s forehead the other day. She could try taking Vitamin D, monthly dose, to encourage regrowth.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:49am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Do you think it would work for the male of the species as well?
    
    Asking for a friend.
    
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    March 11, 2019 9:00am
    - waikatogirl
      
      As I understand it, if hair loss is recent the root may still be alive and hair may regrow. I’m only speaking from my experience after having shingles and a bit of thinning. The Vit D definitely helped. The scalp apparently responds to vitamin C too. Thinning hair is common after sickness or the body being under considerable stress.
      
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      March 11, 2019 9:33am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Thanks sooo much WG! its just that i know someone who has recently been given a prescription for the drug ‘Propecia’ . When i had a sneeky look at the instruction leaflet it said one of the side effwcts could be dificulty in achieving an erection. Anyway i’ll pass on that Vit D info next time i see them.
        
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        March 11, 2019 9:53am
      - waikatogirl
        
        You’re welcome Maggy Pie. Monthly dose Vit D on prescription. It may sound weird but Greek yoghurt with a squeeze of lemon juice is my go-to as well. Seems to help hair health, plus moisturises the scalp and hair really well. ?
        
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        March 11, 2019 11:38am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Hope you dont think i’m dence WG, but just to clarify, do eat the yogurt mixture – or rub it on?
        
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        March 11, 2019 12:11pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Rub it on scalp for a few minutes before washing it out. Can’t do any harm eh!
        
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        March 11, 2019 7:59pm
    - Swifty
      
      Please remember that there is no point thatching the roof of an empty house.
      
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      March 11, 2019 9:48am
    - Tall Man
      
      Viagra is a proven “hair restorer”. Even if it doesn’t work as planned the diversionary aspect of the pill may divert your attention away from the lack of hair……
      
      Heard it from a friend.
      
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      March 11, 2019 9:48am
- Inandout
  
  It is the Irish background that often throws things up:
  
  https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/irish-ancestry-dna-map-ireland-vikings-genetics-science/
  
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  March 11, 2019 9:11am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    This is the best part…
    
    To participate, all eight of your great-grandparents have to have lived within about 30 miles of each other in Ireland,
    
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    March 11, 2019 9:55am
    - Inandout
      
      Maggy, does though help explain ‘Irish Logic’.
      
      ‘Billy stops Paddy in Dublin and asks for the quickest way to Cork.
      Paddy says, “Are you on foot or in the car?”
      Billy says, “In the car.”
      Paddy says, “That’s the quickest way.”
      
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      March 11, 2019 10:44am
    - Nibbles
      
      They did. Except there was only 5 of them.
      
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      March 11, 2019 12:46pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      I participated in the National Geographic genome Project, brilliant to see it extrapolating out.
      
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      March 11, 2019 2:07pm
Chris R

Credit where credit is due: Last week Simon Bridges scored a couple of good hits on Jacinda. I hope this is the start of a genuine campaign because provided it is handled well National have a chance to tip Jacinda’s fiasco out simply due to her rabid CGT plans. I suggest she is now wishing she’d never heard of a CGT as her body language, scowling and sarcasm are all coming to the fore. Her mannerisms are that of a 4th former and her repartee somewhere south from that. I hope Simon just keeps on and on at her…this may be his pivotal moment as a politician.
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March 11, 2019 8:29am
- DigNap15
  
  Yes 500,000 small business owners.
  Yes 500,000 life style block owners
  And Davidson wants all tax payers to pay for the bludgers to live in a nice warm home with free power and a couch so they can watch the Blues all day.
  
  No more NEETS!
  They are not fair on us.
  
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  March 11, 2019 9:08am
- alex Masterley
  
  Looks like the Nats will be spoiled for choice this week at question time…
  
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  March 11, 2019 11:42am
Salacious Crumb

In case there was any doubt as to the ideology behind these ISIS cowards demanding assistance; even the women:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6792049/ISIS-wife-defends-jihadis-rape-murder-Yazidi-women-allowed-Quran.html
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March 11, 2019 8:30am
- Shut the hell up you Fascist!
  
  We don’t worry about the same attitude among certain classes of ‘Maori’ in New Zealand.
  
  What’s the problem with the same in Syria?
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:33am
  - DigNap15
    
    That’s a catchy Alias you have got there!
    
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    March 11, 2019 9:06am
- hullkiwi
  
  I hear the UK has taken steps to strip two more dumb jihadi sisters of UK citizenship. This after the sisters left London, went to Syria and are now in a refugee camp in Syria. Clearly, they were happy to turn their backs on the UK, now they must the consequences of their actions.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:41am
  - waikatogirl
    
    The sisters have 5 sons between them.
    
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    March 11, 2019 9:00am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Quite a fluke….no daughters…………….
      That we know of
      Just future ISIS fighters.
      
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      March 11, 2019 11:48am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      No FGM then?
      
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      March 11, 2019 2:11pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Good news.
    But I find it hard to believe that the UK has the balls to do this!
    Finally
    
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    March 11, 2019 9:05am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      30 years too late
      
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      March 11, 2019 10:01am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        some would say 50 years too late.
        Unpalatable but
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpVhafP9PLw
        Turned out to be true, not for the Black Commonwealth citizens, but the Muslims.
        
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        March 11, 2019 11:49am
- kowtow
  
  That article claims the Quran does not allow the things that ISIS did. So it is another subtle journalistic whitewash of the ideology that spawned this latest manifestation of death, destruction and mayhem.
  
  ‘The reality is that the Islamic State is Islamic. Very Islamic. Yes, it has attracted psychopaths and adventure seekers, drawn largely from the disaffected populations of the Middle East and Europe. But the religion preached by its most ardent followers derives from coherent and even learned interpretations of Islam.’
  
  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:50am
- Ruahine
  
  This won’t be in the Herald on Sunday or any of our MSM so-called news outlets.
  
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  March 11, 2019 11:31am
Huevon

Jacinda wakes up this morning to a Shane Jones shaped headache.

Of course nothing will get done about it, because nothing is ever done about these things. She doesn’t set any standards or punish poor performance. These problems will just keep happening, again and again.
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March 11, 2019 8:33am
- RF
  
  Tugger Jones just ignores the lying little creep posing as our PM.
  
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  March 11, 2019 9:32am
- Paulus
  
  Remember that Jones has no liking – putting it nicely, for Ardern. She cannot touch him and he knows it.
  Mind you Jones does not like anybody anyway.
  
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  March 11, 2019 12:43pm
  - Nibbles
    
    But he LOVES himself.
    
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    March 11, 2019 1:11pm
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      “But he LOVES himself.”
      
      Repeatedly and with vigour.
      
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      March 11, 2019 4:32pm
alloytoo

Kiddy Strike

1. Seems a little unnecessary in NZ as the current regime is doing lots of and lots of absolutely nice feely unmeasured undefined things about climate change.

2. Like most (if not all) proposed actions against climate change this action is going to have little or no effect on climate change and the immediate costs by far outweigh the supposed long term reduction (if any) of carbon emissions.

3. Children would be far better served in continuing their education, focusing perhaps on cost benefit economics and resources allocation. This will have far more measurable tangible benefits to New Zealand and the world in being able to deal with the challenges of the future.
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March 11, 2019 8:39am
- harvey wilson
  
  Every other kid will be stoked all the most preachy obnoxious virtue signalling twats are going to be absent for a day.
  I think it should be encouraged.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:47am
- simpleton1
  
  The kids would be better served building a photo-voltaic system at school from scratch.
  Build a wind mill with dynamo.
  Build a hydro turbine, like in the down pipe from a roof.
  May be it might help with heating, like the school central heating, or swimming pool.
  
  With gauges, meters, then being able to figure the actual costs, and returns. Is it worth while in scaling up?
  
  Does a school teach enough basic arithmetic, to figure some of these things out?
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:47am
  - DigNap15
    
    They couuld also study Geography and be taught that NZ ony has 5 million people.
    China has 300 times that many people.
    India about the same
    Pakistan a desert basket case with no natural resources has 130 million 26 times our population.
    Nigeria
    Uganda
    Egypyt
    Brazil
    These are the countries that need to be reducing their popualtion and their emissions.
    We are feeding the world.
    And we have lots of trees.
    
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    March 11, 2019 9:03am
    - alloytoo
      
      “And we have lots of trees.”
      
      Indeed, ironically planting trees instead of striking is possibly the only thing they could do which would visibly sequest carbon and yield positive economic and aesthetic results.
      
      If only Shane’s great nephews and nieces could persuade their parents to get off the couch.
      
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      March 11, 2019 9:17am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    They could also be taught to read a thermometer.
    They could also discuss (and perhaps do some statistics) why each thermometer in the class records a slightly different temperature.
    https://sciblogs.co.nz/physics-stop/2019/02/22/measuring-the-temperature/
    
    Then they could think about how we know what the Global Temperature is (or isn’t).
    https://www.cfact.org/2016/01/26/measuring-global-temperatures-satellites-or-thermometers/
    
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    March 11, 2019 10:08am
  - backster
    
    You can’t blame the kids. They have been filled with the bullshit that the world is going to end in 10years and are too young to realise that we have been getting this crap forecast for at least the last 40.
    
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    March 11, 2019 10:49am
- holysheet
  
  Cindy doesn’t go to these schools for nothing you know. The indoctrination has started the day she was selected by the drunken dwarf.
  “Comrades, join me in getting rid of all these old white men who have caused all this climate change. Comrades, let us show them how it’s done. Join me comrades, in a protest on Friday”
  “Lets do this Comrades”
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:50am
  - KevOB
    
    How lawful is it for Ardern to incite children not to attend school as required under the Education and other Acts?
    
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    March 11, 2019 5:55pm
- ex-golfer
  
  Not many would turn up if it was on a Saturday!
  
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  March 11, 2019 9:09am
- RW Capitalist
  
  As imperfect as it is, this is the reason we have age restrictions on voting and don’t give CHILDREN the vote.
  repetition of a problem (supposed)
  Demanding that Mummy and daddy fix it.
  But no suggestion how or thought as to helping with the solution.
  Young people….a thought for you
  When the current polluted state of YOUR bedroom is fixed, by YOU.
  When the money to feed, clothe, house and educate you, is PAID for by Y O U. Then the rest of us who have been doing this for decades, may actually listen.
  When you stop berating us for “the mess we made” actually building the country, economy and infrastructure, that you take for granted as you litter it with MacDonalds wrappers, while calling us the polluters. Then perhaps we may lend you an ear……Note lend it to you, not GIVE it to you.
  We may then choose to (because WE earned the right) agree with you, or ignore you as is also our EARNED right.
  
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  March 11, 2019 12:04pm
- KevinH
  
  I would set the children an assignment for the day. A four hundred word essay examining the causes and impact of global warming and how they could contribute towards reducing emissions.
  Also a discussion the next day.
  
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  March 11, 2019 12:39pm
  - Sacha
    
    And each essay to be read by the writer, and the rest of the class listen in respectful silence.
    Basic lessons in politeness, reading one’s opinions out loud, tolerating criticism, etc, etc.
    Sounds good.
    
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    March 11, 2019 1:22pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    I’ll start them off, with a paradox
    Last night they advertised a TV show about using drones to track Blue Whales and the Krill (shrimp) they eat.
    Q: since global warming will actually improve the conditions for phytoplankton (food of the shrimp), will that in turn improve the life of the Krill?
    Therefore the life of the Blue whale?
    Why are we worried?
    In eons gone by, when the temperatures were actually much warmer than today.
    Life was more abundant and diverse.
    Insects grew much bigger, because there was more opportunity for them to do so.
    Animals of all kinds grew much bigger, because there was more opportunity for them to do so.
    Plants grew much bigger, because there was more opportunity for them to do so.
    Tell me again, why are we worried?
    
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    March 11, 2019 2:37pm
secondcumming

It will be interesting to hear what the *Tamihere/ Fletcher* ticket has to say about the 90m extension to Queens Wharf……..pro business – or not?
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March 11, 2019 8:57am
Kabull

(Reply to Allytoo 8:39 comment)
Kids would also do well to learn about things like:
– the regular occurrence of glacial cooling (ice ages) and their frequency (about 10000 years);
– the extent of the polar ice caps and their spread down to northern Europe, central Britain and middle USA, and their role in the creation of fjords ;
– the US dust bowl period of the 20s and 30s;
– the freezing of the Thames in winter in the 18th century;
– continental drift (plate movement) and the shift of the tropics;
– the constant movement of the earth’s alignment and the flipping of the poles;
– oil and coal being the result of the breakdown of plant material that grew in tropical climates (why is there coal deposits in Antarctica?);
– the loss of miles of the east coast of England through coast erosion
I could go on, but you will get the point. Few of these natural events had any input from mankind. I guess even modern teachers would struggle to explain the natural history of the earth. It has clearly become a forgotten topic in the last 10-20 years.

How is it that the things we learned in the 50s and 60s have become unacceptable today, yet all those things remain valid?
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March 11, 2019 9:07am
Happychappy

I am still trying to fathom why our corrupt media has got away with publishing articles for days on Alfred Ngaro when he was in Government on his abuse of power when he threatened to withdraw funds from a entity that was being critical of him and the Government. Now several days ago a Labour Minister threatened to do the same for criticism over animal safety in the Nelson fires with the media letting it slide after one day, I find this to be a absolute disgrace as they had great joy at trying to put Ngaro to the sword and have let the Agriculture Minister O’Connor have a free ride for the exact same type of comments. Our MSM are bias and a bunch of corrupt hypocrites.
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March 11, 2019 9:30am
lastmanstanding

I am hoping the failed MMP experiment will end at Election 2020. The disaster of Election 2017 when the 7% Party got to select the Government and the PM they wanted plus to impose their policies on the other 93% such as the Three Billion Dollar Election Bribe should be evidence enough to stop the minorities tyranny of the majority.

MMP was always about minorities controlling the majority nothing else.

Let hope we get back to democracy.
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March 11, 2019 9:35am
- DigNap15
  
  How will it end?
  If people keep voting for those parties it will stay.
  It would need a massive campaign against MMP that would take years and years to build some traction for it.
  
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  March 11, 2019 9:56am
  - ex-golfer
    
    It is rapidly ending of its own accord.
    Small parties simply do not get a foothold in New Zealand, despite all the advantages of MMP.
    History tells us that any minor party that goes into government ends up losing support in the following election cycle.
    And on current polling 2020 is shaping up to be a 2 party race……..just like the good old days of FPP.
    
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    March 11, 2019 10:20am
- Kleva Kiwi
  
  The problem is easily solved. The Party whom attracts the most votes must be part of the government.
  
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  March 11, 2019 1:37pm
MCos

Tweet by Marco Rubio @marcorubio
‘Today another transformer explosion at the German Dam in Bolivar State caused another massive blackout. Blah Blah Blah . . .’

Tweet by Germán Dam @GEDV86
‘ . . . . . it was not in a dam, much less german.
My name is Germán Dam, I am one of the journalists who published the information.’
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March 11, 2019 9:47am
stoptheboats

Cabinet will be interesting this morning….
PM, looks like Shane is absoludly out of control so make him step down please Winston.

WP . nah theres a Rahui on sacking any of my team so up yours
PM fair enough,let’s not do this..Anyone got anything to say?

GrantyRobbo . Ok team, if CGT gets mentioned this week by hosking garner et al , the official line is simply that a Working Group is being set up to provide advice on the proposed tax exemption list which is currently over 555 Maori and rainbow entities .In fact so far only 3 people will be actually paying the CGT but its definitely a goody.

Twiffid , kiwibuild is taking off like a 737 Max, in fact not a day goes by when it’s not making news!
PM, yes and that brings me to an exciting announcement , so call in the MSM and Vogue please. ( Media pour in,pushing jostling for prime position..)
” it is my pleasure to tell cabinet and the universe that with recent unkindness from some blog sites attracting undue attention I can reveal that another Squirrel is on the way AND I have proposed to Clarke and we’re engaged to be married in Sept 2020 ! If that doesn’t bring voters to their senses what will?
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March 11, 2019 9:54am
Dave Mann

Racial privelige is alive and well.

As I write this, there’s an ad appearing just below the comment box for ‘Ngai Tahu Tertiary Grants &Scholarships Scholarships’.

When clicking on the link one is taken to a site that appears to be just a mishmash of racial propaganda focusing on Maori ‘customs’ and (quote) “knowledge and ideas that will strengthen and grow Ngāi Tahu and our community” (unquote). No mention of the actual word ‘education’.

This is here on KB, New Zealand’s most influential and IMHO most balanced political blog.

Go figure.
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March 11, 2019 10:00am
- BeaB
  
  Ngai Tahu send 5-year-olds an impressive school kit with things like a tablet, school bag, jacket, $50 voucher for Hannah’s, goggles, drink bottle, lunch box, tooth brush, nit comb, skipping rope, reading cover and a greenstone pendant. What a great gift to a youngster starting school. What agood use of iwi funding.
  
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  March 11, 2019 10:26am
  - mandk
    
    And Ngai Tahu make it clear that they expect their young people to achieve.
    
    Ambition and expectations counts for a lot.
    
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    March 11, 2019 10:37am
    - IndividualResponsibility
      
      Ngai Tahu financial success in the South Is can be laid at the feet of the leadership prevailing in the 70s/80s, largely Mr Syd Ashton, appointing senior roles based on merit.
      
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      March 11, 2019 5:46pm
      - Universal Smith
        
        Ngai Tahu are an example for other Maori to follow. In my view not enough is made of their success, against a back ground of other Iwi elite ripping off their own people with settlement money.
        
        Ngai Tahu use the handouts and handups to further their people. I have to respect that.
        
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        March 11, 2019 5:54pm
      - Universal Smith
        
        Another point is I reckon they are good guardians of some key tourist areas and businesses. They have a great commercial head and business acumen.
        
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        March 11, 2019 6:07pm
  - Jack5
    
    A good school start for what’s to come.
    
    Ngai Tahu, like other Maori get special entry to Medical School.
    
    At the University of Otago, Ngai Tahu must be consulted before work begins on any university research project (see link below).
    
    At Canterbury University, the Ngai Tahu Research Centre offers several scholarships. Details include:
    
    ” … preference will be given to applicants whose projects promote matauranga [knowledge] Maori within the sciences, commerce, law or engineering and are linked to the mission and current research foci of the Ngai Tahu Research Centre.
    
    The big Treaty settlement – and top-up – plus company tax exemption for Ngai Tahu’s many businesses mean the tribe is well able to afford to give its five-year-olds sensible school start kits plus greenstone pendants.
    
    Otago research:
    
    https://www.otago.ac.nz/research/maoriconsultation/
    
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    March 11, 2019 1:26pm
alloytoo

@kabull

Sadly Young Earth Creationists, Anti Vaxxers and Climate doom merchants are cut from the same cloth.

All of them ignore, or attempt to rewrite, history, make unsupported assertions and reject all evidence contrary to their assertion oft citing some sort of conspiracy.
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March 11, 2019 10:03am
DigNap15

Denver Chance’s killer
A man has been arrested.
Looks like he’s one of our special people!
I wonder what the circumstances were?

Is it time we had a curfew on them.
Or time we had strict 100% birth control on them.
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March 11, 2019 10:12am
- ex-golfer
  
  Odds on drugs were involved
  
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  March 11, 2019 10:16am
- Poppa
  
  Very sad for his family that is for sure
  
  I know someone who knew him & in fact was helping in the search. From what he said about him he didn’t have any enemies so this is all very strange
  
  At least they have an arrest
  
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  March 11, 2019 10:21am
  - Nermal
    
    I’m sure someone was turning their life around
    
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    March 11, 2019 3:52pm
- ex-golfer
  
  Big ups to the Police in this instance.
  Arresting a man “outside a Mt Eden bar”, not long after finding Chances body meant they obviously were able to determine pretty quickly what has happened.
  A good result.
  
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  March 11, 2019 10:25am
  - mara
    
    It was De Post in Mt Eden Rd. Seems our chap likes a good Belgian beer.
    
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    March 11, 2019 12:35pm
- secondcumming
  
  Listening to a bit of late night talkback…. there was a rather agitated caller to Tony Amos last night who said he lived in Lower Hutt. He was saying there was some old bloke murdered and decapitated there recently. Reckoned the offender(s) played soccer in the street with his head. Amos cut him off a bit early – but sounded like he knew a lot about the mowdy gang problem down that way and the inability of the cops in being able to deal with it. Very worrying.
  
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  March 11, 2019 10:31am
- waikatogirl
  
  I said to hubby when it was reported Denver Chance had disappeared and hadn’t been heard from or seen for days, that he would be found in a shallow grave.
  The police get a lot of criticism but they also do a great job.
  
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  March 11, 2019 11:52am
- mara
  
  Apparently he had a child with him when he was arrested. Some role model eh.
  
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  March 11, 2019 12:02pm
rangitoto

It’s said the NZ Greens are like a watermelon, green on the outside and red on the inside. It would be more accurate to say that the green is a thin veneer which is faded, cracked and mostly peeled off.
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March 11, 2019 10:32am
ex-golfer

This is a great read:
https://spectator.us/justin-trudeau-fallen-grace/

Anyone see similarities to little old NZ and our lovely posidive leader, Jacinda the Great?

I particularly like this part:
Trudeau’s ethical conundrum highlights the vulnerability of leaders who win on platforms of inspiration, positivity and change. The high road is a smooth path to the top, but once you arrive there’s an inherent problem: how to get stuff done?
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March 11, 2019 10:46am
- kowtow
  
  Tony Bliar was the same. Came in cool went out with blood covered hands but makes a fortune non the less.
  
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  March 11, 2019 10:55am
emmess

I am a bit pissed off
I just got this email from my son’s high school:

A Message about ‘Schools Strike for Climate Change, March 15th 12.00pm – 3.00pm Aotea Square
Parents/caregivers will no doubt be aware though the media of plans for this strike as part of an international day of action.
If you wish to give permission for your student to attend, please email our Attendance Officer: [REDACTED] before this Friday 15th March providing the name of your student and the time period of their absence from school.
Classes will be running as usual so if we do not hear from you, we will expect your students to be in attendance.
Thank you
[REDACTED]

I responded:
Hi [REDACTED]
Can you tell me how it is a student’s strike if the school is arranging it?
Thanks and regards

What a load of BS
The politicians tell the teachers unions who tell the teachers who tell the students what to do.
Completly fake activism.
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March 11, 2019 11:03am
- waikatogirl
  
  Have the students been writing and making signs for ‘their strike’ during class time?
  
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  March 11, 2019 11:55am
- rightoverlabour
  
  write a letter to the BOT indicating that the school is breaking the law by doing this.
  
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  March 11, 2019 11:56am
- Albert_Ross
  
  I’ve no time for this silly strike, but I think you are being a bit harsh on the school here. Nothing in their email indicates that they are “arranging” the strike, nor even encouraging it. And they have a clear need, given their duty of care, to know which pupils they should expect to turn up on the day and which not.
  
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  March 11, 2019 11:57am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    What the school should be saying is the strike is illegal and we expect all students to be at school unless they have a valid reason such as sickness etc. By doing what they are doing, they are effectively condoning the absence.
    
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    March 11, 2019 12:27pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      And there have been enough days off and teacher strikes to come.
      
      Are any teacher’s accompanying the students and also having time off?
      
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      March 11, 2019 3:22pm
- emmess
  
  Good points from all, I’ll find out and keep you posted. Check back in on my comment this evening
  
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  March 11, 2019 12:22pm
  - emmess
    
    I asked my son and he doesn’t know anything about it. So I would have to agree with both Albert’s comment that I was a bit harsh on the school but also with Nibbles that the school could have worded the email better.
    
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    March 11, 2019 4:13pm
    - emmess
      
      Here is the school’s response:
      
      Hi [REDACTED]
      The school is definitely not organising the strike nor is it taking any sort of stance on the issue. The email we sent out is [REDACTED] taking preemptive responsibility for the jurisdiction of our students. If parents wish to email us that they allow their student to attend the event, then we will know to mark the student absent and that those parents will not expect us to be acting ‘in loco parentis’. If parents do not email us, then we will expect those students to be in class under our jurisdiction.
      Regards
      [REDACTED]
      
      I am reasonably happy with that
      
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      March 11, 2019 4:19pm
- Nibbles
  
  I no longer have the email to refer to, but my son’s high school had an entirely different approach to the matter. They stated that there were far better things that students could do towards ameliorating climate change, and while they wouldn’t stop anybody from attending the strike protests, any student attending would be marked with an unexplained absence.
  
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  March 11, 2019 2:01pm
dime

Herald headline – watch SBW deliver a two-punch combo when he was 18 years old.

*Dime clicks video*

SBW hits a 3 punch combo.
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March 11, 2019 11:04am
- DigNap15
  
  I’m not into violence or boxing.
  I’m more of a ballet guy.
  Or beach volley ball
  
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  March 11, 2019 12:06pm
  - KevinH
    
    My worst night out was accompanying my partner and her friends to a Limbs Dance Company performance on the night of an All Blacks vs South Africa test match.
    Needless to say I’m not into dance but performed my duty with dignity, missing a test match the ultimate sacrifice.
    
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    March 11, 2019 1:04pm
    - stigie
      
      That is the ultimate sacrifice KevenH and to think more people will sacrifice more of their hard earned money for this government to give it all away how they please !~
      
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      March 11, 2019 3:11pm
    - ABS
      
      You failed to give us your impression of the Limbs Dancing Company performance Kevin.
      D- for reporting skills but A+ for starting with a capital letter
      
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      March 11, 2019 7:42pm
- Longknives
  
  I enjoyed watching Frans Botha belting SBW to within and inch of his life.
  Keep in mind Botha was about 45 years old by then.
  And also keep in mind that a much younger Frans Botha was cannon fodder for Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson etc ( Lennox literally knocked him out of the ring)
  
  But according to NZ’s gushing sport’s media SBW was a ‘Boxing superstar’! And the ‘Greatest since Ali’ etc etc
  Was it Twelve Rounds or Ten Sonny? Ha Ha…
  
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  March 11, 2019 4:31pm
RRM

Stuff: “It will be 30 years before Canterbury’s biggest polluters stop burning coal!”

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/111017854/coal-will-keep-burning-across-canterbury-for-decades

IF ONLY there was some sort of clean-burning, locally-produced alternative like, oh I don’t know, NATURAL GAS that could be used instead?

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March 11, 2019 11:26am
Surely Knott

Brooke Loader has been selected by Labour to run for Henderson-Massey local board apparently. So far she’s run unsuccessfully for Waikato, Manurewa and this will be her third location. Brooke Loader is Shane Henderson’s partner. Shane is Current Chair of Henderson Massey and running for Councillor. What extra influence would she have on the Councillor if they were both elected. Would the other local board members get fair hearing. Will they declare that conflict upfront during the campaign ?
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March 11, 2019 12:03pm
Captain Mainwaring

Words fail me. How divorced from reality can can these bloody lefties get?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12211429

A ‘superstar’! FFS
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March 11, 2019 12:05pm
- emmess
  
  Podesta the molester? WTF
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfL5KwUuvMc
  
  Is Jacinda into that freaky shit as well?
  
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  March 11, 2019 12:24pm
- Nibbles
  
  That’s a frightening picture of her. Looks like something straight out of a Hammer Horror film.
  
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  March 11, 2019 2:03pm
MrTips

So Vodafone’s going to get the phone scammers in Delhi to do their callbacks for them.

Do Windows know about this?
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March 11, 2019 12:11pm
- DigNap15
  
  Whats wrong with employing our own Indians?
  
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  March 11, 2019 12:34pm
  - Komata
    
    DN15
    
    No, No, no, there are no ‘our’ Indians; they aren’t ‘indigenous’ so how can they possibly be ‘ours’?
    
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    March 11, 2019 1:07pm
- Surely Knott
  
  So the government puts the minimum wage up to $17.70 , and companies decide they can do the job cheaper elsewhere. Who would have thunk it? Venezuela here we come.
  
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  March 11, 2019 1:18pm
  - wombatge
    
    The minimum wage only applies to some of your population, there are certain nationalities that have no regard for minimums.
    They know that a crack at residency(many times a false claim) will have people work for next to nothing, it is very widespread and some get caught, but like drugs, just an alvanlanche of people to take their places.
    Can you guess the nationalties?
    
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    March 11, 2019 3:59pm
Manolo

PM Ardern shares her views, doesn’t she?
https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/nation/ocasio-cortez-blasts-capitalism-as-an-irredeemable-system/article_a500c2ab-c929-5475-9fed-b77fe0bc9b9b.html

“Capitalism is an ideology of capital — the most important thing is the concentration of capital and to seek and maximise profit,” Ocasio-Cortez said. And that comes at any cost to people and to the environment, she said, “so to me capitalism is irredeemable.”
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March 11, 2019 12:14pm
- DigNap15
  
  So we need to change the name.
  To the “Best Economic System” or some similar catchy phrase.
  
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  March 11, 2019 12:44pm
- Inandout
  
  Luckily AOC will isolate herself from mainstream Americans who enjoy the benefits of capitalism. Even Soros protestors depend on their parent’s wealth to survive.
  
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  March 11, 2019 1:55pm
- Nibbles
  
  Like all these lefty idiots, AOC possesses only a very narrow definition of capitalism.
  
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  March 11, 2019 2:05pm
waikatogirl

Another ‘Darwin Award’ recipient tried to take a selfie with a jaguar in a zoo.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-47516340
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March 11, 2019 12:20pm
- rangitoto
  
  Doesn’t pay to mess with a jaguar.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrY4EUirqgE
  
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  March 11, 2019 12:35pm
DigNap15

If you are worried about Climate Change, tell India and China to stop breeding so many new mouths that will need cars and air con and fridges etc and tell them to stop building so many coal fired power plants.
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March 11, 2019 12:37pm
Jack5

Melbourne continues to enjoy diversity dividends …

Ethnic gang fights mar Moomba Festival.

https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/moomba-festival-has-been-marred-by-violent-youths-for-third-year-in-a-row/news-story/da6e40be471d135f2c47337482ff28f7
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March 11, 2019 12:59pm
- Longknives
  
  Melbourne, which used to be a bloody great place, is completely fucked.
  I have a friend who serves in Police over there- She tells me African gangs are literally destroying the City…Many People are now too afraid to go out at night!
  
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  March 11, 2019 4:23pm
Captain Mainwaring

Cullen on CGT: On balance, I’ve changed my mind (Stuff)

I suppose that with the onset of dementia you’re allowed to do that.
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March 11, 2019 1:31pm
MH

if i was a Labour supporter I’d by now be quite irritated by the number of feely feely comments put out for review by the Organisation of fellow travellers , case in point, Prof Brady review for her inclusion, why oh why deny her in the first place ? It’s return to NeveLand all over again.
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March 11, 2019 2:41pm
kowtow

Darwin hasn’t caught up with this c#nt , yet .

“Mr Tohill said Parker was “not a violent man” because ”he can’t be”.

That was because “half his arm” was shot off in a duck shooting accident in Maniototo some years ago, resulting in a ”withered right arm”.

“I know the court could look at it [as] street thuggery . . . however…….”

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/man-stag-do-assaults-three-tourists-resort
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March 11, 2019 2:57pm
- Longknives
  
  Violently attacked an innocent 60 year old tourist (who did nothing to provoke him)??
  This fucker should have gone to jail…
  
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  March 11, 2019 4:20pm
MrTips

In breaking news, Shane Jones has called a media conference to discuss the PGFund. Now, let’s go live to a breathless and unkempt Tequila Quench…….

TQ: Get off me James!!…..ahem, Thanks Wundy. Let’s go straight to Shane who’s making his bold new announcement for the PGFund….

1st Reporter: So Mr Jones, can you tell us about the new plans and format you have for this fund?

SJ: Of course, the illumination of this room, is only a dimly shining fragment of the dark side of the moon. In due course, the crops will harvest, the linen will be pressed and harmonic nirvana shall impress upon your flesh.

1st Reporter: what?

SJ: (with a flourish of the wrist) When the chrysalis of opportunity is emboldened, all means to the ends shall converge and the waters shall part, parched lips shall be quenched and milk and honey will flow for all!

2nd reporter: what does that mean?

SJ: an excellent question! It means the Nats know very little of the opportunity of this scale, to transform the last 9 years of neglect by them and create a new financial transactional tool for govt funds.

1st reporter: and what tool is that?

SJ: an up to date, indigenously approved digital tool for controlling transfers of govt money into small areas with complete control and appropriateness.

2nd reporter: sounds exciting, who created it?

SJ: another excellent question. 10 points for Newshub!

2nd reporter: I’m from RNZ

SJ: ah but one day my dear you shall know the true power of the Fund.

1st reporter: creepy, dude. Now, the program to control transfers?……

SJ: ah yes, its more of an instrument, a monumental method if you like, to allow privacy

2nd reporter: yes, but what’s it called? What IS it?

SJ: ladies and gentleman, all you powers of Heaven and earth……I present to you….BLOCKSHANE.

(stunned silence at a single slide of a Kauri tree looking half dead from dieback)

TQ: …….the fuck?

SJ: yes, it IS amazing is it not? From now on, all transactions in the PGFund shall be controlled by this mechanism. All transactions shall be wisps on the wind, ghosts in the machine, a true Neo in the matrix, complexly controlling all the distributions, all the reporting, all the transfers and all the outcomes.

1st reporter (groaning): who wrote it?

SJ: an independent contractor.

1st reporter: who is?…….

SJ: independent. Can’t you hear?

2nd reporter: was there a govt tender for the program and its creation?

SJ: yes, our govt is very tender and cares deeply for the multiple bosoms of our tamariki, our whanau, our pipi-monsters…..

1st reporter: did the govt pay anyone to make this program?

SJ: I can’t answer that.

2nd reporter: Why not?

SJ: Because its BLOCKSHANED

All reporters: What?

SJ: B.L.O.C.K.S.H.A.N.E.D.

TQ: So what does that mean?

SJ: It means that you, the undeserving, the unwarranted, the unbelievers in our program of elevation, of uplifting, of intense elevation and profound proclamations, will never ever again find out who got money or what they’re doing with it. This program is so important, so complex and so revolutionary, it is not safe to let mere mortals contend with the great vicissitudes and principalities involved.

TQ: so you are now not going to tell us anything about the PGFund at all?

SJ: got it in one baby. What’s your number?

TQ: well, so there you have it Wundy, BLOCKSHANE is in. Doesn’t matter what we do or what we say – it just won’t budge.
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- niggly
  
  Bloody brilliant – when satire is just one step away from reality! Please re-post it 8am tomorrow for a wider audience to read if you can!
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:39pm
- ABS
  
  I just realised who Douglas Adams got his muse for Zaphod from.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:51pm
Chuck Bird

I wonder if anyone would know if Micheal Jackson was a registered Democrat or a Republican.
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March 11, 2019 4:38pm
- kowtow
  
  Don’t know about that , but he was Certifiably Kooked.
  
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  March 11, 2019 4:44pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  I just checked Google. He was a Democrat and supported the rapist, Bill Clinton.
  
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  March 11, 2019 5:54pm
  - ABS
    
    Any links to Podesta?
    Or did they have their own harem?
    
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    March 11, 2019 7:49pm
- Longknives
  
  Hardcore Democrat.
  
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  March 11, 2019 6:14pm
ex-golfer

Great tweet from Hooten:
https://twitter.com/MatthewHootonNZ/status/1104935659125514242?s=20

Of course the copywriter that scripted the article didn’t have the brains to follow this up with a fact check.

Reality: In her entire 9 years in the opposition Ardern introduced 2 bills. 1 which even the Greens opposed and another that suggested establishing a working group (which has certainly come to pass).

Lying comes so easily to her.
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March 11, 2019 5:02pm
ex-golfer

So confident they are in their policies, Labour are collecting signatures AGAINST a CGT.
You can vote in their petition here:
https://www.labour.org.nz/cgt_no
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March 11, 2019 5:07pm
- Longknives
  
  Do you trust them to release an accurate result?
  They are ‘Lying Lefties’ after all….
  
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  March 11, 2019 7:09pm
Maggie Pie

My partnwer just poked his head thru the kitchen door and asked me “Where the f- – k is Fong r ray?” Aparently someone has attacked the cops there 🙁
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March 11, 2019 5:08pm
RW Capitalist

New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union Inc.
Good afternoon…….

Just a quick couple of notes between newsletters…

Labour forgets its own policies – collecting petition signatures on both sides
At first we thought it was a joke, but a keen-eyed supporter noticed that the Labour Party is collecting signatures not just for, but also against, the proposed capital gains tax.

Labour Petition A Labour Petition B

*As long as you don’t mind them having your email address* Click here to tell Labour you oppose this extreme a bureaucratic tax.

Unlike Labour, we know where we stand
Dr Cullen’s proposals fail the tests of fairness and should be axed. Labour voters who agree need only sign up once at http://www.taxpayers.org.nz/cgt ✔️

While we’re on the subject of Dr Cullen
We dug up this gem of an old quote from Sir Michael Cullen, which has now gone viral on Facebook (831 shares so far).

Cullen quote

Now Stuff has turned our work into a news article.

Sir Michael Cullen says he changes his mind when the facts change, but what exactly has changed? Could it be that he’s now paid (by taxpayers) $1,000 a day to promote the tax? ?

Of course, that has nothing to do with it…

Have a great week,

Louis
Louis Houlbrooke
Communications Officer
New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union

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New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union Inc. · 117 Lambton Quay, Level 4, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
This email was sent to jnjsolutions@xtra.co.nz. To change your email preferences, click here.
You can also keep up with Taxpayers’ Union on Twitter or Facebook.
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March 11, 2019 5:25pm
- starboard
  
  LOL..I just received the same email from the Taxpayers Union. Unbelievable. (RWC..you may want to delete your email address within the post )
  
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  March 11, 2019 5:29pm
- ABS
  
  lol RWC you’re a few streets away from me. But yeah delete the post if you can or ask DPF to do it unless youre happy with ztev and Milky knowing who you are. As a safety measure
  
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  March 11, 2019 7:53pm
Viking2

Fill your boots guys. Labour want you to tell them what they should do with your money.

Labour and New Zealand First are conducting online polls to gauge public opinion on a capital gains tax (CGT).

Labour is asking people to sign petitions via its website, either in support of or against a CGT.
https://www.labour.org.nz/cgt_no

Respondents are then invited to indicate how they believe any tax revenue collected from the introduction of a CGT should be spent.

NZ First are into it as well.
https://www.nzfirst.org.nz/tax

t asks respondents to indicate which tax issues they’re most concerned about; a CGT being one of seven taxes presented.

It then invites respondents to spend about five minutes answering questions about any property they own and their understanding of the current tax system.
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March 11, 2019 5:58pm
- ABS
  
  Imagine giving Labour your IP and email address. What guarantees do we have they won’t be skimmed and used against us?
  
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  March 11, 2019 7:56pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Its interesting that you say that the Labour questionaire ask swhat you think the CGT money should be spent on!
    And they have been telling us that its going to be revenue neutral
    LIARS LIARS LIARS
    
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    March 11, 2019 8:21pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yep, Pete George has a post up about this
    
    https://yournz.org/2019/03/11/labours-bob-each-way-petitions-just-contact-harvesting-in-disguise/
    
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    March 11, 2019 8:51pm
    - ABS
      
      Thanks Maggie, I hadnt noticed I barely visit blogs these days. Just an occasional drive by.
      
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      March 11, 2019 9:06pm
- DigNap15
  
  yes I did the NZF one last week.
  I answered all the questions in a dead anti CGT way.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:19pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    I did it this morning.
    the questions are setting up NZF’s support for CGT.
    i went against the tide opposing cgt.
    
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    March 11, 2019 9:07pm
- niggly
  
  So hang on, if these are on political party websites (Lab + NZFirst) does this mean that Labour and NZF actually funded them?
  
  Instead of pilfering taxpayer money via Parliamentary funding sources etc? After all they look quite coordinated!
  
  Well blow me down with a pledge card, I’m amazed!
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:24pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Its a really badly designed questionnaire. However, I told them to support the CGT so we can get rid of them and Labour at the next election.
  
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  March 11, 2019 10:39pm
Viking2

The Prime Minister and her Finance Minister haven’t so much put a breeze behind the National Opposition, as a Force-10 gale. Simon Bridges clearly can’t believe his luck, but he’s certainly making the most of it.

https://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/98545/chris-trotter-says-governments-handling-tax-working-group-has-highlighted-grant
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March 11, 2019 6:00pm
big bruv

The Maori delusion knows no end. https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/food-news/111188428/taking-on-maccas-first-hngi-cafe-opens-in-auckland-city-owner-plans-for-more
I can really see Hangi shops selling that inedible crap all over the world….no, really I can.
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March 11, 2019 6:49pm
- starboard
  
  I’ve known of 2 Hangi food places..both went under.
  Doesn’t the photo of the maori sandwich look ” appealing “..
  
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  March 11, 2019 7:01pm
  - DigNap15
    
    Yes Maori food is one of the most un-appealing cuisines in the world.
    It is time we told them that there is very little in their culture to be proud of.
    
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    March 11, 2019 8:18pm
    - starboard
      
      oohhh..you’re in trouble now. Re-education camp for you my friend.
      
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      March 11, 2019 8:39pm
  - DigNap15
    
    And there used to be one in Rotorua.
    
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    March 12, 2019 5:44pm
- Longknives
  
  “When people get off these ships, this is where they’ll be able to have Indigenous cooking. It’s a true New Zealand dish,”
  
  Bread??
  I don’t want to be that guy pointing out ‘Plot Holes’ but….
  
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  March 11, 2019 7:08pm
- nasska
  
  There’s an outfit at Te Hana, north of Wellsford, that’s been selling hangi meals & another in Doubtless Bay does a Sunday night feed.
  
  Haven’t tasted either so I can’t rate them but theoretically there’s bugger all wrong with steaming food……just so long as taste, palatability or flavour are not sought after qualities which they won’t be.
  
  Inclusiveness, anti-racism, equality & the sheer “Maoriness” of the crap will mask the deficiencies.
  
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  March 11, 2019 7:22pm
  - ABS
    
    Theres nothing wrong with steaming food but hangi is traditionally fat or fatty food. If you add up the calories deep fried chicken and chips is healthier.
    Source, How fucking fat are Maoris really, Agent BallSack C. 2019
    
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    March 11, 2019 8:01pm
    - nasska
      
      Welcome back! 🙂
      
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      March 11, 2019 8:08pm
      - starboard
        
        Sacks back !
        
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        March 11, 2019 8:18pm
      - ABS
        
        Just when you got used to the feel of not having hairy balls dragged over everything…
        But perhaps, a refined, shall we say a smooth BallSack. A BallSack you would like to savour.
        Jiggles seductively
        
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        March 11, 2019 8:57pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Where’s the fried bread / paraoa parai ?
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:35pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/food-news/111188428/taking-on-maccas-first-hngi-cafe-opens-in-auckland-city-owner-plans-for-more

$12 for a lunch ?
No wonder so many people can’t afford to buy a house !
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March 11, 2019 7:16pm
MrTips

Oh God, statue penis guy is back. It’s like the old Labour gang have come back to die.
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March 11, 2019 7:53pm
- sooty
  
  Leftie back in town, needs a trough to land in!
  
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  March 11, 2019 7:57pm
- ABS
  
  If I ever meet him I will ask him how many close friends got thrown off fucking buildings by muslims. Just for gay chuckles
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:03pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Oink. Oink.
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:39pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Hell’s bells.. don’t these old has-beens have some hobbies or mates they could hang-out with in their doddering years?
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:40pm
  - thedavincimode
    
    Indeed they do Maggy. It’s called Local Government. The binding thread is a commitment to serve, or as carter put it: a “way of being useful to my former electorate.”
    
    Less cerebral and deserving folk might describe it as a fear of unemployment and losing tax-free allowances.
    
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    March 11, 2019 8:50pm
    - nasska
      
      …..” “way of being useful to my former electorate.” “….
      
      I can feel the warmth of his humility & sincerity from here!
      
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      March 11, 2019 8:54pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I don’t think there is any salary that could tempt me to sit through endless Local Government meetings.
      
      What is wrong with these characters?
      
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      March 11, 2019 8:55pm
    - ABS
      
      “….I don’t think there is any salary that could tempt me to sit through endless Local Government meetings.”
      
      I am not so sure Maggy, I could easily change my opinions for a quarter a million dollars maybe more plus perks ala Sir Dr Cullen should the right paymaster come along.
      
      Welcome back Committee Member Chris Carter
      
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      March 11, 2019 9:26pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        There’s lots of things I’d do for $250,000.. but not meetings.
        
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        March 11, 2019 9:32pm
Tauhei Notts

Where are the knowledgeable cricket commentators here on Kiwiblog?
I think today’s effort by the New Zealand cricket team was one of their best. Note how those batsmen batted for their team, as distinct from batting for their personal averages.
I seriously doubted their chance of winning in three days and plonked a “Lord Rutherford” on the draw. Goodnight $100.
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March 11, 2019 8:00pm
- ABS
  
  Havent been to the test just got back from Auckland but we’re in the ethically sourced electric short bus drivers seat. Pity about the Indian series though, too much Sri Lanka and not enough seamer (white country) tests
  
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  March 11, 2019 8:06pm
Shaun the Sheep

Don’t forget your reuseable shopping bags and a barf bucket next time you visit your supermarket.
Look who’s gracing the checkout magazine stands:

https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/lifestyle/career/jacinda-ardern-motherhood-marriage-guilt-40727

https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/lifestyle/career/green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-career-choices-40345

Full squirrel release.
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March 11, 2019 10:50pm
Shaun the Sheep

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/111190090/christchurch-measles-babys-mums-plea-think-about-your-community

It never fails to amaze me how wise people can be when it’s too late, then they start dishing the wisdom out to others.

You don’t take a puppy to a public park until it’s old enough for parvovirus shots, and four month old babies belong at home in their beds for similar reasons.

Make no mistake people who won’t vaccinate deserve no respect, but little vulnerable people don’t need to be in a supermarket – because they catch things.
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