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srylands

The vast majority of these people will be UK residents. What a mess.

Afghanistan v Pakistan: fans clash in stands http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/27080398/clashes-stands-headingley-fans-evicted
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June 30, 2019 8:03am
- SGA
  
  My goodness, they are getting as bad as British football fans. They should be setting an example.
  
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  June 30, 2019 12:04pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Awesome booing in Christchurch last night.
    
    The crusaders had the crowd, they had the ref but still needed to boo Beauden Barrett when he took his kicks.
    
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    June 30, 2019 2:19pm
  - igm
    
    Maybe they are following Sadiq Khan’s guidelines!
    It will stop decent people attending these games.
    
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    June 30, 2019 3:30pm
mikenmildagain

Happy Asteroid Day!
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June 30, 2019 8:08am
- All_on_Red
  
  I’d be happy if i could get my hands on this Asteroid
  ‘asteroid, called 16 Psyche, is a massive hunk of precious metals including platinum and gold as well as iron and nickel.’
  ‘Valued at $A14,000 quadrillion, according to Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the lead scientist on the NASA mission, it is definitely worth more than its weight in gold.’
  https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/nasa-announces-2022-mission-to-explore-metal-asteroid-so-valuable-it-could-crash-the-world-economy/news-story/5e0fbb77dc43d304a92f1540cba84c0f
  
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  June 30, 2019 10:38am
  - mandk
    
    A quick internet search indicates that there is about $1 trillion worth of gold in the world, so this asteroid is worth about 1 million times that?
    
    I don’t think so.
    
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    June 30, 2019 11:08am
    - Ross12
      
      “..it is definitely worth more than its weight in gold.”
      
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      June 30, 2019 11:34am
    - All_on_Red
      
      ‘According to the World Gold Council, there are currently around 184,000 tonnes sitting in bank vaults, government reserves and personal collections. That sounds like an awful lot, until you realise that just one cubic metre of the stuff weighs over 19 tonnes. Thus, all the world’s known gold reserves could be laid out on a football pitch in a layer only a metre or so high.’
      
      16 Psyche is over 200kms in Diameter
      
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      June 30, 2019 12:22pm
  - wreck1080
    
    Could the US could use the alien spacecraft stashed at area 51 to retrieve these?
    
    After listening to Joe Rogans recent podcast with ex-employees and witnesses, I’m semi-convinced they exist!
    
    Well, at least I’d like to thing they do.
    
    They likened the technology to sending a nuclear reactor to the 1800’s. The people of the time could see energy being produced , but as soon as they tinkered with it they’d all be killed.
    
    As is what happened when they tried to use a plasma cutter to open the gravity generator.
    
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    June 30, 2019 11:28am
    - Tall Man
      
      Every scenario of us meeting “them” does not end well for us 🙁
      
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      June 30, 2019 2:17pm
  - JamesP
    
    All_on_Red has it.
    
    There is roughly 2×10^8 kg of extracted gold on Earth. Psyche weighs roughly 2×10^19 kg. So Psyche is roughly 1×10^11 times bigger ie. 100 billion.
    
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    June 30, 2019 5:59pm
- BrownSnake
  
  When is UR ANUS day?
  
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  June 30, 2019 2:47pm
Scott

From the “Islam is the religion of peace” files –
https://conservativepapers.com/news/2015/10/05/muslim-imam-muslims-have-the-right-to-kill-anyone-who-does-not-respect-islam/?fbclid=IwAR3O6N8YIHYWp-KgKWWnqo_9TFzPz1qTpCxfkq4desjrz_G76PJG85hazVQ#.XRdLt_B5Z-H

But remember what our Prime minister has told us – “they are us”.
As for me I’m off to church to pray ?
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June 30, 2019 8:14am
- wreck1080
  
  The liberals will say they are misquoting!
  
  The thing with islam, they have a large minority of extremist radicals. Even if it is only 1%, that is still far higher than other religions such as christianity.
  
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  June 30, 2019 11:35am
  - Billy Collins
    
    It’s hard to call it a minority though. In numerous Muslim majority countries, over 50% of Muslims believe radical things. 60-70% of Palestinians believe suicide bombing civilians to defend Islam can be justified. In Pakistan, Nigeria, Jordan, and Egypt, a majority of muslims believe those who leave the religion should get the death penalty.
    
    89% of Pakistanis believe stoning women for adultery is justified. That isn’t even just a majority, that is a super-majority. It’s also above 80% for Afghanistan and Egypt.
    
    Only a minority may actually have the fortitude to act out their beliefs, but that doesn’t change the fact they have a lot of people who agree with them.
    
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    June 30, 2019 1:47pm
RiP NZ

Folau should have just advocated for throwing gays off buildings…..saved all the controversy
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June 30, 2019 8:40am
- kloyd0306
  
  …brilliant because it is true, plus it might wake up homosexual activist and Qantas CEO Alan Joyce who is the chief bully behind the Rugby Australia drama.
  
  Islamic Imams get a pass. Christians do not.
  
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  June 30, 2019 4:34pm
Wired-one

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/113876593/has-labour-found-its-smiling-assassin-in-jacinda-ardern

Tracy Watkins, thinks Ardern has made a brave, calculated call with the supposed sacking of Twyford, what a bloody joke. Ardern is weak and did the bare minimum she could to save face. John Key would have demoted Twyford to the back benches months ago, you know like a real leader Tracy!
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June 30, 2019 8:42am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Tracy Watkin should be ashamed of her for writing this puff piece. Journalism in NZ has reached gutter level.
  
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  June 30, 2019 10:45am
  - igm
    
    Watkins is finishing with Fairfax and possibly lobbying for a top position with Labour.
    Surely these are not the beliefs of a so-called senior political journo . . . has to be a motive!
    
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    June 30, 2019 3:34pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  She would never ever sack Twyford anyway – they’re mates, along with Megan Woods. Hardly any tactical surprises going on…
  
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  June 30, 2019 11:01am
Happychappy

Why is it that our Government is more interested in spending taxpayers money all round the Pacific when people have help fund the tax the Government gets can’t be helped for illnesses like cancer. Then after hearing of a couple of mothers having to give birth in their cars because the Government didn’t think it was their Maternity Hospital was needed, so then we have another story hitting the headlines that of two other mothers that gave birth in another Maternity Hospital that they deemed not fit for service. I and properly many other can’t see why taxpayers money is being given to other Countries when people are dying in NZ because we can’t find enough money to pay our nurses and doctors,make our hospitals fit to use and fund drugs to give some a better life. It looks like our Prime Minister and her Deputy are more interested in themselves and how many photo shoots they can get than fund people that have paid tax to see their children grow up.
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June 30, 2019 8:45am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Just cancel the stupid gun buy back…
  
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  June 30, 2019 10:45am
  - igm
    
    They will not do that . . . with the exception of a few, most gun owners are white and right!
    
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    June 30, 2019 3:35pm
- peterwn
  
  There is a genuine problem with the Pacific nations. The Peoples Republic of China is courting them like mad. For example there are AFAIK four embassies in Samoa – NZ, Australia, USA and China.
  So efforts are needed to limit Chinese influence which means giving aid etc. Cannot leave it all to the Mormons to try and keep China at bay.
  
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  June 30, 2019 12:20pm
  - Jack5
    
    Apart from aid, NZ has a diplomatic weapon in immigration.
    
    It could use permanent and temporary immigration quotas as levers on the the Pacific mini-states. Can’t imagine too many Polynesians and Melanesians would prefer to migrate to Shanghai.
    
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    June 30, 2019 2:12pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Really?
    
    We have a gdp of 206 billion $US ish.
    
    China has 12.5 trillion $US.
    
    For the labour voters… China has the bigger number.. NZ is approx 1.7% of China.
    
    Who is fooling who?
    
    PS: ardern doesn’t “do” gdp so I suppose it is irrelevant
    
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    June 30, 2019 2:14pm
Charmaine Hawke

Wow 8.50 and nothing posted on the GD and the same 5 comments on the previous post. This place is a ghost town.
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June 30, 2019 8:51am
mark15

Has everybody heard that a .22 long rifle tracer bullet (not a round of ammo),in fact any tracer bullet, is now more dangerous than a .50 BMG ball round?
Yes,a bullet is now more dangerous than a round of ammunition.
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June 30, 2019 8:53am
- G152
  
  The .22 is ‘dangerous to a mile.
  The .5 at least 3 miles
  
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  June 30, 2019 10:56am
  - Wangas Feral
    
    Only if pointed in the wrong direction.
    
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    June 30, 2019 11:33am
- toby1845
  
  Sorry, Mark, but you’ve lost me.
  
  A round IS a bullet. And a bullet is a round. They are different words for the same thing.
  
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  June 30, 2019 11:07pm
srylands

Everyone must be asleep.
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June 30, 2019 8:53am
Fletch

First!
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June 30, 2019 9:04am
Liberty

I don’t recall in nine years of National government did we have babies.
Being born on the side of the road.
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June 30, 2019 9:07am
- WaveyDavey
  
  *Ahem* 9 long years of National neglect if you please
  
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  June 30, 2019 10:27am
- igm
  
  Liberty: What about all these homeless people in the streets and beggars . . . seems MSM have gone blind.
  
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  June 30, 2019 3:39pm
John Warren

9.13am and no comments. Mods all sleeping in again?
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June 30, 2019 9:13am
hmmokrightitis

Ive not been round much here the last few months; life got busy, the new moderation policy etc etc.

I wanted to impart the news that a month ago my beautiful blond and I tied the knot. With collective kids by our sides, on a beach in Fiji, she made me the happiest man alive. The party was, to say the least, memorable 🙂

There is another life beyond what might seem a crushing blow, when all light seems to have gone from the world. I found I was able to be happy again, and then she walked into my life and we have never looked back.

As for me now, mid 50’s, Im heading for semi-retirement, no more than 30 hours a week, more time for me, the blond, the kids. Im lucky, but then hard work creates its own luck right? Im about to head out the door and ride Rotorua trails for a few hours, kids and the blond with me. After that, lunch at Good Eastern.

Life is pretty damned good. Happy trails people.
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June 30, 2019 9:17am
- calendar girl
  
  Very happy for you, hmmokrightitis.
  
  Hold on to your actual “wellbeing” with all your might. It’s much more rewarding than any fulfilment that comes – supposedly – from a CoL Budget!
  
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  June 30, 2019 11:40am
igm

I suppose gang headquarters and mosques will not be searched for firearms, only properties belonging to white males. I would love to know what hides behind the walls of many mosques but they evidently can secret what they like with impunity.
This a bloody joke and to be expected from the pathetic useless CoL ruining this country.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-shooting/113666061/police-check-firearm-licence-applicants-for-signs-of-extreme-right-after-march-15-terror-attack
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June 30, 2019 9:22am
WaveyDavey

Today’s ~~white-guilt & self-flagellation~~ breaking news

White people make brown people kill their children

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/113786310/you-may-roll-your-eyes-but-oranga-tamariki-child-uplifts-are-a-symptom-of-nzs-colonial-history
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June 30, 2019 9:23am
- John Warren
  
  We’ve also had the Maori psychiatrist telling us yet again that racism in NZ is “structural”. She can piss off too. I’m sick to the gills with hearing this crap.
  
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  June 30, 2019 10:57am
  - dubya
    
    How did she get through medical school?
    
    Oh wait.
    
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    June 30, 2019 11:21am
    - sooty
      
      Special places for special folk!
      
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      June 30, 2019 12:28pm
  - igm
    
    Get it right: Too many monetary and associated benefits for lazy people to breed — then find they cannot handle the responsibility!
    
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    June 30, 2019 5:53pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  All my life I have noticed that people who blame others for their problems don’t ever seem to have practical plans to overcome their difficulties. Either they can’t formulate such plans, or they lack the will to carry them out. No-one is stopping them. (Except themselves.)
  
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  June 30, 2019 1:43pm
- GoVege
  
  If only they’d uplifted Lilybing..Nia Glassie…James Whakaruru…and countless others.
  
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  June 30, 2019 1:57pm
  - igm
    
    And yet another today!
    
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    June 30, 2019 3:41pm
- GoVege
  
  Good to see Alan Duff saying that blaming colonization is not the way forward to improve things for Maori.
  An example could be the people on tv last night whingeing about how damp their homes were.
  I couldnt help thinking of how smoky and uncomfortable their homes apparently were prior to the dreaded “colonization”.
  In any case, Labour has forked over $20 a week to every beneficiary in the country to warm and dry their homes this winter.
  
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  June 30, 2019 2:56pm
wreck1080

This guy worries about the euthanasia bill, but, I seriously doubt he would have qualified, as he did not have a terminal condition.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/euthanasia-debate/113428458/instead-of-offering-assisted-suicide-lets-help-those-who-are-suffering
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June 30, 2019 9:26am
John Warren

This speaks for itself. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/393276/new-cycleway-blamed-for-halving-dairy-owner-s-trade
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June 30, 2019 9:32am
- sooty
  
  Build a cycleway and they will come!
  
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  June 30, 2019 10:32am
  - John Warren
    
    But when? The cycle way looks pretty empty in that photo. And still Mr Patel waits…
    
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    June 30, 2019 10:58am
  - Tall Man
    
    Bulldoze a cycleway and they’ll come back 😉
    
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    June 30, 2019 11:57am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Maybe in the boondocks.
    
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    June 30, 2019 12:07pm
- kowtow
  
  Those RNZ headlines are a bit of a worry .
  
  Baby dead in hospital , from deliberate injuries, 2 dead in car crash , and one charged with a firearms murder.
  
  I thought this was the year of delivery , that the creation of this regime was according to the media and left wing commentariat the beginnings of our brave new world, that all was sweetness and light.
  
  Nah , situation normal …….
  
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  June 30, 2019 11:14am
  - GoVege
    
    Why can’t they make a nice simple ad on tv to prevent baby bashing?
    1) show a screaming baby or toddler driving caregiver to distraction
    2) show caregiver placing baby/toddler in cot and LEAVING room.
    3) show caregiver going to furthest room in house and carefully closing doors in between
    4) show caregiver switching on tv, and relaxing for an hour.
    5) show baby/ toddler fast asleep in cot, having cried him/herself to sleep, but unharmed.
    Win..win..win.
    
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    June 30, 2019 4:16pm
sooty

9.30 and no posts up yet!
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June 30, 2019 9:32am
Paulus Gnome

9.34 Nothing

Moderation; as successful and as effective as a Labour government
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June 30, 2019 9:35am
Martin Williams

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Martin van Beynen is sad. He thinks old-school conservatism is suffering a slow death.

I’d say they are as powerful as ever because when the socially conscious left attempt to introduce forward thinking fairness, it is immediately crushed by the loud right wing dominated media, and business interested in wealth consolidation.

Martin imagines the existence of an “indisputably left wing media”. But anyone listening to 1ZB and its sister ship the NZ Herald could not possibly make that claim with a straight face.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/113843911/what-a-populist-national-party-would-look-like
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June 30, 2019 9:54am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Hiyaa Martin – didn’t want you to think i was some sort of rude bitch, but i did respond to your question on last Fridays GD @5:35pm. It’s just that it got held up in moderation for about 6 hours.
  
  So if you’d like to check back to the 28th, you’ll know what to do with your French-Fries 🙂
  
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  June 30, 2019 10:50am
  - Martin Williams
    
    Thank you, Maggie.
    
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    June 30, 2019 7:46pm
- John Warren
  
  Whoah there Martin! I never listen to 1ZB, but are you seriously trying to tell us that the Herald is right wing?! To find the Herald on your right you must be so far to the left that even Karl Marx would twist his neck trying to look at you.
  
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  June 30, 2019 11:02am
The Proper Ghandi

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/113876593/has-labour-found-its-smiling-assassin-in-jacinda-ardern

What planet is Tracey Watkins living on?
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June 30, 2019 9:55am
- Colville
  
  I dont know what planet but I do know the view cant be great with her tongue stuck up Jacindas bumhole like that.
  
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  June 30, 2019 12:21pm
- sooty
  
  After writing that pile of steaming, Tacey will be allowed an extra turn at pushing the baby!
  
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  June 30, 2019 12:31pm
srylands

Nearly 10 am and no kiwiblog action. That nut Tarrant really did change things for the worse.

The thing is in the days after the tragedy I was all in favour of restricting firearms. That’s what shock does. But it is not a state conducive to sound public affairs.

Three months on I think the best response, apart from providing the best care for the victims, would have been to change nothing at all. No hate speech laws. No blaming Facebook. No billion dollar gun buy back. No changes to moderation on blogs. Just throw Tarrant into an isolated cell for the next 50 years.
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June 30, 2019 9:58am
- emmess
  
  No, we don’t want to increase the prison population do we? So Andrew Little needs to punish us all.
  
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  June 30, 2019 10:27am
- Wired-one
  
  Agreed. It was panicked ill thought through and ill conceived policy to try and placate people who somehow felt guilty about one foreign individual committing a heinous crime. The best thing to do would have been take a deep breath, write down a few issues and ideas at the time, then look at what you wrote down three months later to see if you still feel about them the same way, and inact those changes accordingly. But oh no, we must act straight away, and uppease our guilt, unless you have cancer that is…
  
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  June 30, 2019 10:33am
  - tf78
    
    It was just another ‘look at me, look what I can do’ useless virtual signal.
    
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    June 30, 2019 11:03am
- Martin Williams
  
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  The Australian might have been the catalyst but the reactants were here all along.
  
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  June 30, 2019 10:57am
- John Warren
  
  Tarrant did the crime but the rest of us are doing the time, it seems. To be blunt, the moderation has been piss poor this morning and it will be the ruin of this blog.
  
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  June 30, 2019 11:04am
fernglas

The delays in posting make the GD even less useful than before. Flag it.
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June 30, 2019 10:02am
Don the Kiwi

10.00 am and no comments up.
Obviously, the moderators are on strike.
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June 30, 2019 10:02am
Captain Mainwaring

Obviously moderators are in short supply this morning.
Kind of destroying Kiwiblog.
DPF – any way you can relax the rules a bit?
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June 30, 2019 10:04am
- stephieboy
  
  For one I have to agree with you Cap’n. This does not bode well for KB.
  
  What will the advertisers be thinking?
  
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  June 30, 2019 10:12am
- Wired-one
  
  We cannot relax the rules otherwise Brenton Tarrant wins…
  
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  June 30, 2019 10:12am
  - sooty
    
    Wrong answer. He has won already!
    
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    June 30, 2019 10:30am
    - Wired-one
      
      Yes I realize the irony ?
      
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      June 30, 2019 11:02am
  - Wired-one
    
    My sarcasm was obviously a little too subtle. You downvoters should know me better by now.
    
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    June 30, 2019 3:45pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  CM, People are migrating to You Stupid Boy set up by holysheet.
  
  https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-82/
  
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  June 30, 2019 10:21am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Yes, it might be time. I’ve been resisting migrating over there as I know DPF from high school days (that was a while ago!) and I’ve been commenting here since 2006’ish.
    
    Perhaps voluntary migration is his goal? Running a blog like this must be amazingly time-consuming, and having people leave of their own volition rather than closing it down might be a kinder strategy.
    
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    June 30, 2019 10:46am
  - tf78
    
    I wondered what happened to holysheet – really miss the jokes – I’m off there right now, thanks.
    
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    June 30, 2019 11:05am
  - John Warren
    
    I have been on YSB for a while, hoping it might be a new beacon of freely expressed right-wing thought, but I find holysheet’s habit of regurgitating unattributed material instead of writing proper posts of his own rather distasteful. It’s a shame because he displayed considerable irreverent promise at first.
    
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    June 30, 2019 11:08am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Blogging is hard work. Anyone can do it for a few months, but running a blog over an extended period is a challenge. Keeping Stock lasted seven years, but it took a tool on me.
      
      Quite how DPF has lasted for 14 years now is a mystery. Good luck to Holysheet trying to emulate DPF, but I don’t fancy his long-term prospects.
      
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      June 30, 2019 11:16am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      I think that your comment was noted.
      
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      June 30, 2019 12:12pm
- Happychappy
  
  I always thought that DPF was a man of if you are going to do a job do it properly and work ethic was a neccessary in jobs today , but it appears that he or his moderators have slipped in their standards.
  
  [Mod: I can’t speak for the others, but this Mod went back to bed for a couple of hours sleep at around 7.15am, having put in an all-nighter watching cricket; more fool me.]
  
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  June 30, 2019 10:31am
  - calendar girl
    
    You’re allowed! Thanks for all your help to DPF.
    
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    June 30, 2019 12:05pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Fully agree. While there will always be obnoxious posters, the vast majority are civil and respectful of DPF’s place. The only rational explanation I have for this persistent, anti-liberal moderation strategy is that DPF has been read the riot act. By whom, and on what basis? I’d love to know.
  
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  June 30, 2019 10:40am
  - Inandout
    
    krazy, On the weekends I usually just wait till mid morning to comment. Why this blog is the last remaining comment-restricted is puzzling.
    
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    June 30, 2019 11:25am
  - Tall Man
    
    I have asked the same question myself without answer….
    
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    June 30, 2019 12:01pm
sooty

11.45 last night newshub poll.
95% cindy should not run again.
5% please come back an ruin us somemore.
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June 30, 2019 10:28am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Said poll has since been pulled by Newshub. Fortunately, a few people got screenshots before it disappeared into oblivion.
  
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  June 30, 2019 11:11am
  - John Warren
    
    Have one myself if it’s needed.
    
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    June 30, 2019 11:12am
    - Tall Man
      
      Yes please… Need a cheer up after the pathetic Aussie ref fucked the Hurricanes.
      
      Whitelock must have hands the size of dinner plates… only a moron could have missed them fiddling with the ball.
      
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      June 30, 2019 12:03pm
      - John Warren
        
        What’s the best way of linking an image here? Running up against the limits of my internet knowledge here.
        
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        June 30, 2019 6:41pm
      - John Warren
        
        https://discover.apester.com/media/5d16cce2655eca9d00b7374f?src=link
        
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        July 1, 2019 7:58am
  - MrLovebucket
    
    Normally those polls live on for quite a while. I wonder why this particular one was pulled.
    
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    June 30, 2019 11:44am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Perhaps Newshub was expecting the 95% to 5% split to be in the PM’s favour, not running against her. It would not surprise is a Newshub journo got a late-night call from a member of the PM’s media/comms team.
      
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      June 30, 2019 12:03pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  How can this be? All the previous polls have been telling us she is Saint Jacinda whom everyone wants. Has there been a sudden shift in opinion or what?
  
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  June 30, 2019 12:41pm
  - Tall Man
    
    “Rogue Poll”.
    
    All the lefty voters were pissed or stoned by that time last night.
    
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    June 30, 2019 2:21pm
BrownSnake

Wow for a Minute I though all you

Euthanasia Enthusiasts

Got a bit too excited and went and did
a test run in you Doctor Death Sick F * c k

Euthanasia Machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkqeUhOy9q4

Oh well if not I suppose if not and you are not
happy with your miserable pathetic lives

you can do the kiwi Staple

and Bag Christians on Kiwi Bog
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June 30, 2019 10:53am
- John Warren
  
  A fine contribution to the debate. Thank you for your considered viewpoint, snakey.
  
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  June 30, 2019 11:11am
  - BrownSnake
    
    Give it a crack Mate let us know how it works
    
    But I think in True Kiwi Style you people will
    be getting
    
    Buses for that off China for that?
    
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    June 30, 2019 11:41am
    - John Warren
      
      It seems to me that you might have been doing the crack, pal.
      
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      June 30, 2019 6:43pm
- Swifty
  
  Hic.
  
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  June 30, 2019 11:45am
Hugh Pavletich

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… NEW ZEALAND PM ARDERNS HOUSING / URBAN LAND USE ANNOUNCEMENT IS TO BE APPLAUDED …

As a Tory myself, I am extremely impressed in how Labour Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has managed this change … in spreading the responsibilities.

It certainly makes a pleasant change from the 9 embarrassing and wasted years of the last National – led government … some of which is covered within this section at Performance Urban Planning …

http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/National%20News.html

Is National leaning anything on the Opposition benches ?

If the National Party can’t do housing properly, it should seriously consider shutting down.

Access yesterday’s Kiwiblog General Debate posts …

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/06/general_debate_29_june_2019.html/comment-page-1#comment-2516644

As a Tory myself, I am extremely impressed in how Labour Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has managed this change … in spreading the responsibilities. … read more above …

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/06/general_debate_29_june_2019.html/comment-page-1#comment-2516486

NEW ZEALAND: Jenee Tibshraeny of Interest Co NZ explains Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s sensible decision to spread responsibilities on urban land use issues …read more above …

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/06/general_debate_29_june_2019.html/comment-page-1#comment-2516570

New Zealand housing speculators ‘flee for the hills’ … read more above …
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June 30, 2019 11:08am
- Tony Stuart
  
  read more above …
  
  If it’s all the same with you, I’d rather not 😀
  
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  June 30, 2019 11:19am
- Swifty
  
  Come on Mods – he posts this exact post last night and now posts the exact same shit on multiple threads today.
  
  Why you let him give us all the fingers day after day is beyond me.
  
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  June 30, 2019 11:47am
  - Tall Man
    
    30 ticks and Bye Bye hugh.
    
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    June 30, 2019 12:04pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  Hugh, politics seems to be clouding your judgment.
  
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  June 30, 2019 1:19pm
  - Tall Man
    
    hugh… judgement.. sounds like you really need a stiff drink 😉
    
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    June 30, 2019 2:03pm
Tony Stuart

Fantastic Super Rugby semi-final last night, between arguably the two best teams in the competition. The Crusaders had to pull out all stops, including a dubious knockdown by Sam Whitelock with time almost up, to subdue the Hurricanes.

TJ Perenara was absolutely superb, and both first fives had terrific games. But for me the physical work done by Kieran Read and Dane Coles showed that both are getting back to their best form after injuries, and that bodes well for RWC 2019.
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June 30, 2019 11:18am
- wreck1080
  
  Sad that Auckland is not pulling its weight though.
  
  What went wrong?
  
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  June 30, 2019 11:26am
  - BananaLlama
    
    Rugby is dying a slow death in Auckland. Alot of clubs can’t fill their roster or the stadium and the NZRU just seem to be asleep at the wheel.
    
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    June 30, 2019 12:45pm
    - Jack5
      
      Somebody’s got to say it: not all races are physically equal in rugby …
      
      Sounds to me Auckland rugby’s headed for a fairly quick death. From TV reports, Auckland high school kids prefer basketball to rugby.
      
      A problem for white and Asian boys in Auckland is that Polynesian kids are not only bigger and more muscular, but they mature earlier, which brings an associated growth spurt. By the time the physical gap is less, the white and Asian boys have rejected rugby.
      
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      June 30, 2019 2:39pm
      - BananaLlama
        
        Pretty much but i doubt you will get weight classes in junior rugby as people will cry racism. Not good for Rugby Union when the two largest demographics participation rate is in decline.
        
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        June 30, 2019 5:08pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Now the Crusaders have to play what is virtually the Pumas, Argentina’s national team.
  They might not find it easy.
  
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  June 30, 2019 11:26am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    The Crusaders players will have the advantage of sleeping in their own homes all week, whilst the Jaguares face a long flight to Christchurch. Home advantage is massive.
    
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    June 30, 2019 12:06pm
    - Colville
      
      Yeah its the Pumas B Vs the All Blacks C.
      
      Should be a great game.
      
      ‘saders scrum will be in big trouble I think.
      
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      June 30, 2019 12:27pm
      - Tony Stuart
        
        No, the Jaguares scrum is probably their weakest point this season, which is most un-Argentine. I didn’t see yesterday’s game, but the Chiefs gave it to them at scrum time last week.
        
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        June 30, 2019 1:09pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Depends on the ref…, if they get berry again they’ll romp home.
      
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      June 30, 2019 2:01pm
Ross12

There is a headline on the NBR site :

“Coalition and National trying to reach consensus on climate bill”

This suggests they have not got NZF on board, so they need National to get it through.
Why would National support what is effectively economic vandalism?
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June 30, 2019 11:44am
- Tall Man
  
  Perhaps labour are gifting a few “feelz” to National… I wonder when the next camp is… steffy.. you must know.
  
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  June 30, 2019 12:05pm
- srylands
  
  Because National signed up to the Paris Accord.
  
  It will be interesting to see how it all unfolds. Hardly any New Zealanders understand the actions that would be required to meet those targets.
  
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  June 30, 2019 12:36pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  The only reasonable response to an unreasonable bill is to trash it. Do we want the peasants to revolt in NZ too?
  
  Misused political power will not feed anyone or keep them warm. Where have the sunspots gone? Is there going to be skating on the Thames again?
  The cold in the 1970’s didn’t make it-deferred 100 years?
  
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  June 30, 2019 1:25pm
  - srylands
    
    National will support the Zero Carbon Bill. Because they don’t want to need to address emissions reductions when they get back into office. They don’t want the headache.
    
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    June 30, 2019 2:33pm
Rachael Membery

Maybe in the boondocks.
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June 30, 2019 12:18pm
srylands

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/113846520/speed-limits-on-rural-roads-in-council-cross-hairs

There is no point in bringing in speed limits that people treat with contempt. Long straight Canterbury roads are perfectly safe at speeds in excess of 100. What kills people on those roads are drivers going through stop signs on the minor side roads. So a good defensive driver slows down to 90 as she approaches those intersections, and down to 70 if she spots a vehicle on a potential collision course, watching the driver like a hawke. Then she puts her foot down again. You can’t legislate against stupidity.
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June 30, 2019 12:31pm
sooty

Is this reduction in rural speed limits going to Cindys light bulb/showerhead moment, like Helen Clarks off the starting blocks and down the gurgler!
Especialy with the first poll to be completly against her!
How will she spin that?
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June 30, 2019 12:42pm
- srylands
  
  In the case of the Christchurch CBD, the 30 kmh limit is ignored. people drive at 50.
  
  The irony is that if the authorities announced tomorrow that they had got it wrong, and said they would increase it to 40, and could people please comply, I think a lot of drivers would say “fair enough” and you would get a reduction in the average speed in the city.
  
  The problem with lefty council folk is that when they get it wrong they NEVER concede an error. They just double down on the stupidity.
  
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  June 30, 2019 1:33pm
- BananaLlama
  
  I don’t understand why this government has such a hard on for Rural NZ. Do they just resent the liberty and freedom that living in rural NZ provides?
  
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  June 30, 2019 3:54pm
  - sooty
    
    Do they want everyone to live in towns and use the bus for inter city transport?
    
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    June 30, 2019 7:57pm
    - Tall Man
      
      I drove my tractor to town once… took me 45 minutes to get there.
      
      My wife was very “cross”……
      
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      June 30, 2019 9:38pm
Tall Man

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/ird-tracking-down-speculators-over-80-million-in-unpaid-taxes/

I suggest they start at the local dairy.
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June 30, 2019 2:24pm
- sooty
  
  That’s just racialist!
  
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  June 30, 2019 2:48pm
  - Tall Man
    
    I know… beat me 😉
    
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    June 30, 2019 9:35pm
- secondcumming
  
  Yep….and those *Chinese Supermarkets*.
  Amazing how goods totaling $287 on the scanner, suddenly becomes a ‘no-sale’ when you produce cash rather than a card out of the back kick 😎
  
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  June 30, 2019 3:02pm
Jack5

Beware of this Stalinistic mob when it rips into freedom of speech …

It’s deadline for plastic bags tomorrow, July 1, and Radio NZ reports that the Government is helping shoppers to rat on retailers who keep giving out the bags:

“People would be able to report retailers who continued to hand out plastic bags, but Ms Sage [Eugenie Sage, the Green Associate Environment Minister] said the Ministry [for the Environment] would try to educate shop owners before penalising them.

The Ministry has set up an online form to help shoppers rat on retailers (link below).

From tomorrow, it will be illegal for retailers to hand out lightweight plastic carry bags, including thicker department store bags as well as the biodegradable and compostable options. These include supermarket carry bags and bags for takeaway food and other retail checkouts.

Supermarket produce bags, bin liners and dog-crap bags will still be allowed.

How to rat:

https://report-plastic-bag.paperform.co/
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June 30, 2019 2:33pm
- Rich Prick
  
  How East German. Clearly someone has visited the Stasi Museum.
  
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  June 30, 2019 4:42pm
- greybeard
  
  How about this one !
  From tomorrow, anyone renting a property can report their landlord for having a “cold and unhealthy’ property and the tenant can receive up to $4000 ‘compensation”.
  We are truly living in Jacinda’s Communist country.
  When will this madness stop ?
  When we vote the idiots out, next year !
  
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  June 30, 2019 6:18pm
- toby1845
  
  Thanks for sharing that address for reporting. I do know a couple of leftie shopkeepers, and arty and foodie types, so think I will just dob them in regardless. It will be justice to see them inconvenienced, and also to think of the Stasi bureaucrats driving around the country to check.
  
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  June 30, 2019 11:35pm
BrownSnake

This will be a bitter pill to swallow

The Bible Bangers enjoy really really good
Boom Boom Boom

https://shop.womenofgrace.com/product/donation

Devout Married Christians Have Best Sex Life

According to U.S. News and World Report, this astonishing data was given during a talk by Dr. Patrick Fagan, senior fellow of the Family Research Council in which he discussed the impact of pornography on college campus life. Relying heavily on statistics from the University of Chicago’s National Health and Social Life Survey, conducted in 1992, the couples who reported the most frequent and enjoyable sexual activity were married people who attended church weekly.

“Those who worship God weekly have the best sex,” Dr. Fagan confirmed, then added, “I want to see this on the cover of Playboy sometime.”
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June 30, 2019 2:34pm
- sooty
  
  Who would have thought bible bashers are like little randy rabbits!
  
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  June 30, 2019 7:55pm
  - nasska
    
    Give them a pretty choirboy & they’ll be at it like the Energiser Bunny! 🙂
    
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    June 30, 2019 8:45pm
BrownSnake

Longevity and Church Attendance

Living and the FACTS OF LIFE

https://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/16/health/religion-lifespan-health/index.html

Going to church could help you live longer, study says

https://time.com/5159848/do-religious-people-live-longer/

If a long life is what you’re after, going to church may be the answer to your prayers.

http://www.cathnews.com/cathnews/33264-if-you-want-to-live-longer-go-to-church-study
If you want to live longer, go to church: study

https://life.spectator.co.uk/articles/people-who-go-to-church-live-longer-heres-why/

Over the last 20 years, research has gradually accumulated suggesting that religious service attendance is associated with better physical and mental health. For example, research articles have indicated that regular religious service attendance is associated with a 30 per cent reduction in depression, a five-fold reduction in the likelihood of suicide, and a 30 per cent reduction in mortality, over 16 years of follow-up.
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June 30, 2019 2:45pm
Fletch

The media are all celebrating the fact that the plastic bag ban goes into effect tomorrow. FFS, what a pointless, virtue signaling exercise. The so-called “single use” plastic bag was a marvelous scientific invention. Strong, thin and, yes, reusable and recyclable. You can’t reuse a paper bag once you’ve got it home – not really. It’s less than useless.

All it does is inconvenience the shopper for no good reason at all. STUPID.
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June 30, 2019 4:51pm
Komata

Fletch@1651

Re: ‘All it does is inconvenience the shopper for no good reason at all’.

Ahhh, but but think of all the turtles and whales that will be saved as a result…

(I’m sure you will, the fact that the endangered creatures actually live 8-10,000 km away from NZ and will never see a bag from this country in their lifetime , being but a minor and unimp0rtant detail).
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June 30, 2019 8:26pm
- nasska
  
  …..”Ahhh, but but think of all the turtles and whales that will be saved as a result”……
  
  You could bottle the feelz & sell it as a saccharine substitute. 🙂
  
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  June 30, 2019 8:48pm
rightoverlabour

Donald Trump. No other president has ever achived what he did today… I suppose some will find fault, but hey, these two talking is far better than these two nuking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCIAgQ0niKE
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June 30, 2019 9:01pm
- BrownSnake
  
  You are kidding he is a puppet who has done
  SFA for America
  
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  June 30, 2019 11:03pm
Cobolt24

Petrol tax increases by 4 cents per litre tomorrow | Scoop

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1906/S00278/more-petrol-taxes-to-be-piled-on-tomorrow.htm
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June 30, 2019 9:20pm
Komata

1 July 2019 @ 1142

So far no GD today.

Was it something we said?

(Asking for a friend)
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July 1, 2019 11:43am
- Nostradamus
  
  Komata:
  
  So far no GD today.
  
  The Kiwiblog moderators have gone on strike because they want DPF to pay them more! (It worked for the teachers, bus drivers and port workers…)
  
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  July 1, 2019 2:05pm
Jack5

Putin answers question on his LGBTQ views:

https://youtu.be/3rAU62JkPzs

You may also, at this site, be able to watch Putin’s now famous Financial Times interview:

https://www.ft.com/video/a49cfa25-610e-438c-b11d-5dac19619e08?playlist-name=editors-picks&playlist-offset=0
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July 1, 2019 12:45pm
greybeard

The Indian batting was so laid back for the final 6 or 7 overs that one could be forgiven for thinking they didn’t want to win.
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July 1, 2019 1:11pm
Komata

@1813

Folks, we must have REALLY offended our host: NO GD at all today, or at least not by 1813!

Don’t know what we did, but it must have been major…
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July 1, 2019 6:15pm
RightNow

Spotted this comment on a Stuff story. They walk among us.

trevor54:
The government should be forced to pay for every NZ home to be insulated that was built before 1980 as it is far too expensive for Kiwis to pay for.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/113795238/new-zealand-isnt-a-subtropical-destination-and-our-homes-are-piss-poor#comments
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July 1, 2019 7:01pm
BrownSnake

Labour Cares So Much about Well Being they are prepared or preparing to

BLOCK TAX CUTS in Aus

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/morrisons-assault-onlabor-arrogance-over-tax-vote/news-story/d4a82d887ffd641f7e5ac7fc9a80eee7

<
Scott Morrison has labelled Labor’s threats to block the government’s $158 billion personal income tax cuts package an act of “belligerent arrogance”, while warning that the Coalition will use every parliamentary weapon available to ensure the reforms are passed this week.

With Labor’s frontbench still deeply divided over whether to back the entire plan, the Prime Minister has sharpened his attack, ahead of the first parliamentary sitting week since the May 18 election.

“Tax cuts are first cab off the rank. We want them passed this week … and we will use every procedural option to achieve it,” Mr Morrison told The Australian in Osaka as he prepared to return from the G20 summit.

?

Labour and Well Being

Ha ha ha

WHAT A CROCK

You have got to be joking

WHAT AN ABSOLUTE PILE OF
HORSE POOP
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