General Debate 20 July 2019

Email
Facebook
Twitter
Comment291

Uncategorized
General Debate

Comments (291)

Login to comment or vote

mikenmildagain

Fifty years today since the first moon landing. One of the indisputably great achievements for human technology, ingenuity, and courage.
68 3
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 8:01am
- Tony Stuart
  
  No argument there mikenmild. IIRC it was a Monday afternoon, and we sat in our 3rd form maths class with the radio going, listening as history was made.
  
  Also worthy of note is that the moon landing happened on Sir Edmund Hilary’s 50th birthday, and that he would have turned 100 today.
  
  46 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 8:03am
  - tf78
    
    Tony, Me too!
    
    19 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 8:30am
    - burt
      
      Happy birthday tf78, making it to 100 is awesome.
      
      21 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 9:00am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Wellington High School school hall with about 700 others, 4th form, Cyril Bradwell principal, caned me once, not on that particular day and I undoubtedly deserved it
    
    14 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:00am
  - Random Punter
    
    I remember that night one of my university flatmates went outside and photographed the moon, because he wanted a photo of the moon with a man on it.
    
    15 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 11:31am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Tony we were the same. I was Standard 2, we were all sat their just listening to the broadcast. Thd room was dead silent while we listened to that radio broadcast and afterwards I room the cheers going up when the broadcast was over.
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 4:11pm
- Wangas Feral
  
  Durie Hill School while the radio played through the PA system. I was in Primer 2 or 3.
  
  13 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:14am
  - Gravelroad
    
    WangasF- it was playing over the loud speaker system at my school also as I was taking a message from one building to another.
    As I crossed the large concreted area between buildings (no others outside as all in class ) to the sounds of the moon landing it was an eerie feeling – have never forgotten it.
    Can remember that walk clearly.
    
    7 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 12:10pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Good comment Mike, keep it up.
  You get an uptick for that sonny
  
  18 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 10:01am
- Sponge
  
  Just waiting for the indescribably stupid Stephie to come along and ask for evidence….
  
  26 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 10:14am
  - Batman
    
    Lol that’s true of all moon landing deniers, “but what about the radiation fields?????!!”
    
    4 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 11:27am
    - stephieboy
      
      The Apollo astronauts were able to navigate through a gap in the Van Allen belts for extra safety!
      
      4 20
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 12:05pm
      - sooty
        
        They put some aluminium foil over their nuts just in case!
        
        9 0
        Report
        July 20, 2019 12:34pm
- Harlequin
  
  Vietnam, near the Dinh Co Monastery in Phuoc Tuy Province. 0956 listening to Armed Forces Vietnam Radio FM on a tiny transistor radio.
  
  {My little radio was useless when I returned home, NZ was some years away from getting FM}
  
  16 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 10:20am
- BrownSnake
  
  Yes and we would have Colonised the Solar System
  by now if the people who now obviously think they control everything in this world had not murdered JFK .
  
  2 12
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 10:21am
  - Jack5
    
    Colonised? Colonised? That’s a dirty word, Snaky.
    
    Are really suggesting that Earthling colonisers should be encouraged to oppress Martians, take children away from Venusian families, and even stop the slavery and head hunting on Jupiter?
    
    Look at what’s happening in a remote corner on Earth.
    
    Here’s NZ’s Leftist idiot of a Children’s Commissioner, Andrew Becroft, in the Christchurch Press today, chiming in about welfare interventions in Maori families:
    
    “The enduring legacy of colonisation together with systemic racism is a pretty lethal cocktail, and it’s evident through all government departments in New Zealand.
    
    “This is unconscious bias that leads to a systemically racist outcome.”
    
    So that’s what leads to people torturing innocent toddlers in washing machines and bashing others to death.
    
    Does Becroft mean that if all whites went home, and they’d have to take with them the part-whites and Becroft, NZ would be a paradise for all children. As it was in the old days of tribal war, slavery, head trading, and cannibalism.
    
    17 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 12:55pm
    - Justitia
      
      @ Jack5: Becroft’s absurd statements have to be read in context. He is merely telling his masters what he believes their ideology would dispose them to believe. Par for the course in today’s New Zealand public service. No need to thank me.
      
      4 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 3:44pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Fascinating…
    
    1 11
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 1:07pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Nah, we needed all the computer and other tech advances of intervening years to make it even remotely economically possible. Putting people on moon will soon be 1-0.1% of Apollo cost.
    
    1 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 1:12pm
  - BrownSnake
    
    President Kennedy’s Speech at Rice University
    
    What a joke America and the west has become
    a total FN joke needless corrupt war after war
    for you know who? Total BS
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=146&v=WZyRbnpGyzQ
    
    0 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 3:44pm
    - stephieboy
      
      As on poster accurately commented ,
      
      Matthew Mullins
      
      probably the best speech was ever given by a u.s. president
      
      Especially compared to the present no-hoper!
      
      0 6
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 6:58pm
- srylands
  
  I was in primary school. About 400 children. We were all gathered into the hall to watch on TV. It was just a regular black and white TV. You couldn’t see much unless you were in the first couple of rows.
  
  3 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 10:29am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Why such an innocent post?? Something wrong with you Milkmaid?
  
  10 5
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 10:54am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    What’s wrong with you that you have to disrespect DPF’s comments policy?
    
    4 12
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 1:08pm
- skyblue
  
  75 years today was also the failed assination attempt on Adolf Hitler when Wernher von Braun was developing the V1/2. He was also instumental in getting man to the moon after being picked up by the Americans after WW2.
  
  4 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 1:35pm
- BrownSnake
  
  Zapruda Film is a Hoax
  
  JFK was murdered so instead of exploring the solar system we could all fight over a crappy piece of Sand
  
  We shoot to go to the moon
  
  Now America does what it is told by its puppet masters who control the Muppet Trump
  
  0 16
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 1:55pm
  - Aunty
    
    And you have now been reported to the Trump Administration, so you’d better get your tinfoil hat out, buddy! Because you have no idea what Area 51 is going to beam into your head!
    
    2 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 6:13pm
- Justitia
  
  Touchdown was actually on the 21st of July New Zealand time, at 8.17am. I missed the school bus to listen to it on the radio. Later that day Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon’s surface in the Sea of Tranquility at 2.56pm. We listened to the momentous event on the radio over the intercom in our high school classes . That eveing we crowded around our black and white tv to watch the astronauts on video tape that had been flown over from Australia for the NZBC. No live TV broadcast then. Apollo 11 left a huge sense of wonder and admiration imprinted on many of us that stays with me today.
  
  8 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 2:24pm
  - MH
    
    good old canberra bomber-another German design from WWII
    As a moonshinest I believe the moon landed on the capsule.
    
    0 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 4:20pm
Nukuleka

The law of unintended consequences is playing out at the brand spanking new University of Canterbury Students’ Association building which has, fashionably, installed gender-neutral toilets, meaning only cubicles and no urinals. Seems that, given the differing length of time the genders take to use the facilities, frustrated queues are forming and the boys in particular are finding the situation particularly troublesome. A quick duck-in to the loo to have a quick slash at a urinal is no longer an option for the lads and they aren’t taking the situation sitting down! Not happy chappies at all.

But it’s ok. All those transgenders at UC will be feeling that much more comfy, and that, after all, is what it’s all about.
63 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 8:11am
- Ruawai
  
  While I don’t agree with gender neutral toilets on principal, welcome to the women’s world of queuing for toilets since forever!! Plus I imagine the cleaners will find there is a lot more work to do than with a urinal after the boys have all had a few beers.
  
  37 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 8:20am
  - Sacha
    
    I expect they’ll pop out behind the shed as in times gone by.
    The cleaners will refuse to clean.
    Women who still regard themselves as women will refuse to share with people they still consider to be men.
    And just wait for the first person to complain about a camera being slipped under the adjoining cubicle wall . . . . . .
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 10:17am
- Scott
  
  Yes it’s interesting to me that we have upended our laws, made the most radical change to the marriage act ever, for the sake of homosexuals. Now we find that homosexuals according to the latest study, are only 1.1% of the population. So the vital institution of marriage has been upended for the 1.1%!
  
  Now the radicals have moved onto transgender and we have to change all our toileting arrangements to suit them. But how many transgender are there?
  
  Like if homosexuals and lesbians are only 1.1% how many transgender are there really? Is it 1% of the 1%?
  At what point is this all crazy?
  
  57 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 8:31am
  - Ruawai
    
    And now we can’t call ourselves women as the 1% trans people want us to be called cis women.
    
    46 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 8:43am
    - rouppe
      
      Do they? Crazy.
      
      They only want to force you to call yourself cis-women because they have to call themselves trans-women and they don’t think it’s fair that not every woman has to identify their path to womanhood.
      
      I thought trans women wanted to be women, and also be referred to as women, so this lurch to entrench trans- and therefore cis- seems oddly counter productive.
      
      7 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 10:54am
      - sooty
        
        Would Gavin Hubbard be more acpectable if he had his nuts cut off?
        
        4 0
        Report
        July 20, 2019 12:37pm
      - rouppe
        
        @sooty: I’m disinclined to consider someone a trans woman if they HAVEN’T had their nuts cut off.
        
        Otherwise where does the trans part come into it?
        
        2 0
        Report
        July 20, 2019 3:52pm
  - kowtow
    
    ‘So the vital institution of marriage has been upended for the 1.1%!’
    
    It wasn’t done for the 1.1 % , that was just the excuse ,it was done to stick it to the 80 % of normal folk , as a lesson by the wreckers that they are in control and can literally smash ancient tradition ,custom and laws and that there’s plenty more where that has come from.
    
    Be very afraid.
    
    47 5
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 8:54am
  - SGA
    
    Now the radicals have moved onto transgender and we have to change all our toileting arrangements to suit them
    
    To be fair, most workplaces have always had unisex toilets (usually because there is only one or two 🙂 ). It’s only ever been a issue when you are dealing with larger numbers of people. I’m not a fan because urinals are such an efficient use of space and time.
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:33am
  - The Proper Ghandi
    
    Scott
    These so-called ‘Intersectionalists’ are totally insane and illogical. On the one hand, they claim that there is no such thing as objective and biologically determined gender – it is merely a ‘social construct.’ On the other hand, we see transgenders cutting their cocks off to thereby become a ‘woman.’ As a corollary, this confused stance also places the very notion of ‘homosexuality’ on very shaky ground indeed. If there are no genders, then how can someone claim to be attracted to the ‘same’ gender.
    
    There seems to be no recognition that these two positions are self-evidently contradictory and incompatible. Then again, the Postmodernists/Cultural Marxists deny objective reality and truth, so I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised.
    
    24 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:34am
  - lastmanstanding
    
    Its called The Tyranny of the Majority by the Minority.
    
    Better get used to it. Majorities have now become so emasculated they are scared witless to stand up for their rights.
    
    One per centers now control the world.
    
    20 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:45am
    - stephieboy
      
      lastmanstanding, you a majority?
      
      Now joking aside!
      
      0 25
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 10:55am
    - Fletch
      
      Yep, and you now have people like Tamati wanting to change the law to make it easier to adopt (re: him and his partner Tim’s baby). When two parents usually have a baby, there is no need to adopt it. It is biologically theirs already. Just another indication that a baby has a natural mother and a father and that same-sex people are playing at house.
      
      25 4
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 11:12am
      - SGA
        
        Just another indication that a baby has a natural mother and a father and that same-sex people are playing at house.
        
        Too sweeping. By that logic even a hetereosexual couple who adopt are playing at house because they aren’t the natural parents.
        
        11 2
        Report
        July 20, 2019 11:54am
  - rouppe
    
    The question I have to ask is why supporting gender neutrality in a trans- supportive world means the removal of urinals.
    
    Can we not have unisex urinals? As long as the etiquette is observed, I couldn’t care less who uses a urinal.
    
    16 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 10:58am
    - MH
      
      when backs are against the wall, I would have to decline joining in.
      
      0 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 4:27pm
  - MickMac
    
    Scott
    It’s not hardware but software mate.
    
    So it’s mental/cognitive.
    Trans is butchery, what do their genes say?
    
    0 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 11:55pm
- Jules99
  
  I worked in a university and my experience is that the girl’s toilets are much cleaner and they are safe spaces for the girls to chat and cry when the boyfriend talked to another girl. Guess that won’t be happening in the toilets now. No one wins.
  
  48 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 8:42am
  - Piniwi
    
    But Jules99 even funnier for the boys to see first hand how much more “painful” it is when a dykes girlfriend talks to another girl as they really cut up rough. While remembering the recent headline “That queer people are twice as likely to have mental health issues” according to a recent study.
    
    6 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 1:00pm
- raven
  
  My workplace has unisex toilet cubicles. One thing I’ve noticed is how filthy they are compared to when us females had our own toilets – often pee on the seat and floor. Gross!
  
  37 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 8:55am
  - Wangas Feral
    
    To be fair, the cleaner in our building says that the women’s toilet is often dirtier. He said that the women seem to know less about the toilet brush than the men. An office of professionals too.
    
    15 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:16am
    - raven
      
      With the unisex cubicles, to make people feel more comfortable, the walls and door go right to the floor and there is a handbasin in each. Which has resulted in a lot more adults seemingly more comfortable doing their #2’s at work…. and yep, toilet brush doesn’t seem to be used much.
      
      10 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 10:03am
  - igm
    
    Ask your union what they know about this disgusting idea . . . bet they are for it!
    
    8 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:23am
    - burt
      
      Unions are all about one size fits all.
      
      15 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 9:36am
      - stephieboy
        
        burt, BTW no that you’ve got you” thinking” cap on when did the pre-Celtics land here?
        
        0 22
        Report
        July 20, 2019 10:56am
    - raven
      
      The unions would have almost certainly been consulted.
      
      7 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 10:11am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Handbasin substitute will solve that problem and lead to the most sensible solution of having the toilets replaced by more conventional facilities
  
  6 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:03am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Guys, ….2 to a stall…..cross swords?
  
  1 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 2:17pm
MrTips

Good riddance. . Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. No great loss at all.
44 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 8:13am
- Inandout
  
  Those two must have been paid too much, terrible self promoting persons. Hope they keep the magazine though for fire lighting.
  
  27 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 8:35am
- John Warren
  
  Elwood revealed his true colours with that notorious barbed wire tweet. His wife comes across as a rather stupid, breathless woman. They clearly raise the odd laugh from the sycophantic left, but mustn’t be worth the cost to Stuff’s declining fortunes.
  
  34 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:09am
- The Feed
  
  “Well, that’s that. Now what do we do? I’m sure we’ll have an answer soon enough”
  
  Perhaps it will involve the phrase “would you like fries with that”?
  
  25 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:20am
  - Overworked
    
    I doubt it. Not with a family name like Elwood.
    
    0 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 21, 2019 9:09pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  I hope there were not too many gift vouchers involved.
  
  The piece may have improved, I read enough to realise that my hair really really did need washing . . . .
  
  8 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:33am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Thank God. Get the hell out of here.
  
  6 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 10:56am
- chuk
  
  I hope the gift vouchers get declared on their tax returns. Can’t see why I should help pay for their luxuries.
  
  4 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 3:28pm
- Antoine
  
  Puzzles me why they are thanking us in their last column. Got nothing to thank me for. An apology for all the crap would be good though
  
  A.
  
  0 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 21, 2019 6:16am
Happychappy

It looks and seems like NZ First think they have found a way to get a few more votes.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/nz-first-pushes-back-police-ministers-music-festival-drug-testing-initiative
If I was a father of a teenager I would be really happy to see this law passed as I am sure many more would be to.
20 2
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 8:18am
- Batman
  
  Yep, people are going to take drugs so why not save ourselves the paramedic and police costs of people taking dodgy drugs!
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 12:24pm
  - lilman
    
    Batman you are onto a good idea.
    
    Lets think along the same lines for rape.
    
    People will rape,they have done in the past and also in the future,so lets make it safer for them and their victims.
    
    Lets provide rooms where the rapists can be tested for STDs as well as the victims.
    Lets have Medical help as well as Phyco services there to help the victims as well as advise the rapists that what they are doing isnt very nice.
    
    Lets make it compulsory for all genders to be raped so we can identify with rape.
    
    Lets make it compulsory for all to be rapists so we can know the shame living with rape as a past experience.
    
    Lets try it.
    
    3 9
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 12:39pm
    - Batman
      
      Very late to this response but as indicated by the likes, that is a ridiculous counter argument.
      
      1 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 21, 2019 12:04am
rightoverlabour

Stuff really need to get with it.. They have this today https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/114383886/arctic-summer-melt-shows-ice-is-disappearing-faster-than-normal

However, I saw this last night. https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/07/17/icebreaker-headed-for-north-pole-turned-back-by-thicker-ice-than-expected/ Now who do you think I am going to believe?

By the way, I great site to keep up to date with natural world events is here: https://watchers.news/

Also, worth keeping a record of large, ash-producing volcanic events. From a cursory non-scientific glance, there seems to be an increase in larger eruptive events, or changes in the type of eruptions, eg Stromboli. If the link between galactic muons and silica-rich volcanoes is true, we should see an increase in these types of eruptions, which will cool the atmosphere, no matter what the alarmists claim. I would also be looking very carefully at any anomalies around Taupo, ( not that I am currently aware of any).
40 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 8:18am
- Inandout
  
  Stuff are deep in the financial poo, oh dear, how sad.
  
  53 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 8:37am
  - The Feed
    
    I look forward to their “climate change is settled” fanboys finding a job where their skills can be put to productive use.
    
    They’ll be hearing….
    
    “Yes, fill her up. 98. Thanks”
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 10:29am
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    I am waiting for the day when they lay off everybody and close the door.
    
    14 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 10:57am
- Jules99
  
  I think the official narrative is one is weather the other is climate.
  
  16 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 8:43am
- kowtow
  
  The biggest anomaly around Taupo is how the agenda driven elites pronounce the word as opposed to us Plebs.
  
  25 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:09am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Met a lovely 70-ish Maori man the other day who’s lived all his life by Lake Taupo and he knows exactly how to pronounce the word.
    Just like I do and nothing like the silly twats in the media.
    
    37 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:58am
    - Tauhei Notts
      
      I thought it was the reverse of a bankrupt digit on the foot.
      It is not poor toe. It is toe poor.
      
      5 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 2:24pm
      - calendar girl
        
        Thanks, TN. A gem to remember from my day.
        
        2 0
        Report
        July 20, 2019 3:40pm
      - kowtow
        
        Now it’s poo poo .
        
        1 1
        Report
        July 20, 2019 5:12pm
G152

Yup and the films shown on TV that night were flown by RNZAF Canberra from Australia..
Now we get unedited crap video instantaneously from everywhere
19 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 8:18am
- Komata
  
  G152@0818
  
  A small but important detail FWIW: The RNZAF withdrew its Canberra’s from service many years ago and currently (Thanks to Helun) has no ‘bomber’ / combat- type machines in its inventory. Such films as would have arrived here would gave probably come in on a commercial flight.
  
  14 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 8:47am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    He’s talking about 1969. There were no live telecasts until the later moon landings. I remember watching live as the lunar rover was unloaded – 1971 I suppose.
    
    13 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:08am
    - Komata
      
      Thank you MM@0906; my response was in regard with PriNZess’s current ‘plight’ . Because there was no referencing to your earlier comment, I hadn’t made the ‘Moon landing’ connection.
      
      9 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 9:36am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        All good
        
        4 1
        Report
        July 20, 2019 1:19pm
    - srylands
      
      I was lucky then. I was in primary school in Sydney and the first moon landing was live.
      
      4 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 10:39am
      - Rob2
        
        Watched it on the Tv in a shop window in George st. Sydney.
        Times of the famous R&R from Vietnam and the houses in the Cross.
        
        1 0
        Report
        July 20, 2019 3:00pm
    - hullkiwi
      
      Mikey, it was until some time in 1971 when NZ could get live broadcasts of the moon landings. That was the year the Warkworth Satellite Station was commissioned.
      
      2 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 4:25pm
  - jcuk
    
    And in the sixies when I worked in HO News they not infrequently flew toAauckland instead of Wgtn
    Mad scramb;e to m,ake up a replacement programme since there was no way to link in those early days of TV 🙂
    BCINA package put on wrong plane by Aussies 🙂
    
    8 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:18am
    - G152
      
      Yup I was on ‘C’ Press at the Evening Post during all this.
      
      6 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 10:02am
  - G152
    
    https://www.honeysucklecreek.net/Apollo_11/New_Zealand_TV.html
    
    Please read and assimilate
    
    5 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:30am
  - Swifty
    
    Yeah, nah.
    
    It was a Canberra and the pilot was interviewed by the Herald just recently:
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12246722
    
    7 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:36am
  - stephieboy
    
    Komata, I understand the Canberras were withdrawn and replaced by Skyhawks long before Helen cam along.
    
    2 15
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 10:58am
  - rouppe
    
    I would dispute that we have no “bomber’ / combat type aircraft capability.
    
    Notwithstanding their imminent replacement:
    Orion: This is supposed to be a seek and destroy aircraft as well as a search and rescue aircraft. It is supposed to be able to deliver a range of missile inventory so while neither bomber nor fighter specifically, this aircraft could easily deliver Exocet-type or other air-to-surface attack capability.
    Hercules: This has many variants, including gunship. I know that the gunship variant and transport variant are nominally different models, but I really don’t understand why a roll-in roll-out module can’t be developed that allows any given Hercules to be operated in either transport or gunship configurations. Sure it wouldn’t be a 10-minute switcherooney but be a bloody sight cheaper and more useful if our fleet could do both.
    
    7 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 11:10am
    - Batman
      
      Because the reinforcement and modifications required the mount the weapons is not compatible with the cargo facility.
      
      Mounting a howitzer cannon on an airframe requires significant structural changes I understand
      
      6 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 12:28pm
      - rouppe
        
        The gunship variety structural reinforcements must surely attach to the same airframe.
        
        Hence roll-in conversion. Bolts to the airframe, has sufficient reinforcement to mount the weapons, yippe ki yay!
        
        1 1
        Report
        July 20, 2019 3:56pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  That’s what happens when one Clark did away with the strike wing of the RNZAF, it proved to be the tipping point for the rise of the www!
  
  Wow, unintended consequences, who would have seen that coming . . .
  
  12 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:36am
  - stephieboy
    
    Paulus Gnome, a strike arm which the Nats never replaced!
    
    Why?
    
    2 19
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 12:03pm
    - sooty
      
      By then was the knowledge, expertise, equipment scattered to the four corners!
      
      8 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 1:06pm
    - gravedodger
      
      Because stupid boy by the time that opportunity presented all the man power and support infrastructure had evaporated.
      It was start from scratch not just buying a few planes.
      
      11 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 1:30pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      The US offered NZ the order placed by Pakistan which the US cancelled of 21 F16 A and B’s for USD $100 mio- which was ridiculously cheap as they had just had all the electronics upgraded and they were essentially brand new.
      We then had a change of Govt and Clark didn’t take up the offer.
      Hope that helps ?
      
      16 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 1:33pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Helps?
        
        Nope!
        
        0 6
        Report
        July 20, 2019 7:00pm
    - Batman
      
      Because the F-16 deal couldn’t be completed before Clark took office and binned it. So she actually killed two strike capabilities
      
      12 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 1:41pm
    - alloytoo
      
      That has to be the stupidest question in a good long while.
      
      GFC and Cantebury earthquakes.
      
      5 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 3:21pm
- Ed Snack
  
  Do you recall how terrible the quality of those first moon landing videos were – really grainy and
  poorly defined. Turns out that was because at the time only the Australians were receiving the signals and the equipment they had available was very primitive (relatively speaking) and they had no way to directly capture the video stream. So they used a camera to capture the TV screen that they were using to display the feed directly- hence the quality issues.
  
  I think I can remember being late to school because of staying to listen to the touchdown, then the whole school had the first step broadcast. Mesmerising stuff
  
  0 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 11:36pm
burt

This gas explosion in Christchurch; are the people involved going to get compensation from the government? People who heard it, they will be traumatised and will also need compensation.

But more importantly, who will take on the role of complaining other peoples money wasn’t spent as per how they thought it should be?
47 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 8:28am
- calendar girl
  
  From the Government? Who owns the local reticulated-gas supplier to properties in Christchurch?
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:17am
  - burt
    
    Based on precedent, who owns what and who’s responsible for it have nothing to do with it.
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:37am
  - sooty
    
    I heard that Jethro and Cindy flew commercial to CC.
    
    12 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:40am
  - burt
    
    Do we also need to ban gas connections and household gas appliances?
    
    15 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:42am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Sounds like the guy who fixed it the day before didn’t exactly fix it, and this morning we have the gasfitters association telling us that we need to get our gas appliances serviced regularly so they don’t blow up.
      Go figure.
      
      19 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 10:01am
      - srylands
        
        I’d say that gas fitter will come under some scrutiny. There must have been a lot of gas in that house.
        
        15 0
        Report
        July 20, 2019 10:43am
    - Mr_Blobby
      
      Only for law abiding licensed people.
      
      Criminals are exempt.
      
      5 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 11:51am
  - CJames
    
    There is no reticulated gas supply. It is all bottles
    
    3 4
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 11:04am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Bullshit. Chch has reticulated gas made locally from petroleum products.
      What they don’t have is a pipeline from Taranaki like the North Island has.
      
      9 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 11:36am
    - burt
      
      Well that’s going to piss a lot of people off when gas bottles are banned and we all need to hand them over to police. The govt better move quickly to ban people selling them and their BBQs off shore.
      
      19 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 11:41am
      - Mr_Blobby
        
        Only for law abiding licensed people. They might make them into weapons of mass destruction.
        
        Criminals are exempt.
        
        11 0
        Report
        July 20, 2019 11:53am
    - Colville
      
      CJames.
      The house that went boom! had reticulated LPG .
      The system is about 20 years old and was a first for ChCh
      
      LPG is a cu*t of a gas. Heavier than air so it sits around and waits for you if there is a leak.
      But its wide flammability range is why we use it and its also what makes it very dangerous.
      
      15 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 11:58am
- G152
  
  Are the police going to have an amnesty on gas stoves now?
  
  20 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:31am
  - Tall Man
    
    Only “auto ignite” ones.
    
    5 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 1:47pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  I was traumatised while watching the news on TV. Can I claim compensation bro?
  
  21 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 10:58am
  - sooty
    
    Cindy will be around wearing the teatowel shortly!
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 1:11pm
    - GT Build
      
      No an oven mitt will be the go to item to be added to the wardrobe
      
      6 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 2:32pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Are you maori or was the ‘bro” thrown in there just to confuse me?
    
    For clarity, if you are a white mofo as defined by brother and supreme New Zealand racist, Hone, the answer is no.
    
    Pleased to clear that up for you.
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 5:23pm
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  burt, I can imagine you living at Northwood and hypocritically doing the same!
  
  0 30
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 11:11am
  - burt
    
    Doing what ?
    
    16 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 11:33am
    - Tall Man
      
      Ignore her. Downtick and move on.
      
      11 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 1:47pm
- rouppe
  
  The explosion and consequent damage was a civil event, a gas contractor was working on the house the previous day. Interesting for me was the statement that this suburb has piped gas, I thought the South Island had to use bottled LPG.
  
  Anyway the damage should be covered by insurance. The medical needs of the people will be covered by our Health sysem. So it comes then down to anything else.
  
  I had a motorcycle crash several years ago, had 14 rib breaks, a collapsed lung, fractured shoulder and ankle. I remember waking up not being able to breathe and thinking that this was it, I was going to die. I recall the first responders asking (crazy, huh?) if it was OK to cut off my riding gear, and a vague recollection of them piercing my chest to insert the tube to reinflate my lung. I’m told some 700ml of blood poured out that tube.
  
  I had 11 days in ICU, over 3 weeks in hospital, 3 months off work coughing up blood, and probably a year of slowly getting back to normal. I remember my first visit to the bathroom after a week in ICU. It was a 15 metre walk. I had to sit down twice because of fainting risk. It’s a long road back after something like that. What I’m trying to give is a sense of how much of a hole you have to dig yourself out of when a serious event happens.
  
  ACC came to the party with income support and medical needs but mentally and emotionally it was all down to me. The ACC case manager was all about getting me back to work and off their books. But not in a bad way, I don’t think. That should be everyone’s goal, in my opinion.
  
  You have to make a personal decision. Decide that you’re going to get up, that you’re going to make that 100m walk even though it leaves you breathless afterwards. Then 150m. Then farther. And farther. Then back to the gym. Light exercise under load. Then more, and more and more. Because what’s the alternative? Be sorry for yourself the rest of your life?
  
  I still ride that bike every day. I’m doing heavy lifting at the gym which I started because I couldn’t handle anything aerobic. I trekked to Everest Base Camp 18 months ago for the specific purpose of throwing any “too risky” monkeys off my back. That wasn’t ACC. That was me.
  
  I know this phrase gets many people excited because it’s not very “caring” or “understanding”, but in many ways, “harden the fuck up” isn’t a negative strategy. You just box that shit up, put it in a hole, and move on.
  
  I did.
  
  30 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 11:47am
  - Brian Marshall
    
    We all need a good dose of harden the fuck up every now and then Rouppe. Well done on shaking that monkey off your back after your accident. That’s a seriously good achievement you did with that trek.
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 3:03pm
- tf78
  
  How can 7 people escape before a house turns into match sticks from a gas explosion.
  
  2 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 8:02pm
Paulus

Surely it is a disgrace that our precious First Family were stranded in Melbourne as once again the RNZAF B 757 was unfit to fly – believe second time in the last 10 days (Rorotonga).
Assume Peters has the other one in the USA – hope he gets back safely as these aircraft are really crapped out.
Happened to Key en route for a APEC meeting – night at Townsville.
So a new top Executive jet for the First Family and media what for the Military.
Does she not Own AirNZ as Robertson once said ?
38 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 8:43am
- Tall Man
  
  It’s a disgrace she’s coming home at all.
  
  38 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:34am
  - stephieboy
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    Tall Man,
    
    snooze button territory!
    
    1 36
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 11:12am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  She said she was the country’s largest employer, she says all sorts of crap.
  
  38 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:39am
  - Sacha
    
    But if we all with held our financial contributions, she’d be out of a job . . . . .
    
    15 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 10:29am
- sooty
  
  Limited seating so the media will have to fly commercial to arrive earlier for arrival shots, with another crew doing departure shots.
  
  16 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:42am
- igm
  
  May she stay there . . . would not be missed by taxpayers and others doing the paying here.
  
  18 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:52am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    No, Morrison would deport her, for being
    Criminally
    
    STUPID.
    
    7 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 3:51pm
- Ruawai
  
  Don’t think the first family were grounded, I believe they jumped on the next available commercial flight and became one of the proletariat. Neve needed her bedtime story.
  
  24 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:59am
  - calendar girl
    
    i.e. we taxpayers are paying for both the RNZAF aircraft and the First Family’s commercial flight home to NZ. Glad I’m not doing the cost calculations on that trip overseas, compared with what Ms Ardern actually achieved.
    
    8 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 4:10pm
    - tf78
      
      They’re the last idea of a first family. Adam and Eve would have something to argue that toss.
      
      4 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 8:04pm
- srylands
  
  Peters would not fly to the USA in the 757.
  
  The other one will be on an operational mission or also broken down.
  
  Despite their upgrades, they are 26 year old commercial airplanes. And airplanes that age break down and require lots of maintenance. Which is why they are typically retired well before that age.
  
  11 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 10:48am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Indeed; Peters would have flown Business Premier with Air New Zealand, possibly to Chicago. He then would have flown First Class with a partner airline of Air NZ (probably United) from Chicago to DC.
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 12:03pm
- Southern Raider
  
  Can someone explain why any NZ parliamentarian has to fly via AirForce planes?
  
  – isn’t she worried about the carbon footprint
  – the operational cost would be horrendous
  – there is no security threats which mean business class on a commercial airliner aren’t viable
  
  15 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 1:17pm
  - burt
    
    Our PM only emits caring CO2 not that nasty CO2 like climate deniers produce.
    
    20 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 2:39pm
  - Batman
    
    In terms of VIP use, basically only the PM uses it, or the royals. The rest of the time they’re staff transport and freight to resupply out various overseas postings etc.
    
    The logic is that you can take a full delegation, including media and officials etc, and it makes the entire operation easier from a logistics point of view for both sides of the visit.
    
    The aircraft have scheduled flying hours per year so if they weren’t flying to Australia they’d be doing training flights around NZ anyway. Obviously flying them costs $$$ but it’s dollars we’re spending anyway.
    
    0 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 21, 2019 12:15am
artemisia

What exactly is meant by “corrosive”? Does Ms Ardern mean the relationship between New Zealand and Australia has corroded already (whatever that means)? Or it might in future if Australia doesn’t change its policy?

How?

I reckon many back here don’t want these low lifes back, but think the policy is fair.
48 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 8:45am
- Swifty
  
  I agree but do feel a bit odd about the adult offenders who were taken to Aussie as infants (I’ve seen 2, 3 years old) and who have spent their whole life there and have never stepped foot in NZ since.
  
  They are the products of Aussie, not NZ. Seems a bit rich to send them here.
  
  20 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:51am
  - srylands
    
    I disagree. You can’t run immigration and border control policies based on the nationality someone “feels” they are. Your nationality is on your passport. These people are New Zealanders. As such, New Zealand is the only country that must let them enter and reside. All other countries can refuse.
    
    23 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 10:52am
  - Lizziep
    
    They should have become Australian citizens a long time ago. If you wish to live in a country then you should become its citizen. Fair enough I wouldn’t want them either. Not a bit rich at all I believe.
    
    27 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 11:14am
    - Batman
      
      Aussie law denies them citizenship so they end up being sent back here despite being 100% Aussie raised
      
      12 5
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 11:29am
      - rouppe
        
        Aussie law doesn’t really deny them citizenship.
        
        There is no citizenship path from Category A visa. But they could apply for a residency visa like everyone else.
        
        17 0
        Report
        July 20, 2019 11:52am
      - Ruahine
        
        Aussie law denies them citizenship so they end up being sent back here despite being 100% Aussie raised.
        You are quite right.
        Blame Helen Clark. She signed away our rights to Australian citizenship. Gave us that special Visa category instead.
        
        19 0
        Report
        July 20, 2019 11:53am
      - alwyn
        
        Only if they went there after 26 Feb 2001. If they were there on that day they have a permanent residence visa which allows them to apply for citizenship.
        That is the thing I never forgave Helen Clark for. She had no way of preventing the new visa being introduced. She did however lie to the people of New Zealand when she said, on her return to New Zealand that it would mean that there were no changes as far as New Zealanders moving there were concerned.
        
        17 0
        Report
        July 20, 2019 11:56am
      - srylands
        
        You are not totally right. All New Zealanders who arrived there pre 2001 had an easy path to citizenship. Many of the people being sent back are in that category.
        
        Folk are lazy. How many Australian citizens resident in New Zealand have taken out New Zealand citizenship?
        
        17 0
        Report
        July 20, 2019 12:14pm
    - Greg Ettridge
      
      Huge difference in Australian taking NZ citizenship, they lose their Australian passport. Cannot be a dual passport holder if born in Australia, can if you are born in a country that allows it.
      Big decision to throw away Aussie passport, particularly health wise.
      
      8 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 2:08pm
      - srylands
        
        Sorry. You are 17 years out of date. The Australian prohibition on dual citizenship ended on 4 April 2002 . I know. I was waiting for the law change so I could apply for New Zealand citizenship. I am now a citizen of Australia and New Zealand.
        
        6 0
        Report
        July 20, 2019 2:31pm
      - Greg Ettridge
        
        I should have put they “could” lose their Australian Passport, once you take a second passport, you are subject to exactly the same laws as the rest. The only way you can be 100% sure is have an Australian Passport. You cannot be deported stateless.
        Not sure if NZ law is the same.
        You can hold two valid Australian passports at the same time, did this for over a decade.
        Any child born in Australia and resides there until ten, is entitled to an Australian Passport.
        My sister born 1948 was treated differently to me born 1951 as far as nationality.
        It is a mine field.
        
        3 0
        Report
        July 20, 2019 7:08pm
      - srylands
        
        “I should have put they “could” lose their Australian Passport, once you take a second passport, you are subject to exactly the same laws as the rest”
        
        I don’t know what you mean here. There are no circumstances under which I could lose my Australian citizenship, barring an extreme act such as joining ISIS.
        
        0 0
        Report
        July 21, 2019 5:28am
  - MickMac
    
    I disagree, what does their passport say?
    Did they do the crime?
    
    If I were Australia I’d take away the special visa.
    Then I’d make all Kiwis get a visa so no backdoor refugees from Ardern and her mates.
    
    0 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 21, 2019 12:06am
- Faroffsound
  
  I’m surprised that Winston hasn’t told Jacinda to sit down and shut up about that particular policy.
  
  The Australians are not about to change it and why would they? It works inasmuch as they don’t have to give bed and board for years to non-Australian citizens.
  
  And the remedy is pretty obvious – if you’re not an Australian citizen, behave yourself.
  
  24 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 11:12am
  - artemisia
    
    Can we assume that numbers deported will reduce fairly sharply now. People with no Australian passport must have twigged by now they need to stay out of trouble. Unless they are fairly stupid.
    
    Ok some will be fairly stupid, welcome home guys and gals.
    
    Need to bear in mind also that belonging to certain groups can also be a reason to deport. Thanks Oz!
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 12:34pm
Komata

Perhaps it’s just me, but does anyone else find the amount of damage created by the Christchurch ‘Gas’ explosion’ a little ‘excessive’, and wonder if there is more to the story than we are being told?

Thanks.
23 6
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 8:52am
- jcuk
  
  My thoughts on no info ….. it was a Meth Lab 🙂
  
  18 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:22am
  - srylands
    
    You are mistaken. The optimum gas to air mix in a house will destroy it if ignited. And it did.
    
    By contrast the typical ingredients in a meth lab will explode. They might wreck the kitchen. They might cause the house to burn down. But that’s it.
    
    This was a typical gas explosion.
    
    14 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 10:56am
- SGA
  
  the amount of damage created by the Christchurch ‘Gas’ explosion’ a little ‘excessive’
  
  I don’t know. Is there some reason that a gas explosion can’t cause that amount of damage to that sort of house? If it was another source, why would the authorities want to disguise it?
  
  16 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:25am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Anybody seen Jessie Pink or Walter in the neighborhood . . . .
    
    6 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:41am
  - Sacha
    
    I was interested in the aerial photo of the street – it looked more like an ‘enclave’ with big houses on small sections crowded together like a village. Very small outdoor areas. I am not surprised that they were all evacuated – a slammed door in one would echo all the way down the street.
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 10:35am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Komata, it is not just you. My bullshit detectors were also put on alert.
  
  21 4
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:27am
  - stephieboy
    
    BS irony alerts full on!
    
    3 31
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 11:14am
- MarkF
  
  A Scientist or Engineer you are obviously not. Even a simple 4 to 1 expansion ratio would cause about 300kPa outwards pressure (In old money 45lb/sqin or 3tons per sq foot).
  
  20 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:27am
- freethinker
  
  I understand a gas leak from the gas fire accumulated in the chimney and ignited hence the roof blowing off, severe injuries for some of the residents and neighbours, expect ardern to come and commiserate, ah just found out they are not muslimes so ardern wont care.
  
  25 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 10:08am
  - srylands
    
    No. It wasn’t the chimney. This was caused by gas leaking and filling the house. The windows would have been shut. Then it found an ignition source.
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 10:58am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Gas is heavier than air and in a well-sealed house it would have settled near the floor. I guess it wouldn’t be smelt unless one lay down on the floor. As the level built up it found the ignition source which could have been the heater itself or maybe the motor in the fridge.
      Either way, that repairman has some explaining to do.
      
      13 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 11:41am
Maggie Pie

What. WAS. she. thinking?
Ever since the PM appeared on the cover of Vogue, a lot of the girls at work thought she was a real fashionista.
But with this latest pic out of Aussie, a few of them aren’t so sure…

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_zrWRqVAAAAEIR?format=jpg&name=900×900
37 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 8:52am
- John Warren
  
  For some reason I’m reminded of this.
  
  23 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:19am
  - Blackbob
    
    I always get an urge to look for a sugar cube when she appears..
    
    22 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:34am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    LOL!!
    Funnily enuff Johnny, when i showed my partner, he reckoned the coat looked more like a horse blanket! 🙂
    
    26 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 9:40am
    - tf78
      
      A very expensive Monty Roberts blanket thank you Maggie Pie.
      
      8 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 11:31am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        True dat!
        I see the MB catalog describes it as being “…double-lined and designed to drape over the hips and down to the hocks”.
        Not sure they’ll catch on in Remmers tbh 🙂
        
        7 0
        Report
        July 20, 2019 2:25pm
  - freethinker
    
    Now that a good looking horse, Maggies picture is more like an old donkey or mule.
    
    11 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 10:11am
  - Psycho Milt
    
    For some reason I’m reminded of this.
    
    Ha ha ha, it’s because she has big teeth! Oh, the hilarity! Your razor-sharp wit must make you the life of the party!
    
    7 25
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 10:47am
    - Tall Man
      
      https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/8/green-new-deal-sets-new-low-democrats/
      
      Another party girl with big teeth, just to keep you amused.
      
      12 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 1:39pm
    - John Warren
      
      Ah, sarcasm: the lowest form of wit.
      
      Ah, Psycho Milt: the lowest form of fuckwit.
      
      6 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 8:49pm
- Wangas Feral
  
  Not the most flattering of pics. I can see the “Aliens” memes already.
  
  23 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:19am
- stigie
  
  Outdoor furniture comes to mind !~
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:37am
- Colville
  
  supposedly her knickname was Dyson when at Uni…i reckon it would be a brave bloke that put anything near those gnashers!
  
  But I suppose…beer goggles 🙂
  
  13 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 12:18pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Behind someone in a queue . . .
    
    1 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 5:29pm
Humble Capitalist

Being distraught over a lost photo opportunidy with a world cup and a breakdown meaning travelling with the common people. Cripes its been a tough week for Jacinta
34 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 9:00am
- Komata
  
  HC@0900
  
  No doubt the Chief of the Air Force will be the recipient of an indication of ‘Royal’ displeasure as a result…
  
  16 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:50am
  - tf78
    
    Robbo will be scrambling to find the money for a new jet.
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 11:32am
  - srylands
    
    Being the chief of the New Zealand Air Force would be low job satisfaction. It would be like running a car rental company with nothing but Trabants.
    
    14 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 2:34pm
kowtow

Two British ships seized by the Mad Mullahs , how the mighty have fallen.
29 1
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 9:17am
- Komata
  
  KT
  
  ‘The Commons will be discussing it under urgency’; (aka come back in two weeks for a ‘decision’)
  
  ‘Muddling through’ is what the Brits do best…
  
  11 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:47am
  - artemisia
    
    The Brits have muddling through. New Zealand has captain’s calls. Muddling through – time to think, research, consult, decide. Captains’s calls not so much.
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 11:15am
BananaLlama

Fuck sake Iran seized another British Tanker. If you think petrol is expensive now …
32 1
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 9:28am
- kowtow
  
  Another reason we need to be able to rely on our own resources…….oh wait.
  
  36 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:40am
  - Inandout
    
    That’s what pisses me off kowtow, we are potentially swimming in oil reserves but the Luddite Greens won’t allow it to be tapped.
    
    27 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 11:24am
    - John Warren
      
      Don’t worry – it means it’ll all still be there to be tapped when the Greens are long gone.
      
      0 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 21, 2019 9:45am
- igm
  
  Imagine the lefties and mosquees here if Donald, Brits, and Israel say that is enough, and blow the crap out of these evil mullahs.
  
  21 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:49am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Here’s a conspiracy theory for you – the US is a net oil exporter, so conflict in the Persian Gulf is good for its exports, and for Russian oil exports.
  
  22 10
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 10:00am
- stephieboy
  
  Relatively cheap by these standards!,
  
  How much is a liter of petrol in London?
  
  Company Matches
  
  Nation City Price in USD Regular/Gallon
  
  Denmark Copenhagen $5.93
  Belgium Brussels $5.91
  Sweden Stockholm $5.80
  United Kingdom London $5.79
  
  0 25
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 11:04am
  - tf78
    
    Is that per litre or gallon?
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 11:34am
    - calendar girl
      
      And what is the home country tax element per gallon (or litre) in each case? Without that information, such comparisons have little meaning.
      
      12 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 12:27pm
    - Tall Man
      
      “The average price of a litre of fuel in the UK is now around £1.24 for petrol and £1.34 for diesel”
      
      6 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 1:34pm
  - alwyn
    
    Which is pretty close to the New Zealand price. Our local station is charging, if I worked it out correctly around $5.50 USD/US gallon.
    Now what sort of gallon are you using? If it is the Imperial one petrol here is much more expensive.
    And then to see what it really means tell us what the median income is in each of those countries when compared to New Zealand. I’m pretty sure that they are much higher overseas.
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 12:05pm
  - BananaLlama
    
    That’s per gallon Stephie …. You can do better than this. Your comment in the EV discussion thread was informative so don’t pretend you can’t.
    
    11 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 12:49pm
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    imperial or US gallon?
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 5:48pm
- Fletch
  
  You can bet that neither the British or Trump will be flying over pallet loads of cash to free their sailors the way Obama did the last time Iran captured an American ship / sailors.
  
  9 5
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 11:51am
Kabull

Many Kiwibloggers may not have seen the latest release from Muriel Newman of NZCPR. It concerns child welfare and the experiences of a former long-serving Canadian judge. Muriel’s summary is worth reading https://www.nzcpr.com/the-best-interests-of-the-child/#more-29698
But, I commend Brian Giesbrecht’s (rather lengthy) article to all. It makes very sobering reading and highlights the close parallels between Canada’s experience – indeed, mishandling – of indigenous poverty and child abuse. Giesbrecht’s experiences are frighteningly familiar, and show how misplaced the socialist path being adopted in NZ is.
Please read: https://www.nzcpr.com/new-zealands-maori-child-welfare-problem/#more-29704
29 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 9:46am
- Sacha
  
  @ Kabull: thanks for drawing my attention to Giesbrecht’s article. The parallels are frightening and all too familiar.
  The final sentence is so simple as to be impossible to be heard by those who should hear –
  
  19 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 11:13am
- tf78
  
  I send Muriel’s newsletter to Simon, Paul and Paula every week don’t you worry. I always get an acknowledgement from Simon by the way. There is hope for us all.
  
  17 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 11:35am
- krazykiwi
  
  An enlightening read from an obviously qualified, intelligent commentator. Final paras:
  
  And for all of this, the state of Indigenous child welfare is no better than it was when Indigenous child welfare agencies took over – by some measures it is a whole lot worse. Those neglected children have become pawns in the political games that are now playing out federally. Parents who have clearly failed their children are let off the hook by advocates claiming that it is not their fault that they drank and made a mess of their children’s lives – it is society’s fault, or it is because of colonialism or residential schools – or almost anything going back five hundred years that might have affected their long dead ancestors’ lives. The irresponsible parents are told that they are victims. Never mind acting like a grownup, getting off welfare and starting to support your family. To the contrary, accepting personal responsibility and changing one’s behaviour is considered an old fashioned and discardable notion. Forget the best interests of the child – permanent victimhood and racial politics are where it’s at. But I will stop.
  
  As I said earlier, I know little about the New Zealand situation. I simply don’t know if there are similarities between Canada’s Indigenous situation and the Maori situation in New Zealand. But if I am allowed to give just one word of advice on the subject of child welfare, it is this: “A child is a child. Keep racial politics out of it, and just see to that child’s best interests.”
  
  New Zealand is running a break-neck speed down the same torrid rabbit-hole.
  
  18 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 3:11pm
  - tf78
    
    Normal Kiwi – it’s so hard to know what the difference is now to what was never reported previously = has anything ever changed either way. Exactly the same as “CLIMATE CHANGE” (not).
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 8:16pm
- burt
  
  It was chilling to read the Canadian perspective.
  
  8 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 3:42pm
Greg Ettridge

Will Jacinda send the New Zealand Air Force to assist in sorting the Mullahs, or wait until the 757’s are fixed, and as the new kind leader of the world, fix it all with nice words, $2.50 starting to look cheap.
17 1
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 9:53am
- mikenmildagain
  
  The Iranians need no assistance from New Zealand at this stage.
  
  4 9
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 10:13am
  - Greg Ettridge
    
    Looks like I failed with satire, Cindy couldn’t defend Norfolk Island, she is the empress with no clothes.
    Decisions made years ago not to have a capable airforce, maybe the right decision, but who are NZ going to call for assistance, Australia I guess.
    Cindy can do nothing in any airborne conflict except use her Diplomacy.
    Sticking it to your allies over a few criminals really doesn’t cut the mustard. Scomo would dearly love to see the arse end of labor’s legacy on Nauru and manus, but bringing them to Australia via NZ is not the answer. If she pushes to hard, visa arrangements could change.
    Someone ask her if she is happy to take one and all if boats start again under her crazy policies.
    
    18 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 2:24pm
KevO'Brien

They’re probably safe from a nuclear attack in the Persian Gulf. The hostiles all are too close to each other. Any one could obliterate all.
The US has a naval base in Bahrain and its CENTCOM Command in Qatar. Qatar shares a large gas field with Iran. The Sunni/Shia war rages throughout the whole region. The Turks seem fluid on a daily basis between Islam/Nato/USA/Russia and they too have a base in Qatar. All those bases are close to each other in the Gulf!

The risk of a rash act though by a rogue player is high. We cannot have a world government with military power–that would morph into a world dictatorship. The current situation needs our earnest prayer.
15 3
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 10:05am
- stephieboy
  
  “We cannot have a world government with military power…”
  
  ???
  
  0 29
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 11:03am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    When all are “equal” the greedy and powerful rise to the top Last person standing wins. Humanity.
    That’s why socialism breaks down into dictatorships managed for the few.
    
    12 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 11:47am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Bro – this is why we need JAG’s plans for EVs. She is a winner.
  
  15 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 11:10am
  - Tall Man
    
    “Whiner”.
    
    Spelling not your forte? 😉
    
    7 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 1:31pm
- kowtow
  
  All’s well , Hunt , UK foreign secretary, has declared the action “unacceptable” , that’ll put the mullahs well and truly back where they belong……
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 11:48am
- tf78
  
  In my heart of hearts, I don’t actually think any country or person wants to obliterate anyone else knowing these days it would be end of world stuff. It’s the games that need to be played, just like being at the front of the queue. Chess is more strategic and more taxing – they should all take it up.
  
  2 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 8:21pm
secondcumming

*RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION*

Why are we importing coal to fire Huntly?
22 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 10:39am
- Greg Ettridge
  
  Because electricity grids need baseload power, the politicians will one day discover this fact.
  Other option is for public to use power when available.
  Why dirty Indonesian coal, I am not sure, price I guess.
  Relationship too toxic to buy clean coal from Australia?
  
  26 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 1:00pm
  - Rob2
    
    Or mine our own.
    
    14 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 3:17pm
- burt
  
  So we create more emissions transporting it while we virtue signal for not mining it here?
  
  11 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 4:26pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  very good question, I thought huntly was built on a coal mine? what happened?
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 5:51pm
- tf78
  
  Heard of Newcastle?
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 8:22pm
Ross12

“It’s having a corrosive effect on our relationship, so I’ll continue to raise it,” Ardern …

Did she actually say this ?? If so, Waikato Uni should take back her communications degree.
18 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 10:49am
Wired-one

My comment yesterday about there being 16000 more people added to the taxpayer funded gravy train, since this government of ineptitude took power needs this added to it. Hardship grants have also blown out from 220,000 to 490,000 now. The politics of kindness apparently, kiwis and the MSM need to wake up.
34 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 11:23am
- tf78
  
  Wired-one, people just love free stuff.
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 11:37am
- kowtow
  
  “MSM need to wake up.”
  
  The msm have been “woke” for quite some time.
  Another reason there’re so many uncritical , unthinking ‘kiwis” , going along with what they think is the correct line …….
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 11:44am
- Humble Capitalist
  
  Is it possible to be obese and in hardship? How about in poverdy but smoking a pack a day?
  
  19 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 11:45am
  - stephieboy
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    Humble Capitalist, many things are possible if you a willing to look at issues non prejudicially and with objectivity!
    
    https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/read-the-journal/all-issues/2010-2019/2015/vol-128-no-1417-3-july-2015/6572
    
    0 31
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 12:11pm
    - Humble Capitalist
      
      Objective Stephie haha (but definitely not LOL)
      
      7 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 2:58pm
- backster
  
  Well being means being generous with other peoples money.
  
  3 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 3:29pm
Hugh Pavletich

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
NEW ZEALAND … While awaiting imminent and long overdue major government announcements dealing with the structural issues of urban limits abolition / land supply and proper debt financing of infrastructure …

… Auction numbers at low levels, could go lower over next few weeks …

The number of homes offered at the latest auctions was up slightly on the previous week but the sales rate took a dip … Interest Co NZ

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/100792/number-homes-offered-latest-auctions-was-slightly-previous-week-sales-rate-took-dip

New Zealand real estate agencies estimated to have earned $390.7 million in residential sales commissions in the second quarter this year, down $77.9 million from $468.6 million in the second quarter of 2016 … Interest Co NZ

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/100763/nz-real-estate-agencies-estimated-have-earned-3907m-residential-sales-commissions-q2

… with a major lift in affordable new housing production required …

Kiwibank economists say despite the residential construction boom the country is still falling short of what it needs to build; further short term weakness seen in Auckland house prices, however … David Hargreaves … Interest Co NZ

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/100767/kiwibank-economists-says-despite-residential-construction-boom-country-still-falling
.
.
Survey finds Kiwis’ backyard dream still alive and well – Westpac Bank Survey … Scoop NZ

http://business.scoop.co.nz/2019/05/28/survey-finds-kiwis-backyard-dream-still-alive-and-well/
.
.
… Note ‘flight to affordability’ articles 2019 section http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org .. and sales trends for townhouse / condos and detached housing … latest ( June 2019 ) Houston Association of Realtors Monthly Report …

https://www.har.com/content/mls
0 39
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 11:29am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Reported for link-whoring.
  
  22 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 12:08pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Important early July report … encouraging building consent trends …
    
    Residential construction shows no sign of slowing down as new consents hit a forty five year high, pushed up by a strong rise in consents for townhouses in Auckland | interest.co.nz
    
    https://www.interest.co.nz/property/100502/residential-construction-shows-no-sign-slowing-down-new-consents-hit-forty-five-year
    
    Notice in particular, by going to the Canterbury graph, how, since the 2017 election, Canterbury consenting has lifted from about 360 per month to about 440 now … and likely still rising.
    
    With Canterbury’s population about 624,000 and 440 monthly average consents annualized to 5,280 … this suggests residential consenting is running at about 8.5 units per 1000 population per annum ( a standard industry measure ).
    
    The major reason for this is the growing ‘affordability gap’ of Greater Christchurch (for both residential and commercial … refer recent JLL Report) … attracting young people and entrepreneurial business. The restaurant sector of Greater Christchurch (ignoring the disastrous former central area … the bureaucrats bog) leaves Aucklands in the dust.
    
    Lower residential and commercial property costs mean greater competition and more disposable income.
    
    Interestingly too … the May residential consenting figures annualized had New Zealand at 9 units per 1000 population per annum … Australia about 7 units per 1000 population per annum. We appear to be moving ahead of Australia.
    
    The imminent structural (land supply – infrastructure financing) announcements by Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford will lift these figures further as construction industry performance is significantly improved and prices are progressively lowered … access further information via 2019 section http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org .
    
    0 12
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 7:00pm
Maggie Pie

Anyone else sick of getting sent tweets like this?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_2iYF2W4AAvPpL?format=jpg&name=small
10 1
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 11:37am
Inandout

Brilliant re-imaging.
http://iforce.co.nz/i/tgufjbcp.z2w.jpg
15 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 11:38am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Inandout , whatever turns you on!
  
  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/trump-racism-comments/588067/
  
  0 38
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 11:59am
  - Inandout
    
    Obviously you can’t sleep at night and have nightmares about Trump. Stephie the petal.
    
    13 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 1:31pm
rightoverlabour

Time to start burning these arseholes at the stake. There is a “C” word that describes the whole bunch very well. Generally prefaced by an “F” word. https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/114310675/two-bus-lanes-netted-auckland-transport-nearly-1-million-in-fines-last-month
20 1
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 12:18pm
- SGA
  
  Time to start burning these arseholes at the stake.
  
  That might be a little excessive, even for Kiwiblog. 🙂
  
  10 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 12:36pm
  - Martin Williams
    
    He’s South African.
    
    1 11
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 2:19pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Racist
      
      10 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 3:31pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        South African isn’t a race…
        
        3 6
        Report
        July 20, 2019 3:59pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        I know
        Hes still a racist
        
        2 1
        Report
        July 20, 2019 11:22pm
    - alloytoo
      
      You’re confused, buses get burned, people get necklaced.
      
      6 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 3:43pm
- secondcumming
  
  @rightover
  Even though *Goff* maintains he has no control over AT, this bus lane extortion
  would have to be one of the biggest Council inspired rorts of all time.
  
  And lest we forget…..
  https://www.w3vietnam.org.nz/images/goffandclark.bmp
  
  Roll on October!
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 2:07pm
- BrownSnake
  
  It would not be so bad if it was put towards
  trams or trains but we know it will got to a pack of
  fat useless totally corrupt and incompetent a holes
  salaries
  
  10 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 2:08pm
- Monique Watson
  
  gotcha back: ‘Fucking Cunts” is the phrase you’re reaching for.
  
  10 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 4:50pm
Rodney Randall

Jack (virtue signalling) Tame,on Zb this morning compared Trump to Hitler. In his little fragile mind there is no difference.

Jack Tame is bent out of shape over the “send her home” chants. He failed to address Omar’s continual anti Semitic statements/tropes which resulted in the Dems creating a resolution off the back of her statements.
However, the Dems refused to name Omar as the perpetrator that lead to the resolution but nonetheless created a resolution that encompassed all forms of hurty speech.

In no way should Omar return to Somalia. She must stay in America.

She is the greatest gift to the Republicans.

The Green Party have their very own Anti Semites.
Fortunately the NZ Jewish Council has the authority to call it out.

Does Jack Tame tacitly endorse Omar?
40 2
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 12:25pm
- Jack5
  
  Tame was among the girly men pushing for the Crusaders to change their name.
  
  23 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 2:16pm
  - igm
    
    Don’t forget Gifford and Richardson . . . they should be dismissed from their positions, along with that wimpy Saville.
    
    9 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 5:22pm
  - MCos
    
    What’s a ‘girly man’?
    
    Is that the name given to any male who thinks NZ Rugby should change the name of the Crusaders?
    
    I thought that sort of derogatory term that inferred women were of inferior intelligence weren’t used anymore.
    
    2 12
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 5:44pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Just Jack5 trying to feel better about himself.
      
      0 11
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 6:13pm
    - nasska
      
      Don’t know about IQ but Rachel Hunter (may God be good to her) who inspired males such as myself to great heights had more testosterone than girly men like Tame! 🙂
      
      8 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 20, 2019 6:25pm
- tf78
  
  It appears Omar did in fact marry her brother to enable him to gain citizenship to the US. Evidence has been shown by way of birth certificates and marriage certificates – I guess they’re genuine.
  
  25 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 2:28pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Dont know if POTUS was trying to be funny, or it was just a typo when he tweeted
    “many a true word spoken in cest”
    
    LOL!!!!
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 4:05pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Helps?
    
    Nope!
    
    0 15
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 7:04pm
- Tall Man
  
  “Tame,on Zb this morning compared Trump to Hitler. In his little fragile mind there is no difference.”
  
  Hold the horses here… didn’t batman compare Trump to Hitler and Stalin a day or two ago?
  
  Could batman be tame……… could batman be “wild” but still tame?
  
  12 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 3:43pm
  - MickMac
    
    Tame is the 2nd reason I stopped watching TV1 breakfast.
    
    2 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 21, 2019 12:19am
- Classic Liberal
  
  When I hear the extreme socialist and ‘green’ policies Omar, AOC, Pressley and Tlaib want I think how we’re really livin’ the dream here in NZ. That squad would fit in lock-step with Genter and Taxinda et al. More tax, no oil, kill industry, equal outcomes for all, censorship and state control of everyone’s lives and every cow fart.
  
  We’re so lucky…
  
  6 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 6:06pm
Jack5

Bob Jones talks sense on the row between farmers and banks over interest rate swaps:

https://nopunchespulled.com/2019/07/18/being-a-halfwit-is-no-defence/#more-464
11 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 1:02pm
RW Capitalist

https://www.national.org.nz/simon_bridges_apologises_to_julie_anne_genter

Only one thing he failed to say:
What about those that NEED these vehicles for their Job/ business?
ie
Couriers
Taxies
Deliveries
Tradies
Hi capacity loads, for service business’s (mine).
15 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 2:33pm
- Rob2
  
  Yep and his good mate Todd from next door just joined the Greens in supporting the green wash and electric cars.
  
  Useless bloody lot.
  
  4 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 8:13pm
Monique Watson

Are we talking about Iran yet? Shit’s getting real.
And:
SDF General Commander Mazlum Abdi warns “if the Turkish army attacks us anywhere it will turn into a great war”
8 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 3:40pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Not got your fill with wars in Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria already?
  
  0 8
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 5:53pm
- burt
  
  A holy war, which side gets which actor? Who gets Alec Baldwin and who gets Matt Damon?
  
  6 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 6:06pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Tom Cruise is going back to war next year.
    
    0 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 6:11pm
    - Batman
      
      Trailer looks cool as hell, even though I didn’t rate the original film at all. I watched it recently and thought it was shit
      
      0 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      July 21, 2019 12:36am
Tall Man

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/07/michelle-obama-world-s-most-admired-woman-jacinda-ardern-snubbed-poll.html

Hang on, aren’t we bombarded on an almost daily basis that ardern is just magic and the whole world agrees……. Well, I guess not.
11 1
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 3:40pm
infused

Jacinda gets a bit of a roasting. https://www.facebook.com/PetaCredlin/videos/2343322192452694/UzpfSTYyMDk3NzkwMjoxMDE1NjYzMzU1MTQ0NzkwMw/
17 0
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 4:31pm
- John Warren
  
  Excellent. Tell it like it is.
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:24pm
- calendar girl
  
  Credlin commenting on NZ PM Ardern is well worth watching. Australia doesn’t like NZ takiong undue advantage of that country’s bounty and generosity.
  
  6 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 9:52pm
  - John Warren
    
    Plenty of Aussie media see Ardern for the lightweight piece of fluff she is.
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 21, 2019 12:53am
Tall Man

“As Māori we consider ourselves as protectors of our whenua and our waterways and I will be damned if I am going to standby.”

I bet the moas would disagree.
12 1
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 4:51pm
- nasska
  
  Protectors of land & waterways my arse.
  
  …..”Destruction of the forests began with the first Polynesian migrants, perhaps a thousand years ago…..
  
  ….Later fires maintained these areas as grassland and, in exceptionally dry periods, destroyed still further areas of forest, particularly in eastern districts of the North Island and beech forest5 east of the Southern Alps…….
  
  ……Towards the end of the eighteenth century, the Maori population was between 100,000 (according to Captain Cook, vide Reed, 1951) and 500,000 (Buck, 1950). …… It is generally accepted that at this time about one-half of the land area remained in forest.”……
  
  http://www.nzjf.org.nz/free_issues/NZJF09_1_1964/3FBEBD8A-A5EA-4B9D-A28D-9FF083D0F5FB.pdf
  
  The Maori destroyed half the bush while eating anything containing fat or protein to the edge of extinction & beyond.
  
  If bullshit was rubber they’d bounce off the moon!
  
  10 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 6:46pm
  - John Warren
    
    It’s all here.
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 21, 2019 12:59am
- Maggie Pie
  
  To the ‘Victa’ goes the spoils? 🙂
  
  3 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 7:15pm
- tf78
  
  Tall Man – now you’ve obviously had the weekend off – why don’t they protect their children who have turned into the bread winners for some. (No offence meant to the major majority of normal good parents). Welfare is an absolute communist curse!!!
  
  6 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 20, 2019 8:28pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Had a couple of long term mates in for dinner tonight plus a mate’s son and partner. Both were young keen public servants who did not trust or respect ardern. They did not trust or believe the “science” as fed out by the government and media on climate change and while they have just bought a house together they are now looking at options that give them more lifestyle than just a career.
    
    So, 5 – 1 against ardern and co. My old mate is just a stirrer but I did detect a couple of negatives towards ardern… time will tell.
    
    We’re both born and bred Northlanders so are well acquainted with maori conservation and child abuse.
    
    6 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    July 20, 2019 10:15pm
Hugh Pavletich

Something Just Broke In China As Repo Rate Soars To 1,000% Overnight | Zero Hedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-19/something-just-broke-china-repo-rate-soars-1000-overnight

China’s Top Carmaker Guides For First Annual Sales Drop In 14 Years | Zero Hedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-19/chinas-top-carmaker-guides-first-annual-sales-drop-14-years-0
0 9
Log in to Reply
Report
July 20, 2019 9:47pm
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Weekend Briefing … Interest Co NZ
  
  https://www.interest.co.nz/news/100795/ny-fed-scrambles-protect-message-canada-retail-disappoints-china-faces-pressure
  
  … extract …
  
  … In China, banks sold a net NZ$28 bln of foreign exchange in June, the biggest one-month net sale in two years, as pressure from the trade war builds, in turn adding to pressure on the Chinese currency.
  
  And yet another in a growing list of companies in the Middle Kingdom is having trouble meeting its debt obligations as they fall due.
  
  China is now actively working to keep foreign companies from leaving the country, dangling special benefits so that the advantages of staying outweigh the heavy tariffs imposed by the Americans. More than 50 global companies have announced or are considering plans to move production out of China. And not just foreign companies. Chinese manufacturers as well are part of the planned exodus.
  
  And to reinforce the point, it turns out that Vietnam’s port throughput now exceeds that for Hong Kong, a major China trade gateway. Vietnam is a major winner from the trade war.
  
  0 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  July 21, 2019 3:28am

Add a Comment Cancel reply

Login to comment or vote

« Wrap of 2019 archeological season GATH (Tell es-Safi) Israel (#16).

Will anyone call out the hypocrisy? »

Donations

You can now donate to Kiwiblog

Exclusive content from DPF on Patreon

Become a Patron!

Never miss a post

Email Address

Join 37.4K other subscribers

Highlights

Health Target 5 – elective treatments
Health Target 4 – Specialist appointments
Health Target 3 – Emergency Dept Waiting Times
Health Target 2 – Immunisations

Links

Behold The Flying Dutchman: Trump Prosecutors Find Themselves on Listless Ships Without a Port of Call
Utopia
Fake News, Nah Fake Poll?
No Minister
David Parker replies to blog post referencing capital taxes
Point of Order
Sowell says
Hompaddock
The woke and a broken Fourth Estate handed Trump the culture war ammunition he used to destroy America
The Daily Blog
Open mike 09/11/2024
The Standard
More on trade
Not PC
Sifting through the wreckage.
Kiwipolitico
Remember the Algerian Olympic boxer in the women’s ring?
Bob McCoskrie's McBlog
Climate Change: Raising the bar
No Right Turn
THE AMERICAN ELECTION
No Punches Pulled (Bob Jones)
Transforming Our Future
NZCPR
Top 14 Predictions for Round 10
Stats Chat
Pretty (il)legal
Croaking Cassandra
Where are the food carts?
Offsetting Behaviour
Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet
The Civilian
The Accidental Engagement
Imperator Fish
Legal Beagle: Election '23: The Special Votes
Public Address
Making this movie might have been a mistake
Liam Hehir
Why I am retiring from political blogging
Kiwi FireWalker
Angie Warren-Clark: Meet the Newbies
Dan Moskovitz