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Scott

Merry Christmas everybody! 🎄😊🤶🎅🌟✝️
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December 25, 2024 8:09am
gravedodger

Seasons greetings to all who venture here for what ever reason/
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December 25, 2024 8:13am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  While sharing the sentiment & without wanting to be a grinch, it’s “Merry Christmas”, GraveD.
  
  We don’t say Season’s Greetings during Diwali, and nor should we. It’s Christmastide, and we should celebrate it.
  
  Minor tantrum over. Merry Christmas, one and all.
  
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  December 25, 2024 8:24am
  - pdm
    
    Bollocks it can be either – especially if GD was covering New Year as well.
    
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    December 25, 2024 10:17am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Fair point
      
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      December 25, 2024 12:07pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    Not being a Christian and Christmas being a religious inspired event.
    
    Not wanting to be a hippy crit.
    I use seasons salutations to cover both holidays.
    
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    December 25, 2024 2:31pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Indeed
      You’re more likely to celebrate Oct 7…
      
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      December 25, 2024 3:08pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        If you’re referring to October 7th. 1571 , the day that the Catholic fleet of Don Juan of Austria defeated the Ottoman Empire fleet at the Battle of Lepanto, then I upticked.
        Because that was the decisive battle that broke the stranglehold that the Muslim fleets had over basically the whole Mediterranean. 🙂
        
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        December 25, 2024 5:32pm
    - tedbear
      
      So it’s purely an accident that you happen to be on a planet driven by the Sun and Moon and the entire Solar System that also all arrived by accident.
      Oooook.
      
      Jesus loves you regardless of what you say
      
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      December 25, 2024 6:26pm
Biscuit

And to you, gravedigger!

Looks like its gonna be a quiet day so what say I start up a post on:

Kiwiblog Conundrums of 2024…

• Whatever happened to Maggie Pie?
• Did anyone ever work out from his CAREFULLY-worded posts just who it was that Steve Otto wanted to win the U.S. Presidential Election in November?
• Will Never Mind The Bollocks EVER see a bike rack in Shell Lane that is anyways near ‘full’?
• Is anyone else out there as dismayed as is this Liverpool supporter that both of the once-were-great Manchester football clubs enter 2025 in REAL disarray?
• Has Chippie worked out what a woman is yet?
• And has Labour’s finance spokeswoman Barbara Edmonds completed her Remedial Graphs.101 course so that even ‘The Horrid’ doesn’t have to point out she stuffed up with her first ‘go’ at it?

Feel free to add your faves!

Or, if my brand of ‘humour’ annoys your mammaries, downtick me!

Best wishes to all Kiwibloggers – even my downticker(s), heh – and particularly to DPF, to his team of mods and to Kokila Patel for opening up these General Debate pages each day!
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December 25, 2024 8:42am
- The Floss
  
  Forgot about the Chippie “what is a woman?” answer!
  
  I’ll add a few more:
  
  – will we ever hear a coherent argument from the Greens/Labour/TPM that is AGAINST the Treaty Principles Bill?
  
  – when will the Treaty Principles be removed from legislation, per NZ First’s promise?
  
  – what reforms will replace The Therapeutic Products Act?
  
  Merry Christmas Kiwibloggers and David and Kokila in particular.
  
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  December 25, 2024 8:49am
  - pdm
    
    Floss – re 1.
    
    NO
    
    As an indication here is a link to the Joint Submission by John Minto and a woman named Bronwen Summers (no I have never heard of her either) on the Treaty Principles Bill.
    https://nominister.wordpress.com/2024/12/24/these-people-wonder-why-they-have-no-credibility/
    
    With any luck it will be binned on receipt.
    
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    December 25, 2024 10:34am
    - Steve Otto N Shore
      
      “Majority Culture.” I guess he is referring to Democracy, which is hated by commies such as him.
      “greater political influence for mega landlords, big business owners and the super-wealthy who gain wealth and influence at the expense of the rest of us.”
      I guess he is referring to the Maori Elite who have been given billions of dollars from the Taxpayers.
      
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      December 25, 2024 10:51am
    - JJ56
      
      Wife
      
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      December 25, 2024 10:58am
    - Grumpy Silver Top
      
      Wow! Amazing! An amazing, hate-filled rant confirming that there is no logical reasoning behind opposition to the bill. They can be proud of themselves for proving the opposing viewpoint, that is, “we need to talk about this, rationally”.
      
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      December 25, 2024 11:25am
    - Swifty
      
      Good grief:
      
      https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Cfu4DvQ4T/?mibextid=wwXIfr
      
      Two points:
      
      1. What an extremist.
      
      2. Can’t string an argument together. It’s all just emotive ranting.
      
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      December 25, 2024 3:42pm
- Swifty
  
  Merry Christmas to you too Biscuit.
  
  And to all on KB.
  
  And best wishes to you and yours DPF.
  
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  December 25, 2024 9:16am
- Cassandra
  
  I’d like to wish mike/milky a Merry Christmas (on behalf of DG).
  
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  December 25, 2024 9:23am
  - Jethrod
    
    And Steve Otto too. They are really all loved up.
    Merry Xmas to David and Kokila and all the Mods also.
    
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    December 25, 2024 9:32am
  - The Floss
    
    Haven’t heard from Milky in a while, he’s probably been banned
    
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    December 25, 2024 10:08am
- artemisia
  
  Don’t know what happened to Maggie Pie but I would love to see her back here.
  
  Maggie Pie – Come on down!
  
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  December 25, 2024 9:42am
- Positan
  
  A lot of good ones there, Biscuit.
  For me the greatest conundrum, heard at a Year 9 parent/teacher evening – the teacher asked when Shakespeare would be taught in the syllabus, the reply given: “It’s not relevant.”
  Today, with the “teaching” of te reo, our children are being steered back toward primitive times. Inculcated not only with the corrupted-spelling of maorified-English, all the re-written Treaty nonsense and with all the utter crap posing as Maori science and “achievements” – that something as precious as the writings of Shakespeare can be dismissed as “non-relevant” shows how far our educational standard has sunk, thus demeaning the substance of all current-issue “qualifications” and dooming our nation’s intellectual future.
  
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  December 25, 2024 9:51am
  - Notsofast
    
    About as well said as possible.
    We are destroying the children systematically.
    Child abuse.
    
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    December 25, 2024 10:10am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Shakespeare and much classical literature up to 20th C literature is wholly irrelevant to life in 21st century, with colossal changes in tech and social mores making most of the antiquarian conflicts and issues at play of no more import than those found in fantasy or sci-fi fiction.
    
    It used to hold cachet as a common agreed upon corpus of knowledge that denoted membership of and gave access to ‘club’ of intellectual upper classes – with all the shibboleths contained therein. But that has evaporated over last 50 years and the last vestiges in academia exist only due to habit.
    
    And yes I have read all Shakespeare, and much C19 literature. Wonderful prose, but obsolete and useless to kids of today.
    
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    December 25, 2024 4:28pm
    - Allan
      
      You might have read Shakepeare but you don’t seem to have understood what you were reading.
      
      I would say that the bard of Avon (thank goodness his father moved there from Snitterton) has much we can understand about the consistancy of humanity, the human condition and its existence.
      
      A consistancy that will not be altered by the technology that we live within.
      
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      December 25, 2024 6:32pm
- Steve Otto N Shore
  
  I only ever wanted one winner Biscuit, and he won big time. I even picked the Electoral College votes correctly at 312. The American media are still saying ‘a narrow win over Kamala’ and similar things. I don’t think they will ever get over it such is the TDS.
  Merry Christmas young fella, and to all who comment here, and the same to all those running this blog. They are appreciated.
  
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  December 25, 2024 10:21am
- pdm
  
  Biscuit – my friend is Gravedodger for good reason – he is not a Sexton..
  
  He earned that nickname as I recall as a ST John Ambulance volunteer in the Banks Peninsular region when he was a spritely 70 or thereabouts year old.
  
  I refrained from the downtick option.
  
  Merry Christmas to you, your good lady and the much maligned cat.
  
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  December 25, 2024 10:22am
- Master Mariner
  
  Yep, Will Kiwirail and RNZN announce a Joint study on how to operate an Autopilot so as to turn the ship safely //
  Merry Xmas from the “Big Blue Wobbly”.
  
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  December 25, 2024 11:49am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    What about decent training “like wot I got” 50-60 years ago.
    
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    December 25, 2024 3:03pm
Damocles11

Meri Kermite everyone, hope you all find your ‘rainbow connection’ this year.
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December 25, 2024 8:57am
- Paulus
  
  The new Tauranga Council have painted a main shopping road (although most shops are empty) with so called rainbow colours crossing.
  They blame the Mahuta Commisioners, like everything else of stupidity like Maori on Committees, paid, and unelected, for approving this.
  But the real noise from the instigator group, is that there was no formal ratepayer, children attending from school, Maori function to open this phenomena.
  The one time rower, sit on fence, Mayor did not attend and open it, and no powhiri and blessing took place.
  How dare they ?
  
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  December 25, 2024 1:22pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Mahe – putting the rower into Aotearoa
    
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    December 25, 2024 3:31pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      I’m afraid Mahe is just about as woke as the comissioners. Tauranga copped a bullet electing him – & for the record, I never voted for him.
      
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      December 25, 2024 5:36pm
Keith White

Life is tough
Times are hard
Here’s your bloody
Christmas card.
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December 25, 2024 9:08am
Damocles11

We need a Pierre Poilievre leading us here in New Zealand. When you compare Luxon to the straight talking common sense ‘take no sheet’ Poilievre then there really is no comparison.
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December 25, 2024 9:14am
- Steve Otto N Shore
  
  Really we need just anyone who does not spout word soup waffle.
  Had six years of it and now another one.
  
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  December 25, 2024 10:32am
  - Colville
    
    Steve. IMHO first and foremost we need someone who is electable to 50%+ of the population. Anything else is distant nice to have item.
    Keeping the Greens and TPM away from the purse strings is first second and third order of business!
    
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    December 25, 2024 3:54pm
    - Steve Otto N Shore
      
      First, second, and third yes – but we need someone who has maracas, not sitting on the fence with a word salad, not an A4 paper with what to say.
      
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      December 25, 2024 6:10pm
rouppe

Do people who’ve had a stroke normally have no visible physical effects?

No drooping face, able to securely hold a child on your lap…?

And he gets top item on the website while the prime minister gets 10th.

Notwithstanding I’d never post a pajama photo.
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December 25, 2024 9:20am
- Chuck Bird
  
  A couple of people I know who have had a stoke play tennis at my club.
  
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  December 25, 2024 9:40am
- CJames
  
  rouppe – it is good that the PM is 10th down. Means there is no “scandal” they can tar him with.
  
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  December 25, 2024 9:51am
- Keith White
  
  Depends which cerebral territory was bled into or was downstream of a clot. If the stroke was not in territory that controls speech / movement then not much may be easily visible to third parties…
  
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  December 25, 2024 12:07pm
- Paulus
  
  My 84 year old wife had a stroke after orthopaedic Hospital hip surgery, whilst in recovery suite.
  Helivac immediately from Tauranga Hospital to Auckland at 6am and four hours brain operation.
  Six months ago now – she will, and our lives, will never be the same after 60 plus years of marriage, as she very weak in her left side and as such cven with walker and walking stick.
  Unbabalced is the worse position as I am full time with some assiatance, as full time cargiver – and I am no good either at my age.
  Left face was bad but improved in time.
  It is not just physical either as age does not help anyway – for either.
  Thank God for the wonderful people in our Health Service – they have all been wonderful.
  
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  December 25, 2024 1:31pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Sorry to hear this
    Strokes can be a life changing event.
    I hope she improves and you can regain some of the quality of life you had
    Merry Christmas
    
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    December 25, 2024 2:36pm
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Paulus, 60 years of marriage is bloody marvelous!! My parents made it beyond 60, and I remember talking to my dad at their 60th anniversary. He was well on the way with Parkinsons, and mum had more than early signs of dementia. He said, no matter what happens, keep a smile on your dial, your life will be better for it. And he did until the day he died.
    
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    December 25, 2024 4:33pm
  - Steve Otto N Shore
    
    84 she is doing well. Strokes, I don’t know, I have had two TIAs (transient ischemic attack) Bang, fell down a hole on my spa/BBQ deck to check if spa was emptying.
    Knocked around a bit, 30 min to get me out.
    Age gets us all Paulus. Still fit and active but not like I was at 50.
    Time for you and your wife to enjoy life – please do.
    Regards, the 72 year old man Steve.
    
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    December 25, 2024 6:23pm
- Ghost
  
  He’s in a wheel chair. Do you really think he and the doctors/hospital involved are going to fake a stroke?
  
  My neighbour’s husband was left with mood swings, aggression from his stroke. No visible damage.
  
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  December 25, 2024 2:49pm
  - rouppe
    
    I definitely think he’d fake it, or at least exaggerate the consequences.
    
    I can sit in a wheelchair too. That means nothing. Seen too many people turn up in court with a neck brace they put on 30 minutes beforehand .
    
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    December 25, 2024 2:56pm
    - Ghost
      
      In all the times he has been in court he has never turned up faking an illness. The guy is a walking heart attack, stroke risk in need of a diet and healthy lifestyle.
      
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      December 25, 2024 3:03pm
      - Steve Otto N Shore
        
        Never faked?
        Who is the Doctor and what is the Doctor’s financial status?
        Kim Schmitz came to NZ for a reason, and it was not to use NZ as a haven for a new Megaupload.
        I will leave that thought here.
        
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        December 25, 2024 6:28pm
rjay

Happy Christmas everyone.
For the first time in years I have sentient children here for the day. Changes the whole vibe and reminds me that there are fantastic young people who will one day inherit what we create and leave to them.
Truly a season of hope.
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December 25, 2024 10:03am
Taieri

Happy Christmas and Merry New Year.
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December 25, 2024 10:08am
- PurplePen
  
  You know … who would ever have thought that it would matter if we said merry or happy, and that anyone was ever thinking that Christmas was offensive to some and cared about it. 2025 needs to be the year there is a great winding back or ignoring of all the offense takers in the world.
  
  Merry Xmas anyway. Have very much enjoyed participating in discussions this year.
  
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  December 25, 2024 12:06pm
NK

I’m an Atheist. I’m reluctant to celebrate a religious festival I don’t believe in. But I’ll take a few days off anyway and swim, bet on horses, drink beer and play golf (not necessarily in this order).
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December 25, 2024 10:39am
- Jethrod
  
  But you will support those of us who do like Xmas and enjoy it, to the hilt?
  
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  December 25, 2024 11:02am
  - NK
    
    100%. Each to their own I say.
    
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    December 25, 2024 2:27pm
  - Ra Henare
    
    I think the correct way to address it is.
    Do what you want to do, re Xmas or anything else.
    Act like a responsible adult.
    
    I wont object or comment about your actions/opinions unless you try and force your opinions down my throat.
    
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    December 25, 2024 2:42pm
    - NK
      
      Christmas is forced upon us, Ra. As is Easter.
      
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      December 25, 2024 2:55pm
      - Steve Otto N Shore
        
        For some it is paid public holidays.
        Christmas + Boxing Day. New Year’s Day, + 1 day.
        Then Easter, Waitangi Day, Anniversary Days, My birthday – yes I was paid for my birthday!
        The employer pays for this, but any good business owner should know this is all part of business.
        
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        December 25, 2024 6:39pm
- pdm
  
  Some good racing at Elletslie tomorrow NK.
  
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  December 25, 2024 12:00pm
  - NK
    
    Yes. Zabeel Classic is gonna be a beauty. El Vencedor paying $14 to win. I don’t think she can beat La Crique but great top 3 or top 4 odds right there!
    
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    December 25, 2024 2:28pm
- Razork
  
  100% sounds like my next 3 weeks. Hope your horses run fast, the ball goes straight and the beer is cold! Bliss.
  
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  December 25, 2024 8:22pm
Flossie

Merry Christmas fellow bloggers and DPF, Kokila and mods. I’ve been (very happily!) pre-occupied with family and not spent any time to speak of on here for a few days.
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December 25, 2024 11:13am
Mod88

Merry Christmas to all who inhabit & visit this place. May your day be oarsum.
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December 25, 2024 11:13am
Jack5

Merry Christmas to the Lucky Old Sun, which as, the song says, rolls around heaven all day …

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is close to the Sun right now on its latest orbit.

Scientists won’t know before Saturday NZ time how successful the approach has been — how it’s endured 1400deg C. Saturday’s when there will be another “beacon tone” transmission.

The spacecraft gradually orbits closer to the Sun’s surface. Launched in 2018, it’s orbited the Sun 21 times. It gets ever nearer as it uses the gravitational pull.

The craft flew through the Sun’s upper atmosphere — the corona, three years ago.

https://www.earth.com/news/nasas-parker-solar-probe-reaches-closest-approach-to-the-sun-perihelion-survival-unknown/
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December 25, 2024 11:42am
- Steve Otto N Shore
  
  I never even knew about that probe. Very interesting. Thanks.
  
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  December 25, 2024 1:20pm
ecco

Merry Christmas all!
Having a great day. Only blight on it is seeing a photo of Dotcom on the front of the herald website. Is that really the best they could come up with for Xmas day. I didn’t think they could reach new lows but they have. That guy is the last person I want to see first thing on Xmas day. So glad I finally cancelled my sub to that rag.
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December 25, 2024 12:28pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I’m more nuanced, Ecco. Tell me it’s a photo of Dot Com in an orange jumpsuit being escorted onto a plane.
  
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  December 25, 2024 1:02pm
- NothingLeft
  
  How’s that perfectly timed stroke of his panning out? Still unable to board a plane for USA?
  
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  December 25, 2024 4:34pm
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

Merry Christmas fellow Kiwi bloggers and their families. Hope Luxon wakes up next year and talks less and does more.
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December 25, 2024 1:08pm
- greybeard
  
  We know what Chris Luxon has done for NZ: what have YOU done in the same period ?
  Oh yes, Merry Christmas. Be good.
  
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  December 25, 2024 2:51pm
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Oh the great grey bearded one – if you think Luxon has done great, I have a bridge to sell. If you but one I will give you another one for free. Just remember you are one or two points flip close to a Labour-toxic Greens-TPM coalition.
    
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    December 25, 2024 6:42pm
Colville

Here is a question.
If in 10 years time, so we’ll into a fourth term, we were still looking at Luxon as too much talk and not enough action.. Would we want to kick him out?
I say no way.
In the last year they have started to control spending, started to correct Health, Education and Justice. Green lit a lot of major roading projects and pushed the Fast Track legislation thru with its 149 projects.
For me it’s a pretty damm good first 12 months.
More more more of the same.. And if Luxon needs to be a bit waffley on the radio now and again.. It’s a minor thing.

Cheer the fuck up people 😁
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December 25, 2024 4:08pm
- Ghost
  
  I don’t think people realise how close we are to having a labour government again. There are enough problems that if still facing the country next election, and they will be, they will take more than one term to deal with. The left could easily turn the centre vote back to the left. One of the levers the right need to pull next election is to show the country what a labour government will look like with the Māori party.
  
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  December 25, 2024 4:17pm
John Loveridge

Merry Christmas everybody. I was having a reasonably merry one myself until I inadvertently witnessed Hilary Barry fronting TV1’s “Santa Tracker” inserts last night. I reckon even the five-year-olds she was targeting were barfing from the sheer cringe of it all.
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December 25, 2024 4:44pm
Maggy Wassilieff

I’ve had the laziest Xmas (cooking/organisation) in the last 45 years…

Admittedly I’ve got pretty savvy over the years and have learnt how to minimise unnecessary effort and just concentrate on the bare essentials to ensure we have a tasty lunch and enough left-overs to last for a couple of meals.

One of my (few) regrets in life is that I didn’t establish control of my family Xmas early in my married life… I spent the first 20 years or so spending Xmas day with the in-law family/step-family…

Too late to undo anything, but now that my father is dead and my brothers’ kids are adults, I wish I’d spent some Xmases with them when my children were young.
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December 25, 2024 5:55pm
Steve Otto N Shore

Some fun, then a water drink and a lie down!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVcxiDDuFpA
Bye Kiwi bloggers, Merry Christmas
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