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True Blue wrote: ↑Wed Jul 16, 2025 7:16 pm I wasn't aware that Nisbo lost his wife, when did that happen?

Is PR participating in elder abuse?

She died of cancer just under a decade ago.

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I hope Nisbo goes out on his own terms some time later this year. Even I, one of his biggest fans, thought some of his misnamings on Saturday were worse than usual.

I hope he's not trying to get through to 2027. He'll be about 75-76 by then.

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Fucken got a septoplasty on Friday due to my septum being all messed up from sport/being from West Auckland. Is it normal to not be able to breathe in and out your nose for 48 hours afterwards? I literally cannot even get a whiff of air out of my nose and barely any in. Doesn't even look that swoll...

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I sent this thread to guy smiley, and while he didn't want to log back in to post, he did send me his list for me to share with you: Talking Heads Talking Heads Talking Heads Talking Heads Talking Heads Talking Heads Talking Heads Talking Heads Talking Heads Talking Heads Talking Heads Talking Heads...

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:lol: I feel sorry for the French lads, especially those on debut. First big overseas tour and they get to go to NZ where the livestock is better looking than the women. Err, different strokes, I guess... :uhoh: Personally, you couldn't waterboard that out of me. Mate, it’s not my fault the womenfo...

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Bill Cavubati.

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They'd all be too scared to bring it forward. I think in 2017, National's policy was for it to increase from 2037, so it keeps rolling back as the years go by with a complete lack of action.

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Despite CI's inebriated state, this is actually a thread of his that makes more sense than usual.

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If / when the government do make cuts to Superannuation, the only sensible option is increase the age of eligibility from 65 to 67 and keep it universal. Basically, what the Key Government tried to do. This current government can't do it with NZF in there, as it's part of the coalition agreement (I...

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Random question here, but do posters here have family and friends who are on different parts of the political spectrum from themselves? I ask this because I caught up with a friend of mine earlier this week. She's a Leftie and is very kaupapa driven. I said to her that I expected this government to...

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I didn't realise we had so many expert research staff from Seconds From Disaster and Air Crash Investigation on here.

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Cool thread. Buzzin' hard.

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Big congrats to the rugby world's most high-profile flat track bully.

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Committee chairwoman and National Party minister Judith Collins emerged from the committee’s latest meeting and confirmed members had agreed on the form of punishment Waititi, Ngarewa-Packer and Maipi-Clarke would receive. https://i.postimg.cc/MKV6YvbB/unnamed.jpg Jeepers....I'd hate to get in the ...

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GON - how does one do a haka behind a desk. Please try it and advise the methodology. Stand in the aisles by your seat for all I f**king care. Put simply, don't advance onto the floor of the House to make a political point, be it through talking, shouting, gesticulating or, in this case, haka. The ...

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Sigh. The haka is not the act that is consider intimidatory. Haka is not banned from the House. A Member of Parliament can't: - speak from anywhere other than their assigned seat (or a seat they've moved to for a - leave their seat to intimidate another member (see Julie Anne Genter) - interrupt the...

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Wow! The apathy on this thread is palpable. Nobody complaining about Erica Stanford's inappropriate use of personal emails for parliamentary business? :shock: Isn't it sad that the story ranks so low amongst government cock-ups that it barely registers. Luxon is "relaxed about it". Totally expected...

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If it wasn't said in the debating chamber or in parliamentary questions (oral or written) I'd love for you two to explain how it is Brownlee's place to rule on this.

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The Wahs fans took over the The Lord Alfred Hotel on Caxton St and were singing loudly on the balcony. 'When the Wahs come marching in' is actually quite catchy :lol: Fvck that, any room on the Cowboys train? Actually wait, I don't want to support a team with that traitor Taumalolo. Do you ever tir...

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This reminds of the time Hockeyprisoner wistfully reminisced about the time he watched a woman get sexually assaulted, and was stunned when everyone else in the thread got stuck into him for sharing his seemingly happy memories of the incident.

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Ali's Choice wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:58 am Hopefully a swing to the centre left is replicated here in Australia this Saturday. Well done Canada, I love seeing Conservative government's lose!

This is the kind of education system the centre-left delivers.

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Gordon Bennett wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 6:26 am Lower Huttites! Who the fudge are we voting for in the upcoming election? So far, the parade of candidates is woeful. I’d possibly even toss Trevor Mallard a vote if he was standing and I cannot stand Mallard. Why couldn’t Andrew Little have stood here?

Gordon's running.

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This story is very disturbing; so disturbing that even National staffers are getting pissed off at the obvious lies. Links within the story. https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360646442/big-lies-and-half-baked-policies-behind-surge-homelessness Janet Wilson is a regular opinion contributor and a fre...

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We seriously need our own Kiwi-ised version of 'drinking the kool aid'. It may have interesting roots as an expression, but its overuse and monoculturalism gets on my wick. Surely we've had some drug-laced drink escapade of our own that we can use instead? We could have 'slurpring the V'?? Lapping ...

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He was quite a man & staunchly supportive of "his boys". However, if I am not wrong, it was an AB side he coached on a tour of the UK that was dubbed by Fleet St as the most arrogant All Black side ever to visit their shores. There was a famous photo of several of the AB's walking around London wea...

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Boring.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/ ... HNAZRZDJA/

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Apparently an "important" ACT Party announcement is being made tomorrow, just up the road from Parliament. Very curious. If it was a Government policy announcement, it would be described as such (not as an ACT Party announcement). If it was a reshuffle of Cabinet portfolios, just up the road on Mole...

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Ali's Choice wrote: ↑Sun Mar 16, 2025 9:20 am
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Ali's Choice wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 7:14 am

Last year North Island based posters were saying that Sotutu's omission was racist. So whilst you may not have expressed this sentiment, other posters did.
That is a f**king disgraceful post.
You're right, it was a shit comment. No defending it. Sorry Uncle FB.

Good man.

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We both agree that Hoskins Sotutu is a good player, and was unlucky not to be selected for the AB's at the start of 2024. He was selected later in the year, but was injured. Where we disagree , is that you think his omission is a racist conspiracy by two Pakeha coaches , whereas I can understand th...

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Ennor to Perpignan - Is this an AB loss ?

No.

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You think ? I’d think he’d be extremely willing to up his game . As self satisfied as he might appear , I don’t doubt his ambition. I dont want to draw Muttonbirds out of hibernation through my big noting but my strong suspicions are drawn from conversations with a number of people who should/will ...

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Luxon will be marmite toast unless he seriously ups his game . Unfortunately I don’t think he has the capacity to approach thinking on his feet . The humour and wit to communicate his humanity . His provided scripts should only be used as suggestions , as prompts . He clings to them like an old tim...

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Dagg works for Sports Nation radio which is owned by Entain Aus & NZ who own the TAB. Wow I didn't know that. Gambling company promoting sport to make it bigger so more people gamble on sport. With those kind of links it seems that it is more likely to become even more intertwined. Had a thing come...

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The reporter not happy with the current ‘mentality’ of the government. lol

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Yep more or less the same as me magpie, I just looked at my post and wait time for luggage was 30-40 minutes, not 340 as my fingers had posted :lol: . As I said I didn't really like the airport , (not a lot I do like, just transit points), but the numbers $150 quoted for taxi and having to pay in a...

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When was that mate? Mine was beginning of Dec, plane laned also just after midnight.Was pissed how long I had to wait for luggage, about 340 minutes. But customs was no problem. Hell I also got a taxi (didn't need to pay up front) but was about $70 to get to hotel about 5-7kms away. I can understan...

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Hipkins was prime minister then wasn't he? Yes, I didn't pick up on that. I had wondered why the question wasn't being asked to Seymour himself, but then he would have been in opposition. (I'm assuming that questions in the House of Representatives can only be made to Ministers? I'll need to check ...

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terangi48 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:24 am

Let us know where the punchline is, champ.

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Tehui wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 9:28 pm Speaking of South Island, we have a new Ministerial portfolio of Minister for the South Island.

A great man too.

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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ghq5Vy0aQAEV4yh?format=jpg&name=medium Debatable that he's been promoted. He's still outside Cabinet. He's shuffled up one spot compared to November 2023, but that's only because the Minister below him is brand new. If ACC was considered a key portfolio (and I'm not sayi...

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