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jambanja wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:28 am Water off a ducks back mate

At least we know you won't mind when you're eaten. Perhaps it will happen before Aotearoa is converted into Zimbabwe, as you seem determined to ensure.

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booji boy wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:51 am Jacinda was "Proud of her Govts record on housing" whereas anyone with any honesty, self respect and self awareness would have viewed it as a dismal failure.

Only if they considered National's sell off of state housing 'success'.

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We understand it we just want to know what incentive there is in life to grow tall if everyone is going to be made as tall as you. I guess everyone can enjoy their height then. Unless enjoyment is only possible if one uses their height to look down on others. That'd be pretty sad, don't you think?

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Ted. wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:57 am
usermame wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:37 am
Ted. wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:57 am

I'm not sure if you are pocking fun or being serious. Would you be more explicit, please?
Who nominates the employee H&S person? Can the nominee be Ernie from accounting?
The employer.

Oh right. That'll work then.

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jambanja wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 7:18 am
Eugenius wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 7:16 am Why are journalists by the ‘very nature of their profession’ left biased ?

There are plenty of right wing journalists and shock jocks , frankly that bias creates more income , especially on radio.
Is it your opinion that the press is not left leaning?

That capitalist owned press? JFC.

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Eugenius wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 7:16 am Why are journalists by the ‘very nature of their profession’ left biased ?

He must think truth has a leftist bias.

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grievous wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:18 am I watched a fair bit of the HK 7s over the weekend, it's so close these days over each comp but miss the minnows not being involved, HK used to be an Asian showcase.

The China vs Hong Kong China matches were great.

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I see I did imagine the sample.

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JPNZ wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:03 am I see the most trusted news source in NZ is currently the ODT (Otago Daily Times)

Jesus. Imagine the sample.

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JPNZ wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:03 am Agree with Jambanja 100%, news media financially should be able to stand on its on two feet, not rely on government bailouts all the time.

Like Citizens United, eh?

Money = Speech.

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Nominated H&S people are fine, as long as they're not simply box tickers and, more importantly, placed there to be box tickers and to, apparently, satisfy the employers responsibilities. I'm impressed with the idea. Do the new 'modifications' indicate the nominators? I'm not sure if you are pocking...

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Ted. wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:46 am
Tehui wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:06 am It's almost like tax cuts has become the primary economic goal of government, ahead of lowering inflation or encouraging sustainable growth in the NZ economy.
Yeah, mad isn't it.

Let alone aiming for the greatest good for the greatest number.

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Ted. wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:44 am Nominated H&S people are fine, as long as they're not simply box tickers and, more importantly, placed there to be box tickers and to, apparently, satisfy the employers responsibilities.

I'm impressed with the idea. Do the new 'modifications' indicate the nominators?

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farmerdave wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:38 am I know we need and rely on broadcast news but I no longer convinced that's what these programs are anymore.

No tv, no radio. Neither listen to nor watch broadcasts. Oh, maybe RNZ, very occasionally.

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grouch wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:28 am aaahm.
Personality/Brand politics has a lot to do with perceived bias.
There's a majority , imo , of the electorate that dead set prefers to be fed glitter covered BS in preference to fact and policy.

I don't believe the major print media gets more left on the spectrum than rabid neo liberal.

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Tehui wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:06 am It's almost like tax cuts has become the primary economic goal of government, ahead of lowering inflation or encouraging sustainable growth in the NZ economy.

Forget about cleaning up the rivers.

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Apparently Willis has admitted the govt will need to borrow more. But the tax cuts are staying, AFAIK. From a reported Budget Policy Statement briefing to Finance and Expenditure Committee. It was always going to be thus. Straight out of the Key/Blinglsh play book. Borrow to fund tax cuts, keep int...

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27 March 2024 However, she said tax cuts would be funded entirely through reprioritised funding, savings, and new revenue, which "means we won't have to borrow extra to provide tax relief and we won't be adding to inflationary pressures". She said it was the most responsible thing the government co...

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grouch wrote: ↑Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:50 pm These are culinary diamonds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_puff

One can buy them made with puff pastry and curried mince in select Auckland shops. One at Lynfield, I recall.

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Eugenius wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:17 am Shit , science research should be the last thing you’d think they’d cut .

Even historically National pretty much left it alone , this is serious Austerity alright .

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27 March 2024 However, she said tax cuts would be funded entirely through reprioritised funding, savings, and new revenue, which "means we won't have to borrow extra to provide tax relief and we won't be adding to inflationary pressures". She said it was the most responsible thing the government co...

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Apparently Willis has admitted the govt will need to borrow more. But the tax cuts are staying, AFAIK.

From a reported Budget Policy Statement briefing to Finance and Expenditure Committee.

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The Pie Fee Beef Rendang pie laughs in his face. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia2.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FcO39srN2EUIRaVqaVq%2F200.gif%3Fcid%3D790b7611754xkenl34gjyn1bhwbiqybwr27aw1ozbbs3se1i%26rid%3D200.gif%26ct%3Dg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=a64c0fe2afd00c6d53bd02bf6638a3b262517...

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mr bungle wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:22 pm
Clogs wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 12:03 pm
mr bungle wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:08 am When cooked perfectly, these are hard to beat...

Is this plain mutton or mutton curry?
Mutton.

Mmmmmmm

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That's a damned long way to ebike for a pie. I would like a good dead sheep pie, they're hard to beat. Ashby Cafe has discontinued its lamb and mint.

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Holy Capsaicin, Batman.

Ashby Cafe

Pork, Camembert and Jalapeno rolls

$6.00

What it says on the label. Actual Jalapeno flavour, cut with the creaminess of Camenbert, all on a pure pork background, with pastry to die for.

You haven't lived.

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Zakar wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:41 am Basically playing in an SS uniform FFS.

They were the copycats.

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Sold the car, bought an ebike.

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350232112/battle-bike-lanes-simeon-brown-v-cyclists I find the anti cycle way stuff so weird. I get why the high cost of some can put people off (that quoted figure for the Petone Melling one seems crazy in a vaccuum) but some of the talk about them is divorced from...

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Cheers fellas. Booji, I celebrated the interest deductibility by setting up the tax payments for the 22/23 financial year for the "profit" that all went to the bank. I'll get to do the sane this time next year fir the 23/24 financial year before perhaps getting a year off in 2026 just in time for a...

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Fava beans?

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Cheers fellas. Booji, I celebrated the interest deductibility by setting up the tax payments for the 22/23 financial year for the "profit" that all went to the bank. I'll get to do the sane this time next year fir the 23/24 financial year before perhaps getting a year off in 2026 just in time for a...

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I'm not so sure about referenda for New Zealand in this increasingly polarised world we live in. We saw how easy it was for 3 waters to be politically weaponised. "Co-governance" became a dirty word all too quickly with little rationality behind it all. Vested interests remembered the taste of bloo...

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I had a Kāpiti Ice Cream mini Nelson Boysensberry and Chocolate ice cream to celebrate.

On a stick.

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Tehui wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:55 pm
Eugenius wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:05 pm I guess what I’m saying is that I find it highly unlikely he would have allow Seymour and Winnie to highjack the narrative.

He still would have lead .
There are different styles of political leadership, but what's your definition of leadership in this context?

Fake sincerity better...

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Mr Mike wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:44 pm Labour was less about fooling the faithful, only the most self-deluded saw how far short they fell against the lofty and aspirational rhetoric.

Yeah, not like the pandemic and aftermath had any bearing on what could be done. As a matter of curiosity, can you list what they should’ve done?

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Eugenius wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:52 pm Speak with a modicum of intelligence ?

To achieve what?

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Ted. wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:12 am Another spot the difference poster.

Focky, you go first. Be as descriptive as you like.

Mind, I feel that just one word is enough.

Eyebrows?

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booji boy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:46 pm
Of course I am taking the moral high ground whilst also exercising the requisite hypocrisy required for most green virtue signalling. I will be leaving town in protest at the V8's ... but driving several hundred kilometers away in my fossil fuel burning car.

Watch out for dolphins.

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Eugenius wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:18 pm He could think on his feet !

In order to do what?

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