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Tehui wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:12 am
usermame wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:17 am
Flockwitt wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 3:46 am ? Not getting where you are coming from at all.
Baffled at those complaining a working solution isn't ideologically pure.
I'm with you on this.

Thanks. Btw, my spelling was deliberate.

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Oh. And while I accept that everything/almost everything is toxic depending on the dose, nicotine is OG in that regard. Full disclosure, smoked for years. Had to use a non addictive substitute to give it up whilst still providing a displacement activity until the addiction moderated. Much, much bett...

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Flockwitt wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 3:46 am ? Not getting where you are coming from at all.

Baffled at those complaining a working solution isn't idiologically pure.

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There is such a thing as social maturity you know. New Zealand struggles with it, but.. step by step. What, a thing that New Zealand struggles with should be encouraged for idiological reasons at the cost of health and lives? I suppose Smoke Free areas should be removed to encourage responsible dec...

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I've enjoyed the old goat leading the others around the paddock, but that doesn't change the fact that he's about as self serving as you can get to the point I am sure he cares far more for himself than the country (is that unfair?). He certainly cared more for himself than Tauranga when I was a me...

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Plenty of studies going on , but no hard evidence yet of harm. I check regularly as as ex smoker , now vaper. I probably now ingest more nicotene than when I smoked , but then nicotene is not the direct cause of smoking harm , merely the bloody addictive element that convinces the addict to do more...

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Ted. wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 11:51 pm Sir Ian Taylor ways in.

“Reductio ad absurdum”

You'd wonder how anyone could be so dumb. Oh, wasn't he invested in Grounded Kiwi?

Say no more.

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You’re a bit slow aren’t you Especially when education, that you emphasise, has not been the most successful method. Taxation and removing smoking areas have. You know, coercion to break addiction. There is such a thing as social maturity you know. New Zealand struggles with it, but.. step by step....

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New Zealand has reached very low levels of smoking through education and other measures , I would pursue those measures further, making it illegal, will not stop people smoking all it will do is create a black market and who controls that sort of operation? You are an egg. Smoking levels have been ...

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Gee, National have got the wrecking ball out to wipe any memory of the Labour government from legislation and public service. I wonder when they will start doing things. It was ironic that one news item after the repealing of 3Waters was a report about the levels of pollution in our water supplies....

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New Zealand has reached very low levels of smoking through education and other measures, I would pursue those measures further, making it illegal, will not stop people smoking all it will do is create a black market and who controls that sort of operation? You are an egg. Smoking levels have been r...

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Isn’t it time for you to pivot once again into Big Tobacco ? Think of the opportunity. This is another area where I’m a bit perplexed, everyone seems very upset by the govt axing the anti smoking legislation, why? They are effectively saying that people can’t think for themselves and because of thi...

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Calling them the Elgin Marbles rather than the Stolen Parthenon Marbles says it all, really.

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Whereas making them disproportionately expensive will only encourage more ram raids as these actions make ever increasing amounts of illicit money . Next up - harsher sentencing and private prisons ? It’s alright , Seymour will be there to judge new laws and regulations for their validity - objecti...

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MoonBatto wrote: ↑Sat Nov 25, 2023 10:00 pmIf you’re lamenting the nature of this coalition, with its divvying-up of plumb positions, don’t blame the politicians, blame the system they work under.

It's okay for Janet Wilson, she'll never blame some politicians.

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grievous wrote: ↑Sun Nov 26, 2023 11:23 am What hate?

From the putsch-ers

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Slim 293 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:13 am Actually, the process began under Raelene…

It was under her administration that RA went to tender offending the Murdoch establishment.

Is that what spawned the hate?

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Those of us with a seat at the table who were getting better outcomes get to keep that. Those that don't already have a seat or easy access to a seat will remain on the outer with poorer outcomes because it's their own damn fault. Our system of addressing these issues obviously works because look, ...

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I'm not going to lie, the last month of politicians staying largely quiet has been bliss. Reading some of the stuff today and I'm already getting wound up. Tax cuts going ahead, no recalculation on how they will be paid for. Three strikes is back after been shown to work in absolutely no jurisdicti...

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Monkey Magic wrote: ↑Thu Nov 09, 2023 6:16 am Fonterra telling farmers to drop emissions by 30% due to customer pressures,who knew?

It seems to me all out best practices come from export customer pressure.

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But the process mooted does allow for public consultation. What part of advocating that the principals of the treaty should be defined through parliamentary process and public consultation is racist? The likelihood the victimised Paheha majority will steamroll a minority's treaty rights with legisl...

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Bwen wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 7:50 pm Is Black Friday bullshit marketing or decent value? Went to buy an office chair again on Amazon that I bought in September. 50% more expensive this week including the 23% On Sale reduction.

Lol Is marketing a con?

hmmm...let me think

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Oh, no... most of our beloved elected officials started off in a 1-dorm condo and live now in 6.000 sqare metre houses in country clubs, or in flats at the most expensive tower buildings in Buenos Aires. Of course all those are owned by offshore companies that graciously borrow them to the aforemen...

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In regard to dense metals, working in a lab in a wood fibre mill we used to collect the mercury from the collection trap in the ClO 2 plant. Litres of it. Encasing a hand in the thickest rubber glove one could find, making a fist and submerging it in the container of Mercury was extremely difficult....

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To provide a handgrip.

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Ease of making moulds in sand or whatever medium is chosen.

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AnkleTap wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 7:13 pm
usermame wrote: ↑Wed Nov 22, 2023 1:07 pm
So is it corruption?
No, too many taxes.

Then service would be excellent instead of poor.

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Oh, no... most of our beloved elected officials started off in a 1-dorm condo and live now in 6.000 sqare metre houses in country clubs, or in flats at the most expensive tower buildings in Buenos Aires. Of course all those are owned by offshore companies that graciously borrow them to the aforemen...

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If the fiscal deficit isn't reduced, no monetary scheme will work in the long term, and people will keep on getting b*ttf*cked... I guess taxing wealth isn't going to happen. There's a total of over 170 different taxes... any monthly income over 1.700 U$ tributes 35%. VAT for all products is 21% (b...

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Puma wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 8:06 pm In the rest of the world, Gabriel García Marquez is known as a writer thanks to his "magic realism" style. Down here, he is an historian.

That must be why I found him extremely difficult to finish. But after reading some of this thread, he's a damn good historian.

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Puma wrote: ↑Tue Nov 21, 2023 2:08 pm
If the fiscal deficit isn't reduced, no monetary scheme will work in the long term, and people will keep on getting b*ttf*cked...

I guess taxing wealth isn't going to happen.

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Akkerman wrote: ↑Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:11 am

That Trurd is almost as good as this.

https://twitter.com/robertsepehr/status ... 7060311520

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towny wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 12:44 pm
Why can’t you tell us how RA might ‘manage it’?

#MeToo

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TranceNRG wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 12:24 pm So Dan Herbert is the new Chairman and Waugh the CEO, 2 ex Wallabies. Not sure hope good they will be running a struggling business but I remain optimistic.

I've definitely been underwhelmed by Waugh so far. You?

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grievous wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 9:36 am There are lots of fallacies about rugby, this and that it's only a private schoolboy game. But the games custodians never challenge this, they let anti rugby publications write what they want.

I hadn't realised the games custodians had editorial control of the anti rugby publications.

TIL

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Where's the board in all this? He should be relieved of his duties. His rugby judgement has been terrible, he's overspent and he's damaged the brand. How exactly has he not failed all possible performance tests? He turned around a loss to a profit, people need to get the facts correct. In any case ...

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mr bungle wrote: ↑Sat Nov 18, 2023 8:16 pmHis Twitter is a clusterfuck of rugby predictions, conservative US political reposts supporting the likes of Trump & Lauren Boebert and links to vaccine and chemtrail conspiracies. He’s best left alone.

I'm glad you took one for the team and checked out Campo's Twitter so I didn't have to.

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Go and create another FB post about your experiences on this forum, you giant baby. :lol: So Thommo, it's a few days later. May I ask you this question? Please answer in your green font, wearing your hat as an authorised representative of Planet Sports Publishing Limited. Do you think the sensible ...

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That’s interesting- could be larkham. Steve Hanson / Ian Foster as DoR… https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgifdb.com%2Fimages%2Fhigh%2Fexcellent-mr-burns-simpsons-5dvajl62y56p3chl.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=f0389ac8a39a7f233bf82d8d457e44b2128e36c9f914c0df4af61e4893ec3e9f&ipo=images

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