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- Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:34 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
An interesting read…… .https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/05/public-service-workers-will-struggle-to-find-work/ A difficult time for NZ families coming up…….. Anyone have a family member caught up in this? It seems odd that the only options left for these “highly skilled” individuals are teaching or go...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 1:47 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: The Crusaders 2024 Thread
- Replies: 815
- Views: 75779
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:35 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Quick poll. How many here ride a bike to work? Don't get me wrong, I love cycling but it's a recreational pursuit for me. No way cycling to and from work is convenient in any way shape or form for me. Let's hear from all you regular posters? I did in Singapore. https://expatliving.sg/wp-content/upl...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Hmmm, maybe if I send that article to Seymour & Luxon they'll throw their support behind cycle lanes everywhere. https://i.makeagif.com/media/6-20-2016/HBme8F.gif Of course the cycling men may be disproportionately in the 31%… “On an overall basis men are heavily in favour of the new National/ ACT/...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 1:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
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...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Scandinavian Itinerary Advice Please!
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1031
Re: Scandinavian Itinerary Advice Please!
Good call. Easy trip and Tallinn is great to stroll around. Don’t know if bear is in season then. I haven’t thought of that, good advice I’ll investigate! Check out this place if we’re talking food and Tallin 👍 can’t recommend highly enough https://www.oldehansa.ee/wp-content/uploads/Menuu-ENG_web....
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Scandinavian Itinerary Advice Please!
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1031
Re: Scandinavian Itinerary Advice Please!
Good call. Easy trip and Tallinn is great to stroll around. Don’t know if bear is in season then.Conspicuous wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:15 am Tallin and Helsinki are connected by a sub 2 hour ferry ride . You could split your four nights between the two city’s and that would give you ample time to see the main attractions in each
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Scandinavian Itinerary Advice Please!
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1031
Re: Scandinavian Itinerary Advice Please!
we need a photo of Farva on Santa’s knee to clinch the title.
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:16 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Scandinavian Itinerary Advice Please!
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1031
Re: Scandinavian Itinerary Advice Please!
While in Rovaniemi your Mum will want to take her big boy to the Santa experience. It is important that you act into it for her, otherwise you will spoil the day.
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 1:49 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ed sheeran is modestly talented IMO
- Replies: 131
- Views: 2953
Re: Ed sheeran is modestly talented IMO
I am entirely unqualified to comment intelligently on musical merit or other artistic performing abilities. Like other gentlemen with my limitations, I judge the experience to an extent on subjective factors such as my individual enjoyment and the far more important objective criteria of whether or ...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 1:31 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
There are different styles of political leadership, but what's your definition of leadership in this context? Not spent the first few months only fast tracking their policy’s ? Negotiations not being utter capitulations and making it very obvious who’s in change of political decisions . Standing fo...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 1:29 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Not all are selling though. Many have just switched to the more lucrative options such as Air BnB. Has anyone been through the consent process to get a property into short term accommodation? I know in Christchurch a resource consent is required (as a discretionary activity) if a home is to be rent...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 12:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Not all are selling though. Many have just switched to the more lucrative options such as Air BnB. Has anyone been through the consent process to get a property into short term accommodation? I know in Christchurch a resource consent is required (as a discretionary activity) if a home is to be rent...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:44 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
To fool the faithful. We've just witnessed a 6 year masterclass of fooling the faithful. Even when Ardern stepped down Robertson stepped up to fill the breach. Looks like it's continuing too, just with a different party. I don’t see Key and Luxon as fooling their faithful. They both are doing what ...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ranking the World Cup Winning Scrum-Halves
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2292
Re: Ranking the World Cup Winning Scrum-Halves
I see Joost as a poor man’s Rob Howley but that doesn’t help order my preference from that list at all. Gregan, Smith, Faf: legends. They played against each other on a Lions tour, and he schooled Howley. Did he? Not sure they would have played against one another. Howley got injured before the tes...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: New Zealand to poach young French talent?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5708
Re: New Zealand to poach young French talent?
I didn't think periods at school counted towards residency? Ordinarily they don’t. That changes if the family has relocated. 19. What is the position of students? As far as students are concerned, particularly those that are not financially independent, being resident, as a full-time student, in an...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Ranking the World Cup Winning Scrum-Halves
- Replies: 85
- Views: 2292
Re: Ranking the World Cup Winning Scrum-Halves
Gregan?RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:53 amOh ye of little faith.
JGP was undoubtedly the best 9 at the rwc...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: the Chink in the Chiefs Armour
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2033
Re: the Chink in the Chiefs Armour
nicekiwidutchie wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:07 pm Damien is to be rested this week. I guess it makes sense to do this against the weaker teams in the comp....
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:07 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18299
- Views: 867096
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
It is good news Hopefully we get more details going into the election about what Dems will actually do to restore rights to the many woman (and girls) who've had them ripped away I don’t want to be unfair to the many thoughtful Dems who are trying to shape a meaningful response to that question, bu...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
You think ? Indeed. At this stage everyone is dealing with the market realities as they are and responding to the existing incentives. This time next year will be a prime opportunity for meaningful seasonally relevant data on the actual effect of abandoning Robertson’s unfortunate experiment. The r...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: 2024 Boredies Red Carpet thread - results announced
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2434
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18299
- Views: 867096
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
Whether Biden will be able to benefit in Nov remains to be seen, but we just had another big Democrat win after running on abortion. After the Republican incumbent had to step down in the Alabama House seat (because he was guilty of electoral fraud... of course) a special election saw the Democrat ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:27 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Sail GP in Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch, NZ
- Replies: 158
- Views: 7953
Re: Sail GP in Lyttelton Harbour, Christchurch, NZ
For the sake of the dolphins, I would strongly support moving the event to Queenstown. Of course, along with any related financial benefits, but mainly for the dolphins.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:19 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Eugenius » Thu Mar 28, 2024 1:13 am https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeal ... JrzPWFylwM Rental prices have gone up for the third consecutive month in a row, with some properties reaching record highs, new figures have revealed. Trade Me's latest Rental Price Index, released on Wednesday, shows t...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:10 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I haven't seen enough of Luxon to pick up on his style of interview discussion like some of you have. However, I do wonder how he would have fared during the Covid lockdown era in which he would have had to give daily reports in front of a live televised audience and answer those annoying 'what if'...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:56 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I don't buy that government spending will reduce commensurately with tax cuts, but we'll see. Yes, I share your cynicism, that’s the stay tuned part. The benefit the new government has is that Kiwi consumers (as elsewhere) have largely exhausted their COVID period forced savings, so the demand side...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:57 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Well, I've said this before, but the current government's silly desire to have tax cuts when inflation is still high, is only going to delay interest rate cuts happening in future. The timing is awful. Inflation is a lose:lose for everyone. The conventional view is that tax cuts won’t be inflationa...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:23 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I'm guessing they'll receive a pass with most voters for about two years, before voter cynicism slowly starts to increase. Who knows. I think they are relying on voter cynicism and low expectations continuing long enough for the benefits of interest rate cuts to kick in. Well, I've said this before...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:27 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
- Replies: 95
- Views: 6837
Re: Baltimore bridge has collapsed.
Obviously a consequence of DEI. If the dolphins had been picked based on merit…
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18299
- Views: 867096
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:03 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18299
- Views: 867096
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I think they are relying on voter cynicism and low expectations continuing long enough for the benefits of interest rate cuts to kick in.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 12:02 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Cheers. Will read that when I have the chance but two points on a quick scan. 1. It appears to be heavy again on anecdotes and sort on hard metrics. 2. LOL that an article on school lunches was written by someone called “Lardies”… Call me a cynic but I suspect there is more hard data in there than ...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
Yeah this I’m not happy with. I’m finding my own politics a bit of a mix, conservative and pro business in some respects, a big chunk of others more socialist, and this is something I’m fully behind. That families are going hungry in NZ is simply not acceptable. I expect that is the case for many o...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:48 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I’ll try and read the latest report in a more leisurely manner once I’m off the cruise ship WiFi but it is more than a little concerning that we don’t have more papers on the program, beyond the critical Treasury feedback and the ones mentioned above, as it is a serious issue that deserves better. ...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:39 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: NZ Politics Thread
- Replies: 52681
- Views: 3543087
Re: NZ Politics Thread
I had NZ$5MM in life cover from around 2005 through to January last year. I was becoming progressively more annoyed with the increasing premiums and was now covered at work, so was always threatening to cancel, much to my wife’s annoyance. Finally realized after the fact that the card the premiums w...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18299
- Views: 867096
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
just curious, where are you seeing his lock in term ? cheers just generally reporting. FAKE NEWS example below, but there are others. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/03/22/business/trump-truth-social-dwac-shares https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-media-dwac-merger-vote-3-5-billion-lock-up-cbs-news...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18299
- Views: 867096
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
DJT (stock ticker for Truth) may start trading as early as next week. If that happens Trump’s lock in would expire just before Election Day. Very hard to predict what type of behavior that may incentivize, real head scratcher. just curious, where are you seeing his lock in term ? cheers just genera...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:02 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18299
- Views: 867096
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
Unsurprisingly, the bond amount was reduced on appeal to $175MM, along with other relief.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:20 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
- Replies: 18299
- Views: 867096
Re: U.S. politics thread and Joe Biden-the Ronan O'Gara of U.S. Presidents
That may be the most relatable thing he has ever done.Ted. wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:13 am I'll just leave this here.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1772084859114045883