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Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

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/...

Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

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....

Mr Mike

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

Good call. Easy trip and Tallinn is great to stroll around. Don’t know if bear is in season then.

Mr Mike

MungoMan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:20 am
Mr Mike wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:16 am 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.
Early bid for Son of the Year!

we need a photo of Farva on Santa’s knee to clinch the title.

Mr Mike

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.

Mr Mike

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 ...

Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

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 ...

Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

RodneyRegis wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:53 am
Mr. Very Popular wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 11:09 am 1 thread that won't be Irished

Probably.
Oh ye of little faith.

JGP was undoubtedly the best 9 at the rwc...

Gregan?

Mr Mike

kiwidutchie 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....

nice

Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

Zakar wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:27 am Oh who is this pulling up?

Mr Mike

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 ...

Mr Mike

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.

Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

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'...

Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

Obviously a consequence of DEI. If the dolphins had been picked based on merit…

Mr Mike

MungoMan wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:49 am
Mr Mike wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:03 am
piquant wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:13 am The odds on him taking advice of council come the trial and not getting on the stand wouldn't be long

That would be the typical mien of his legal team, yes.

The fella just seems to lack an STFU button.

I was triggered by “council”, well played piquant.

Mr Mike

piquant wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:13 am The odds on him taking advice of council come the trial and not getting on the stand wouldn't be long

Mr Mike

Tehui wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:53 amI'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.

Mr Mike

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 ...

Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

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. ...

Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

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...

Mr Mike

Unsurprisingly, the bond amount was reduced on appeal to $175MM, along with other relief.

Mr Mike

Ted. wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:13 am I'll just leave this here.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1772084859114045883

That may be the most relatable thing he has ever done.

Mr Mike

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.

Mr Mike

For me, not an American. If I was to go into a pub/ bar and was having a drink with Trump and then Biden, who do I feel most comfortable leaving my wallet behind with, whilst I went to the bathroom. Trump doesn’t drink. Neither of them drink. "I'm the only Irishman you ever met, though, that's neve...

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