General Debate 31 December 2017

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MrTips

First GD comment on last day of 2017. Not WoO, Morrisey or Hugh.

Goalz complete

Best wishes to all for a happy NY and a great 2018
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December 31, 2017 8:08am
starboard

Morrissey Breen. Pathetic transgender. Google him for a laugh. ??

Filthy hot and sticky here in Bangers trendsetters..Im hittin the hay ?
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December 31, 2017 8:10am
- Morrissey
  
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  December 31, 2017 4:03pm
  - starboard
    
    No mates morrissey…hahahahahahaha ?????
    
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    December 31, 2017 7:50pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Still bitter about being a third tier party guest today, are we, starboard?
      
      https://media.makeameme.org/created/aw-diddums.jpg
      
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      December 31, 2017 9:55pm
      - starboard
        
        Suck my balls asshole
        
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        December 31, 2017 11:28pm
Luke Piewalker

Camping at a Northland beach. $25/night. It’s good to be back in New Zealand
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December 31, 2017 8:16am
- waikatogirl
  
  May the weather stay fine for everyones New Year celebrations tonight, especially for those like Luke Piewalker who are sleeping under ‘canvas’.
  Champagne and beer in the fridge.
  
  I wish all KB’ers and their families well in 2018 and hope the country has a prosperous and happy year. Politically I would deeply hope the wheels come off the lefty PM Select’s bandwagon rather spectacularly! ?
  
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  December 31, 2017 8:46am
  - Luke Piewalker
    
    Hiya waikatogirl. Hope your predictions come true. On a side note, I can confirm it’s whiskey for tonight.
    
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    December 31, 2017 10:44am
Happychappy

Where’s Winston First cigarettes tax increases on Monday and all the dairy owners that he made arguments for because of the robbery that were occurring are scared that this will encourage more and the problem will escalate. Another one of this germ of a Politician’s promises of abolishing the tax to help the poor will not be implemented because they need it to help fund other policy and was another of his vote catching frauds.
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December 31, 2017 8:24am
- G152
  
  Yup.
  Sadly there will be an increase in Dairy robberies thanks to this rise in tax.
  Winnie had to help the bros out
  
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  December 31, 2017 8:49am
  - ztev
    
    Winnie ?
    Excuse me
    Budget 2016: Tobacco tax hike announced
    A bucket for you since you dont know the tax increase came from national last year…repeated for a few years
    “The tax on tobacco will rise by 10 per cent on January 1 each year for the next four years.”
    
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11645449
    
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    December 31, 2017 10:14am
    - sooty
      
      Aint you just a little font of knowledge. All them file cards at fraser house certainly earn their keep.
      
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      December 31, 2017 12:19pm
      - ztev
        
        Never been to Fraser house, dont work/volunteer for them.
        
        Typical national party tax increase, dont mention at the previous election ( 2015) but sock you soon after.
        
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        December 31, 2017 1:02pm
- calendar girl
  
  Tobacco tax increases have long sheltered politically under the convenient justification of protecting people against the health consequences of their less-than-prudent personal choices. That has been a deliberate fraud by successive governments; the real reason has always been fiscal, with smokers made the popular scapegoats.
  
  Such cynical government actions (and the greed that breeds them) have now encouraged a fresh crime-wave against the relevant “tax collectors”, shopkeepers. A so-called ‘business-friendly’ National Government cared not a jot about that outcome. The CoL Government can now be expected to continue that hypocrisy. Ultimately, tax revenue is their priority. It’s even better when it can be justified with a bit of virtue signalling.
  
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  December 31, 2017 9:54am
  - cmm
    
    Quite.
    
    Punitive taxes on tobacco do not stop smoking, but they do make the politicians feel good that they are doing something… anything.
    
    If tobacco taxes worked then we’d see the poorer people give up because they can no longer afford the tax and we’d see more wealthy people continue to smoke because $20 here or there is nothing to them.
    
    Instead, what we are seeing in the statistics is exactly the opposite: many wealthy people have given up smoking and very few poorer people have.
    
    So the reduction in smoking is down to something else. Perhaps education? More wealthy people are, generally, more intelligent. They are also more interested in long term consequences. Poorer people are generally less intelligent and more interested in short-term satisfaction of urges.
    
    What punitive taxes have likely done is normalise criminality. Good old law abiding Aunty Flo previously had no associations with gangs and crims, but now buys her smokes from that nice boy who sells them at a discount in the pub carpark.
    
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    December 31, 2017 10:43am
    - KevOB
      
      It will shift demand too. Why buy cigs when pot is cheaper? Don’t have to demolish a dairy to get it either.
      
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      December 31, 2017 12:28pm
      - sooty
        
        You win the internet award. Won’t the Police be pissed!
        
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        December 31, 2017 3:05pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Nah Calendar girl, it is simpler than that. We want money and smokes that you have and we have no respect for ‘people like you’ (the dairy owners and their families.)
    
    Crime pays for these violent thugs who sell the stolen cigarettes and gain cash.
    
    Sad but true.
    
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    December 31, 2017 10:46am
    - Happychappy
      
      waikato girl the sooner a Government grows some balls and starts to hold the parent responsible for their children’s greed the sooner they will be able to fix the problem. I knew what my girls were most of their teenage life and they it allowed out to a certain hour so had to respect it or face the consequences.
      
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      December 31, 2017 10:54am
      - GoVege
        
        We knew where our teenagers were too HC: studying for a career not out tagging or knocking over shops or houses.
        But then the kind of kids who do these crimes usually only have a solo mum for a parent, who is not particularly interested in them and is out partying day and night.
        Often the mum was just a kid herself when she had them, but that DPB was just too tempting to turn down.
        Worst of all, after a succession of stepdads fail to stick around, mum often takes up with the local gang for “family”.
        Once they take over the “raising” of the kids, parental responsibility is just a sad forgotten dream that never had a chance.
        
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        December 31, 2017 12:21pm
  - Gabby
    
    We should teach the rotters a lesson and jolly well stop smoking I reckon.
    
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    December 31, 2017 2:53pm
  - Viking2
    
    Imagine how successful tax collection could be if we legalized marijuana.
    Another huge bonanza.
    
    Gees govt.s are slow entrepreneurs.
    
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    December 31, 2017 6:31pm
Manolo

Pathetic Trudeau:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/canadas-g7-presidency-progressive-agenda-risk-070355789.html

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promises a “progressive agenda” for Canada’s G7 presidency in 2018, but talks may once again hit a snag over climate change after the US withdrawal from the Paris agreement.
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December 31, 2017 8:28am
Happychappy

Go Vege, Gabby or Morris Minor are up eary distributing their down ticks to help them fell better about themselves.
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December 31, 2017 8:33am
- GoVege
  
  I just woke up actually HC.
  Sunday’s my day of rest. 🙂
  New Year’s resolution suggestion for you:
  Change your name to something more appropriate…. Sourpuss perhaps.
  
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  December 31, 2017 11:54am
  - Happychappy
    
    Thats a bit rich coming from you GoVege the biggest whinger on kiwiblog with a hate for Maori and Pacific Island young woman, not all these people should be tarred with the same brush as there is more goods than bad.
    
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    December 31, 2017 12:36pm
    - GoVege
      
      Resolution #2: learn to read properly, unhappychappy.
      I love Maori and P I people, especially the younsters.
      I just hate the male chauvinism that causes many of them to be treated like slaves, punch bags and baby making machines.
      I have many young relations of Polynesian descent who share their troubles with me, so I know what they go through.
      
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      December 31, 2017 5:04pm
sooty

The Police are not interested in solving dairy robberies, because the goverment still gets its tax paid for the ones stolen. Then it gets another lot of tax for the replacement ciggies. That is why they do not solve the crime. It does not matter about the shop keeper getting robbed, beaten up or knifed. Monday sees the tax increasing again. So more crime. More tax. Simple!
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December 31, 2017 8:36am
- Digmen1
  
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  Why do we even need dairies in this day and age?
  Supermarkets are cheaper and are open longer
  Dairies just about disappeared until people from a certain sub contintent found they could make a living in them.
  
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  December 31, 2017 8:39am
  - gazzmaniac
    
    If dairies are providing a service to people at a price they are willing to pay (and it appears that they are) then there is a place for them in the marketplace.
    
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    December 31, 2017 8:43am
    - Jack5
      
      Most dairies are uneconomic – fossils in the age of supermarkets.
      
      They survive because they have a new function – providing a way for Asians to gain immigration entry to New Zealand, not only for owners, but for employees.
      
      Security concerns govern the location of most shops. You would sneer at someone who set up a jewellery store, even many types of consumer store, in locations where some dairies survive. But the media echoes the immigrant entitled owners’ demands for police protection.
      
      We pay for the dairies with a flawed, even corrupt, immigration regime, and with taxpayer-funded extra police to meet calls for more cops – calls often drummed up or amplified by dairy owners.
      
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      December 31, 2017 10:05am
      - doggone7
        
        Dairies are good. They get to be the basis for some to flaunt their prejudices and ignorance.
        
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        December 31, 2017 10:31am
      - Jack5
        
        Doggone7, you are virtue signalling.
        
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        December 31, 2017 11:36am
      - stephieboy
        
        “Most dairies are uneconomic – fossils in the age of supermarkets.”
        
        From on who knows . Let the rule of supply and demand rule . See plenty of dairy owners stocking up at supermarkets chocker with goods etc .
        
        LOL
        
        “We pay for the dairies with a flawed, even corrupt, immigration regime, and with taxpayer-funded extra police to meet calls for more cops – calls often drummed up or amplified by dairy owners.”
        
        Complete garbage from one who believes Dunedin will become the Medina of the South Pacific !
        
        LOL yet again!
        
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        December 31, 2017 12:26pm
    - G152
      
      Raid a dairy 5 years in the slammer no matter what age or ethnicity.
      
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      December 31, 2017 4:58pm
  - GazzaW
    
    And isn’t it great that ‘people from a certain sub continent’ can make a living out of them? Make a living for their families…………..not make a fortune for their Aussie shareholders as Progressive does. Our local superette owners are an integral part of our community – we’ve watched both of their kids grow up into fine young men both of whom are attending uni and still work in the dairy.
    
    Thank God dairies haven’t disappeared. There’s nothing stopping honky Kiwis buying a dairy – but are they prepared to put in the hard work?
    
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    December 31, 2017 9:38am
    - waikatogirl
      
      The Indians who own the greengrocers I buy my coriander, veges and Indian food from are lovely people who work hard and support their family without costing the NZ taxpayer. Isn’t that the people we want here, law-abiding taxpayers!
      
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      December 31, 2017 10:55am
      - GazzaW
        
        We sure do WG. And their kids by dint of sheer hard work will graduate as health professionals, engineers, scientists et al and in addition to their professional contributions to our society will add considerably to the tax base to pay for future social service needs.
        
        There’s an interesting trend been going on in Auckland for a while now and that’s inter-marriage between young Kiwis and the younger generation of immigrant families. The ultimate solution to breaking down current prejudices.
        
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        December 31, 2017 11:36am
      - GoVege
        
        Totally agree with you on this one, WG!
        
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        December 31, 2017 11:56am
      - Viking2
        
        There’s an interesting trend been going on in Auckland for a while now and that’s inter-marriage between young Kiwis and the younger generation of immigrant families. The ultimate solution to breaking down current prejudices.
        ——————————-
        Tried that one with local first people. Just added to the rough cast tally and the whakapapa.
        
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        December 31, 2017 6:38pm
    - Jack5
      
      GazzaW posts: ” There’s nothing stopping honky Kiwis buying a dairy – but are they prepared to put in the hard work?
      
      That’s the point. Dairies are uneconomic in the age of supermarkets and the internet. What do you think: the Indians or Pakistanis put in the hard graft altruistically to be servants to the local community? Or to get a door into New Zealand citizenship?
      
      How many of their children make a lifelong career of the family dairy? Your “superette” owner’s kids might help at the dairy while they are students, but they will have more lucrative careers in mind.
      
      And Progressive makes a fortune for its Australian owners? It and the NZ co-operative, New World, also provide a service to the (mainly Asian) supermarket owners. You see these dairy owners in the supermarkets filling their trolleys with groceries to sell to their own customers – who are either unable to get to supermarkets or are too stupid to get to them.
      
      GazzaW, your term, “honky Kiwis,” is racist. Yet in your posts you signal virtue. Hypocrite.
      
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      December 31, 2017 11:32am
      - GoVege
        
        Jack5: they’re more than welcome to get NZ citizenship.
        They work and study hard, restrict their number of offspring to 2 or 3 well raised, we’ll educated children, and refrain from knocking over shops and homes.
        If only more of our home grown citizens could follow their example.
        
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        December 31, 2017 12:04pm
      - GazzaW
        
        I wasn’t going to bother replying Jack but firstly let me say that I haven’t a clue what virtue signalling means. It seems to be the rather hackneyed phrase of the moment that’s used at least twenty times a day on KB.
        
        I’ll withdraw the phrase honky Kiwi if it offends you. How’s about pakeha or Kiwi of European extraction?
        
        Yes, I would very much hope that the children of dairy owners move on to better things in life and that mum and dad retire and onsell the dairy to the highest bidder of whatever ethnicity.
        
        And so what if dairy owners source some of their goods from the supermarket, add a margin and onsell them. It’s called capitalism.
        
        Our country is changing Jack, over a third of Auckland’s population is now Asian and it’s increasing. Kiwis are inter-marrying and it’s heading your way regardless.
        
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        December 31, 2017 12:46pm
      - Jack5
        
        GazzaW, your use of the term “honky whites” doesn’t offend me, but, from your comments, you would take offence, if similarly racist terms were applied to Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi dairy owners. I was pointing out your hypocrisy.
        
        Yes, the population of Auckland has changed ethnically, and the effects of that will be widespread, some unfortunate, likely including the loss to New Zealanders of more or less free access to Australia. Economically, the effect has been an almost frozen economy measured in GDP per capita.
        
        What has happened, primarily in Auckland, has been the greatest ethnic change since the arrival of colonial whites. That was preceded by an international treaty and accompanied by decades of warfare. The Asian influx has occurred without any of that, and without any political discussion or any specific approval by voters.
        
        The immigration industry and those politicians who benefited from the change have succeeded in NZ's greatest coup.
        
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        December 31, 2017 1:24pm
      - simpleton1
        
        July 2016
        “ Superdiversity is a term coined by a friend of mine, Steve Vertovec, who is a director at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, to signal countries and especially cities that exceeded a threshold of 25 per cent of a population from minority, ethnic and immigrant communities.”
        
        New Zealand has pushed through that. In Auckland, it goes up to 39 per cent. Include the children of immigrants and Auckland is at an amazing 56 per cent. And it has been fast.
        
        “On most criteria, Auckland is more diverse than any Australian city. You couldn’t have said that a decade ago.”
        
        The World Migration Report says Auckland is the fourth most diverse city in the world, just behind Toronto, which is the popular example of a diverse city. The top two are Dubai and Brussels, because of large temporary workforces.
        
        Yes, there are obvious benefits. Research shows that contact with people who are culturally different is one of two factors that create tolerance. The other is education.
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/82005908/national-portrait-paul-spoonley-diversity-expert
        Great how much more educated I have become of other ideologies. 🙂
        
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        December 31, 2017 1:37pm
      - GazzaW
        
        To the contrary Jack, I have zero discomfort about being quite definitive in describing people as Indian or Sri Lankan or whatever, it was you who described them in your initial post as being ‘people from a certain sub-continent’. That in itself is technically incorrect as many of Auckland’s new ‘Indian’ community are actually from Fiji with longterm NZ connections. Just as many of them if not more have left Fiji for Australia.
        
        I won’t dispute the history or the rights and wrongs of politicians designs or immigration consultant’s profits. What I will argue is that by and large these new Kiwis are very worthy people and that their kids are part of our future – like it or not.
        
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        December 31, 2017 1:47pm
      - Jack5
        
        Simpleton1: Current ethnic figures for New Zealand, as opposed to Auckland, would be interesting.
        
        In the Fearon list of diversity (2016) New Zealand ranks 102nd in ethnic diversity.
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_ethnic_and_cultural_diversity_level
        
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        December 31, 2017 1:51pm
      - Jack5
        
        GazzaW in his/her 1.47 post says this of me:” it was you who described them [dairy owners] in your initial post as being ‘people from a certain sub-continent’.”
        
        No, GazzaW, that remark was made by another poster. (I think it was made by Digmen1 at 8.39).
        
        And calling people Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, or whatever is not equivalent to calling a white person a “honky Kiwi”.
        
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        December 31, 2017 2:01pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Whatever floats your boat Jack. It’s New Years Eve and life’s too short to be debating inconsequentials.
        
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        December 31, 2017 2:48pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Garbage in garbage out !
    
    Sigh !
    
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    December 31, 2017 11:32am
  - Gabby
    
    You just answered your own question dicman.
    
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    December 31, 2017 2:55pm
- JibberJabber
  
  They’re too busy enforcing the 30s prohibition in Whangamata.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/100264393/a-250-trip-to-the-beach-no-box-of-beer-is-safe-in-whangamat
  
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  December 31, 2017 9:14am
  - Pharmachick
    
    That’s been going on for years. In the late 90s we used to head in and they would pull over all vehicles ask (1) Where are you staying (2) Whats your relationship to the owners and (3) Any alcohol in the car? Please open the boot. Any booze they found in the boot was confiscated and poured out. Fortunately I always had enough extra room in the wheel well under the vinyl cover for a bottle of vodka or two 😉
    
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    December 31, 2017 2:30pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  That tax argument is just plain silly
  
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  December 31, 2017 9:18am
redeye

“Mau said it had become clear that RadioLive was about to undergo significant change, which she was not convinced would best suit her skills. She would not be drawn on her plans for 2018, saying “it’s a bit too early to make those details public”.

Mediaworks chief news officer Hal Crawford confirmed RadioLive would be making changes in 2018.”

Best news I have read this summer. It sounds like code for, we need some balance back in the drive show so bugger off.

I might switch the old radio in the shed back to some talkback.
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December 31, 2017 8:36am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Code for she has been told she has not got the gig, houray!
  
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  December 31, 2017 9:20am
  - ztev
    
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    Yes.
    ‘Not her skills’ , as shes a professional journalist, is interesting.
    seems that being a more right wing fruitcake than ZB is the way to go.
    
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    December 31, 2017 9:53am
- Harkman
  
  That is good news, I heard her once on radio with Willie Jackson telling her listeners that they have to vote Labour or the Greens. I turned it off and never listened again (I don’t even think what she did is even legal). Man Mediaworks is terribly managed.
  
  Is Simon Dallow the Ross Geller of NZ? His wife runs off and becomes a lesbian.
  
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  December 31, 2017 9:49am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Mau is a vile hate-filled misandrist – but she does have an amazing superpower.
  
  At the first sound of her voice, my car radio is switched off so quickly it’s accompanied by a sonic boom.
  
  Ding dong …..
  
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  December 31, 2017 11:21am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  Mau is a raving lefty PC licking lunatic.
  Foxtrot Oscar – hat tip KB collective for that way of putting it.
  
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  December 31, 2017 7:11pm
Digmen1

My New Years Resolution.
To email as many COL Mps as I can to ask them why they are turning NZ into the Sweden of the South Pacific.
And why they are undoing all of Nationals good work on the economy and beneficiaries.
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December 31, 2017 8:43am
- ztev
  
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  You do know that ACT and national too were promising more on the refugee intake !
  An extra 600 Syrians this year plus of course the 150 Manus Is
  
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  December 31, 2017 8:52am
  - kevn
    
    z… yawn, broken record, again.
    
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    December 31, 2017 9:09am
    - stephieboy
      
      broken record ???
      
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      December 31, 2017 11:33am
    - ztev
      
      Greatest hits
      “You do know that ACT and national too were promising more on the refugee intake !
      An extra 600 Syrians this year plus of course the 150 Manus Is”
      
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      December 31, 2017 1:00pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    ‘extra 600 Syrians this year’
    
    Last day of the year Z. Are they coming in on the Air Force Boeing as a special charter dressed up as a ‘navigation exercise’ as in don’t let H1 be embarrassed by her husband in a toilet scandal, or will they arrive by cruise ship, they sure are leaving their tilt at our benefit system a bit late
    
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    December 31, 2017 9:26am
    - ztev
      
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      Fly an RNZAF plane all they way to the USA…..if you thinks thats the way to keep it quiet…
      
      Would take about 8 pilots for there and back as they cant do nonstop.
      
      Why dont you OIA all the 757 flights to US back then….those that arer requested by the PMs office.
      They will be nothing of course.
      but of course ‘navigation flight’ doesnt make sense as they rely on instruments like other airliners, even GPS. Its not a little plane for trainee pilots
      
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      December 31, 2017 10:25am
      - G152
        
        ztev doesn’t have a clue about crewing international flights.
        BUT THEN WHEN HAS HE BEEN KNOWN NOT TO LIE ?
        
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        December 31, 2017 5:04pm
    - MrLovebucket
      
      Who is the most famous Syrian?
      
      Sir Ian McKellen! {boom boom}
      
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      December 31, 2017 12:08pm
  - Digmen1
    
    Yes I do know that, I was against that.
    National were just trying to be seen as caring.
    Well I dont care!
    
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    December 31, 2017 9:26am
    - ztev
      
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      I can see why you are so riled up.
      The right wing parties like national and act HAVE MOVED TO THE LEFT on refugees
      
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      December 31, 2017 9:56am
igm

Newstalk have hit rock bottom in their promoting of a Imam stating how Muslims were cleaning up after partying Kiwis in a park because they like to keep their “Country Clean” and do not drink. Like the rest of his ilk he is a hypocrite. Tell the wife of dead taxi driver how Muslims do not drink, and tell Maori they are calling Aotearoa “Their Country”, and why can’t they leave properties they have rented clean as that is supposedly their forte’. No wonder they are neither liked nor wanted here.
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December 31, 2017 8:47am
- Harkman
  
  Here’s one for you, back a couple of months ago, I was out on my lunch time jog and as I ran past the Hagley Park Mosque, I notice that there was literally hundreds milling about outside the Mosque (“F#ck me” I thought speeding up, hoping no suicide bombers were about). And get this, it must have been the end of Ramadan or something and there was an old 1960s bus parked outside with “NZ Army” printed on the side, which they must have hired. Oh the irony, NZ of the future perhaps? I wish I had my phone with me to take a snap. The future name of Christchurch will be Mohammedmosque in the country known as New Zanzibar.
  
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  December 31, 2017 10:06am
Manolo

Why would anyone not like to be a Muslim?, asks our own stephieboy:
https://www.afp.com/en/news/23/iran-warns-against-illegal-gatherings-after-protests-doc-vh7ua1

The Iranian government warned people against further protests on Saturday after two days of demonstrations sparked by anger over an array of economic problems.

“We urge all those who receive these calls to protest not to participate in these illegal gatherings as they will create problems for themselves and other citizens,” said Interior Minister Abdolrahman Rahmani Fazli.
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December 31, 2017 8:50am
- stephieboy
  
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  This one doesn’t seem to mind ,
  
  Yusuf Islam ( aka Cat Stevens )
  
  http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nights/audio/2018618593/yusuf-islam-we-need-to-communicate-we-re-social-beings
  
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  December 31, 2017 8:56am
- Simon
  
  Nothing from our government yet in support of the people of Iran? Turds.
  
  Nothing on human rights campion and economic migrant Glor Ghahraman twitter ?
  
  Human rights campion.
  
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  December 31, 2017 9:34am
  - stephieboy
    
    Simon , I think the issue comes down to what is someone like you doing about it ? ( apart banging safely and easily away on your keyboard with childish name calling ) )
    
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    December 31, 2017 9:42am
  - Morrissey
    
    Did we express support for the massive protests against Trump on January 20th that far outnumbered the attendance at his farcical inauguration?
    
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    December 31, 2017 10:18am
kevn

sb… One? Big deal.
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December 31, 2017 9:08am
Huevon

We are governed by a teenage girl in a 37 year old woman’s body.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11967762

What a joke.
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December 31, 2017 9:08am
- igm
  
  Every time I see a pic of this crockery faced maggot I feel like spewing.
  
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  December 31, 2017 9:12am
  - Digmen1
    
    But she is pretty hot.
    Just put some tape over her mouth.
    We are all jealous of Guy Williams
    
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    December 31, 2017 9:29am
    - cmm
      
      It is still a free country. You are entitled to your opinion of hotness.
      
      She doesn’t put coal in my boiler though.
      
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      December 31, 2017 10:29am
      - Gabby
        
        Yaw boiler’s a bit slaggy anyway cmmiebokkie.
        
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        December 31, 2017 3:03pm
    - Digmen1
      
      Iranian women are some of the hottest in the world.
      Alexander the Great was not wrong!
      And what about the Kardashians?
      
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      December 31, 2017 11:22am
      - Jack5
        
        The Kardashians are of Armenian descent, not Iranian descent.
        
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        December 31, 2017 11:44am
      - sooty
        
        You would be hot too, if you walked around all day in a pup tent!
        
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        December 31, 2017 12:27pm
  - Morrissey
    
    I’ll bet you’ve said that about scores of different women. Why don’t you just try talking to them like a normal human being? Then they might stop being nervous around you.
    
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    December 31, 2017 5:07pm
    - Paulus
      
      I understand that some of the “best” and sexiest underwear and lingerie are made in the Lebanon, and many enlightened women wear such under their black cloaks.
      Many are exported to the best fashion houses in Europe with top designer names.
      
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      January 1, 2018 11:10am
- Simon
  
  Look up flat affect. That’s Princess when she ain’t smiling for cameras
  
  She has issues.
  
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  December 31, 2017 9:28am
  - doggone7
    
    If she had real issues she’d be on the internet on a Sunday morning making inane, childish insults about those who’ve achieved something with their lives.
    
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    December 31, 2017 5:45pm
    - Paulus
      
      Isn’t she in Gisborne with his rellies and at the Rhythm and Vines Concert for pictures ?
      
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      January 1, 2018 11:11am
- 3-coil
  
  Huevon – maybe National could stand dj Max Key against Adern in 2020? ?
  
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  December 31, 2017 9:32am
  - igm
    
    Crockery and Toxic Gnome will not last till 2020.
    
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    December 31, 2017 9:41am
    - doggone7
      
      Look on the bright side – you got to use a big word like crockery twice in a day!
      
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      December 31, 2017 10:52am
- stephieboy
  
  Huevon why would anyone seriously care ? ( apart from a number of grizzle guts on KB or Whale Blubber )
  
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  December 31, 2017 9:40am
- ztev
  
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  What did you think about another PM flouncing down the catwalk ?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QT3JgcwojY
  
  teenage model ?
  
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  December 31, 2017 10:00am
  - Morrissey
    
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    Teenagers did not like him. Only a few National Party-aligned media drones pushed this line about Key being popular. He was booed incessantly at the Auckland Nines, and was ignored when he didn’t have his cheer squad/media team around him…
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTE7EEixKvE&t=10s
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7NNFWjwSpQ
    
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    December 31, 2017 10:57am
    - Happychappy
      
      Your blind and deaf to go with being dumb Morris MInor or do you live in phantacy land 24/7.
      
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      December 31, 2017 12:42pm
      - Happychappy
        
        Before anyone has a crack at my spelling I tried to change it but edit would not let me.??
        
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        December 31, 2017 12:56pm
    - Jack5
      
      Morrissey, old horse, you say: “Only a few National Party-aligned media drones pushed this line about Key being popular.”
      
      I think the opinion polls consistently showed Key rated top in political popularity.
      
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      December 31, 2017 1:34pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Oh poo, there you go injecting facts into a Fraser house spin-bite. Spoil sport.
        
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        December 31, 2017 4:42pm
      - Morrissey
        
        He was not popular. His image was almost entirely due to ceaseless propaganda and barracking by the likes of Hosking and Henry, and a lot of parrots in the media who kept on repeating the false message that he was popular. He wasn’t—not with working people, nor with women and girls, who especially despised him after the revelations of his harassment of that young women working in the Auckland cafetaria.
        
        Here are a few more reasons people didn’t like him or his rotten regime….
        
        https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPvMCSnVQAAFz4w.jpg
        
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        December 31, 2017 4:56pm
- Morrissey
  
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  Translation: “I WISH that I was Clark Gayford.”
  
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  December 31, 2017 10:08am
  - Inandout
    
    A Clarkey fanboy/girl we have in Morrissey, without knowing Cindy’s preferences.
    
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    December 31, 2017 10:18am
  - igm
    
    Commonly known at school as Gay Clarkford . . . sums up Labour to a “T”.
    
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    December 31, 2017 11:18am
    - doggone7
      
      Hearsay or did you go to that school? Well, any school?
      
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      December 31, 2017 1:17pm
- doggone7
  
  Yeah going to a music festival is so juvenile.
  
  Why can’t we have a classy adult upmarket PM hanging out with classy people talking about whether he pees in the shower or not.
  
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  December 31, 2017 10:36am
  - Jack5
    
    Jacinderella is 37, FFS.
    
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    December 31, 2017 11:39am
    - Paulus
      
      We will shortly be told that we will have a new annual holiday to celebrate Cinderella’s Birthday – like Kim On Yun or whatever.
      We will have parades to cheer her on to greatness.
      Oh Happy days.
      
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      December 31, 2017 1:04pm
    - doggone7
      
      Yeah, what she’s up to is as bad as those 90 year olds doing a bungy jump for their birthday. Or 19 year olds going to the opera for that matter.
      
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      December 31, 2017 1:16pm
cmm

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/100195892/golden-bays-own-shanty-town-or-a-tribal-revival

I have absolutely no problem with people checking out of society if they want to. Sure, reject society – no problem.

But these people are being very selective about what they reject: they don’t want any of the obligations – only the advantages.

They spurn society, but they still want to use the toilets, showers and other benefits of society.

They no doubt think they are living sustainably, but those that just take and don’t give are not living a sustainable lifestyle.
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December 31, 2017 9:49am
flipper

What is the reading on the dyke-meter?
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December 31, 2017 10:32am
- Morrissey
  
  Did someone say “dykes”?!!?!?!?!?!?
  
  http://www.newshub.co.nz/dam/form-uploaded-images/shane-jones-NEWSHUB-1120.jpg
  
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  December 31, 2017 5:04pm
Morrissey

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This Noam Chomsky talk is worth an hour of your time

Brilliant throughout, as always, but particularly striking from about 17 minutes: “They don’t hate our freedoms, they hate our policies. We hate THEIR freedoms.”

About the 23 minute mark, he comments on the bloodthirsty New York Times dunderhead Thomas Friedman….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqw2yUQdACs

“As someone who grew up on the cusp of both American and Soviet propaganda (which more or less neutralised each other), when I first read Noam Chomsky, it occurred to me that his marshalling of evidence, the volume of it, the relentlessness of it, was a little — how shall I put it? — insane. Even a quarter of the evidence he had compiled would have been enough to convince me. I used to wonder why he needed to do so much work. But now I understand that the magnitude and intensity of Chomsky’s work is a barometer of the magnitude, scope, and relentlessness of the propaganda machine that he’s up against. He’s like the wood-borer who lives inside the third rack of my bookshelf. Day and night, I hear his jaws crunching through the wood, grinding it to a fine dust. It’s as though he disagrees with the literature and wants to destroy the very structure on which it rests. I call him Chompsky.”

—ARUNDHATI ROY
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December 31, 2017 10:34am
- Inandout
  
  Good old Noam, the cunnylinguist:
  
  ‘Noam Chomsky is one of a small number of high profile self-described anarchists, specifically an anarcho-syndicalist, or so-called “libertarian socialist.”
  
  In other words, a man of too many talents but a master of none.
  
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  December 31, 2017 10:56am
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    I would never be so stupid as to post about engine modification on some hotrod site, because I know fuck-all about cars. Similarly, you shouldn’t comment about stuff about which you have no knowledge.
    
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    December 31, 2017 11:00am
    - Inandout
      
      ‘Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things’. Isaac Newton
      
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      December 31, 2017 11:20am
      - Morrissey
        
        You’ve read as much Chomsky as you’ve studied Newton.
        
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        December 31, 2017 11:55am
    - Awww C-mon
      
      Well Mossey-cakes, if you were to take your own advice you’d end up sitting in a corner stuffing corn flakes up your arse cause champ, you know 3/5s of fuck all about everything I’ve ever seen you post.
      At best your OK at cut and paste. That’s about it though
      
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      December 31, 2017 1:05pm
Manolo

Just in case peaceful Islam offers more love than usual:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/times-square-new-years-eve-security.html
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December 31, 2017 10:55am
Monique Watson

Happy New Year’s Eve. Got on a flight to SFO six years ago. Still miss your butter, bread, eggs, grass fed beef and lamb, New Zealand. Enjoy your good weather and Kiwi campgrounds!
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December 31, 2017 11:00am
Maggy Wassilieff

Fun in the pool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72LWr7BU8Ao

Relevance to NZ
http://joannenova.com.au/2017/12/giant-double-whirlpools-in-the-ocean-and-the-diy-ones-you-can-make-in-your-pool/#comments
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December 31, 2017 11:19am
- stephieboy
  
  MW, always useful to throw caution to the wind and check out Jo Nova actual credentials.
  
  According to my link definite wing nut tendencies.
  
  https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Joanne_Nova
  
  Remember this is a genuine attempt to state a different opinion Not harass you !
  
  oK
  
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  December 31, 2017 12:09pm
  - KevOB
    
    You read some thing called “rational”?
    
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    December 31, 2017 12:39pm
  - Ross12
    
    Typical of sb. just looks at where the link comes from, doesn’t look at it and starts banging out garbage on the keyboard.
    Just for you sb, it is nothing to do with climate change but an interesting physical phenomena observed for the first by satellites. The is a great video helping to explain whats going , on a small scale.
    If you are not interested in something sb , just ignore it and don’t be an idiot.
    
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    December 31, 2017 5:49pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I would rank this blog item as one of the finest examples of scientific journalism that I have ever come across.
      
      The author(s) have presented an interesting account of a recent scientific paper dealing with the first observations of linked double whirlpools moving across oceans.
      
      They then link to a site that demonstrates how you can replicate the phenomenon in a much smaller body of water using some dye and a dinner plate.
      Fantastic stuff!
      I would have loved to have run these demonstrations when I was teaching 6th form physics.
      (One of my students did his practical investigation on atmospheric vortices/eddies using smoke trails)
      
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      December 31, 2017 6:28pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The scientific paper that relates to the above pool experiments.
  
  Geophysical Research Letters: “Rapid Water Transport by Long-Lasting Modon Eddy Pairs in the Southern Midlatitude Oceans”
  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017GL075198/epdf
  
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  December 31, 2017 2:36pm
  - Gabby
    
    How did Eddy get out of the space-time continuum?
    
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    December 31, 2017 3:09pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      He didn’t.
      He was swallowed by the Chesterfield sofa.
      http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/1045/1978/1600/546105/DSC01735.jpg
      
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      December 31, 2017 3:31pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Another version for the lay folk, that might be acceptable for viewing.
  https://sciencealert.com/scientists-observe-bizarre-double-whirlpools-in-the-ocean-for-the-first-time
  
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  December 31, 2017 4:47pm
Morrissey

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
The annual Daisycutter Sports, Inc. party is on again tonight, at Chez Breen, Northcote Point
From 7 p.m. till cops arrive!

People we WANTED to attend the party: David Farrar, Brito, David Garrett, Cameron Slater, Lynn Prent, Kim Dotcom, Paulus Gnome, Helen Clark, Nicky Hager, Don Brash, Paul Henry, Millie Holmes, Lizzie Marvelly, Peter Dunne, hmmokrightitis, Tauhei Notts, Simon Dallow, Max Key, Pharmachick, Manolo, Don the Kiwi, Rachel Membery, Komata, Simon Bridges, Harriet, Classic Liberal, Winston Peters, Bomber Bradbury, Psycho Milt, Mike Hosking, Jacinda Ardern, SPC, Jim Mora, Leighton Smith, John Key/Rich Prick, Lorde, and Katherine Rich.

We would have settled for: backster, GoVege, waikatogirl, Russell Brown, Left Right and Centre, Paulus, RalphT, MickMac, the deity formerly known as nigel68888, KH, Clark Gayford, HC, weka, Happychappy, heather Du Plessis-Allen, VicParking, Humble Capitalist, Ed Snack, kowtow, RRM, slightlyrighty, Mr Tips, GazzaW, westykev, Old Park, Swifty, sam green, MCos, doggone7, Different Perspective, Jigsaw, meanybeany, Monty, alwyn, gump, and Digmen1.

But we have ended up with the following: ztev, Kimbo, Te Reo Putake, Barry Soper, igm, Stars And Stripes, All_on_Red, G152, Johnboy, Gabby, stephieboy, Viking 2, cmm (“I’m a scientist”), sooty, Mandy Hager, softail 1450, Jibber Jabber, RF, Liberty, starboard, Ross12, KevOB, srylands, Captain Mainwaring, Chuck Bird, Tau Henare, EAD_TWO, Huevon, holysheet, flipper, Maggy Wassilieff, Jack5, Longknives, Peter, Simon, Awww C-mon, John Tamihere, Willie Jackson, nasska, Mr_Blobby, CHFR1, Dave Mann, Todd Barclay, Dame Denise L’Estrange-Corbet, Lance, Boris Piscina, Monique Watson, Kyle Chapman, Inandout, Dr. Morgan Fahey, Darren Hughes, realityczech, Dr. Peter Davis, and Judith Collins.

The music playing at this party will be as follows…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG5f2w-K5jo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4m4lnjxkY&t=73s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jXLxZusGxI
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December 31, 2017 11:46am
- RalphT
  
  Thank you for having me on your settled for list. Unfortunately I will not be able to make it as I will be changing the (Morrissey brand) sheets again. In order to avoid any misunderstandings with the wife, this time I will be doing it alone.
  
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  December 31, 2017 12:00pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  Fuck No.
  
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  December 31, 2017 1:08pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  My apologies Morry, too busy sticking pins in my eyes as a preferred activity.
  Going to be a lonely party I think.
  
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  December 31, 2017 1:14pm
- VicParking
  
  Sorry, having a early night.
  
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  December 31, 2017 2:02pm
  - GoVege
    
    What other kind of night do they have in Wanganui, Vic? 🙂
    
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    December 31, 2017 5:48pm
- MrTips
  
  I’m not going to be on someones “settled for” list.
  Hrrmmmph…
  
  And I would have thought you would have had 10hr of this: https://youtu.be/tVj0ZTS4WF4
  
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  December 31, 2017 2:04pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Thank you MrTips! I’ve been looking for that bloke!
    
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    December 31, 2017 2:32pm
- Pharmachick
  
  My apologies Morrissey, bit far to come for a party old chap. Happy New Year anyway.
  
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  December 31, 2017 2:11pm
  - Morrissey
    
    You’re not in the Marlborough Sounds by any chance are you? I’ll be sailing my ketch down there in the next week or so….
    
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    December 31, 2017 2:34pm
    - Pharmachick
      
      That’s in pretty poor taste mate.
      
      No, I’m rather further north than Marlborough is South of you.
      
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      December 31, 2017 2:52pm
- Brito
  
  Morry, I’m touched…honestly, there’s a priest in the bunker with me.
  
  Have a night!!!
  
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  December 31, 2017 2:20pm
- Komata
  
  Morrissey
  
  Thanks awfully for the non-invite old chap (although it would have so nice to have found out ‘in advance’ as it were), but regrettably I have a prior engagement, and what with distance, petrol prices, Her Majesty’s Constabulary and all that, I really have to advise that, even if I actually WAS invited, I would be have been unable to attend.
  
  However, as an indication as to what you MIGHT have missed-out had I been able to attend, might I suggest that listening to the following might be worth while; perhaps even ‘educational’…
  
  Enjoy your evening..
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOgyq3opK5k
  
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  December 31, 2017 2:54pm
- niggly
  
  The music playing at this party will be as follows…..
  
  Wot, not even The Smiths & the flamboyant larger than life real Morrissey, Morrissey? 😉
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR2_gmhoZn4
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJRP3LRcUFg
  
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  December 31, 2017 3:04pm
- Morrissey
  
  Late notification!!
  
  William of Ockham is coming tonight!
  
  https://media0.giphy.com/media/Yp8GKgfytxQVq/giphy.gif
  
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  December 31, 2017 4:02pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  By the grace of God, I’m not on any of the lists. I’m sure I’ll have more fun cooking dinner for the in-laws on my Weber Q, and maybe cracking open the bottle of The Chita Japanese whisky my wife bought for me last time she came through duty free.
  
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  December 31, 2017 4:13pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Sorry, Keeping Stock! Didn’t mean to leave you off. I’ll have a word with our office boy, Hector Stoop, who compiled the lists.
    
    Feel free to roll up, old chap—and bring the wife….
    
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    December 31, 2017 4:49pm
- G152
  
  I’ll only say this once.
  Fuck off Morrisy and allow us the pleasure of a new year without your dissertations
  
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  December 31, 2017 5:10pm
  - Morrissey
    
    No fear on either count. See you next year, my friend.
    
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    December 31, 2017 5:22pm
- KevOB
  
  Apologies. Go to watch over the Iranians tonight.
  
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  December 31, 2017 5:40pm
- GoVege
  
  Jeezzz….they down-ticked THAT?
  Thanks for the kind invite, Morissey.
  Would love to meet up with y’all, but I need Mr Govege’s written permission in triplicate to leave the house after 7pm. 🙂
  
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  December 31, 2017 5:53pm
waikatogirl

Formally decline Morris. Washing my hair. ?
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December 31, 2017 11:59am
- Morrissey
  
  Is this YOU, waikatogirl?…
  
  https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2f/11/46/2f11464484e015ef5add75173fa360d4–water-nymphs-floral-crowns.jpg
  
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  December 31, 2017 5:28pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    The Mighty Waikato runs a bit swiftly for such a delicate flower.
    
    Enjoy your NY party Morrissey, even if nobody turns up.?
    
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    December 31, 2017 7:31pm
Brito

I told sooty “fuck ewe” last night because I thought he was calling me an ‘idiot’. Probably justified if he did. Actually Sooty was only explaining the word ‘Mong’ to me.

Sooty, I am an idiot and you were unjustly slandered.

Sorry mate!!
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December 31, 2017 11:59am
- sooty
  
  That’s ok, mate. I figgered that out!
  
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  December 31, 2017 12:31pm
- Morrissey
  
  Did someone say something about fucking ewes?
  
  https://www.radionz.co.nz/assets/news_crops/45819/three_col_eight_col_BillNew.jpg?1509670990
  
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  December 31, 2017 2:31pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    That would have been Johnboy…
    
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    December 31, 2017 4:15pm
Biscuit

No, no, Sooty!

Agreement in a Chat Room at year’s end?

This will not do!

At a very minimum I would expect to see One News run with a lead story tonight like ‘SOOTY INVADES BRITOLAND!’

HNY to you both, though!
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December 31, 2017 12:35pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Biscuit, No need for Brito to be queried on his spewing at Sooty last night as his drinking a little wine became obvious once he held his own KB question and answer session with himself! ?
  
  HNY Brito. Enjoy your humour.
  
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  December 31, 2017 12:58pm
  - Brito
    
    HNY everybody. I’m off to the bunker to be humble and contrite and get ready to repulse all invaders and undesirables…(see family).
    
    May 2018 be the year in which we all come to a meeting of minds and greet our fellow travellers with hugs and salt…
    
    If not I have an Uzi somewhere here, let me just look….
    
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    December 31, 2017 2:16pm
Digmen1

Hey Phil
Here is a solution to our housing crisis

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42517710

We have plenty of cardboard here.
I think all solo mums should be moved into one of these, instead of having to put up with nice warm 4 bedroom “social housing”
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December 31, 2017 12:54pm
dime

Sitting in a bar in Nouema. Hung. Sipping a strong tea that comes all the way from long Island.

Thought I’d say happy new year as out of range tomorrow on the HMS trashy holiday.. that I’m loving.

Interesting fact for the day. They speak French here. Horrible.

Anyway, Happy New year peeps. Let’s hope it’s even more glorious than this year!
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December 31, 2017 1:11pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  What happened to the two weeks on the Interislander?
  
  Flat draught Red Band and pies not good enough for you anymore?
  
  You have a great new year where ever, I’m popping over to Morrisseys. I am on the A list and I’ve never been there before; will have to wear the work steel caps as I am making it with the likes of Hagar so if things turn to custard after midnight and the opportunity arises where I get to kick him in the nuts, I do want to make sure it counts and hurts
  
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  December 31, 2017 2:06pm
  - ztev
    
    That really was a charter for the afternoon on the Days bay ferry
    
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    December 31, 2017 4:26pm
- Pharmachick
  
  Joyeux noel et bonne année a vous.
  
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  December 31, 2017 2:33pm
  - Komata
    
    Et à vous aussi Madame; Je vous remercie.
    
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    December 31, 2017 3:09pm
- Komata
  
  Dime: To an Englishman, a ‘Furriner’ is anyone who lives outside the village a ‘B’- Furriner is anyone who lives in London, while Frenchman and Germans are Frogs and Huns.
  
  You seem to be curently living in the middle of a ‘Frog’ pond.
  
  You poor ‘Kiwi’ you…
  
  (Happy New Year BTW)
  
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  December 31, 2017 3:06pm
Left Right and Centre

She worked hard, but she had a natural ability to catch attention, just as she catches that of the customers waiting on coffee

Er – don’t you wait *for* coffee ? Wait on coffee . . . what ?
That’s a jounalist or someone called Olivia Caldwell on Stuff. Is she American ? Or simply too American ?
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December 31, 2017 4:55pm
Chuck Bird

My thoughts are with the Smart and Hope families.

Scott Watson ‘innately evil’ – mother of Ben Smart convinced of killer’s guilt 20 years on

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11962500
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December 31, 2017 5:46pm
- Morrissey
  
  Well, she’s certainly not convinced by any evidence. I guess Watson LOOKS like a bad guy. After all, that’s all the police had on him.
  
  I’d trust Rob Pope, who was closely involved in the persecution of Peter Ellis, about as far as I could kick him.
  
  “I LIKE Rob Pope.”
  
  —Brian Edwards, Radio NZ Top of the Morning, mid-1998
  
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  December 31, 2017 10:00pm
Left Right and Centre

2017 road toll is more than 2016.
Oh dear. That must be bad then.
Could be.
It’s possible for the road toll total to be higher,
but for the road toll proportion to drop.

I don’t know how on earth you’re going to explain that one to the fast food swilling masses who watch TV news and can’t read.
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December 31, 2017 7:17pm
Digmen1

Road toll higher next year!
I think we have reached Peak low road toll
Now more tourists
More refugees trying to drive
More cars
No more new roads (thanks Labour)
More unliscenced drivers on the road
More disqualified drivers on the road
More criminals out of jail (thanks Kelvin)
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December 31, 2017 8:14pm
RalphT

It’s now officially 2018; Happy New Year to you all. May 2018 bring many stimulating exchanges on KB.
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January 1, 2018 12:05am
Manolo

The leftists are incensed:
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/947236393184628741
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January 1, 2018 6:32am
Jack5

Morning Manolo:

Something to kick the year off with: Muslims in Southland.

This Muslim runs five dairy farms, has five kids, prays six times a day, and is an imam (the males in his mosque total at least 50).

How did the multiculture-promoting Southland Times get scooped by the Hooerald on the the story of its local imam?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11958145
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January 1, 2018 7:21am
- Manolo
  
  Happy 2018, dear Jack5.
  
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  January 1, 2018 7:47am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  The Herald started at Houhora looking for a Muslim cow cocky. They went right through the country and found one near Riverton.
  
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  January 1, 2018 8:04am
Monique Watson

Morry you should go clean up after your party goers Slim and Fuck All.
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January 1, 2018 7:46am
- Morrissey
  
  “Slim and Fuck All”.
  
  Say, that’s our New Year’s resolution!
  
  Sincerely,
  
  Shane Jones
  Richard Worth
  Sir John Collinge
  Bill Clinton
  
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