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stephieboy

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Matariki whose time has come:

Matariki whetu ki te Rangi
Tāngata ora ki te Whenua

Pleiades stars in the Sky
People well-being on Earth

Tēnā koutou, me ngā mihi o te tau hōu Māori ki a koutou katoa! Ae rā, ko te wā o Matariki tēnei, o Puanga rānei. Greetings of the Māori New Year to you all! To some iwi the new year is heralded by the appearance of the constellation Matariki (the Pleiades) in the sky, while to others it is the rising of the star Puanga (Rigel) that marks the start of the

https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/maori/matariki-maori-new-year/whare-tapere/matariki-star-facts

The Mayor Of Wellington rightly suggests that the redundant Queens Birthday should be replaced by Matariki,

https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/thepanel/audio/2018648297/replacing-queen-s-birthday-with-a-matariki-holiday
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July 7, 2018 8:01am
- realityczech
  
  Is Matariki the Maori word for Ramadan stupidboy?
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:02am
  - stephieboy
    
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    rc, nope!
    
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    July 7, 2018 8:13am
- Southern Raider
  
  Will the whale cancel the fireworks
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:07am
  - realityczech
    
    I believe so. I am off there shortly with a Japanese friend to see what we can do.
    
    What better way to celebrate the Pagan solstice than with a huge BBQ and raw sashimi for the entire community.
    
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    July 7, 2018 8:11am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Raw sashimi!
      (Sorry. Couldn’t help myself.)
      
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      July 7, 2018 8:27am
      - hmmokrightitis
        
        LOL, indeed, so much better than the deep fried sashimi 😉
        
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        July 7, 2018 8:32am
      - realityczech
        
        Odakyu-sen, that redundant word [raw] was for the benefit of the white barbarians. Bring the kids and join in.
        
        In fact – instead of being a smart arse on KB you could grab your favourite harpoon and give us a hand 🙂
        
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        July 7, 2018 8:36am
      - KiWombat
        
        For “Scientific Research” of course !
        
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        July 7, 2018 8:42am
      - VicParking
        
        I bag the onomi. Yum yum tataki….
        
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        July 7, 2018 8:45am
      - Lance
        
        Whales…aren’t….fish
        
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        July 7, 2018 12:47pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Herman (moby dick) Mellville thought otherwise, and used a few pages to explain why.
        
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        July 7, 2018 1:12pm
    - GoVege
      
      Terrible though it is to see a magnificent aquatic mammal slaughtered, at least it will feed hundreds of times more tummies than a dear little calf/lamb/chook or piggy person.
      
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      July 7, 2018 12:47pm
      - realityczech
        
        Shut up Tofu Tits. Stop being so wet. I eat pussy too btw.
        
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        July 7, 2018 2:12pm
      - RF
        
        I hope Steven O’Regan keeps his grubby hands off the poor old whale.
        
        Several years ago one was washed up on a beach and although it was a stinking mess O’Regan was on TV claiming that he was so excited that he had whale meat to eat.
        
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        July 7, 2018 6:52pm
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    SR,ooks like the bad weather will!
    
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    July 7, 2018 8:13am
    - realityczech
      
      A sacrifice might appease the Pagan Gods stupidboy?
      
      Maybe you can step-up and do some good for the community for once.
      
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      July 7, 2018 8:15am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Muslims are right into animal (and human whwn they get the chance) sacrifice.
        
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        July 7, 2018 1:14pm
      - stephieboy
        
        UN, unlike your woo!
        
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        July 7, 2018 1:21pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    “Will the whale cancel the fireworks”
    
    No the weather will.
    
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    July 7, 2018 8:14am
    - RalphT
      
      Indeed, whale or no whale, it is a bloody stupid idea to have a fireworks display in July when the odds are high that wind or rain will intervene.
      
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      July 7, 2018 8:40am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Oh, aren’t fireworks a traditional Maori practice?
        
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        July 7, 2018 8:52am
      - Southern Raider
        
        Yes they apparently invented gunpowder before the Chinese did
        
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        July 7, 2018 8:54am
      - stephieboy
        
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        MW, you’re being specious.
        
        They weren’t a traditonal European practice until about the 16th Century. Nor did they invent them as you must fully well know?
        
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        July 7, 2018 9:19am
      - KiWombat
        
        Don’t take life so seriously – you’ll never get out of it alive !
        
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        July 7, 2018 9:25am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Not being specious at all..
        
        Fire was how Maori worked the land….
        Pity they had to burn off all the East Coast of both islands tho’
        https://teara.govt.nz/en/fire-and-agriculture/page-1
        
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        July 7, 2018 9:38am
      - Duxton
        
        Didn’t you know the weather was fine all year round prior to colonisation? Children were happy, there was no domestic violence, and food for all.
        
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        July 7, 2018 9:58am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Fairly silly to have fireworks when the festival is supposed to be about observing the night sky.
        Maybe Matariki could be combined with earth hour and we could get two examples of virtue signalling out of the way at once.
        
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        July 7, 2018 10:14am
      - sooty
        
        How come murri can have fireworks and white man can not have them for Guy Fawkes?
        
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        July 7, 2018 11:34am
      - GoVege
        
        Is there some problem with bringing in a new day of celebration for an old tradition of observing the stars?
        BTW sooty, your spelling of Maori is effing rude, disrespectful and down-putting.
        
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        July 7, 2018 12:13pm
      - GoVege
        
        Duxton: Apparently our domestic violence levels are getting even worse.
        It seems it is very taboo in Polynesian cultures (where DV is most prevalent) to report such violence to the police.
        I met a P I women with 6 young kids who had left her husband for his violence.
        I asked her “why didn’t you just have him arrested”?
        Reply: “oooh…I couldn’t do THAT to him!”
        But she could deprive her 6 kids of their father to spare his feelings.
        (And of course there’s always “the government” to pay to support them all.)
        
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        July 7, 2018 12:56pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, and the palefaces cleared felled the Waikato plains of Kaiheketia for butter boxes and cheese cheese crates to send to the UK,
        
        https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/12655/butter-boxes
        
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        July 7, 2018 1:23pm
      - Viking2
        
        Didn’t you know the weather was fine all year round prior to colonisation? Children were happy, there was no domestic violence, and food for all.
        
        Today that someone has debunked the myth that our early settlers didn’t have LGBT or whatevers before the coming of the Educated English person’s.
        
        A typical comment came from the 1970s vocal psychiatrist L. Gluckman, as quoted in Sexuality & the Stories of Indigenous People:
        
        “Homosexuality in both male and female was unknown in early New Zealand. Sexual perversion in the modern Māori is culturally determined by current social, economic and environmental pressures.”
        
        This was mainstream view – Māori were free of “perversions” until they were introduced by Europeans. But in the 1970s there was a challenge to that mainstream view.
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/love-sex/105284489/early-mori-view-on-sexual-fluidity-far-more-liberal-than-previously-believed
        
        “In the world that existed before Tasman, Cook and the arrival of outsiders, I believe there was a really robust and vigorous and intense exploration of sexualities, and an acceptance of them,” she told RNZ podcast Bang!
        
        Te Awekotuku believes the arrival of European settlers and later missionaries, meant behaviours which had been entirely acceptable were suddenly cast in a deviant light.
        
        “Whatever Christianity may have brought to the Māori world which was good and wholesome and proper and acceptable, it also brought a great deal of pain and a lot of judgement,” she says.
        
        As a result, says Awekotuku, many takatāpui went into hiding. She says queer sexualities were “seen by the more rabid Christian communities as a Pākehā problem that arrived with Pākehā.”
        
        The view that sexual fluidity didn’t exist within Māori prior to first contact remains prevalent today, including among Māori.
        
        So like most things NZ the early settlers have a Treaty Claim now. I guess Louisa will be off to the Waitangai Tribunal to claim redress for suppression of LGBT rights and all.
        
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        July 7, 2018 5:35pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @stephieboy
        
        the palefaces cleared felled the Waikato plains of Kaiheketia
        
        Yes stephieboy, I know.
        I wrote the caption (and article) for Te Ara to which your reference picture is attached.
        I did manage to spell kahikatea correctly, too.
        
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        July 7, 2018 7:15pm
      - realityczech
        
        LOL 🙂
        
        So much fail stupidboy. That was an epic smack down. I think I felt the ground shudder for a moment.
        
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        July 7, 2018 7:22pm
  - meh
    
    No but the 140kmh winds probably will!
    
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    July 7, 2018 12:56pm
- MrLovebucket
  
  Here was me thinking Matariki was the Maori word for “contrived nonsense”. I have no problem with Maori celebrating genuine Maori culture, but this is just making stuff up as you go. You can tell who is wet through and through by who falls for this bullshit hook line and sinker.
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:08am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Mr Lovebucket, are you a self-confessed expert on Maori cultural history?
    
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    July 7, 2018 8:15am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Septicboy, are you a self-confessed expert on stupidity?
      
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      July 7, 2018 8:17am
      - RalphT
        
        Captain, I think the description you are looking for is “self-confused”.
        
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        July 7, 2018 8:42am
    - holysheet
      
      No and neither are any living maori. This bullshit about matariki is just a new way to get more koha from honkey.
      
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      July 7, 2018 8:22am
      - Tarquin North
        
        We call it Subaru logo season up this way.
        
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        July 7, 2018 8:31am
      - stephieboy
        
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        holysheet , Ata mārie, mōrenayet. Yet another self-appointed expert on all things Maori.
        
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        July 7, 2018 8:44am
      - rangitoto
        
        Stephie is right you know. It was a big celebration. First they would kill and roast any Stephistani slaves they had to hand. Then after chowing down on that they would shrink a few heads. Such fun.
        
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        July 7, 2018 11:49am
    - KiWombat
      
      How many hundreds of years have Maori celebrated Matariki with fireworks for?
      
      Perhaps this predated the Asian invention of fireworks? Another New Zealand first ?
      
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      July 7, 2018 8:45am
      - Nostalgia-NZ
        
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        How many hundreds of years have royalists watched Royal weddings on television?
        
        Perhaps the invention of television was kept secret for several hundred years by Royal order except from loyalists.
        
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        July 7, 2018 8:56am
      - GazzaW
        
        Hundreds of years Kiwombat. Have you not heard of the fire-karaka?
        
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        July 7, 2018 10:06am
      - JibberJabber
        
        You`ll have to ask Kris Faafoi, he`d have been there.
        
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        July 7, 2018 11:37am
      - GoVege
        
        Could be, Nostalgia-NZ.
        Apparently the Royals kept forceps a secret for many years.
        Only the royal ladies enjoyed their benefits….whilst thousands of commoner mums and babies continued to die in agony during childbirth.
        
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        July 7, 2018 12:05pm
      - KiWombat
        
        Wish I’d thought of that one Gazza !
        
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        July 7, 2018 1:23pm
  - kowtow
    
    Schools , media and local councils seem to be donkey deep in it. A long game to turn this country into Aotearoa.
    
    https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/puaka-matariki-festival-has-nearly-60-events
    
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    July 7, 2018 9:17am
    - dave_c_
      
      Indeed Kowtow – I’ve noticed over the last coouple of months how reporters and newsreaders have forgotten the name of this country. Blah de Blah… in Aoteearower. This insidious change is being foisted on us by a thousand cuts.
      
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      July 7, 2018 11:31am
      - R
        
        Remember, most of our reporters and newsreaders are products of ‘Tomorrow’s Schools ‘; that insightful programme introduced by Lange, where excellence in reading pronunciation was not encouraged.
        
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        July 29, 2025 11:51am
  - KevOB
    
    Maori are going berserk now that they have lost their cultural roots. It is not for Pakeha to attempt to pick those up. Maori have now turned into communities of the entitled and are turning on their protectors. This can get a lot worse. Their Elders of the 1930’s predicted this breakdown as the tribes have no national standing, their people are being dispersed and they are now rudderless. Time
    and death has taken its toll.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:19am
    - Viking2
      
      You know when something is so obvious you’re not sure why it doesn’t exist already?
      
      Like spray-on wrapping paper – brilliant. And here’s another thing we can all agree on: a day off work! And I’m suggesting something uniquely ours. Matariki should be a National holiday by now.
      
      Opinion: A public holiday for Matariki is inevitable
      Matariki: A celebration of the stars
      Wellington to cancel annual Guy Fawkes, move fireworks to Matariki
      
      Let’s start with the story – when sky father Ranginui and earth mother Papatuanuku were separated by their children, Tawhirimatea, the god of the wind, became so angry he tore out his eyes and threw them into the heavens. Matariki means eyes of the gods.
      
      Traditionally, Matariki celebrates a time of harvest and remembrance. What Matariki needs is fireworks and a day off! Who’s got the fireworks? Guy Fawkes? Who cares about that guy?
      ( Note that’s not the middle of winter Durrr).
      https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/06/kanoa-lloyd-public-holiday-for-matariki-is-so-obvious-it-should-already-exist.html
      
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      July 7, 2018 5:44pm
- MrTips
  
  Piss off Stephie. Matariki meant nothing to Maori like its portrayed today. Its a crock.
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:09am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Mr Tips, Ata mārie, mōrena!
    
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    July 7, 2018 8:17am
    - realityczech
      
      stupidboy, you are stuttering retard.
      
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      July 7, 2018 8:18am
    - softail 1450
      
      septicboy ,go visit your specialist you are losing your grip on reality,but i’m sure your entire family had already told you that dozens of times before they abandoned you completely .
      And take pan pan the goat for a check up while you are at it.
      
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      July 7, 2018 8:56am
    - KiWombat
      
      Earth is the insane asylum for the universe !
      
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      July 7, 2018 9:16am
    - Jack5
      
      The Stēphīēstānīēs adopt macrons.
      
      Master English first, Stēphīēs.
      
      In pre-colonial times, Maori liked nothing better for a Sunday hangi than a lascar who “fell off” a whaler.
      
      “Pass another mācrōn, this Stēphīē’s a bit tasteless.”
      
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      July 7, 2018 9:28am
      - realityczech
        
        ‘Jacksie isn’t it amazing how the early Maori independently developed an identical Roman alphabet to the Europeans?
        
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        July 7, 2018 10:01am
    - rightoverlabour
      
      FUCK OFF
      
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      July 7, 2018 11:18am
- Duxton
  
  stephiegirl: And what does the Mare of New Zealand think?
  
  Has anyone asked Jacinda?
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:14am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Piss of with your fairy tale. Subaru celebrated by Moari is a crock of shit
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:14am
- Duxton
  
  stephieboy: Here’s a blessing for you in PNG pidgin:
  
  Mohammed long meme na pikpik puspusim.
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:16am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  The resident galah still struggles for relevance.
  Sqwark
  Alt-right
  Trumpeters
  See your doctor
  Who outside of KB cares?
  Sqwark
  
  Ooo, Stormy …
  
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  July 7, 2018 10:04am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Tsk tsk. LOL!
    
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    July 7, 2018 12:01pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  What’s “redundant” about Queen’s Birthday weekend stephie?
  
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  July 7, 2018 10:12am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  You do realise that Matariki was hardly recognised/acknowledged by many Maori tribes?…and no wonder… the star system is barely visible to the naked eye.
  
  Rigel/Puanga is much more prominent in the early morning sky in mid-winter.
  
  It’s arrival was recognised as the start of the Maori New Year for many Maori tribes.
  
  https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/maori/matariki-maori-new-year/what-matariki/difference-between-matariki-puanga
  
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  July 7, 2018 10:30am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    You should check out Stonehenge Aotearoa or the Matariki show at the Wellington planetarium if you really want to know more about indigenous astronomical knowledge.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:55am
    - realityczech
      
      That is like going to Weta to learn about Hobbits milky.
      
      The Maori knew nothing about astronomy. The ones who got here were shit sailors who could not even find their own village and were carried across the Pacific by currents.
      
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      July 7, 2018 11:00am
      - GoVege
        
        How about we dump our realityczech and all the other KBers here who think Maori should have invented astronomy/fireworks/printing/the wheel, in the middle of the Ureweras and see how well they find their way out following the stars? 🙂
        
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        July 7, 2018 12:20pm
      - realityczech
        
        Tofu Tits I have found my way out of the bush many times sans stars, sun or moon. Are you saying the Horis were lost during the day and anytime it was misty or overcast?
        
        How about you go into the bush, brimming with plants, and see if you can find enough to eat for a month.
        
        Most plants are toxic and most meat is safe to eat. Which is why you have to eat man modified vegetables.
        
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        July 7, 2018 1:08pm
- Cobolt24
  
  Justin is an awful mayor anyway, is a friend with the last one who was awful.
  
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  July 7, 2018 5:49pm
MrTips

Brazil and Uruguay gone. No more South Americans. Excellent – good for the game and we should now have football without diving, screaming and tantrums. Roll the F@#! off Neymar.

And kudos to Italy for taking the hint early. Jerseys everywhere are better for it.
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July 7, 2018 8:04am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Someone asked the other day:
  “If falling over produces such writhing and grimacing, what are these players like when they leave the doctor’s surgery after their ‘flu vaccination?”
  
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  July 7, 2018 10:08am
Southern Raider

What’s Twitford going to come out with today

Wait until all those on the kiwibuild ballot realise they will be offered homes in undesirable neighbourhoods and they either take what’s offered or go to the back of a very long queue. Also all they will get is a very shit house on a very small expensive section

Remove the urban boundary and solution is solved.
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July 7, 2018 8:04am
- realityczech
  
  No Southern. Labour’s plan is based on the Soviet model of dreary high rise ghettos packed into urban landscapes, with no facilities for private cars. That way people can be monitored more easily and are totally dependent on the State.
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:07am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    and public transport.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:18am
    - R
      
      and income.
      
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      July 29, 2025 11:57am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    A friend of mine lives in a city high-rise and there is no parking – he has to keep his car at his workplace (hospital) and get there by public transport. Until hiring a car when required becomes easy and cheap that is going to be a big problem in NZ, where public transport just doesn’t cover everything efficiently and never will.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:34am
- KiWombat
  
  Twitford is waiting with bated breath to see the outcome of the Dunedin “treehouse” debacle.
  
  If Dunedin CC comes up with an approved “design” for this treehouse, then Twitford will have an authorised blueprint for future KiwiBuild structures !
  
  Only problem will be that Shame and his cuzzies haven’t planted any of the trees yet – if only the left hand knew what the right hand was doing !
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:50am
- ldypen
  
  Twitford press release: “New Kiwibuild tree houses for all, The COL that I am a proud member of will begin building tree houses in all areas, however we have to wait until the dishonourable Shane get’s his shit together to plant and grow the trees I need to build our glorious Kiwibuild tree houses in.. these affordable homes will all be built and finished ASAP!”
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:53am
  - Piniwi
    
    Right Idypen which reminds of the old joke about where murri wait for a state house and where the PI wait to move up in the their vacated place.
    
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    July 8, 2018 3:59pm
- Ultima
  
  If Twitford is a clever developer with the power of a minister he would sell off state houses on prime land and use it for Kiwibuild for the riches. The profits goes into new state houses and funds other Kiwibuilds. But hes not a developer or clever.
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:03am
- artemisia
  
  I expect the Kiwibuild ballot will allow for specific homes to be applied for. Then the ballot will be among those applying for those homes. Apart from anything else, bank pre approvals will be required before applying so some specifics will have to be provided to them.
  
  Over 25,000 people registered for updates, increasing rapidly. Fascinating to see how many end up applying, bank approval in hand. If most of them are hopeful applicants, most of them are going to be disappointed.
  
  I predict many OIA requests ….
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:23am
  - Duxton
    
    The stupid host of The Spinoff, Alex Casey, said last night it was a ballot to win free houses, with entry restricted to those under the prescribed income levels. It had to be pointed out to her……
    
    The Left are seriously THICK.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:04am
    - Cobolt24
      
      Last night they were saying something derogatory about Leighton Smith, I turned the TV off and went to bed, not going to be watching that show, only just discovered it.
      
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      July 7, 2018 5:54pm
  - GazzaW
    
    Maybe Twyford will draw the ballots on TV using the Lotto machine and the bouncing balls. I can just see Phil in his figure-hugging lycra suit pulling out the Bonus ball and declaring the weekly winner.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:13am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    “If most of them are hopeful applicants, most of them are going to be disappointed.”
    
    On one radio programme I heard them described as ‘probably many are just tyre-kickers’.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:39am
  - Viking2
    
    They better have a lot of patience.
    Twatford is only building a 1000 this year if he gets that far.
    So at least a 20 years wait to get on the list.
    
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    July 7, 2018 5:52pm
- Piniwi
  
  Right SR those lined up in the ballot are only there to ensure the lass desirable houses are sold so the $2 billion pool can be recycled. The pick of the houses will be bought off the plans which is another option for buyers. Most people know the plan is more like a starting point and there are few houses completed without changes as well as most wanting “their” house to reflect them distinctly. That is more clearly shown in the finishing of the dwelling that may yet to prove the biggest disadvantage for balloted buyers. Just think back to the earlier intention of this scheme where Labour intended to not only dictate materials supply but bulk buy as well. A sort of fundamental Henry Ford production approach of having any colour as long as it is Black. Thus a new “benchmark” could be the quickest identification of a Kiwibuild house. They will all end up with a grey bench as hedge the cost by bulk buying.
  
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  July 8, 2018 3:54pm
Southern Raider

Would be good to know the effective wage of a teacher when taking into account 12 weeks plus leaves versus 4 for same salary in a different industry

I also don’t understand why they can’t strike for two weeks starting Monday
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July 7, 2018 8:06am
- MrLovebucket
  
  Not to mention the 9am start and 3pm finish
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:10am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Mr Lovebucket , not quite as simple as that!
    
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    July 7, 2018 8:18am
    - VicParking
      
      Stephie, Morning, you would know simple
      
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      July 7, 2018 8:53am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    That is generally the start and finish times of the pupils school day but teachers do a lot of prep work etc and duties outside of those hours, sports teams etc. Well the teachers from my family did anyway. Agree about the holidays though.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:22am
- G152
  
  How about the greedy buggers strike for higher wages for the parents of their students very few of whom get the same income as teachers
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:41am
- KiWombat
  
  What sort of hourly rate do teachers get? Whilst teachers play a necessary and important role in our society, I tend to feel that they get way better that the average wage for what, in reality, is a part time position ?
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:53am
  - GazzaW
    
    Allow me to put you and the other KBers right KiWombat on teachers’ hours. I have a family member who I drop off at school at 6.40am every morning and there are already other teachers’ cars in the carpark when I arrive. He is generally home by 6pm if there are no evening activities such as a Board or PTA meeting, parent/teacher interviews. He still has prep or marking to do at the weekends. Times have changed a lot since you were at school – mobile phones/email means that teachers are contactable by parents 24/7, mainstreaming means that kids suffering from autism etc are in the classroom fulltime and can be hugely disruptive. Kids have allergies that require classrooms to be kept totally free of nuts, dairy, eggs etc. And then there are a disproportionately large numbers of broken marriages which bring their own problems for kids. Good teachers spend a lot of time as social workers. Sure, twelve weeks paid holiday per year is a big plus but maybe a couple of weeks of that is spent on prep work.
    
    Yes, there are bad teachers just as there are bad doctors, bad accountants and bad bus drivers but the majority are good people who really care for their kids.
    
    A good teacher puts in 50 hours a week and top of the range salary is $73k per annum which gives an hourly rate of $28. I think most KBers earn more than that with half the angst.
    
    Oh, and just three union members at this particular school which is far from unusual. Less than 50% of teachers are union members.
    
    I have no doubt that I will earn myself a sea of down ticks – well so be it. I’m no union lover or lefty and it really pisses me off to see the amount of undeserved criticism that teachers get on KB. Where the fuck would you be without them?
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:46am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Facts like that are not welcome on Kiwiblog.
      
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      July 7, 2018 10:58am
      - GazzaW
        
        Tough……..
        
        I can only speak as I find MnM. There’s not many here who see what goes on in the family life of a teacher.
        
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        July 7, 2018 11:13am
    - namron
      
      As an ex-DP, Syndicate Leader and full time teacher, I was “late” if I hadn’t arrived at school by 7am. After school I supervised traffic wardens and then came assorted meetings – staff, syndicate, parents sports practices, school choir, uke etc – and then I could do some follow-up work from the day and prep for the next day. If I was home by 6, that was early, but was always my aim.
      As for weekends and holidays – I was able to really catch up and prepare ahead.
      It is important to remember that teachers are paid an annual salary which is conveniently divided up into 26 lumps and paid fortnightly. Also, the school holidays are basically for the children, but are a valuable time for teachers to catch up and prepare ahead.
      [GazzaW, I am expecting the downticks too, as there so many ignorant opinions above!! ]
      
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      July 7, 2018 11:27am
      - GazzaW
        
        I think that many of those critical of teachers had bad experiences in their own days at school or an unhappy childhood. They genuinely hated life at school and that has had an inter-generational negative effect on their own kids and a poor attitude towards their kid’s teachers.
        
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        July 7, 2018 11:42am
      - artemisia
        
        namron, how about comparing that workload with middle managers in the dog-eat-dog private sector. Where it’s perform or out.
        
        Teachers are great at anecdata, lists of stuff they do, how tough it all is, but their workload does not seem too onerous compared to other jobs and they get a lot of holidays.
        
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        July 7, 2018 12:48pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Does artemsia’s anecdata trump namron’s anecdata?
        
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        July 7, 2018 1:27pm
    - ross411
      
      I knew a teacher who said much the same, but also others that were in and out, and did the minimum. Fortunately thanks the wonders of unions, we don’t have per-teacher evaluation based salary, so talking about the cream, needs to be taken in context of the rest.
      
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      July 7, 2018 11:42am
      - GazzaW
        
        You’re quite right but “thanks to the wonders of the PSA we don’t have a per public servant evaluation based salary” either. It certainly isn’t right but that system is not exclusive to the teaching profession. How many Government departments and local bodies have the same problem?
        
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        July 7, 2018 12:30pm
      - ztev
        
        Ross
        ‘As well as general salary funding, schools receive a certain amount for ‘units’. Boards can allocate units as a permanent or fixed-term addition to a teacher’s salary. Each unit is worth $4,000pa.’
        
        Thats the reward for the more motivated teachers, far easier to do than some sort of KPI
        
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        July 7, 2018 2:40pm
      - srylands
        
        You are giving a false impression about the scale and use of units to differentiate between teachers remuneration. At least in the primary sector NZEI does not permit the allocation of units to individuals. It is all about positions. The whole thing is like something out of the 1970 s.
        
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        July 7, 2018 2:52pm
      - ztev
        
        Rubbish. A complete lie
        http://www.nzsta.org.nz/media/1628/unitallocationguidel_pdf.pdf
        
        As the teachers are centrally paid, there is no other way to distribute the money other than as a unit to a teacher. Do you think they have a bit of ‘tip jar’ which is divided up equally each month ?
        
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        July 7, 2018 3:09pm
    - ztev
      
      primary schools are open for 192 days per year, give or take.
      So a 50 hr week for the 38.5 weeks gives 1920 hrs.
      
      On a top of grade salary $73k gives $38 per hour.
      
      Your error was not looking at the actual teaching weeks of 38.5
      
      Thats counting highly industrious teachers doing 50 hr pw when the minimum time for most is closer to 40 hrs
      
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      July 7, 2018 2:33pm
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Your post is correct 110%
      
      Teachers are educators, not therapists or psychologists which is what is required.
      
      Outcomes in the learning environment stem from the home. This outcome may be from relative poverty caused through poor economic decisions when choosing between cigarettes and lunch boxes or that Tarquin from Devonport is ‘special ‘ just because his parents can afford to buy a house in Devonport
      
      Teachers are are under recognised asset in our society and more than deserve the 16% they are asking for, my mother was a teacher, her partner and my partner were and are heads and deputy heads and I can vouch for the amount of time that goes into the prep that is required to make the school day appear seamless.
      
      I know that this forum has a general disparaging view of the teaching professionals but I am prepared for down ticking but I will always have their backs.
      
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      July 7, 2018 2:51pm
      - ztev
        
        Well said
        
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        July 7, 2018 3:11pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Hear hear Paulus.
        
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        July 7, 2018 5:41pm
    - Tauhei Notts
      
      My teacher mate was able to run a very good painting and paperhanging business whilst a teacher. He was careful to keep his turnover under $60,000 to preserve his GST free status.
      For many teachers work expands to fill the time available. Many teachers cannot comprehend that if you work 30 hours a week or 168 hours per week your pay stays the same. I am not sure I would want my grandchildren taught by a teacher that is so silly that they work 168 hours per week.
      
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      July 7, 2018 3:20pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Might I suggest Tauhei that your mate was one of those teachers that KBers rightly criticise.
        
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        July 7, 2018 5:43pm
  - Viking2
    
    Gazza, Much of what you say is true BUT how about we open the schools up to competition. i.e. give the kids vouchers and let them go where they want. Let the schools pay for the good ones and not so for the lazy and undolent.
    
    Was at a high School early this week quoting some work. Person I was conversing with is non teaching staff and he said to me “if I was in charge a lot of these lazy whinging lot would be here.”
    
    But becuase of the “rules of education we settle for second best with the good working like trojans and the other 80% filling in their day.
    
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    July 7, 2018 5:59pm
Chuck Bird

I attended a Family First Forum on the Family yesterday where Simon Bridges answer questions from Bob McCoskrie. While he left straight after the Q & A four National MPs attended and stayed at least for half the day. They were Maggie Barry, Alfred Ngaro, Melissa Lee and Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi.

I would guess that nearly everyone who attended will vote National. I just hope National does not take the conservative vote for granted.
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July 7, 2018 8:10am
- stephieboy
  
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  Chuck Bird , the National PArty is a Progressive and Liberal party too.
  
  I just hope you don’t take them for granted !
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:21am
- realityczech
  
  “I just hope National does not take the conservative vote for granted.”
  
  Or the liberal vote. I am a liberal and National are the most liberal choice on offer.
  
  Labour and the Greens are not Liberal or even close to it. They are intolerant authoritarian zealots.
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:43am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    You’re right on that one, RC! The ‘intolerant authoritarian zealots’ on the Left should not dare call themselves ‘liberal’. True liberals want the government to do its basic duties and then keep the f**k out of our lives!
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:43am
- thedavincimode
  
  nearly everyone who attended will vote National
  
  Will those who instead prefer to vote nz first be doing so to treat National a jolly good lesson again or because shane jones has outstanding leadership potential?
  
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  July 7, 2018 10:25am
  - Lance
    
    Seriously though..
    Are there any deluded halfwits left that actually don’t think a vote for Winston is a vote for Labour?
    They must a least be thin on the ground by now.
    
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    July 7, 2018 12:57pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      I’m sure there will be a few of Winston’s fan base who will blame National for Winston having to go with Labour. It’s only natural for sycophants to find a reason to blame others for their own shortcomings. They will see Winston’s mystery blathering as necessary and somehow Nationals fault as well.
      
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      July 7, 2018 1:14pm
      - ztev
        
        national saying NO to NZF for 3 elections was far more likely to be the reason they decided to flick them off.
        
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        July 7, 2018 2:38pm
DifferentPerspective

Giant baby Sadiq Khan balloon!

In response to the pathetically childish Sadiq Khan supporting a giant Trump blimp flying over London when the US President visits the UK, a crowdfunder is underway to fly a nappy-clad baby Sadiq Khan at the same time. They’ve already reached the target of $20k and with 34 days to go, there could be a whole fleet of them flying over London in a massive show of support for Trump and loathing about Khan.

Of course, Khan is a Labour hack so integrity, consistency and honesty are way outside of his toolbox so he may just show us all again what hypocrites the left are and allow the anti-Trump balloon at the same time as banning the anti-Sadiq.

The left so hate it when they’re own childish tactics are used against them.
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July 7, 2018 8:10am
- GoVege
  
  Not just childish but incredibly rude and disrespectful.
  I’m no fan of Trump but this is just plain mean.
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:31am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    I agree; with London elections not that far away, Khan is giving whoever his Conservative opponent is a whole arsenal of political weaponry and ammunition. He’s behaving like a petulant child, whilst London goes more and more to the dogs.
    
    I will never forget my one and only visit to Harrods, just under three years ago. It was a Sunday afternoon, the store was packed, and there were more burqa-clad women per square metre than you’d see in any Islamic city. The one positive was that She Who Must Be Obeyed felt so claustrophobic in Harrods that we left the store without my wallet coming out to pay any of their over-inflated prices 😀
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:20am
    - GoVege
      
      Jeez….I’m so glad I never saw a burqa-clad chick in London.
      (I’ve seen heaps in South Auckland.)
      On my trip to Europe last year I saw plenty of soldiers with machine guns.
      But the only scary moment was when one of these dorks in a burqa walked through McDonald’s.
      Don’t they know they’re bad for tourism?
      
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      July 7, 2018 1:03pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Harrods is of course owned by the Egyptian Fayed family, so is home ground for Muslims.
      
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      July 7, 2018 1:29pm
- Paulus
  
  Might be easy to burst with a dart as it is only 30 metres above the ground.
  Could be fun.
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:50am
  - 3-coil
    
    Paulus – that’s what I thought. At first I thought some hot head would take a shot at it, but then maybe a blowpipe would do the trick?
    
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    July 7, 2018 9:02am
    - G152
      
      Crossbow would be a pleasant bolt from the blue.
      Only take one of the aforesaid bolts and the bubble would deflate
      
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      July 7, 2018 10:38am
  - Ross12
    
    I’m surprised a drone has not “crashed” into it already.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:09am
    - Ross12
      
      ooops jumping the gun –did not realise it will not go up until next week.
      
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      July 7, 2018 10:19am
    - waikatogirl
      
      A drone would be seen as a terrorist attack by Mr Khan. Need a projectile that very small and undetectable after it does the job. ?
      
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      July 7, 2018 11:07am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Laser
        
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        July 7, 2018 1:30pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Paulus, considering the UK basically being a Police state now (Tommy Robinson), nobody would dare do such a prank.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:47am
- softail 1450
  
  D P, Just compare the two countries ,the US is learning to fly again, Great Britain is sinking into the sewer of diversity at any cost.
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:07am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Too true softail 1450.
    
    Still Phil Goff is doing his bit to emulate Khan by banning a skinny soy boy and his lisping bimbo girlfriend from speaking in Auckland. I guess Phil doesn’t like the whole concept of “speaking truth to power” when it is espousing conservative views. He’s a bit of a Khan’t too.
    
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    July 7, 2018 9:21am
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Did Goff just say no venues were available, or did he make sure that none could be used?
      This prick needs to be shot with a ball of his own shit
      
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      July 7, 2018 9:33am
      - wiseowl
        
        Steve
        He said he didn’t want these people using the council facilities.
        I am sure they had been booked.
        He also said the bureaucrats in charge of council facilities had also decided they weren’t suitable and may cause disruption.
        He was interviewed by Chris Lynch yesterday afternoon.
        
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        July 7, 2018 10:04am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Here’s exactly what Goff said:
        
        Phil Goff
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        Verified account
        
        @phil_goff
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        .@AklCouncil venues shouldn’t be used to stir up ethnic or religious tensions. Views that divide rather than unite are repugnant and I have made my views on this very clear. Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux will not be speaking at any Council venues.
        
        And in case he didn’t make himself clear, he added a second tweet:
        
        Phil Goff
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        @phil_goff
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        Let me be very clear, the right to free speech does not mean the right to be provided with an @AklCouncil platform for that speech.
        
        https://twitter.com/phil_goff/status/1015069949700665345
        
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        July 7, 2018 10:23am
      - Steve (North Shore)
        
        What Goff has forgotten is that the facilities are not Council facilities, they are RATEPAYER facilities.
        Goff and the Council do not own them, WE do!
        Commie bastard
        
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        July 7, 2018 11:27am
      - Holly Roggerz
        
        Well its obvious if you look at the policies of these marxists, none of their spending is for the ‘right’, its all exclusively for large scale collectivist projects like trams and trains, and ‘community facilities’ and ‘social programs’ and the like.
        
        At least he is being honest about Ratepayer facilities only being for ‘The Left’ and therefore being subject to an undisclosed political assesment criteria.
        
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        July 7, 2018 1:51pm
    - KevOB
      
      This is Goff attacking free speech. He doesn’t have to like the message he has to respect it.
      
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      July 7, 2018 10:27am
      - sooty
        
        Should be able to use the same faclities as Clinton and Obama!
        
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        July 7, 2018 11:51am
- Duxton
  
  Excellent. I have just contributed £10.
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:35am
Monique Watson

Hello toilet tax.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12084333

Why am I not surprised. I believe the sewer infrastructure in Welly is grossly neglected. Being depreciated in the books but never any capital reinvested in the infrastructure is the way to hide the need for reinvestment. Instead diverting rates income to frufru touchy feely capital projects. You know, like libraries and art galleries. Stadiums for politicians. Still. However most people would rather take a shit in confidence and without emptying their wallet than go see Ed Sheeran at some new waterfront stadium. Right?
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July 7, 2018 8:11am
- wiseowl
  
  Rates are there already for something as important as sewerage .One of the basics that councils should have concentrated on.
  Trying to add something like a toilet tax is fraud.
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:34am
  - VicParking
    
    Dismantle you toilet and leave your crap in a paper bag out side the council offices each day. For effect set it alight.
    
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    July 7, 2018 8:57am
holysheet

One day, a priest was walking through a forest, when he came upon a pond. On the pond was a lily-pad, and on the lily-pad was the saddest frog the priest had ever seen! “Dear frog” the priest asked, “what is the matter? Why re you so sad?” “Well,” said the frog, “I was not always a frog.” “Tell me more” said the priest. “One day, I was walking through these woods when I came upon a wicked witch. ‘Stand aside witch’ I said to her. But alas, she called me a nasty cheeky boy and turned me into a frog.” “But that’s terrible! Isn’t there anything that can be done to reverse the spell?” asked the priest. “Well” said the frog, “if a kind person were to take me home for the night, feed me and put me to sleep on their pillow, I am sure I would wake up human again.” “Well, this is your lucky day!” said the priest. So he took the frog home, fed him and put him to sleep on his pillow. And lo and behold, when he woke up the next morning, there was a 10 year old choir boy in his bead! “And that Your Honour, is the case for the Defence!”
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July 7, 2018 8:16am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  You sure it was not a teen that went to a camp, instead of a forest?
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:36am
slightlyrighty

Today, I have made a decision.

No matter how obnoxious, unpalatable or disagreeable I find a post, I will never downtick that post.

I would like to believe that the antidote to statements we do not like, is to engage the speaker or author. No to insult, downgrade, deplatform or in any other way, deny that persons right to freely express that view.

Yesterday we saw Phil Goff deny a venue to a speaker, simply because he does not wish that voice to be heard.

Phil, Is your viewpoint so fragile that it cannot stand up to a counterpoint? Is multiculturalism so powerless that the expression of concerns about the changes it forces onto society must be silenced rather than addressed?

To the Muslim Community, is your faith so fragile that a contrary view being expressed must be denied at all costs, rather than listened to?

When faiths and cultures collide, there will be conflict. The answer is to allow that debate and listen to all sides. Yesterday, Goff made the problem worse, and our country more tribal.

I promise not to fall into this trap. Listen to what is being said, and provide a counter argument. This is the General Debate thread.

Lets debate, discuss, open our minds to the contrary position, and let the position stand or fall on its own merits, and not our preconceptions.

I feel like I have woken up in a country that is less free this morning, where those in authority now believe they have the obligation to silence dissent for the sake of public order.

This is the thin edge of a very dangerous wedge.
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July 7, 2018 8:20am
- stephieboy
  
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  “To the Muslim Community, is your faith so fragile that a contrary view being expressed must be denied at all costs, rather than listened to?”
  
  I would think no but do you think it is helpful to subject the Abrahamic faith and its followers to venomous abuse ( raghead, towel heads etc )and make false accusations and slurs?
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:27am
  - GoVege
    
    True, SB.
    But insults are not a good enough excuse to close down debate.
    (And that was a great post you made yesterday defending free speech.
    Proud of you!)
    
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    July 7, 2018 8:43am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    Actually, Stephieboy, no. I do not think such slurs are at all helpful.
    
    However, there are elements of Islamic Faith which are incompatible with Current Western Values. The status of women within Muslim Society, the capital punishments for faith based offences such as apostasy, the killing of homosexuals by throwing them off buildings. The stoning of adulterous women. The shooting of girls for having the temerity of advocating education for themselves. The beating of people who have crossed the religious police by such terrible actions such as dancing, or listening to music, or practicing a religion that is different.
    
    Islam seems to be the only great religion that cannot listen to criticism and will not accept it.
    
    If we look at the Christian Church, and its changing positions over the centuries, we see an organization that used to burn people at the stake and torture individuals over their beliefs, now become a force for acceptance and compassion.
    
    In many ways, Islam is going through it’s Spanish Inquisition phase. It needs it’s own reformation, which cannot happen until it accepts the criticism it desperately needs. We have an obligation to help. Ironically, it’s the Christian thing to do.
    
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    July 7, 2018 8:47am
    - stephieboy
      
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      slightrighty, strongly disagree. You are full of sweeping generalisations. Our Muslim community does not throw homos off walls etc and is happy to accommodate themselves to observing our laws and customs.
      
      The Spanish Inquisition phase is more the rise of extreme cults like Daesh (ISIS)
      
      Saudia Arabia has recently undertaken reforms to extend women’s rights etc.
      
      We owe our present circumstances to the advance of secularism that has effectively neutralised the power of the Church.
      
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      July 7, 2018 9:15am
      - DifferentPerspective
        
        You are missing one or two very important words otherwise you are telling big fat porky pies.
        
        “Our Muslim community does not throw homos off walls SO FARetc and is AT THE MOMENT happy to accommodate themselves to observing our laws and customs.”
        
        The evidence from all around the world is that as soon as an Islam community in a country reaches critical mass, the vile characteristics of ugly Islam bursts out like a weeping sore.
        
        And as we have such a small population base and ragheads breed like sheep, it’s not a very long time before that critical mass is reached.
        
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        July 7, 2018 9:27am
      - slightlyrighty
        
        SB.
        
        Please take the time to understand what I have written before attempting your own biased rebuttle.
        
        I said that “There are ELEMENTS of Islamic Faith that are incompatible” and went on to list those.
        
        My point is, the Islamic Faith, and particularly those practitioners based in this country, have now successfully lobbied authorities to de-platform a speaker who is critical of their own faith.
        
        I personally have no problems with anyone who practices the Islamic Faith, but when I see the pain and suffering that faith brings, and mostly upon it’s OWN PEOPLE, do I stay silent, or do I speak up?
        
        When the Imams who preach hate are not silenced, but those outside the Islam who question it are, what message do we send to those within Islam who wish to bring the reform that we secular people now enjoy?
        
        How do we bring about effective change without debate?
        
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        July 7, 2018 9:38am
      - GoVege
        
        When it comes down to it, there are plenty of stupid irrational belief systems out there, but there is only ONE religion nowadays that goes around in western countries slaughtering innocent civilians and that is ISLAM.
        WTF are we doing importing it’s practitioners and closing down debate on the entire issue??
        
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        July 7, 2018 1:13pm
    - realityczech
      
      “In many ways, Islam is going through it’s Spanish Inquisition phase. It needs it’s own reformation, which cannot happen until it accepts the criticism it desperately needs.”
      
      Good summary.
      
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      July 7, 2018 9:41am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Not going to happen. Quran is very clear about it’s immutability, that it is the final word of God, and not subject to abridgement or reinterpretation. You believe it all, including the exhortations to murder and violence in the abrogation verses, or you are not a muslim.
        
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        July 7, 2018 2:15pm
  - Southern Raider
    
    Stop with the abrahamic faith business.
    
    Ripping parts out of an existing religion (Judaism) to try and legitimise an upstart warlord 2,500 after Abraham does not make it an abrahamic faith
    
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    July 7, 2018 9:05am
    - realityczech
      
      “Ripping parts out of an existing religion (Judaism)”
      
      The Christians being the worst offenders. Islam is much closer to the original. You might also ponder that Judaism arose from the existing religions in the region that were there long before. It was one of many.
      
      Of course who cares – they are all mad.
      
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      July 7, 2018 9:20am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I had to laugh at that too, Kea. Southern Raider is not upset about ‘Saint’ Paul inventing a new religion from Judaism, but Mohammed pulling the same trick six hundred years later is just not on.
        At least you’re only a nutcase, and not a religious nutcase.
        
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        July 7, 2018 9:23am
      - realityczech
        
        I just wish they would stop killing and persecuting each other milky and using religious nonsense as the justification.
        
        Other than that they can believe what they like and go about their religious rituals in peace.
        
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        July 7, 2018 9:30am
  - holysheet
    
    Have you heard about all these atheists going round killing each other to prove they’re a better atheist than the others… no I haven’t either
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:08am
    - Peter S
      
      You might want to have a check as to how many non atheists were imprisoned, tortured and killed in China and the Soviet Union in their attempts to eradicate religious beliefs though.
      
      Atheism is just a system of beliefs, so is in ones sense just another religion, and should be accorded the same protections, restrictions, and judged the same as any other belief set.
      
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      July 7, 2018 11:01am
      - GoVege
        
        Atheism is not a system of beliefs.
        It’s a lack/absence of the belief in a “God” or gods.
        
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        July 7, 2018 12:35pm
      - Peter S
        
        Darn, sorry. Hit the report not reply again.
        @GoVege,
        Not quite, that would be an agnostic mind set.
        Atheism is the belief in the absence of a God or gods.
        Again, it IS a belief.
        That is where there is a slight self delusion that underpins the arrogant superior judgemental mindset of some atheists (and it incidentally mirrors the worst you see in any other religion) that the beliefs are superior to those of others because the belief system is somehow better.
        
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        July 7, 2018 7:05pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Are we a Muslim country now?
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:28am
- GoVege
  
  Brilliant post, slightlyrightly!
  Free speech is too precious a right to give away.
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:39am
- wiseowl
  
  You are correct slightly .
  After hearing Goff interviewed yesterday I feel there is no hope with the likes of him in charge.His mind is closed and it is a sad day for what was once New Zealand.
  All of us with a functioning open mind need to fight back against this slide into communism .
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:40am
- waikatogirl
  
  As Dr Jordan Peterson says, if you listen to others point of view they may have something worthwhile to say and you may learn something. All you have to do is listen.
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:52am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Dr Peterson also says that many lefties are complaining their belief system is being shut down by ideolgical radical lefties. Unless beliefs are to the left of Karl Marx your views are not wanted.
    
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    July 7, 2018 11:36am
- Dave Mann
  
  @ slightlyrightly: I can understand your feeling of wanting to engage views that you disagree with rather than cut them off…. but downticking a comment here is in no way deplatforming or closing down views and discussion.
  
  Downticking simply marks the comment as one that you disagree with and then it’s up to you to offer an alternate view if you feel strongly enough about it.
  
  Downticks also provide an interesting snapshot of the consensus of readers and shouldn’t be confused with smashing their doors down, killing the commenter and dragging his family off to a concentration camp to die of starvation or be executed offhand by a guard who has had a bad day.
  
  p.s. That downtick wasn’t from me, BTW 😀
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:14am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    I agree. KB gives us freedom of speech and the ticking system helps us give a quick opinion. It does not deny SoB etc. their opportunity to write their c**p.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:58am
  - slightlyrighty
    
    A downtick means very little if you don’t explain the reason why. A downtick is what Phil Goff did yesterday. A Downtick is effectively saying “You can’t say this” instead of “I disagree for the following reasons”
    
    To me, it is analogous to those SJW who drown out what they don’t agree with using Airhorns, different in scale, but with the same end result. I would like to think that we can be better than that.
    
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    July 7, 2018 11:27am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      ‘A Downtick is effectively saying “You can’t say this” ‘
      
      I disagree (but didn’t downtick, as you’re making a point and not trolling). It often means ‘Yawn – not this c**p again!?’. But it doesn’t mean ‘don’t say it’.
      
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      July 7, 2018 11:45am
- secondcumming
  
  *Three questions for Phil Goff-Khan…….*
  
  1. Does he now regret throwing his support behind *KiwiFist 2018*
  
  2. Does he now regret that when he was Labiar Justice Minisiter, attempting to pass a bill thru Parliament, lowering *The Age of Consent to 12*
  
  3. Would he now have any objections, to somebody using a *Council Venue* to eat a Chinese takeaway consisting of sweet & sour beef flaps, on a Council board table?
  
  Asking for a friend…..
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:40am
  - softail 1450
    
    S C, Always a bit of good humor ,, “sweet and sour beef flaps” funniest comment of the week for those of us here for mainly the laughs.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:07am
  - Duxton
    
    Secondcumming: May I be so bold as to propose another two questions?
    
    4. What was behind his attempt to legalise incest when he was Minister of Justice?
    
    5. Is there any link between questions 2 and 4?
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:11am
- Stars And Stripes
  
  SR- People such as Phil Goff are the worst kinds of individuals when it comes to personal freedoms.
  They will talk long and deep about democracy and freedoms in society but then in the blink of an eye deplatform a speaker they disagree with and then come up with all kinds of specious justifications about why they had to do it and it was better for society that they acted.
  Yeah well Phil Goff can say whatever weasel words he likes but all his actions prove is that he has authoritarian tendencies and even after all his time in politics still does not understand what freedom really means.
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:55am
- KevOB
  
  Disruptive trolls excepted.
  It’s plain we get attacked on KB when diversion is required because the COL has failed once again. Recently its been full on.
  
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  July 7, 2018 10:31am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    But today we have one of our resident trolls stating that it is not helpful to subject folks (of a special persuasion) to venomous abuse ( raghead, towel heads etc )… false accusations and slurs.
    
    Isn’t that terrific?
    
    Perhaps, in time, some folks on KB who are not of the Abrahamic faiths might also be considered worthy of not being subjected to venomous abuse, false accusations and slurs.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:47am
    - stephieboy
      
      MW,
      “Perhaps, in time, some folks on KB who are not of the Abrahamic faiths might also be considered worthy of not being subjected to venomous abuse, false accusations and slurs.”
      
      Such as?
      
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      July 7, 2018 1:32pm
      - realityczech
        
        “Such as?”
        
        stupidboy, such as ice-niggers, rice-niggers, curry-niggers – and all those other cultures that do not follow Middle Eastern religions and reject your radical brand of Islam.
        
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        July 7, 2018 1:35pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Do you not recall that removed post of yours earlier this week requesting that a KB commenter put his head in a plastic bag?
        
        I’d call that venomous.
        (I’d also point out that it is contrary to Labour’s express desire to lower suicide rates in NZ)
        
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        July 7, 2018 2:20pm
      - realityczech
        
        Wiggles, history and North Korea are good reminders of how the left deal with those they disagree with.
        
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        July 7, 2018 2:25pm
Ultima

So Kiwibuild buyer registrations are through the roof, as if this is a good indicator of true demand. If so Twyford should quite parliament and be a developer, he would be a multi-millionaire.
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July 7, 2018 8:24am
- Harkman
  
  I heard a (d-grade) nz comedian call him Philly Wonder last night. Heck he’s even lost the lefty comedian class, who have a long history of running diversions for their politicians.
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:49am
  - Harkman
    
    Sorry Android’s auto correction, I meant “Philly Wonka”
    
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    July 7, 2018 9:02am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      Phil the wanker. We have different spellchecks obviously.
      
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      July 7, 2018 5:25pm
- Paulus
  
  This is only a registration saying that you want information – nothing else.
  
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  July 7, 2018 1:52pm
GazzaW

Over the last monthly session of Question Time has anyone noticed the increased propensity for Government members to clap loudly when a Minister responds enthusiastically to patsy questions. NZ First and particularly the grinning goon who sits behind Peters and Ron Mark are the loudest. I have renamed the Government the Coalition of Seals.
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July 7, 2018 8:43am
- VicParking
  
  Two other adaptions from heather are Patsy supplementarys to break up the oppositions attack and if they think the question could be difficult the minister is absent and a senior labour member takes it. Also “I dont have that information but if you put it down in writing…..”
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:04am
- tui47
  
  That is an apt name for what ever is his name his. I can’t stand that grinning face behind Peters. He responds as if Peters has successfully slammed a successful political hit on his opponent whereas Peters has actually had another slurred, petty, nasty and childish dig at the Opposition. Obviously the grinning goon thinks he has it made and is in the seat for a while. Hopefully, he too will be destined for oblivion after the next election.
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:10am
  - softail 1450
    
    Tui 47, The next election is to far away for me , I want to see the little ferret slapped down now .
    He’s a lazy short fat little guy who thinks he is 6 foot 3 inches tall and even more galling he actually thinks he’s funny.
    
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    July 7, 2018 9:21am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    The “grinning goon” to whom you refer is List MP Clayton Mitchell, who is the NZ First whip. When you look him up on the NZF website you get “The page you are looking for was not found”, which I thought was quite apt 😀
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:28am
    - Paulus
      
      Mitchell was formerly a Tauranga Publican and Councillor before invigilating himself with Peters, by telling him and the NZF ladies how wonderful he is.
      Use to say that he was up for the NZF Leadership after Peters but not a Maori I don’t think so nbg.
      
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      July 7, 2018 1:56pm
- artemisia
  
  Clayton Mitchell – the grinning goon. Totally agree he is just that, an OTT sycophant. Of course he gets a lot of air time as he is in shot whenever his leader rises to speak. Bet that was a deliberate choice of Mr Peters.
  
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  July 7, 2018 12:33pm
secondcumming

I know *Nigel Latta* from his TV series ‘Beyond the Darklands’. He’s also authored a few books, among them, ‘Nigel Latta Antarctica’ and ‘Nigel Latta Blows things up’.

In light of this tweet he’s just put out, I can hardly wait for his new book…..
*Nigel Latta Talks Shit*

https://twitter.com/NigelLatta/status/1014579155407532033

(Any other suggestions for a Title?)
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July 7, 2018 8:55am
- Harkman
  
  There was an advertising jacket around the Chch Star last weekend, promoting some conference venue and it had a picture of Latta speaking and the title read, “Beating Boredom” hilarious, a double entendre there ?
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:00am
- Dave Mann
  
  Nigel Latta is an absolute twit. His silly facial expressions and his twitty little effeminate high pitched voice make me feel sick.
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:45am
- Monique Watson
  
  Latta and other assorted Greenies in “Let Them Eat Plant”.
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:52am
- realityczech
  
  The vegetarian cult is about virtue signalling based on lies and ignorance and then further corrupted by leftist politics.
  
  Ligel Latta is an ignorant little know nothing who is commenting well outside his specialty.
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:54am
  - Duxton
    
    Who is Nigel Latta? and what is his speciality?
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:18am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      He is a psychologist, but now a TV personality. Does his original qualification matter. Does anyone care about the original ‘speciality’ of media giants like Hill, Hosking or Holmes?
      
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      July 7, 2018 11:05am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Hill = media giant!?
        LOL ?
        
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        July 7, 2018 11:41am
      - realityczech
        
        Duxton – Psycho bababalist and SJW.
        
        “Does his original qualification matter.”
        
        Milky – yes dickhead.
        
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        July 7, 2018 11:42am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Now I’m laughing at Waikaogirl for her implicit acceptance that Hosking and Holmes were media ‘giants’.
        
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        July 7, 2018 11:53am
      - realityczech
        
        You are laughing because you are insane milky.
        
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        July 7, 2018 12:03pm
      - lifesgood
        
        Who is Hill? never heard of him/her.
        
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        July 7, 2018 12:57pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Laugh away milky.
        ? ?
        
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        July 7, 2018 1:20pm
  - GoVege
    
    Not so, my dear RC.
    Vegetarianism / vegequarianism are not “cults”.
    Most veges are atheists.
    Unlike followers of various sky fairies, we recognize that we are just another species of animal on this planet, and it is only a matter of sheer good luck that we are not on the wrong end of the dinner fork! 🙂
    
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    July 7, 2018 3:13pm
    - realityczech
      
      “we recognize that we are just another species of animal on this planet”
      
      Liar. If you really thought that you would accept that we eat other animals just like animals do.
      
      That is my number one issue with your cult of hate. You reject nature and think you are above it.
      
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      July 7, 2018 6:26pm
      - GoVege
        
        Only carnivores eat other animals.
        Humans are not carnivorous.
        
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        July 7, 2018 10:08pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        Humans are not carnivorous.
        
        We’re not herbivorous either, we’re omnivorous. The existence of omnivores is why your claim “Only carnivores eat other animals” is wrong.
        
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        July 7, 2018 10:17pm
- Cobolt24
  
  Now now, I’m all for alternatives, but I dont think that artificial meat will ever be what most people will eat, or desire.
  
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  July 7, 2018 4:25pm
  - GoVege
    
    If they visited a slaughterhouse they might manage the change….
    
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    July 7, 2018 6:23pm
    - realityczech
      
      Only in an artificial and fake environment could your type survive. You are a weak prey item and are not meant to be here.
      
      You are less compassionate, intelligent, moral, caring and honest than other people.
      
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      July 7, 2018 6:28pm
      - GoVege
        
        I’m not a strict vegequarian.
        I’d eat meat if nothing else was available.
        The rest of your silly post is your opinion only.
        Or because you’re on the suds because Saturday night is the loneliest night of the week.
        One day when you stop scaring chicks away you will find happiness.
        In the meantime, all us lefties on KB are sending you good vibrations to keep you going until that happy day. 🙂 🙂 🙂
        
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        July 7, 2018 10:14pm
Harkman

So JAG says we need a quota system. Then we see Hulun encouraging woman to put themselves forward, sort like how she put herself forward for UN job using our millions to only come last with a man winning. Great example.
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July 7, 2018 8:55am
- Harkman
  
  See Phil-in (Goof) in the background? He was probably thinking “when is she going to take my job?”
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:04am
- VicParking
  
  AS a transgender Samoan/Maori with one leg, six kids and on the DPB I will get every job going.
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:07am
  - softail 1450
    
    V P, sorry Vic you neglected the most powerful of all groups in your description ,,,Lesbian feminist.
    
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    July 7, 2018 9:28am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Hmmmm…now let me think..
  
  As a female and mother of daughters, would I want to get a position/job just because I make up the quota, or because I’m the best for the position?
  
  Now, I know damn well, I’m not in favour of being overlooked for a position just because I’m a female, but I don’t want to be lying under a surgeon’s knife wondering whether she’s in the operating room just to make up the gender quota.
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:58am
  - realityczech
    
    Could be worse Wiggles.
    
    Imagine lying under the surgeons knife with a disabled- trans- Maori- muslim appearing just as the anesthetic shuts you down, limping its way over to you muttering incantations and prayers to allah.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:10am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Don’t joke rc.
      
      I had to deliver one of my beloved kiddies to a Boer male surgeon sporting one of the biggest crosses around his neck that I had ever seen.
      
      Not an experience I would want to repeat.
      (Anyway… her inguinal hernia repair has lasted 20+ years, so far).
      
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      July 7, 2018 11:19am
      - realityczech
        
        “her inguinal hernia repair has lasted 20+ years, so far”
        
        Those Boers build things to last Wiggles 🙂
        
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        July 7, 2018 11:44am
  - holysheet
    
    They say a woman’s work is never done. Maybe that’s why they get paid less.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:12am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Harkman: quotas – no, encouraging women to put themselves forward in a merit sytem – yes. Those are quite different things. Sounds Helen is more sensible here than Genter.
  
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  July 7, 2018 11:05am
mikenmildagain

Happy World Chocolate Day to you all.
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July 7, 2018 9:03am
- VicParking
  
  Don’t forget its also Father-Daughter Take a Walk Together Day and Tell the Truth Day. And after your walk remember its also National Strawberry Sundae Day and National Macaroni Day.
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:11am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    I don’t recognise those fake American holidays. I only recognise proper international event like World Chocolate Day. But have fun going for a walk with your daughter while telling her the truth about macaroni and strawberry sundaes.
    
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    July 7, 2018 9:14am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Tell the truth day ain’t gonna work – too many lefties here already.
    Ba!
    
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    July 7, 2018 9:44am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Heck, what thinking, caring person would be consuming chocolate?
  
  http://www.foodispower.org/slavery-chocolate/
  
  https://www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/issues/spring-2017/articles/bittersweet-chocolate-s-impact-on-the-environment
  
  Don’t you care about little children?
  Don’t you care about the environment?
  
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  July 7, 2018 11:40am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Well, we know you don’t care about the environment with your endorsement of climate anti-science…
    
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    July 7, 2018 11:54am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Rubbish, mmagain.
      
      Might be time for you to consider how all that money being fed into the UN climate Fund has been pissed away.
      http://www.climatechangenews.com/2018/07/03/board-meeting-turns-toxic-un-climate-fund-runs-low/
      
      I would also like you to tell us here (1) how many native trees you have raised and planted/ (2)conservation groups you have led/ (3)and eco-restoration businesses you have supported/financed.
      
      My tally is:
      (1) somewhere between 300,000 and 1M.
      (2) 3
      (3) 3
      
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      July 7, 2018 1:38pm
      - Harkman
        
        Maggy, Mike Joy only cares about the environment when National is in power.
        
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        July 7, 2018 8:30pm
    - realityczech
      
      Milky got an evidence to show how virtue-signalling makes the world colder?
      
      You really are a vile little prick who’s views on any topic are just a self serving appeal to the popular narrative fashionable among the ignorant and amoral.
      
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      July 7, 2018 1:42pm
Prince

Some interesting facts about the case used by Sepuloni to justify further gifting of money to the ‘poor’.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/105285096/msd-loan-cases-ms-f-no-poster-girl-for-poverty
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July 7, 2018 9:03am
- waikatogirl
  
  Entitleitis is strong in that one.
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:24am
- KevOB
  
  WINZ is out of control. They are even looking into small business accounts and cutting benefits based on what they think is appropriate expenditure. They have no understanding of the nature of capital and income nor the corporate veil. Excess of zeal combined with bonuses? For some public servants the law is an irrelevancy that gets in the way of their work.
  
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  July 7, 2018 10:43am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    What is the ‘corporate veil’? Sounds sexy.
    
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    July 7, 2018 11:55am
    - KevOB
      
      Simply an incorporated body is separate from its members or shareholders and there are boundaries between them.
      
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      July 7, 2018 1:21pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Wow, van Beynen actually wrote: “Before I jumped on the bandwagon I thought I should probably read the actual High Court judgement rather than the press release.”
  
  Good on him, that’s an amazing standard of reportage these days. Can you think of any reporters who bother with such details as actually reading or listening to someone before just plunging in and calling someone like Tommy Robinson ‘racist’ or Lauren Southern ‘far right’?
  
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  July 7, 2018 11:13am
Duxton

Good morning Auckland.

What mischief will your incest-supporting Mayor get up to today?
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July 7, 2018 9:12am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Wasn’t it that ACT leader-for-a-minute-or-two who wanted to be able to marry his sister?
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:15am
- stephieboy
  
  Duxton, incest supporting ??
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:16am
  - Duxton
    
    Yes, he supports incest. He worked on legalising it when he was Minister of Justice. Lord knows why……..
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:22am
    - Psycho Milt
      
      Is this like how John Key worked on legalising slavery when he was Prime Minister, or do you have a link?
      
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      July 7, 2018 12:46pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yep, in 2005
    
    http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0504/S00307/labour-approved-brother-sister-sex-paper.htm
    
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    July 7, 2018 2:35pm
    - Duxton
      
      Cheers Maggy. You have saved me the trouble.
      
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      July 7, 2018 3:45pm
    - Psycho Milt
      
      God, what a stuffed shirt Ryall was. Just for the record, believing a particular activity shouldn’t be a criminal offence is not the same thing as supporting that activity.
      
      I know that many people reading this blog struggle with abstract concepts, so here’s an example: Simon Bridges would be opposed to making it a criminal offence to vote for a party other than National. This does not mean he supports Labour.
      
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      July 7, 2018 4:33pm
- KiWombat
  
  What the hell’s that got to do with the price of fish ?
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:21am
  - Duxton
    
    You mean, other than the fact that anyone who supports incest clearly has seriously screwed-up thinking?
    
    Well, let’s see……..
    
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    July 7, 2018 11:28am
    - sooty
      
      Why does Labour attrach perverts.
      
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      July 7, 2018 3:10pm
      - Duxton
        
        A very good question. Perhaps Nigel Latta could apply for some NZ on Air funding to make a doco.
        
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        July 7, 2018 3:48pm
DifferentPerspective

You can’t make this stuff up

So a sculpture was removed from a park on the Kapiti Coast because it was discovered that the artist was a pedophile.

So they commissioned a replacement work of art to replace the kiddie fiddler’s work.

The “Kiwiriders” replacement sculpture is supposed to be of two children riding on a stylised* Kiwi. The only problem was a local advisory art board took one look at it and decided it looked like children riding on a spermatazoa! Of course, bearing in mind the previous issue with the earlier statue and the association with child abuse – the art advisory board suggested that the sculpture was not appropriate and told the morons at Kapiti Council to not dig the whole any deeper.

The artist, being a creative type, got his panties all severely twisted and complained to the council who have ignored their own art advisory board and they’ve ‘mounted’ the statue of two children riding on a spermatazoa in some local park.

Local government is broken.

(I understand that in the art world the word “stylised” actually means “nothing like” or “an excuse for trying to get away with something pervy”.)
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July 7, 2018 9:16am
- realityczech
  
  LOL 🙂 🙂
  
  Comment of the day.
  
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  July 7, 2018 10:12am
CharlieBrown

Phil goff is an evil F$%^ C%NT. What a disgrace of a human being who hates free speech. He deserves to have the shit beaten out of him for how he has suppressed free and legitimate speech. If he was an official from several generations ago he would be happy to ban “controversial” speech like that from those agitators like MLK etc. Make no mistake – this is an evil suppression of free speech and he deserves many nasty things to happen to him. One day we may end up having to take up arms against those PC fascists.
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July 7, 2018 9:44am
- Inandout
  
  Auckland deserves what Auckland has voted for, in the form of the creepy Goff. It would take an earthquake to get the Sailers off their comfortable arses.
  
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  July 7, 2018 9:54am
  - CharlieBrown
    
    NZ deserves this for voting for such PC muppets for the last 20 years.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:01am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Honestly, I desperately wanted to vote for someone else, but they came across as morons (one couldn’t even produce a spell-checked website).
    
    I ended up not voting at all :(.
    
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    July 7, 2018 11:17am
CharlieBrown

I’ve just submitted a complaint to the HRC around Julie Ann Genters statement of intent to sexually discriminate when employing people to boards of the State Sector. Her statement wasn’t about an aspiration goal, it was a black and white statement of intent to sexually discriminate. People elsewhere should do the same, use the fucking ridiculous PC tools against them.
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July 7, 2018 10:09am
- softail 1450
  
  Charlie Brown, your comment about goof would fit for Genter as well if she wasn’t a female in foal.
  
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  July 7, 2018 12:03pm
- KiWombat
  
  Don’t like your chances Charlie ! I tried the same when the JAG tried to corral me with all those other “old white guys” and got a very neutral reply from them suggesting I seek remedy elsewhere !
  
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  July 7, 2018 1:34pm
RF

A good friend is looking at moving into a retirement village. He quite likes the stand alone 2 / 3 bedroom town houses with the later option of requiring more care.

He trying to decide between Ryman & Summerset. Does anyone here have any recommendations.
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July 7, 2018 10:13am
- Keeping Stock
  
  We have both in Whanganui, and from having visited elderly folk in both, I would lean towards the Ryman option. Jane Winstone Village here is a first class facility.
  
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  July 7, 2018 10:48am
  - RF
    
    Thanks KS.
    
    That an area I am not familiar with. Yet !!!!
    
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    July 7, 2018 1:13pm
- Paulus
  
  Have at least eight retirement homes in Tauranga – know all of them and they are all first class, top international quality depending which one takes your fancy and your price – from $1,350,000 to $450,000 for licence to live there.
  
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  July 7, 2018 2:04pm
  - Viking2
    
    Way more than 8 paulus.
    
    Tauranga – Retirement village and aged care living at it’s best.
    
    Over 30 aged care facilities and retirement villages are scattered in and around Tauranga – with more planned for this idyllic spot. With the great views and slower pace of life, Tauranga is becoming the popular choice for people to retire to. Award winning aged care and expansive lifestyle and retirement village options, Tauranga has gained a reputation for its well-known for its blue skies, warm climate, sparkling harbour and relaxed lifestyle – the perfect accompaniment to a life of retirement.
    https://www.agedadvisor.nz/search/for/75555/Tauranga
    
    Over 18% of our population in them.
    Shows the potential for area’s like Auckland, Wellington , Hamilton.
    
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    July 7, 2018 7:02pm
- GoVege
  
  What’s with the extra bedrooms?
  Is he allowed to take in boarders?
  
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  July 7, 2018 3:20pm
doggone7

According to Stuff last night “A sprawling lake-front farm in Central Otago has sold for $17.5m – not long after taxpayers paid more than $2m to get rid of it.”

I thought there’d be a real hoo-hah about it this morning. No, it’s only money.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/105146853/after-taxpayers-paid-to-get-rid-of-it-farm-sells-for-175m
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July 7, 2018 10:16am
- KevOB
  
  A decimal point helps–$17.5m.
  
  “The Crown received full ownership of around 4500ha of land, which it added to the conservation estate, and an easement for the Te Araroa trail.”
  
  The deal seems not unreasonable but the socialists are full of envy.
  
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  July 7, 2018 10:50am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Not envy but pissed-off taxpayers. If lakefront land is going to be privatised because it’s not great farmland ‘the Crown owns the right to develop the land, which has significant value, and the Crown was not adequately accounting for scenic values.’
    
    Sounds like a fair point.
    
    Meanwhile we’re paying taxes for the damn process off tenure review!
    
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    July 7, 2018 11:31am
    - KevOB
      
      The Crown only had limited access. Leases have now been turned into regular titles.
      
      There was an exchange of value.
      
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      July 7, 2018 1:25pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  This sell-off of the SI High Country has been going on for about 25 years now.
  Seems to have gone under the radar of many in the North Island.
  But there’s been quite a bit of concern written about what’s gone on:
  
  Ann Brower wrote a book on the issue:
  http://www.pottonandburton.co.nz/store/who-owns-the-high-country
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/91935035/ann-brower-for-the-sake-of-our-high-country-stop-tenure-review
  
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  July 7, 2018 10:59am
  - Harkman
    
    Is this the same woman that was in the Columbo Street bus during the E/quakes? I think at the time I was furious at her for a real lefty column in the Press, then a week or so later she was nearly killed. Just like with Darth Vader, “Don’t underestimate my power.” ?
    
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    July 7, 2018 11:19am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Yes, it is the same woman.
      
      She has used her ghastly experience as a reason to be involved in lobbying for a better Building Act.
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11932458
      
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      July 7, 2018 11:28am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Maggy, is the main argument of the book that these leases should go on for ever, even for unproductive farmland with fantastic views that could benefit the taxpayer if sold for (limited and controlled) development?
    
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    July 7, 2018 11:34am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      No, that isn’t her main argument.
      
      She is arguing for valuable development rights to be added into LINZ’s calculation of the value of the land.
      When the land is only valued on it’s pastoral wealth and not it’s potential value after subdivision, the NZ taxpayer misses out on the true value of the land sale.
      
      There are numerous other problems with the High country land-tenure process….
      I’ve mainly followed the concerns with ecosystem protection…
      Try this thesis if you are really interested
      
      Cutting up the high country : the social construction of tenure review …
      https://researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10182/…/McFarlane_PhD.pdf?…3
      by J McFarlane – ‎2011
      
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      July 7, 2018 3:08pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Thanks Maggy, she sounds sensible.
        
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        July 7, 2018 6:29pm
Komata

CB: This is, of course, the same Phil Goff (along with other Labour Party members) who spat at and on the guys who came back from Vietnam when they were marching down Queen Str. Freedom of speech in his world is only ok so long as the speaker AGREES with what he says. Nothing has changed has it?
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July 7, 2018 10:19am
- RF
  
  Remember when Goofy had an image problem.
  
  He started riding a motorcycle, walked with a slow deliberate swagger, dyed his hair, turned up at a beach dressed in a suit and started shovelling oil spillage from the Rena.
  
  It did not change anything. He was still a tosser.
  
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  July 7, 2018 10:51am
  - softail 1450
    
    RF ,I have been riding with goof on charity m/c runs,he should stick to a pushbike , i’m fairly sure the fool has a triumph rocket 3 2300 cc, he’s one of those guys that has to have the biggest bike even when he cant ride it ,in my opinion a 125 suzuki scooter would suit the soy boy better.
    
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    July 7, 2018 12:13pm
- Harkman
  
  And you know why they hated the Vietnam War? It was an attempt to stop Communism’s march across the world. And you know what side they were on.
  
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  July 7, 2018 11:05am
  - Komata
    
    Harkman
    
    Exactly, Moscow was very pleased…
    
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    July 7, 2018 1:53pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  I don’t like Phil Goff, but repeating that lie about him makes you seem even more of moron than usual.
  
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  July 7, 2018 11:08am
  - waikatogirl
    
    . deleted ?
    
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    July 7, 2018 11:53am
DigNap15

I see the price of the milk I buy in Countdown has gone up today!

Id love a journalist to find out just who is making the money on our milk.
The Farmer
Fonterra
The Processor
The Distributor
The Supermarket
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July 7, 2018 10:21am
- Duxton
  
  You missed the biggest taker of the lot: the Government.
  
  Funnily enough, I came a family discussing rising prices while I was shopping last Saturday. Mum and Dad couldn’t explain it, and asked me if I knew. I explained that the largest factor in the price was the government. It clips the ticket at every stage, throws in petrol tax during every stage of the distribution process, and adds GST on the final product. I also pointed out that if the government’s decisions cause the dollar to fall, the resulting effect on the price of petrol makes the situation worse.
  
  I finished by noting that billions of dollars for free first year at university and aid for the South Pacific had caused the problem. “Blame Jacinda Ardern!”, I said.
  
  They did.
  
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  July 7, 2018 10:42am
  - RF
    
    You know what. I do not miss not hearing from Ardern.
    
    Actually it’s been quite peaceful.
    
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    July 7, 2018 10:55am
    - Happychappy
      
      RF I thought that also until yesterday when I recieved a NZ HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES letter from the PM with her ugly dial in the top right hand corner of it. What I object to is this letter has obviously been sent to me with my details taken from my superannuation records as it is telling me all the policy that Labour made in the 2018 budget. If this letter had been just to inform me of the heating Grant it would be fine but as a National voter and supporter I take offence at their blatant politicking and the use of my details from my Pension.
      
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      July 7, 2018 11:36am
      - KevOB
        
        I got one too.
        A breach of privacy. I have not given the Labour Party my personal details. My view of the letter was electioneering. If I need an add for teeth I know of a local dentist.
        On the internet this would be illegal spam.
        
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        July 7, 2018 1:35pm
      - Komata
        
        HC
        
        You too?
        
        It fed the rubbish bin…
        
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        July 7, 2018 2:02pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        The husband got the letter… but not me.
        
        Seems to be a similar story amongst some of my married contacts…
        The PM’s letter went out to the Man of the House… not the little woman.
        
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        July 7, 2018 2:08pm
      - backster
        
        Isent mine back un opened to Premier House 41 Pipitea St Wellington. I hope the remembered address is right.
        
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        July 7, 2018 3:23pm
      - Viking2
        
        Yep, got up my nose as well. didn’t connect the dots but did wonder why I got a letter for as far as I know I would be banned from any list they have. Arseholes.
        
        That letter though also talked about xtra police and more money for health.
        Authorized by the horse of course.Under a House of representatives logo at the top and a Labour one at the bottom.and of course she told us pensioners that housing was going to be more affordable.
        Naturally the sprog got a mention.
        
        Page full of lies.
        
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        July 7, 2018 7:11pm
  - Viking2
    
    The husband got the letter… but not me.
    
    Seems to be a similar story amongst some of my married contacts…
    The PM’s letter went out to the Man of the House… not the little woman.
    
    Maggy that’s cause you live in Gisy.
    Our one was to both.
    
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    July 7, 2018 7:12pm
- KevOB
  
  Transport costs are going to impact milk prices. Milk is not processed on farm.
  
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  July 7, 2018 10:53am
- KiWombat
  
  Price of LPG gas has also risen this week by $11 per (medium) bottle – snuck that one through on us without so much as a whisper !
  
  Suppose large bottles have risen twice that – maybe more !
  
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  July 7, 2018 1:39pm
Happychappy

Does anyone else find it funny that Winston is now trying to change his agenda on NZ First with Barry Soper penning a column saying people who think this is last term as a MP think again. Then we have the Maori seat issue raising it head again after a Labour MP’s bill was drawn in Parliament and Winston refusing to back it unless it gets a two -pronged Referndum of entrenched or go altogether. So Winston has now the chance to redeem himself after his broken promise to those that voted that Winston promised if they became part of the Government. The thing about this and Winston latest grab for attention is that with Shane Jones being Winstons pick to take over from him and the very thin chance of NZ First being able to survive the next Elections in the last few polls we have a change in strategy with policy and his press mouth piece informing the public Winston will be a MP after the next Election. Again we see Winston taking the voter for granted because he believe if he is there so will those be who have voted for him in the past.
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July 7, 2018 10:43am
- Paulus
  
  Understand that GreyPower have recently once again endorsed Peters.
  
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  July 7, 2018 2:08pm
softail 1450

Dignap15, makes you wonder whats going on, i’m sure milk powder took a big hit in price just this week,,W T F?
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July 7, 2018 10:46am
The Heat

Ah, so many on the left reveal their true colours.

http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/lauren-southern-nz-show-cancelled/

Agree with Southern. Don’t agree with Southern. It doesn’t matter.

The real question is: do you support freedom of speech?

Those who do not cannot call themselves “progressives” unless “progressive” means “fascist”.
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July 7, 2018 10:48am
- Dave Mann
  
  Lauren Southern has apparently now been denied a visa to enter New Zealand!
  
  Think about it. Despite being a Canadian citizen and therefore entitled to visit NZ without needing a visa, she has been denied entry by the Minister for immigration.
  
  This us absolutely fucking outrageous . We have Saudi imams preaching hatred here, ecofucks coming with their whale protests, Maoris with their stupid invented festivals, Russians buying elections, the government closing down whole industries and all kinds of shit being thrust on us and the emerging police state is working overtime in stifling voices of dissent and reason.
  
  This is not going to end well.
  
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  July 7, 2018 11:23am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Yes, but what are we going to do? Some of my suggestions will get me strikes here and probably a visit by authorities…. New Zealanders don’t go and cause riots like they do in other parts of the world. We bash away on our keyboards, but actually do nothing, and the left know this. So we wait for our election cycle and hope like hell that people wake up, but in the interim we get poorer and stressed out with anger, shortening our lives and being miserable. However, let’s get Laura’s message out there, DPF create a blog post and put every youtube link available in it, put it on face book, twitter, e mail your friends, create a virtual visit. Email the council with thousands of e-mails with links to her work… It can be done. There are some here with the IT skills to make this happen
    
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    July 7, 2018 12:01pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      People like Southern and Molyneux and Robinson need to start suing the arse off politicians and journalists who call them ‘racist’ with no evidence at all. Freedom of speech ends at the libel that they keep ruining these people’s reputations with.
      
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      July 7, 2018 12:48pm
      - Cobolt24
        
        They consider them racist just because they talk about the stuff the MSM only lightly brushed over, such as South African land being taken by force from the whites, along with them being murdered. The left wing human rights groups seems to ignore.
        
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        July 7, 2018 4:05pm
  - softail 1450
    
    Dave MANN, You are right this is fucking outrageous,local and central govt colluding to censor what the people can be exposed to,FFS whats next?
    Oh i know, telling us what we can eat,drink, and think…..
    
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    July 7, 2018 12:24pm
  - oob
    
    Lauren Southern has apparently now been denied a visa to enter New Zealand!
    
    Not so, chap.
    
    If you read the same article I did on Fairfax, it turns out the “denied a visa” line is just journalistic exaggeration.
    
    The actuality is she doesn’t qualify for an automatic visa (as Canadian citizens do) because she has been denied a visa to the UK in the past.
    
    This is the system working correctly: NZ should very much be forcing anyone denied a visa for a friendly country to apply for a visa to visit ours so we can check into their background a little more thoroughly.
    
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    July 7, 2018 12:30pm
  - lifesgood
    
    And that bloody Dotcom still filling the place up with his fat blubber.
    
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    July 7, 2018 1:06pm
  - KevOB
    
    Do we only support Sunni Muslims? What about Shia that the Saudi’s with US and British help are killing in Yemen? Oil alliances appear more important.
    
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    July 7, 2018 4:35pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  Southern has the right to spout alt-right bullshit, and Goff has the right not to make council facilities available for it. Other people’s rights aren’t always convenient.
  
  The show was cancelled rather than moved to a private venue, which suggests poor ticket sales rather than Phil Goff are responsible for your disappointment.
  
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  July 7, 2018 11:26am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Well, I object to that bitch being allowed to speak at a council venue.
    
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    July 7, 2018 11:49am
    - softail 1450
      
      rightoverlabour,, a bit narrow minded there ROL,did you have the same feelings about the corrupted,murdering, thieving pig Hillary Clinton coming here to speak?
      
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      July 7, 2018 12:29pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Bitch = hillory Clinton. Sorry about the confusion
      
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      July 7, 2018 12:37pm
      - softail 1450
        
        R O L, I didn’t think it sounded like your normal stance, well corrected ….
        
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        July 7, 2018 12:47pm
  - realityczech
    
    “Southern has the right to spout alt-right bullshit”
    
    Southern is not doing it on the tax/rate payers tab Milt you gibbering loon.
    
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    July 7, 2018 12:08pm
    - Psycho Milt
      
      Southern is not doing it on the tax/rate payers tab…
      
      If you want that made a criterion for having rights, you’ll need to talk to your MP and try to get legislation passed. Good luck – no, just kidding.
      
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      July 7, 2018 12:50pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      From the videos I’ve seen of her, she’s not spouting alt-right bullshit at all. She seems to be what ‘liberal’ used to mean before the word was appropriated by the Left.
      
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      July 7, 2018 12:52pm
      - backster
        
        I started watching a link on whaleoil to a documentary called farmlands concerning the current legalised murder of white farmers in South Africa. This topic seems to by ignored by World media yet we know it is happening. She fronts it well and when I get time I will watch the rest of it.
        
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        July 7, 2018 3:32pm
      - Dave Mann
        
        Absolutely Classical Liberal….. my thoughts exactly. Well said!
        
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        July 7, 2018 6:21pm
  - The Heat
    
    And what was his reason for doing so, Psycho Milt?
    
    Where does this end?
    
    Nowhere good.
    
    We either support freedom of speech, or we do not.
    
    I know where many on the left stand – and it is very disappointing and concerning. We should support Southern’s speech in the same way we support a speech on Islam. Not because we agree or disagree, but to not do so invites a long, cold darkness.
    
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    July 7, 2018 12:26pm
    - Psycho Milt
      
      I expect he didn’t want to see council facilities used by someone planning to vilify and incite hatred against a proportion of his constituency. I wouldn’t consider that a good enough reason myself for refusing a venue, for exactly the reasons you describe, but Goff isn’t obliged to do what we’d do.
      
      Personally, I wish authority figures would take as pro-active an approach to keeping Muslim hate preachers out of the country, but somehow those fucks seem to be off-limits.
      
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      July 7, 2018 1:02pm
      - realityczech
        
        “I expect he didn’t want to see council facilities used by someone planning to vilify and incite hatred against a proportion of his constituency.”
        
        You mean like ?:
        
        1. White
        2. Cis gender
        3. Males
        4. Straight
        5. Over 40’s
        6. Christian
        
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        July 7, 2018 1:11pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        ‘but somehow those fucks seem to be off-limits’, because, Milt, people like you falsely claim that people like Molyneux and Southern are ‘planning to vilify and incite hatred’.
        
        I’ve watched many of their videos to understand their opinions and never heard them do that. They and other critics of hard-line islam are addressing concerns that many of us (including moderate muslims and ex muslims) have about it.
        
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        July 7, 2018 1:39pm
      - The Heat
        
        expect he didn’t want to see council facilities used by someone planning to vilify and incite hatred against a proportion of his constituency.
        
        Was that what she was planning to do? Show me examples of her doing same?
        
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        July 7, 2018 2:36pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        What would be the point? She dog-whistles the stuff so it’s plausibly deniable, but both the right-wingers in her audience and the left-wingers protesting outside know the dog-whistles are about darkies in general and Muslims in particular.
        
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        July 7, 2018 4:39pm
      - realityczech
        
        “darkies in general and Muslims in particular”
        
        Hey Milty, what colour is “Muslim”?
        
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        July 7, 2018 4:43pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        If Muslims were white you guys would be talking them up as real men who know how to deal with crims and commies. Doesn’t matter what colour they are really, it’s the ‘not-White’ part that counts.
        
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        July 7, 2018 5:02pm
      - realityczech
        
        So you reckon Muslim is a colour Milt. I am pretty sure you are wrong about that. I have met white Muslims and got on the piss with them in the Baltic. Retard.
        
        You are probably not yourself after the story about your sordid little youth rally leaked out.
        
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        July 7, 2018 5:06pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        Yes, a miniscule proportion of the world’s Muslims are White. Your point was irrelevant, but you’re probably not yourself after the story about your enthusiasm for dog-felching came out.
        
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        July 7, 2018 6:23pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        “She dog-whistles the stuff so it’s plausibly deniable”
        Ah, so she, and some people who watch her are possibly guilty of thought-crime and perhaps also wrong-think. Definitely deserving of some rightous murder-death-kill administered by those with greater purity of thought.
        
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        July 7, 2018 7:48pm
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    “Goff has the right not to make council facilities available for it”
    Given that these are ratepayer owned facilities paid for by everyone, anyone who supports Goff’s arbitrary choosing of who gets to use them depending on his personal likes or dislikes obviously does not support free speech either regardless of token statements suggesting otherwise.
    
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    July 7, 2018 12:45pm
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    The guy who arranged it said there were no other suitable venues available so had to cancel.
    
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    July 7, 2018 1:03pm
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    You have the right to spout neo-nazi bullshit, but I’m not sure Phil Goff has the right to censor through denying access. It’s a circular argument if a leftist neo-nazi like Goff makes the decision based on this logic:
    – socialist neo-nazis will turn up to make trouble at an event where a woman expresses an opinon that ordinary, decent folk will pay money to attend
    – therefore I will punish the ordinary, decent folk because of the neo-nazis
    
    Surely the price of having rights (like the right to free expression) is defending that fucking right!
    
    It should have been very simple, Goff’s responsibility is to support the lawful carrying out of discourse, the problem is not Southern – it is the criminals from Goff’s side of the house who would create the disturbance of the peace.
    
    I fully expect Goff now to ban women from the streets of Wellington to prevent rape, better still he should pass a bylaw requiring them to be fully covered from head to foot further minimising the chance of being raped. Oh wait, wasn’t that exactly the sort of dark ages thinking that Lauren Southern would have spoken out against!
    
    A little teeny bit more fascism creeps in to NZ with Goffs high-handedness.
    
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    July 7, 2018 6:02pm
secondcumming

Why do people think Jesus is coming back? He wasn’t nailed to a fucking boomerang.
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July 7, 2018 10:58am
- mikenmildagain
  
  It’s actually quite hard for these mythical creatures to return once people stop believing in them.
  
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  July 7, 2018 11:59am
  - softail 1450
    
    MMA,yeah ,people laugh at Maori and their Taniwha
    and then toddle off to church on Sunday to worship a man that produced the whole universe in 7 days.
    Not to mention being surrounded by angels and the everlasting life…..
    
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    July 7, 2018 12:37pm
  - holysheet
    
    My son is obsessed with Harry Potter, his bedroom is like a shrine, books, DVDs, posters, merchandise… My wife is getting fed up with his obsession so snapped at him “He’s fictional, you’re worshipping somebody that doesn’t exist.” Then she put her coat on and said “Right, “I’m off to church.”
    
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    July 7, 2018 1:14pm
- realityczech
  
  LOL 🙂
  
  Everyone is a smart arse today ❗
  
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  July 7, 2018 12:06pm
oob

I’m in two minds about Lauren Southern.

Personally I think she’s a vacuous moron jumping on a bandwagon, and I really enjoyed the marvelous Thunderf00t exposing her bullshit.

On one hand I respect her right to free speech. On the other I don’t think she adds anything of value to our national conversation in a Kiwi context and I don’t like to see someone manufacture controversy in NZ purely to promote her personal brand.

I would have been inclined to support her because of the hypocrites in the Labour party de-platforming her but then the odious Shabbes goy WhaleOil came out in support for her. In my opinion both sides arguing this issue are fairly equally contemptible.
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July 7, 2018 12:48pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  I think she does add something: a young woman pointing out the risks of socialism and islam is making an important point for that generation and gender. Maybe she adds nothing of value to you, but that generation need to hear it from people like her.
  
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  July 7, 2018 12:56pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  I’m in two minds about Lauren Southern.
  
  Me too. I think it’s wrong to deny people like her or Yiannopoulos a platform, because free speech has to count for something or it doesn’t exist. On the other hand it’s hard to feel a lot of sympathy for people who’ve discovered how there’s money and fame to be made from the frustrations of angry white men and are busy milking it for all they’re worth.
  
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  July 7, 2018 1:08pm
  - realityczech
    
    “angry white men”
    
    Milt, Sexist and racist. Fucking hypocrite. You people are filth.
    
    And oob sort your head out. You are happy to be fed far left extremist bullshit day in and day out but cry crocodile tears over a single person challenging the propaganda. The stuff we are subjected to in the msm is very extreme and no less so because it has become normalized in the minds of low information people like yourself.
    
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    July 7, 2018 1:17pm
    - oob
      
      Do you know Thunderf00t, chap?
      
      I suggest watching the video I linked above, then browse his other videos. I think you’ll enjoy his stuff.
      
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      July 7, 2018 1:20pm
      - realityczech
        
        Yes oob I am a subscriber and have been watching Thunder for years.
        
        He needs to stick to science and stop virtue signalling about politics with cherry picked misrepresentations.
        
        Check out the down votes from his fans on political matters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkA876B6TFY
        
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        July 7, 2018 1:29pm
    - Psycho Milt
      
      “angry white men”
      
      Milt, Sexist and racist. Fucking hypocrite. You people are filth.
      
      Er, yes, exactly. Thanks for troubling yourself to provide an illustration of what I was talking about, but I think the comment spoke well enough for itself.
      
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      July 7, 2018 1:32pm
- The Heat
  
  On one hand I respect her right to free speech. On the other I don’t think she adds anything of value to our national conversation in a Kiwi context
  
  I don’t think some of the left-wing blogs do either (some deliver hate for anyone not in their tribe and/or disagree with Marxism), but I would rail against anyone who tried to deny them free-speech.
  
  You either believe in free speech, or you don’t.
  
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  July 7, 2018 2:49pm
  - oob
    
    In that case I don’t think I do believe in Free Speech.
    
    Or rather, my belief in Free Speech isn’t absolute, I favour limits to it.
    
    To use your examples for instance, I consider much of what I read in places like The Standard and The Daily Blog to be at the very least seditious and bordering on treasonous. I would very much like to see the authors in those sewers prosecuted and gaoled for it.
    
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    July 7, 2018 3:11pm
    - realityczech
      
      “I would very much like to see the authors in those sewers prosecuted and gaoled for it.”
      
      As would all decent right minded people. But you are right about you not believing in free speech. 10/10 for honesty though.
      
      The trouble is always – Who decides?
      
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      July 7, 2018 3:16pm
    - KevOB
      
      It’s a safety valve so the Standard affected don’t start bombing opposition speakers rallies.
      
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      July 7, 2018 4:28pm
Ross12

For those who are interested here is the Youtube link to Lauren Southern’s doco on the plight of the white farmers in South Africa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_bDc7FfItk

I’d be interested in cmm’s comments on it he watches it.
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July 7, 2018 1:33pm
waikatogirl

So who is next to be denied entry to NZ because of their commonsense views? Will the next effort by the left be to burn books? It’s a scary, scary leftist world!
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July 7, 2018 1:35pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Of course the lefties on KB love telling us which websites and magazines and newspapers we shouldn’t be reading.
  
  Always an eye-opener on their very limited field of acceptable group-thought.
  
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  July 7, 2018 2:01pm
Jack5

Ron Mark has sniffed the Global Warming cocaine, and is now a proponent of the religion.

In the Otago Daily Times today (and presumably in the Hooerald) Mark is talking to Audrey Young about the patrol ship Otago nearly capsizing in 20m waves in the Southern Ocean.

Mark says the waves were the result of climate change, “which would affect the types of ships New Zealand needed in future.”

Mark had praise for the skill and performance of the Otago’s captain – Lieutenant-Commander Lorna Gray, who was on her first trip to the Southern Ocean.

Rather than Global Warming, it might be appropriate to re-examine the design of the patrol ship. It seems the Navy didn’t think hull strengthening for ice was necessary.

Marks says the Otago has had to ask fishing vessels to come out of the ice for checks, rather than being able to go into the ice after them.

The design of the patrol ships:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMNZS_Otago_(P148)
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July 7, 2018 1:44pm
- realityczech
  
  “It seems the Navy didn’t think hull strengthening for ice was necessary.”
  
  Jacksie there is no ice in the Antarctic remember?
  
  And waves in the Southern Ocean have never been recorded before so something is up. I blame Trump and white people. Don’t you?
  
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  July 7, 2018 1:50pm
- Jack5
  
  HMNZS Otago’s design is apparently based on the design of the Roisin-class Irish patrol vessels, which in turn are inspired by the design of a Mauritian patrol vessel, the Vigilant.
  
  Roisin class:
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3is%C3%ADn-class_patrol_vessel
  
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  July 7, 2018 1:58pm
- Paulus
  
  Was the hull of the “Otago” vessel designed and built to Commercial specification and not as should have been a Military one.
  
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  July 7, 2018 2:13pm
  - Jack5
    
    Someone in the know can tell us: but isn’t it that the Navy wanted the budget filled out with guns rather than a hull strengthened for ice?
    
    The Irish ships, whose design they follow, serve in the North Atlantic in winter, but I doubt they are designed to go into Arctic ice. The NZ ships were built in Australia.
    
    The best place to get ships like this is Norway. Suitable Norwegian-designed and built patrol ships would be dearer, but it’s the old story, buy cheap and pay more in the long run.
    
    This Norwegian ship is bigger than the NZ patrol vessels, but gives an idea of what the Norwegians can design and build:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoCGV_Svalbard
    
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    July 7, 2018 2:35pm
    - Jack5
      
      This Norwegian vessel might be closer to what NZ needs than the Svalbard class.
      
      Ron Mark might even be able to buy a couple of ageing ones from the Norwegian Navy:
      
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordkapp-class_offshore_patrol_vessel
      
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      July 7, 2018 2:47pm
- KevOB
  
  Ministers don’t read UN reports it seems. The IPCC in FAR (5th Assessment Report) specifically ruled out wild weather events.
  
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  July 7, 2018 4:24pm
- Viking2
  
  Problem was…..
  woman driver.
  
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  July 7, 2018 7:26pm
- Kabull
  
  Lets not forget that the patrol vessels – indeed the whole Protector fleet – were a LABOUR capital initiative. The intended tasking and the design limitations were set by the government of the day – not by the Navy or the NZDF. Never believe what you read in Wikipedia …
  
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  July 7, 2018 10:21pm
UpandComer

‘German’ man hurts baby in public while fellow !german! people watch and do nothing.

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=aPeFA_1525215785

German authorities censored the news and raided the home of the man who posted the video.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12618/germany-press-freedom
https://www.thelocal.de/20180412/man-stabs-ex-wife-and-child-in-deadly-hamburg-knife-attack

If the left don’t like data, they just get rid of the data.
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July 7, 2018 1:46pm
UpandComer

https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/06/21/67-percent-hispanic-immigrants-illiterate/
>2 in 3 Hispanics Living in US Can’t Understand Basic English, Even When They’ve Lived in America for 15 Years
>In fact, the study observed almost no difference in English language skills between newly arrived Hispanic immigrants, and those who have lived in the US for 15 years.
>And to be clear, this study was not focused on illegal immigrants (migrants)—we are talking about legal immigrants to America, who have been given citizenship status

Thats because the average IQ is too low for English. And regression to the mean means the IQ never increases over time
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July 7, 2018 1:46pm
UpandComer

Transgender men to get uterus implants in recognition for their ‘human rights’ taxpayer funded. Of course, in the UK.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/men-pregnant-womb-transplant-dr-richard-paulson-transgender-a8037201.html

UK police deciding if they will oppose machete weilders with one attack every 90minutes in England, or just clean up after.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5609593/One-machete-attack-90-minutes-UK-streets.html
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July 7, 2018 1:49pm
UpandComer

Vigilante attacks on the increase in UK as police won’t by policy respond to assault, theft, or hit and runs and also won’t help anyone who speaks English as a first language. :
https://youtu.be/Le1wLVEP6EM

The reason being, abuser numbers are incredibly high as immigrants service the snuff film market in Europe for the diverse.

The 28-year-old, who appeared in court this week accused of plotting to kidnap, rape, and beat young girls, allegedly claimed that footage of the abuse could be sold for “ridiculously big” sums of money if they “got rid” of the victims by dissolving their bodies in a vat of acid afterwards, Court News UK reports.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/14/plot-rape-dissolve-girls-acid-court/

Children openly being abducted in the streets by immigrants
Attempted Child Abduction Caught on CCTV in Sadiq Kahn’s London
https://youtu.be/pD7b34GuTPo
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July 7, 2018 1:52pm
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July 7, 2018 2:06pm
- Jack5
  
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  July 7, 2018 2:33pm
UpandComer

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VH3koxGaHaQ

Molyneux on the absolute shitshow that is the North Africa replacement project in Europe.

Watch this. This is why Goff doesn’t like data. Labour want to import a demographic parliamentary majority in Auckland.

It’s nearly 3 hours of just endless madness. Quite hard to sit through. Like, for example, 98% of 5000 people the Swiss called Syrian ‘children’ were men much older then 18 from Iran.

Muslims are now 1.7millipn of a 10million population.

By 2040-50 you are going to have uniformly voting 20% population blocs outvoting dispersed blocs. Europe is done for, and it’s extremely sad.

The left genuinely have a mental illness. It’s ours mental illness. There is no rationality on any of their positions. None. No rationality.

If they don’t like data, they just pretend it doesn’t exist, or ban it.

Like the fact 78% of gay men have STDs, and constitute 33% of pedophiles for example.

In the end, all one can do is meant Mandarin and hold on.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-06/leaked-chinese-memo-warns-thucydides-trap-us-war-unavoidable

Diversity and the leftist ‘isms’ are going to destroy us.

The one good thing is that when the Muslim takeover of Europe occurs, and Chinese here, leftists will be raining from high rise buildings like falling blossoms in Autumn.

Osakyu Sen said yesterday that the right thinks the left are just naive and silly, while they think the right are evil.

No, the left are evil incarnate.

Southern got blocked from the UK even though they welcomed hundreds of the worst of ISIS fighters, and hundreds of thousands of rapists and murderers.

She does literally nothing except present the pathologies and the hypocrisiws and the criminalities of the diverse.

Here’s the thing. Goff epitomises ‘wjite guy’. I think his position as mayor is distinctly undiverse. When will he be stepping down to allow a superior female gay ‘POC’ into the role.

Diversity has been the mistake that will destroy the West. It’s dead. Leftists won’t change. They’re going to kill it.

Because they’re evil, and satanic, and their world is characterised by filth, and squalor, and mental illness, and lies, and stupidity.

It’s almost unbearable to see how bad it’s getting. So I’m just going to concentrate on making money and protecting my family. Other Kiwibloggers need to cast the net wide.
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July 7, 2018 2:08pm
UpandComer

https://wiki24.net/post/8wkoq0/

Story from August last year.

Archive – LGBT news celebrates Canada’s new law that lets the government take children from parents at gun point if they stop the kid from changing gender. Any ‘interference” whatsoever entails prison.

This is what Psycho Milt and Goff et Al want in New Zealand.

It’s just justice being fabulous.
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July 7, 2018 2:13pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  Fuck you. I’m on record saying parents declaring their kids to be transgender is a form of child abuse. I’ve also been called transphobic by people who know a hell of a lot more about than you do.
  
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  July 7, 2018 6:34pm
  - realityczech
    
    “Fuck you”
    
    Hey! you are not at the Labour Youth Rally now Milt.
    
    You can’t just go around helping yourself to people here.
    
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    July 7, 2018 6:39pm
UpandComer

https://www.google.com.au/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5902565/amp/Magistrate-Nigel-Stringer-defended-Morningthorpe-Norwich-burglary-private-justice.html

A magistrate who defended himself and his wife from fun and machete weildong Muslim attackers arrested for racially aggravated assault.

He was extremely lucky not to be beheaded in defending against three men. And got himself got arrested for racially aggravated assault.
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July 7, 2018 2:17pm
realityczech

Question: Was the Labour member who carried out the sex attacks on the children at the Labour camp – born a man, or just identifies as a man ?

I wonder as the victims of this sexual violence included a little boy. (Thanks Milky for the inside story on that one)
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July 7, 2018 2:22pm
Jack5

NZ’s Immigration Department is accused of “racial profiling” in its work to catch people illegally in the country.

How can an immigration service work without racial profiling? Are we blind not to notice that the “students” pumping our petrol and serving our pizza are brown? Can we not hear their accents?

The Leftist snowflakes want to pull down our national borders. They would destroy New Zealand as a nation in pursuit of their Utopian, multiculturist dream.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/04/immigration-nz-accused-of-racial-profiling-after-data-pilot-program-unearthed.html
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July 7, 2018 2:24pm
- wiseowl
  
  There was a programme on Red Radio early this morning about Naenae College.
  It said there were 42 different nationalities there.
  
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  July 7, 2018 2:47pm
- Jack5
  
  It’s interesting that the Lefties are trying to hamper the Immigration Department by accusing it of profiling people in its working finding people in the country illegally. Yet the Lefties would shut out of the country people with diverse views and thoughts.
  
  Thank goodness for the Internet. The thought police haven’t yet been able to censor the Net.
  
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  July 7, 2018 2:56pm
  - realityczech
    
    “The thought police haven’t yet been able to censor the Net.”
    
    Wrong ❗
    
    Google search results are heavily edited. Look up anything political – say something bad about Clinton – and you will get a Snopes debunking site at the top of your search results. A far left fake news service. They are employed by Google to do their editing. Go on… try it and see.
    
    YouTube, Twitter, Facebook are all heavily edited and censored.
    
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    July 7, 2018 3:01pm
    - Jack5
      
      What about DuckDuckGo?
      
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      July 7, 2018 4:47pm
      - realityczech
        
        Its better. Funny when you compare a fake search engine with a real one.
        
        Try googling this: “obama threw out more illegals than trump”
        
        First result is Snopes “fact checker”. It admits it but then makes excuses for Obama before attacking Trump. It outright lies that it was a rumour started by Trump in 2016. Yet a quick internet check shows the story began years before and that Obama tried to hide the statistics.
        
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        July 7, 2018 6:18pm
Stars And Stripes

Hate speech more than just ‘an unpopular opinion’
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/361301/hate-speech-more-than-just-an-unpopular-opinion

As expected Radio New Zealand have found a Muslim foot soldier named Saziah Bashir who writes on issues of “social justice,gender and race” to do a piece justifying why free speech or hate speech as she spins it is not good for Muslims and why Lauren Southern should be banned.
She wheels out all the same arguments including the statement “Her views and her actions are actually physically and emotionally harmful”.
So in other words nobody should be able to say anything in case you have a big cry about it as you are very delicate.
Well toughen the fuck up love because that’s what free speech is about and if you don’t like that then maybe New Zealand is not the place for you.
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July 7, 2018 2:25pm
- Jack5
  
  Red Radio, when it’s broadcasting in English, pushes the views and opinions of less than 10 per cent of New Zealanders. I reckon the views of about 4 per cent of the country’s people. Or 2.5 per cent if you don’t include Muslims and people in the country illegally.
  
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  July 7, 2018 2:30pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Funny moment or two this morning though, when even Kim Hill had to bring forward a few arguments for the Children’s Commissioner to struggle against. He was so extreme that she did read out a few texts by listeners who thought he was far too Left on his ideas about poverty and parental responsibility.
    
    But no fear, in essence Red Radio is with him all the way: inter-generational poverty causes difficulty making good decisions about drugs, when to have children, who to have them with, so it’s not really people’s own responsibility; poverty includes lowish incomes (not just material poverty); parents turning up for free school breakfasts proves they are needy; giving people more money is a good idea because stats prove that people spend it on their children; many men are in prison because they had foetal alcohol syndrome, and some criminal men have such childish, undeveloped brains that they need to be judged as children, not adults.
    
    And not a word, ever, about ways to discourage people from having children when they are in crappy situations and should not have them!
    
    Jack, I desperately hope that your stats are right, but people believing this stuff are now in government and one of their first moves was ‘OK, don’t bother naming fathers anymore’…
    
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    July 7, 2018 2:55pm
    - GoVege
      
      CL: I once suggested to a social worker that somebody should mention contraception to a solo mum I know with 8 children, most of whom were in care, and one she was pimping out.
      Reply: an audible sigh and “we’re not allowed to”.
      No doubt this policy was put in place by that wonderful half American woman who claims that 13 to 17 year old girls having babies=”our fertility “. 🙂
      
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      July 7, 2018 9:00pm
- UpandComer
  
  You can’t draw a stick figure and call it Mohammad, because billions of Muslims will take a break from raping children and welfare states to chimp out, kill people and destroy property. Then of course the Jews will chime in with ‘je Suis Muslim’ and agitate to detroy more freedoms. Like in NSW.
  
  Hitchens called this ‘pre emptive submission and subjection to violence backed censorship’.
  
  Radio NZ needs to understand – this is the future if free speech is destroyed and governments abandon people to muslims like they’ve done in England:
  
  Locals unite and chase out “grooming gang” members from their area in Leeds. https://t.co/I3OhmcdBY5 https://twitter.com/MossadJack/status/1012807771891347456?s=17
  
  Eventually, it’s not going to be expulsion. It’s going to be another word starting with E.
  
  It’s just unbearable to witness the insanity.
  
  The feelings of the diverse are worth less then a pile of dogshit.
  
  Death to all those who insult the free speech prophet.
  
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  July 7, 2018 3:21pm
- Jack5
  
  Muslims call on “hate speech” in Australia, and an NZ critic of Islam may be deported.
  
  Shut down criticism, shut down debate about Islamd in the West, is the Muslim strategy.
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/07/extremist-pastor-who-harassed-people-at-mosques-likely-to-be-deported
  
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  July 7, 2018 4:49pm
UpandComer

And also just remember, it’s now illegal not to get AIDs in NSW. Don’t use any blood from NSW. You simply can’t.

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.lifesitenews.com/mobile/news/parents-outraged-as-yet-another-kinky-sex-brochure-scandalizes-kids-at-toro

Check out this 48 page BDSM pamphlet our rainbow friends in Canada teach 8-12 year Olds.

Hey, ‘theyre just going to learn how to choke out anyway’ so better teach them early. Otherwise they’ll just ‘find out for themselves’. Right? Because Queer theorists think this is what kids do naturally. They self actualise hardcore BDSM. You know, how we all did that, in between playing with LEGOs.

Have a look at it. Quite amazeballs.
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July 7, 2018 2:28pm
- realityczech
  
  “Have a look at it. Quite amazeballs.”
  
  I would not have believed it. They gave this to kids. Just like our own Labour lefties in NZ.
  
  Here is the brochure they gave the kids:
  
  http://www.actoronto.org/health-information/gay-men/bdsmguide.pdf
  
  [Don’t look without a bucket to puke in to]
  
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  July 7, 2018 2:39pm
UpandComer

The only freedom the left care about is sexual freedom. Thats it. That’s literally it. It’s mental illness.

‘everybody is equal, but we need affirmative action because (!)’

‘men and women are equal, so we need to give women affirmative action because (!)’

‘objective truth doesn’t exist, but if you don’t adhere to ‘my truth’ you’re a Nazi (!)’

We’re all feminists! So we aren’t going to collect data about girls suffering at the hands of the diverse (!) See? Rapes have decreased on Sweden lol!

I could go on and on.

Just protect your families, get money, and find ways to help before the fall.

And start to push back. Hard.

If enough free speech advocates get rich enough, they can invite Stefan and Lauren to NZ and no one can do anything about it.

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=EBfA_1520583812

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=23a_1370792751

This is going to be the fate of tens of millions of boomers across the UK, US, Canada, Australia.

Abuse at the hands of the !Australians! And !Americans! They pretended weren’t from different nations.

The inevitable result of equalitarinism, Tabula Rasa man, ‘the melting pot’, and the sexual revolution, queer theory, and destruction of the family. Only at the end, will the worst generation of all time, understand.

NZ boomers aren’t so bad. But the Australian and Americans deserve everything they are going to get in their nursing homes from their precious fellow citizens.

Anyway please get out there and find sources for yourself. It’s not difficult. Before its illegal to view at all.

And read culture of critique and the strange religion. It illuminates so much. Every ism starts somewhere. None of it’s real. It’s all invented.
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July 7, 2018 3:04pm
realityczech

A little snowflake made of Tofu writes:

“BTW sooty, your spelling of Maori is effing rude, disrespectful and down-putting.”

The word [Murri] was written using the English alphabet which is a cultural taonga of the Europeans. I would thank compost breath to stop her cultural appropriation and show some bloody respect and gratitude.

Thanks.
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July 7, 2018 3:09pm
- GoVege
  
  No Rallycarnivore.
  Spelling/pronouncing Maori “Murri” or “Mowri” etc is just a not so subtle method of putting a section of our society down.
  Hurting other people unnecessarily like this doesn’t help our already bad race relations.
  It also doesn’t encourage them to improve their behaviour.
  No society achieves anything worthwhile by deliberately disrespecting it’s citizens.
  
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  July 7, 2018 3:31pm
  - realityczech
    
    Do you tell Maori how they can use their language and what they are allowed to carve on bits of wood to express themselves? You are lacking in cultural sensitivity and need to check your privilege.
    
    You are turning into a right spaz recently and need to eat a steak and get a big angry cock up you, by the sound of it.
    
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    July 7, 2018 3:38pm
    - GoVege
      
      I’m sorry you don’t have a date for tonight again, RC, but that last comment was disgusting!
      And don’t give me all this b/s about “taonga” and “cultural privilege”.
      Your average Maori person has as little interest in that nonsense as I do.
      
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      July 7, 2018 3:44pm
      - realityczech
        
        So men disgust you as well as white people and meat? You are kinda making my point for me.
        
        “And don’t give me all this b/s about “taonga”
        
        Not sure Mouldy would be happy for you to shit all over their sacred beliefs like that, but you seem to know best.
        
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        July 7, 2018 3:49pm
      - GoVege
        
        Only males who say disgusting obscene things to females.
        You’ll never get a date on Saturday night if you don’t learn how to talk to women non-offensively.
        
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        July 7, 2018 6:10pm
      - realityczech
        
        I’m quite happy sitting here chatting with you sweetie 🙂
        
        As for the dating advice – I am currently trying to avoid a crazy vegan stalker, so clearly I need to work on being a little more offensive.
        
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        July 7, 2018 6:45pm
  - KevOB
    
    Can you tell a Maori from a Samoan, a Tongan or a Rarotongan or any other Pacific person?
    
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    July 7, 2018 4:13pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Tough question. Can you tell KevOb from halfwit?
      
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      July 7, 2018 5:21pm
      - realityczech
        
        “Tough question”
        
        Milky here is an easier one for you:
        
        Question: Was the Labour member who carried out the sex attacks on the children at the Labour camp – born a man, or just identifies as a man ?
        
        I wonder as the victims of this sexual violence included a little boy. (Thanks Milky for the inside story on that one)
        
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        July 7, 2018 5:36pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Here’s another one: how many Kea can dance on the head of a pin?
        
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        July 7, 2018 6:19pm
      - realityczech
        
        And another milky:
        
        How many non normative genders can a Labour groper grope at a rape camp?
        
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        July 7, 2018 6:48pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Ah….
  Tofu.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bzuXftgXyk
  
  Can’t get enough of the stuff.
  
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  July 7, 2018 5:54pm
  - realityczech
    
    Fermented tofu is fine. The unfermented stuff is too if you want to grow tits.
    
    I advise you to stick to whale meat.
    
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    July 7, 2018 5:58pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      In Japan fermented tofu is largely unknown except in Okinawa and by a few microbiologists.
      (And Okinawa was not part of Japan until a couple of centuries ago…)
      
      Fermented tofu! What madness is this! (Sounds like something the Chinese would be into, though…)
      
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      July 7, 2018 6:13pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      I don’t care too much for minke whale meat. It makes me want to blubber.
      
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      July 7, 2018 6:15pm
      - realityczech
        
        I prefer a bit of Dolphin myself. The lady at the fish and chip shop always bursts into tears when I ask for it though.
        
        More on Soy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTSvLKY7HEk
        
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        July 7, 2018 6:21pm
UpandComer

https://www.yahoo.com/news/beware-those-scientific-studies-most-wrong-researcher-warns-164336076.html

Also, understand that leftists have turned science into scientism. Almost all science of the last 20 years is wrong. Almost all of it. Not just social science. Endocrinology. Neuroscience. Cardiovascular science.

Every aspect and dimension of the leftist world view is not just political instead of empirical, it’s based on false predicates.

The replication crisis is due to the diversity and equity society. In the end, the diverse will kill science just as they kill welfare states.

Ah well. It’s enough to drive you mad. But we are not given to despair, but hope, nor sadness but to joy.

So enjoy the freedom you have while it lasts. The left will destroy every last aspect of that freedom in due course.
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July 7, 2018 3:14pm
- realityczech
  
  Yep.
  
  A recent favourite of mine is the direction that it is unethical to say – it is natural for women to breastfeed.
  
  Many on KB think they are pretty hard core and onto it. The fact is they have their heads up their arse and have no clue as to how bad things really are. They also have no concept of what a foul rotten human being Ardern is.
  
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  July 7, 2018 3:24pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  The problem is that diet-based epidemiology isn’t science, it’s social science, ie only one step above opinion, but people keep pretending it’s science. “Leftists” have about as much to do with it as “rightists” do.
  
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  July 7, 2018 4:57pm
  - realityczech
    
    “diet-based epidemiology isn’t science, it’s social science, ie only one step above opinion”
    
    Yeah there is no evidence diet causes disease or effects health Milt! LOL 🙂
    
    However people on the left have polluted the science in the minds of low information types with outright lies about vegetarian diets and meat. So you are partly right.
    
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    July 7, 2018 5:13pm
    - Psycho Milt
      
      Your comments are like reading a random illogic generator.
      
      Of course diet causes effects. That doesn’t make diet-based epidemiology a science.
      
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      July 7, 2018 6:42pm
      - realityczech
        
        Milt you seem stressed. Is everything okay in the Labour Party?
        
        Remember the KB community is here if you want to share anything. Kia kaha 🙂
        
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        July 7, 2018 6:52pm
      - nasska
        
        The stress involved in dragging red herrings across Kiwiblog in order to deflect criticism of Labour deviancy such as witnessed in Karangahake is taking its toll RC. 🙂
        
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        July 7, 2018 6:59pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        Realityczech, you seem deranged, but I won’t stoop to concern-trolling you about it.
        
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        July 7, 2018 7:57pm
      - realityczech
        
        Milt, It can’t be easy living with yourself after years of Labour supporting.
        
        Just remember we are here if you need to talk about whats gone on and stuff 🙂
        
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        July 7, 2018 8:04pm
Cobolt24

Cindy is probably going to regret her decision if the worst happens.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/2018/07/06/oil-spike-above-150-feared-as-investors-demand-cash-over-growth
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July 7, 2018 3:19pm
- RF
  
  Jesus.
  
  3 pies is going to regret her decision to support the ban for future drilling.
  
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  July 7, 2018 7:03pm
realityczech

Fake news write-up about how New Zealand is less safe that Afghanistan for this muslim family.

Stuffed must have got some great comments because they shut them down and hid them all 🙂

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/105288405/racism-drives-afghan-refugees-from-home-in-auckland
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July 7, 2018 4:30pm
- Johnboy
  
  It’s a cunt of a place is Auckland rc:
  “I couldn’t leave my wife and daughter alone at home alone because we were so terrified – it was comparable to Afghanistan,” said the girl’s dad through a Dari interpreter, of his first house in Auckland.”
  We should never have issued free AK47’s to all those brown gang members I say! 🙂
  
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  July 7, 2018 4:51pm
  - realityczech
    
    I think we need to do more Jacksie. We should send them to a safe Muslim country. I hear the Sudan is nice.
    
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    July 7, 2018 5:01pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  I understand that the family arrived in NZ in 2014.
  
  “The 26-year-old said through an interpreter that she had …”
  
  Wait a minute. Why are they using an interpreter after being in NZ for 4 years? Something isn’t right with this story.
  
  A year is plenty of time for basic language acquisition in cases of total immersion. English is a easy language to learn insofar that there are so many people who are willing to teach it.
  
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  July 7, 2018 5:50pm
  - realityczech
    
    Yeah but the Japanese are not running off for prayers all the time so they can get more study in.
    
    Plus they are not allowed to read the Koran in English.
    
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    July 7, 2018 6:31pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      If they can’t function with basic English after 4 years, I can’t see them integrating into New Zealand society.
      (Throws up hands in resignation.)
      What is the government thinking when it brings such dysfunctionally-minded people to this country!? (Apart from attempting to virtue-signal…)
      
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      July 7, 2018 6:42pm
      - realityczech
        
        I am actually pro-immigration, but this sort of thing ruins it for the good ones.
        
        We need to be more selective and we need to advise refugees not to mistake our kindness for stupidity.
        
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        July 7, 2018 6:55pm
  - nasska
    
    …..”English is a easy language to learn insofar”…..
    
    Not when you live in a self imposed ghetto. One where you don’t have to mix with normal people because they don’t share your barbaric Islamic beliefs.
    
    Yet there’s a simple answer. Deny welfare benefits to those who will not learn English. 100% uptake guaranteed within three months.
    
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    July 7, 2018 6:42pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Nasska:
      
      They’ve probably spent time with Stephieboy, in his roles as Bunnings greeter and Mt Roskill tour guide, but as his English isn’t up to scratch they haven’t made any progress!
      
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      July 7, 2018 8:02pm
    - DigNap15
      
      There is a better answer.
      Send all muslims back from western countries to where they came from.
      Then everyone will be better off and happier.
      
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      July 8, 2018 10:00am
  - GoVege
    
    It’s all bull, Odakyu….well a lot of it is.
    4 years is nothing.
    I know a Samoan guy who has been here over 40 years, married to an ESOL teacher, and every time he gets had up for bashing his wife, they give him an interpreter to make him look like a poor little dude, fresh off the boat, who just doesn’t understand the law here.
    
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    July 7, 2018 7:42pm
    - realityczech
      
      “over 40 years”
      
      Shit she sure is a slow learner for a teacher. You would think she would have pulled her head in by now.
      
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      July 7, 2018 8:00pm
    - GoVege
      
      She eventually had to leave teaching due to her mental health problems, aggravated by years of violence.
      Being a daft Christian didn’t help.
      
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      July 8, 2018 12:01am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    And no clarity about exactly what these ‘racists’ were doing. How they would even have known that anything racist was being said, if their English is so poor?
    
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    July 7, 2018 8:17pm
- fernglas
  
  The article says that the accommodation was “culturally inappropriate” whatever that means. I would be very interested to know if the racist attacks on them came from other supposedly disadvantaged ethnic groups or whether it was, yet again, old white males. My money is on the former, but of course to let that particular cat out of the bag would be racist in itself, would it not? If it were the latter, we would have heard about it by now, I am sure
  
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  July 7, 2018 8:15pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I noticed some racism against the Iraqi /Assyrian and Somali Kids from P.I. kids when teaching at Rongotai College some 20 years ago.
    The problems didn’t develop at school, but seemed to be a spill-over from events happening at their housing-corp/ council flat locales.
    
    There was resentment that new folks were coming into the neighbourhood.
    
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    July 7, 2018 8:34pm
    - realityczech
      
      And we all know how our much loved tangata whenua regard colonists.
      
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      July 7, 2018 8:39pm
    - GoVege
      
      Brown people can be very racist against black people or just darker shades of brown, Maggy.
      
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      July 7, 2018 8:46pm
      - realityczech
        
        Vege, In many cultures they give each other a hard time for being so black. Many beautiful dark women think they are ugly for being so black. Does my head in.
        
        And it is not YT’s fault.
        
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        July 7, 2018 8:53pm
waikatogirl

Researchers at Otago uni have called for junk food to be removed from the sporting venues. “It’s time unhealthy eating stops competing with sporting activities”. Hot chips, etc, no, no, no. When you are watching sport you must eat healthy food to stop obesity.
Talk about a load of rubbish. Eating junk food on occasion is no problem. It is eating it every day that is the problem for the few who don’t function in a normal way to most kiwis…
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July 7, 2018 6:37pm
- Monique Watson
  
  AR-22 had it’s final, successful test flight out of Stennis today. And I’m test driving a Tesla model 3 this weekend.
  
  https://www.seacoastecho.com/news/aerojet-rocketdyne-conducts-a-successful-test-of-its-new-ar/article_35864038-816f-11e8-a68d-43236d28f532.html
  
  And check this out for a burnout:
  https://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-model-3-can-drift-1827400903
  
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  July 7, 2018 6:44pm
  - realityczech
    
    “I’m test driving a Tesla model 3 this weekend.”
    
    Getting in for some virtue signalling before the whole tax payer funded facade of Musk crumbles eh?
    
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    July 7, 2018 7:07pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Take care out there, Monique.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZKGot04cE8
    
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    July 7, 2018 8:08pm
    - realityczech
      
      I’m worried about her. The company is in serious financial trouble and may fold at anytime to avoid the court battles over the cars bursting into flames. No way you will be getting parts for these for much longer. Surprised Trump has not cut off the subsidies already.
      
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      July 7, 2018 8:18pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        And Eion is now so busy saving the Thai boys, that he probably hasn’t got time to fix his burning batteries.
        https://www.marketwatch.com/story/teslas-elon-musk-is-sending-engineers-to-thailand-to-help-free-soccer-team-trapped-in-cave-2018-07-06
        
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        July 7, 2018 8:26pm
      - realityczech
        
        Oh no. Almost everything he does fails. His space program has not managed anything more than the Soviets did in 1957
        
        From your link Maggy:
        
        The tweets proved a welcome break from another series blasted out by Musk earlier in the day that again attacked media outlets that Musk believes are hostile to Tesla, including Reuters, Business Insider and CNBC. Musk has become a relentless critic of the press and recently unveiled plans to create a Yelp-like site to let people rate the credibility of journalists and news organizations, and suggested he would name it after the former Soviet Union’s main propaganda outlet, Pravda.
        
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        July 7, 2018 8:42pm
    - Monique Watson
      
      Hadn’t seen that one Maggy. Though there was the Tesla that drove into the barrier at Mountain View.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiQdSaRDzvc
      
      You gotta be paying attention.
      
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      July 8, 2018 5:40am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Buy a Hydrogen car instead Monique
    And then when inevitably Californian power either collapses or is too expensive you will still be able to power your Blender for Margaritas and keep your brewskis cold
    http://www.businessinsider.com/this-toyota-fuel-cell-car-can-power-your-house-2014-11?IR=T
    
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    July 7, 2018 8:18pm
    - realityczech
      
      I prefer this for my around town car
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEhHRXDFkeU
      
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      July 7, 2018 8:30pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Pussy
        Get a Ford 150
        They make one every 30 seconds and it will keep the Planet cosy don’t cha know.
        I mean, you do care about the Planet?
        
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        July 7, 2018 8:36pm
    - Monique Watson
      
      I might look into the hydrogen car. We’d totally be sorted in the event that the shit hit the fan. We’ve got solar to heat the pool and provide some of the power so wiv the car we’d keep the fridges going and we’ve got a well. It did strike me recently we could be reasonably self sufficient. Could even have the neighbours over for Mojitos for a bit of light relief. We’d just have to learn how to brew beer in a hurry.
      
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      July 8, 2018 12:01pm
Tauhei Notts

Good luck to my Pommy mates for tomorrow morning. I recall when Sweden beat England several years ago. There was a famous headline;
Swedes 2 Turnips 0.
Please, not again.
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July 7, 2018 8:17pm
RF

I see Dan Carter is still chasing the mighty dollar. He has decided that money comes before family who will stay in NZ whilst he is in Japan.

Rather sad as he has made a fortune playing in France and from sponserships.
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July 7, 2018 8:47pm
sooty

I think it’s appropriate that Phool Goff is in the shitter over the bog tax.
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July 7, 2018 9:16pm
All_on_Red

How long will Theresa May last?
Or Angela Merkel?
They both look pretty stuffed to me.
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July 7, 2018 9:21pm
Jack5

A rather astonishing allegation against an NZ politician – by his widow.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12084978

A rather different report on the man 18 months ago. Surprised to see he helped write a Maori dictionary. Surely he wasn’t one of the Maori-language scholars who set out to bugger New Zealand English with macrons.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=11760202
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July 7, 2018 10:44pm
- GoVege
  
  So why didn’t she ring Crimewatchers about him and the many paedophile rings she claims are operating in Tauranga?
  Presumably they didn’t all shut down when her hubby passed.
  
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  July 8, 2018 12:20am
  - sooty
    
    They must have settled his estate and she now has his money.
    
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    July 8, 2018 8:59am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Wow.
  Have any victims come forward?
  If the allegations are correct there will be plenty of them.
  
  This article raises many questions.
  
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  July 8, 2018 12:49pm
realityczech

Being Transgender Is a Mental Disorder, Israeli Insurance Company Says

“When a transgender man asked the Ayalon Insurance company to refund his mastectomy, he was told his policy does not cover mental disorders or psychiatric treatments”

Let the triggering begin 🙂
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July 8, 2018 11:43am
Monique Watson

Oh lookee. Another Lolly Scramble:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12085307

000 MBIE and Inland Revenue staff will strike for two hours

The private sector would DCM these try-hards.
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July 8, 2018 5:49pm
- sooty
  
  They are going to block Queen st as well says that far left herald newspaper.
  
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  July 8, 2018 6:17pm
Monique Watson

I wish there was a GD to weigh in on the Thai boys trapped. Those boys are on the way out of the caves before the rains set in. First one out a 3 am ET.
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