Andrew keeps his SOH ready to go for a run at any time. It’s quite well trained, doesn’t take many cheap shots, rarely unkind, usually self mocking and droll and very very funny. He’s also a cream donut thief and a menace in a wheeled office chair. After a...
I have known women and girls whose period products were doled out to them or withdrawn as a way of controlling, rewarding or punishing them. While I accept other ways to control women would be found, I believe the only way to guarantee access to all ...
Let him speak. You couldn’t pay me enough to go listen to him. I’ve heard enough from him over many years to last me the rest of my life. He’s a citizen, not a foreign fascist ‘provocateur’; he has a right to speak here. Especially at a uni where the ...
What is the justification for fines in the first place? To recover cost of prosecution? Punishment? Deterrent? What else? I favour income/asset related scaling but I’d prefer demerits to be the instant punishment for traffic offences. Demerits and possible...
I’m going to refer to a small provincial town we once lived in. I am unsure whether it applies to the village I live in now and rather think it doesn’t altogether. * Farmers/ property/business owners - the bigger the portfolio the more power - they stacked...
That Morgan liked the Plunket tweet ^^^ is at least a clue to what he thinks ... Everything about Weinstein, Plunket and their enablers who support and encourage the power & freedom to use and abuse others for ‘their own ends’ is simply wrong. Just joking....
In my discussions with police they've all told me were it not for the needs and problems of the mentally unwell living in our communities police would have the personnel and resources to combat crime. Suicide, attempted or achieved, finding lost elderly ...
I expect they thought (?!) the sympathy most felt for Nikki Kaye when her breast cancer was diagnosed gives her a credibility and/or untouchability - she's never seemed like an attack dog anyway. Collins. Bennett. They're the two I'd expect to be let off ...
So am I, ever since I saw the two of them go from happily making mud pies with a bunch of tots in a preschool sandbox to putting their shoes on, washing their hands and going to a high powered multi NGO meeting about the housing crisis to listen, question,...
Genuine question. What are the pros and cons of dual citizenship?
And that's what I gave her - the name of a local lawyer. As you say, the information was given freely. I wondered too about getting cash through customs but I imagined she was withdrawing from a bank account as she needed to. I don't even know why cash was...
About four years ago I was volunteering in a small town CAB. A woman came in with a briefcase of cash. Her English wasn't great but with goodwill on both sides I understood she needed a lawyer. She had been sent by her extended family with all the money ...
Except, having to wallow in the mire of the host's jokes and the endless commercials gives me brain fade so, love the music yes, love my mind more. I have a phone filled with all my favourite music and instant access to new and more challenging stuff.
I make up nothing. Did you not note I wrote 'socially, warm and witty'? Socially is the key word there. And she is. In fact, anyone who knows her personally knows that. Actually, I've seen Helen in her professional capacity as PM also showing that warm and...
Very easy to verify. July/August 2012. In Samoa. At the Official Opening of a new building constructed with aid from NZ in a village devastated by the tsunami. I have four photos of Shearer, talking, laughing and sharing a drink with our group. I don't ...
I too have met both Helen Clark and John Key. I found Helen informed, intelligent and decisive and socially, to be warm and witty. Key, otoh, on the few times I've met him has been surrounded by security, and picking and choosing who he'd pay attention to ...
I second that, Sabine. As a victim of rape, age 14, I am offended by the PM's comments. As a member of Labour, I am offended by the PM's comments. I doubt anything that could be said here could offend me more or do me more harm. I'd prefer the light of day...
Is anyone trying to verify this? Rosie's right; if Key said this or anything like it, it should be made widely known.
Oh dear. What a twat. And on the public dime... Master Guerin, grow up and grow some ethics.
Damn right, we're angry. We're angry at a lot of things and a lot of people. Being angry at our own for not being exactly what we want when we want isn't helping us; it's helping 'them' I reckon. Anger is a sharp sword but it should be used on the problems...
Did not TV3 also say they were reducing the news hour to a half hour? No current affairs programme at 7 on Friday evenings? Pretty sure that was the 'plan'. I'm sorry the journos and their support teams are being impacted by the boycott. I was a journo, ...
Rachel's is a voice I wish more could hear. Her columns are always worth reading if not comfy and safe reading. Her pov is unique IMO. You could shave with her keyboard sometimes... A more than occasional author here at TS? Yes please.
Ianmac, I don't know. They say it's a breeding operation and obviously it must be or we wouldn't be sending pb ewes across. But black face rams are mostly used to produce meat animals; the wool is not high quality and there's a black fibre that ...
I was farming sheep (and beef) during those years. I supported the ban on the live sheep trade to the gulf for animal welfare reasons. Before, (and even after the ban was imposed because I feared the trade would be renewed one day) I docked and wethered ...
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