The Taieri Plains in Central Otago used to be a giant wetland but the locals decided to drain it and turn it into a giant dustbowl supporting 5 sheep per hectare Now they are grizzling about a massive drought
+1 felix, well put the purpose of the Nact government is to defeat democracy not build it
The poor fool really does think he's a victim of cyberbullying, and a brave voice in the wilderness. To find the true source of his problems PG needs to look no further than a mirror.
in this case i agree. however in a small country like NZ, publicly owned utilities are more efficiently run as a natural monopoly and it's ridiculous (immoral, short sighted) to carve up and sell assets that generations of hard working kiwis created for ...
From my experience dealing with naughty children, the reason they pester others is to garner attention and to revel in the wicked glee of stirring up outrage. So they either get a time out or get retribution in kind. A time-out is more civilised than ...
fizzy lies yet again. Socialism = a flourishing democracy and civil society. Not some totalitarian boogeyman dreamed up by Fox News. Equating Capitalism with freedom and democracy is the big lie of our time. It's just a buzzword to allow corporations to ...
pure stupidity fisiani. english and key sold off mighty river and air new zealand and meridian and genesis and they are trying to flog off housing nz. nothing stopping them from selling solid energy, but they are ideologically committed to coal. bully boy ...
Good post. Northland is a prime example of where National's 2 tier economy has profited giant corporations but left most kiwis behind. Winston must repay the trust of voters by stopping the Nactoid sell-offs and holding them to account.
Whangarei is not in the northland electorate and you know it, yet you persist in boasting about these ghost jobs bro. Auckland is in the North Island, should we count those jobs too?
Te Tai Tokerau never has and never will. The Pakeha voters aren't so poor, but your infallible pope FJK is going to bribe them anyway
collins thinks she is so clever, ensconced in her seat of power, slagging off a journalist for reporting inconvenient facts. as one of the architects of dirty politics her attempt to play the victim is laughable. thank god that cunliffe stopped the ...
this is what happens when there are no toilets on my planet
I heard a first hand account of a certain Northland Mayor's misadventures on a cycle trip... the poor chap complained to the tour operator that he couldn't turn the handlebars very far and the bike pulled to the left. The tour operator patiently ...
what about non quantifiable, subjective topics such as religion, ethics, sexuality, politics, economics?
crikey malarkey don't take the mickey hokeypokey okeydokey went the doohickey whether you're a honkey or a darkey US flunkey johnkey owns your jockeys
+1 tricledrown a poetic masterpiece, laughed out loud
haha nice one! did your lunch include some of Northland's mighty electric puha? ;)
scapegoating/projection is also a trait of the narcissistic personality FJK's sick worldview cannot comprehend the right of others to express themselves or to campaign fairly in a democracy. all must bow to Pharoah FJKey
Probably a bit of NIMBYism going on as well. Nicer for the Titirangi locals to have a few trees about rather than infill housing.
yeah right Hoots, Sweden isn't a US flunky and neither is NZ :roll:
The GodKey's ledger is so far in the red, why not add a few more lies about surveillance, or the need to kill more Iraqis, or mass child poverty?
Have a Kit Kat
Yep, as a society we are getting dumber, the elite are amassing all the wealth, and robots will soon take over most middle class jobs. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n05/john-lanchester/the-robots-are-coming
Aha, so that's how Stephanie came up with the "boots theory" blog!
A+ comment. I read most of the discworld series when I moved to CHC, didn't know anybody, and frequented the public library every other day. Now I need to read the rest :)
The Colour of Magic is good but some of Pratchett's later Discworld stories were better-written and funnier.
NZ version: the wealthy can buy a house and get $1000 pw of value by doing nothing the poor can pay rent for eternity and watch their savings depreciate
"The Long Earth" felt like the authors were just cashing in. I read it but lost interest and didn't bother with the next one. Baxter and Pratchett by themselves are light years better than this. Pratchett's "Good Omens" (written with Neil Gaiman) was a ...
Discworld shall live on. It is probably the best satire ever of Tolkien and modern culture. pratchettt's characters are unforgettable: Cohen, Om, the Librarian, Rincewind, Granny Weatherwax, the Watch (esp Detritus), the Patrician, and of course Death. ...
The 808 can do that. Nokia tech was10 years ahead of its time and forgotten in the iPhone frenzy. Bad marketing and uninspiring design compared to iThings.
A more accurate hoarding would read Pork O'Barrel Irrational Covering for Mike Sabin
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