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Comment: Open mike 14/09/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 4:24 pm, September 14th, 2023
Bernard Hickey in a the side bar Feeds story on this page says taking the bans off overseas buyers would result in an immediate 20% leap in house and land prices. That would result in our best, brightest, and youngest evacuating to Aussie and further ...Comment: Open mike 13/09/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 9:31 am, September 13th, 2023
The bouncing ball is the media being favourable to Luxon et al. They want chaos and change because it sells papers and where do you think some of that 8 million goes to.. overcharged advertising for one. Want proof, I could not find any commentary, let ...Comment: Open mike 09/09/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 10:52 am, September 9th, 2023
Its probably the kick in the arse they need. The final may well be a rerun.Comment: Open mike 09/09/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 10:51 am, September 9th, 2023
Brilliant match report Mac, writing as it should be, its not too late for a career change.Comment: Can’t we have more charging stations AND the clean car discount?
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 3:06 pm, September 7th, 2023
Most rural vehicle costs are tax deductible and depreciation is a factor too because they are used for businesses. Unless you privately buy a ute for posing in the cost of owning one is relative to a small car purchase in the long run. Tax deductions and ...Comment: Open mike 07/09/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:38 pm, September 7th, 2023
That too.Comment: Open mike 07/09/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 10:32 am, September 7th, 2023
An addendum to above, we visited Europe in 2018, to visit children and older rellies about to slip off the perch, so we have a good comparison, and a rough guess would be almost twice the price as 5 years ago.Comment: Open mike 07/09/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 10:27 am, September 7th, 2023
It looks like he is just in a down market, rat infested ( but trendy ) fleapit of an Auckland cafe. Getting down with the street, yoh. PS. Want to solve the productivity problem in NZ ? Close down 2/3rds of the cafes like they intend to do with toxic vape ...Comment: Open mike 07/09/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 9:58 am, September 7th, 2023
Might be the last mass exit for a while, we went this year and shit Europe is expensive. Which tallies with Womens Footy WC visitors here who said they loved how much cheaper it was than where they came from. Dont believe the bullshit, yes things are ...Comment: Open mike 04/09/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 1:40 pm, September 4th, 2023
On the weekend a finance/property commentator on radio or maybe TV,( QandA ? ), as I recall, said the value to a landlord of the return of tax deductible interest should be worth about an 8k on average to an owner. Its essentially a tax cut. Now I have a ...Comment: Open mike 03/09/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:37 pm, September 3rd, 2023
So how come there are so many of them, anecdotally, getting in?Comment: Open mike 03/09/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 12:00 pm, September 3rd, 2023
This is bloody annoying. In Marlborough there is a French young French woman who stayed on over covid and has now tried to get residency, she is highly skilled both in wineries and vineyards, can operate bottling and labeling machines and many other ...Comment: Open mike 31/08/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 12:10 pm, August 31st, 2023
Anybody give any thought to what times would be like now if that level of bailout had not happened? I have mates in England in their 60s who are having to sell their houses because of borrowings made to survive the thieving Tories over there.Comment: Open mike 30/08/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 1:37 pm, August 30th, 2023
The 2 million dollar mansions are a diversion, this is about selling the high country and the coastline properties to absentee owners. 15% on 20 million is fuck all to those arseholes. If it really is a 14.7 billion windfall you're not going to get it from ...Comment: Hipkins rules out coalition with Peters
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 4:04 pm, August 28th, 2023
The on the ball reply to that would have been "I can't because you know where it is, you and your mates have got it all ".Comment: Open mike 28/08/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 3:57 pm, August 28th, 2023
Good on you Patricia. Ive only got lifetime country Tories living past me on a deadend road but I put one up just to piss them off.Comment: Open mike 24/08/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 2:21 pm, August 24th, 2023
"Must admit I had a bit of a chuckle when saw the headline this morning".....are you are seriously saying on a public forum, that the thought of a human death made you chuckle?..holy shit, that is fucked up.Comment: Open mike 24/08/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:09 am, August 24th, 2023
Lucky you, I hope it is of slightly better construction than the extensive and totally shit lime stone bike paths they (we) have built here in the Hawkes Bay...every time there is any type of half bad weather event they get washed away....time and again ...Comment: Open mike 24/08/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:28 am, August 24th, 2023
I would also suggest that 'Western' interests in Africa should not be dismissed as possible suspects in this event....as always, my first thought is 'who has the most to gain, at this time?Comment: Later Stuart
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:44 pm, August 22nd, 2023
I always used say Nash was the best National leader they never had....of course Hipkins now nicely fits that bill.Comment: Open mike 22/08/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 1:38 pm, August 22nd, 2023
I was in Lahaina 6 years ago in their mid summer and struck by the casual attitude to fire safety, with lots of bonfires and barbeques amongst the dried out scrub and a very large proportion of residents and visitors smoking and discarding still burning ...Comment: Open mike 15/08/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:33 pm, August 15th, 2023
"I wish I could take credit for you coming back here less and less".....enough said.Comment: Daily review 14/08/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:14 pm, August 15th, 2023
Labour is winning on housing, I standing on a corner in Blenheim this morning with 2 mates, yes I do have some , and they pointed out two projects where an old 40s or 50s cold and draughty had been shifted and 2 or 3 houses were being put on each large ...Comment: Open mike 15/08/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:04 pm, August 15th, 2023
Journalists want DRAMA, its their job, they are children.Comment: Open mike 15/08/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:58 am, August 15th, 2023
I come back less and less...most of the people I used to like on here have been hounded off or kicked off...I noticed a slow downturn in my interest a bit after you showed up as a moderator actually..or maybe that is just a coincidence? RNZ needs to be ...Comment: Open mike 15/08/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 9:03 am, August 15th, 2023
You don't say......‘Dehumanizing’ Russians has backfired – ex-Zelensky aide Aleksey Arestovich claimed.... “The main thing we did was to allow ourselves to dehumanize the Russians. This is our main mistake. At first we held on and then we delved into all ...Comment: The difference between Blackrock and China
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 1:32 pm, August 9th, 2023
Good old Baldrick, jumpin on a bandwagon that a lot of countries seem to be jumping from, Italy being the latest apparently. I could link to all the stories about those that are pissed off with Belt and Road but the list is endless. If you don’t know about ...Comment: National is no nation builder
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 4:45 pm, August 8th, 2023
Hundreds? You would actually need 10s of thousands for your utopian dream and where are your drivers coming from to keep buses on all those routes at least 16 hours a day 7 days a week, thats 2.4 drivers per bus. This isn't 10 million Londoners with the ...Comment: Open mike 07/08/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 3:24 pm, August 7th, 2023
Under the usual scenario in NZ infrastructure you don’t actually build something or even think about it until the original structure is well past its use by date or falls down. Then 2 decades go by while we drive around it or climb over it before a ...Comment: Open mike 06/08/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 5:22 pm, August 6th, 2023
Just what the fuck do the Green Party think all the electric cars and buses and trucks are going to move around on? They still jam up like ICE ones.
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