Ratcliffe was here in connection with the Americas Cup in October 2020. Without a link or precis of the Herald article I am not sure if this is how he has 'got in' (as a so-called 'critical worker') or if we have extended some sort of citizenship rights to...
Those are good...too many and it is like eating too much chocolate at a time. Makes my day, in a way, to see the day's name for the fiend!
Where there's smoke, a nearby dolt is playing with matches. I invite Andre to tell us what kind of dolt. Sometimes I think the amount of product on his hair the usual one would be quite inflammable as well as being quite inflammable in other ways.
And that would be par for the course for SB .....an assumption then built on by a hardline attitude.
What happens to the substance being tested if it is not what the user thinks it is? Yes TT I was wondering that. Are bad pills handed back? Perhaps we need to set up a behind the scenes version of the Consumer Guarantees Act?
So what does Simon do over summer when he should be spending time with his kids? He engages in a culture war battle, or as National describes it, is only asking questions. This is par for the (his) course though. He put all sorts of people in potential ...
I did.....AND I have said joke taped to the wall by my PC.
As an introvert, I don’t ‘do’ Christmas crackers; I never get those ‘jokes’ anyway Oh I don't know Incognito.......although my Christmas cracker did not have a joke in it (for shame) my partner's did and I really perhaps was a bit OTT my reaction to his ...
And for 2021.... Stay away from negative people for your mental health and Stay away from positive people for your physical health.
By all means let’s have a reasoned debate about what the best response is and how we should be adapting and changing our approach to the virus. But when we have this debate ginger groups should at least try to ensure that their basic understanding of ...
Crazy to my mind, yes. Arguing the toss, yes. Perhaps dated (giving them the benefit of the doubt) Letter was written in early November, accepted by NZMC in early Dec and published 22/12. They will be heaping mana on themselves by getting a letter ...
Here is another extract about the decision of BSA. The days of talkback shock jocks is over, or should be. Perhaps a few more $3000 fines and Mediaworks may think again. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/433430/mediaworks-fined-3000-over-iwi-interview-...
The Herald’s use of quote marks suggests it’s sympathy for Plunket and his extreme rants and ramblings.. The quotes, presumably you are referring to the headline, are more likely to be an extract from the BSA decision and needed to have quotes around it ...
Yep. Fair summary.
You need to look at the Debbie Francis report. Read press from the time. There was also an SSC(?) or parliamentary services (?) investigations. There were around 40 complaints, from memory, about things there. These were piling up and then the latest, ...
Sorry Mallard not whip all that time.....did not mean to imply this.
There an important time delay between the statements. Mallard's was in reaction to the Debbie Francis report, a survey done of Parliamentary staff, ongoing cases of sexual shenanigans, Paula Bennett using the approach of several Labour staff members to her...
Yes, agree but then she/National Party not given to introspection or knowledge of the glasshouses and stones analogy. And arguably the involvement of Paula Bennett in this whole saga when she treated the fact that women had come to her as a political point...
I have worked with him along with many others during 1992-1996 when Mallard was Whip. A more straight up person you could not meet. Called a spade a spade, what you see is what you got. Far preferable to anyone who is of a touchy feely bent, and many other...
This is an important counter to the 'poor me' expressed for the person who has had a payout. This person has admitted to touching. What more is there to say really.
And so we minimise the 'things' that this person has done.......by applying male chauv standards. Next thing we know he'll be saying 'she couldn't take a joke'. a hug, when one may have neither wanted or expected and certainly not normal in a public ...
Agree with you Weka. I would trust Mallard over Soper any day and Mallard over Collins any day. National Party is the last party to be acting shocked about this and calling anyone to account......bearing in mind the lack of ethical and moral framework that...
........or expressing an opinion. If we had to always link to what someone else says when putting our opinion forward it would not be our opinion. Hopefully people would put views supported by something/someone that can be unpicked or acknowledge as ...
A better bet might be that that before this stuff is finally removed the mighty Mataura will reach flood levels that will again threaten the storage.
I think he is also getting at the 'things' that do not just happen - that those who are killing earth are mostly people not 'things' and these people have names and addresses and through these can be called to account. 'Earth is dying' leaves out that the ...
Obviously. We all get that. Self evident (ie use of 'I', no links) so why are you commenting?
We need to be encouraging regenag to see. Even if just one paddock on every farm, farm working groups to support etc, linking it into the cycles used for the rest of the farm. $$$$$ chasing can be the cause of higher than needed inputs of fertiliser, over ...
Got it in one! and another do not dairy on land inherently unsuitable for dairying
The most learned and thoughtful people in the world are the ones who are able to multi-task ie express their views plus not getting snarly at others...On here it is just a matter of proof reading and we all do that don't we? I understand perfectly what is ...
Agree EiE. The Douglas changes were sold (in Cabinet) as part of a two pronged idea. First the assets sales then the work to get aspects such as improved housing, welfare, jobs, education on the go. The latter was what Lange was hanging out for, and it was...
However the current group of conservatives in National feel different to me. Probably as much as anything else because of the culture wars that are spilling over from elsewhere in the world especially the US. Much more nutbar than has been usual during my...
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