"Requiring a negative pre-departure test likely influences behaviour." Exactly. Wife and kids just out of MIQ, avoiding contact with her father (heart) and sister (frontline health) for 5 more days. Self-isolated for 17 days in Canada, 3 Covid tests @$250 ...
My wife and 2 of our 3 kids just boarding an AirNZ flight outta LAX, returning after 4 years away. They're rather excited. I'm working on (Canada) with 17 yo till he graduates high school and we'll follow. We're pretty optimistic...
"The Chinese system prioritises communal welfare, so it has raised millions out of poverty." Not sure if you mean the Chinese Communist Party or some sort of traditional Chinese society. The CCP plunged China into famine which it took many years to dig ...
Once read of a Buddhist sect that believed we went through 10,000 rebirths and then attained nirvana, regardless of karma and our attitudes and behaviours. You can see why they purged that...
You're not wrong Lettuce. Trouble is the Chinese, and the Israelis, and anyone else we wanna lecture can always cite Taika Waititi on NZ racism, or Nicky Hager on NZ war crimes. If they wanted to be really smug, they'd quote the bible, the bit about the ...
The Scottish referendum was closer.
"...there were uncles giving lectures on ancient Irisk history..."
Wow, he was bad. More fun than I expected!
Listening on internet radio from a sun drenched deck on the Canadian prairies. Better than cricket for summer entertainment... [Not really]
She's not as dumb as we hope and she's more racist than we fear.
Ditto. First time in ages I've persisted with any thread. We (wife plus 3) emigrated to Canada 4 years ago. This discussion informs our thinking for our next big decision: when, and how, to return. A post above talked about 10% of expats returning? Could ...
When did Hemingway drop out? In response to Fitzgerald's comment, "The rich are different from you and me," replied, "Yes. They have more money."
And then capitalism became 'human development '...
A live human came out of her. More than I've ever done in the world...
Trump, Johnson, Putin, Erdogan et al. = end of empire. Neither surprising or necessarily scary. Actually in many ways reassuring...
Not quite. This is what end-of-empire looks look. Get used to it...
Thanks for those details Mac1. She sounds like a class act, not the first time she would've been at risk of being compromised by poor local leadership I'm sure. Won't be the last. I suspect she picks up 20, 30 votes everytime she's in a public meeting of ...
As a young Maori I loved reading, went to university, ended up with a PhD and am a tenured professor (overseas). I suspect your point is to support a diversity of educational pathways?
I and other Maori staff at another university laid several formal complaints of racism over a period of about 2 years, several years ago. Most of those affected resigned, were variously disciplined, or had their positions disestablished. This same ...
Don't use girl as an insult.
No one mentioning race? Curious. Cosby's in jail, Weinstein is not. Jackson's music pulled, [insert white rapist] is not. Discuss...
Nah, love this shit. Schadenfreude, my favourite icecream...
Gatesy is a rent seeker, pure and simple.
RIP Windsor Davies.
Defeating the might of Hitler's Germany took six years and a few million Russians....
I get your point, though your dating is way too late with indigenous genocide well documented. But I've been to both States and feel safer on the streets of Beijing but would be prevented from undertaking my professional activities in China. I'm an ...
This is what it's come too, the lesser of two brutal regimes. A pox on both their houses. But I'd personally stick with the Septic Tanks a little longer. We'll know when to jump that ship...
Meh. Remember when the VC of Lincoln University was banging an international sports scholarship student? She was wanting help with residency or citizenship or her top spin...
Only a handful of countries is this not suspicious, NZ happens to be one of them, yes?
Arh but the Winebox Inquiry. Or are you too young to recall?
As in prepare for US civil war. It is already happening in the US colonies. Low level domestic war has been played out for several generations (against Indigenous and African Americans). Wouldn't expect it to ramp up on the mainland for 5-7 years...
Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...
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