It;s not about celebrating our military ...
Yes we know that pretty much all wars are not about defending freedom, etc. But the brave young men who died at Gallipoli for example, almost certainly believed they were fighting for our freedom and for our country. That's good enough for me. Anzac day is...
Most traffic engineers, etc obviously have some agenda when they say roads are the problem. Any good driver can drive a (modern, mechanically sound) car on rural rds in NZ at 100kph with no issues and no danger at all. Our rural (or urban for that matter) ...
Or you could just pull over and let people pass? Whenever some one calls other drivers too impatient, it usually means that they themselves are the problem, they just can't see it. (too busy toddling along at 70kph in the fast lane admiring the scenery no ...
When you first said Auckland to the North I thought you meant the North North. Isn't Wellsford just an outlying part of Auckland..hehe That said, I agree there should be passenger rail available from the top of the north to the bottom of the south. Not ...
I tried the solar calculator here: https://www.energywise.govt.nz/tools/solar-calculator/ Unfortunately for me, under current conditions, after 25years of solar use I would have lost 200bucks. Doesn't matter anyway because I don't own a house and probably ...
Hopefully none because it's a non issue. It's just someone's opinion. As far as I know there isn't a sport in existence where the aim of the game isn't to win or get the highest score. That's what sport is about. Obviously, not winning is not the end of ...
"Well, yes, they could have mental health issues" could?? Are you suggesting by saying 'could' that they might not have mental health issues or in other words that they might be completely normal, rational and sane? FFS! I would absolutely guarantee that ...
I feel like shit now. Here I am moaning about WINZ on a day we honour and remember many thousands of young Kiwis who would no doubt have been over the moon if the worst thing they had to worry in their lives was dealing with WINZ staff. Nothing I have had ...
It would be great if it was compulsory for everybody to experience even just a month trying to live on say the unemployment benefit. Maybe that would provide the required injection of empathy for a large proportion of the population who still have the idea...
China Construction NZ Ltd Funding via China Construction Bank NZ Ltd simple.
"...... in a private ceremony at the New Zealand consulate at Santa Monica in California, the technology billionaire swore on the Bible to become Citizen Thiel. An award of citizenship is effectively permanent and is granted without subject to conditions. ...
Re. Joyce & his lying - it's a bit like Manafort's style in lying; say it often enough, loud enough, and the audience will start questioning their own perception (I paraphrase Manafort's daughter's alleged txts).
bars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(music)
This is the plan eh, MMP isn't delivering for New Zealanders. Overheard at Mt hot pools last evening - "gotta get rid of this MMP, its all bullshit. We got the most votes, the , we got the, the majority and now winstons holding us to ransom..."
Maybe they'll resurrect Mauri Pacific....
Agreed weka, I'm looking at our two local candidates - Jan Tinetti and Angie Warren-Clark and to me, they represent a real change from previous elections where the party would simply parachute in some party operative. These are local people, working really...
From Wikipedia...... "Reform and privatization Following the election of the reformist Fourth Labour Government in 1984, the Petroleum Sector Reform Act was introduced. This Act deregulated the petroleum industry, with 1,500 workers expected to lose their ...
Rena and this oil pipeline and going back to Max Bradford, the 1998 electric cable debacle into AK City are examples of what happens when formerly publicly owned natural monopolies are handed to the private sector. The critical functions of ensuring that ...
Or maybe trying to farm sheep and beef in that environment isn't actually feasible? Perhaps camels may be more suitable?
Bassett
I'm assuming he is still being paid up until such point as he is no longer an MP. What a self serving shit head. Worm chaser. In his own words... "strutting earnest ways and the egregious ever-so-keen-to-please and not offend tones..... the absolute worst ...
Rachel Stewart, worth a read as always....my favourite sentence "Labour, and its endless parade of leaders who shave, bored me to the point of paralysis and, when you believe they have no chance to be the Government, why bother?" http://www.nzherald.co.nz/...
The key words might be 'narrow economy'. If you're operating in that particular economy, it's haymaking time, if you're not, well, in the words of Sir John.... "you probably won't be voting for us anyway".
I'm in agreement with Ad - it's both futuristically fanciful and nostalgic at the same time. The notion that it is somehow OK to live hundreds of kilometres from where you work, that we can move at will, at high speed is an idea that will become obsolete. ...
Yeah but why Tracey. Why live in Tauranga and then try and work in Auckland? Personally I agree with Ad - this rail scheme is nostalgia at it's worst. Tauranga and Rotorua and Hamilton all had a passenger rail system 20 years ago and it failed. Too slow, ...
"So what did Fletchers do wrong?" The wee snippet that I have had revealed to me (by someone who should know) is that a bunch of managerial types simply plucked a whole heap of very big numbers out of their arseholes as to how much things were going to ...
DPF maybe channelling Napoleon Dynamite... You know like numchuck skills... bowhunting skills... computer hacking skills... Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills! Yeah, there's like a boat-load of gangs at this school. This one gang kept wanting...
Surely now Labour is finished. Gone the way of all the formerly socialist parties, that engaged in the death embrace with neo-liberalism and abandoned any commitment to represent their constituency. The stupidity is astounding.
100% agree Ad. I actually thought that Andrew Little would be just the right person to put together, and run, a coalition of Lab/Grn/NZF. All that experience of figuring out ways to achieve things that everyone can work with, and looks like the usual ...
I'm not advocating mercy killing anyone (or beating anyone off!). I'm saying any lifeboat has a given capacity to sustain life (i.e float) If the hundreds in the sea all try to climb aboard everyone will perish as the lifeboat will sink. So Pat, yes, there...
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