And the main thing about it being some sort of gauge of where your child is comparative to the average and that being 'useful', is that you can go to your workplace or club and brag about how great your kid is. If they're classed as well above average. Or ...
I checked on the 10 Commandments list, in the Quran, in the Road Code and in Dr Seuss yet nowhere could I find that a new govt is supposed to get a big bounce.
Just Water CEO Tony Falkenstein says job hunters failing to show. "We just cannot get people to even turn up for jobs, let alone apply," he said. I understand his feelings. Can he understand the feelings of people who put their heart and soul into applying...
Barclay was never convicted of a crime. The money out of our taxes to pay off someone from his office wasn't for a crime, it was for .................. um ...............
If you saw Ms Kaye you might understand. "Hon NIKKI KAYE to the Minister of Education: Does he stand by his statement in relation to changing the age at which children can start school that it is “not unusual for a Minister or Government to state its ...
Some pundits have Nikki Kaye as a possible future National leader. I think she has the key attributes. Today in the House the answer to her prime question showed what a smart-arse she is. Mind you, trying to turn something like whether kids can start ...
Heather du Plessis-Allan says, "So far, the pattern is that Labour is out of its depth." If being out of one's depth was serious she wouldn't have a keyboard, someone would have taken it off her.
Amy Adams is now called National's "justice" spokeswoman. She used to be their Minister of "Justice." She clearly wouldn't know justice if it turned up and bit her on the arse.
Amy Adams had the chance to do something to right the wrong. Amy Adams under whose watch leaks of confidential stuff about the Bain and Pora cases leaked out. Today the Ms Adams got up in Parliament to say her piece. As grand as she tries to sound, as ...
I've been waiting for that update. Gaynor wrote about around 2009. People believed Muldoon was strong. people believed Muldoon was right. They were allowed to, but getting rid of that super scheme was the biggest calamity to ever hit our economy. Hindsight...
Lift respect and understanding as to that of other professions but also get some recognition of the relationship to other occupations. You don't stand in the shop and tell the mechanic how to fix your car, you defer to their knowledge, experience and skill...
As an aside the woman's probably not heard of Winston Churchill or Konrad Adenauer so not have any idea of anyone continuing to be involved in government past the past-it age of 72.
Yesterday someone sent me a link with something I think is dramatically illustrative. I seldom have newstalkzb on. The link is from zb last Saturday morning with one of their erudite, perceptive commentators. It has the inflections and stresses to add to ...
Bridges was just another liar in Question Time according to that.
The power of language and choice of words nicely demonstrated. "Ardern has shown she has a ruthless streak beneath her absolutely positive surface." Ruthless as in synonyms I found?: merciless, cruel, unfeeling, steely, vicious, fierce? Ruthless as a ...
Will Trevor tell Paula Bennett on the occasions of her interjecting with nonsense from the Opposition benches, "Zip it sweetie?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm8_-0FcKrw Paula couldn't in her wildest nightmares have considered that we would have such a ...
You have to say that whatever way things go there are going to be some funny aspects. Like the Speaker if it's Labour. Like the Education portfolio if it's National. And Paula Bennett.
Looking on the bright side .... I'm getting pleasure out of thinking of David Carter and Winston sharing a bench in the House should Winston go with National.
13,075 votes for Act. The education system they rubbish evidently only turns out a very small percentage of those who are really stupid.
Boris according to Pie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui8-QmKHyRQ
The reputations of Joyce and English aren't in 'tatters' as if that's something bad. 'Reputation' as in a matter of historical record but not in any significant meaning. If their reputations were in tatters any dealings with them in the media, in ...
The problem isn't Bill English, Stephen Joyce, Paula Bennett and Judith Collins being "rotten slimy pricks", it's so many thinking that they're marvellous and their rotten slimy attributes being desirable.
"Our employers are telling tertiaries they want graduates who can critically think, problem solve and work collaboratively." In our school curriculum it says we want kids to learn to think critically, problem solve and work collaboratively too. But we ...
Yeah, but that doesn't count because "she was arrogant" about it! True, that's what I've read and what people have told me. Did you notice Steven Joyce being not arrogant while lying?
I don't know what goes for moderating on here but .... you say call you "negative'. For saying that Arden is a "Helen Clark controlled marionette" I'd call you stupid.
Port moving to Northland small???????????????? Most people in Northland did not vote for that anyway. Winston can legitimately take it off the table.
The logic you use about data and remembering or not is really funny. You don't want bullshit to be put to you so you demand some sort of 'proof' or reference or anything, to give credibility to claims. John Key swam very often in the sea of not remembering...
That's it! Speaker Seymour (the youngest ever?) destined to get the pro-forma knighthood after the event. (One of the biggest disappointments about Labour not winning was Mallard not getting to be Speaker. Not for his performance but for all the heart ...
Most interested in the future of their children, grand children and whole nation rather than any particular interests of their own, would not have voted for National or Act because of their appalling education policies.
That is totally insignificant and inconsequential. She was on tv lying to us about stuff. She was in Parliament lying. Those incidents were so terrible she was dealt to? No. Here we are with her being mentioned as Leader/PM!
How many MPs elected did get a majority of the votes? Very few I'd suggest. And no doubt amongst them are real mongrels.
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