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homeowner | 39 | 22.41% | |
renter | 69 | 39.66% | |
stupid peace of poo poo | 66 | 37.93% | |
Total: | 174 votes |
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How dare someone build a house that reflects the kind of money everyone on that street has now.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 12:03 |
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# ? May 11, 2024 16:12 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB0ZOu_EZ2M It is like he is actively trying to be the embodiment of a parody.
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# ? Jan 26, 2015 07:44 |
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# ? Jan 26, 2015 10:58 |
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Exclamation Marx posted:
excuse me but the only people unsafe in cars and other vehicles are teens???
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# ? Jan 26, 2015 11:17 |
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:excuse me but the only people unsafe in cars and other vehicles are teens??? Who do you think keeps running members of the Sons of Accountancy off the road?
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# ? Jan 26, 2015 11:20 |
Exclamation Marx posted:
It's because young people are simply too poor to pay the inflated rego fees for bikes now. Fees which are inflated to pay for the extra ACC fees accumulated by bike riders. Not to mention, more bikes on the road would mean less cars and less traffic congestion and less pollution. The system works!
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# ? Jan 26, 2015 18:55 |
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:excuse me but the only people unsafe in cars and other vehicles are teens??? Middle-aged women in SUVs and 20's-something men in Holdens/Fords are who routinely try to kill me. But the government would never try to target older people for relicensing. Project M.A.M.I.L. fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Jan 26, 2015 |
# ? Jan 26, 2015 19:34 |
Yeah cause they vote.
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# ? Jan 26, 2015 22:08 |
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Precisely.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 01:39 |
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 03:33 |
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Slavvy posted:It's because young people are simply too poor to pay the inflated rego fees for bikes now. Fees which are inflated to pay for the extra ACC fees accumulated by bike riders. Not to mention, more bikes on the road would mean less cars and less traffic congestion and less pollution. The system works! I feel like you might be bias towards bikes!
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 03:36 |
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:excuse me but the only people unsafe in cars and other vehicles are teens??? Shame it's not per capita, or per km travelled. Teen motorcycle accident rate plummeted at the same time car import restrictions were lifted - maybe the more dangerous kids traded in the Suzuki 250 banger for first gen Honda CRXs and mid-eighties MR2s???
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 04:43 |
also 200 Lyttelton Port workers are striking
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 04:56 |
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Exclamation Marx posted:
Thats interesting, I was at Lyttelton today and didn't see any signs of a strike. Just a lot of pensioners (its pension day today) and a lot of dodgy driving.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 06:12 |
Lobsterpillar posted:Thats interesting, I was at Lyttelton today and didn't see any signs of a strike. Just a lot of pensioners (its pension day today) and a lot of dodgy driving. i meant are [about to be] striking
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 06:20 |
BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:I feel like you might be bias towards bikes! I am. Everyone should be. If more people rode motorbikes, there would be less traffic congestion and greater driver awareness of motorbikes which would cut down on accidents a lot. It's the same argument as the cyclist ones except motorbikes pay tax, have warrants, require a license and are able to stop/turn/accelerate like a normal vehicle. I'm realistic enough to know this will never happen and that they'll eventually be made completely illegal for the greater good. THE GREATER GOOD.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 06:30 |
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Slavvy posted:I am. Everyone should be. If more people rode motorbikes, there would be less traffic congestion and greater driver awareness of motorbikes which would cut down on accidents a lot. It's the same argument as the cyclist ones except motorbikes pay tax, have warrants, require a license and are able to stop/turn/accelerate like a normal vehicle. Plus 50 people on scooters and motorbikes at a set of traffic lights looks insanely cool.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 07:12 |
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Slavvy posted:I am. Everyone should be. If more people rode motorbikes, there would be less traffic congestion and greater driver awareness of motorbikes which would cut down on accidents a lot. It's the same argument as the cyclist ones except motorbikes pay tax, have warrants, require a license and are able to stop/turn/accelerate like a normal vehicle. Cyclists pay tax. Everyone pays taxes that go towards roads, whether they own a car or not. My main beef is that everyone including myself are terrible and make awful drivers, and it should be much harder for us to be licensed to drive. What amounts to heavy machinery is being operated in pubic places by people who have to remember how to breathe when they wake up each morning. The new driver licensing tests helped a bit by making it harder for new drivers, but the worst people are already out there and they don't get stopped until they kill someone. But as it was said already, they are voters, and the AA is a pretty powerful lobby as far as I understand it.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 07:26 |
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Slavvy specifically means the Road User Charge, which cyclists do not pay, and which is about half of the National Land Transport Programme's funding.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 07:45 |
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Midget Fist posted:Cyclists pay tax. Everyone pays taxes that go towards roads, whether they own a car or not. It's always funny seeing this brought up as a ranting point when they actually should be making the same point about the ACC component of registering a car, which is about to be loosely tied to how safe a vehicle is. It's still mental that a huge SUV costs the same to register on the road as a classic Mini or Suzuki Swift though.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 07:45 |
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Slavvy posted:I am. Everyone should be. If more people rode Motorbikes wake up the entire loving neighbourhood at 2am. gently caress Motorbikes, ride something fuel efficient for a change.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 07:56 |
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Ghostlight posted:Slavvy specifically means the Road User Charge, which cyclists do not pay, and which is about half of the National Land Transport Programme's funding. True, and yet most people who bike also own cars. But really it doesn't matter as transport infrastructure is vital infrastructure and should be available to all on a non user-pays basis, pedestrian through to SUV driver.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 07:57 |
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http://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/65463098/eleanor-cattons-problem-with-new-zealandquote:Man Booker Prize author Eleanor Catton says she is uncomfortable being seen as an ambassador for New Zealand which she says is dominated by neo-liberal, profit-obsessed, shallow and money hungry politicians who do not care about culture. John Keys, man of the people that he is, reckons she's just spouting the Green party line and that average kiwis don't think this. What a good bloke
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 08:48 |
WarpedNaba posted:Motorbikes wake up the entire loving neighbourhood at 2am. gently caress Motorbikes, ride something fuel efficient for a change. Those aren't motorbikes, they're dickheads. A common misconception. Also one of my motorbikes achieves 3.5L/100km Midget Fist posted:True, and yet most people who bike also own cars. But really it doesn't matter as transport infrastructure is vital infrastructure and should be available to all on a non user-pays basis, pedestrian through to SUV driver. Which means I'm paying double what most people do. But you're right in saying that it should be available to all, I just think the taxing regime is really stupid and senseless. Don't get me started on how RUC applies equally to a multi-ton behemoth as it does to a 1.4 kia rio.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 08:53 |
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Winnie rattling his cage again: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11392652quote:New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters has criticised the number of foreign students choosing to study here, saying it is likely due to incentives such as permanent residency. When I was getting my degree, I was frequently the only non-foreign student in the class. Do you know what that means? It means without all those foreign students, a lot of our tertiary programmes wouldn't even be able to exist due to low numbers. Eat poo poo Winston.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 08:55 |
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NZAmoeba posted:When I was getting my degree, I was frequently the only non-foreign student in the class. Do you know what that means? It means without all those foreign students, a lot of our tertiary programmes wouldn't even be able to exist due to low numbers. Eat poo poo Winston. Oh hey, almost the same here. I was the token white guy in my business group. It's almost like Winston has a point to make, something about a lack of regulation, undermined wage rates, high unemployment... quote:New Zealand [...] is dominated by neo-liberal, profit-obsessed, shallow and money hungry politicians who do not care- ... clearly, it must be Foreigners!!
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 09:00 |
Without having to make any effort to make certain, I'm 100% sure Peters has used the term 'johnnie foreigner' in conversation multiple times.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 09:02 |
fong posted:http://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/65463098/eleanor-cattons-problem-with-new-zealand
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 09:03 |
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Slavvy posted:I just think the taxing regime is really stupid and senseless. Agreed. Edit- Wow, never seen that John Key quote before. What a fuckwit. Project M.A.M.I.L. fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Jan 27, 2015 |
# ? Jan 27, 2015 09:16 |
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fong posted:http://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/65463098/eleanor-cattons-problem-with-new-zealand https://twitter.com/AliIkram/status/559943218637185024 quote:It was sad 2day 2 see a NZer whose fictional account of life in this country which transfixed millions get into an argument w Eleanor Catton
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 09:24 |
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Slavvy posted:Don't get me started on how RUC applies equally to a multi-ton behemoth as it does to a 1.4 kia rio.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 09:40 |
How is that the same at all...? Why is it that I can drive a 1990 Isuzu Bighorn 3.1D (..handling by lotus...) a given distance on our roads and somehow pay the same tax as a 2008 Kia Rio 1.4D with the latest emissions technology and half the weight? The entire thing is a holdover from decades ago when 'Diesel' was synonymous with 'Heavy transport' and it was a convenient way of taxing truck operators. Why should something justified on the basis of road wear and smog emissions apply to a modern car with up-to-date emissions and the same physical footprint as a petrol vehicle? How is a BMW X5 or range rover with a hulking great petrol engine hauling around 3 tons somehow less harmful? None of it makes any sense at all.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 09:47 |
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It's not the same, it's similar. It's called a comparison.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 10:06 |
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Midget Fist posted:Edit- Wow, never seen that John Key quote before. What a fuckwit. It seems to get more bizarre every time I come across it. I cannot wrap my head around why you would bother making that point to start with, let alone in the apparent context. As that article points out, it also goes well with this thing.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 10:25 |
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You can't talk about role models or any sort of achievement in NZ without mentioning the All Blacks, I'm pretty sure it's in the law.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 10:39 |
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fong posted:http://i.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/65463098/eleanor-cattons-problem-with-new-zealand I thought you were kidding. Then, I read the article. Why would stuff give john key the last word in an article about literature, literature awards, and an authors feelings - 3 things which he knows little about and whose opinion in unqualified garbage?
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 11:04 |
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klen dool posted:I thought you were kidding. Then, I read the article. klen dool posted:stuff... i...s... unqualified garbage
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 11:19 |
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klen dool posted:I thought you were kidding. Then, I read the article. Because NZers overwhelmingly voted for National. Well, I mean, a slight majority. Well, a slight majority of the lowest voter turnout ever.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 11:23 |
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John Key should have just brought out some of those famous NZ artists who love the right wing as a counter balance
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 11:32 |
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Ghostlight posted:Commercial trucks feel the same way about being charged more just because they have a double tyre. What really appears to be happening there is people trying to do well by the environment with a nice new Golf TDi are being charged the same rate as trucks to subsidize the hauling companies. I have no evidence at all to prove this, but it seems the only logical explanation.
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# ? Jan 27, 2015 11:47 |