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fong posted:great suggestions thanks guys lets hope the GCSB arent hacking my internet Is the joke here that this thread is so out of touch with the NZ population, we don't even notice that Dan Carter is not in fact Richie Mccaw?
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El Pollo Blanco posted:Is the joke here that this thread is so out of touch with the NZ population, we don't even notice that Dan Carter is not in fact Richie Mccaw? That's clearly Lydia Ko
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Mar 1, 2015 06:15
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El Pollo Blanco posted:Is the joke here that this thread is so out of touch with the NZ population, we don't even notice that Dan Carter is not in fact Richie Mccaw? I thought Richie Mccaw was the guy in the tie. Because he is rich
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Mar 1, 2015 06:28
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Building all dem leaky homes 
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Mar 1, 2015 06:48
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Butt Wizard posted:That's clearly Lydia Ko Uh, that's Lorde
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Mar 1, 2015 06:51
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El Pollo Blanco posted:Is the joke here that this thread is so out of touch with the NZ population, we don't even notice that Dan Carter is not in fact Richie Mccaw? the joke here is the new zealand media, how dare they keep forcing lydia ko and eleanor catton together for photoshoots like that just because theyre women
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Mar 1, 2015 07:53
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fong posted:possibly going to meet JK in a few weeks, what should I do? Ask him if he has stairs in his house.
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Mar 1, 2015 07:53
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John Key is disappointingly normal, he doesn't come off as a smug dick and he doesn't have five heads that each have a different soul. Incidentally out of the different MPs and leaders I've met, none of them come across as anything other than normal, with the possible exception of Peter Dunne who helped get through a box of beers in the Quad in Auckland Uni one day and didn't talk about his campaign at all, which seemed like an odd way to spend time during an election campaign.
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Mar 1, 2015 07:59
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Butt Wizard posted:he doesn't come off as a smug dick Uh
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Mar 1, 2015 08:10
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Butt Wizard posted:John Key is disappointingly normal, he doesn't come off as a smug dick and he doesn't have five heads that each have a different soul. If i was peter dunne i'd be drinking a fair bit as well
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Mar 1, 2015 08:26
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A human heart posted:If i was peter dunne i'd be drinking a fair bit as well I thought he was a complete wowser?
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Mar 1, 2015 08:26
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i walked passed johnny once and he's very unimposing. i didn't even realise it was him at first. also i kinda like peter dunne; 50% of the time he's spot on about everything and the other 50% he's dead wrong.
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Mar 1, 2015 08:36
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People who have to meet other people for a living are either condescending shitheels or make an effort to actually have a chat with you & Key is really good at coming across as the latter. You also have to remember that he's following on from English & Brash so he's def. an improvement for a National leader. The Rabbi T. White posted:I thought he was a complete wowser? He just had one or two, I can't remember, this was like 2008.
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Mar 1, 2015 08:38
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Butt Wizard posted:People who have to meet other people for a living are either condescending shitheels or make an effort to actually have a chat with you & Key is really good at coming across as the latter. You also have to remember that he's following on from English & Brash so he's def. an improvement for a National leader. I would say people who aren't famous or in power are cunts too, you see them every day and you're polite and they function in society but you don't like them because they're cunts. They're just ordinary people. John Key is just one of those cunts, but occupies a position of political power and is well known. Everything else, his actions and attitude, stems from his fundamental cuntyness, just like the the guy who cuts you off in traffic or the guy at work you don't like because he's always calling you bozza even though your name is steve, whatever. He's just an ordinary every day oval office.
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Slavvy posted:
Disagree. He's a magically charming oval office. No one comes close - last person who made Kiwis love him so hard was Muldoon, who alienated the other half. Key's keynote at a major union conference in 09 was amazing, the room didn't quite cheer him, but a vast majority of delegates really genuinely warmed to him. Never seen anything like it. Magical oval office. --\ I feel guilty whenever I meet Jacinda. I've known her for years but I see her so seldom and I can't help but realtalk about the failures and losers in the party. She's a really nice person and she's definitely not dumb. It must be hard for her to go to work in the morning knowing that Trevor Mallard is singlehandedly knocking a couple of percentage points of the party's polling. Knowing that Chris Hipkins is doing the numbers again. The last thing she'd want is someone like me telling her why I didn't vote for the party again. 
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Mar 1, 2015 10:52
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fong posted:any bets on how long it takes for a new picture of John Keys with Brendon McCullum to show up? 9 days, if anyone went for that: 
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dusty posted:Disagree. He's a magically charming oval office. No one comes close - last person who made Kiwis love him so hard was Muldoon, who alienated the other half. This is the trick. If you have 48-odd percent of the people loving you, you can just say gently caress the rest — you'll be unbeatable and popular until you aren't. Butt Wizard posted:Peter Dunne who helped get through a box of beers in the Quad in Auckland Uni one day and didn't talk about his campaign at all, which seemed like an odd way to spend time during an election campaign. Pragmatic guy like him would have realistic expectations I guess.
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Mar 1, 2015 12:03
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Isn't Dunne the guy who first started using the term 'Green Taliban'? gently caress that guy.
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Mar 1, 2015 12:36
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I met Peter Dunne in the fizzy drink aisle of his local countdown. He was standing for minutes reading the labels of two different brands of soft drink. We spoke about potatoes and I didn't realise who he was until I clicked regarding the stupid loving bow tie he was wearing. That's my politician story. [Other than tukituki politicians obviously]
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Mar 1, 2015 20:02
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dusty posted:The last thing she'd want is someone like me telling her why I didn't vote for the party again. I've voted Green the last few elections, but depending on how Little goes + who they get to replace Norman, I may end up voting Labour next time.
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Mar 1, 2015 21:47
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 *clears throat* So, uh, what do think of New Zealand?
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Mar 1, 2015 21:55
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More importantly, do they agree with 'Ele' (as the Sunday Star Times so bafflingly referred to her as this weekend)?
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Mar 1, 2015 21:58
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Mar 2, 2015 03:59
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Mar 3, 2015 00:34
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In other news drivers taking it upon themselves to aggressively confiscate the keys off of tourist drivers deemed terrible vigilante style is now an established thing particularly in the SI
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Mar 3, 2015 00:53
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Good but can we also take them off rural idiots driving in "the big smoke", other crappy drivers who live here, old folks, and anyone who drives with their face less than 30cm from the steering wheel
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Mar 3, 2015 00:56
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Literally ban cars.
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 where was this??Jacobin posted:In other news drivers taking it upon themselves to aggressively confiscate the keys off of tourist drivers deemed terrible vigilante style is now an established thing particularly in the SI *whiny voice* But they're foreeeeiiiign!
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Mar 3, 2015 01:00
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Jacobin posted:In other news drivers taking it upon themselves to aggressively confiscate the keys off of tourist drivers deemed terrible vigilante style is now an established thing particularly in the SI Nothing of value will be lost if we kill everyone in the south island.
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Nothing of value will be lost if we kill everyone in the south island. Nah where would Hawkes Bay farmers get hay from when the annual drought starts? And who would they sell it to when SI farms get flooded in winter? Are you suggest some form of stockpiling takes place, possibly in what you might call a hay-shed, to ensure the fairly regular occurrences of bad weather doesn't inconvenience Our Most Important Industry That Isn't Sports?
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Mar 3, 2015 01:22
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I mean poo poo, next you'll be suggesting that the near annual power shortage scaremongering due to low water levels means we should look at diversifying the means of electricity generation.
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Mar 3, 2015 01:24
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There's a lot of concern trolling regarding how awfully racist it is to prevent dangerous tourists from driving. I think it's because most urban handwringers don't understand how many tourist drivers there are in some parts of the south is, and how dangerous those roads make them. A majority of road traffic in some places is tourist traffic - Nth Islanders are lucky to encounter more than a handful of tourist vehicles on the Desert Rd. And there are no traffic cops - there's something like 4 full time frontline staff working between Motueka and Wanaka. Most tourists wont even see a police car on the drive.
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Mar 3, 2015 01:25
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dusty posted:I think it's because most urban handwringers don't understand how many tourist drivers there are in some parts of the south is, and how dangerous those roads make them. A majority of road traffic in some places is tourist traffic - Nth Islanders are lucky to encounter more than a handful of tourist vehicles on the Desert Rd. Spoken like someone who's never tried to drive to the Coromandel in summer.
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Mar 3, 2015 01:33
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Given that I know people from rural areas who, as teenagers in the 90s, had upwards of two friends die a year from preventable crashes with other NZ drivers aged 16-25, I'm going to remain slightly sceptical that this tourist menace is really as big a deal as people are making it out to be, in comparison to the problems we already have...
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dusty posted:Nth Islanders are lucky to encounter more than a handful of tourist vehicles on the Desert Rd. hahahahahahhahahaha
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Mar 3, 2015 01:35
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If you live in the country, there's actually no legal driving age or any driver or vehicle licensing requirements
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Mar 3, 2015 01:52
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Butt Wizard posted:Spoken like someone who's never tried to drive to the Coromandel in summer.
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dusty posted:Tourists go there? I thought only Aucklanders did. Lots of rented Corollas with GPS and car hire stickers around there. SH25 can be driven at close to the speed limit in many places but I can understand tourists not wanting to push it. It's the painfully slow ones that don't pull over despite numerous slow vehicle bays that are the problem - there's only one legitimate passing opportunity between Thames and Coromandel town.
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