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homeowner 39 22.41%
renter 69 39.66%
stupid peace of poo poo 66 37.93%
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Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free
Why is it cold all of a sudden.

It's supposed to slowly get cold so I get acclimatised to it and can wear t-shirts all the way until late June!

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Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
Summer went on too long, let's just skip autumn.

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

Why is it cold all of a sudden.

It's supposed to slowly get cold so I get acclimatised to it and can wear t-shirts all the way until late June!

agreed

I'm even wearing a jumper already

swampland
Oct 16, 2007

Dear Mr Cave, if you do not release the bats we will be forced to take legal action
Sitting in my room wearing a ski jacket

puchu
Sep 20, 2004

hiya~

Exclamation Marx posted:

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/271145/rape-prevention-group-%27told-not-to-speak-out%27



Cheers. Those consolidated ratings are DVR-only, correct? Not the online views during that seven day period?

Correct. Online views are measured by each broadcaster individually, probably using google analytics or some poo poo.

puchu
Sep 20, 2004

hiya~

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

Why is it cold all of a sudden.

It's supposed to slowly get cold so I get acclimatised to it and can wear t-shirts all the way until late June!

I think you'll find it's John Key's fault.

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free
Normally it's a nice slow roll into cool evenings then cold ones, this time the loving switch flipped and I'm mad about it!

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

Normally it's a nice slow roll into cool evenings then cold ones, this time the loving switch flipped and I'm mad about it!

It won't last. Proper winter has come kind of late for the last few years, there hasn't been proper snow on the mountains until late June recently.

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




It's not that cold you pussies.

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




Found out that I am driving a death trap. My tiny 2009 registered diesel car is a L1 vehicle according to acc so score! Pay more rego. I blame national because the car yard who sold me this car like 5 years ago is a fervent national supporter and knows that I am not as much so thought haha I will own this dork in 5 years time with higher rego costs and sell him this death trap car. What a fucker.

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

I blame national

same OP


now sell your lovely diesel van and buy a camry

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




It's a good diesel I get 900kms a tank :chord:

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

Found out that I am driving a death trap. My tiny 2009 registered diesel car is a L1 vehicle according to acc so score! Pay more rego. I blame national because the car yard who sold me this car like 5 years ago is a fervent national supporter and knows that I am not as much so thought haha I will own this dork in 5 years time with higher rego costs and sell him this death trap car. What a fucker.

I'm surprised this even registers (hahaaaa) on your radar considering you have to deal the far more sinister and unjustifiable crime called road user charges.

ledge
Jun 10, 2003

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

It's a good diesel I get 900kms a tank* :chord:

*Tank is 200 litres

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




Slavvy posted:

Road user charges.

:argh:

ledge posted:

*Tank is 200 litres

Nope :smugdog:

Kathleen
Feb 26, 2013

Grimey Drawer

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

It's not that cold you pussies.

it snowed at ground level in dunedin on tuesday (or monday, i can't actually remember)

lol

Kathleen fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Apr 16, 2015

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




I STILL SLEEP IN THE NIP OH YEAH

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
One duvet, one sheet, one thin blanket in case the cat jumps on. And I sleep in the nude.

Get on my metabolic level, chumps :smug:

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:
lol if you don't sleep nude while the wife is wearing antarctic level gear

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

WarpedNaba posted:

One duvet, one sheet, one thin blanket in case the cat jumps on. And I sleep in the nude.

Get on my metabolic level, chumps :smug:

lol if you aren't using your cat as a hot water bottle. Amateur.

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



lol if you have anything in your life other than the cold comfort of a computer screen

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
I dutch oven pretty hard, so no cat nor wife internals.

It's actually more like a Dutch Auschwitz, to be honest :godwinning:

Big Bad Beetleborg
Apr 8, 2007

Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.

WarpedNaba posted:



It's actually more like a Dutch Auschwitz, to be honest :godwinning:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzogenbusch

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
We're complicit in torture, again.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/20175009/pm-refuses-to-discuss-latest-spy-allegations

klen dool
May 7, 2007

Okay well me being wrong in some limited situations doesn't change my overall point.

How the gently caress are we supposed to hold them to account if he keeps refusing to talk about it? I am starting to think that the govt keeping silent on gcsb operational stuff is more damaging to nz than if he talked and the bad guys new what we were up to.

This is bullshit.

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



That's because when you think damaging to New Zealand you mean the country's reputation when he means National's hold on power.

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free
I like how HBO is sending cutoff notices to people in Aus and NZ using HBO GO even though they get the full USD amount from them.

Way to go, Sky TV! You did it! You got people to subscribe to you instead!

What do you mean everyone is just pirating the shows they were previously paying for???

Ratios and Tendency
Apr 23, 2010

:swoon: MURALI :swoon:


3 News' thing of "knowingly" splicing together the key repeated propagandistic phrases of political press releases serves to reinforce that very message while appearing above it. You're a moron Tova O'Brien.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
John Campbell's days are seemingly numbered at MediaWorks and a current internal company review to increase ratings and advertising revenue at the pivotal 7pm slot will likely propose what we all suspect: Campbell Live is toast.

So, what does that mean for John Campbell, and will he move to Radio New Zealand alongside close pal Carol Hirschfeld?

Campbell started his journalism days at RNZ, providing a share report to Midday Report.

Hirschfeld is head of content at RNZ. She is best known for her role hosting 3News alongside Campbell from 1998-2005. The pair remain close friends.

Campbell can evidently see the writing on the wall. He has engaged media lawyer Linda Clark to fight his cause. And supporters have launched a PR campaign taking to Twitter with a barrage of hyperbole and excuses.

Here are a few of the over-reactions:

• John Campbell is irreplaceable.
• John Key is in MediaWorks' ear and behind the show's demise because it holds the government to account.
• Campbell Live is the only one doing serious journalism.
• Its exit will signal the death of hard-hitting news, public interest and political accountability.

No. No. No. And no.

The truth, of course, can be a bitter pill to swallow. Low ratings and commercial reality is what's at stake. Retaining viewers and growing advertising revenue is core.

The show has been hemorrhaging viewers and ratings for years. Addressing why audiences are tuning out may be difficult for Campbell when his name is on the door. No one likes to lose a popularity competition, and let's face it, that's what prime time is.

Campbell, I understand, has refused to accept internal suggestions that the show needs to adapt and develop to meet the changing face of media.

Suggestions that he should have a female co-host were strongly rebuffed.

Superficial alterations were made to the programme earlier this year. Campbell Live got a new logo; its host a three-piece suit and gimmicky facial hair.

But that didn't put a band-aid over the sore, let alone find a legitimate solution to a systemic problem. Viewers are fleeing and how do we keep them? Grow a goatee.

If the behemoth that is TVNZ could adapt and meet the challenges of retaining viewers at 7 o'clock, then what's stopping TV3?

Campbell Live, which recently celebrated 10 years on air, has long struggled in the ratings competition against counterpart Seven Sharp. And TV3 knows if it's not winning at 7pm, viewing numbers for the rest of the night will be affected.

The bottom line is people are digesting news differently. No longer are audiences prepared to sit down for a 90-minute hard news marathon. News divisions around the world have had to repackage content in a more engaging way at prime time.

Since news the television current affairs show may be axed, ratings have jumped for Campbell Live.

A crueler tongue than mine likened it to knowing that you are dying and having your funeral early to see who will turn out. Of course it's a capacity crowd. How long that crowd gathers at the wake and sheds a tear is another thing.

Campbell, a former share trader, was little amused at comments made by John Key, a former broker, who declared last week he has little sympathy for a programme on a private station that needs to net commercial returns for shareholders.

Key branded it an "entertainment" show which got Campbell's Y-fronts in a knot.

Campbell retaliated on air like an insolent child - he played Robbie Williams' Let Me Entertain You in the opening credits of his show, and signed off: "I hope we entertained you".

Let's hope the Campbell Live fracas has not turned into an ego platform for a man who couldn't see the writing on the wall early enough.

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Lol at the suggestion that there's 90 minutes of hard news on tv.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
Lol at the suggestion that there's hard news on TV.

cptn_dr
Sep 7, 2011

Seven for beauty that blossoms and dies


lol at TV

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
Paid VOD is the future

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
what's gon on in this thread

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
John Campbpbell is the only person willing to stand up against liquefaction

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Campbell has had trouble filling his 30 minutes. As time went on there were more and more soft stories, while not entertainment news, it was starting to become Facebook feed at 7.00. The government should be self destructing from its own BS making for easy fodder, but even Campbell holds back. Key could kill a baby at this point with the media not giving a drat. The media should be hounding the hell out of the government for hiding behind "National security" and "I don't know".

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

oohhboy posted:

The media should be hounding the hell out of the government for hiding behind "National security" and "I don't know".

Pretty much every developed nation gives the answer "National security" when asked to comment on matters involving national security.

The "I don't know" thing is uniquely NZ, like Whittakers chocolate or L&P. Or Dave Dobbyn. Embrace it, maaaate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQlVmvXAGLI

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Ahaha Silverlight. Is that tweet recent? Because Google announced they were doing that last year.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

Ghostlight posted:

Ahaha Silverlight. Is that tweet recent? Because Google announced they were doing that last year.

couple of days ago :laugh:


oohhboy posted:

Campbell has had trouble filling his 30 minutes. As time went on there were more and more soft stories, while not entertainment news, it was starting to become Facebook feed at 7.00. The government should be self destructing from its own BS making for easy fodder, but even Campbell holds back. Key could kill a baby at this point with the media not giving a drat. The media should be hounding the hell out of the government for hiding behind "National security" and "I don't know".

Thing is Key quite simply doesn't front when people are "too hard" on him. On national secuity he's especially bad, on one hand refusing to answer anything and on the other claiming all sorts of scaremongering poo poo with nothing to back it up.

The evasions in general are pathetic though


http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/20175346 (1:40)

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Jaguars!
Jul 31, 2012


Exclamation Marx posted:

Paid VOD is the future



Neon makin me feel real good about trying to do things the legal way (currently on the trial period)

no doubt tomorrow i'll be able to read about twitter's reaction on the herald website

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