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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:I hope someone casually knifes him in the throat.
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WarpedNaba posted:What are Campbell's political opinions, anyway? I never paid attention to the man. Former Alliance voter - a decade ago he admitted voting for them in 2002 iirc.
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Apr 26, 2015 11:18
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Apr 27, 2015 05:17
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Please tell me there is a link to that video somewhere.
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Apr 27, 2015 05:30
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I watched it here https://www.facebook.com/SoHoChannel/videos/818195264935293/
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Apr 27, 2015 06:54
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I can't believe it. After scandals and corruption and embezzlement and mismanagement and generally being an utter laughing stock overseas, it's ponytail pulling that sinks the PM in the public's eye. It's like Al Capone and tax evasion, Christ.
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Apr 27, 2015 06:59
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This won't sink the Brand Key juggernaut, but it's nice to see a decent hole in the hull anyway.
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Apr 27, 2015 07:06
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WarpedNaba posted:I can't believe it. After scandals and corruption and embezzlement and mismanagement and generally being an utter laughing stock overseas, it's ponytail pulling that sinks the PM in the public's eye. Sexual harassment and assault are much worse than all those other things.
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Apr 27, 2015 07:19
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klen dool posted:Sexual harassment and assault are much worse than all those other things. I believe you mean "horsing around"
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Apr 27, 2015 07:27
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We're famous!
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Apr 27, 2015 08:20
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I enjoyed that video. Next time I have a beer with John there'll be a bit of banter for sure
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Apr 27, 2015 10:10
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Wandle Cax posted:I enjoyed that video. Next time I have a beer with John there'll be a bit of banter for sure "Tugging a ponytail" - NZ idiom, emerged in early 2015, meaning to relax and have a beer with the head of state.
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Apr 27, 2015 10:32
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:I believe you mean "horsing around" Oh right of course. Just some innocent horse play. Its not like she was wearing pig tails, now that would be gross! Pigs are gross. Horses and ponys, noble and innocent. Pigs wallow in their own poo poo, pulling pig tails is disgusting. Now animals of the equine persuasion - brave, noble fellas always up for some light hearted play!
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Apr 27, 2015 12:22
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WarpedNaba posted:I hope someone casually knifes him in the throat. This is the kind of blasé "someone else will do it for me" attitude that's ruining this country. Stop expecting someone else to stab him in the throat and just do it yourself you dole bludger.
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Apr 27, 2015 23:14
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Hey New Zealand I just popped in to say thanks for having a neat electoral system. MMP is really cool from the perspective of an outside observer although I dunno how you all like it from the inside.
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Apr 27, 2015 23:37
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Teddybear posted:Hey New Zealand I just popped in to say thanks for having a neat electoral system. MMP is really cool from the perspective of an outside observer although I dunno how you all like it from the inside. We have a hair-molester for a prime minister.
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Apr 27, 2015 23:39
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:We have a hair-molester for a prime minister. Well he wasn't elected off the list, right?
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Apr 27, 2015 23:41
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It's a good system populated by scummy people and propped up by an indifferent voter base, easily wowed by a charmingly awkward smile and hair tug.
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Apr 27, 2015 23:42
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Teddybear posted:Hey New Zealand I just popped in to say thanks for having a neat electoral system. MMP is really cool from the perspective of an outside observer although I dunno how you all like it from the inside. Like a lot of things, it's a good idea but idiot voters gently caress it up. Also, electorates are unnecessary. (As far as I know anyway. I mean some of our most prominent MPs have never lived in their electorate.)
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Apr 27, 2015 23:58
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MMP is an excellent political system underserved by a bunch of lovely parties.
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Apr 27, 2015 23:59
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bobbilljim posted:Also, electorates are unnecessary. (As far as I know anyway. I mean some of our most prominent MPs have never lived in their electorate.) Spoken like someone who has never needed advocacy assistance with a government agency before. More representation at local levels is the solution, not the problem. E: I didn't mean for this to sound so dickish, but a letter from an MP can really be the difference between something getting done or them feeling like they're being ignored. They field questions from everything relating to access to healthcare to state housing, and it can be a hell of a lot easier for someone to get answers from an MP's office than by waiting for hours on end on hold for a call centre staff member to tell them the same thing they've heard over and over again. Butt Wizard fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Apr 28, 2015 |
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Apr 28, 2015 00:02
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Give me an example? I really don't know what you mean, probably because I am an idiot voter.
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Apr 28, 2015 00:06
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Teddybear posted:Hey New Zealand I just popped in to say thanks for having a neat electoral system. MMP is really cool from the perspective of an outside observer although I dunno how you all like it from the inside.
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Apr 28, 2015 00:08
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bobbilljim posted:Give me an example? I really don't know what you mean, probably because I am an idiot voter.  Banks got that poo poo fast-tracked iirc.
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Apr 28, 2015 00:10
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bobbilljim posted:Give me an example? I really don't know what you mean, probably because I am an idiot voter. The best example I can think of is that HNZ kept telling a client that she was on the priority housing list but she hadn't been able to get any accommodation for a while. It turned out, after some enquiries from a local MP, that there's multiple priority lists within the HNZ 'priority list' itself and she was actually a much lower priority than she'd been led to believe. It's not the kind of thing that HNZ would probably ever tell her past "you're on the priority list", but it's the kind of detailed explanation that an enquiry from an MP's office would find much easier to get than a client would. I'm fairly sure local MPs do a lot of immigration enquiries (which basically end up being advocacy because it's a minefield at the best of times) and people take letters from them more seriously than clients. If the only thing that stops people from getting dicked around by government departments is the existence of an electoral office that they can approach then it's a pretty small price to pay for an extra safety valve for people.
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Apr 28, 2015 00:16
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Alright thanks people. I guess in a perfect world we wouldn't need them.. or a lot of other things  In that case we should have stv for electorates, which would likely just confuse people more.
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Apr 28, 2015 00:19
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Also people in labour electorates in Christchurch have had their MP advocating for them around EQC issues. People in Brownlee or Amy Adams electorates, not so much.
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Apr 28, 2015 00:22
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It's also been a number of years, but at the time our local MP was key in helping my mum keep pressure on the government to negotiate my dad out of effectively being held for ransom overseas.
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Apr 28, 2015 00:25
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Butt Wizard posted:The best example I can think of is that HNZ kept telling a client that she was on the priority housing list but she hadn't been able to get any accommodation for a while. It turned out, after some enquiries from a local MP, that there's multiple priority lists within the HNZ 'priority list' itself and she was actually a much lower priority than she'd been led to believe. It's not the kind of thing that HNZ would probably ever tell her past "you're on the priority list", but it's the kind of detailed explanation that an enquiry from an MP's office would find much easier to get than a client would. Does this mean I could write to my MP and have some hope of convincing the government that I'm not actually a terrorist so they give me a citizenship seeing as I've lived here since I was seven? I live in Henderson if it matters.
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Apr 28, 2015 01:38
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Ghostlight posted:It's also been a number of years, but at the time our local MP was key in helping my mum keep pressure on the government to negotiate my dad out of effectively being held for ransom overseas. Can you (or do you want to) talk about it? Sounds tantalising, like the swish of a tightly bundled rope of hair
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Apr 28, 2015 02:33
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ledge posted:Also people in labour electorates in Christchurch have had their MP advocating for them around EQC issues. Funnily enough, Brownlee & Adams are the MP's for some of the least affected suburbs, so I guess their electorates don't care so much about EQC issues.
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Apr 28, 2015 02:41
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klen dool posted:Can you (or do you want to) talk about it? Sounds tantalising, like the swish of a tightly bundled rope of hair My family spent a number of years in Riyadh as my father was deployed there by the American company he was working for. When he was done my parents decided to return to New Zealand rather than the States, and as we were all boarding the plane he was pulled aside, his passport taken, and he was told he couldn't leave because he was a spy. The rest of us left on that plane, as he was worried about what could happen if we stayed, and once back in New Zealand my mother had to work with a government that really didn't care to rock the boat in regard to demanding its Middle Eastern ally-by-way-of-all-holy-America return a citizen that was being held for national security reasons that mysteriously could all be cleared up if his company made a couple of million dollars worth of concessions/promises that it didn't feel inclined to make for a now ex-employee. It was about a year and a half of prodding the MFA to please ask the Saudi government for their citizen back before I guess the political hassle of holding him started outweighing the imagined payoff and they let him get on a plane.
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Apr 28, 2015 03:49
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Ghostlight posted:It probably wouldn't dox me any more than any other information already out there, so sure. Wow that's crazy. You (and your family) must have been terrified.
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Apr 28, 2015 03:55
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Ghostlight posted:spy stuff 1. Was he a spy? 2. Why was he spying?
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Apr 28, 2015 05:53
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newtestleper posted:1. Was he a spy? sounds like good old fashioned middle eastern corruption to me
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Apr 28, 2015 06:38
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You know Key's shouty "get some guts!" speech? just append except Saudi Arabia to every sentence. I expected this to have died back somewhat by now
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Apr 28, 2015 07:07
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Saudi Arabia is the giant decaying elephant carcass ruining the carpet that politicians will get to discussing when they finish their incredibly large meal of elephant steaks.
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Apr 28, 2015 07:34
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Slavvy posted:This is the kind of blasé "someone else will do it for me" attitude that's ruining this country. Stop expecting someone else to stab him in the throat and just do it yourself you dole bludger. Gotta find a publisher for the eventual book deal first, geeze. It's like you never committed an act of high good through gratuitous violence before!
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Apr 28, 2015 08:48
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Dubai's Gulf News hadn't bothered to tell NZ media
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Exclamation Marx posted:Dubai's Gulf News I assume when he says "we" he means himself and the Americans who tell him what he should do and when.
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