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Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

puchu posted:

Read my post

We both know how that's not how this thread works.

I'm not sure whose Budget speech is worse; Key with his Angry Andrew, Bachelor and Johnny Depp references or Little's entire diatrabe. It just flat out sucked.

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puchu
Sep 20, 2004

hiya~

Red_Museum posted:

I'm assuming him quitting was their revamp making him feel his position was untenable/wasn't going to be his show anymore.

You're probably safe from Rachel Glucina unless you're an All Black or she knows your boss.

Ya it's not like he was offered a new contract a year ago and didn't take it, it's definitely a conspiracy

puchu
Sep 20, 2004

hiya~
Andrew Little is just having some banter with the lads over a cheeky Nandos

Binkenstein
Jan 18, 2010

Exclamation Marx posted:

possible raise in benefits :prepop:
A very small increase in exchange for shaving 2 years off the requirement to go back to work (now 3 years, down from 5). The National Man giveth little, and he taketh away more.

Some of the other stuff in there is pathetic, including still allowing for tax cuts in 2017 (election year)

-neutrino-
Nov 4, 2008

Binkenstein posted:

A very small increase in exchange for shaving 2 years off the requirement to go back to work (now 3 years, down from 5). The National Man giveth little, and he taketh away more.

Some of the other stuff in there is pathetic, including still allowing for tax cuts in 2017 (election year)

Tax cut promises are pretty standard

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007


gently caress the lot of them, the little brats. Everyone down here knows who she is, and several of my students know her from primary school. From what I've been told, she's a prize idiot (which is obvious). Apparently she was planning on burning down my school and Boys High.

Big Bad Beetleborg
Apr 8, 2007

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

That's some real low effort anonymising too. Just enough info left to confirm it if you know the people involved, even if their posts were deleted.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

mirthdefect posted:

That's some real low effort anonymising too. Just enough info left to confirm it if you know the people involved, even if their posts were deleted.

And everyone knows someone in this place. Hell, it took me just a couple of hours to find out the kid's name.

Like, I have a student who lives a couple of streets over from me who's mum teaches at Girls' High. I'm also aware of the fact that the idiot involved in the arson has already been provisionally suspended pending further action, and it's fairly likely to be upgraded to "expelled" soon enough. Can't imagine anyone would want to take this shithead either.

edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 08:23 on May 21, 2015

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



Vagabundo posted:

I have a student who lives a couple of streets over from me who's mum
state of are teachers...

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
Those bloody tax cuts. "You'll totally get them!"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"... After the election year!" :v:

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

puchu posted:

Ya it's not like he was offered a new contract a year ago and didn't take it, it's definitely a conspiracy

so you reckon this is entirely voluntary?

puchu
Sep 20, 2004

hiya~

fong posted:

so you reckon this is entirely voluntary?

idk

edit: I'm not saying it's not possible I just think that it's an area with many shades of grey. Fifty, if you will.

puchu fucked around with this message at 10:08 on May 21, 2015

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/i-think-mike-might-have-read-hilary-barry-teary-over-john-campbell-video-6317659

ahhh gently caress

e:

exmarx fucked around with this message at 10:31 on May 21, 2015

Murrah
Mar 22, 2015

Far out those FB posts from the alleged arsonists ... classy as

Ivor Biggun
Apr 30, 2003

A big "Fuck You!" from the Keyhole nebula

Lipstick Apathy
If there's a pool for Campbell's replacement I'd throw :10bux: in for Henry / Mau.

[e] My dream team would be Henry / Hosking but one of them would have to wear a dress.

Ivor Biggun fucked around with this message at 11:22 on May 21, 2015

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007


Omg :smith:

My money is that Campbell will end up on Radio NZ

voiceless anal fricative fucked around with this message at 14:49 on May 21, 2015

The Rabbi T. White
Jul 17, 2008





Ivor Biggun posted:

[e] My dream team would be Henry / Hosking

gently caress you for even suggesting this.

JC should head to Maori TV.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Ivor Biggun posted:

[e] My dream team would be Henry / Hosking but one of them would have to wear a dress.

Left wing causes undermined by 'ironic' attention given to right wing retards, more from twitter at six.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

The Rabbi T. White posted:

gently caress you for even suggesting this.

JC should head to Maori TV.

Maori TV is under pressure not to be "too critical" etc too. Native Affairs is hanging on by its fingertips I imagine

Varkk
Apr 17, 2004

He is going to be the centrepiece for the launch of The Daily Blog's YouTube channel.

dusty
Nov 30, 2004

Key has announced they will not be changing s6 & 7 of the RMA.

Praise be to

Kathleen
Feb 26, 2013

Grimey Drawer
what's the point of name suppression when you're still allowed to show the defendant sitting in the courtroom?

SuperiorColliculus
Oct 31, 2011

Asked if he could see the irony in speaking about poverty to people who had paid hundreds of dollars to attend the Business Circle event, Mr Key said: "I think the important thing is the business community really, passionately care about child poverty. "

Said with a presumably straight face? :suicide:

"We're the first the Government to raise benefits in 43 years - I would have thought they'd be cheering out there," he said.

lol.

Lancelot
May 23, 2006

Fun Shoe

SuperiorColliculus posted:

"We're the first the Government to raise benefits in 43 years - I would have thought they'd be cheering out there," he said.
The loving nerve on this guy.

NZAmoeba
Feb 14, 2005

It turns out it's MAN!
Hair Elf
Byline on NZHerald article promoting their new "PJs for kids" thing

Herald posted:

Child poverty figures can be hard to believe. The very word poverty hardly seems appropriate for a country with New Zealand's welfare net.

:suicide:

Kathleen
Feb 26, 2013

Grimey Drawer

Lancelot posted:

The loving nerve on this guy.

he said it with the most sneering, condescending tone too. gross

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
It's like 'Let them eat cake', only the authority figure saying it is more than aware of the desperation of the peasants.

truther
Oct 22, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT THE BEARS
Saw the most amazing sight on the way to work today.

Three cars ahead of me made full use of the merging lane on the motorway and didn't just try to butt in at the first chance.

Never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Yeah the reason that doesn't normally happen is because there's always a Honda edix at the front of the queue doing 70 trying to merge with traffic doing 100, followed quickly by a bunch of fuckwits who can't drive stabbing spasmodically at the brakes and swerving around uncertainly and everyone gets held up.

How can people in this thread realistically expect a popular rejection of the government when people haven't even mastered merging like a zip.

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:
thanks for the posts about traffic guys

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



I walked to work. It was okay.

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free
It snowed in Taupo today, apparently.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
What is it with John Key and social media? He has gone viral twice in the space of a weekend.

First up, Twitter spotted his doppelgänger spinning tracks and serving up beats in Britain.

A photo on the website Crazy Dance Parties - an outfit that promises to provide the finest disco entertainment for weddings and birthday parties in Essex - shows a DJ who looks incredibly like the Prime Minister.
The Key lookalike has song for all the lovers out there. Photo / Crazy Dance Parties
The Key lookalike has song for all the lovers out there. Photo / Crazy Dance Parties

The young man is dressed in a crisp white shirt and burgundy tie and has a pair of headphones. We live in hope that he starts his sets by yelling: "Johnny's in the House."

Funnily enough, there is a DJ in the Key family - the Prime Minister's son, Max.

And it's Max and Key snr who is the subject of the second viral pic.

Following in the footsteps of Vladimir Putin, Key took a topless selfie of himself and Max by the pool.


The bare-chest bravado was, we can report, snapped moments before plunging into the spa pool chez Key on the weekend.

John, tufts of grey body hair adorning his chest, plays photographer. His son Max, standing self-assuredly behind him, sports cocked fingers and a hairstyle that can only be described as "in momentum".

Phallic-shaped conifers shoot up to the sky. Fairy lights hang delicately from the spouting of the pool house. And the toned torsos of the shirtless studs have prompted winks and nods around the country. And questions.

"Pre birthday spa and yarns with the old man," explains Max, who turned 20 and posted the picture to his Instagram page in celebration.

Paul Henry asked if it was narcissism. Mike Hosking took to the airwaves this morning to quiz if he was under the influence. The 53-year-old, that is.

"No I was stone cold sober," said the self-portraitist.

Key the Elder was not channelling his Russian counterpart Putin, who is no stranger to homo-erotic topless imagery. There's Putin topless riding a horse, fishing, hunting. Basically, any excuse to go shirtless.

Key says he was happy to expose a selfie shoulder for some father-son birthday bonding time in the spa pool.

And that's what we like about him.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
also reportedly Maurice Williamson tried to jump ship to ACT and they turned him down haha

truther
Oct 22, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT THE BEARS
Please tell me you wrote all of this and it's not taken from an actual news publication.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007

truther posted:

Please tell me you wrote all of this and it's not taken from an actual news publication.

Luckily that's only in The Herald. Stuff is somehow even more facile.

Chalupa Joe fucked around with this message at 04:55 on May 25, 2015

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

truther posted:

Please tell me you wrote all of this and it's not taken from an actual news publication.

Guess who wrote that puerile poo poo! Starts with "R" and ends with "achel Glucina."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11454281

Bushmaori
Mar 8, 2009

Vagabundo posted:

Guess who wrote that puerile poo poo! Starts with "R" and ends with "achel Glucina."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11454281

Rachel Glucina is New Zealand’s reigning gossip queen and author of The Diary.

Who in the gently caress thinks being into gossip is in any way a good thing.

Don't answer that, it will only depress me.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

I dont think its possible for me to like Max Key. I know nothing about him, but I just get this air of smug from him. Maybe its because he always has his fingers up in photos and I'm basically an old man getting mad at the kids these days

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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



Nobody can not be a oval office with that much privilege and a parent who smirks about loving the poor.

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