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homeowner 39 22.41%
renter 69 39.66%
stupid peace of poo poo 66 37.93%
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megalodong
Mar 11, 2008

Taitale posted:

Did you read the dissenting opinion by the President of the Board of Review?

Yeah.

quote:

Sex is portrayed as very pleasurable at the time even if Devon ultimately regrets his actions. It is treated as an animalistic fun activity.
says so much about the person who wrote it.

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klen dool
May 7, 2007

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

megalodong posted:

Yeah.
says so much about the person who wrote it.

I know right - sex IS animalistic, much like eating and rugby and MMA and being excited and well almost every human emotion. Sex is a fun enjoyable activity, not to be taken too seriously. I mean gently caress the arguments against the book read like my arguments for it.

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



Binkenstein posted:

The funny thing is that I'd say that if National hadn't put through so many tax cuts they would have been back in surplus years ago.

quote:

The Government may bring forward $2.5 billion of tax cuts scheduled for 2017 after recording its first surplus, Finance Minister Bill English says


Vagabundo posted:

It's not just that they're cutting public spending, it's where they're cutting it from that's hosed up.
Sorry, I wasn't intending to downplay the cuts as necessary. I meant more that they're not cutting public spending to make surplus - they cut public spending because they're ideologically opposed to public spending, and it being for the "public good" of making a surplus is their excuse for doing it. They run the country like they would a company: they're not interested in improving the services the company offers, only in improving the amount of money their shareholders can pull out of the company each year.

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

Vulpes posted:

This reads like it comes from a 1960's parenting handbook. At least they made the correct decision regardless.

Sex may lead to suicide when a :airquote: relationship :airquote: ends. And anyway kids these days need to focus on their studies.

Holy gently caress, these people are total squares.

bobbilljim
May 29, 2013

this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me
:shittydog::shittydog::shittydog:
Thread title A+

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

idgi did he do something weird again?

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



He was on Hauraki

quote:

In other questions, Key said he had never pashed a man, did not "trim his downstairs" and had never sent a "dick pic". But he said had "done wees in the shower" and admitted he found Wendy Petrie attractive.

However Key refused to answer the rather rude question Wells put to him of whether he had "fed the chickens" in the last month.

Varkk
Apr 17, 2004

I say good on Judith Collins for selling cars and hope she can turn it in to a full time gig and not just some side job paying under the table.

emminou
May 25, 2006

I know far more about John Key's penis and what he does with it than I would like to, in an ideal world.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

emminou posted:

I know far more about John Key's penis and what he does with it than I would like to, in an ideal world.

On the other hand he continued his trend of faffing about and being a huge bitch instead of just manning up and answering the question like literally everyone else who has ever been on the programme including other politicians.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
Whoa, massive recruitment drive from the Army yesterday, job boards are crammed with everything from cooks to accountants to fighter pilots (Do we still have fighters?)

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free

WarpedNaba posted:

Whoa, massive recruitment drive from the Army yesterday, job boards are crammed with everything from cooks to accountants to fighter pilots (Do we still have fighters?)

Gotta get people in before fiscal 2016

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
AFT Pharmacueticals are looking for interest in an IPO


ground floor is the best floor of drugs

Khaal
Mar 22, 2008
Would anyone be surprised to learn that Tony Veitch is still a massive piece of poo poo?



https://www.facebook.com/veitchyonsport/posts/931520890217957?fref=nf

:catstare:

Ivor Biggun
Apr 30, 2003

A big "Fuck You!" from the Keyhole nebula

Lipstick Apathy

Khaal posted:

Would anyone be surprised to learn that Tony Veitch is still a massive piece of poo poo?



https://www.facebook.com/veitchyonsport/posts/931520890217957?fref=nf

:catstare:

That Veitchy, rolling with the punches.

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free

Khaal posted:

Would anyone be surprised to learn that Tony Veitch is still a massive piece of poo poo?



https://www.facebook.com/veitchyonsport/posts/931520890217957?fref=nf

:catstare:

He forgets to say the reason the relationship was hideous is because he is an actual violent abuser.

victorious
Jul 2, 2007

As a youth I prayed, "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."

WarpedNaba posted:

to fighter pilots (Do we still have fighters?)

The NZDF could well be recruiting pilots, but not fighter pilots.

Vulpes
Nov 13, 2002

Well, shit.

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

He forgets to say the reason the relationship was hideous is because he is an actual violent abuser.

No no, you see he had to push his partner down the stairs and break her back in four places because she was being a bitch. He's the victim here.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
What's his dream job, Boxing in the Women's Featherweight league?

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

WarpedNaba posted:

What's his dream job, Boxing in the Women's Featherweight league?


AND IN THE RED CORNER.....TONY "Porrasturvat" VEEEEIIITCH

Varkk
Apr 17, 2004

Khaal posted:

Would anyone be surprised to learn that Tony Veitch is still a massive piece of poo poo?



https://www.facebook.com/veitchyonsport/posts/931520890217957?fref=nf

:catstare:

So at least 152, 000 NZers would push their partner down the stairs if they felt she deserved it?

A human heart
Oct 10, 2012

Khaal posted:

Would anyone be surprised to learn that Tony Veitch is still a massive piece of poo poo?



https://www.facebook.com/veitchyonsport/posts/931520890217957?fref=nf

:catstare:

I don't know who that is.

Ivor Biggun
Apr 30, 2003

A big "Fuck You!" from the Keyhole nebula

Lipstick Apathy

A human heart posted:

I don't know who that is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Veitch#Controversy

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012


Wikipedia posted:

Veitch was sentenced to nine months supervision, 300 hours community service and a $10,000 fine with the possibility of having to attend a Stop Violence programme should this be deemed necessary by parole officials.[22]

Since the sentencing, questions have come to light over the accuracy of some of the character testimonials submitted during the sentencing phase of the case. It has been alleged that Veitch amended character references or procured some testimonials from prominent New Zealanders by saying that their testimonials would be used for a passport or job application. These testimonials were used by the judge in setting Veitch's sentence.[23][24] In particular, Dame Susan Devoy and Dave Currie have said that testimonials written by them to support a passport application were edited and submitted on this unrelated matter.[25] The Crown will take no action on the matter.[26]

:wow:

Didn't know that!

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
ugh veitch has been on my twiter timeline all day can someone jsut stop

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free

echinopsis posted:

ugh veitch has been on my twiter timeline all day can someone jsut stop

Have you tried pushing down the stairs and kicking him in the spine?

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




Come on guys according to him it was a bad relationship and he has worked hard to get back to where he is cut him some slack.


By work I mean he has to get up early and talk about sports all day long


Gooooooooo sports! Grunts

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free
Violent attempted murder is often harder on the man.

El Pollo Blanco
Jun 12, 2013

by sebmojo
I'm enjoying that Veitch's millennial defenders seem completely unable to grasp that just because they hate this monolith of 'The Media' it doesn't mean that every factual thing reported on is clickbait or hyperbole. "Yea right mate, don't be naive, just because Stuff said he fractured her spine in 3 places doesn't mean that's what happened, you need both sides of the story."

whiter than a Wilco show
Mar 30, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
gently caress him and everyone who supports him. I'm so loving sick of rugby worship letting assholes get away with violence I can't even be bothered making a joke about this.

cptn_dr
Sep 7, 2011

Seven for beauty that blossoms and dies


Infotainment! posted:

gently caress him and everyone who supports him. I'm so loving sick of rugby worship letting assholes get away with violence I can't even be bothered making a joke about this.

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free
The joke is that our country cares more about The Ruggers than a competent government or violent offenders getting off with barely a slap on the wrist.

It's one of those jokes that gets funnier and funnier until you just hurl yourself off a bridge.

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.
As other posters have pointed out, it has gently caress all to do with 'ruggers' and just the fact it seems to be acceptable to be shitheads to women in general in NZ.

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free

Butt Wizard posted:

As other posters have pointed out, it has gently caress all to do with 'ruggers' and just the fact it seems to be acceptable to be shitheads to women in general in NZ.

Yeah there's not a huge history of high profile rugby players and associated hangers on doing horrific things and getting off Scott free/with a slap on the wrist/name suppression that wouldn't happen if they weren't down with the Ruggers.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
Which leads to the begged question: How do we change this aside from certain options that I probably shouldn't talk about on a monitored thread?

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
hey is it weird to piss in the shower or something

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free

echinopsis posted:

hey is it weird to piss in the shower or something

Do you say you've "done wees"?

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
This morning Key said he had not yet been invited to appear on Oliver's show, despite the British comedian's apparent "fascination" with his utterings.

"He is describing that as the greatest political interview of all time. And I reckon if he enjoys it so much he should come down and be part of the post-Cabinet press conference."

:pray: please let him respond

Oliver let him off easy, he didn't even show the j/o question

SurreptitiousMuffin
Mar 21, 2010

WarpedNaba posted:

Which leads to the begged question: How do we change this aside from certain options that I probably shouldn't talk about on a monitored thread?
We could try democratic elections. Look, apparently untouchable right-wing shitheads who were on a ridiculous winning streak can get taken down:

http://globalnews.ca/news/2286815/trudeau-wins-heres-what-hes-promised-and-what-hes-set-to-face/

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Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

Yeah there's not a huge history of high profile rugby players and associated hangers on doing horrific things and getting off Scott free/with a slap on the wrist/name suppression that wouldn't happen if they weren't down with the Ruggers.

Rugby players don't have a monopoly on being complete turds to women though, and talking about it like it's a causal connection is overlooking the fact it's a very big problem in a bunch of different communities that have gently caress all to do with rugby. Like yea, I get it, the old 50s stereotypes are entrenched, but there's a bunch of kids and women regularly getting the bash from partners who have never stepped foot in a rugby clubroom in their life.

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