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Feb 25, 2016 08:43
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I got over a grand of Yankeebux for yakking into my mic for forty hours yesterday. Guess I'll clear out some tech in Takapuna.
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Feb 25, 2016 10:00
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fong posted:Nah this is the argument that gets trotted out all the time and it's bs. Increased density doesn't mean everyone will have to move into 20 sq meter apartments. It just means a 2 storey height restriction in an inner city suburb is ridiculous. This is true, if you are building up, you got to get high. I am for intensification, but if the minimum standard is a poo poo box, we aren't any better off.
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Feb 25, 2016 11:28
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Binkenstein posted:To divert the conversation a little, anyone else find it a bit hypocritical that the Aussies are complaining about the NZ crowd being "too abusive" after they a) had 2 players fined during the last test for being aggressive towards an umpire & b) are ok with sledging the Black Caps because they're "too nice"? It is a bit rich of them. Especially Warner who punched one of the English players a couple of years back. The Aussie crowds have always been hostile to any touring side. Also I was at the game on Monday and there were two groups in the crowd who were a bit unruly. One was a large group of Australians near the main building. The second was a group of drunk Irish but they mainly gave poo poo to the other fans. I think it is back to the classic story of the Aussies can dish it but go crying to the media/umpire/mama if they ever need to take it.
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Feb 25, 2016 11:50
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Part of what strikes out at me is just little wealthy other than the home some people have. There is so little distributed capital other than that for that generation in Auckland.
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Feb 25, 2016 16:26
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11595631 What in the gently caress? "Leader David Seymour, who as a child was a member of the Kiwi Conservation Club and successfully campaigned for aluminium recycling at Whangarei's Maunu Primary, said it irked him that Act's environmental credentials weren't better recognised." ""I'm not going to announce that we should scrap DoC, but certainly I am going to announce that I have come to the conclusion that we should offer more support to private initiatives." "The Act leader's address will focus on what he says are the "four Ps" of free-market environmentalism - pricing, property rights, prosperity, and private initiative. "The worst environmental disasters occurred in the Soviet Union, basically because there is nobody who owns property saying, 'Hey, if you pollute this you are going to devalue my property,'" Mr Seymour told the Herald." My personal favourite quote: Sir Roger Douglas' cutting of subsidies for the agricultural sector in the 1980s led to a huge drop in the use of fertiliser, which had been heavily subsidised and polluted waterways, Mr Seymour said, and former Act leader Rodney Hide had a masters in environmental science. Yeah, you can see how successful this was, since all of our waterways are now clean and....oh. The kicker: "African countries generally can't afford to do things like that, and they generally have people running around with cheap AK-47s shooting majestic creatures like rhinos and elephants." The irony is that these "people" that are shooting "majestic creatures" are almost invariably big-spending white big game hunters, and they can do this because the free market, basically.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:42
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/77284979/Clutha-Southland-MP-Todd-Barclays-senior-staffer-resignsquote:Clutha-Southland MP Todd Barclay's senior electorate agent Glenys Dickson has resigned, with a party official saying there was an "employment problem" between the pair. er
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Feb 25, 2016 20:22
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Lobsterpillar posted:I've noticed that there is a tendency for landowners to refer to themselves as 'ratepayers' and therefore they think they have more of a say in things the local and regional government does, because they pay rates. They think that democracy means democracy of the landed gentry only, which of course makes it... not democracy. This is partially why I think that the Rates system should be scrapped in favour of a secondary payroll tax. The rates for my flat are 11% of the rent I pay, but I have less of a quote unquote right to complain about this stuff because I'm not the one actually paying the rates. It's just like this stupid thing from Auckland recently: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/297438/homeowners-drown-out-other-voices quote:What's more, with house price escalation, our entire generation is being labelled "generation rent" while being forced to live further and further away from the city.
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Feb 25, 2016 21:06
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Ghostlight posted:All I said was that Max Key was going to be DJing there this afternoon. It was a bomb threat, not a threat of the bomb. I'll see myself out.
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Feb 25, 2016 23:46
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I just want to know what the Council were thinking. Did they seriously expect they wouldn't get a huge wave of complaints when they made wide ranging changes to Glendowie/St Heliers after consultation had closed? At some point you have to ask who thought it was a smart idea. From living out this way, I know that a) a lot of the land is too contoured to develop high level stuff without massive cost anyway, and b) most people would be happy to sell what are still usually big sections to developers if rezoning adds value. But in saying that Tamaki Drive is at a standstill from 5pm to 7pm on weeknights/unusable on weekends, and there's already been pretty steep rates rises in the area. There's no rapid transport/bus lanes/anything in Glendowie either - there's one bus route to the city that gets stuck in the same traffic as everyone else. So yea, the idea that the area can handle any more density without investment to cope with the level it already has is laughable. There's also the issue of 'what if the guy next to me builds up to max height and blocks my light/views' but that's an RMA issue and while you can't blame the Council for that (thanks, much-vaunted RMA reforms which would give a mechanism to deal with this stuff but National seems fundamentally unable to actually deliver!), they should have seen the question coming. And the best part? Now there's no Council evidence, there'll probably be way way denser provisions laid out than they ended up with after consultation and no one will be able to do anything about it. In short, we are all stupider for this experience and no one will learn from it. Life in the 'burbs, man.
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Feb 26, 2016 23:13
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The problem is the apparent mentality that it's a simple silver bullet solution when it requires massive amounts of collective legislative change, as if one bandaid with a bit of antiseptic cream would suffice for a massive gaping gash. But is there anything as Kiwi as chucking all the eggs in one basket, even if the basket is now an eggy mess that smells like poo poo?
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Feb 26, 2016 23:26
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Vagabundo posted:But is there anything as Kiwi as chucking all the eggs in one basket, even if the basket is now an eggy mess that smells like poo poo? I'll have you know eggs are the backbone of this economy.
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Feb 27, 2016 01:46
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Legitimate RIP Ranginui Walker http://www.maoritelevision.com/news/galleries/te-ao-maori-mourns-loss-esteemed-leader-dr-ranginui-walker
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Feb 29, 2016 02:06
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Pfffffft I don't even know who that is
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Feb 29, 2016 02:28
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I wonder if the funeral will be open to the public
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Feb 29, 2016 02:30
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I imagine the tangi will go a proper five days, considering his status and influence.
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Feb 29, 2016 02:55
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RIP Ranginui seems like a mighty tree has fallen lots of people from different disciplines/backgrounds discussing him in my networks. Also, doin us proud folks: http://www.democratsabroad.org/first_super_tuesday_results_americans_in_new_zealand_make_their_voice_heard
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Feb 29, 2016 15:39
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It all makes sense now..
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Mar 1, 2016 02:45
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So I know next to nothing about the flag design panel because I didn't bother paying attention, but is there any reason they picked that horrible shade of blue? Every time I look at the fern flag that shade of blue jumps out at me like a tacky logo for a real estate company.
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Mar 1, 2016 08:42
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Lobsterpillar posted:So I know next to nothing about the flag design panel because I didn't bother paying attention, but is there any reason they picked that horrible shade of blue? What colour is the national party logo
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Mar 1, 2016 08:44
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:What colour is the national party logo The same colour as your avatar? National supporter spotted
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Mar 1, 2016 08:55
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Wafflecopper posted:The same colour as your avatar? John Key seems like a good bloke to have a beer and legalise questionable police procedures with.
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Mar 1, 2016 09:00
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Lobsterpillar posted:So I know next to nothing about the flag design panel because I didn't bother paying attention, but is there any reason they picked that horrible shade of blue? kyle lockwood is a bad designer
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Mar 1, 2016 09:03
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If you live in central Wellington I have despatched your referendum so you should get it in next couple of days. Also apparently John key is coming for a visit here tomorrow.
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Mar 1, 2016 22:36
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Please let us roll higher than a 78 on at least one of these..  
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Mar 3, 2016 09:48
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Vagabundo posted:Flag debate Since we're on to phase two of this stupid loving referendum.
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Mar 3, 2016 10:00
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https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/kiwimeter-what-kind-of-kiwi-are-you.html  kind of interesting
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Mar 3, 2016 10:04
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I got Globalist as well.
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Mar 3, 2016 10:19
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I got globalist as well. The symbols bit is hard - I'm sure I contradicted myself multiple times.
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Mar 3, 2016 10:21
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I got Globalist. Jesus, are we sure it's only 7%?
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Mar 3, 2016 10:23
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newtestleper posted:The symbols bit is hard - I'm sure I contradicted myself multiple times. Yeah wtf. Which is more/less kiwi, All Blacks or rugby. Queen or Union Jack. They're the same thing, christ. I got globalist too. WarpedNaba posted:I got Globalist. For good or for ill, I don't think somethingawful.com nz politics posters are a very representative cross-section of nz society and/or tvnz.co.nz poll responders. Wafflecopper fucked around with this message at 10:32 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Mar 3, 2016 10:24
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Yeah, Globalist too. Got my referendum paper and voted to Keep, while shouting "gently caress you John" at the top of my lungs.
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Mar 3, 2016 10:29
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cptn_dr posted:Yeah, Globalist too. Got my referendum paper and voted to Keep, while shouting "gently caress you John" at the top of my lungs. This is such a terrible argument for not changing flags. It is the left that has politicized the flag debate. I would have loved to have seen what you would have been saying if Helen Clark had proposed the idea.
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Mar 3, 2016 10:35
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you can be mad at JK (and the whole process) and also think the Lockwood option is A Bad Flag
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Mar 3, 2016 10:37
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newtestleper posted:This is such a terrible argument for not changing flags. It is the left that has politicized the flag debate. I would have loved to have seen what you would have been saying if Helen Clark had proposed the idea. Much the same, really. I think the design is awful, a silver fern is equally colonial as the union jack, the colours are dull and uninspiring, and it's all around lovely. And if you don't think a flag is political, well I don't know what to tell you buddy.
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Mar 3, 2016 10:38
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gently caress me too, I got globalist. I am surprised that globalist is do strong in otago and Southland though fO_o
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Mar 3, 2016 10:43
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I got Egalitarian, I should probably stop posting.
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Mar 3, 2016 10:44
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Smithersnz posted:I got Egalitarian, I should probably stop posting. That was my next best fit!
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Mar 3, 2016 10:45
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newtestleper posted:The symbols bit is hard - I'm sure I contradicted myself multiple times. Same. Disappointed I got globalist and not a cool one like national socialist or something.
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klen dool posted:gently caress me too, I got globalist. I am surprised that globalist is do strong in otago and Southland though fO_o Dunedin students maybe? And yeah, globalist too. newtestleper posted:This is such a terrible argument for not changing flags. It is the left that has politicized the flag debate. I would have loved to have seen what you would have been saying if Helen Clark had proposed the idea. Feel this is relevant. http://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/the-flag-referendum-complicating-your-decision quote:On another note, I don’t know whether it is particular to New Zealanders, but we seem to have a tendency to try to make the word “political” do far too much. Any public vote is a political matter. The flag is a political. But New Zealanders often use the word “political”, when they really mean “partisan”. I disagree, but there is a reasonable argument that it shouldn’t be a partisan matter.
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