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I see it's time for another round of "Key blames Minister for Not Telling Him Stuff". Todays contestant: Todd McClay. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/82453210/trade-minister-admits-officials-had-known-about-china-trade-retaliation-fears-for-months
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To be followed shortly after by "Look at the end of the day most right-thinking New Zealanders realise that this unfortunate situation is due to the actions of the previous Labour government.  "
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Jul 25, 2016 22:12
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I am surprised the bus is still moving with all those people thrown under it.
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Jul 26, 2016 01:02
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Noticed these guys are advertising during 3 News the last couple of times I've watched it... http://fluoridefree.org.nz/ An ad saying how all these countries don't fluoridate and have better teeth than us. Didn't realise they had that kind of money (or conversely, that its that cheap to advertise in NZ)
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Jul 26, 2016 22:29
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Good work on focusing in on the fact that ~98% of Europe doesn't flouridate their water; conveniently not mentioning that a good number of them have naturally flouridated water or gets flouride by adding it to basic foods instead. I didn't bother seeing if they had Mexico on their flag list, a country renowned for causing flourosis in Americans who take the heavily flouridated toothpaste from there back home to use with flouridated water.
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Jul 26, 2016 22:48
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El Pollo Blanco posted:I mean... he's already an MP? He's probably less objectionable than the kid they parachuted into Clutha-Southland, anyway. Not if you know him. Any dickhead with connections and money can get a list seat from the national party. I think what I hate about the idea of him winning an electorate is that he'll get the idea that people are voting for him, or that he is in some way an acceptable or worthwhile human being. I don't like Bishop, you might notice.
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Jul 27, 2016 03:15
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My landlord put a Chris Bishop billboard on the fence. I work near his office which has a giant Chris Bishop billboard above it. I get to look at his slightly pudgy face and crooked teeth every day.
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Jul 27, 2016 06:39
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You should tell them how dangerous elemental Fluorine is by telling them it would set their faces on fire on contact.
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Jul 27, 2016 06:47
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Has anybody gotten Jacqui Dean involved yet? It seems like her experience in these matters would be very useful.
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Jul 27, 2016 06:56
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Robo Captain posted:My landlord put a Chris Bishop billboard on the fence. I work near his office which has a giant Chris Bishop billboard above it. I get to look at his slightly pudgy face and crooked teeth every day. If your landlord doesn't live there, that's technically interfering with your quiet enjoyment of the property and if you felt suuuuuuuper strongly about it you could probably make him take them down.
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Jul 27, 2016 07:17
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11682457
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Jul 27, 2016 07:50
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Time to go home I guess.
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Jul 27, 2016 08:30
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Welp some Poms are gonna potentially have noisier neighbours better just let the housing crisis go totally unchecked.
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Jul 27, 2016 08:39
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For once I just wish the Government would stop to consider the effect of their policies on white, middle-aged home owners in Auckland.
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Jul 27, 2016 08:43
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Can we collectively just tell Poms 'gently caress off, we're full' when they try to settle here?
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Jul 27, 2016 08:51
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I like the perspective that the story stresses they "spent their life savings" on the house as if they can't just sell up and walk away with literally more money than they put into it because it's exactly this kind of whining that has made the plan so loving necessary. Oh, and also that they're from London and think that one side of the street being zoned so that you can put two dwellings on a site without a resource consent is "highly urbanised".
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Jul 27, 2016 08:54
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send these immigrants back to their own country
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:send these immigrants back to their own country Perhaps a sort of Exit to Britain? A Brexit, if you will.
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Ghostlight posted:I like the perspective that the story stresses they "spent their life savings" on the house as if they can't just sell up and walk away with literally more money than they put into it because it's exactly this kind of whining that has made the plan so loving necessary. Also "life" savings? I mean they can't be more than what 30? 35? How does one save a lifetime of money in only 10 to 15 years?
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klen dool posted:Also "life" savings? I mean they can't be more than what 30? 35? How does one save a lifetime of money in only 10 to 15 years? 'Lifetime' is not an objective metric. Pretty sure upper middle class poms save a shitload more over ten years than someone making nikes does in their whole lifetime.
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Jul 27, 2016 09:44
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gently caress Nikes, if you can afford to buy a four bedroom house in Auckland you've already saved more than most people living there will.
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Jul 27, 2016 11:16
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http://thespinoff.co.nz/auckland-2016/27-07-2016/announcing-the-war-for-auckland/ this is cool and good imo
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Jul 27, 2016 13:58
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The herald could easily have found someone with a real grievance over the plan, that article is purely manufactured outrage. Those people have just made a mint because the developers mentioned in the article will cause the prices in the area to inflate further. They have access to like 95% of the city's housing stock.
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Jul 28, 2016 00:38
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Slavvy posted:'Lifetime' is not an objective metric. That's my point, they can't have spent anywhere near their life savings since they have only lived 10 years of their 50 year working life. For it to be reported that they have spent their life savings is a little disingenuous since it isn't an objective metric and subjectively they only spent a fifth if it.
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Jul 28, 2016 03:30
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Life savings is just what you've saved in your life.
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Jul 28, 2016 05:07
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And their life hasn't been that long, when people talk about "life savings" it's usually in reference to an older couple who've been scrimping and saving for most of their working life - not someone who have barely started their working life. It's a phrase used to extenuate their circumstances to give the story more gravity than it really does, because in reality there is no real story here. Whoever used that phrase (probably the journalist) is exaggerating for effect and turned the story into fiction.
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Jul 28, 2016 05:55
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If you're using the word journalist to describe a Herald employee then it's actually you who is trying to grant more gravity to something that doesn't deserve it.
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Jul 28, 2016 06:06
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This thread has the dumbest semantics arguments, goddamn. Life savings are literally any money you have saved at any point in your life.
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Jul 28, 2016 06:22
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El Pollo Blanco posted:This thread has the dumbest semantics arguments, goddamn. Life savings are literally any money you have saved at any point in your life. Don't lump everyone else in with me and klen dool.
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Jul 28, 2016 07:03
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I love to see a homeowner cry
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Jul 28, 2016 08:28
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Marx can we do a poll of homeowners vs renters in this thread? I'm genuinely curious to see how it breaks down.
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El Pollo Blanco posted:This thread has the dumbest semantics arguments, goddamn. Life savings are literally any money you have saved at any point in your life. That wouldn't be the most commonly accepted definition I would have thought.
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Ghostlight posted:If you're using the word journalist to describe a Herald employee then it's actually you who is trying to grant more gravity to something that doesn't deserve it. I think it's actually the herald and it's employee who describe themselves as journalists - it's me who is pointing out that it's not good journalism.
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El Pollo Blanco posted:This thread has the dumbest semantics arguments, goddamn. Life savings are literally any money you have saved at any point in your life. It's actually "god-damned"
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Jul 28, 2016 10:24
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fukken calm ur tits
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bobbilljim posted:I love to see a homeowner cry It's the only way I can maintain an erection now.
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Ghostlight posted:fukken calm ur tits But I doooooont waaaaaaaanaaaaaaaaa Also it's "loving", "your", and "missus".
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klen dool posted:But I doooooont waaaaaaaanaaaaaaaaa You could of told us earlier, mate.
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Jul 28, 2016 11:46
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The trust I am named on owns my home 
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Vagabundo posted:You could of told us earlier, mate. For all intensive purposes I did
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