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exmachina posted:That means occasionally. A-ha, but it's only during three months of the year! (Good call, though. I must've mistaken it for another expression) Ghostlight posted:I don't care for celebrating our association with a nation so comfortable with its past and current human rights abuses. ... all of them? Literally every nation in existence? WarpedNaba fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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Feb 7, 2018 05:15
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Feb 7, 2018 05:34
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Man, there's only so much time a man can dedicate to self-flagellation.
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Feb 7, 2018 05:40
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Waitangi day should be renamed NZ Day and celebrations moved to Wellington. Fireworks in every major city centre on the preceding evening. Work towards settling any treaty claims fully and fairly. Support local communities which may or may not be predominately Maori and ensure the youth (regardless of race) gets a hand up where required. ANZAC day renamed to Services day. All services (fire, police, armed forces) etc celebrated for their service and commitment to doing good and helping others (past and present)
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Feb 7, 2018 08:32
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Don't you have some Tongans to whine about?
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Feb 7, 2018 08:34
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that's so 2017
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Feb 7, 2018 08:37
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Also your ideas are stupid, and quite frankly, what you've suggested for ANZAC day is a loving insult to those that were killed at Gallipoli.
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Feb 7, 2018 08:44
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The ones who died fighting to steal a bit of land for the Russians?
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Feb 7, 2018 08:51
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ANZAC Day shouldn't be a day to celebrate, but to acknowledge the people that died in combat, and in the case of Gallipoli, how loving senseless and avoidable it all was.
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Feb 7, 2018 08:57
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Why can't you guys let me have the worst opinion in the thread for like a single day.
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Feb 7, 2018 08:58
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Competition is just so fierce.
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Feb 7, 2018 08:59
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I think Waitangi Day is a farce, and, quite frankly, it's not like Maori were even the original inhabitants of New Zealand anyway. When will we acknowledge the Ancient Celts that were here before them, rather than covering up evidence of their existence and attributing their works to Maori, hmm? Your move, Ghostlight.
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Feb 7, 2018 09:04
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The celts were hardly the first. Now the Egyptians, they were definitely the original inhabitants. Think I'm wrong? Then why is the Maori word for the sun Ra? Checkmate.
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Feb 7, 2018 09:23
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This is greatly disrespectful to the Atlanteans.
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Feb 7, 2018 09:46
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Vagabundo posted:Your move, Ghostlight.
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Feb 7, 2018 09:57
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Feb 7, 2018 10:00
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Ghostlight posted:Mike Hosking should get more airtime. Don Brash is correct.
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Feb 7, 2018 10:04
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Ghostlight posted:Mike Hosking should get more airtime. I know you're joking, but he probably will once the economy contracts.
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Feb 7, 2018 10:19
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cptn_dr posted:The celts were hardly the first. Now the Egyptians, they were definitely the original inhabitants. holy poo poo
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Feb 7, 2018 10:24
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Vagabundo posted:Don Brash is correct. Max Key should be the next PM, with Leighton Smith as deputy.
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Feb 7, 2018 18:54
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The Rabbi T. White posted:Max Key should be the next PM, with Leighton Smith as deputy. And get The Opportunities Party into parliament as part of a coalition, with a front bench spot for Sean Plunket and Gareth Morgan.
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Feb 7, 2018 19:25
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I feel like renaming ANZAC Day to Services Day would miss the whole point. Lest We Forget, War is Kinda lovely.
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Feb 8, 2018 01:40
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Inescapable Duck posted:This is greatly disrespectful to the Atlanteans.
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Feb 8, 2018 01:42
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I feel like there's some way we can still allow the solemn reflection stuff while also dialing down the outright glorification that ANZAC day has become so focused on since National decided to target it as a way to promote national identity.
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Feb 8, 2018 02:07
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i've never really experienced ANZAC day as jingoistic. i think the first time i learnt about it properly was when we were studying poetry of the first world war when i was maybe 10 or 11. the poems were very grim and not at all nationalistic (or pro-war). that might have coloured how i view the day, but the first service i went to (years later) at the local RSA had the same theme - war is terrible. i think they actually read some of the same poetry there too! to me, ANZAC days feels like a trip to the auckland war memorial museum, where there are rooms where the walls are inscribed with lists & lists of the names of people who were killed in various wars. it is overwhelming and chilling. same again with the cenotaphs you see visiting pretty much any small town in nz, especially when you read multiple names with the same surname and consider how many men from one family died. it must have devastated a generation. one thing i am not comfortable with is the language around sacrifice - especially for the first world war. how many of the people who fought knew what they were getting into, really? and i don't want to honor the politicians who decided to "sacrifice" them. i guess this is relevant today too, but less so for kiwis. eighteen is very, very young. first years at uni are pretty much babies! this will be my fourth year going to the dawn service here in nyc, which is a bit blander (and we sing the star spangled banner alongside the aussie & nz anthems). it is held in the vietnam veterans' plaza in the financial district, and the main memorial is inscribed with excerpts from letters home. the largest one is: Lt. Richard W. Strandberg posted:One thing worries me… will people believe me? Will they want to hear about it, or will they want to forget the whole thing ever happened? anyway, here is some poetry, this is what i think about at anzac day: Wilfred Owen posted:Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
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Feb 8, 2018 03:57
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Always good to see a corporate message drone fall on the right side of history https://twitter.com/MitchKinney/status/960838115526025216?ref_src=twcamp%5Eshare%7Ctwsrc%5Em5%7Ctwgr%5Eemail%7Ctwcon%5E7046%7Ctwterm%5E2 
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Feb 8, 2018 08:39
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So Waitangi seemed to come and go without any real controversy... oh hi Bob Sir Bob Jones being himself
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Feb 8, 2018 09:19
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Varkk posted:Always good to see a corporate message drone fall on the right side of history gently caress Spark though, for entirely different reasons. Last year, my flat's internet was broken, and we worked out it was a bung modem from Spark. We asked for a replacement, and they decided that they were worth more than their combined firstborns' harvested organs, and got weirdly stingy. Instead of following up on requests for a new modem, they kept asking us if "this light is working and that light is working," and every time we pointed out that we'd already answered those questions and had requested a new modem, they claimed that no such request was made (my flatmate had correspondence with them stating otherwise.) When called out on this, they then would ask "standard questions" about which lights were on and off, and if we'd reset the modem, etc. After a couple of weeks, I called them from work and yelled at them for 20 minutes, and told them to send a new modem overnight. When they claimed they couldn't, I refused to budge on the matter until they gave in and sent it through overnight. In my rage, I heaped abuse on their twitter account as well, and have since been blocked. I think the last correspondence I had with them was when they asked me for the 10000th time which lights on the modem were on, and if we'd reset it, and I responded with "what the gently caress do you think, you worthless oval office?" Whenever there has been any issue with the internet at the flat, or at my mum's place (both places are with Spark), I have been quick to remind them of how loving pathetic their standard of service has been in the past, to shame them into doing better work. It has been surprisingly successful.
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Feb 8, 2018 09:53
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If it makes you feel better, in trying to get the same thing out of Vodafone they put me on hold several times, once for forty minutes, then terminated the call and also ignored messages submitted through the insanely hidden email contact page on their website. My modem is so ancient it can't even load the web interface anymore, and it struggles to go more than 48 hours without making GBS threads the bed, but since it will still do the job I've been procrastinating on doing anything as drastic as buying one myself or just changing to Spark because that would be less effort than trying to contact Vodafone again.
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King Louie posted:i've never really experienced ANZAC day as jingoistic. i think the first time i learnt about it properly was when we were studying poetry of the first world war when i was maybe 10 or 11. the poems were very grim and not at all nationalistic (or pro-war). that might have coloured how i view the day, but the first service i went to (years later) at the local RSA had the same theme - war is terrible. i think they actually read some of the same poetry there too! Completely agree. I think there are a very small minority of people who get a bit jingoistic, but by and large everyone else sees it as the day of commemoration and commiseration, not one of celebration. On the sacrifice thing, I find some people get very caught up in "our boys sent off to the other side of the world to die in someone else's war" - which isn't wrong, but too easily people look at it from today's point of view, forgetting that "our boys" were of a generation with a much stronger connection to "the motherland", and to them it wasn't always "someone else's war", they were going off to fight alongside their literal brothers and cousins and uncles. Yes, to die for some Kings and Queens and politicians and Generals, but it is what it is.
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Feb 8, 2018 11:02
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Vagabundo posted:gently caress Spark though, for entirely different reasons. This is really loving weird because one of my flatmates rings Spark every few months to tell them we're shifting to Vodafone because their service is rubbish, and every time they drop the bill price for the next 6 months and have thrown in a couple of new modems too.
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Feb 8, 2018 20:07
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Traditionally, ISP chat belongs in the other NZ thread.
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Feb 8, 2018 20:28
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In terms of ISPs Spark are bad and prior to splitting from Chorus were holding back NZ’s infrastructure to maximise their profits. For that reason I will never use them myself. Although recently I have found their corporate support has really picked up. Vodafone are universally bad at everything. The others are a real mixed bag.
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Varkk posted:In terms of ISPs Spark are bad and prior to splitting from Chorus were holding back NZ’s infrastructure to maximise their profits. For that reason I will never use them myself. Although recently I have found their corporate support has really picked up. Vodafone are universally bad at everything. The others are a real mixed bag. Spark have been solid for me.
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Feb 9, 2018 00:47
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Vodafone keep giving me free stuff and hundred dollar credits for no apparent reason so I've got no problems with them.
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Feb 9, 2018 03:38
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I've never really had an issue with Telstra/Vodafone for internet, apart from hurry the gently caress up with upv6 and don't charge me for a static IP on fibrex. Vodafone for cellphones on the other hand.... I was not on plan, prepay peeps are charged $2 for a support request. They forgot my password I used to recharge my phone credit, and despite it being their fault they still tried to charge me the two bucks for the privilege of me giving them money... that was quite an argument... On the plus side, after I snail mailed a complaint, they rang me and apologized and gave me $20 credit so that's good I guess...
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Charter schools are going to be shut down by the end of the year. Good loving riddance, but I'd say it's pretty loving galling to see craven pieces of poo poo like Judith Collins whinging about what a bunch of meanie-paninis the PPTA and NZEI were over them. loving gently caress off, you corrupt loving piece of loving poo poo. Don't loving talk to me about loving "choice in education providers" when your loving Undersecretary of Education, whatever the gently caress that's even supposed to be went out of his way to hobble One Tree Hill College as a viable choice for parents in nearby suburbs just on the periphery of their current zone, and passed legislation that made these loving schools OIA-exempt, with no requirement for trained or qualified staff, with Level 2 results that were amongst the worst in the country - a fact that had to be pried out of Hekia "I can't even pour milk into a loving bowl of cornflakes without it bursting into flame because I'm so loving worthless and stupid" Parata. Edit: I may or may not have also just gone off at Judith Collins on social media about this. edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Feb 10, 2018 |
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Vagabundo posted:Charter schools are going to be shut down by the end of the year. Good loving riddance, but I'd say it's pretty loving galling to see craven pieces of poo poo like Judith Collins whinging about what a bunch of meanie-paninis the PPTA and NZEI were over them. loving gently caress off, you corrupt loving piece of loving poo poo. Deanna troi (fingers to head): im sensing anger
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Feb 10, 2018 01:33
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what about that small percentage of children for whom standard schooling isn't working? chuck em in the river I guess
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BloodRed posted:what about that small percentage of children for whom standard schooling isn't working? For-profit charter schools cost more public money and are subject to fewer requirements and oversight. They are the not answer to this problem. SuperiorColliculus fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Feb 10, 2018 |
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