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Deep Glove Bruno posted:is standup crowd work really rough and unfunny in NZ? just judging from your story, and how my partner once got ripped to poo poo at a show till she left. her crime was sitting quietly and not laughing at stuff she didn't find funny. i only have those examples but i've literally never heard somebody talk about any other standup show in nz. chch is the home of standup in nz idk why someone said it so it much be true I used to go to quite a bit a few years ago. it was quite variable. I got to know some of the comedians a bit, audrey porne was popular on twitter and finding out she was a kiwi and in fact in chch was what got me to my first show. people generally go there to have a good time and be in the mood to laugh. sometimes it works and is contagious, but not every time. and if you go enough you'll hear the same jokes over and over
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I've been too a few comedy nights. James Nokise is always pretty solid. Ben Hurley didn't quite hit the mark, "No one laughed at my climax joke." I didn't realise he'd finished.
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The best stand up comedian in the country is without a doubt Guy Montgomery and if any of you fools still haven't seen his show on TV3 (which recently got picked up for a second season) I pity you. e: He's also bringing his (award winning) set from this year back to the Q Theatre on the 25th of this month so I'd also implore you to see that if you missed it in May. Beartaco fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Aug 1, 2023 |
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bike tory posted:Both parties went to arbitration on the condition that they would accept the recommendations. I think the union still technically has to ratify it, but yeah it's pretty much a done deal. When the NZEI and PPTA strike, aren't they competing for the same limited pool of political will to achieve their goals? Surely it's only fair that our secondary teachers get the better end of the stick given the dire state of our high schools and the nature of the work they do.
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Beartaco posted:The best stand up comedian in the country is without a doubt Guy Montgomery and if any of you fools still haven't seen his show on TV3 (which recently got picked up for a second season) I pity you. Nice try Guy
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Beartaco posted:When the NZEI and PPTA strike, aren't they competing for the same limited pool of political will to achieve their goals? Can't tell if you're genuine or trolling, but that's literally the opposite of how solidarity and collective action work, and it's pretty hosed to suggest primary teachers or ECE deserve less pay than secondary teachers. PPTA deserve a better deal because they pushed for it collectively. Fortunately for NZEI we have a pay parity clause so that the higher pay conditions in one collective agreement are automatically applied to the other. It just doesn't include the lump sum payments that PPTA are getting, which are about $2000 more than what NZEI negotiated.
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Beartaco posted:Surely it's only fair that our secondary teachers get the better end of the stick given the dire state of our high schools and the nature of the work they do. Wow, no
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Beartaco posted:When the NZEI and PPTA strike, aren't they competing for the same limited pool of political will to achieve their goals? 
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Also it's a real sign how hosed our society is that teachers (while still underpaid) could easily be making 100k now which is a lot more than many other jobs. Purely because they are one of the few professions with a somewhat functioning union
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Waka Kotahi too focused on climate, not enough on transport - Christopher Luxon https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/494985/waka-kotahi-too-focused-on-climate-not-enough-on-transport-christopher-luxon god i hate this oval office
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"improving convenience of movement" aka more cars, since all the actual projects promising convenience of movement are coincidentally those that also deliver modes of transport that are more climate friendly.
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The perennial question in transport: what if we made it drastically easier to move around our cities AND significantly reduced emissions? Unfortunately that would require people to change their habits slightly. So it is unfortunately a political impossibility.
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also lmao at pointing to japan and saying they reduced their emissions based on high quality roads. you dumbass, more people than exist in new zealand catch the high-quality train into tokyo every morning. their roads are good because all the dumb poo poo you want to truck are on trains, like the people are on trains. goddamn it.
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It's almost like Japan has been giving tax incentives and other benefits for people to have small efficient cars since around 1949
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It's gonna work for National though because all the media have been banging on about potholes for the last couple of months so roads are now the big election thing. gently caress it's dumb.
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bobbilljim posted:It's almost like Japan has been giving tax incentives and other benefits for people to have small efficient cars since around 1949
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Also it just makes me so mad that they want to spend billions on saving people a few minutes in travel times, when they could be spending billions on the health system to save people minutes on wait times. They could fund ambulances or something. Give the teachers and nurses all their payrises. But no just roads roads roads.
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Project M.A.M.I.L. posted:It's gonna work for National though because all the media have been banging on about potholes for the last couple of months so roads are now the big election thing. gently caress it's dumb. Traffic + yoof crime will be the two things they promise to fix without ever doing so and it'll win them the election and give the country it's first prime thumb
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Slavvy posted:Traffic + yoof crime will be the two things they promise to fix without ever doing so and it'll win them the election and give the country it's first prime thumb Oh yeah I forgot about youthcrime, David "death camps" Seymour will sort it.
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No no, let's follow Japan's example. We can start by removing on-street parking in our biggest cities. It's just insane how much space we give to cars already.
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Slavvy posted:Traffic + yoof crime will be the two things they promise to fix without ever doing so and it'll win them the election and give the country it's first prime thumb It is important for the young to be able to travel quickly and efficiently to the stores they choose to ram raid.
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bike tory posted:The perennial question in transport: what if we made it drastically easier to move around our cities AND significantly reduced emissions? I will be launching the nuclear cars party soon
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exmarx posted:Waka Kotahi too focused on climate, not enough on transport - Christopher Luxon https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/494985/waka-kotahi-too-focused-on-climate-not-enough-on-transport-christopher-luxon 
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Beartaco posted:The best stand up comedian in the country is without a doubt Guy Montgomery and if any of you fools still haven't seen his show on TV3 (which recently got picked up for a second season) I pity you. Seconding this. Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee is excellent and worth the pain of ThreeNow to watch. Ya boy Spanky designed the set (and bee!) for the show and it was a highlight of 2022 for me. The podcast Guy co-hosts alongside Tim Batt - The Worst Idea of All Time - is top notch also.
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The pro road argument comes from people that don't actually live in the cities and talk about urban planning and transit systems literally like they're culture war. One guy was arguing that Wainuiomata was going to be turned into a 15 minute city. Firstly, stop threatening people with a good time. Secondly, no they're not. There's not going to be a point where you can't move to the burbs and drive to wherever. It's urban planning, key word being urban. Personally I'd prefer if suburban sprawl was kept under control, but we already know that's not going to happen.
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spanky the dolphin posted:Seconding this. Oh right on! You're the artist behind the 70s aesthetic. I love it.
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Spyderizer posted:turned into a 15 minute city. Some local idiots were saying that about where I live because the council would like lower speed limits in town. It's not a big place though, it takes less than 15 minutes to ride your bike across it. Driving it is already less than 15e Just parroting the dumbest of conspiracy theories.
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more than like Q and WEF conspiracies and such, the 15 minute city one really troubles me. how loving psychotic do you have to be to hear "we want all the basics of your life to be available within 15 minutes transport" and come up with globoprison?
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Once the New World Order government makes 15 minute cities everywhere they won't let you leave.
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I'm kinda lost on this one. What is the actual 'conspiracy' meant to be? Like do they think basic urban planning is a reptilian plot to make life more convenient or something...?
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spanky the dolphin posted:Seconding this. Tim is just genuinely a lovely human, too Slavvy posted:I'm kinda lost on this one. What is the actual 'conspiracy' meant to be? Like do they think basic urban planning is a reptilian plot to make life more convenient or something...? They think it's a conspiracy to take away people's freedom of movement. They strawman policies around like, congestion charging, low traffic neighbourhoods, pedestrianised areas and poo poo to claim that governments have a wider agenda of banning cars completely or preventing people from travelling outside their neighbourhood at all voiceless anal fricative fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Aug 2, 2023 |
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Slavvy posted:I'm kinda lost on this one. What is the actual 'conspiracy' meant to be? Like do they think basic urban planning is a reptilian plot to make life more convenient or something...? The conspiracy is that once you are in a 15min city (((they))) will limit your freedom of movement. You will be trapped in your local area and will need permits to travel into different ones. People will also point to China's social credit system as something that will also be implemented.
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spanky the dolphin posted:Seconding this. Oh good poo poo. You did a fantastic job and I can’t praise you enough for it. 
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kaiwero posted:The conspiracy is that once you are in a 15min city (((they))) will limit your freedom of movement. You will be trapped in your local area and will need permits to travel into different ones. Just seems exceptionally tenuous and contrived and incoherent even by the standards of these things. Makes me wonder if it's just a case of conspiracy brains having nowhere to go when society is very explicit about immiserating everyone and making everything worse; all the evil poo poo is just ordinary and out in the open now so there's no longer a need for a nefarious conspiracy you can feel special about knowing. So you have to come up with some truly wild and senseless poo poo to feel smug about.
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Has any politician or anyone at any level of authority in NZ even said the words "15 minutes city" out loud in public for these loving idiots to even think someone is credibly pushing for them in NZ?
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what part of global conspiracy don't you get
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i love these ads so much because they're basically saying 'if you join the military, you will get a lovely nickname because of some dumb thing that you'll just have to deal with for your entire career and you just know that if you say you don't like it that you'll get bullied further' can't imagine anything more counterproductive for their recruiting than saying 'if you didn't like school you'll *hate* this!!!'
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bike tory posted:Tim is just genuinely a lovely human, too Dunno the guy personally but he hosts and produces a whole bunch of fantastic shows around the city. If anyone's looking for something to do on any given night, look for a show with his name on it and you'll be in for a good time.
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lmfao e: sadly I will spoil the fun by posting a still from the actual ad though which is also very funny 
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