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Maybe that's why they're trying to shill whaleoil fedoras? Not kidding, possibly for a mere $80 you could have your very own! http://www.donotlink.com/da5q
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Jan 21, 2015 06:59
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That is some remarkably on the nose brand synergy.
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Jan 21, 2015 07:01
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Sweet merciful mother of gently caress, don't read the comments. Greg M • 26 minutes ago Count me in Pete, I'm okay with either style but the Fedora would be my preference. El Jorge • an hour ago Bash out some WOBH can/stubbie coolers and I'll be a starter for 4-6 off. A couple of years ago I organised a batch of 40 units and they came in at less than $10 each, If you do a couple of hundred (even thousand) I reckon they would sell like hotcakes in the $10-15 price bracket. Am happy to place the enquiry with my contacts on your behalf. RobT • 2 hours ago Just about everybody that wears a hat, has one already. As complete cost saver why not just make the decorative strip available to interchange with the encumbant one. Voila! Cheap option easy to post out...simple or not? Betty Swallocks • 2 hours ago I'll wear a wooden box in a hole in the ground before I wear a straw hat, but my felt fishing hat would definitely suit one of those bands.
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Jan 21, 2015 07:35
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Jan 21, 2015 08:22
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Polity posted:Even if those three heroic assumptions come to pass, Auckland house prices would drop (once you average out houses and apartments) by about $10,000, one off. Which would make Auckland’s “severely unaffordable” score of 8.2 in the Demographia survey drop amazingly to a “severely affordable” 8.06.I will post separately on the shortcomings of the Demographia survey itself. Whoop-de-fricken-do. http://polity.co.nz/content/nick-smiths-gambit
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Jan 22, 2015 00:15
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There is apparently Auckland related stuff happening tomorrow. Ministry of Transport press conference.
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Jan 22, 2015 08:34
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Let me guess, "gently caress public transport, motorways for everyone!"
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Jan 22, 2015 09:26
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Maybe it'll be good news
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Jan 22, 2015 09:36
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Exclamation Marx posted:Maybe it'll be good news Auckland is being closed down and everyone in it brutally murdered.
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Jan 22, 2015 09:41
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Exclamation Marx posted:Maybe it'll be good news Ahahaha Hahaha Ahahaha "Enjoy these new toll roads which should ease congestion. I'm not sure how as public transport will remain hosed. Oh look, we have a surplus from the tolls, let's lower the top tax rate" *John Key and Bill English cum so violently that Deborah Cone Hill drowns. That is literally the only way good news comes out of tomorrow's announcement.
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Jan 22, 2015 09:57
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"In order to provide for an increase in Auckland's affordability we are removing Auckland Council's ability to set rates and control land supply, forming the Auckland Housing Authority which will report directly to Gerry Brownlee."
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Jan 22, 2015 10:10
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It could be anything from paving the Waitemata to confirming a state date for the CRL and timetables/funding for other transport projects. Anything.
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Jan 22, 2015 10:26
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So the National Library is being run into the ground by the people who run it. (Background - the National Library is a government run library that provides books to school teachers for use in class. Teachers can go into the library and pick out a whole bunch of books, or can email the library and ask for a bunch of books on a particular topic, which get shipped out to them at the librarys expense.) It seems like the people who run it want to shut it down, so they're changing things so that people no longer use it, and then use that as justification that people don't use it. Many new teachers don't even know the service exists, and its in the interests of upper management to keep it that way. What they're doing is changing from sending out non-fiction, curriculum based books, to only sending out fiction, forcing schools to buy their own non-fiction resources (and poor/remote schools will of course by the hardest hit. I have known people who work for the National Library, and this is just one last push in a concerted effort to shut them down. After the christchurch earthquake, there was pressure from the wellington based management to shut down the christchurch centre and put basically everyone in christchurch out of a job. The people who buy new books are idiots, and will buy a handful or none of books that their clients (the teachers) have actually asked for, and instead buy a whole bunch of 'classic' literature that nobody ever gets out. When it comes to 'weeding', which involves throwing out outdated/damaged books, the non-fiction is practically untouched and brand new fiction books get thrown out (although this may be more staff incompetence/indifference rather than policy). tl;dr: The National government is putting yet another policy into place that will harm the school system.
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Jan 22, 2015 18:55
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Lobsterpillar posted:So the National Library is being run into the ground by the people who run it. (Background - the National Library is a government run library that provides books to school teachers for use in class. Teachers can go into the library and pick out a whole bunch of books, or can email the library and ask for a bunch of books on a particular topic, which get shipped out to them at the librarys expense.) It seems like the people who run it want to shut it down, so they're changing things so that people no longer use it, and then use that as justification that people don't use it. Many new teachers don't even know the service exists, and its in the interests of upper management to keep it that way. Smart people don't vote for regressive right wing shitbags.
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Jan 22, 2015 20:59
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That trams announcement was the most underwhelming piece of poo poo I've ever seen.
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Jan 23, 2015 00:56
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Butt Wizard posted:That tram was the most underwhelming piece of poo poo I've ever seen. ^^ what people will eventually be saying.
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Jan 23, 2015 02:15
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Slavvy posted:^^ what people will eventually be saying. I have no problem with trams but how loving dense is the Council if they think that proposals that just show infrastructure going into the central suburbs is going to encourage buy-in from other parts of the city. This poo poo is why idiots won't shut up about the CRL 'just being for the CBD'.
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Jan 23, 2015 02:20
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I was meaning more that after a lengthy consultation process we'll settle on reconditioned trams from Uzbekistan at a cost around triple what it would take to buy brand new ones, and then they'll spend ten years constantly breaking down and crashing until the tram system is abolished as a way of cutting costs.
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Jan 23, 2015 03:13
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Slavvy posted:I was meaning more that after a lengthy consultation process we'll settle on reconditioned trams from Uzbekistan at a cost around triple what it would take to buy brand new ones, and then they'll spend ten years constantly breaking down and crashing until the tram system is abolished as a way of cutting costs. you forgot to mention the consultation alone costing as much as the building process.
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Jan 23, 2015 03:16
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There's always the off chance they prove useful and popular and turn an actual profit. Obviously if this happens they will immediately be sold to an offshore company which triples fares, fires 90% of the staff and spends literally nothing on maintenance or upgrades until the service literally falls apart. The sale price will be under two years operational income
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Jan 23, 2015 03:32
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Infotainment! posted:There's always the off chance they prove useful and popular and turn an actual profit. With an obligation to maintain the tram tracks we no longer own for twenty years.
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Jan 23, 2015 03:36
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Maybe the trams get put into storage for 20 years then sold to a third world country for like a dollar each. Two get donated to Motat, one to the Museum.
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Jan 23, 2015 06:43
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Slavvy posted:Maybe the trams get put into storage for 20 years then sold to a third world country for like a dollar each. Two get donated to Motat, one to the Museum. In 40 years time we'll decide "gently caress maybe trams were the way to go after all" lather rinse repeat
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Jan 23, 2015 07:58
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Sell the tram pay system to a bunch of lazy australians, have everything break, then buy it back at the cost of millions to the tax payers.
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Jan 23, 2015 08:13
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Lobsterpillar posted:So the National Library is being run into the ground by the people who run it. (Background - the National Library is a government run library that provides books to school teachers for use in class. Teachers can go into the library and pick out a whole bunch of books, or can email the library and ask for a bunch of books on a particular topic, which get shipped out to them at the librarys expense.) It seems like the people who run it want to shut it down, so they're changing things so that people no longer use it, and then use that as justification that people don't use it. Many new teachers don't even know the service exists, and its in the interests of upper management to keep it that way. This is hosed up. I literally would not have been able to teach most of the units I did without the national library. People can say what they want about digital learning media, there simply isn't the same breadth of child-appropriate information available online as there is still in print. Especially not for free like the National Library is.
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Jan 23, 2015 08:14
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Butt Wizard posted:In 40 years time we'll decide "gently caress maybe trams were the way to go after all" lather rinse repeat By that point we'll have sold our energy suppliers to whatever oil baron fueled Key's drinkie fund. Just in time for fossil fuels to run out!
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Jan 23, 2015 08:16
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Jan 23, 2015 12:54
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Exclamation Marx posted:Terror Jesus Christ I was just about to go to sleep you bastard, now I'll be having the worst nightmares.
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Jan 23, 2015 13:01
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Jan 23, 2015 21:11
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 http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/65394114/celebrity-boxing-pits-cameron-whaleoil-slater-against-jesse-ryder omg remember when he had a bike race with Mallard
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Jan 25, 2015 01:29
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Cameron means nothing to me so I ignore his little blog and his antics in general and I am a happy loving shiny person now
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Jan 25, 2015 02:45
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I prefer my racist professional muck rakers to be punched in the face in more informal natural settings ie michael laws
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Jan 25, 2015 03:30
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Rather than giving Slater a chance to actually defend himself, just put him in the nets for an over with Adam Milne, it'd be more humiliating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ePx61TkXKY
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Jan 25, 2015 03:36
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Exclamation Marx posted:
 He has a Whale Oil tattoo!
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Jan 25, 2015 05:39
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Surely a sportsman - even a cricketer - could beat that sack of poo poo?
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Jan 25, 2015 05:54
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klen dool posted:Surely a sportsman - even a cricketer - could beat that sack of poo poo? 100 bucks on a heart attack in the first round.
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Jan 25, 2015 05:55
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Meanwhile in Grey Lynn, some rich person cares enough about the heritage status of their street to burn down a new house: http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11391450
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Jan 25, 2015 05:57
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Bushmaori posted:100 bucks on a heart attack in the first round. I will literally start believing in a merciful god if this happens.
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Jan 25, 2015 06:13
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fong posted:Meanwhile in Grey Lynn, some rich person cares enough about the heritage status of their street to burn down a new house: Literally murder the rich and feast on their bloated carcases.
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fong posted:Meanwhile in Grey Lynn, some rich person cares enough about the heritage status of their street to burn down a new house: "Our area has a special character* and we should preserve it at all costs" *now that the working class poors and coloured folk have retreated to the South where they belong.
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