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voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

Hmm I wonder who the greens would go with. Gosh it'd be all up in the air

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Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Hrm yes these are important stats to have ~checks watch~ 30 months before the election.

Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
Greens would no longer exist if they supported National.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

In actual politics, the Herald and stuff have both broken bits of a fairly damning story about how underfunding in road policing has lead to a massive increase in road fatalities in Auckland

e: and in joke politics, David Seymour is a terrible dancer and watching him make a fool out of himself on DWTS is v funny because he looks so ridiculous

voiceless anal fricative fucked around with this message at 10:21 on May 27, 2018

xiw
Sep 25, 2011

i wake up at night
night action madness nightmares
maybe i am scum

Cpig Haiku contest 2020 winner

Xik posted:

Greens would no longer exist if they supported National.

I think it'd be worth offering a deal, say Greens get to be PM, get half the ministers, and write the budget. In exchange, Labour are kept out. After all, that's National's core reason to exist.

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



National's core reason to exist is to be in power. Keeping Labour out just happens to be the only way of achieving that due to our lack of party diversity.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

bike tory posted:

Hmm I wonder who the greens would go with. Gosh it'd be all up in the air

Yes, but if only the Greens would just consider getting in bed with a party that is reviled by their constituents. I mean, it worked out for the Maori Party, didn't it?

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Well technically Labour could also be the kingmaker.

Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
And Mana.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Xik posted:

And Mana.

Would they even have a chance of getting back in?

Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum

Vagabundo posted:

Would they even have a chance of getting back in?

My post was supposed to be a reply to yours, party died when they sided with a white collar criminal.

I haven't really followed anything about them since, so honestly not sure if they have a chance of getting back in. Maybe they still have their niche.

edogawa rando
Mar 20, 2007

Xik posted:

My post was supposed to be a reply to yours, party died when they sided with a white collar criminal.

I haven't really followed anything about them since, so honestly not sure if they have a chance of getting back in. Maybe they still have their niche.

At the 2008 election, Hone Harawira kept Kelvin Davis out by around 6300 or so votes, under the Maori Party banner.

At the 2011 by-election, Harawira retained the seat by 1000-odd votes (IIRC, this was triggered by his leaving the Maori Party), and later that year, retained the seat by a similar margin.

At the 2014 election, Kelvin Davis took the seat by around 800 votes, and retained it by almost 5000.

If Mana have a chance of getting back in, it'll be via Harawira taking one of the Maori electorate seats, and honestly, I don't think he'll be doing it in Te Tai Tokerau.


I can see the Maori Party sneaking back into Parliament in 2020, but I wonder how many people would be thinking about Marama Fox's embarrassing display the day after the election. A strong candidate could potentially take the Waiariki seat off of Tamati Coffey, but it'll have to be someone pretty important to Te Arawa.

edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 05:13 on May 28, 2018

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

Idk, Tamati Coffey is one of Labour's rising stars I reckon. If he can hold Waiariki it wouldn't surprise me to see him in cabinet next time.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
gluckman's meth standard review is out 😬

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

LOL at Bennett claiming that even though thousands of people got kicked out of their homes she was actually right all along.

Murrah
Mar 22, 2015

Id always found it a little odd that I had never heard of the meth exposure thing in the USA.

I remember an acquittance who worked in home cleaning attending a talk on the issue when it was at the beginning of the craze. Anyways what an outrage so many vulnerable people would have been affected by this

SurreptitiousMuffin
Mar 21, 2010
Hi thread, just a reminder that I, the Reverend Brian Tamaki, started a fire in a pile of trash then fell into it. I received burns to my dick, balls and taint.

Thank you for your time.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
... his dick and his taint? What, is he a hermaphrodite?

cptn_dr
Sep 7, 2011

Seven for beauty that blossoms and dies


WarpedNaba posted:

... his dick and his taint? What, is he a hermaphrodite?

Th'taint is also known as the gooch, the grundle or the fun bridge.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

Hi thread, just a reminder that I, the Reverend Brian Tamaki, started a fire in a pile of trash then fell into it. I received burns to my dick, balls and taint.

Thank you for your time.

Could Brian Tamaki light a fire so hot that even his taint couldn't extinguish? Checkmate, theists.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

cptn_dr posted:

Th'taint is also known as the gooch, the grundle or the fun bridge.

Huh. I always thought it was another word for penis, and the usage here indicated either type of gonad was now covered.

SurreptitiousMuffin
Mar 21, 2010
It's true though, I have two penises. I burnt both of them, as well as my perineum.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









WarpedNaba posted:

Huh. I always thought it was another word for penis, and the usage here indicated either type of gonad was now covered.

T'aint the dick and t'aint the rear end

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



that should be 'tain't

SurreptitiousMuffin
Mar 21, 2010
I have a disease called Bad Gooch. It means my taint is exceptionally large, and smells like cheese that has been left in the sun too long.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!

sebmojo posted:

T'aint the dick and t'aint the rear end

Aaaaaaaaaah.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Ghostlight posted:

that should be 'tain't

Yep, soz

Good russell brown blog on the meth nonsense. It makes me very angry.

Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK

Ghostlight posted:

that should be 'tain't

't'ain'ts'tve

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

Who has done this to me

SurreptitiousMuffin
Mar 21, 2010
Welcome to NZpol. You have reached level 2.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hAx4LWJoiIU

Please mystery benefactor, make me a gif of him missing his hip bump, looking to see his partner is like 5m away, then scootching over to awkwardly do it again. 1:07 in the video above.

voiceless anal fricative fucked around with this message at 00:29 on May 30, 2018

redleader
Aug 18, 2005

Engage according to operational parameters

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

Hi thread, just a reminder that I, the Reverend Brian Tamaki, started a fire in a pile of trash then fell into it. I received burns to my dick, balls and taint.

Thank you for your time.

Highlight of 2018

Binkenstein
Jan 18, 2010

Charles 2 of Spain posted:

LOL at Bennett claiming that even though thousands of people got kicked out of their homes she was actually right all along.

I find it amazing that a former National minister is claiming "Oh, I couldn't make the ministry *not* do it they were just too much for me"... /facepalm

Either she was okay with it, or she was a drat ineffectual minister.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
I'm going to put my money on both.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

I'm going to go with nobody in the nat government actually did the job on their name placard, up to and including the PM, because doing the government's job is not the purpose of the national party.

Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum
An effective government? That's socialism!

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
https://twitter.com/bekathrills/status/1001249209234817024

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
A policeman trips. The humour is lost on me.

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Is that the fascist child beatdown cop?

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The Rabbi T. White
Jul 17, 2008





The fact she thinks she can get away with this crap - and that I'm sure she probably loving will - is astonishing:
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018647193/paula-bennett-hnz-too-cautious-on-meth-testing

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