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homeowner 39 22.41%
renter 69 39.66%
stupid peace of poo poo 66 37.93%
Total: 174 votes
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Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007

Midget Fist posted:

It's been ages since I heard the name Muriel Newman, looks like she went and formed a think-tank with the intention of scaremongering the people of NZ about the perils of socialism. Children aren't in poverty, it's socialists trying to get big government!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northland-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503402&objectid=11393494

:downsbravo: Former ACT party presidentdeputy leader claims that there's no poor people, only bad parents.

Chalupa Joe fucked around with this message at 00:41 on Jan 29, 2015

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Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007

Exclamation Marx posted:

crowded house is good tho right



If only John Key were as passionate about fixing the social ills of this country as he was about shooting muslims.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007

Ratios and Tendency posted:

Key's claiming that the $69,000,000 pork barrel Northland bridges that Simon Bridges said he decided on on Friday(the day after the ugly Winston poll) were actually "planned before the election but delayed by Kim Dotcom and Nicky Hager"

...
...And if you believe that, then I've got a bridge to sell you?

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
Now, observe as absolutely nothing is learned, and nothing is done within the police so it doesn't happen again.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
Is it better to ignore the news and be uninformed, or watch/read it and be misinformed?

I have no problem with shorter broadcasts. Prime manage to fit the same amount of news into half an hour every night, because nothing ever happens in New Zealand.

Hopefully it means that there'll be much less of the stupid fluffy filler stories, advertorials, and clickbait style "<some sort of situation> COMING UP AFTER THE BREAK HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS NEXT" promos right?*













*like hell it does.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
:ssh: If you've already got a dish up you could always go halves with friends/family and get a second decoder using Sky's multi-room/holiday home deal... or so I've heard.

There's also some discounts if you have phone/internet with Vodafone.

Con: you have to have phone/internet with Vodafone.

Chalupa Joe fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Apr 15, 2015

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
Summer went on too long, let's just skip autumn.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
17.4

Bill English hopes people don't understand arithmetic?

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
Oh you had a daughter? Tough poo poo. SPORTS.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007

Butt Wizard posted:

Ironic as the Ferns were multiple World Cup winners when the All Blacks were still choking their way through campaign after campaign.

I agree, I was commenting on how that article only seems to care about men's cricket and rugby and completely ignores any other sports men or women's teams have done well in.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007

truther posted:

Please tell me you wrote all of this and it's not taken from an actual news publication.

Luckily that's only in The Herald. Stuff is somehow even more facile.

Chalupa Joe fucked around with this message at 04:55 on May 25, 2015

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007

Butt Wizard posted:

For once the Gluc isn't the worst reporter in the country:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/68830591/countdown-lowers-price-on-lindt-chocolate-as-sydney-siege-inquest-resumes


Alternative headline: "Supermarket in different country cuts chocolate prices because competitor launches new product, is somehow massively insensitive"

That's not even a price cut, they're currently 2 for $6 on special.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
LOL if you read the Herald and expect some semblance of news.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
More or less than Murray McCully?

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
Australia's flag has 6 (so ours has 5). :downs:

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
Just because the stats aren't recorded is no excuse for making poo poo up. It's hardly National's fault that the current Labour party are completely hopeless at the game of politics.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007

klen dool posted:

I am from the mainland and I think it's loving rad. Well, apart from christchurch. And gore. And timaru. And oamaru. And waimate. And Queenstown. And Blenheim. And picton. And mosgeil. And Cheviot. and Cromwell. And Duntroon. And Hampden. And kurow. And pekeuri. And ranfurly. And twizel. And temuka.

so basically Nelson and Dunedin are the only good places then.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

I'm from Nelson.


You may now reassess any positive thoughts you had about it.

Me too.

I got out.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

That's because NZ music is 99% uninspired "Oh god i need to break into the US market" trash these days MATE

Looks like SOMEONE'S forgotten their roots :colbert:

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
It's not just the Young Nats and this has already been covered...

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007

WarpedNaba posted:

Jokes on the crypto-fascists, we've already got a little Te Reo on our banknotes.

The new "these totally don't look like Canadian dollars you guys" notes which are entering circulation soon have a little bit more Te Reo on them, I wonder if anyone's told the numpties yet.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
Act being a party full of hypocrites? :wotwot:

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
"There were very few New Zealand flags in the crowd" I don't know, it's almost like we're not hyper-nationalist flag fetishists like Australia or the USA, but no lets have a sports team logo because reasons.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
There's nothing to worry about, the PM has said that they're women's jobs anyway.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/71584475/some-industries-dominated-by-women-john-key-on-midwives-pay

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
Shamelessly stolen from twitter (I've got no idea of the original source):



The best part is that Weet-bix came from Australia.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
Can't sleep, Collins'll eat me.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
Several people at work expressed the opinion that the cops should shoot more of the bastards when it happened, so I guess that's Middle New Zealand's response. :negative:

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
It'll be different! This time he won't get away with it! :allears:

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
Capital gains on Auckland property.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
Was that the "NINE LONG YEARS UNDER A LABOUR GOVERNMENT" that the current one keeps mentioningblaming every time they're questioned?

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007

Can't think why. Does anyone else notice that women mentioned in headlines always seem to be described as <Sportsman>'s wife, like they're some kind of nameless marital chattel?

Chalupa Joe fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Oct 23, 2015

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

Ahaha that's not the winner. The winner is the current flag. There's no way this is gonna win.

Counterpoint: New Zealand.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007


:ughh:
I don't know which is worse, a post-Bowie world, or how hilariously insecure and desperate to find a local angle on literally everything the NZ news media are.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007

klen dool posted:

...another company called certus (http://certussolutions.com/).

BINGO!

I've never seen a website with so much leveraging synergistic paradigms gobbledegook on it.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007

Since it's necessary to read The Herald to play this game, the only way to win is not to play.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
Waiting for it to be called "MANnel one" or something else suitably asinine.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
It's profoundly mediocre.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
The article has been edited now to say that yes it is a street lamp, IT'S A COVERUP :tinfoil:
Of course their edits have just made the article into more of a bunch of nonsense than before.

Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007

El Pollo Blanco posted:

https://twitter.com/jamileeross/status/695117574242041856

tbh I'm more concerned that Jami Lee Ross has never bothered to read the NZ bill of rights

Then there's the subtext that you're not a real "everyday NZer" if you disagree.

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Chalupa Joe
Mar 4, 2007
:golfclap:

Nice one.

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