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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:excuse me but the only people unsafe in cars and other vehicles are teens??? Middle-aged women in SUVs and 20's-something men in Holdens/Fords are who routinely try to kill me. But the government would never try to target older people for relicensing. Project M.A.M.I.L. fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Jan 26, 2015 |
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Jan 27, 2015 01:39
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Slavvy posted:I am. Everyone should be. If more people rode motorbikes, there would be less traffic congestion and greater driver awareness of motorbikes which would cut down on accidents a lot. It's the same argument as the cyclist ones except motorbikes pay tax, have warrants, require a license and are able to stop/turn/accelerate like a normal vehicle. Cyclists pay tax. Everyone pays taxes that go towards roads, whether they own a car or not. My main beef is that everyone including myself are terrible and make awful drivers, and it should be much harder for us to be licensed to drive. What amounts to heavy machinery is being operated in pubic places by people who have to remember how to breathe when they wake up each morning. The new driver licensing tests helped a bit by making it harder for new drivers, but the worst people are already out there and they don't get stopped until they kill someone. But as it was said already, they are voters, and the AA is a pretty powerful lobby as far as I understand it.
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Jan 27, 2015 07:26
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Ghostlight posted:Slavvy specifically means the Road User Charge, which cyclists do not pay, and which is about half of the National Land Transport Programme's funding. True, and yet most people who bike also own cars. But really it doesn't matter as transport infrastructure is vital infrastructure and should be available to all on a non user-pays basis, pedestrian through to SUV driver.
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Jan 27, 2015 07:57
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Slavvy posted:I just think the taxing regime is really stupid and senseless. Agreed. Edit- Wow, never seen that John Key quote before. What a fuckwit. Project M.A.M.I.L. fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Jan 27, 2015 |
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Jan 27, 2015 09:16
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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
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Jan 28, 2015 23:26
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Good thing it's tucked away in the northland age, a paper distributed in one of the poorest areas of the country. Gotta rub their noses in it or they'll never learn.
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Jan 29, 2015 00:53
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Cricket is poo poo and anyone who likes it is an idiot. Congrats on always being wrong I guess?
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Mar 25, 2015 21:38
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*Opens Herald website* *Sees that some 'journalist' is already calling it Ponytailgate* *Closes laptop and sighs* Poor girl, it's bad enough having weird or rude customers, imagine having one who thought it was appropriate to touch you also. And it's the PM so you feel like maybe you can't do anything about it, then when you do tell people about it they think it's normal for someone to do what amounts to abuse or bullying. If Helen Clark had squeezed some guy's bum or had a thing for touching shaven headed men you bet there'd be some sort of outcry, but not for our John. I don't even know what my point is, the whole thing is frustrating and sad and then the Herald comes along to gently caress things up even more.
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Apr 22, 2015 20:19
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echinopsis posted:Yeah but the thing is most voting people would not consider this "sexual" despite what everyone in this thread says. If people think the accusation is a joke, then it will only work in his favour. Left-wing smear campaign will be out of his mouth at some point in the next few days.
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Apr 23, 2015 02:24
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It's hard to have writing standards when everything you publish is pulled from Twitter and Facebook.
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Apr 23, 2015 23:40
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Vagabundo posted:Paul Henry's new show has been a real ratings winner for MediaWorks so far. Less than 1% of its target demo. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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May 6, 2015 08:59
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I think what JK really wants in a flag is to be the 51st star on the Stars and Stripes.
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May 9, 2015 04:55
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Also there is a huge portion of the population who think that casually abusing women and others you consider inferior to you is totally sweet and manly and anyone who thinks otherwise is a pc homo.
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May 10, 2015 03:41
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You got me:)
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May 10, 2015 10:35
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Slavvy posted:Why the gently caress would you use this image to promote anything other than group suicide? Because all life is suffering.
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Jun 9, 2015 07:48
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We stayed in some really nice apartments in the Gold Coast a few weeks ago and could have easily seen ourselves living in one if something of the like existed in Auckland. I had wondered why there weren't apartments like that in Auckland, but assumed it was because people all want the backyard and front lawn, despite also wanting to live in the biggest city in NZ.
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Jun 17, 2015 06:42
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Top things in NZ: What kind of list doesn't have a few sausages on the barbie? You done hosed up.
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Aug 11, 2015 07:19
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I was surprised to read an actually (I thought) decent opinion column on the Herald today http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11495479 Sums up what a lot of people, at least that I know, feel about the situation but are frustrated and unable to do anything about.
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Aug 11, 2015 07:20
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:Labour man says Tories hosed up. Stop the presses. It wasn't necessarily the content, more the fact that it was on the herald website where people might actually read it.
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Aug 11, 2015 07:33
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I am more fond of Red Peak for the stickinjg-it-to-Key aspect than anything else, it's a poo poo flag otherwise. Will vote Koru and then no change, and possibly mutter death to America while I'm at it.
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Sep 24, 2015 00:42
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Flag result : Ugh.
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Dec 11, 2015 09:06
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Still bummed that no-one submitted a design for a big coiled turd that resembles the beehive. Oh well.
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Dec 11, 2015 09:23
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Infotainment! posted:Incoming Herald advertorial about how the article is wrong because new zealand punches above its weight with a can do attitude, and the property market is perfectly fine according to the Realtors who paid for this piece. Sandwiched between artices about good bloke Richie and Is Lorde Taken?
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Feb 15, 2016 01:45
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If the new flag wasn't ugly I would vote for it, regardless of my feelings on the National Government. Just like if it was a Labour Government pushing that piece of poo poo flag I'd be voting no too.
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Mar 4, 2016 00:12
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It's one of those excuses that people will use so they don't have to accept that maybe other people had a different opinion on something they themsleves liked. "Oh people voted against it because of John Key, not because it's a ghastly piece of poo poo." Just like when your school friends liked someone famous or something they had that you didn't, they'd say you were just jealous, so they didn't have to deal with a differing opinion.
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Mar 25, 2016 05:24
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Not to mention bottled water being one of the biggest loads of bullshit in the world.
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Apr 21, 2016 21:05
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You could buy a brita filter, they work pretty well.
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Apr 22, 2016 00:48
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Exclamation Marx posted:
I don't even watch tv 3 or anything but holy loly this whole thing is hilarious. Some of the articles and editorials on the herald are great, just full take-downs and in-depth descriptions of some real corporate bullshit plus running Glucina's name through the mud again. Edit: It's also funny because most of the time the herald front page has me thinking 'don't care, don't care, no-one cares, what the gently caress?' as I scroll the front page. Today I actually clicked some links!
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May 4, 2016 10:24
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Love the way the herald is written? Can't get enough of those great entertainment headlines? Have I got news for you! http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/11/new-zealand-one-major-newspaper-group-merger-talks-revealed [b]"New Zealand could be left with just one major newspaper group as merger talks revealed Companies that own New Zealand Herald and Dominion Post could join forces, effectively leaving the country with a press monopoly Two major media companies in New Zealand have announced they are in merger talks, raising the prospect that the entire country could be left with just one newspaper group. NZME, which owns the New Zealand Herald, and Fairfax Media, which owns the Dominion Post, said in a joint statement on Wednesday that the organisations were exploring how they could join forces."[b] I love how one guy flat-put says it's just about making money and pleasing advertisers. E. Also I have no idea how to quote an article or apparently even to make something bold when I post.
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May 12, 2016 04:35
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Vulpes posted:I'd still prefer the Herald over loving Stuff. I have never seen such a septic shitpile of terrible writing and worse editing. Stuff is like the Daily Mail for NZ except it's NZ so infinitely more dull and terrible.
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May 12, 2016 06:55
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It also seems a bit dodgy, although I can't articulate why, that whenever there's a big jackpot the newspapers play it up with article after article, thus increasing sales of tickets increasing the jackpot increasing ticket sales and so on. Edit: I should add that when I say newspapers I mean "newspapers", and when I say "newspapers" I mean the poo poo they print in NZ that's only fit to light the fire with every evening. Project M.A.M.I.L. fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Jul 10, 2016 |
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Ratios and Tendency posted:I've also talked to someone who did some work with family planning up here and they were like "uh, why aren't we doing the most basic poo poo imaginable in the far North since they have all these social and health problems" who also got told that there's just no funding available for that. It's super frustrating too in that a lot of the (white) people who live up there are racist and say that any help for Maori is money wasted and then their next sentence will be about how bad employment/crime/health etc is up there without a shred of awareness.
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Nov 7, 2016 08:33
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Christmas is a worthless day where people pretend they like their extended family and all sit around in excruciating awkwardness wishing they were dead.
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Dec 25, 2016 06:35
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It's not all terrible, I like the people I spent most of the day with, but the christmassy stuff still feels very forced. Also my mum died just over a year ago so this is my second christmas without the one parent who raised me from birth, so yeah I'm a bit salty:( Our second living child was born on the first of the month and while that's a very happy thing, today I'm sad that my mum isn't around to spoil him. On the plus side I did get some sweet beer which I am now drinking so I feel a bit better.
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Dec 25, 2016 09:20
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The Schwa posted:Sorry to hear it man, that's hard Thanks, feeling much better today. Anyone hitting the beaches today? Nice weather for it.
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Dec 25, 2016 22:13
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Does anyone actually care about the Mccaw wedding thing or is it just the media wanting everyone to care? I don't know anyone who cares in the slightest but I mostly work with teenagers and my friends don't care for rugby so I think my sample pool is biased. Just wondering how much of it is media driven rather than a demand being met.
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Jan 14, 2017 07:22
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It just seems like so much self serving wankery that I feel a bit sorry for them. Not the news people, they're mostly scum, but the couple.
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Jan 14, 2017 08:33
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Not giving a gently caress about some rugby guy and hockey girl getting married despite the media trying their best to make me is hardly elitism. Maybe you're the real elitist for assuming that only average joes and poor people care about so called celebrities. Whoa.
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I wasn't even against the people who are interested in it, more the way it seemed to be an entirely artificial supply of gossipy stories to fill what seemed like a non-existent demand for it. I don't really know how to explain what I mean though.
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