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Slavvy posted:Can someone explain to me why they're always mentioning 'ratepayers' and how 'ratepayers will foot the bill' or whatever. Isn't that what rates are actually for? Like, if you pay rates (and other taxes), that's money leaving your pocket regardless of how it's used. You don't lose anything if the revenue is spent on things that aren't somehow directly economically beneficial. probably because people think their rates should be spent on some things and not others, and feel a general resentment towards paying rates anyway?
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dusty posted:Apropos of nothing, has anyone else picked up laudafinem.com? Looks like they're talking about the Mike Sabin thing? Interestingly if you google lauda finem there's a couple of those messages you get when copyrighted material has been removed. I googled the people who had made the complaints and they're both people that lauda finem has written things about in the past.
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Jan 27, 2015 12:20
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Is this actually an honest-to-god real thing? I saw it for the first time today in an article about Catton, and I'm hearing it again here. Is "Green Taliban" really a thing Slater's people are saying? Everyone's favorite hairpiece stand Peter Dunne compared the Greens to the Taliban a while back, not quite on the level of Slater though.
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Jan 28, 2015 10:50
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Savour these moments. Every one that passes, the boomers get one step closer to the grave. People say this all the time and it's meaningless because the world isn't magically going to become left wing when the boomers all die off.
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Jan 29, 2015 03:32
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Lancelot posted:Yeah I'm baffled by Norman's retirement, seeing as he was leading their charge into neoliberal milquetoast Gen Y party, which is what I assume was their electoral strategy. Metiria seems a lot more left-wing on economic stuff and is way more concerned with social issues/inequality than Norman was. it would be cool if theres a secret cabal of socialists that forced him out, but i'm guessing not.
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Feb 1, 2015 13:47
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Slavvy posted:http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11396561 "As Treaty of Waitangi celebrations began in the North, the two Pakeha men attempted to solve the problems of the past 175 years in front of small audience of people largely in the same age range. A total of 19 people gathered to hear the pair speak -and almost the same number of media representatives." lol
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Feb 4, 2015 09:04
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the real problem here is having a cradle of filth shirt when you could have one from an actually good black metal band
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Feb 13, 2015 02:17
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Slavvy posted:Satanist spotted, there is no such thing. please don't troll me wrt black metal, the most serious of musics. this is actually true
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Feb 13, 2015 03:52
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Hey, let's do our part in perpetuating the global imperialist war machine by sending people to do 'humanitarian assistance', 'intelligence sharing', troop training' and other chill euphemisms like that. "im rich bitch" - John Keyawesmoe posted:im going to see carcass and napalm death so eff yous all
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Feb 13, 2015 04:07
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Butt Wizard posted:Michael Joseph Savage & Helen Clark, two well-known spineless turds depending on how seriously you take John A Lee's memoirs then that might not be too far off wrt Savage.
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Feb 16, 2015 05:48
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the worst nz band is probably this one slam death metal band from palmerston north i saw(unwillingly, a friend's band was playing on the same night as them) last year, though I can't really think of more appropriate music for Palmerston north.
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Feb 24, 2015 11:02
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cptn_dr posted:Dunedin has a lot to answer for. a bunch of good bands? basically everything that was on Flying Nun back in the day rules. dusty posted:If anyone is in Wellington - March 8, Newtown Fair - Graeme Jeffries from The Cakekitchen regularly shows up to sell off doubles from his record collection. Heaps of German pressing FN and other weird oddities. ooh, thanks for the heads up. A human heart fucked around with this message at 11:42 on Feb 24, 2015 |
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Feb 24, 2015 11:36
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the best NZ music video is either that Skeptics one with the sheep at the meat works or Skuldom - Orgiastic Blasphemy
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Feb 24, 2015 11:46
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Exclamation Marx posted:http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/66654891/mp-stood-down-as-mother-faces-benefit-fraud-charges i live right near that cafe and there's almost always something like that on the board. i wonder if the food's any good.
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Feb 25, 2015 09:09
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Butt Wizard posted:John Key is disappointingly normal, he doesn't come off as a smug dick and he doesn't have five heads that each have a different soul. If i was peter dunne i'd be drinking a fair bit as well
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Mar 1, 2015 08:26
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Volkerball posted:What's the fern thing in labours logo? I recognized it because it's really similar to the all blacks logo. What is its significance in New Zealand? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyathea_dealbata
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Mar 3, 2015 12:04
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Slavvy posted:Why has he got an Isle of Man logo in the middle of his swastika...? The Isle of Man logo is a triskelion which is often conflated with the swastika by neonazis, particularly if they're pagan neonazis. See for example these south african nazis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaner_Weerstandsbeweging. They're both ancient sun symbols basically.
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Mar 4, 2015 03:40
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One time i met a guy at a party and he was like 'so where are you from' and I said Wellington and he said 'no but where are you from originally' and I said Wellington and I think my accent must be weird because he didn't think I was from here.
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Mar 7, 2015 02:08
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:1080 is killing our wildlife they're trying to protect*! Rrrraaaaa *foams at mouth over "toxins"* It does kill some native birds actually, but because of the reduction in predator numbers many more young birds are able to fledge without getting eaten, so you get a net increase of birds overall.
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Mar 10, 2015 04:44
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who seriously gets invested in x factor or any of those shows, like who are these people
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Mar 16, 2015 03:23
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Don't you think it's pretty weird to call someone human garbage because they were a bit rude on tv.
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Mar 16, 2015 04:51
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seems to me it'll have more people watching than ever, gotta see who the new judges will be and all
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Mar 17, 2015 13:43
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Slavvy posted:I had a conversation today that made me think of you guys. The person I was talking to is pretty high on my list of biggest all-time fuckwits I've ever met in my life. this is a really good Goon Post
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Mar 25, 2015 10:38
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LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO THE FINAL WOO (he literally shouted this at an empty workshop)
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His racism is pretty minor compared to his lovely economic views honestly.
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Mar 31, 2015 09:32
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I don't know why you'd be surprised that a writer from a right wing tabloid doesn't like mmp.
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Apr 12, 2015 06:33
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Vandalseed posted:Okay folks, are you one of those people who's like "I'm socially liberal but economically conservative"
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Apr 13, 2015 10:13
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Vagabundo posted:So what you're saying is, our new flag should be based on this. Funnily enough National Bolsheviks actually do exist.
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Apr 13, 2015 14:18
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Varkk posted:Most sports are bad. The only exceptions being the ones I follow. Nice poem.
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Apr 15, 2015 01:59
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-neutrino- posted:Eh? War frenzy? He probably means all the ANZAC stuff.
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Apr 21, 2015 00:54
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the prime minister's office has a huge wall covered in mounted pony tails he's collected from potential voters
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Apr 22, 2015 12:33
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On the one hand, there are widespread allegations of child abuse, brainwashing and all the usual stuff that cults do, but on the other hand we spoke to some of them and they were nice 
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Apr 30, 2015 12:09
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Exclamation Marx posted:more to the point, why do they have a statue of Ray Romano from the film Ice Age (2002), Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) and Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) lurking in the background? In one of the articles on them they talk about how they don't watch many movies, but apparently they do watch a few and they really liked Ice Age. That's not really a good explanation for having a giant statue of the character though.
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Apr 30, 2015 14:07
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ftw Vagina Jones posted:I think it was the previous leader, when they were based in Canterbury. After the arrests etc they moved to the West Coast to distance themselves / start again. The guy who founded them back in the 60s is still the leader.
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May 2, 2015 01:01
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newtestleper posted:The early 1700's? Please explain your unique yet strongly held views on this subject Maybe he's a dog, around 1945ish could be 300 in dog years.
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May 4, 2015 10:42
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Infotainment! posted:The eternal impossibility of just including the existing flag as an option in the referendum. Iirc there's going to be a 'does the flag actually need to be changed' vote before the referendum itself.
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May 5, 2015 08:06
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really not sure if the nazi resemblance here is deliberate or not
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May 9, 2015 01:53
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That site has all this information on it about certain things that won't be allowed on flags, but lots of the flags on there have those things so it looks like it's not being curated at all.
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May 9, 2015 05:56
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puchu posted:Actually it's for the Asians so we know who really controls the purse strings of our country Someone has beaten you to this point with a thought provoking flag design: https://www.govt.nz/browse/engaging-with-government/the-nz-flag-your-chance-to-decide/gallery/design/297
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May 9, 2015 12:24
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fong posted:Unironically I think this one is great and would vote for it on a ballot: It looks like something out of an airline ad.
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Topical username.
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