NZpol: A Dick-Burning Dumpster Fire

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homeowner	39	22.41%
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Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

There is apparently Auckland related stuff happening tomorrow. Ministry of Transport press conference.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2015 08:34

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 05:58

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

It could be anything from paving the Waitemata to confirming a state date for the CRL and timetables/funding for other transport projects. Anything.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2015 10:26

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

That trams announcement was the most underwhelming piece of poo poo I've ever seen.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2015 00:56

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

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'.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2015 02:20

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

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.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2015 03:16

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Infotainment! posted:

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

With an obligation to maintain the tram tracks we no longer own for twenty years.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2015 03:36

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

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

# ¿ Jan 23, 2015 07:58

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

fong posted:

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

"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.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2015 10:29

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Midget Fist posted:

Cyclists pay tax. Everyone pays taxes that go towards roads, whether they own a car or not.

It's always funny seeing this brought up as a ranting point when they actually should be making the same point about the ACC component of registering a car, which is about to be loosely tied to how safe a vehicle is.

It's still mental that a huge SUV costs the same to register on the road as a classic Mini or Suzuki Swift though.

# ¿ Jan 27, 2015 07:45

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Exclamation Marx posted:

Eleanor Catton sets up grant to give writers 'time to read'

Ugh, such a green party skank move - [attribute this to the MP/Talkback host of your choice]

# ¿ Jan 28, 2015 00:08

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Catton made a comment about the political nature of the government, Key made one back, didn't really see much more to it than a left vs right thing. You either agree or you don't.

But Plunket, lol. I hear the word 'Hua' busted out now and then, but it's not something I think I've ever heard anyone say on the radio outside of readings of fiction. He's successfully made it all about him, but we should cut him some slack because it's the only time he'll ever be mentioned in the same realm as Catton.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2015 03:45

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

The Hamster Man posted:

This is what I find most outrageous about this. The coward can't even own up to his words, he busts out the childish "well I ACTUALLY said..."

And people are actually buying it.

He absolutely did not use the word in the context he is saying he did. He's just a loving manchild who can't own up to his own mistakes.

Remember this any time he accuses someone of playing the race card.

# ¿ Jan 28, 2015 09:46

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

fong posted:

Whoa hang on so he's actually ruled out his plausible deniability? I was sure he'd try to use the "no no I said hua not whore"

No he's still sticking with that.

quote:

Radio host Sean Plunket has clarified what he meant when he called Eleanor Catton an "ungrateful hua".

The comment was made on air this morning, and was misheard by several listeners as "ungrateful whore".

Plunket this afternoon said he "certainly didn't call her a whore", but the issue had sparked an interesting language debate.

"[Hua]'s got a whole lot of meanings, actually... 'head up arse' is another one that would be applicable," the RadioLive host said..

"I use it as a way of saying, 'you ungrateful scoundrel'..."

# ¿ Jan 28, 2015 09:54

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

This won't happen unless he does something stupid like disrespect a popular all black or that great all round bloke, JK

Does he strike you as the kind of person who wouldn't call Maaaaaaris out for doing something uppity?

# ¿ Jan 28, 2015 10:05

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

The Rabbi T. White posted:

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with Keanu Reeves.

e: holy poo poo. It just dawned on me! How could I have been so blind?!? John Key is The One.

If John Key is anything in The Matrix it's

# ¿ Jan 28, 2015 22:37

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Infotainment! posted:

On my phone so can't link but I'm really enjoying everyone (including the police lol) freaking out about masked, armed gangstalkers at Parnell train station based on what is clearly some lovely viral marketing for a lovely student film.

There's been more than one complaint over the last few weeks if I'm reading that article properly.

If it is bullshit they will almost certainly be getting more than a warning now.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2015 04:08

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

SurreptitiousMuffin posted:

Would that I could be a fly on the wall when Cameron Slater goes barging in shouting "FREEDOM OF SPEECH", finds out it's a member of the National Party, then quietly slinks away into the night.

Whale Oil has been hinting there's been some pretty vile things to come out about a National Party MP and openly asking why they aren't doing anything about it. It's probably better to ask what he has to gain by them finally getting the arse.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2015 01:50

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

mirthdefect posted:

Also due in no small part to the horrible anti-bikie VLAD laws, under which some families can no long be seen together in public as it is considered a meeting of a criminal organisation and businesses are being closed because only violent criminals work on engines or give tattoos.

I'd say it's largely to do with Abbott also being the first muppet that doesn't require hand-up-arse manipulation to get it to open its mouth. He's been tits for yonks but knighting Uncle Phil and the comments about the carbon tax rollbacks being the best thing his government has done for women are the real clinchers.

I'm not sure I want to live in a country that gets an appetite for rolling PMs though. The Aussies don't seem to be able to help themselves at the moment. We've had one in twenty years and they're about to have three in ten.

# ¿ Jan 31, 2015 23:35

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Exclamation Marx posted:

Yeah that's the intent � he did the same with Banksy and the Oravida stuff � but I can't help thinking it's an unsustainable tactic, especially if the TV News keeps showing footage of him being evasive.

He managed to hold out until it got to court which is his saving grace as it's generally a bad idea for a PM to be commenting on anything to do with stuff before the courts. It's been pretty well managed anyway.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2015 05:45

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

It sounds like the suppressed stuff won't just be a John Key issue, it will be a 'how many people in National were aware this was possibly going before it was an active investigation thing'. If there's any blood to be had there then it could be faction time all over again.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2015 05:59

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

NZAmoeba posted:

At the end of the day, why would someone not like good bloke John Key? She must be made up by the Greens, like that science stuff they go on about.

*except when it comes to GM food.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2015 08:39

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

So the fact that it's Whale OIl aside, no one has sued him or sought an injunction yet to stop him talking about this concrete cover-up stuff, which he alleges is something Nick Smith has been briefed on already. This morning he's basically put up a post asking whether John Key knows if one of his Ministers knows about the problem, so it's getting to the pointy end. How long until someone picks up the ball and runs with it under parliamentary privilege?

# ¿ Feb 4, 2015 23:12

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

Heil Key

I don't think " I <3 Little" is going to be a raging success tbh.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2015 06:51

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Slightly off-topic but did any North Island goons see the space rock poo poo last night?

# ¿ Feb 11, 2015 22:06

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

WarpedNaba posted:

Nope.

Anyone going to the Young Professionals meeting down Queen street tomorrow?

I'm not sure I count as young anymore so I tend to avoid these things.

bobbilljim posted:

I saw it but I thought it was lightning. I was a bit confused though since there was no rain, then I heard about the meteor and felt a lot better

Yea we had cloud cover and it was under that so it must have been pretty low when the really big flash went off.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2015 22:29

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Remember, you only get three murders. If you don't use them by the time your term runs out, they're gone forever.

# ¿ Feb 11, 2015 22:53

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

NZAmoeba posted:

I'd be very surprised if it was anywhere near cloud level, or even jet aircraft level, this sort of things happens VERY high up in the atmosphere.

Basically if you still saw the flash despite being under clouds, that just shows how drat bright these things are.

Yea, initially that's what didn't make any sense, I've seen them before but not 'fill the whole sky' bright.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2015 00:39

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

In other Auckland news, TransportBlog is tweeting that the Reeves Road flyover plan has been dropped and cited the opposition to the proposed Basin project as a factor.

I'm not sure what this means for AMETI given that Reeves Road sucks rear end, hopefully they're looking into light rail with signal priority as an option because that would own.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2015 02:57

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

After that high-five last night at the CWC opener between Richie McCaw and Stephen Fleming, I'm starting to wonder if Richie is actually the problem and John Key got scape-goated during that Rugby World Cup trophy presentation.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2015 22:11

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Ratios and Tendency posted:

Are you happy with John's new war?

not entirely, i'd rather go in and rebuild poo poo after everyone else has finished blowing it up like proper a proper humanitarian nation.

Also re: Sky City, 50% of the Herald's letters today and basically "John Key is a dick if he gives Sky City any money at all" - hard to imagine they'll ignore that level of opposition if it's got that much traction in something like the Herald.

E: are you still insisting that i'm a nat voter or something

Butt Wizard fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Feb 12, 2015

# ¿ Feb 12, 2015 23:48

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Ghostlight posted:

They've ignored that level of opposition before and it hasn't done anything but put them back in for another term. Why would now be any different?

They backed down on the mining so they're not completely immune to it. Plus yea, people are getting sick of the 'Key is a top bloke and cracks out a few zingers, which means you should overlook all the times he isn't a top bloke and not cracking zingers' act.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2015 00:24

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

can you legally declare war on something that isn't technically a nation state? I guess all this poo poo got updated post-9/11 to include terror groups but just curious.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2015 03:19

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

awesmoe posted:

what if they held a war
and nobody came
because it was actually a non-combat role involving training troops, logistics, capacity building, intelligence sharing and humanitarian support

Doesn't really matter, people will chant 'stand up, fight back' at every protest anyway no matter how ironic it is.

The problem is though if it's such a small role, is it worth possibly making ourselves a target over such a minor contribution.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2015 03:59

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

awesmoe posted:

ALSO I don't know what's black metal and whats death metal and whats doom metal and what's what but im going to see carcass and napalm death so eff yous all
e: I'm too old to buy their shirts tho

Go to your local KFC, order about five buckets of the $40 value packs. do this every day for six months. Then go to youtube.com, search for 'dragonforce' and then you will understand what it is to be a true metal fan.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2015 04:15

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Slavvy posted:

Nope. That's the beauty of it. Because you aren't formally declaring war against a nation state, the enemy aren't legally recognised combatants, they're just random dudes with guns and as such the various rules of war (like don't be torturing, don't be using hollow point rounds et al) don't apply.

sweet, time to buy phosphorous futures!

# ¿ Feb 13, 2015 06:18

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

OT again, but does anyone here have any good liquor-related contacts in Auckland? I'm trying to find a really difficult-to-find Eastern European spirit by tomorrow afternoon.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2015 09:15

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

mirthdefect posted:

Poss, what is it?

It's a type of drink called Rakia, I can only find one brand that's stocked here, something called Sljivovica.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2015 09:20

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

mirthdefect posted:

Turns out she only does wines of the sort preferred for cellaring by posh old bastards, hard luck.

Bugger. Cheers anyway man.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2015 09:35

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

mirthdefect posted:

http://shop.skazka.co.nz/product/Rakia-Bulgarian-Grape-40-700ml/33453?view=2 ?

Yea, that's first stop tomorrow, hopefully they've got something in stock.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2015 09:51

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 05:58

Butt Wizard: Nov 3, 2005; It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Robo Captain posted:

Unless you are one of the people who join because it's pretty much their only option for employment .

I graduated with a Commerce degree mid-recession and was single, it wasn't such a dumb option but thanks to some genetic fuckery I wouldn't have been accepted.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2015 01:31

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