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sportsball huh what a funny and cool aloof original joke besides you missed it already, they got the awkward john key stuff out of the way at the opening ceremony. E: seems like Sky City backed down, I wonder if this was in exchange for potentially speeding up the CRL instead. Butt Wizard fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Feb 15, 2015 |
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:What an intensely strange thing to get mad about. If I got mad every time someone tried to rehash a long-since played-out joke on the internet, I'd be dead many many times over.
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Feb 15, 2015 03:58
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WarpedNaba posted:Same, just with an Accounting Degree. I didn't have DNA donkery, I was just chicken about being shot in the stomach at the behest of the UN, five thousand miles from home. Yea I went back and got NZICA papers instead and now I'm doing it all over again trying to find my second job out of uni. The economy might be doing OK but it seems like firms are much leaner than they used to be.
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Feb 15, 2015 05:04
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:*sniffs* OK as in "we aren't in the same full-blown recession I first graduated into".
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Feb 15, 2015 05:09
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WarpedNaba posted:Yeah, with the current deregulative atmosphere of the business sector and slashing of employee protections, employers tend to have all the means and manners to construct an enormously exploitative environment. Even if I can get a job in the next month, the end of financial year will be in any 90 day trial period which is kind of depressing. It's kind of telling that most of the accounting vacancies right now are in BAS, I may not have a job but almost anything is better than still being in BAS.
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Feb 15, 2015 05:43
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Yea, I have three years of BAS behind me I've come to the conclusion "gently caress BAS". Trying to start in commercial from the bottom all over again, now hopefully it's my turn to gently caress over some new graduates. BAS is just a race to the bottom where the only people who win are the people that either own the building or have their names on it. There's very few commercial openings at the moment and yea, a lot of them are being swamped by BAS accountants who want out just like me. How NZ universities are allowed to keep making GBS threads out thousands of BCom accountants a year is beyond me.
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Feb 15, 2015 06:33
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Maybe they should learn that patriotism is weird as gently caress and you can protect the world better than going places at the behest of the US/UK to shoot "terrorists" Probably worth pointing out a bunch of people who ended up going to Afghanistan were probably also in the armed forces when it was mostly doing regional peace-keeping.
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Feb 15, 2015 22:02
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:yo, you know you can do disaster relief without having to be broken down to see people as threats, or trained to murder on the order of someone in the US/UK because our PM is a spineless turd, right? Michael Joseph Savage & Helen Clark, two well-known spineless turds
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Feb 16, 2015 03:41
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I'm not sure how well the provincial reconstruction stuff would have gone if we'd sent people incapable of defending themselves or their bases.
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Feb 16, 2015 04:01
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klen dool posted:What the gently caress of course people in the army get to decide if they go to a specific war or not. If they think the war is somehow wrong, they have an obligation to society to refuse. I'm not sure I agree here - you can think war is wrong but you can think poo poo-heads like Isis are worse. Where does your obligation to society lie then? To help stop the bad guys or to make a point about war by not going? E: I mean one of the legacies of the world wars was an underlining from our elders that war can be a tremendous waste but it doesn't mean we're able to turn a blind eye when people do monumentally evil poo poo to other people and threaten to do it to us. As much as I hate to use this phrase this week, the world is many shades of grey, and barely ever black and white. Butt Wizard fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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Feb 16, 2015 09:39
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I put the 'being able to turn down deployment if you don't like war' to one of my friends in the armed forces. He tells me that in actual war that wouldn't be an option because there's not a lot of point training someone in combat who is then going to refuse to go into combat situations so they generally get told it's not for them. The stuff the armed forces do at the moment is a different story (I'm guessing he means peacekeeping/humanitarian and reconstruction), and people coming home because the stress of being in what is effectively a war zone gets to them and they can't handle it is a thing that happens.
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Feb 16, 2015 22:28
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Being a bit of a fluffy lefty here, but if a soldier has the moral fortitude to say "this war is immoral and I want no part of it" we definitely want them over there to keep the psychos in line. If the only people left serving in the army are the crazy "burn the towelheads" assholes then it's going to get even nastier, even faster. Imagine internet echo chambers if everybody had an assault rifle and even more pent-up sexual frustration. I don't think those guys make up a majority of our armed forces, but I've personally met enough of them to know they exist. Something that also works in our favour is that our recruitment ads for our armed forces tend to be puzzles about radio towers and protecting our coastlines from illegal fishing instead of defending a mythical Uncle Sam from towelheads and 'ARE FREEDOM' so it probably results in less shitheads in the first place. The other is that those types of people are usually blowhards and hang out with Kyle Chapman, actually going through training and testing isn't something they would do when you can sit at home and bitch about "chinks buying our land" from the comfort of a sofa in someone's garage.
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Feb 17, 2015 08:14
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By the same token I don't think that system was ever designed to deal with the possibility that cases might be raked over for ten to fifteen years and be so hotly disputed, or for someone to spend that entire time in prison while it was fought out. E: Oh ffs, Ngati Whatua have an ad in the Eastern Bays Courier saying that Okahu Bay is going to be closed this Saturday for a 'Private Family Event'. This going to turn into a racist shitstorm isn't it. (there's no question mark there because we all know what the answer is) Butt Wizard fucked around with this message at 10:43 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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Feb 19, 2015 07:40
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I'd imagine a great deal is going to turn on the marks on Robin Bain's fingers, which were discovered after the retrial from memory. They were largely dismissed at the time by the Police so it will be interesting to see what weighting is given to them.
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Feb 20, 2015 08:40
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This is one of those gently caress-ups that wouldn't have happened if someone in the Nats asked a really obvious question, jesus christ. It's not like there aren't Nats who did vote for marriage equality that they could have sent instead.
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Feb 22, 2015 03:31
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Ghostlight posted:You say that like they wouldn't have personally chosen to attend in order to accrue social credit they could cash in later for reelection. Running a party well means not allowing MPs to attend events celebrating people that they happen to think should have less human rights than others. Not sure what Alfred Ngaro was trying to achieve there, he's supposed to be building his profile in West Auckland. But it's something that should have been communicated from the party - or at least Nikki Kaye should have pulled them up on it. It reflects kind of badly on her for not doing so tbh. If they are going to turn around and say "Yea, we were wrong about the marriage amendment legislation, it's a good thing and we should have voted for it" then there's no real problem with them going. But otherwise it's incredibly transparent. E: Also, ATM vandalised in Ponsonby was by a group who wanted to protest against pink washing. http://hashtag500words.com/2015/02/21/political-statement-regarding-vandalism-of-gaytm/ Butt Wizard fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Feb 22, 2015 |
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Feb 22, 2015 04:37
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What a fun day on the ninth floor this is going to be. Also, 'Pinkwashing' redux: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/66570376/pinkwashing-statement-on-lgbti-politics
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Feb 23, 2015 22:48
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bobbilljim posted:I guess in an ideal world all at risk groups would have access to free PR consultancy so that they can protest correctly If they needed PR consultancy to see that what they initially did could have been interpreted as an attack motivated by homophobia then no amount of PR would have saved them.
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Feb 24, 2015 04:14
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bobbilljim posted:sorry if it was unclear, but sometimes I use exaggeration to emphasise a point Sorry if it's unclear, but i'm dumb as poo poo can't pick up on social cues because...well...goon  Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT2goNkdvfg
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Feb 24, 2015 04:22
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I feel crushing despair from that shirt/tie combo and I haven't clicked anything yet
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Feb 24, 2015 05:50
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As a middle class straight white man in my late 20s, my opinion on this is
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Feb 24, 2015 06:53
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:You're allowed to have one, you know? You're just not supposed to says yours is the only one. It's not so much 'I don't have an opinion because I'm those things', it's 'I don't have an opinion because I wouldn't know what the gently caress I'm talking about'. Most of what I know about trans issues and activist in-fighting come from the forums/tumblr mock threads and what I saw in student politics. I can't see anything I can say being remotely on point except that it sucks people got hurt?
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Feb 24, 2015 07:32
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The Rabbi T. White posted:Imagine the shame of getting sued by the worst ever NZ band. 48 May isn't going to be suing anyone.
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Feb 24, 2015 08:32
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Vagabundo posted:I don't get videos embedded. I get links instead. And like some sort of loving idiot, I went ahead and clicked it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dkAavxPznk
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Feb 24, 2015 10:04
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I think this video gave most people who grew in the 1990s ADHD. Something to with the constantly moving camera angles. http://youtu.be/5GmCr-w6HHE
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Feb 24, 2015 11:44
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Len Brown has announced construction on the CRL will begin mid-year.
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Feb 24, 2015 22:28
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Sorry, that should be mid-year next year. But yea, Ron Paul it's happening.gif etc.
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Feb 25, 2015 01:06
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fong posted:Probably more so Nats can't throw it in their face than anything. Sucks though, she's a winner She's come across as a bit of a dick in the past tbh but from what One News were saying tonight it seems like a really lovely situation for anyone to be in and she's just caught in the middle. She's keeping all the other portfolios so it seems like Little has found a smart way to deal with it. Little seems pretty serious about walking the talk on transparency though so Key won't be able to relax about this poo poo like he did with Sabin.
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Feb 25, 2015 09:11
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Wandle Cax posted:Butt Wizard is probably referring to the one time she was excused from parliament for the kind of utterly trivial minor misbehavior shown by every other MP many many times. More her gloating about getting rid of Paula Bennett and then losing the final recount which I guess was more funny than anything else. I don't take notice of people getting thrown out of parliament unless it's Winston tbh.
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Feb 25, 2015 10:03
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Exclamation Marx posted:not a single designer lmao I wonder how much of that is a legacy of being around workplaces diesel fuels and the pre-smoke free environments law  also Dean Barker has been given the arse.
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Feb 26, 2015 03:02
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Varkk posted:Not really surprising he is 43 now. Time to transition him to a management role on shore. Yup, they'll need to start grooming someone at a senior level to take over from Dalts at some stage so an Executive role seems like the best thing they could do. He's also one of few people to have experience with the larger foiling boats so his input for training would be pretty valuable. I hope he takes the role. The whole thing has been a loving shambles though by the sound of it.
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Feb 26, 2015 03:21
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dusty posted:Her experience as a frontline organiser was in the early childhood sector. Don't think workplace exposure would be a factor, unless her Dad took her to work on a trip down the asbestos mine as a kid or something. I'd imagine she's been some interesting places as CTU head, it would be shithouse if that was ultimately a contributing factor.
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Feb 26, 2015 10:29
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Vagabundo posted:I hope everyone in West Auckland is OK. Come play "spot the fuckwit blaming ISIS" on the NZ Media's Facebook comment streams. Fun for the whole family!
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Feb 26, 2015 23:56
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:gently caress the LTSA I had this problem last year when I lost my wallet, the only reason they gave me a new one was that I had an old copy of my Restricted that they issued in 2003. Otherwise I would have been completely screwed. Glad to see this predictably common situation still hasn't been addressed yet.
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Feb 27, 2015 05:16
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El Pollo Blanco posted:Is the joke here that this thread is so out of touch with the NZ population, we don't even notice that Dan Carter is not in fact Richie Mccaw? That's clearly Lydia Ko
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Mar 1, 2015 06:15
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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. Incidentally out of the different MPs and leaders I've met, none of them come across as anything other than normal, with the possible exception of Peter Dunne who helped get through a box of beers in the Quad in Auckland Uni one day and didn't talk about his campaign at all, which seemed like an odd way to spend time during an election campaign.
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Mar 1, 2015 07:59
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People who have to meet other people for a living are either condescending shitheels or make an effort to actually have a chat with you & Key is really good at coming across as the latter. You also have to remember that he's following on from English & Brash so he's def. an improvement for a National leader. The Rabbi T. White posted:I thought he was a complete wowser? He just had one or two, I can't remember, this was like 2008.
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Mar 1, 2015 08:38
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More importantly, do they agree with 'Ele' (as the Sunday Star Times so bafflingly referred to her as this weekend)?
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Mar 1, 2015 21:58
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dusty posted:I think it's because most urban handwringers don't understand how many tourist drivers there are in some parts of the south is, and how dangerous those roads make them. A majority of road traffic in some places is tourist traffic - Nth Islanders are lucky to encounter more than a handful of tourist vehicles on the Desert Rd. Spoken like someone who's never tried to drive to the Coromandel in summer.
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dusty posted:Tourists go there? I thought only Aucklanders did. Lots of rented Corollas with GPS and car hire stickers around there. SH25 can be driven at close to the speed limit in many places but I can understand tourists not wanting to push it. It's the painfully slow ones that don't pull over despite numerous slow vehicle bays that are the problem - there's only one legitimate passing opportunity between Thames and Coromandel town.
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