Saw him in a tent in London He was fab
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Saw him in a tent in London He was fab
but come back for the DKs 👍
I would have left home, too 😀
I was specifically talking about those convicted of crimes and jailed - the 501s As he has been both convicted and jailed, he would have been deported had he not take Australian citizenship Try and keep up, blowfly-bait.
That's terrible news, Tony. My condolences on your loss.
Cool. Racism is still rampant in the US, though.
You aren't aware of the '501 deportees'? Maybe look it up.
I believe so, otherwise they would have sent him back by now That’s what they do in Oz
I found them utterly useless as a provider We went with Mercury - getting 18c buy-back up to 500kWh
“an RSE policy review that started under the Labour government in 2019, was being pushed into 2026. "This means that not only have some of the sensible policy recommendations, for example streamlining RSE processes, not been implemented, but employers face ongoing uncertainty” Focused, right?
Treating Pasifika like chattel serfs not working out for farmers? Who knew?
None of that is true about NZ. 30% of our country are immigrants. Maybe they just hated you? Americans aren’t easy to get on with You keep living in your “America, fuck yeah!” weird dystopian fever dream where you don’t have one in ten black people in prison and suffering social inequality
My parents worked there for 3 years - the most egregiously racist and corrupt people and without a shred of self-awareness My Dad had a black engineer from Chicago come to commission some hardware and they wouldn’t check him in at the hotel People literally spat at him in the street
OMG they literally have race/religious wars in India Individually Indians are lovely people, until they rub shoulders with different religions and ethnicities, then they get very rapey and murdery - often with the full support of local governments Indonesia, by contrast, doesn’t ever - very chill
New Zealand is ‘grim’? Who knew?
Oh, bless your heart. I lived in the US for a bit over four years and the racism is palpable, everywhere and always. You divide your country by ethnic origin EVERYTHING is about race - even your choice of food and drink This is absolutely a case of not seeing the forest for the trees
What about a small country of 5.5M who is multiethnic? European/Pākehā 67.8%, Māori 17.8%, Asian 17.3%, and Pasifika 8.9% But those numbers don’t tell the whole story - I’m white, born in Asia, with Māori and Pasifika in my immediate family My story is very similar to other Kiwi households
LOL How to tell us you’ve never travelled outside the US
Haven’t these people heard of vacuum flasks and lunchboxes?
No. “Greyhound Racing NZ (GRNZ) has applied for a judicial review of the government's decision to ban greyhound racing. In December, Racing Minister Winston Peters announced the practice would be banned from 31 July 2026”
Congratulations! They rejected my “There once was a young girl named Alice” five-line homage to Irish culture Philistines!
If that’s where you get the inspiration for your grammar, I can see why you have such difficulty speaking my language Maybe go back and read it again, but this time pretend you don’t know what you’re talking about
That rumour would prove to be false Thiel tried to, but was stymied by his local council planning consents That libertarian schmuck never anticipated a situation he couldn’t buy his way out of - looks like he’s packed up his tent and fucked off back to the US
“The fascists and nazis formed two legs of the axis powers” That was piss-easy. Now do one about you and bootlicking.
27 years later than what?
A democracy? America? Are you sure? We must have different dictionaries if what you have is valid to be called a democracy It has all the trappings of an oligarchy, right down to all the billionaires making the decisions But it most closely resembles a Kakistocracy
That’s a kiwifruit, not a kiwi A kiwi is a bird A kiwi is a New Zealander A kiwi is not a fruit
I’m fully expecting we’ll have to sell up and live in a caravan if our rates get much higher
If they just kept on prosecuting these dickheads - for everything, no matter how petty - they would get the message that their ideology is not welcome The Brits are missing a trick not jailing Tommy Robinson every single time he steps out of line - it emboldens them
It’s literally the only thing I like about Christchurch
No. He bought a New Zealand passport from the previous National Government but he’s definitely not a kiwi Still has ‘USA’ carved right through his vile, libertarian, exploiter centre, like some dark, ideological seaside candy rock
Yeah but you got cheap fuel, big houses, billionaires in government and unfettered access to guns Going broke because you’re sick is a small price to pay to ensure rich people aren’t killed by the mob
I saw my first GP since 1988 earlier this year and it was $65 I was pretty surprised Then my wife told me she only pays $19 Wildly differing prices
From South African immigrant parents
What about when the dog down the road tells you to rape and murder your neighbours daughter?
If we keep referring to Large List Model chatbots as ‘AI’ we’ll start attributing anthropomorphic reasoning to them and eventually use their responses as excuses for why broken people do shit There’s no intelligence in there, just artificial responses as coded in complex algorithms
Pest control is different
I dot see who you vote for bears any relevance to your need to kill things Not interested
Look at you, telling people what to do If you know poormans orange has an adverse effect, maybe don’t use it? Or are you one of those bossy britches that has to control other people because they don’t have satisfaction in their life? Regardless, just don’t read it. You jumped in on my post.
I am , absolutely I get it from my mother, the American that left the US aged 19 never to return
It only affects a very few drugs and hormones aren’t any of them
Are you watching my bourguinon?
I transitioned to shorts last weekend. Wore them all week until Friday Friday told me to ‘fuck off with that shit!’
Toxieeeee!!! Yeah, has some shoes to fill.
“Large List Models serving up detailed methods for self-termination when asked” doesn’t have the same sense of hysteria that “The AI is trying to kill us” does I wonder why that is?
Why, is something burning? And don’t you have people for that? I just got a coffee from the house elf and we started a discussion about lunch…
I couldn’t knit a whole bed. All credit to you!
You there - fuck off!
It’s not “grapefruit” I feel I’m talking to a wall NOT THE SAME PLANT
I'm not fussed what other people do - I don't take any sort of medication and do eat poorman's orange regularly without ill affect. My sister is a doctor and after reading the evidence concluded my very elderly father is fine to have some of my marmalade on his toast.
Even within medical circles, the certainty of grapefruit affecting statins is now under question, with there being only two types of statin having shown any effect, and with subjects that just about subsisted on commercial grapefruit juice health.clevelandclinic.org/statins-grap...
Sorry of I'm a bit short - I'm just sick of this 'I can't find any evidence' malarky The evidence is: it's not the same species. It's as scientifically conclusive as phrenology isn't. It's like saying 'It *looks* like a dolphin, so I don't believe it's a porpoise' when any genetic test proves it
It's actually pretty conclusive, if you have a modicum of science ability It's not the same plant - it's closer to a tangelo than a grapefruit -Citrus × paradisi "Poorman is a pummelo hybrid and a natural tangelo. The fruit has some resemblance to the Attani of India and the Natsudaidai of Japan"
Dunno what's conflicting - NZ grapefruit isn't grapefruit The enzyme in question only occurs in grapefruit The problem isn't even with all statins - just a couple of chems and only those who either have high sensitivity or eat a lot Most likely medical laziness - easier to just say don't do it
The bag that holds wool before it's pressed and becomes a bale.
A fadge is, specifically, the bag that, when filled, becomes a wool bale. “There’s baggy bales and shaggy bales, there’s fadges, sacks and bags; Thank heavens Wally Nash cut out the blinking stinking dags.”
It's so fucking unrelated to the fruit we call 'grapefruit' in NZ Grapefruit juice made from overseas fruit, sure, but not the fruit we know as grapefruit in NZ, which are actually a different fruit entirely and with no more effecting enzyme than oranges or lemons.
You know that kiwi grapefruit are not the same fruit as the grapefruit? They're Poor Man's Orange, and they don't contain the enzyme that stops the compounds in statins working. Besides which, it looks like the study that found grapefruit issues was flawed and only effects specific drugs
And Saffers being second? WTAF? I suspect this was written by a Kiwi.
The only person I know from Queens is a Trumpian 'deport the brown people' bigot, who seems to hate just about everyone not white and rich Nice to see he's the exception, not the rule. To think he's a real estate guy, too - how he can do a job that requires him to be nice to people every day...
I spent many months living in Haarlem in 2002 (When Feyenoord won the UEFA!) Some of the friendliest and most welcoming people anywhere. We loved the Netherlands. Would have lived there, if I could have swapped jobs.
It's taught and cultivated
One of our family's most loved recipes is a cashew curry we got from the mother of my daughter's Sri Lankan roommate. We have picked up food all over the world - a week's meals is usually either of Malay curry, Italian or Spanish, Chinese, Indian or Sri Lankan, French or British fare
Our family started travelling in 1964 I finished in 2020 Not really done yet, but my wife wanted to own a house You are absolutely correct - and the nicest, safest and chillest places I've lived are on US travel warnings :)
You broke them, they're yours. Don't dump your rubbish over here.
I tried to find out her lead. The UTMB website only shows her in first place, no stats that I could find. I will have to watch highlights tomorrow - hope she does well.
I remember clearly how bright and sunny, how blue the sky was in Wellington when we moved there from 5 years in Singapore and 4 years in Hong Kong in 1970 I had never been so cold or had to squint my eyes closed against the brightness so Every day was one where I could run and climb - no snakes!
It reiterates the view that this government knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing
It's very relevant to those who are paying for a house and a couple of kids.
Only if you let it. Like fascism, mould thrives in darkness. Open your windows, get a flow of air. Our old state house hits 100 in 4 years and not a bit of mould - well-insulated and we look after it, make sure it is ventilated.
It's been sunny and cool here in the middle of the NI Got a shittonne of solar generation
It's an average, over the whole of Auckland, many of whom paid nothing like $990K None of my family paid anything like that - not even half that, but my wife's brother paid multiple millions The median house selling price now is not reflective of the median price paid for existing stock
If the US pulls out, NATO will still remain, possibly strengthened by the removal of the major disruptor.
You're remarkably underinformed if you think the EU is done.
I think it's imperative they join. Allowing Putin to dictate, given how little he cares for sovereignty, would be a major mistake.
I am very upset - I cannot believe President Macron would risk damaging such an important part of French history as to loan the incredibly fragile 950-year-old Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum We went to Bayeux to see this piece of history in its purpose-built home tinyurl.com/2763fp27
I spoke to my cousin today, who is in charge of meat produce for a major NZ supermarket They’ve had five wholesale prise rises in the last two weeks for beef Effectively, every time he’s placed a stock order, the price has risen They buy whole beasts and break them down before distribution
I was approached about being the barrel, given my general dimensions...
It wasn't white supremacists taking over the NRA, it was weapons manufacturers funneling tens of millions in lobbying cash to lawmakers Mitt Romney, for example - $13,645,387 at last count Thom Tillis - over $5M Bought and paid for legislative inaction
"They'll always have access to weapons" is a great reason for not making laws People will always rape and kill, let's just not regulate them People are always going to beat and maim children, lets just not regulate them Or, be brave and DO SOMETHING, ANYTHING! 5 gun deaths here in 2025, to date
As I said, you really aren't into solving problems, you just kick problems down the road. If the people in charge of issuing gun licences are the problem, change the process *and* the people. But you'll do neither - you, instead, pivoted to 'aww fuckit, just give them to everyone that asks'
They reduced the uselessness when creating Brent, as it became unbelievable to audience surveys
Shades of Major Major in Catch 22
I’ve been on a Cadbury boycott since they closed the profitable Dunedin factory to make MOAH PROFIT! That factory was about 150 years of chocolate history in NZ If I get Cadbury gifted, it goes to the food bank
NZ, generally, makes shitty sausages. Even Walls Pork in the £2 pack is better than most butchers here Except for the (now gone?) Sausage Shop in titirangi and Warkworth Butchery - he’s excellent I will pay the shipping to get his excellent bangers shipped to the Rangitikei over anything local
Make a book better by adding Stephen King’s to the title: Stephen Kings’s Flies Undone
Was (almost) literally gobsmacked at the number of different varieties of Oreos available in Asia Our small local superette in the bloody jungle had about ten different flavours For reference: blueberry is my favourite, quite like lemon cheesecake, don’t like peanut butter, durian is unfavoured
The last of the season - plump, fragrant, sweet and tart at the same time #tamarillo #nz #fruiteater
Not this European. I'd left Europe by 2010... by living in Muslim countries Even if I was in Europe, I really doubt I would have listened to that.
Someone from Christchurch or Timaru or Geraldine.
No We have overpriced and sub-par Mexican food
I'm late again - only put my seeds in this week. We don't have a greenhouse and rely on windowsills
You are making a problem, instead of solving one. If sheriffs and police are seen as biased, create an independent licensing bureau - like other countries do. It's funny seeing Americans determining that 'nothing can be done' when they don't try and do anything. If it doesn't work, change it
Most criminals get their guns from legal owners - by burglary, by buying them second-hand, by straw purchases. But by far, the biggest source is by burglary. Safe storage laws in NZ reduced the amount of gun thefts down to 10% of what it was before Fewer guns means less crime Not rocket surgery
That's strange - gun control all over the world pretty much controlled guns, without caring about the party they voted for. I see this a lot with Americans - we can't do anything because those people won't follow the rules Taking guns out of circulation is the first step. Less guns means less guns
Is he contemplating the recession?
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