4 June 2018
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Gezza
/ 4th June 2018Sir Bill of Dipton
5:00 AM The architect of NZ’s rockstar economy has been made a knight.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/104416895/queens-birthday-honours-former-prime-minister-bill-english-made-a-knight
Lurch will be having a blimmin fit!
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018traveller
/ 4th June 2018Missing these two Knights.
lurcher1948
/ 4th June 2018Why
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018Get a gunsmith to check your sights.
Blazer
/ 4th June 2018not missing those dark knights,at…all.
Blazer
/ 4th June 2018easily found…working for their masters…’Both are now retired from politics and remain close friends. In life after politics, both have taken a similar approach to new business opportunities; building directorships with overseas companies and advising and consultancy work in the financial sector. ‘
lurcher1948
/ 4th June 2018Does that mean they are still selling New Zealand out to Australia,never saw that coming
Corky
/ 4th June 2018Geez, that photo brings back memories of better times. I’m afraid Simon and Jacinda don’t make the cut. You can’t beat ”white males” in charge of a nations affairs.
PartisanZ
/ 4th June 2018Helen got the ONZ …
If Jacinda lasts more than one term she’s a shoe-in …
Par for the course … perhaps provided you “stay the course”?
NOEL
/ 4th June 2018Always been perplexed that these awards appear at the top of the list and bravery awards at the bottom. Says something?
lurcher1948
/ 4th June 2018Another soft sentence under national the party soft on crime, 9 years of rubbish sentences under Sir Key
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/06/meet_a_second_striker_5.html
lurcher1948
/ 4th June 2018It seems all the criminals the NATIONAL attack poodle David Farrar pictures are going to post are MAORI 260+
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/06/meet_a_second_striker_5.html
wow the MAORI party supported NATIONAL,NATIONAL bribed the maori party as an uncle tom party.KIWIBLOG WILL POST YOUR PICTURE TO ELECT A MAORI PM what a joke a revolving HATE CIRCLE,untell CRUSHER makes her move and replaces MAORI with CHINESE
lurcher1948
/ 4th June 2018No I won’t but Sir Lurch for services like turning up to work and rescuring dogs sounds good
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018Gets my vote 👍🏼
Workin on the email now for New Year’s List.
Corky
/ 4th June 2018I think I could nominate you, Lurchy… for services of pushing the boundaries of ‘Esperanto.’
Kitty Catkin
/ 4th June 2018How about one for Gezza for services to pooks and other birds ?
Corky
/ 4th June 2018I dislike birds. The only pooks I like are fed to guests as a joke. The meat is terrible.
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018I expect your guests never return, and only suggest that any others accept dinner invitations to your compound if they absolutely detest them?
Kitty Catkin
/ 4th June 2018They probably won’t want to come again anyway, so why go to that trouble ?
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018Good one! ❤ 😎
The rebels got their medals: Topp Twins Jools and Lynda made Dames
lurcher1948
/ 4th June 2018https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/104305805/the-mcdonalds-worker-who-became-a-hero-recognised-in-queens-birthday-honours
Rather this person got the top gong than the topp twins, they only needed to fart and their fans would think it was pure comedy, no talent but a lot of embarrassment there,GONG NOT DESERVED
Kitty Catkin
/ 4th June 2018I must confess that they leave me cold, either on screen or in reality. I was involved with an Amnesty concert with people like McPhail and Gadsby and other famous Kiwis, among them the Topps. I was backstage dogsbody and costume maker but was delighted to be even that) They were quite rude and arrogant, especially to a male friend who was another backstage worker.
Someone who’s known them since they were little thinks that they make a little go a long way. She’s probably right !
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018😮
They’ve #@C%!&n missed me out again ! 😡
Aren’t they getting my bloody emails!
traveller
/ 4th June 2018Services to pooks and eels?
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018Services to Avian Aviation, if nothing else!
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018YNZ POSTER SURVEY
Please indicate in comments below any YNZ posters who should be nominated for the New Year’s Honours List, and for what services.
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018Damehood: Kitty Catkin
For services to Literature, Correct Spelling & Grammar, and for keeping alive the memory of Shakers The Rude, playwright (RIP).
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018NB: Forgot to mention: the Wilkinson System applies to voting. ALL Upticks and downticks will be aggregated for total votes of support.
David
/ 4th June 2018Gezza for services to pedantry, any mistakes made the ever vigilant Gezza will be on hand to point out to the recalcitrant the error.
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018All of David’s points will be deducted during tallying & any email nominations will be shredded on receipt so they can’t be requested under the OI Act. Just saying.
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018Try to be helpful and this is the thanks I get !
Alan Wilkinson
/ 4th June 2018Ok, I’ll add that Sir Gerald’s case was strengthened to irresistible levels by his unceasing devotion to bureaucratic nitpicking verbosity through inevitably grasping the wrong meaning whenever possible and rushing away chortling with it between his nicotine-stained teeth.
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018Really looking forward to seeing YOUR nomination now, buster!
IF there even bloody IS one!
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018Pete George – for Services to Blogging, Good Naturedness, & not taking shit from anyone.
PDB
/ 4th June 2018Blazer – services to hypocrisy, Guyton – services to hypocrisy, Zedd (you get the picture)
phantom snowflake
/ 4th June 2018PDB – For persistent and relentless usage of Tu Quoque and Whataboutery, even in the face of ridicule. A true hero.
David
/ 4th June 2018Blazer for services to the Alzheimers community and to the “multiple full stop”, you can guarantee if there is a post here about our new government Blazer will find a time the previous lot have done a similar thing but in a 100 times worse way, sometimes he will remember something that is about something else and totally unconnected. Blazer..helping people to never forget.
Blazer
/ 4th June 2018how’s that Indian motor of your’s David…broken down…yet?
David
/ 4th June 2018Still driving the dream and its never missed a beat. Just in case Blazer here is a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtjqXwDTzBA
Griff
/ 4th June 2018Self awareness in this one not.
Honorable mention goes to all the trumpets for their persistent small furry animal hunting .
But Obama/Hillary/ Democrats …..
Helping in our effort to make NZ predator free.
Kitty Catkin
/ 4th June 2018Small furry animals ?
Services to publicising the sort of wanker who shoots endangered species, more like, and has photos of themselves grinning all over their face as they stand by the bodies.
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018Ok – this is not good …
Dozens of Auckland Prison guards call in sick after ‘organised violence’ from gang member inmates
A campaign of “organised violence” by gang member inmates against guards has led to dozens of staff at Auckland Prison calling in sick on Sunday.
The Corrections Department confirmed it was forced to bring in guards from other prisons because of “a higher than usual number of staff calling in sick this weekend”.
Alan Whitley, president of prison staff union the Corrections Association, said at least 30 staff did not turn up to work at the Paremoremo prison on Sunday, following an assault on a guard on Saturday.
More…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/104439499/dozens-of-auckland-prison-guards-call-in-sick-after-organised-violence-from-gang-member-inmates
Corky
/ 4th June 2018There’s an easy solution.. Pity we haven’t got the guts to implement it. These prisoners basically know they are untouchable. Liberalism doesn’t register with animals…pain does.
PDB
/ 4th June 2018‘Let em out Little’ will be wanting this lot out into the community quick-smart.
Corky
/ 4th June 2018‘Let em out Little.’ That’s a real cool moniker. Let’s hope it sticks. Unfortunately it won’t be so funny once someone is murdered .
Blazer
/ 4th June 2018where are your tears for those getting murdered in the middle east…every day?
Alan Wilkinson
/ 4th June 2018You mean the ones burning tyres, firing mortars and throwing rocks? Or the very many more being killed by different sects and factions of their own mad religion.
lurcher1948
/ 4th June 2018Coming soon to a RICH leafy National voting suburb in a state house
Rich stale whiteys meet Maori culture,what could go wrong, you are the man,Andy L
Corky
/ 4th June 2018Andy is a liability. Now he wants to explore abortion laws. The joke is on you, Lurchy. He may as well be a National plant. Everytime he opens his mouth voters desert to National. Roll on 2020.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 4th June 2018I nominate Griff and Lurch for their improving control over their volcanic eruptions so commenting without splattering the neighbours with molten invective.
Griff
/ 4th June 2018Owe Alans all snowflake.
How cute.
Wanna pat on the head Alan ?
Have a free badge instead.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 4th June 2018Now that’s ingratitude, Sir Gerald.
Griff
/ 4th June 2018What .
You nominated me for an imaginary award .
I gave you a badge you can print out and proudly wear.
At lest you actually get something …..
Space cadet.
noun
noun: space cadet; plural noun: space cadets
1.
a trainee astronaut.
an enthusiast for space travel, typically a young person.
2.
informal
a person regarded as being out of touch with reality.
“it’s not surprising that the British rock press has her down as a major space cadet”
Alan Wilkinson
/ 4th June 2018I’ll have you know this is a very formal occasion, Griff. Informal doesn’t cut it.
lurcher1948
/ 4th June 2018Some like it…hot
lurcher1948
/ 4th June 2018Don’t you like volcanoes PG,i love earth sciences,NO ONES HURT
Pete George
/ 4th June 2018I’ve been back half an hour after a weekend break, it can take a while to catch up on things.
Some of your comments are still not appropriate here.
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018Christ – if the ones you let through are the appropriate ones – can you post the others on the dark web & give us a link? They must be bloody rippers
lurcher1948
/ 4th June 2018Sorry,getting old,
Corky
/ 4th June 2018Bullshite Of The Day:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12062687
phantom snowflake
/ 4th June 2018Huh? I would have thought, given your concerns about Islamic extremism, that you would have supported the NZ Police strengthening their relationships with the Muslim community.
Kitty Catkin
/ 4th June 2018Phantom, reread the heading for the article. 😀 😀 😀
phantom snowflake
/ 4th June 2018Unintentional self-parody is the best type!
Kitty Catkin
/ 4th June 2018( sniggers appreciatively )
Corky
/ 4th June 2018Lol.😎
Corky
/ 4th June 2018Kerre McIvor tries to shed her goodie two shoes image ahead of taking over from Leighton..
Won’t work, Leighton is irreplaceable. Besides, does Kerre really want a taste of snowflake
liberal hate? Apparently so.
https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/06/kerre-mcivor-backs-hosking/
Blazer
/ 4th June 2018Smith is definately replaceable,but not by… her.Bruce is ..better.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 4th June 2018Looks like some forestry company might have some explaining to do:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/104443298/tolaga-bay-family-being-airlifted-off-roof
Griff
/ 4th June 2018The water-holding capacity of the atmosphere increases by about 7% for every 1 °C rise in temperature.
Climate change .
Extreme rainfall events are increasing.
https://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/faq-3-2.html
Who to blame?
Go find a mirror.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 4th June 2018I don’t think that accounts for all the logs in the pics.
Griff
/ 4th June 2018I dont think that something like six major flood events already this year in NZ is due only to logging Alan.
The relationship of temperature to moisture is just….Physics ! you can experiment with by breathing on that mirror or drying clothes in the dryer.
You do know what a standard distribution is ?
What happens to the extremes when we shift the median of events ?
They become more frequent.
Rainfall and drought are opposite sides of the same coin. We will see more extremes in both.
All weather is effected by global warming now.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 4th June 2018It’s so confusing, Griff, whether weather is climate or not. Now it is, then it isn’t. When it rains it is, but when it is cold it isn’t.
So being a simple fellow I was just wondering why so many logs had been left to clog up rivers and get swept away.
Griff
/ 4th June 2018ROFL
That is sooo stupid Alan
For a guy with your qualification you should be ashamed.
Global Warming =The temperature of the globe as a whole will warm .
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years).
We will see statistically significant increase in extreme rainfall to become as apparent here as it has else where.
Abstract
Increased record-breaking precipitation… (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280223472_Increased_record-breaking_precipitation_events_under_global_warming [accessed Jun 04 2018].
Some of the changes due to our unfortunate experiment in atmospheric physics will be surprises,
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/global-warming-arctic-colder-winters-climate-change-spd/
Alan Wilkinson
/ 5th June 2018Well, what do you know. Other people are simple enough to be wondering about all the logs too now:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12064965
And in case you were wondering, that wasn’t a record-breaking rain event – up here at least. Just normal weather.
Corky
/ 4th June 2018Just saw the house and surrounding area on the news. Unbelievable , the amount of waste wood piled up. There must be thousands of cords of wood. Should open it up to the public and wood merchants.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 4th June 2018Nuisance spam, fraud and marketing robo phone calls wrecking the phone system:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/ring-ring-ring-ring/561545/
I’ve put blocks on unlisted numbers and some others which is kind of working for the moment but NZ is not immune to this disease. If the phone companies don’t get smarter at filtering them out they will lose their industry. Maybe they don’t care much as it is taken over by internet communications anyway.
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018I was really hacked off when I got a call early last week from a gentleman with a strong Indian accent in the Windows Technical Department who told me messages were coming up on their system showing my computer number that tells them my computer has been hacked.
I enjoy these calls immensely. I tell them I don’t have a windows computer. All I have is an iPad. How come my iPad number is coming up on their Windows computer system? That I don’t know much about computers, but I thought Apple and Windows computers were totally different systems etc. It can be a lot of fun as they desperately try to suggest someone else in my house must have a Windows computer and I play along like Forrest Gump, being helpful.
But the line was bloody terrible! I couldn’t even hear the beggar. I had to hang up – it was no bloody fun at all!
Kitty Catkin
/ 4th June 2018I haven’t had one of those for ages, touch wood.
Saying that I don’t have a computer usually stops the conversation. I once became really carried away and ranted about the evils of computers, expanding on this theme at length to explain why no computer would ever cross my threshold. It was great fun.
It must have been even greater fun when the man said that he wasn’t very techno-savvy but would put his daughter on. He then had a good laugh at the infuriated person on the other end who was listening to the babbling two year old daughter who loved talking on the phone.
Kitty Catkin
/ 4th June 2018Has anyone seen Tom Mabe (well, heard, but it’s on YouTube taking on some unlucky telemarketer ? I think that few of us could keep it up, alas, but it’s really funny (except to the poor telemarketer who would never be the same again)
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018I only keep the landline phone on for ma’s sake. Try as I might I can’t get her to use just her mobile instead.
She’s 92 – about half of her contemporaries (well ok, probably 10 years younger) use mobiles and iPad (my mum used a laptop and a mobile as well as a landline – mum’s weekly emails to friends and family were legendary – I learnt to tell her “mum, this is just between you and me”.) – but ma just won’t go there.
There’s nothing I can do to persuade her, and I frankly dread the idea of trying to teach her how to use a computer. I gave up teaching her to text, month after month ….she won’t bloody practice. Voicemail is an alien concept to her. God knows how many people have left her messages with no idea they’re totally wasting their time. Her mobile’s off unless I tell her to leave it on – and then when I go to get in touch it’s battery’s flat!
I think I’ve only had two or three robo-calls on my landline. I just hung up.
Kitty Catkin
/ 4th June 2018I have a landline because I don’t want to pay cellphone prices, don’t expect people to pay to talk to me and the cellphone coverage here is quite erratic so cellphone only is just not an option for me, anyway, even if I did expect people to be willing to pay to talk to me. I have a cellphone, but don’t use it except when I’m out for things like phoning a taxi.
I have had an occasional robocall but like you, hang up.
Blazer
/ 4th June 2018slap on the wrist for serial filthy,thieving parasites…parent bank of ASB..FBU flop Ralph Norris’ former gig.
https://www.theage.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/cba-s-700m-fine-an-acceptable-price-to-bury-austrac-issue-20180604-p4zjb5.html
Kitty Catkin
/ 4th June 2018Dis anyone see the FBI agent who was showing off in a nightclub and dropped his gun, then shot someone when he picked it up ? Talk about a hair trigger.
He then did that handraising gesture ( these things happen, my mistake) and walked away.
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018Yes. It was on 1ewes too. The police questioned him & then handed him over to a senior FBI person who will investigate apparently.
Kitty Catkin
/ 4th June 2018I should think so.
Gezza
/ 4th June 2018Well, that’s what happens when you wear a gun & break dance or whatever the heck he was doing, I guess. He fired it picking it up so either the safety catch wasn’t on or it jolted to the off position when it fell onto the floor. He shot someone I think they said.
Kitty Catkin
/ 5th June 2018He did, but only (!) in the leg.
It’s a worry that it went off so easily, even with the safety catch off. It’s sheer luck that he didn’t kill someone !
He wasn’t even very good at it. I wonder if people were standing back because they were nervous of this odd person 😀
Gezza
/ 5th June 2018He was just mentioned on 1ewes again. Sounds like he IS going to be in the gun with the fuzz.
He should’ve been arrested for those dance moves alone.
Did you see in the video clip the moron just had a loose gun tucked into his belt in the small of his back. And after shooting some poor bastard in the leg he just did a goofy smile and shoved it back into the same place it fell out of!