14 March 2019
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lurcher1948
/ 14th March 2019The most interesting feature of tomorrows children’s climate change protest will be the hatred from the right towards the children and teachers.I wonder if actual violence will take place from the more extreme right going by the ranters on talkback and rightwing blogs
David
/ 14th March 2019I think you will find most on the right dont care because they have seen how inept this government is and totally unable to deliver any policy so just ignore them and their bitterly disappointed fans, violence, protesting and damage to property is the preserve of your team.
lurcher1948
/ 14th March 2019WOW,that’s a lot of generalizations,but then you are preaching from the right wing bible,the bible of hatred for losing power,the SLG is your antichrist so suck on it.
Gerrit
/ 14th March 2019The most interesting feature of the children’s march will be the action steps proposed by them to solve the “problem”.
What will they change to achieve the goal to “save” the earth?
Easy to complain about anything, much harder to formulate action plans and put in place actual action to “save” their sheltered version of what needs to be done.
Be a giant banner waving borefest with lots of talk and no action.
On saturday they will be back in front of their little screens, carrying on using fossil fuels like they did on the before the march.
Not one will change anything in their lives to stop using fossil fuels.
David
/ 14th March 2019Another day another embarrassing story for the worlds most inept minister, is anyone in charge or is Twyford going to poll axe Ardern. Labour..the party that looks after millionaire property developers.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/111235617/canterbury-kiwibuild-house-was-on-market-last-year-and-did-not-sell
If Twyford wants to pick up houses already for sale that havent sold because they are the wrong size in the wrong place and on sell them at a loss to the taxpayer with no increase in the supply then he may have misled us as to what Kiwibuild is.
Pete George
/ 14th March 2019David
/ 14th March 2019That house is worth around 400k which is why it hasnt sold. It would have cost under 200k to build and I think the section was around the 100k mark (GV is 175k) when you break down the cost of the whole multi unit site.
Blazer
/ 14th March 2019Collins has a yen for ‘milking it’ as usual.
When did asking price become …selling price?
David
/ 14th March 2019Asking price is what Twyford has just guaranteed on behalf of the taxpayer, the selling price ? Well Mike Greer doesn’t care anymore does he.
You must be delighted at Twyford helping out millionaire property developers Blazer. Dalziels husband shilling for the Chinese. Jones threatening journalists. Cullen on a grand a day. I am feeling for you fella.
lurcher1948
/ 14th March 2019Other than the right no one cares,most voters think that after 9 years at long last something is being done.If I had my way the 1000s of locked up ghost homes bought by overseas owners and land backed I would seize and put them to use but that would be called communism
Gerrit
/ 14th March 2019100% that is what communism is. No private property rights. What would you be happy to have the state confiscate from you?
lurcher1948
/ 14th March 2019I’m not a rich prick person who buys a 100 houses from overseas on line and leaves them vacant,plus it’s my thoughts under labour you are allowed to have thoughts much to the disappointment of the right
Gerrit
/ 14th March 2019Good to see you have no property (not just land and buildings) ownership that the state can take away from you…well done.
Will you be hoping to live in one of the state confiscated houses?
Remember what the state giveths to you, it can take it away just as quick.
Blazer
/ 14th March 2019if Communists owned the properties in question,they would understand …then?
Blazer
/ 14th March 2019So in your world the highest bidder wins.i.e the one with the most money.
Hardworking Kiwis bidding against foreign millionaires…no problemo.
Uber wealthy buy up all business and charge what they like…no problemo…
Monopoly is the aim of Das Kapital…no problemo!
lurcher1948
/ 14th March 2019The rightwing National party are turning into the party of handwringing crybabies,build a bridge to get that bag of cement,this was brought about by a post on a nearby attack rightwing blog…
Blazer
/ 14th March 2019terribly rotten luck ..old chap..
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/111264763/new-zealand-investors-money-among-a20m-lost-by-aus-broker-halifax
lurcher1948
/ 14th March 2019The SLG,HDPA sounds more stupid than usual, interviewing the young climate activist, its a pity NZME ZB put the more thicker host on the air in Wellington to wind up the thicker right
Gezza
/ 14th March 2019A comment by Parti elsewhere got me thinking.
What is the highest pinnacle of human achievement?
There are heaps of contenders, ranging from the personal & social to the mechanical & technological. But for me, it would be landing men on the moon & getting them safely home again. To have humans actually leave our planet & land on what is really another one – if it was a bit bigger, we’d have a double planet system – I think is a stunning achievement.
Blazer
/ 14th March 2019so the rocket scientists reign supreme!
its not rocket science G.
Gezza
/ 14th March 2019Yes it is, B. What are you on?
Conspiratoor
/ 14th March 2019This is a great question G. For me it is those who succeeded against all odds. Winston c –
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts
I give you Harland Sanders…
“the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), left school at 13, lost numerous jobs, his wife left him, and at the age of 65, he retired as a failure dependent on his savings and money from social security. One day, knowing he was a good cook, he borrowed some money, fried some chicken, sold it door-to-door, founded Kentucky Fried Chicken and became a billionaire at 88
https://www.unbelievable-facts.com/2017/10/succeeded-against-all-odds.html?amp
Kitty Catkin
/ 14th March 2019Much of that is urban myth, according to Snopes, especially the last bit about him being dependent on savings and welfare…he was a businessman by then. It would be hard to sell chicken door to door; it would be cold and greasy and unappetising.
Many of the false facts were put out by the ‘Colonel’ (he was given that as an honorary title, so shouldn’t have used it; it’s like an honorary doctorate)
Gezza
/ 14th March 2019I find it hard to accept Kentucky Fried Chicken as the pinnacle of human achievement and Winston Churchill by all accounts was a right effin wanker about some things, but he know how to produce the odd magic quotable quote. His quote above could be applied to the Apollo Mission and every human endeavour; one of his good ones. 👍
Interesting that, apart from us, no one’s come up with another, except Parti, and he might not have been entirely genuine suggesting that robber barnoney is the greatest human achievement.
Gezza
/ 14th March 2019*baroney
Blazer
/ 14th March 2019black eye for Green leader..
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/
Corky
/ 14th March 2019Why do nuts always target the wrong people? If I was that way inclined I could think of a few Greenies who really do need the bash.
Blazer
/ 14th March 2019would you pepper them with insults before you…assaulted ..them?
Gezza
/ 14th March 2019Which ones?
Corky
/ 14th March 2019Talking of being dealt to. This bro was pulled up for bad manners and ignorance.
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/man-responds-to-being-told-to-speak-english-at-meeting/
Blazer
/ 14th March 2019the only bad manners and ignorance was from the ..interjectors.
duperez
/ 14th March 2019The incident happened at a meeting to discuss a new rehabilitation centre for Māori women who have been in prison.
Apparently JB Heperi-Smith stood to have his say and was asked a question in te reo. He was answering in the same language, before responding in English.
The reaction from those who “dealt to him and pulled him up for bad manners and ignorance”? They need to be on some rehabilitation programme for ignorance. When they’ve done that the bad manners thing would have taken care of itself.
Having said that, given their level of ignorance maybe they are beyond rehabilitation. Maybe they should gather up all their own rellies and bros and go back to wherever their ancestors came from. The language they objected to was here a bit before theirs.
Corky
/ 14th March 2019Hmm, a public meeting, I assume not on a marae. Emotions running high..and rightly so. Otane is a great little place, I have shares in land there.
The majority language is English. I assume most who were present were Europeans ( I don’t know).
Then two people start speaking Maori when they are quite capable of speaking English.
What ignorance is that? Sure the Pakeha who called out were rude. They could have objected in a more polite manner. But they probably thought this was another Maori hijack of an event so common nowadays.
I have been to public meetings where the abuse was worse than this..
Now Mr Smith is playing the condescending martyr who talks of birthing pains. Bs..he just plain ignorant.
duperez
/ 14th March 2019It’s appropriate you ask the question, “What ignorance is that? ” Your comments show you don’t recognise it.
Corky
/ 14th March 2019Don’t want to be rude, Patz..but what the fug would you know about Maori ignorance apart from nothing? Let me guess: ”some of your best friends are Maori…and you have had a hang-ee?
Gezza
/ 14th March 2019That would be a harng-ee I reckon Corks, to be fair.
Gezza
/ 14th March 2019However, I do think you are over-egging your pudding with this one.
Corky
/ 14th March 2019We used to make fun of Europeans who called it a hang-ee. Hang..add the ee. That was before Maori started pissing me off as much as Europeans. Alan Duff has a lot to answer for
lurcher1948
/ 14th March 2019Watch this righty NZ Police HE POSTS ON KIWIBLOG GD pre warning
sooty
I thought that there were worse people in parliament than Jimmy two mums.
There are some batshit crazy ones in there like his co leader, so why pick on him?
Little Littles let them all out coming close to home?
One law for all!
MPs are not worth extra time!
Gezza
/ 14th March 2019Gezza
/ 14th March 2019I’m gonna have a listen to ZB and see how long I can stand the whinging for. Wish me luck. 😐
1627 hours.
David
/ 14th March 2019I hear that Sean Plunket is back on the airwaves, Magic Radio or something. Great news he is a brilliant talkback host although listening to any talkback is likely to make one very miserable and depressed.
Discovered the magic of podcasts which I highly recommend to everyone, matters not your politics or interests there is something for everyone and some fascinating people who get the time to fully explain/talk without adverts and time limits etc. Its the future.
Gezza
/ 14th March 2019There were so many farkin ads after their 4.30 news I went off to bloody sleep until ma rang and said it’s 6 o’clock where are you did you go off to sleep ?
Corky
/ 14th March 2019Why wasn’t this on the News. Oh, immigrants. Black ones. Can’t be accused of racism can we.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6795227/Melbournes-Moomba-Festival-gang-fights-witness-reveals-started-violence.html
Kitty Catkin
/ 14th March 2019It WAS in the news; the Daily Mail is a newspaper.
Do you spend the day looking for things like this, especially ones that are misleading and/or completely false ?