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lurcher1948
/ 2nd September 2020Fear and disgust when a planeload of Aucklanders (jaffas) lands in your city.How can you identify them other than the boat shoes and gold chains and possible Covid 19.Its a worry
Alan Wilkinson
/ 2nd September 2020Cheer up, Lurch. They will spend some money and help your struggling businesses.
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020But Lurch, surely St Jacinda will save you from harm as she did before.
lurcher1948
/ 2nd September 2020Kitt, she will go out of her way to save you to, she saves all types
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020You seem not to have noticed the testing fiasco that dropped us all in it again, back to square one because no one from the PM down asked if the tests had actually been done.
Her halo is made of brass, not gold.
Why the fear of Aucklanders if you still believe that the PM can do a damned thing about this virus? She didn’t even know that the MoH was telling 700,000 people to be tested.
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020Anyway, Lurch, as an over-70, you should be obeying your leader’s order to STAY HOME !!!!!!!! which was issued to people your age and not going out in public, even to the supermarket.
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020Wake up, PDTs, the PM ordered all over 70s to STAY HOME after she heard of one who went to the supermarket (and was later threatened with having her tyres slashed by her neighbour, a nurse, if she was seen going to the car again) This woman praised the seniors’ priority at the supermarket, said how nice it was to be out of the house….and was scolded as if she was a naughty child.
David
/ 2nd September 2020Any proof of that or is it just that at the moment one has to be an ally and one needs to acknowledge their privilege and do better.
David
/ 2nd September 2020Joe Biden came out of his basement yesterday, polling must be looking grim, to fly on his plane to Philadelphia and make a 12 minute speech with the requisite number of gaffes and then without taking any media questions hopped back on his plane and went back into his basement.
The speech which condemned violence didnt manage to mention Antifa or BLM but he said he would fix it, lets not mention the rioting that happened when he was VP that he failed to quell and then 2 hours later Democrat run Portland was on fire again.
You would think Joe if the violence is a problem you might want to get your local Democrat run areas to sort it out, forget the destruction look at what its doing to your polling.
Duker
/ 2nd September 2020Catches the plane ?
he lives in Wilmington Delaware which is practically a suburb of Philadelphia now and indeed that city is his campaign HQ
Gaffes in Speeches …you havent been looking at the full unedited text of what Trump says have you?
MaureenW
/ 2nd September 2020I guess this means something …
“COVID has taken this year, just since the outbreak, has taken more than 100 years. Look, here’s, the lives, it’s just, it’s uh mean think about it. More lives this year than any other year for the past 100 years.”
David
/ 2nd September 2020He speaks fluent “Senility”.
Pete George
/ 2nd September 2020Alan Wilkinson
/ 2nd September 2020What happens when the vile behaviour of the Left is allowed to go unchallenged and unridiculed. This reality is why Trump will win in November.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/academics-are-really-really-worried-about-their-freedom/615724/
Alan Wilkinson
/ 2nd September 2020Can anyone explain why there are more than two lockdown levels?
Either there is community transmission or there isn’t. If there is then the R level needs to be below one otherwise it doesn’t.
As usual, the system makes no sense except for frightening the public into submission.
MaureenW
/ 2nd September 2020Same reason there are multiple mask-wearing rules. “Because we know masks work”, says Jacinda. Kids under 12 don’t have to wear them, yet they can have little or no symptoms and be carriers to the more vulnerable.
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020The age of the kids who need to wear them goes up and down like a tart’s knickers, too. Under 12s don’t need them, then under 8s don’t…what next ?
Alan Wilkinson
/ 2nd September 2020So much b.s. and nonsense masquerading as science.
MaureenW
/ 2nd September 2020Not convinced much of the public needs frightening into submission, they’re lining up waiting for their next instruction to follow in the name of public health. How to make a mask at home with old panties?.Be safe and be kind, stay home and don’t come out of your box, and if you do happen to go somewhere, please track yourself.
What a dystopian existence.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 2nd September 2020Surely they will run out of panties soon?
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020You can make two masks from one pair of Bendon cotton knickers; just cut two rectangles from the back and front. Trim the excess fabric from the leg elastic and use it for the ear pieces. Hem the three sides that don’t have the waist elastic, attach the ear bits, chuck out the scraps as they are too small to do much with. Free masks.
The stay safe and be kind messages are nonsense and have become meaningless. C19 acts as a mirror or magnifying glass. The kind will still be kind, the callous & selfish will be as callous & selfish as before.
MaureenW
/ 2nd September 2020Lol Kitty there may be some here who will follow the tip. I won’t be one of them.
Kitty Catkina
/ 2nd September 2020I have seen photos of people wearing knickers as masks, I mean the whole pair worn upside down like a balaclava.
How about a stocking worn over the head and face like a bankrobber ? 😀
Blazer
/ 2nd September 2020great business plan….you could send a pair to Karol.
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020Who’s making a business plan, and who’s Karol ?
Blazer
/ 2nd September 2020Sroubreck your incarcerated, ‘dishy’ drug dealer from the Czech Republic….
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020Do you mean the PM and Clarke Gayford’s friend, Karel Sroubek ?
Blazer
/ 2nd September 2020I should have known you would have the correct spelling….you and Maggie are still…swooning…!
News that he is friends with the P.M….did ‘someone mention it…don’t ask me where’!
Too funny.
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020Your memory is very selective. You must have forgotten the controversy about the text messages. Don’t you ever watch the news ?
You seem incapable of spelling anyone’s name correctly.
Blazer
/ 2nd September 2020So did you ever describe this convict as ‘dishy’?-its not a trick question.
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020What a puerile question. You obviously have very little going on in your life.
Blazer
/ 2nd September 2020You should own the fact that you find him attractive.
The fact that he is an incarcerated ,drug dealer should have no relevance in that….equation.
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020Why should I ‘own’ such a thing ? I can’t even remember what he looked like. It’s been several years. I have other, more important and interesting things to think about.
If you want to be obsessed with a throwaway comment that you think you remember being made several years ago, that’s your problem, not mine. You are coming across as rather creepy, not for the first time.
Blazer
/ 2nd September 2020I can’t even remember what he looked like. It’s been several years. I have other, more important and interesting things to think about.’
Yeah …right!
Alan Wilkinson
/ 2nd September 2020PDT has lots of panties.
MaureenW
/ 2nd September 2020Or lots of panty masks
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020The PDTs think that picnickers are people who go around picking knickers off clothes lines because that’s how they go picnicking.
Blazer
/ 2nd September 2020You would think anyone hanging out …bloomers ..would be…safe.
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020I don’t go around peering at underwear on clotheslines, so have no idea if anyone still wears ‘bloomers’. You seem to know, though.
Blazer
/ 2nd September 2020what anecdotal evidence do you have of this then…’people who go around picking knickers off clothes lines ‘
or did you sawed it on the…news!
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020Look up the word ‘pun; in the dictionary.
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020I pity you. You can’t see people having a light moment and a laugh without trying to kill this with spite. The loss is yours. No one likes a spoilsport.
Blazer
/ 2nd September 2020well there are late…bloomers.
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020Once again, I have to explain that something is a play on words for the resident Spoiler of the Fun’. If you are incapable of seeing the pun on the words knickers and picknickers, I can’t be bothered to explain it to you. Spelling out the meaning of a wordplay is pointless as the witless won’t understand it. Or are you being a spiteful wet blanket ?
Do you mean ‘did I SEE it on the news’ ?
No. It was a joke. Do you KNOW what a play on words is, or what a joke is ?
duperez
/ 2nd September 2020“U.S. says it won’t join WHO-linked effort to develop, distribute coronavirus vaccine.”
“More than 170 countries are in talks to participate in the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) Facility, which aims to speed vaccine development, secure doses for all countries and distribute them to the most high-risk segment of each population.
The plan, which is co-led by the WHO, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and Gavi, the vaccine alliance, was of interest to some members of the Trump administration and is backed by traditional U.S. allies, including Japan, Germany and the European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union.
But the United States will not participate, in part because the White House does not want to work with the WHO, which President Trump has criticized over what he characterized as its “China-centric” response to the pandemic.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/coronavirus-vaccine-trump/2020/09/01/b44b42be-e965-11ea-bf44-0d31c85838a5_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-banner-low_whovaccine-252pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
Harry
/ 2nd September 2020Trump is right not to work with the WHO, which is a useless corrupt organization largely funded by Bill Gates, the vaccine pusher who wants to reduce the world population – and what better way to do it than through one of his vaccines. Don’t forget, Bill can’t keep viruses out of Windows – so why would anyone trust his vaccines to protect them against a virus?
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020That is a different kind of virus, as you must know.
Harry
/ 2nd September 2020Yes, I am aware of that. My point still stands. The WHO is completely corrupt. Their advice should be ignored.
David
/ 2nd September 2020I hope we follow suit and get our own rather than wait for the WHO to shag around for months. They havent exactly performed all that well so far by any measure.
duperez
/ 2nd September 2020Is it possible that New Zealand could develop the vaccine before others? We undoubtedly have the expertise. Do we have the mass of expertise? Do we have the mass of expertise available to be involved in only that work? If we develop it before others have we the capacity to manufacture ample quantities?
There is more to zipping into the kitchen and whipping up a batch of pikelets.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 2nd September 2020Um, we could just buy it?
duperez
/ 2nd September 2020We could. I was reacting to ‘I hope we follow suit and get our own rather than wait for the WHO to shag around for months.’ It’s actually a bit of a process. Saying we should do our own, get our own is really easy. Money doesn’t necessarily determine success but there is stuff going on all over which makes our effort seem small. Then again, we are a small country.
“The Government will spend an undisclosed sum in the hundreds of millions of dollars securing a Covid-19 vaccine for New Zealand.”
“Federal spending on COVID-19 vaccine candidates tops $9US billion, spread among 7 companies.”
“EU states back spending up to $2.7US billion upfront on COVID-19 vaccines.”
And so on.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 2nd September 2020As I said months ago we should piggy back on Aussie to do purchase deals.
lurcher1948
/ 2nd September 2020Hallelujah Hallelujah the right are losing it,
PS bring in David Wong Tung, a man staunchly private, untell he badmouths the PM…
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020I take it that you didn’t see tonight’s news.
Duker
/ 2nd September 2020Pray tell
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020It would take too long. If people don’t watch it, that’s their lookout, I am not going to repeat everything that was on it because someone can’t be bothered to watch it for themselves.
Blazer
/ 2nd September 2020ha…haaa.!
Kitty Catkin
/ 2nd September 2020Oh help, there’s a hyena on the loose. It’s making that cackling laugh sound.
Duker
/ 2nd September 2020You know that dirty politics menes, that said it was authorised by Judith Collins…..she totally denied it saying had never even seen it…….well
“Collins told her MP’s to remove it and claimed she hadn’t signed off on it and hadn’t even seen it.
However it turns out she had retweeted it days ago on her own Twitter account.”
It seems that Judith is just a puppet leader and she doesn’t even know what her own people are doing…
She now expects us to believe that she doesn’t do her Twitter as well…..oh dear a hapless women who’s barely ready to run a ‘ fish and chip shop’
Patzcuaro
/ 2nd September 2020Visited the urban part of Covidtown today, lots of people wearing masks. Most of people not wearing masks were men, apparently testosterone makes you immune to corona virus. Fingers crossed.
Alan Wilkinson
/ 2nd September 2020You?
Patzcuaro
/ 3rd September 2020Wearing mask? Yes, they will be hot in the summer, may need to look for a cotton one.