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Why do we pronounce the “g” in longevity twice?
Why did we get Cindy twice? You say the “g” twice because it makes you live longer, Hana was an early adopter of the practice obviously.
Same deal – Cindy / Geegee
She left a replacement toxic spore behind to infect the country in the form of Chippie.🍄
I thought for a minute you were going to name Nudenut. No difference between them both
I’m not standing up for Luxon but at least he’s had a real job and was probably a reasonable sales rep. As for Chippy, he’s just a lemon who has never had a real job and spent his life tied to his mothers apron strings and to top it all off those dead fish eyes of his utterly repel me.
An Atheist, was taking a walk through the woods, admiring all that evolution had created:
“What majestic trees.
What powerful rivers.
What beautiful animals.”
He said to himself.
As he was walking along the river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him.
When he turned to see what the cause was, he saw a 7 foot grizzly charging right towards him.
He ran as fast as he could.
He looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear was closing, He ran even faster, crying in fear.
He looked over his shoulder again, and the bear was even closer.
His heart was pounding and he tried to run even faster.
He tripped and fell on the ground.
He rolled over to pick himself up, but saw the bear right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw and raising his right paw to strike him.
At that moment, the Atheist cried out.
“Oh my God!.”
Time suddenly stopped.
The bear froze.
The forest was silent.
Even the river stopped moving.
As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came out of the sky.
“You deny my existence for all of these years, teach others I don’t exist and even credit creation to a cosmic accident.
Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?”
The atheist looked directly into the light and said.
“It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask you to treat me as Christian now, but perhaps could you make the bear a Christian?”
“Very well.”
Said the voice.
The light went out.
The river ran again.
And the sounds of the forest resumed.
And then the bear dropped his right paw, brought both paws together, bowed his head and spoke.
“Lord, for this food which I am about to receive, I am truly thankful.”
It’s all in the mind y’know…
Jaysus is it cold in Nelson. Live up the top, Britannia Heights, and the wind blows like a bastard straight up from the South.
Luxury….
Ya should bought on the sunny side of the hill, not in the shade!
Cos, you have to pay a bit more!!!
Thought you were in Pooket.
Back in NZ for a period. Have to add time to the clock so I can get the full pension. Always thinkin ahead, that’s me
TOP will have it gone by time youre 65… just normal old ubi for you, plus trust taxes and lvt 🤣
Fuk, 91 is 2.85 a litre here..WOW
How would you know?
Comfortably settled in your tropical hideaway?
Good morning. This may be of interest:
An investigation by RCR’s Maryanne Demasi has uncovered internal emails revealing the shockingly sinister planning behind pandemic preparedness at the 2016 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, with senior US health officials included in the discussions.
In January 2016, then-NIH Director Francis Collins emailed US official Anthony Fauci ahead of the meeting, flagging one session as a “potential land mine”. The session, “Vaccine Innovation for Pandemic Preparedness”, brought together GSK, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, the Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust. Pharmaceutical executives were clear: they would only commit to rapid vaccine development for every future outbreak if governments resolved who would pay and how liability would be handled.
In another session chaired by World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and attended by billionaire Bill Gates, the group coined the term “Germ Games” for large-scale pandemic simulations modelled on military war games. The idea was to persuade G20 leaders to invest in preparedness. Kim suggested tapping US Department of Defense expertise and called on the NIH, World Bank, Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust to develop the concept together, saying he would “find funds for this”.
Collins told Fauci it would be “hard to stop this effort now”. Fauci replied that the US already ran “bioterror attack” simulations through Health and Human Services, Defense and Homeland Security departments. “This may not be ‘exactly’ what Gates, Farrar and Kim were referring to,” Fauci wrote, “but it would be pretty close”. A year later, Collins returned to Davos for a pilot pandemic simulation organised by the World Bank and the Gates Foundation.
The same approach was later reflected in Event 201, the October 2019 “fictional coronavirus pandemic” simulation held by Johns Hopkins, the WEF and the Gates Foundation. By 2018, Collins had invited Kim to the NIH for a closed-door roundtable with Fauci and nearly every institute director to discuss pandemic preparedness, so-called airborne threats and deeper collaboration between the NIH and the World Bank.
The emails show how, from 2016 onwards, pandemic preparedness was increasingly shaped by military planning concepts and biodefence thinking, approaches that would become central to the Covid-19 response.
Read the full article on RCR.
I do wonder if there is a backdoor connection to New Zealand back then?
Why did NZ throw a way, ignore the upgraded plans “The 2017 New Zealand Influenza Pandemic Plan”.
Since then NZ has spent more money on upgrading that plan, supposedly on lessons learnt from Covid 19.
Why bother when it too could be ignored;, or is it now, so that,mandatory, compulsory, concepts can be extended ?
Not that it detracts from the post SA but Maryanne Demasi is an Aussie independent journalist who was fired by an Aussie tv network for criticizing statins. She is a staunch critic of big Pharma especially statins. Not hard on the eyes either.
That will trigger our part time kiwi.
How hard was it to get AI to remove the zimmer frames from the top meme?
China busting in Australia.
Is it happening here?
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1639523177689183
not good at all.
That hana one is wrong. More likely to sign it with a cross than a name!
Mixing upper- and lower-case letters together like that is disturbing! Does that woman have no education?
Or a Hyphen.
Or a brain.
Would you be proud of this?
https://x.com/LozzaFox/status/2073492365306683683
I read an article, on Spiked I think it was, that tried to explain these dickheads.
Ever notice how most of them are middle aged and ugly and sin?
It’s because they are having the crisis, the wife left them long ago, they yearn for their dream woman, but have a shit show in hell of ever getting any woman let alone their dream one.
Solution.
They try to become them, bit of lipstick, some frilly nickers, insist they are real women, while they jerk off to themselves in the mirror.
It’s a full on mental illness.
Fuckin weirdos.
This will get you through; but, but is this similar to “living next door to Alice”?
https://nitter.net/LozzaFox/status/2073492365306683683
54 secs:
An ear worm, like is it safe living next door to Ali?
https://youtu.be/Efox-uWtjwg
3 mins 31
Alice, who the fu#k is Alice?
I prefer Kevin Bloody Wilsons classic, living next door to Alan.
“Gudday Mr Alan Bond, how ya going bloke, I’m your brand new neighbour, hey mate you got a smoke? And I think I’m gonna like here, living next door to Alan”
“I don’t know why he’s leaving or where he’s gonna go, he said he’s got his reasons and I reckon that I know, he just couldn’t get used to living next door, to Abos”
Te Pati Maori are all part-Maori. Is it ethical to favor a minority of your ancestry while ignoring the majority of it?
It’s called Te Ao Maori. Or tikanga. Or something…
Does anyone know what concept “tikanga” represents? The only reason for English to adopt tikanga as a loanword is if it represents a concept that can’t be expressed concisely in English.
For example, “sushi” is a far better term than “balls of vinegared rice with raw fish toppings.”
Who gives a flying?
The entitled greed gene following the trail to the taxpayer funding trough.
Whatever pays the most gets the most attention
Ethics don’t come into it O’sen, it’s whatever you can get away with.
Ethics are an oppressive colonialist concept.
I thought that ethnics were a universal mark of civilization. I guess not…
Ethics yes, ethnics no.
so how many special visas and rise in kiwi unemployment/brain drain is this gunna cost us?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361002349/national-promises-trade-talks-seven-new-markets-bid-next-billion-customers
The former Shampoo Salesman, NudeNut striving for excellence again. Lets go all out and get a Free Trade Agreement with countries like Nigeria and Bangladesh who have a GDP considerably less than New Zealand and can offer us, bugger all and then let’s get a Free Trade Agreement with Brazil which competes against us on food sales globally. Sounds awesome.
You have to be some kind of top flight Mensa member to come up with this dumb shit, surely.
We used to export barracuda to Bangladesh in the early ’80’s when I was on the Boats. We called them “Bangers” …. lol!
I have a theory that Luxtard is acting under instructions from his globalist masters to piss off as many voters as possible, so Labour and their Marxist allies will win the election and complete the takeover that Jacinda started.
What we can look forward to as we age….
An elderly couple went to the doctors because they were concerned about memory loss. The doc put them through some tests. He told them they didn’t have to worry too much yet, but it would help if they wrote things down.
That afternoon they were sitting on the front porch enjoying the lovely June weather. The husband decides to get a bowl of ice cream and asks his wife if she would like one too.
She says, “ I would love a bowl of ice cream, but you better write it down.
“Naw – I don’t have to write it down. How would you like chocolate syrup with your ice cream?”
”I would love chocolate syrup, but you’d better write it down.”
“Don’t need to. How hard can it be? ice cream with chocolate syrup. How about nuts and whipped cream on top?”
“That sounds delicious. I’d love that, but you’d better write it down.”
”Nope. How hard can it be? Ice cream, chocolate syrup, nuts and whipped cream. I’ve got it.”
So he goes into the kitchen and she hears him rattling around for a bit. Pretty soon he comes out with two plates of bacon and eggs.
She says, “I told you to write it down. You forgot the toast!”
The basis of how scammers work, like that beautiful Nigerian princess.
“… Game Theory in his book is a device called, The Dollar Auction.
In summary, the dollar auction is where you convince a player to invest in something.
Anything where they think there will be a payoff.
Once they have invested anything at all, even a dollar and the time it took to invest the dollar, they will now have something to protect, and will invest more to protect that investment they have already made. ….”
Then to see how the this scam fighter baits the greed of the scammers.
I Trapped 500 Scammers in an Endless Maze (they’re furious)
https://youtu.be/OgxdAaCwKMg
32 minutes : Aug 3, 2025 : Kitboga
Ok, the above^ is a bit complicated, and may work for the ones who understand bitcoin.
So be up to date, for the AI bots, that also seems to prove just how idiotic AI can become & it seems that we can have fun with this.
Don’t Hang Up On AI Scammers. Do THIS Instead.
https://youtu.be/lk3jCuITwcE
17 minutes : Jul 1, 2026 : Kitboga
You may recall I had a dig at the Minister and the Department of Statistics over the use of Aotearoa New Zealand as our country name, in their General Social Survey.
Well miracles happen –I got a reply from Minister Scott Simpson. The first reply I have had from any National MP in many years ( I actually gave writing to them a few years back because of the lack of response.)
He said “I have raised this matter with Stats NZ, and they have confirmed with me that the content, tone and wording has been amended for all future correspondence for the General Social Survey. ”
He also said while it was a legal requirement to take part in the survey there were ways to get exemptions but that had to be done through the Department, which suggests he took my point reasonably seriously.
I thanked him for the reply but said country’s name should be correct on ALL correspondence.
We just bin the shit for 6 months or more, until there are more warnings on envelopes than address then we let the kids fill stats forms out with whatever shit they want to write.
Keep at them. If enough of us complain. especially on a survey they deem as compulsory, then if it’s not correctly worded, then by default, we should not have to comply
What’s this survey you are talking about?
Sorry Sooty you did not win Lotto or even a bucket of KFC nuggets.
Better ask more nicely next time. 😄
….. Up to two people (aged 15 years or over) usually living at your address must take part.
The information you provide for this survey is so important that it’s a legal requirement under the Data and Statistics Act 2022 to complete the survey.
Our approach to survey compliance has more information about your legal obligation to participate in the General Social Survey. …..
https://www.stats.govt.nz/help-with-surveys/list-of-stats-nz-surveys/about-the-general-social-survey/
Now just say you are talking to an AI bot, which they will upgrade to; then put them on the loop the loop as explained in my 2nd link here as posted earlier.
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-804/#comment-482640
& simply do not hang up. 😂
I had a go at them with their ” up to two people must take part” S1. I said I live alone so there are not two people to take part. They came back saying –up to two people meant 1 or 2, so I just said they need to improve their explanations –trying hard to piss them off.
Called the General Social Survey, Sooty. The department somehow “randomly” select a number of addresses around the country and the occupants are legally obliged to take part in it. From what WG said a few weeks ago it has been taking place for a number of years –she said she was surveyed about a decade ago. Not sure how regularly it happens.
Oh for the benefit of hindsight.
An initial investment of $50k in Amazon in the 90s could be megabucks today.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/jeff-bezos-held-60-meetings-183108743.html
For you diehard one news fans
Who is Hocky Marnow?
Every night on @1NewsNZ, Melissa Stokes introduces someone called “Hocky Marnow”, yet I’ve never seen him.
I’m starting to think she’s taking the piss 🤷♂️
I fear for your sanity Boss. You will probably lose two IQ points every night that you watch that shit.
Its just to see what they consider breath taking news item they put up first
So don’t keep us in suspense, who or what is “Hocky Marnow”
For us that don’t watch tv news!
It’s her maori pronounciation of hoki arnau, or what ever that means
Fish for tea?
She’s useless. Like the rest of them.
Some days we are the insects; some days we are the windscreen.
Chinese companies producing things cheaper, faster and smarter than ever before. The impact goes beyond just changing how products are made or delivered – it is altering consumer behaviour
https://www.interest.co.nz/business/139238/mark-tanner-sees-chinese-companies-producing-things-cheaper-faster-and-smarter-ever
Chinese companies are producing things cheaper, faster and smarter than ever before. The impact goes beyond just changing how products are made or delivered – it is altering consumer behaviour.
Instant retail should be viewed as more than just a channel
The most obvious example is instant retail. Delivery has become so fast, cheap and widely available that it is shifting where, when, what and how people buy.
Consumers can now order everything from groceries and medicine to beauty products, alcohol, snacks and household goods, and have them arrive in under 30 minutes. In some cases, much faster. A consumer sitting in a restaurant can order a chilled beverage online and have it delivered in as little as 10 minutes, sometimes faster than an in-house bottle of wine might reach the table the West. That is turning many alcohol brands’ channel strategies upside down.
It’s important not to view instant retail just as faster ecommerce. It is altering consumption behaviour. It reduces the need to plan ahead, increases impulse purchases, and weakens the old distinction between “going shopping” and “getting something now”.
This logic is affecting frozen and preserved food. Fresh food or ready-to-eat products can arrive as quickly as defrosting something from the freezer, meaning convenience is no longer just about what is sitting in the ice box.
Hotels are another good example. Many resident restaurants struggle to compete when guests can order a vast variety food or drink online and have it delivered faster than room service. This has also made hotel delivery robots one of the more visible everyday uses of robotics in China. They solve the practical problem of keeping delivery riders out of hotel lifts and corridors, while still allowing guests to receive orders quickly.
AI, labour and the next cost curve
Cool. So just feeding into the “need it now” mindset – or should that be “want it now.”
Colour me underwhelmed. Humanity is fucked.
Only in China. I saw an amazing number of factory made badminton shuttlecocks. Thousands being produced. Can’t find that one but this cottage industry chap came up instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdpCswBurYw
short
Covid-19: Minister asks officials what to do following Royal Commission’s incorrect findingInternal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden was so concerned about an incorrect finding from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Covid-19 that she asked officials what she should do about it.
Her request of officials followed the release of the Covid-19 Lessons Learned Phase Two report, released in March, which said that expert advice in late 2021 about vaccine mandates for under-18s was never provided to ministers.
The advice warned of the possibility of unnecessary risk of heart inflammation from a second dose. It came at a time when about 91,000 young people aged 12-17 were yet to have a second dose (under-12s were not eligible for the vaccine at the time).
But a subsequent Herald investigation unearthed a Cabinet paper in Chris Hipkins’ name showing that the advice was in fact presented to the then-Covid Response Minister in March 2022.
When informed of this, Hipkins said he and fellow Labour ministers had acted with the Royal Commission “in good faith” and “to the best of our recollection”.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/covid-19-minister-asks-officials-what-to-do-following-royal-commissions-incorrect-finding/premium/MWCRL7OXYFBNXC6VFCIAEBQYNA/
Big mistake by Brooke. The Officials will just give her a BS report. Living in Wellington they are likely Labour or Greens voters. If she needs advice she should get some independent advice.
So they hid the meetings, didn’t implement the advice and didn’t remember having done that when appearing before the Royal Commission. If you believe that I have a cheap bridge for sale.
When ever you see Chippy move his lips, you know he is lying
That bastard Hipkins is a devious liar , he’s another cretin who should be taken to the train station.
Surely lying to a Royal Commission is a crime.
Not when they’ve been “officially” excused.
Thats why they didn’t go and answer questions
Just realised the Parker bowls. Couldn’t remember.
Lady Penelope in her pink Roll Royce to her driver: “Home Parker”
Camilla Parker-Bowls
Takes you all day to remember?
I didn’t get it.
It’s a misconception that as we get older we become more racist.
We just become more honest.