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Show this to any fools who say Maori were the first to discover Antartica
https://x.com/rainmaker1973/status/2080289327649636731?s=46
No, Climate Change has caused those massive waves. When the first Maori circumnavigated the planet, the sea was a millpond, the countries were closer together, feathers and flax were all that was required to cover flesh in all weather, and the weather was less erratic so they could plan ahead.
Or so we are supposed to believe. Still waiting on proof, pity they had no written records…
The Boss is stuck in colonialist weather patterns. Back when Kupe et al. cruised Antarctica waters Maori enjoyed the spirit of nature rather than the reality. As evidence I offer Te Tiriti which is now honoured in its spirit instead of the quaint truths & facts so highly valued by imperialists.
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
LP Hartley
So do you mean they were as high as a kite on mind altering substances?
What would they prove? We have a written record of the treaty and look at the shitstorm that has created
https://nitter.net/Rainmaker1973/status/2080289327649636731?s=46
sometimes need to click on the “reload” tp get it to go through.
I can’t believe anybody would think Maori went anywhere near Antarctica. I’ve sailed in the roaring forties once and have no intention of doing it again. Heading south once you get through the the roaring forties you hit the furious fifties and then the screaming sixties. Going there in a poorly designed multi hull with crap sails and no decent wet weather gear would be suicide – I’ve seen 10 grand carbon head sails fly to pieces amazingly fast. If we then imagine by some miracle they’re still alive and sailing the next problem is navigation. Not having a sextant or compass wouldn’t help there chances and I’m very dubious about their stories of how they used the stars for navigation. I’ve done courses on navigating by the stars and it can be done but it’s not that simple and you have to be able to see them which probably doesn’t happen that often in those parts. Like Matariki no evidence has ever been provided which means it’s just another bullshit powered grift.
But they went in summer, silly!!!
On their way to America
Yer, they took the short cut!
For an old fashion ear-worm 😁
“A Maori Car”
Lou & Simon with Peter Posa on Guitar (feat. Peter Posa)
https://youtu.be/mp91J4vcD-o
2 mins 38 secs :
A top up of a few gallons of petrol.
Lift the hood,
Fill the radiator with water.
Pour in a quart of oil,
A tinker with a screw driver,
& they will get there.
A flash Maori car is a tribe one.
A nice little quaking for the ones in the King Country,.
Severe earthquake
Sat Jul 25 2026 4:51 AM
Magnitude: 5.7
Depth: 9 km
5 km south of Taumarunui
Some one reported their fucking phone systems did an Earthquake alert.
What is the point?
Though I think some have enabled that setting, via some whatever app, so it is their choice.
So not a civil defence alert. Surely not.
That is surprizing to hear about people in multi storey buildings way up in Auckland, saying they were not too happy. 🥴
Yet they were not at sea. 🤢
nor any tsusami warning this time.
Felt fuck all. Never heard any alarms either. Will there be another one? Yes of course there will be. But who knows when, where or how big, and anyone predicting shit knows fuck all about geology.
Well, that was just the biggest one I have felt, centered virtually in the next road at Te Maire Bluff on the Wanganui River and Forgotten World Highway. Bit of damage, the old Family Bibles moved about somewhat so it may have been God trying to rearrange life. Anywhoo, New World is a mess and guess so will other Retailers be in a shambles. A few roads closed here and at the Awakino Gorge.
Just as well I wasn’t having a Shag at that precise time because I would have felt the Earth move and dismissed the Earthquake.
Do you often shag at 4.51 am A H ?
While holding a bible?
It would take more than a gentle shake to rattle A H. Voices, thunder & lightening although are another story. 🙂
Revelation 16:18
He started at 9.51 p.m. so probably.
reports here.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/59-magnitude-quake-strikes-manawatu-region-more-than-20000-people-report-feeling-severe-shaking/YEL7NTS2UVGTXCDJTM6N2VR6GY/
Wake any of the natives from their slumbers, ya think?
It’s odds-on that another biggie is coming when you look around the world, with all the oil that is being removed, making room for plasma.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
do you think we could use our himan butt plug gnome to stop it?
A llooonng shake here. Was expecting an avalanche of firewood buto no.
Morning all, weather is hideous up this way.
Off for a sail then?
Nowhere rough enough for that. Gale warning out, Colville Channel or the Craddock would be lovely at the moment.
Chicken, the natives went to Antarctica in this.
I know but if you want a real Kiwi project that is right up there read about this new steel making process.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/hydrogen-powered-steelmaking-start-up-cullbeck-raises-funds-at-60m-valuation-signs-anchor-customer/premium/2O3NPRRAR5E3HBNYOGURWN7OYI/
Hydrogen-powered steelmaking start-up CullBeck raises funds at $60m valuation, signs ‘$1b’ anchor customer
Chief executive and co-founder of the start-up Martin Hacon says that, all-up, his firm has raised $20m, including $5m from an unnamed foundation customer in Australia.
Hacon said around two billion tonnes of steel was manufactured per year (including around 200,000 tonnes in New Zealand), producing 7-8% of the world’s carbon emissions.
The process takes 12-14 hours to turn raw iron ore into liquid steel.
His firm’s zero-emission technology reduces that to two and a half minutes.
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Now imagine that, liquid steel from our ironsands in 2.5 minutes.
If you have followed Musk and his giga press, you will be aware that that press produces the entire body shell of the car in 8 seconds by using a similar process to making hard plastic products. Of course, if you bang the car its stuffed but recyclable.
This steel process could be a forerunner of that for that kind of use.
We have some smart people.
So Nash was done over by findlayson. Never can trust a Nat; never will.
Stuart Nash didn’t fact-check his now-infamous text message to podcast host and former politician Chris Finlayson.
He says he never thought he’d need to, because it was meant to be the start of a private joust with a friend.
That message, criticising Napier MP Katie Nimon, triggered yet another political whirlwind with Nash at its centre, after Finlayson made it public this week.
What an arsehole he remains.
If he publicises a private conversation who else would he shit on?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/stuart-and-sarah-nashs-last-political-interview-stuart-is-many-things-but-he-is-not-sexist/premium/OQ4TCKNNM5EK3BOJVQ43WYEZIY/
HHHHAAAAAAA!!!
Peopla re far too fucking precious about politicians in NZ. I prefer those that are a little tarnished.
Finlayson is nothing more than than a gutter rat, and a sniveling one at that.
Well if Nash considered Finlayson a friend, then perhaps Nash’s judgement is way off !!
There’s that of course, but I guess that will be the end of that friendship.
Will Findayson throw his handbag at Nash?
Now that would make good telly.
I’m sure there is some watcher here who could build that image.
If you Google arsehole a picture of Finlayson pops up. Nash should’ve known that.
Our HR bought a lie detector robot that slaps people when they lie and took it home to test it. He decided to test it out at dinner that night. The HR asked his son what he did that afternoon. The son said, “I did some schoolwork.” The robot slapped the son. The son said, “Ok, Ok. I was at a friend’s house watching movies.” Dad asked, “What movie did you watch?” Son said…….
“Toy Story.” The robot slapped the son. Son said, “Ok, Ok, we were watching p*rn.” Dad said, “What? At your age I didn’t even know what p*rn was.” The robot slapped the HR. His wife laughed and said, “Well, he certainly is your son.” The robot slapped her.
Horrendous EVIL in Northern Ireland, Mass grave in a sewage pit.
Bet the govt funding didn’t get spent where it should have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgXTgMEqE2Y
The hidden grave containing 796 children
The distressing discoveries are the latest at the site of a former home for unmarried mothers, in County Galway …
County Galway is in Good, Pure, Catholic, Eire…. Not in that Protestant cess pitt further north….
Another rerun of the Magdalene Laundries of Catholic Ireland 1922 to 1996? Wonderful story of God’s love & forgiveness that was to be sure.
Pregnant teenage girls stigmatised by the Church sent to Church run institutions to have their babies under the supervision of psychotic nuns. Then the babies were sold to adopters in the USA for good coin while the mothers were indentured to the laundries where they were used as slave labour until their imaginary debt to the Catholic orphanage was repaid.
The unfortunate ones who didn’t make it through the baby factory were thrown into an old septic tank at the back of a church cemetery.
It was a racket. The stinking Catholic church & its deviant priests were up to their necks in the exploitation of the vulnerable.
And the world wonders why we hate the bastards and remember that the Nazi’s are their kin.
More so than the Italians.
Interview of Shane Jones on himself, politics and NZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtaAYJbZQ5k
Shane Jones: The Roughest Tongue in Parliament
Dom Harvey
Shane Jones is one of New Zealand’s most polarising and fascinating politicians.
He started his parliament life in Labour 20 odd years ago. …
Now tell us. Have you ever met a l;eopard that could change its spots?
No
Well, apparently this piece of shit thinks he can.
Why former Labour MP Michael Wood thinks Mt Roskill voters should trust him again
Transport Minister and Labour MP Michael Wood resigned from Cabinet following a scandal in 2023, after the Herald revealed his failure to sell Auckland Airport shares despite repeatedly being told to do so. He tells senior writer Derek Cheng why he believes the Mount Roskill electorate should give him another chance.
You live in Mount Roskill and former Labour MP Michael Wood knocks on your door. You tell him his repeated failure to sell his Auckland Airport shares when he was Transport Minister, after being told to do so a dozen times, crossed a line. You’ll never vote for him.
“I certainly understand and respect the fact that you made that decision last election,” Wood says after the Herald puts this role-playing scenario to him.
“For me, that period of 2023 was the absolute worst period of my life. It’s pretty clear that I made a mistake in not selling those shares.”
He adds, for context but not as an excuse, that he hadn’t touched the shares since buying them as a 19-year-old.
“And in the midst of working 90 hours a week as a senior minister, that was always something I put to one side and didn’t get back to. It wasn’t that I was ignoring the issue totally. It wasn’t that I wasn’t aware of it. It wasn’t that I was thumbing my nose at anyone. It was just an important but small job that I didn’t do, and should have done.”
He also wants to know the local issues for you, and how you think he can resolve them.
“At every moment over the last 13 years that I’ve been in elected roles in Mount Roskill up until that point, I put every hour of the day working for you and trying to serve this community. That’s what I want to do again.
“I do believe I’m the best person who can represent you and make a difference on the things that actually matter to you. So, I’ll leave the choice to you.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/why-former-labour-mp-michael-wood-thinks-mt-roskill-voters-should-trust-him-again/premium/7QANIGFRYJFBTG24EJPJ6A5AVA/
Apart from that issue, he has proven to be a lying bastard in the past.
The great fall
Wood’s inability to sell those shares was one of the catalysts for Labour’s inexorable slide in the polls in mid-2023.
Labour had already lost then-Cabinet Ministers Stuart Nash, for divulging Cabinet discussions to his donors, and Meka Whaitiri, who defected to Te Pāti Māori, but party insiders say the real hit in their internal polling came with the Wood scandal.
The subtext was that the rules didn’t apply to him, or by association to Labour. It reeked of arrogance.
Woods would be at the top of my list of people I would NOT want to see in Parliament again. The distance between him and the next on the list is HUGE.
Slimy champagne socialist Wood who referred to NZers as “a river of filth”.
FJA would be way above this slimy shit
What the government thinks of Kiwi’s.
You mean them immigrants haven’t had all their shots!
Say what you will about AI. This is an example of what can be good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKz-vHZyn-4
💙 Elon’s common sense.
She loath’s him 🤥🤥🤥
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkCxfPIx3AY
Elon Musk Defends Rupert Lowe in Interview with Woke British Reporter
Ive seen bits of that on telegram. Low IQ Bitch vs Elon. Only one winner.
Kiwi bloke appreciates the taste of home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE-DOH3FrSI
Ryan Fox wanted a very specific pie. He found it, and we found him
From winning on the world stage, to winning over the locals – Ryan Fox seemingly can’t get it wrong this week.
After a surprise trip home to New Zealand this morning, the newly crowned Open Champion had two things on his mind: family and pies.
Evenin. I must say, I’m a pie connoisseur. I love a good Steak and Cheese pie. A proper bakery one, not the shit you buy from a servo. That is one thing I miss when I am in Phuket. Without doubt.
Rained in Wellington today
Torrential rain has caused floodwaters to surge down a Wellington street, following a severe weather warning from MetService.
MetService warned that torrential rain could cause surface and/or flash flooding about streams, gullies and urban areas, and make driving conditions extremely hazardous…
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1025891406902471
That must be an old video Viking. It has not rained that hard today.
Flush out all the shit pipes into Cook Strait. An act of god, so no blame can be attached to council mismanagement.
Fucken lefties give me the shits. They don’t like the truth being pointed out to them.
https://x.com/jota_snchez/status/2080336480396812684?s=20
Not an entirely true depiction – that guy shows interviews etc that he was not there for and just photoshops himself in to give his opinion. He’s not stupid, except that those he ridicules would not sit quietly while he talks which gives the game away.
Mother and her young inquisitive son were flying Singapore Airlines from Singapore to New York.The son (who had been looking out the window) turned to his mother and asked, ‘If dogs have baby dogs and cats have baby cats, why don’t planes have baby planes????
‘The mother (who couldn’t think of an answer) told her son to ask the pretty flight attendant.
So the boy dutifully asked the flight attendant, ‘If dogs have baby dogs and cats have baby cats, why don’t planes have baby planes?’
The flight attendant responded, ‘Did your mother tell you to ask me that?’ The little boy admitted that she did.
“Well, then, tell your mother that there are no baby planes because Singapore Airlines always pulls out on time. Now, let your mother explain that to you.!!!”
The background of the Iranian war.
What the story is and how the CIA, MI6, and BP put it all together.
Really interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r2a55_CmeI
Thanks Viking. We all probably knew bits of that history but to have it all put together filling any gaps is very helpful.
yep, like you, I knew it in bits, but that lays it all out.
Just back from going past that sign , stunning day in central today , lots of snow on pig route but very little through the lindas bit that didnt stop the asian drivers from doing 30 round the corners and 110 on the straights , they must still be getting their drivers licences for cash.