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Suns up but seems not too many of the pensioners have stirred.
Welcome to the world of the working man.
The world of property investors who are out working to pay their mortgages so they can have nice warm dry houses for people who choose to rent. Thats about 35% of the population and has been forever.
Even the rich rent.
At least we won’t have to rely on the State to put us in a rest home like ex farmers.
Of course those ex farmers/truck drivers wouldn’t even understand that. Too many diesil fumes inhaled whilst enjoying the taxpayer farming subsidies.
Still wiki will put that right as he searches for his God.
How would you know with no recording of their passing through.
No ticks up or down, do you feel inadequate.
Morning all. ☀️ shining in the Waikato. 🙂
Pissing down here now, had a short shower earlier.
Looks like no walk for the dog.
Dog got his walk abit later and his usual afternoon one.
It’s looking a bit bloody dismal out there.
Rain worning up.
Wonderful weather for walking at 6.45 this morning though thought it was forecast to rain all week, YIKES. All quiet on the western front I think.
Have a great day everyone.
It’s even fine up here and was nice and warm yesterday arvo. Hopefully a sign of things to come for the weather and the economy. Everyone feels better and more confident with a bit of sunshine.
You should cop it Thursday might Tarquin.
Sunshine is an essential nutrient for human well being despite what the dermatology shills tell you.
The diversity astronauts stuck in space, are abandoning their diversity hire Boeing spaceship and hitching a lift back next year.
We’ll all be riding horses again soon.
They must have a very store of food and water.
Woolworths will deliver to them.
They are like a virus.
They will get in anywhere ….and spread.
Morning Troopers,
What’s happened to the up/down tick buttons? Are we into equity commenting now?
“Are we into equity commenting now?”
The irony of equity is that you lose your individuality.
Didn’t you know, it’s DEI time now
Golly, I’ve always thought we should be more DEI, it’s the way of the future. I personally identify as a black left handed lesbian midget with a hair lip hunch back and club foot. I feel so liberated. I know you all agree with me by the lack of down ticks.
Well I guess it’s better than identifying as John Campbell.
I wish I could up tick you for that!
😎
This thread reminds of one of life’s mysteries.
If DEI is a good thing, why do they get upset when you call them a DEI hire?
If it wasn’t for DEI people like myself and my good friends Paddy and Tova would all be clearing tables in a public bar somewhere.
More likely paddy would be under the table in a public bar.
His zenith in life.
At least Lauren Southern would not find him there !!!
Paraphrase Liam Neeson and replace with Lauren
“I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for reason I can tell you I don’t debate morons;
what I do have are a very particular set of skills.
I use logic and reason.
What have YOU got paddy?
😂
I doubt if Paddy and Tova have the required skills. I will give you the benefit of the doubt.
They call me the phantom down ticker and nobody will ever know! Ha ha ha ha ( evil laugh ).
There’s a theory that people downtick because of levitation inadequacies in other areas.
That’s gravity, mate!
Easily remedied by standing on your head.
saggy knows about gravity.
Its all hangs down eh saggs.
But then some ladies would suffocate when their nostrils get blocked.
Good chat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H1tjQ-RaZU
Tucker Carlson – The FULL Interview | RFK Endorses Trump, Creepy Walz Vibes, and More
Megyn Kelly
A Texan walked into a pub in Dublin and loudly challenged people to a drinking challenge.
An Irishman asked, “What’s your challenge?”
The Texan “I challenge you to drink 10 pints get off the barstool, walk out the door, then come back in and sit back down without stumbling. If you can I’ll give you a thousand dollars”
The Irishman got up and left the pub and the Texan started laughing “Well, I guess that the stories about how good the Irish are at drinking are just that STORIES!!!”
15 minutes later the Irishman walked back into the pub and the Texan was still there, “Hey Yank is that challenge still good?”
The Texan said, “Yes, but what made you change your mind?”
“Oh that?” the Irishman grinned, “I went to the pub down the street to see if I could do as you challenged.”
The Texan just handed the money to the Irishman.
A tour guide was leading a group of tourists through a famous, ancient castle in Germany.
“This castle was built nearly eight hundred years ago. All features are original – not one stone has been changed, not one wall has been altered & not one upgrade, superficial or functional, has occurred in all these years.”
“Wow-” interrupted a woman, rolling her eyes. “They must have the same landlord as I do.”
Rulz for me but not for thee. London has fallen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjGNVUCZ364
SHOCKING: Muslim Mob Overruns London And Harasses Public With No Police Response!
British View
The good ladies from VFF have had another session with the Covid Inquiry, this time with video backup.
https://t.me/thewhiterosenz/197703/280281
I read the other day that the guy who will head up the second Inquiry has joined in on the first one —not sure what the logic of that is. Maybe to limit the extent of the whitewash.
From 2.06mins US lawyer Barnes (from Viva and Barnes) talks about the inappropriate use of the Prep Act by big pharma to to give themselves immunity. ‘It was not intended to give them licence to cause injury and death’.
https://rumble.com/v5cc3uc-ep.-225-trump-sentencing-update-pavel-durov-arrested-rfk-jr-endorses-trump-.html?e9s=src_v1_ep
Trump Sentencing UPDATE! Pavel Durov ARRESTED! RFK Jr endorses Trump! & MORE!
Viva & Barnes
Very good article on Climate Change from JoNova
https://www.joannenova.com.au/2024/08/election-deception-democrats-wont-mention-the-climate-but-greens-are-happy-with-that/
Also a very technical but good paper in the comments
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7418/4/3/17
The Left are upset that their training facilities for prospective comrades, often referred to as Local Councils, are being told to rein in their expensive fantasises. Their lackeys of the MSM have received instructions to grill & misquote Procrastination Brown at all cost.
……”Brown has signalled he wants to “refocus” the purpose of local government, notably suggesting that he wanted to cap rates rises for “non-core” council spending.
Part of the changes included stripping out provisions in legislation which require councils to promote social, economic, environmental, and cultural wellbeing in communities. “…….
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/08/25/whats-nice-to-have-brown-quizzed-on-council-spending-clampdown/
But “social, economic, environmental, and cultural wellbeing” are taonga & the cornerstones to Leftist dogma. Pedestrian stuff like water, sewage & roads are details not worthy of the time of Labour/Green experts who know just how we should live.
Expect revolution!
H/T RCR Bites
The adern critter used diktats throughout its reign
(Yes, reign although rein would be suitable)
oil and gas ban, guns, (not really gun control as gun crime exploded) masks, lockouts lockdowns
the masses accepted this
They cant complain if Simeon uses diktaks
He is pussy footing around.
councils need a complete rework with a very prescriptive set of rules.
Eg councils stopped employing rubbish collectors and contracted out but no reduction in staff
councils stopped employing footpath repair/makers and contracted out but no reduction in staff.
They need to have prescribed services, with KPIs and personal fines on councillors who fail
More use of shared services like housing approval.
There are more than 70 councils and so much duplication kin the fiefdoms and unless someone from the top treats them like the kiddies they are, nothing will change for the better.
Sadly notional have an appalling track record in local government
Back in 1991/92 that prick bolger killed off the ARC- Auckland Regional council . No logic, No reason.
Did not do the same to Canterbury or Wellington
Then that prick johnny keys with that prick joyce and that prick roderick hide created the Auckland-anything-but-supercity.
Now councils know they can get way with shit they are doing exactly that.
At this stage they know can-kickers notional wont do anything apart from words
The rot set in circa 2002 when Reichmistress Clark gave the power of general competence to incompetents.
Yes (= 1980s version of an uptick)
but there were massive reforms in 1989 made by michael bassett where many councils were merged and this was supposed to create efficiency and lower rates rises ….
This never worked.
For some reason 3 years later Notional decided to completely root ARC
For no apparently good reason. Just coz.
And removed some central co-ordination of services that had been performed by the ARA – Auckland Regional authority
The other regions kept their regional council.
Klarkenfuhrer is not the only culprit but is part of the cancer that has eaten away at Councils
Auckland is completely stuffed and after 14 years the major stadia/sportsgrounds have not been sorted. This was supposed to happen by 2017.
The rubbish collections have not been co-ordinated.
not one benefit has been derived in 2010 merger of 7 Akl councils .
Not one person was made reductant in the 2010 merger and yet in a larger organisation more people were hired ..”because it was a more complex organisation”
Duh.
Merger = more staff and more old timers side-lined !!
rodney hide is a cunt. He almost wrecked ACT as well as Auckland city.
He ran away from Auckland, from central politics; and ran away from his marriage.
A wrecking coward.
like the Joker in Batman 2008.
What a coward.
lets face it
in the last 40 years politicians are pieces of shit.
local and central .
Just on the Regional Council stuff.
I am trying to get some info but it fits in.
One of the main roles of regional councils was the catchment board activities which were extremely important in drainage and flood control .The move to unitary authorities to me diminishes the importance of these functions as other nice to haves get priority for funding.
I have been talking to a guy who passed on a discussion he had with an engineer ex catchment board , that was responsible for planning and design of stopbanks in Hawkes Bay.
He told my friend the plan was in place but at some stage funding was pulled or changed and the plan wasn’t carried out hence the consequences emerged after Gabrielle.
I am trying to find that engineer to get the whole story.
The problem is one council rules is not the same as anothers, even though the are ment to be working to the same NZ standards (not ao tea a rower bullshit) All they are doing is protecting their own little fifedom.
👍 <– uptick
The Chinese do not mess around when it comes to infrastructure work. They go big and just do it.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1939697/china-railway
I thought there might be a typo in D Exp piece, on the size of the tunnel. It appears to correct, but there is 16 kms underground in the project which will be finished in 3 years. Also it is only number 10, by cost, of the major rail projects started in 2023, around the world.
https://rail.nridigital.com/future_rail_mar24/top_10_most_expensive_rail_construction_projects_2023
Well hell
From article
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A groundbreaking £3.6 billion railway project is underway in eastern China, set to connect the bustling city of Ningbo with the neighbouring city of Cixi.
The Ningbo–Cixi Railway, also known as Line 10, is a significant infrastructure development that aims to enhance connectivity for approximately 10 million people on either side of a mountain range in Zhejiang Province.
The ambitious project is overseen by the Ningbo Line 10 Municipal Railway Development Company.
It includes the construction of a 64-kilometer (39.8-mile) intercity railway line that will extend from the existing Kongpu station on Line 2 of the Ningbo Metro to the Cixi High-Speed Railway Station.
———————————–
so by comparison
Auckland is ” Building (?) ” a 3.2 km railway with cathedral-like stations that will service less than 300,000 people when finished
It started 6 years ago with no completion date in sight.
Cost so far = over $6 billion
with no end in sight.
—-
Same article
of course this is in the English Rag = the Express
Any decent engineering would bamboozle an Englishman post 1920 !!
Article says
” A standout feature of this railway line is its engineering feat – a 1.4-kilometre (4,593-foot) tunnel that will pass through a mountain, demonstrating China’s prowess in constructing challenging infrastructure. ”
Wow
so does the churnalist understand all the underground rail that was built in England in the 1800s.
Or that the Rimutaka rail tunnel is 8.8 kms and was completed in 1955
…..” a 1.4-kilometre (4,593-foot) tunnel that will pass through a mountain”……
As you state the Rimutaka Tunnel is far longer but NZ was doing some fairly large scale tunnelling much earlier. Instance the Lyttelton Tunnel 2.6Km (1867) & the Otira 8.6Km (1923). Probably more fact based info than teenage girl “journalists” can deal with.
China of course can build anything & fairly quickly as they don’t have to contend with a Resource Management Act, Worksafe or Taniwha.
… a 1.4-kilometre (4,593-foot) tunnel that will pass through a mountain, ..
1.4 km tunnel – not even a mile – is a glorified cave !!
China doesn’t need multitude of clipboard waving dipshits.
No comment
https://x.com/bobbybollocks2/status/1827804450443989293?s=46&t=FuvE5e-uq9dUbHPLKMbm2Q
😘
Just looked up Lauren Southern
not seen or heard much in recent years.
This X post from June 2023 explains a lot
https://x.com/Lauren_Southern/status/1666883921790009344
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extracts
My life has been utterly batsh*t insane for the last 4-5 years. While my online content might seem boring compared to my heyday in 2015-2018, my real life has been a fever dream. I’ve been afraid to talk about it for various reasons, not least of all people wondering if I’m a full blown schizo.
———————–
Sadly, it did not work, and whether it be genuinely due to my ADHD or his resentment towards me being a career deadweight – my husband left me and our child.
—————–
For the first seven months after he left, I lived with my parents, during which my mental health was as shot as my savings. I was in severe denial, so I kept wearing my ring and speaking about my husband as if he were still part of my life. My brain was honestly broken, but I didn’t have the luxury of licking my wounds. My son was depending on me
——————————
She has been through the mill
Married a guy who worked in a Federal institution (not sure if US or Canadian)
Got messy
When you take on the governments of the world they push back
with more resources than you can muster
Lil ol Liz Gun found this out
Julian Assange knows this
Kim Dotcom knows this
Even Elon Musk experiences this
No matter how big and powerful or small and without power you cant win against governments – who as Carlin says are the fronts for The Club.
and you ain’t in it !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X4Z1lLUMfw
George Carlin in 1996 and another bit , 2006
8 mins
True story…
I was one of three college students who rented a three bedroom apartment in a two story apartment building in Venice Beach California. The four bedroom apartment above ours was used by the airlines to house female airline hostesses while transiting through the Los Angeles area.
The three of us were heartbroken to hear that the airlines let their lease run out (maybe because of us randy bachelor’s downstairs?).
But George Carlin, his wife and son moved in!!!
George was a stand up commedian in Las Vegas and had just gotten kicked out of Vegas after calling the audience assholes after a bad night.
He metamorphized from the coat and tie comedian into the hippy dippy weatherman, grrew a beard and developed a whole new routine at a place across the street from us called “The Other Side” . A coffee shop during the day and an entertainment center at night.
The three of us would go there nightly and listen to George try his new comedy routines for just the price of a cup of coffee.
NZ comedians aren’t even worth a cup of coffee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-_do9UEUXs
Life, Liberty & Levin
The DNC was an authoritarian farce. She ran and celebrated a palace coup.
So old Cindy’s catch cry was Be K–d and the Democrats are running their own phraseology to garner support with “Joy”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strength_Through_Joy
Someone recently pointed out that the Democrats pushing the “joyful warrior” theme are plagiarising The Nazi Party of the 1930s. Then Kraft durch Freude or Strength Through Joy was a German NSDAP-operated leisure organization. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strength_Through_Joy :
…….”Set up in November 1933 as a tool to promote the advantages of Nazism to the German people and internationally, it was also used to ease the process of the rearmament of Germany. Through its structure of organized events and promotion of propaganda, it was also intended to prevent dissident and anti-state behavior “…….
Who would’ve thought?
Time mag is so oughta touch.
https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2019712_2019694_2019588,00.html
https://time.com/7009317/reintroduction-of-kamala-harris/
https://time.com/5787443/jacinda-ardern-christchurch-new-zealand-anniversary/
Ardern,
By been over there and not here.
Oh, gosh darnit, devastating.// Didn’t even get to try their beef flavoured, millet and shredded tyre burger.
Plant-based manufacturer Sustainable Foods goes into voluntary administration
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/plant-based-manufacturer-sustainable-foods-goes-into-voluntary-administration/JCVSXBBVWFHZNDHRCAVPK53VME/
Not very sustainable 🙂
When on that page I noticed that the Herald has lowered their subscription rate to $0.99 a week, down from $1.50 a week?
Still too expensive. You can read the Labour Party press releases here at https://www.labour.org.nz/blog for free & cut out the middle man. 🙂
Sorry if posted.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVyTTukWgAADExH?format=jpg&name=medium
Update your will.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVtc78yW0AAd7oy?format=jpg&name=medium
Bugger the egg timer. I’m coming back as the spirit running the family ouija board. 🙂
I’m going to come back as a Tyrannosaurus Rex and roll joints for my neighbour. That’s all those little arms are good for anyway.
Hrrrmph.
ASHLEY BLOOMFIELD IS BACK….
ESR Board Chair Professor Sarah Young has announced that former Director-General of Health Sir Ashley Bloomfield will take up the role of ESR’s Interim Chief Executive from Monday 2 September.
https://x.com/HopeRising19/status/1827892896189808996
ESR are the lying pubic servants who said that Mark Lundy drove from Petone to PN and back, cleaned up the murder weapons – never found -half of it in peak hour traffic in under 3 hours.
They could not actually do it but ‘modelled’ it based on someone once saying they were in a car with Lundy and he drove fast!!
Great skience.
I had an argument 15 years ago with an employee of ESR over this.
Wouldn’t cross the road to piss on them if they were on fire .
M. Thatcher was a trained working scientist before she became a lawyer then politician
She cut back govt funding on science as often it was people in a back lab doing hobbies.
For Viking, so he knows what he is supporting:
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2024/08/25/zuckerberg-should-be-arrested/
Dumb comment as mostly I use FB for free.
The Msm have been doing the same shit forever. Look at the BBC openly stuffing gay shit down the throats of their listeners as has our own Radio and TV.
Nothing is ver what it seems.
Fakebook was and always has been a DARPA product
Ref. Whitney Webb
and others
Elon Musk, too.
Q. How do you know your Harley Davidson is handling great?
A. You can almost keep up with the logging trucks when you’re riding over the Rimutakas.
Wasn’t today then. according to the news it was closed with a bit of rain.
If only they knew what the road was really like in the 50’s and 60’s.
soft cock drivers.
When ypu can pass a empty TS3 up a hill.
That’s setting the bar fairly low Sooty. A Hillman Imp would probably suck the doors off the Commer on a good day.
Mind you the TS3 once marinised was a great power unit for early Hartley launches. Its low profile meant it could fit easily under decks.
A fatal mess at Ramarama. Truck going south crashed across north bound lane early this afternoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqLASEkambg
Three killed in crash, multiple injured, SH1 likely closed overnight | 1News on TVNZ+
Bloody hopeless
NZs main highway in the city where one third of the country live has been shut for 15 hours until 5am Tuesday
What are they going to achieve tonight that they could not achieve in the daylight?
Just cops being Rsoles
This was happening 20 years ago long closures – and credit to him, the Mayor of the time, John Banks put a stop to it
and that was when he was mayor of the Isthmus, not the whole region.
Old Wayne Brown will be having a nap
Wake him up next October and tell him to fuck off to the old folks home
Now people I know are stuck either side of it
There is not real back up road to this and no plans ever for one .
there are two other ways around that I know of/.
Not convenient but can be used.
But yes its a bit stupid , no doubt a million cones to go with it.
That’ll make the aucks complain. No way out or into the shit hole.
well there is but you have to go other ways that are not so nice.
Bloody mess though.
Could go back to Pokono and go thru Pukie.
Why is New Zealand on the list of countries threatening Rumble?
https://x.com/chrispavlovski/status/1827635666202636742
Goldsmith will be soaking the bus tickets to punish them as we speak.
Disgusting.
NZ wants to play with the bully boys
Support RUMBLE! 🇺🇸
Ask Luxflakes why.
His politzi are in charge, Against our freedom of information and our rights to free speech.
Not that he would understand that.
I see Ian Wisharts relentless calling out of NIWA’s bullshit, selective data compilations, has made Judith Collins come out saying it was WW2’s fault. FFS. Own it and fix it!
https://x.com/nzdsos/status/1827944530349593034
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Seems like a “Net Zero”
1News got ratioed for stating this gem.
TVNZ has today published information about how its newsroom operates, as it focuses on transparency and inspiring trust in news.
https://x.com/1NewsNZ/status/1827862273601224735
😂
you will like this lady.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/527309156537662
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1153869355909822
This is creepy.
https://www.britishironworkcentre.co.uk/national-anti-violence-uk-tour/
We enjoy Trump and his irreverence. Who amongst the Nationals would label their opposition “Tampon Tim”. None. They are pawns to the system.
We all realise politics is broken and want to Vote for he whom will upend it all.
If the Earth ran out of CO2 it would be flat.
The ginger sausage roll eater of a ex PM for labour has conceded that maori never ceceded sovereignty. Wonder if he knows what a maori is?
Seen as he doesn’t know what a maori iis!
How much blood do you need and how do you tell?
Someone from the media the other day was asking how much longer he can last!