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I am a stupid boy
2 years ago

slack out coots sleepin in today!

looks like matt doocey belongs in labour party, the puberty blocker guidelines have given him hurty feelz and hes refusing to release the paper and implement changes.
i bet once hes ditched from labour lite party he’ll flee to somewhere like california so he can pump his non binary kid full of blockers and let them mutilate their body parts.

seriously tho what a piece of fucking shit that guy is, just one look at him and you know hes a bender or pedo. how the fuck does someone who loved working at a clinic transitioning kids ever get a place in the national party? is it a DEI hire type thing or are nats just seriously that retarded

howitis
howitis
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
2 years ago

He’s a creepy critter alright.

I just looked and they have cleaned out/up his Wikipedia page
References to Tavistock are removed.

Tavistock churns out some real shit.
Tavistock churned out Doocey.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

plant based meat right there vikey 🙂 shits all over a tofu burger or synthetic meats.

anyone else notice the synthetic meat thing has sortve disappeared from the limelight? did they all go broke or has something else stopped media and vegan retards ramming it down our throats

Dougal10
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
2 years ago

Its to fecking expensive to make. Unless they find a way to make it out of wool . Converting plant proteins into an artificial version of other natural occuring one is expensive.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Dougal10
2 years ago

The moths have found a way to eat one of my merino wool jerseys.
Ask them how it is done .
They seem to know !

Viking
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
2 years ago

Most of them have so far.

Viking
2 years ago

This is what happens to people who go to retirement villages in the Wairarapa.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/489352937217596

Viking
2 years ago

What you men never really knew about romance.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2267423780262698

That’ll be a shock for SB

Mcduff
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

Speaking as a woman, that man is an idiot.

Viking
Reply to  Mcduff
2 years ago

:lol:.
Ya Reckon?

Dougal10
2 years ago

Just spent a couple of days in eastern chch at school sports . I can see why they are pissed off people . Their streets are still fecked but plenty of bike lanes getting built west of Cranford street. The other thing noticable is the centre is still dead ,

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Dougal10
2 years ago

As dead as Jim Anderton and unlikely to rise.

Viking
2 years ago

More troughing by the wprlds best troughers. Taxpayers paying for the dead and their worshippers.
As bad as theCatholic chirch.

Members of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) will help to form the honour guard that guides the late Kīngi Tūheitia on his final journey at the banks of the Waikato River.

But NZDF staff have served in a less visible role at Tūrangawaewae Marae since the weekend.

From a small field by the river, 28 Army personnel have been supporting the marae’s catering services, cooking pāua, boil-up and fish to help feed the thousands of mourners welcomed onto the marae each day.

NZDF liaison officer Commander Tuijo Thompson has co-ordinated the Army’s services since Saturday.

“NZDF was requested through Te Puni Kōkiri by Tūrangawaewae Marae to be able to support. Specifically, we were asked to provide catering support.”

The NZDF responded by mobilising staff from Papakura, Linton, and Burnham military camps.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/maori-king-tuheitias-death-how-the-nzdf-is-helping-feed-mourners-at-turangawaewae-marae/ALPHBYDG5VEKHOEY6AJJFMU5RM/

Lizziep
Lizziep
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

Oh how wonderful the taxpayer of New Zealand is to fund this type of work. I am sure that the people of New Zealand are singing the praises
of this maori king, many of whom had no clue about who or what he was.
Jesus and all the deities wept at this blatant waste of money.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

and yet when people really needed help last year, 2023, during some devastating floods their role was minimised.

and they build the best schools and hospitals.
Willie Apiata got a VC for his ‘non combat role’ in the ‘Ghan !!!!

Perhaps they could get on with building a ‘non combat hospital’ in Dunnydin
Its kind of waiting to happen .

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  howitis
2 years ago

Not going to happen. Chubby robertson would want his name on the door.

Viking
2 years ago

And it gets worse.
Tainui the extortionists.

Watercare’s secret $2
20m deal with iwi of ‘murky’ benefit to ratepayers
By Kate MacNamara
Watercare has quietly agreed to $20 million worth of payments, negotiated with iwi, which some ratepayers say secure only vague benefits for water services customers.

In December last year, Watercare, the Auckland Council-controlled water services provider, signed an “agreement relating to relationship matters” with Waikato-Tainui’s governing council, Te Whakakitenga o Waikato Inc.

The document commits Watercare to the payment of $1m per year for 20 years, to fund water-related research and environmental projects in the lower Waikato River and catchment, which is the rohe (territory) of Waikato-Tainui.

The agreement was released to the newsletter Trans Tasman last month, under the provisions of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act (LGOIMA).

The payment schedule was linked to Watercare’s recently won permission to increase its abstracting of water from the Waikato River – in January 2022, following a period of extreme drought, it won consent to draw up to 150 million litres a day for 20 years to provide drinking water to several Waikato towns and to Auckland.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/watercares-secret-20m-deal-with-iwi-of-murky-benefit-to-ratepayers/Z7BDYCPKIZDZRF6AWLIYMEZFME/

However, the agreement was not disclosed to the public; and the payments it provides for are in addition to considerable environmental payments already agreed to by Watercare in 2022, as a condition of the consent (granted by an Environmental Protection Authority Board of Inquiry).

The consent stipulates that Watercare pay $2m per year for 20 years to the Waikato River Clean-Up Trust, controlled by the Waikato River Authority, which is co-governed by the iwi of the region and the Crown. The funding is for river clean-up and related projects.

“Waikato-Tainui liaison” is also a condition of the consent, including provision for a “Tangata Whenua Liaison Group”. The condition provides for the “reasonable costs” of two kaitiaki advisors (guardians) to monitor the Watercare water take and related infrastructure; beyond that, no financial obligation is set out.

Read and weep.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

….Watercare, the Auckland Council-controlled water services provider,….

Well as has finally been discovered by Notional after 14 years, the configuration THEY made in 2010 – Keys, Hide, Joyce – akshully means that Council does not control the CCOs
CCO = so called Council Controlled Operation.

Wow, Gee, simply amazing 🤣🍉🐵

This has been abundantly clear with AT – Auckland non Transport

Council collects the money at ever increasing pace then hands it over to the CCOs – non-controlled

In fact Watercare in this case does its own billing
As Penny Bright pointed out 30 years ago -this has been a giant con.
Council still bills for rates – at increasing intensity.
It does not reduce staff.
It sets up a separate entity to collect further water rates.
Further, council then contracts out rubbish collection. Rates don’t decrease and staff numbers don’t decrease.

The snowball effect of bloated councils around the country.
and wont get fixed while jonny keys bald-bitch puppet-boy is in charge.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  howitis
2 years ago

Paid for by labour in their six years.
With not a squeak.

Odakyu-sen
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

Which independent body has oversight over Waikato River Clean-Up Trust to see that funding is properly used?

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
2 years ago

Silly! You know it’s just to enrich the lives of the elite.

Viking
Reply to  Sooty
2 years ago

Need new rangers every year.
Oops been upgraded to Mercs now.

Komata
Komata
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

Vking@0712

It’s very noticeable that, despite the existence of the ‘ Waikato River Clean-Up Trust’ the quantities of the highly-invasive Golden Clams in the Waikato River are steadily increasing and that to dat and AFAIK, there has to date been absolutely NO public comment from said Trust (The one which ‘supposedly’ has the interests of the Waikato River as it’s main focus), about this problem..

Surely, it wouldn’t be a rort…?

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Komata
2 years ago

Be able to harvest them soon.
Wonder who would get picking rights?

Tarquin
2 years ago

Morning all, an amazing day ahead. We find out who the new king of Huntly is! Gosh, I can’t wait! It’s going to be extraordinary! I’m sure everyone here is as excited as I am.

Viking
Reply to  Editor
2 years ago

It is. The Kings daughter.
In other words a Tuku stitch up.
When will that piece of shit join his departed mate?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/new-maori-queen-ngawai-hono-i-te-po-paki-tuheitias-youngest-child-to-continue-his-legacy/MUKEBEPUXZA2TBUO3K2O3EJYOY/

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

Can she drive a truck though?
Round town courier truck was her fathers fame.
How do you make a big business small?
It least they don’t need to worry, not with the bribe income coming in. It’s only a Ranger or two.

Tarquin
Reply to  Editor
2 years ago

Emperor Tuku has a ring to it.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Tarquin
2 years ago

That beats chief some unanswerable maori name.

Tarquin
Reply to  Sooty
2 years ago

Did you make the short list this time Sooty? I obviously did but being the ever humble worlds greatest journalist I declined.

wiseowl
2 years ago

There is a programme on red radio at night called climate question .
Last night they investigated child marriage in Bangladesh and Ethiopia .
The cause.
Climate change!!!

Lizziep
Lizziep
2 years ago

Morning all, got my new washer pumping this morning with the fine sunny weather I hope to get it all dry.
Have a great day all of you even the down tickers.
Maori, transexuals, and communists will take over the world if Camel toes is elected, with what is going on in
the UK, New Zealand and Australia there is not a lot of hope for us is there? So enjoy the sunshine while you may, climate change is certainly
part of the whole child marriage thing didn’t you know that///////// FFS

Viking
Reply to  Lizziep
2 years ago

You forgot Canada.

Odakyu-sen
Reply to  Lizziep
2 years ago

Maori*, transexuals, and communists are (in general) not productive people. They may have influence, but they don’t create stuff from nothing nor do they add value.

*Activists with a minority East Polynesian ancestry who desire unaccountable power for themselves and their in-group.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
2 years ago

Is that like chris hipkins, transexual boyfriend.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
2 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sNB2i7Gxzs
Katie Hopkins: THIS is the biggest story in Britain right now. (And the media are deaf to it.)

The British take a lot but there will be a breaking point.

nasska
2 years ago

Notable moments in Maori History.

Invention of the stick.

Development of the technique of separating members of opposing tribes from their tattooed heads & selling them to passing ships.

Invention of the race card & perpetual victim status.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  nasska
2 years ago

Don’t know about the invention of the stick, as they never learnt to throw it.

Komata
Komata
Reply to  Sooty
2 years ago

Sooty@1138

Au contraire: Suitably pointed, balanced, and then held, such a device (Now dignified by various titles, but known to the European as a ‘Spear’), was actually something that Maori very-definitely knew how to throw and was one of the primary weapons employed during pre-European conflicts.,

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Komata
2 years ago

Yes! But they didn’t come back.
They were just thrown away.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Sooty
2 years ago

No Sooty, they use the stick to beat us into submission

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  waikatogirl
2 years ago

HHHHHHHAAAAAAAAA
And take our wallet.

Lizziep
Lizziep
Reply to  nasska
2 years ago

So they will not want reparation then??????////////

nasska
2 years ago

It appears that rather than being a Co-op Foodstuffs NI, despite presenting itself as owned by hundreds of individual grocers is in fact controlled by just four individuals.

# “It is a private limited company with a concerningly distorted shareholding that appears to place the purported ‘owners’ of this company utterly at the mercy of four gentlemen who are not store owners.”

# “Not only do these arrangements place the Foodstuffs North Island ‘owners’ entirely at the mercy of this quartet, it also places 65 percent of the population of the North Island in a similar position with regard to a system that supplies them with the essentials of life.”

https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/03/foodstuffs-north-island-flew-the-co-op-coop-academics-warn/

The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  nasska
2 years ago

Thanks for that Nasska, very informative.

This whole Foodstuffs / Woolworths rort, we are not being told the full story by the Grocery Commissioner. Bearing in mind, the Commissioner Pierre van Heerden, immediately before becoming Commissioner was a top dog at Sanitarium, he should know where the bodies lie but for some reason he is staying very quiet whether to protect his immediate past employer, Sanitarium or the Grocery Council for which he was a past Chairman of, I can only but guess. For example, the Supermarkets say they only make a misery 3-3.5% profit on their sales.

Well that is not the full story. The Commissioner should be advising what profit Foodstuffs make on their Distribution organisation which is treated as a wholy separate profit centre and the profit percentage at the Distribution Centres and Transport Centres are far in excess of the profits, compared to what is shown by the the Supermarkets. The thing is with organisations like Foodstuffs, in each part of the chain, the product is sold by Foodstuffs from the Foodstuffs Distribution Centre to the Foodstuffs Transport Centre to Foodstuffs Supermarket who then put another markup on and sell to the end user and suckers like you and me, who then pay through the nose for every mark up Foodstuffs an make along the way.

Just look at what a Farmer is paid for his stock when it is delivered on the hoof to the works. Foodstuffs then squeeze the Meat Works to process at the lowest cost, the carcass is then sold by Foodstuffs to it’s own carrying company who then sell it to Foodstuffs Meat Processing House who then break the carcass down, package it and sell it to Foodstuffs Distribution Centre and on it goes at each step Foodstuffs taking a cut. And you wonder why food is so expensive in New Zealand. The Grocery Commissioner should be exposing this rort, but he is strangely silent.

Ross12
2 years ago

Proof (enough for me anyway) the Trump attempted assassination was an organised inside job.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/it-was-setup-revealed-most-agents-protecting-trump/

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Ross12
2 years ago

considering your very low bar of “proof” in which any other nutter claiming stuff on the internet as true its safe to say its still just a lone nutter with a gun coupled with incompetent DEI hires is the ss.

Ross12
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
2 years ago

Did you read the letter in the link? Of course not , It is always straight the nutter rhetoric with you, as usual.

Viking
2 years ago

The vacant look of a Mari queen.

The new Māori Queen is announced at Turangawaewae Marae

Ngā Wai hono i te po Paki is the second woman, after her late grandmother, Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, to lead the Kīngitanga Movement.
Queen Ngā Wai hono i te po is the youngest child of Kīngi Tūheitia and his wife, Te Atawhai.
The new Queen will be supported by her two brothers, Korotangi and Whatumoana Paki.

The youngest child and only daughter of Kīngi Tūheitia is now the new leader of the Kīngitanga movement.

Kuini (Queen) Ngā Wai hono i te po Paki was anointed as her father, Kīngi Tūheitia, lay in state beside her, an image similar to his own ascension almost 18 years earlier at Tūrangawaewae Marae in Ngāruawāhia – the headquarters of the Kīngitanga Movement.

The new queen is a direct descendant of the first Māori King, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, who was installed in 1858. She is the eighth monarch to lead the movement, her ascension to the throne just a few weeks shy of her late father’s coronation on August 21, 2006.

She is a graduate of the University of Waikato, completing a Bachelor of Arts followed by a Master of Arts Degree with First Class Honours in 2022.

She was born on January 13, 1997 and is the only daughter and youngest child of the late Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII and Makau Ariki Atawhai.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350404098/new-maori-monarch-named-queen-nga-wai-hono-i-te-po-paki

Viking
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

Theyu don’t live lomg in that job. looks a bit like a death sentence.

05, 2024 • 10:00am
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The new Māori Queen is announced at Turangawaewae Marae
FAST FACTS

Ngā Wai hono i te po Paki is the second woman, after her late grandmother, Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, to lead the Kīngitanga Movement.
Queen Ngā Wai hono i te po is the youngest child of Kīngi Tūheitia and his wife, Te Atawhai.
The new Queen will be supported by her two brothers, Korotangi and Whatumoana Paki.

The youngest child and only daughter of Kīngi Tūheitia is now the new leader of the Kīngitanga movement.

Kuini (Queen) Ngā Wai hono i te po Paki was anointed as her father, Kīngi Tūheitia, lay in state beside her, an image similar to his own ascension almost 18 years earlier at Tūrangawaewae Marae in Ngāruawāhia – the headquarters of the Kīngitanga Movement.

The new queen is a direct descendant of the first Māori King, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, who was installed in 1858. She is the eighth monarch to lead the movement, her ascension to the throne just a few weeks shy of her late father’s coronation on August 21, 2006.
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Queen Ngā Wai hono i te po Paki is only the second female to lead the movement. Her grandmother, Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, was the longest-serving Māori monarch, from 1966 to 2006.

New Māori Queen, Kuini Nga Wai hono i te po Paki.

Ngā Wai hono i te po is relatively young, 27.

She was educated at Te Whare Kura o Rakaumanga in Huntly and received a Sir Edmund Hillary Scholarship in 2016.

She is a graduate of the University of Waikato, completing a Bachelor of Arts followed by a Master of Arts Degree with First Class Honours in 2022.

She was born on January 13, 1997 and is the only daughter and youngest child of the late Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII and Makau Ariki Atawhai.

Te Kuini received her moko kauae in 2016 to support and acknowledge her father and describes it as her gift to him. Kapa haka is her passion and one that has been nurtured by her parents and whaanau since the age of three. She has previously performed with several kapa haka groups at the Te Matatini national kapa haka festival.

Prior to her succession Te Kuini served in several governance roles as representative of the Kiingitanga, including the Te Kohanga Reo National Trust and the Waitangi National Trust.

Politicians have welcomed the new monarch.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said the new Ariki Nui, could bring “hope”.

In a statement, Luxon paid tribute to Kīngi Tūheitia.

“Kiingi Tuheitia was a humble leader who served his people with wisdom, mana and an unwavering commitment to Kotahitanga,” Luxon said.

“Over the last few days, thousands of people have gathered at Turangawaewae from all corners of our country to pay their respects – a testament to the profound impact Kiingi Tuheitia has had on so many lives.”

Queen Ngā Wai hono i te po Paki is the new leader of the Kiingitanga

Luxon attended the tangi at Turangawaewae on Saturday, with other MPs and officials – including the Govenor General – also paying tribute at Turangawaewae throughout the week.

“As Kiingi Tuheitia makes his final journey from Turangawaewae, we reflect on his legacy and look to the future with hope and anticipation,” Luxon said.

“We welcome the Upoko Ariki, Ngawai hono i te po, who carries forward the mantle of leadership left by her father. The path ahead is illuminated by the great legacy of Kiingi Tuheitia.”

Labour leader Chris Hipkins said Thursday would go down a historic moment in the nation’s history, “as the day the torch was passed on from one legendary unifier to another”.

“Kuīni Ngā Wai hono i te po Paki commands an incredible wealth of mātauranga Māori, a love for Toi Māori and is committed to looking after her people,” Hipkins said.

Teanau Tuiono, the chairperson of the party’s Māori and Pasifika caucus, said he hoped to work with the new Queen.

“As we have seen in recent days, with so many people coming together from across the motu to mark the passing of Kiingi Tuuheitia, kotahitanga is the beating heart of our country and provides a way forward as we confront the major challenges of our time,” he said.

“The Green Party looks forward to working with the Kiingitanga under the leadership of Te Arikinui Nga Wai Hono i te Po.”

Kīngi Tūheitia seated on the throne next to his mother’s casket following his whakawahinga at Tūrangawaewae, on the final day of the tangihanga for Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu.
Peter Drury

The process of anointing the Māori monarch – Te Whakawahinga – is steeped in tikanga, a tradition which began with her tupuna, the first Māori King.

Tumuaki Hone Tāmihana will place a bible on her head, using the same bible that his direct ancestor Wiremu Tāmihana used to raise up the first Māori King Pōtatau Te Wherowhero in 1858.

Archbishop Don Tamihere will then say a karakia to bless the new monarch with sacred oils. Following the sacred ceremony, the funeral service for Tūheitia will begin followed by his burial at Taupiri Maunga.

The Kīngitanga Movement, which is one of New Zealand’s oldest political institutions, was started as a way to unite iwi across the country to prevent the alienation of Māori land.

they don’t live long in that job.

There have been eight leaders of the Kīngitanga movement:

Pōtatau Te Wherowhero 1858-1860
Tāwhiao 1860-1894
Mahuta 1894-1912
Te Rata 1912-1933
Koroki 1933-1966
Te Atairangikaahu 1966-2006
Tūheitia 2006-2024
Ngā Wai hono i te po 2024

nasska
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

……”they don’t live long in that job.”……

That may be a blessing. The new queen is 27 YO. If she is tits at the job they’re probably stuck with her for the next sixty years!

Viking
Reply to  nasska
2 years ago

you misunderstand.
She is simply a figure head. does as asked.

oops I mean does as she is told.

Has she any Mokopuna to husband?

nasska
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

Most kings & queens nowadays are titular monarchs but that doesn’t mean that they are without influence.

At 27YO she might be a trifle young to have “mokopuna” to anyone.

Tarquin
Reply to  Viking
2 years ago

Thanks for educating us there V. I particularly liked Kuini being native for Queen, how very imaginative. The good news is after reading that I care even less than I did before. It’s just the elevation of another bludger and an opportunity for the elites to fawn.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
2 years ago

Michael Laws on virtue signalling of elevating the chosen. Yes we’re all sick of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQSNzyulQPY
Michael Laws: I’m Sick and Tired of Māori Being Paraded as Some Sort of Special People

“Wellington has become an incestuous whirl pool.”

nasska
Reply to  Editor
2 years ago

There’s a lot of spaniel in the bloodline of the world’s smartest dog ie the border collie.

Odakyu-sen
2 years ago

The term “Aotearoa” is like the Palestinian flag in a protest. You know that the people using it really hate New Zealand society and want to replace it with a utopia where they would be at the top of the totem pole. Either that or they have a large degree of self-hatred of their privileged, sheltered lives.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
2 years ago

Yep, yep, that’s exactly what it is O-sen.

Decreed by the UN to divide and conquer by thrusting the wedge of race into all western countries NZ included. Here the socialist ‘magicians’ trick is the TOW has been weaponised for the Special People. NZers of previous generations had lived as equal citizens, inter-married, socialised, worked alongside each other before Marxism came to our egalitarian shores.

nasska
Reply to  waikatogirl
2 years ago

You nailed it. No-one can claim to being any better off but the genie of race has been let out of the bottle to rule & wreck our lives.

Maori are certain that they’ve been ripped off & the rest of us are sick to death of listening to their bitching & cultural crap.

Ross12
2 years ago

I cannot remember if this has been one of Ed’s memes, but like it.

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bobthebldr
bobthebldr
2 years ago

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession”

Odakyu-sen
2 years ago

“The average person in almost all of the Western advanced economies has been getting materially poorer since no later than 2007.”
Ref: https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/09/02/288-without-the-elixir/

So.
Do you feel that you have become wealthier since 2007?
Many youth (potential child-bearers) don’t feel wealthier and are postponing or foregoing children because they can barely look after even themselves. I’m sure you have read about this phenomenon.

I know that my house is still worth the same number of pub beers today as it was 20 years ago, so I don’t consider that I have made a real capital gain. A nominal one, perhaps, but not a real one. I’ll be damned if the State taxes me on my “nominal” capital gain.

No. I don’t feel wealthier. Maybe I am wealthier, but I don’t feel it.

The cheap red wines in the under-$10 category of a few years back are all +$13 at the local Pac n’ Sav. I limit myself to a bottle on Fridays to get me through the weekend. All in moderation.

Will we be able to enjoy our money as we get older, or will the decades of frugality impede our purchasing impulses? I could spend $250 at a nice Japanese restaurant, but I would feel bad about it afterwards.

As my wife always reminds me, “Money isn’t worth anything until you spend it.”

But then what?

Are you finding it easier to spend money as you head towards your twilight years?

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
2 years ago

As some would say “if you got it flaunt it”.
Not that I am that type of person,

When it $’s are gone, then they are gone; particularly when you have no way to make it back up again,

I recall meeting a 90 year old, that maintained she was “saving for a rainy day”.
Though she did use to escape from her supposed rest home, catch a bus, catch a ferry to Waiheke or where ever, a number of times, just to take in a changed view.
She was paying her way in the rest home too!

If one has reasonable comfort, warm house, things to keep you busy, when you want,
Able to cat nap when one wants with no all controlling but guilty dorm monitor trying to call one out.
Travel to where you want, if one needs to.
Be able to feel secure, though nothing is “safe proof”.

Just spending money to supposedly future proof a supposedly ongoing income & supposedly much more leisure time for me. We will see, as some try to push “Let it go”
Nothing more sure than changes in one’s life.
One nice thing is when getting something fixed up, then the standard has to be only, “that will see me out”. 🙂

I used to have a version of that, when fixing things for my mother,
It will only become a problem after the Queen sends you a telegram of Congratulations which used to annoy her, though she did close into a handful of years to that telegram.
Both gone now.

nasska
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
2 years ago

Run the question past V2. His position to date is that if he can’t take his vast wealth wrung from the poor & homeless with him then he’s not going. 🙂

Odakyu-sen
Reply to  nasska
2 years ago

Good luck with that.

Still, only the dead know peace.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
2 years ago

You can’t take your bank balance with you O-Sen. Let the moths out of your wallet occasionally and buy a treat like a nice meal for Mrs O-Sen. 🍲🍤

Odakyu-sen
Reply to  waikatogirl
2 years ago

My wife uses our wedding anniversary to her tactical advantage every year.
I cannot refuse her restaurant recommendations.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Odakyu-sen
2 years ago

Husband Award Winner 🏆 🙂

nasska
Reply to  waikatogirl
2 years ago

He should run his man card through the shredder! 🙂

Viking
2 years ago

Sending the retirement villages broke.

Viking
2 years ago

Way to go boating Kenworth style.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/25655486667432928

Viking
2 years ago

For you house wives. Be careful when you shine the floor.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/770362218434139

Viking
2 years ago

ever heard of a Norfolk turkey. well this last did.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/834453535462755

Viking
2 years ago

whats the differenc between a vitamin and a hormone?

You can’t make a vitamin.

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago
Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

FYI. After a long hiatus, Spider Cat is back.

Family Violence in NZ – by Ethnic Group – July 2023 – June 2024
By
Spider Cat
September 5, 2024

https://spidercatnz.com/family-violence-in-nz-by-ethnic-group-july-2023-june-2024/

nasska
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

The specials have the game wrapped up. The “bash” is the answer to every problem.

But wait for the handwringers & apologists. RACIST ! ! !

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Bo Bo, who did that the most?

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Sooty
2 years ago

It’s Bro, not Bo, you racist.

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Apparently the Tomato juice thrower at the Posie Parker event had a cameo on the Netflix 2023 doco ‘The Lie: The Murder of Grace Millane’. It occurs about three quarters the way through. He worked at a Chemist. Here’s an excerpt of the evidence he gave at the trial of the murderer.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GWrsIV-XYAAPNVD?format=jpg&name=small

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16732726/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Did you misgender it?

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
Reply to  Starving Artist
2 years ago

Yes Sir/Sire.

Braybots nemesis
Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Poor bugger.

Nigel Latta reveals ‘incurable’ cancer diagnosis

https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/350405369/nigel-latta-reveals-incurable-cancer-diagnosis

Viking
Reply to  Braybots nemesis
2 years ago

Knowing what I know now I would just say, go get that ivermectin and take plenty.
Trials are showing it has results.

But what do I know?

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