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Anyone there this morning or am I on my own????? Crikey I thought I was a bit late for the first post.
Have a god day everyone keep safe.
You’re a day late for God’s day😎😎😎
I’m here – Back in Dorkland – Grrrrrrrrrr
Just been walking dogs – they were the only thing I missed while on holiday.
well sagz youre the fool that continues to keep returning to the place like a wahine to her drunk abusive partner!
mean prick too for not taking your dogs on an adventure to a better place.
Not for much longer. Hopefully be out of here by Easter.
Well had to have my breaky first.
Things to do again today.
TODAY
Our city will be gridlocked today. All have been told to work from home.
Haven’t seen any school closures yet but some kids will get on a bus that might arrive at their stop on time only to arrive at school intime for a Mimi and the get back on to go home. 21st century stuff.
The town and its dormitory in the country works well with all these commissioners and town planners and general busy bodies that run the THREE (yep 3 ) councils in our tiny area of 160k population. They all agree with one another and then go back to the office to find a way around what they agreed.
Between them and the incompetent that we call NZTA and Govt. life is made difficult.
We need just one king to rule them all.
Meanwhile Viking your council hasn’t maintained its rain water system so a major road artery has a scoured out a tomo under the road full of water. Incompetence is to be championed by councils so Well done to TCC! and now you can expect rates to rise for more woke wastage //
Wrong, Its a main rd therefore NZTA.
Might be finished by 4 am tomorrow. The roads were bliss today. No traffic anywhere I went. Needs to happen more often.
You do have that king over the hill by the river and his able assistant tuki morgan. Ya know.
The kings even an ex truck driver. I’m sure he would know all about traffic jams!
you want to start a tribal war. some of the landed stick waving gentry would take their axes and chainsaws to the prick and his offsider with the big undies.
Once they finished that and cooked the fat of his bones they would turn their attention to disparate groups within. There would be no peace on earth until the last one standing died.
Lizzie@0549
Good morning.
FWIW: I came past at 0515, but with nothing to say, just kept on going.
Thanks for asking and have a great day.
Yes Lizzie – been around for awhile. Brain been very active since about 4.00 am on a letter/report I want to write covering a few items. It always worries me a bit that I may lose those first brilliant thoughts that would form the basis that I have composed in my mind prior to capturing them on paper – or in this case on Word.
Day equals dark out there, the forecast yesterday had the dreadful words “autumn feel” in it. I see that has been removed today so apparently it is still summer here. 19 expected today – 28 on Wednesday.
Top of the morning to you.
Nope, I am here, Espresso in hand, contemplating why I am up so early getting ready to go to work to pay for Lard Arses to sit around and do nothing.
Seems I am pre programmed so it will be off to work.
Pitch black here, day is a mystery.
FFS Auckland is so bankrupt that the bastards won’t do anything with a large pine tree that fell on our property from their property , that’s what they’ve told us ,yet some fricking moron is approaching them about a waterfront stadium that will “equal the Sydney opera house” for architectural beauty, unbelievable.
Here’s a serious question, do the team that produce the Simpsons get their inspiration for their shows from the TV3 AM show and just make their show a little more sensible and lifelike, the new equity hire white man and the stupid chubby long time host are a fcuking joke and I feel sorry for the news reader who must get her annual cringe level topped up every single day.
Ryan was good at the job. I haven’t watched since Lloyd Burr (I out gay men who want to keep their personal life quiet because I’m an entitled woke, gay prick) took over. He’s got as much personality as a wet bus ticket and obviously a nasty gay pride streak running through him.
Waikatogirl, wasn’t he a big fat Billy Bunter ,I didn’t even recognise the gay boy.??
Yes, that’s him. Who ate all the pies?! Went to London as the o/s correspondent and lost weight, new suit, except stuck with his personality.
Gawd, another uphill gardener, they seem to litter the media and Labour..?
Is it the only place they are employable?
Did they get a proper lefty gay man this time . The last one was a righty gay one .
Dougal10, not sure if he’s gay but definitely a leftist, I try to watch the news at 6am so I’ve got some idea what’s happening around our country but I’m starting to realise it’s a waste of my time on both socialist communist shows.
Shit-oh-dear, landlords are about to make a killing. DTI levels are going to mean your average punter isn’t going to be able to borrow enough to buy the average house.
I guess the DTI’s won’t apply if you’re maori, because that’d be racist.
Debt-to-income: Aucklanders need almost $200k incomes to buy average home
PROPERTY CRASH…. simp, ponzi, curb stomp, meat puppet, slumlord, parasite blah blah blah im off to skip through the bush.
did i nail it?
its hilarious cuz some of those waiting to buy homes have been calling for restrictions and now they got what they wanted its hurt them instead of helping them. jaffa housing needs to be cheaper so the retards, soy boys,, pompas twats, bimbos and hori/islander scum can still afford to live there and not resort to moving and degrading other parts of the country.
Yes, you nailed it. Kea not needed, just type in his greatest hits.
IAASB, This was always going to happen one way or the other ,anyone who is buying a home in this country at this moment especially in the outrageously priced places as an investment are a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic IMHO.
Be careful skipping thru the bush, will you!
Don’t want you to curb stomp no poor keas!
If only he was allowed back..?
hear hear, Place is like a morgue.
I did appeal a couple of times to have the Bird back ,He was a funny guy IMHO and always had good comments whether you liked them or not.
Not really. He had lots of comments – very few good ones.
Now hold still while I curb stomp you.
“He was a funny guy IMHO”
No he wasn’t..!!
Everyone deserves a second chance.
I’m sure he will stop degrading women.
Lesson learned. 🤷♂️
Opinion: Sir Ian Taylor – a letter to Act leader David Seymour
Sir Ian Taylor
Dear David,
I do have some sympathy for your views on the labels that people place on each other.
Obviously, this did rile you a little at the recent Waitangi Day celebrations where you were likened to a couple of insects – but I will come back to that later.
Perhaps, like you, I am not sure where in the Māori world I sit.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/opinion-sir-ian-taylor-a-letter-to-act-leader-david-seymour/J7FD3COIVNBVLBYGPS4OUPO2LA/
He goes on but eventually has a false interpretation of the cause and effect of the treaty.
you just have to listen to his (ian taylor) interviews on the platform and its very obvious hes a woke lefty muppet.
Well on Sky yesterday commentators were trying to extract an answer from the government on negative hearing.
Seems Albo and his mates are secretly looking at making changes.
If they remove the ability to use negative gearing it will be very interesting to see what effect that will have.
Made the mistake of watching One news last night. It would appear they are going to spend the first fifteen minutes every night this week rehashing cyclone Gabriel stories. Last night was mainly about some place called Moorywhy – used to be Muriwai when I was a young bloke, anyway a load of handwringing and kumbaya dross followed, culminating in a woman called Caroline Bell – Booth droning on about how wonderful Carmel Sepuloni was and how useless National are. Time to cut further funding for tvnz immediately. Insulting you owner so blatantly is the ultimate in arrogance. Someone else can give it a bash tonight, I can’t afford another TV.
We gave up when on the Muriwai story TV1 interviewed a TV1 journalist on her thoughts of Cyclone Gabrelle. FFS
Your first mistake was switching on your TV.
The second was for watching TV1 news.
One more and you are sacked and will have to change your avatar.
Have a fun day in the winterless north. summers coming.
You sound just like my wife.
Wise woman your wife!
She puts up with you.
Yep, treat her nicely. Valantines day this week. Lots of flowers guys.
I thought the 4th was it and went looking for flowers.
Christ you seen the price at the supermarket?
Just about went to the cemetery to get some! 15 bucks for one sunflower!
I see scammers are using Michael Bakers name to sell dodgy products. I can’t see what he’s complaining about, that’s all he’s ever done and the only thing his name is any good for.
What T, do I see in common here.
Mick Baker – Dodgy.
Scammers – Dodgy.
They seem to go well together.
A pooper scooper ? ? ?
Though what he spread was far more toxic.
i cant believe someone thinks its a winning marketing strategy to use his image to sell products.
Think about how stupid the people who believe the shit that comes out of Michael Baker’s mouth must be. It’s marketing Gold IAASB!
A snake oil salesman being used to sell other useless crap. Sounds like Baker is going up in the world.
yeah but its marketing hippy products, that market is probs dominated by antivax folk.
Beautiful blue skies in Hamilton bloody cold though for a summers day…. Oh it must be that global boiling again. Its an absolute bastard how the world is boiling must be climate change.
Just checked the hill for snow, none. Was a bit nipply!
Why is Shaun Plunkett saying check Chloe’s Swabricks academic records?
And what’s this about a couple of failed cafes, her daddy bailed her from!
She does have a record of failure it seems.
Why would her parliamentary achievement be any different?
Want to know where all your hard earned tax dollars went during the scandemic ? Jabbing arms was a very lucrative deal. Most places doing it would have incurred no extra costs. Someone did an OIA to get the details.
https://t.me/covaxnz/16190
A man and his wife are at a high school reunion…
… and the husband keeps staring at a gorgeous drunken lady swigging her gin at a nearby table, glass after glass.
His wife turns to him and asks, “Do you know her?”
“Yes,” sighs the husband.
She’s my ex-wife. She took to drinking right after we divorced seven years ago, and I hear she hasn’t been sober since.”
“My God!” says the wife.
“Who would think a person could go on celebrating for that long?”
Woof, woof.
A VICIOUS Nazi and bulldog-inspired motorbike gang has set up shop in the UK.
The Mongrel Mob has around 2,500 members and is known for gang warfare, organised crime, and sexual violence in its home country of New Zealand.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/25837342/mongrel-mob-new-zealand-uk-gloucester-violence/
Braybots@1001
The article states that ‘Despite mostly including Maori and Pacific Islanders among its ranks in New Zealand, the members in Gloucester are English’, so they’re NOT the real deal.
‘Reverse’ ‘Cultural appropriation’ perhaps?
On that basis, and as there is evidently absolutely NO ‘Maori’ ‘involvement in the group, one does wonder if ‘anti-Pakeha’ protests (from the usual suspects)will now take place outside the gang’s UK headquarters.
I somehow doubt that it will happen..
…the members in Gloucester are English’, so they’re NOT the real deal.
Did the pommie’s pay a Francise fee to the NZMMM? //
FS that guy doing the shoey is the skinniest, whitest mobster I’ve ever seen.
BN, I can just see it now, “Eeee, by fooking gumm, snarl, arf, arf, snarl. fook youse.”
Baron Harry Tam.
At least an Earl and a castle!
The cat in the hat, is the darkest one there!
I checked the figures from yesterday on doctors jab income,
My own doctor group was busy,
Seems that they jabbed 940 idiots and recieved $38,000.
Well, that’s Madagascar’s child sex tourism done for //
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/02/12/madagascar-law-allowing-castration-of-child-rapists-prompts-criticism/
Madagascar’s Parliament has passed a law allowing for the chemical and, in some cases, surgical castration of those found guilty of the rape of a minor.
The law has prompted criticism from international rights groups, but also found support from activists who say it’s an appropriate deterrent to curb a “rape culture”.
While denutting will definitely prove to be a deterrence for the sick fucks who molest kids I hope that Madagascar’s justice system has a better track record of getting it right first time when compared with ours.
It’s not as if a tube of superglue & a modest bank deposit is going to be much use when they find out later that there was a mistake in the laboratory or the prosecution’s cellmate witness was bought & paid for.
The extra snip circumcision method (developed and refined by Bonsai arborists and Pruners Anonymous) will allow for a speedy transition to identifying as a minority with all the special benefits. The Unique eunuchs’ will want to be acknowledged for their ‘sacrifice’. LGBTQ&U //
Dodgy greedy fux, deemed too greedy, while maintaining dodgyness.
Pair lose bid to handle Whanau Ora funding
John Tamihere and Willie Jackson’s estimate of $21 million deemed too high.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/pair-lose-bid-to-handle-whanau-ora-funding/TD4MVOPUNUPGKN5XJA3PHZKDAY/
Now there is your classic example of Snouts & Troughs.
And a classic example of a MP who has should not be involved in handling Government money in any way whilst being paid and in the employ of you, the Taxpayer. Dodgy does not cover it, but no one in any authority will question it, but you BN, the mere Hoi Poloi can see right through it, Officialdom, well they seem to be blind or just plain Dumb.
Many maori use aggression to get their own way.
ACT Party leader David Seymour believes some of the customs and traditions at Waitangi are designed to “intimidate” people.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/02/act-leader-david-seymour-says-a-lot-of-customs-traditions-at-waitangi-designed-to-intimidate.html
Related video: Cracks begin to appear in Government as David Seymour suggests Christopher Luxon was spooked into ruling out Treaty Principles Bill.
He used Waitangi as an example, saying “a lot” of the customs and traditions are designed to “intimidate you”.
“A lot of the tikanga, for example, the laying down of the wero. I mean, that is literally a challenge,” he said.
“A lot of the debates on the marae is really face-to-face, not unlike the set-up that you have in a Parliament,” he told AM.
“So, yes, it is a challenging environment, literally and metaphorically but the message we get is people like that you’ve got a set of values and you clearly and politely articulate them respectfully but firmly.”
The Indian farmer protest has been shut down on the internet.
New Zealand’s media will be all over this..pfft.
https://twitter.com/IndiaToday/status/1756725928309510580
God decides to destroy the world and calls the leaders of the three strongest countries to give them the news.
After that the Russian leader on his speech on TV he says;
“I have good news and bad news
The good news is that God really exists so we were right all the time to believe in him.
The bad news is that He decided to bring the world to an end in one week”.
The China’s leader also makes a TV speech;
“I only bring bad news from my meeting with God
He actually exists so it was our mistake not to believe in him and we will be punished for that in the afterlife and he decided to end our world in one week”.
The American leader on his TV speech says;
“I am happy to bring you only good news from God;
First I must tell you that I met him and can assure you that he actually exists.
And second he told me that he will finish our work in only one week”.
While the Southern hemisphere is experiencing ‘the hottest summer ever recorded’, the Russians and the Chinese thought it’d be a good time to do some outdoor chores and improve International relations at the same time.
https://twitter.com/j00ny369T/status/1756699323385950315
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-opens-antarctic-base-right-next-to-us-site-as-americans-fear-it-could-be-used-for-espionage/ar-BB1hYFPC
They might do a hamas and tunnel under the yanks!
If that the Tesla in that meme has a 90Kwhr battery, you would need 90 of those solar cells, not 6, in order to maintain charge. And they would all have to be angled to the sun.
Even if lying flat the trailer would be 2.2 metres wide (OK) and 80 metres long (not OK). Good luck getting a warrant.
A B Train (road Train) triple, max at about at 30 metres.
youre a wrecker of greeny eutopian dreams
There are three power cords coming from th green bowser,
But when yon put a car next to the truck, the power cords probably wouldn’t reach anymore cars!
Does the truck drive to the nearest servo to refuel?
Near Te Kauwhata,
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGFzbhhacAAL45f?format=jpg&name=large
This looks like it. http://www.generatorrentals.co.nz/400kva-generator No rental charges given but I’ll wager that it’s not cheap.
http://www.generatorrentals.co.nz/400kva-generator
EVs………..saving the planet one industrial diesel powered generator at a time. 🙂
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Was over the road at the flightless bird blog and Maggie Pie had something from a friend on x ardern sprouting shit, without doing the makeup first. Haggard is not the word for it!
Youth adjacent is not the word for it!
Saggy, & look how that slides on through to be again in the self exemption elite.
… Updated December 2023 …
…. You must be compliant with all vaccine requirements in order to register for classes. Students can check their immunization compliance status on the HUHS Patient Portal. …
…. Harvard Affiliates, Faculty, Staff, Researchers, Non-Students, and any other Harvard Community Members:
As of December 22, 2022, HUHS no longer requires employees to submit COVID-19 vaccine documentation to HUHS. ….
https://huhs.harvard.edu/patients-and-visitors/medical-records-and-immunizations/immunization-compliance/
Many colleges & universities dropped the covid-jab requirements .
… Once Biden signed the bill, many colleges removed COVID-19 vaccine requirements altogether for the 2023-2024 school year.
Some, however, told students that since COVID-19 is still present, they are requiring the booster vaccine and encouraged students to receive the new booster released in September.
https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/2021/12/14/what-colleges-require-covid-vaccine-booster-omicron/
Would it be that the elite are practising a form of Darwinism to their own kids?
Geez Sootz – looks like the vax doesn’t stop AIDS
That last jab is the killer!
Squint when looking at this picture.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1756587098839433514
i hope granny sends him a few.
If Prince William is still processing his fathers cancer diagnosis, it must mean that he’s on his last legs!
New King in a little while!
The rise in populism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8tfrnpAj94
Why The Culture War Matters | Matthew Goodwin
John Anderson
Matthew recounts the emergence of a new class of elites and the ways in which they have diverged from the more tradition …
Pardon?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GGFUYmRWcAEQlNJ?format=jpg&name=large
WTF?????
All lobbyists should be be public knowledge and a public record of who they visit!
Big jerry has just closed that down! Public have a right to know who’s doing what with our MPs!
He would have to declare all the papists the visit his office.
Luxon may need to start reading the room. Will he? Not holding my breath.
https://twitter.com/kaiviti_cam/status/1756783418883629381
Luxon wants to make the murry thing go away so he can talk about other things. He has cocked this up spectacularly. Not only is he going to be talking about the murry thing but he’s gone and snookered himself before he’s even got his feet under the desk. Amateur.
He’s following UN/globalist policy. Not the fence sitter’s decision to make? Uncle Klaus says NO. 🤡👿💩
I suspect that you all forget the biggest caucus in Parliament is Maori and the Luxons crew have lot of them.
Which make it strange that Davos Dave is pushing for it.
Good cop, Bad cop.
Saggy, amateur or Middle Manager out of his depth?
A reasonable request.😳
Sacked Port of Tauranga worker threatens employer with prison, fines – demands $100m worth of gold bullion, money
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/sacked-port-of-tauranga-worker-threatens-employer-with-prison-fines-demands-100m-worth-of-gold-bullion-money/KYXD4MZVEJDK3LJODCIVPYBGUA/
The sad thing is he is just one of thousands employees who were sacked.
Is that why today we received a lesson from The POT on the “sophistication” of the genocide jab she mandated?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TrqqUsuXNI
Barry Brill on the Previous Government’s Extravagant Climate Change Spending Commitment
The Platform NZ
The Fifth Wave of Covid in NZ – Weeks 1-13 – Total/Per-Capita Cases/Hospitalisations/Deaths by Vaccination Status
https://spidercatnz.com/the-fifth-wave-of-covid-in-nz-weeks-1-13-total-per-capita-cases-hospitalisations-deaths-by-vaccination-status/
Centre-right’s Stubb wins close-fought Finnish presidential election
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/centre-right-s-stubb-wins-close-fought-finnish-presidential-election/ar-BB1i7Uvs
Sssshhhh, don’t say it out loud! //////
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3mPIgZTqC0
THIS IS HILARIOUS! Tucker TEARS INTO ALL ‘fake-news’ companies with PERFECT CHALLENGES, and Jimmy Dore
Bronwyn
@Bronwyn_Meikle
Te Whatu Ora spent 100’s of hours collecting data for this OIA, almost a year to reply.. then refused it.
At least they admitted “those who have been vaccinated/had boosters are more likely to have high all-cause mortality risk (additional to being aged) than those who did not.”
https://twitter.com/Bronwyn_Meikle/status/1756821599221899714
Eh, WTF? It’s 24.5C here! They’re predicting a high of 25C. And the trains can’t run?
Trains cancelled across Auckland due to ‘heat’
cant push a climate change agenda if the public dont seem affected by it!!
last month it was 30 that was the trigger point for doing daft shit seems theyve lowered it to 25.
Farmers across Europe, UK and Ireland are united in protest and the Dutch fishermen have joined the fight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlfIcceBkE
The FARMER PROTESTS have gotten INSANE
The Pleb 🇨🇦 Reporter
Antarctica off limits?
https://twitter.com/Based1717/status/1756453304429645997
Is the Waka sinking?
Resistance Kiwi
@ResistanceKiwi
TE PUNI KŌKIRI / MINISTRY OF MĀORI DEVELOPMENT
Word has it that this Ministry is imploding, and things are about to get a whole lot worse. Resistance Kiwi has been informed that three of TPK’s senior policy directors have recently left the Ministry leaving it short on experienced advisers.
https://twitter.com/ResistanceKiwi/status/1756886318242828606
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq2RRMmPeOA
LILLEY UNLEASHED: Glenn Beck talks Trudeau, Trump and free speech in the West with Sun political columnist Brian Lilley. As the world is a pivot point, topics discussed included former President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the DEI movement, Israel, as well as the state of freedom.
This guy Blakely…what a knob.
https://twitter.com/2ETEKA/status/1756787934731424097
All that waffling, word soup, feelyz, and then he will later mount the Podium of Truth to tell Parliament how to do it better next time.
As he is set to continue in another Ardern-ic gas lighting to bring about the continuation of Covidial practices as a stronger dose for the good of granny & the grand children.
This Knob, BN, is just there to whitewash the whole COVID Enquiry and to make the last Labour Government, Ardern, Hipkins, Bloomfield and Verrall, to look very, very good.
And he is being paid a dump truck load to do this, with a very lopsided Terms of Reference for the Enquiry to work in Labour’s favour.
You watch, after this Knob has finished, anyone of the above, their shit won’t stink, it will be as fresh as a Rose.
Did you notice how he could hardly contain his excitement at the prospect of another pandemic, which he seems pretty sure will happen?
I’m thinking Owen Benjamin might be on to something.
https://twitter.com/myhiddenvalue/status/1756614510251741485
The fox in the henhouse. If he stays the outcome of the enquiry is preordained.
You are correct nasska. It is a whitewash before it even starts. He will not be removed because as I’ve said many times, I believe all the major parties (except NZF) got a big donation cheque from Pfizer, so they would keep in line.
From Alice’s link:
……”Yet today we see millions of deluded Americans embrace the ravings of QAnon, which are at least as damaging as those of medieval soothsayers.”…….
I hope I’m not the only one who gives equal time to the theories of Qanon as opposed to the WEF & Klaus Schwab.
Yet in any case:
…….”The Catholic Church, sole provider of such meagre welfare relief as then existed, was riven. Rival pontiffs presided in Rome and Avignon, though both were conspicuously corrupt: Clerical forgiveness for almost every sin was available for purchase.”…….
Little changes except that at times the corruption becomes less visible.
It was an interesting read Alice until I got to this bit : ” The likes of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Narenda Modi and Victor Orban display a contempt for the integrity of their own nations’ justice systems that seem terrifying “. I would have liked to see him explain that, given what happens in the USA, for example.
So would I. Max Hastings presents as a biased hack. He is similar to the editor of Pravda (formerly known as the Wairarapa Times-Age) who is so left leaning that he walks in circles!
Prime Minister Chris Luxon announces the next legislative steps in the repeal of Three Waters: a Bill will be passed to repeal it by 23 February, and two more Bills will be passed in the next 12-18 months to implement National’s replacement water policy.
https://twitter.com/TheZeitgeistNZ/status/1756902636698399014
Elise runs rings around CNN host
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNOmgo5XjlY
Republican Congress Woman Elise Stephanik Embarrassed CNN’s Kaitlin Collins Live On Air
Stolen from BFD
I am enjoying my camping holiday in the South Island. I am in Murchison at the moment. Where are all the Indians and Chinese?
I have discovered wild blackberries. They have become my favourite noxious weed (agapanthus have been relegated to 2nd place).
What happened to Kea? (I miss his inflammatory monologues.)
I should be back in Auckland in about a week or so.
The weather down here is glorious (but it must be horrible in winter).
Even winter is a demonstration of contrasts. Wet and frozen, then a blast of sun, six times a day. It is the contrast, the cycle. Of life.
“What happened to Kea?”
Plucked.
It was only a matter of time, I suppose…
It seems that NZ Post’s takeover bid for Peter Baker Couriers is being seen for what it is. Reducing the competition along with the service. From https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/09/commerce-commission-delays-decision-on-controversial-nz-post-deal/
……”In a submission, ++++++ +++++++++, the owner of Tauranga curtain restoration business Curtain Clean, told the commission his business had stuck with PBT for eight or nine years because their vans could take larger parcels.
NZ Post’s vans max out at parcels of 1.2m in length, whereas PBT will take parcels as long as 2.2m.
“The issue is what NZ Post is going to do to continue the longer parcel length service when their supposed justification is the capital they have spent on parcel handling plant and the volumes which apparently restrict the shapes and sizes they can process,” +++++++ said in his submission.”………
Thanks naaska. There’s a lot more in the submission. Sad so few seem to be bothered. Some of the courier services leave a lot to be desired.
They also are, like the Railways, borrowing money to do this. Rail got in the crap for wanting to borrow to improve their services.
And this is just the courier business. The trucks are for sale or have already been promised to another company.
Which means a fucked up service. you should note that although its not mentioned NZ Post bought up fliways a year or so back. They are of course like NZ post a lot more expensive and utterly hopeless when yu want to talk to them.
It will be interesting as it is a long time since the commission held up an application.
Do I imagine for one second either party will consider what we have to say. well no. I have just had another company call up and want to quote for our business. asked the same questions and found that I would be dealing with two companies neither anything but friends for the moment.
Hopefully the commission will place some sanctions on them or refuse altogether and its about time it did knock something back instead of rubber stamping the applications. Must say my contact with them has been very good.
I did know that it was coming out into the public arena.
Be interesting to see what reaction is. The couriers will be pleased but maybe not their cavalier bosses. Of course they have missed a great opportunity to float the company for Kiwi’s to buy. As an integrated company it would be great value.
I suspect Watermans are dividing up the carcass of Peter Baker Transport. It was a well known secret that Mainfreight wanted Chemcouriers badly but the owners of PBT weren’t prepared to sell off bits of the company.
Now that Mainfreight have got what they want they’ll sell the rest of the operation for what they can get for it.
Self defense – Imaginary vs Reality
https://twitter.com/HumansNoContext/status/1756665905809879056
Reminds me a little of my inglorious days as a part time bouncer at the local pub. They coincided with the explosion of martial arts in TV & films such as those featuring Bruce Lee.
You’d get some half fried yob, who had received his “last drink, come back tomorrow” from the boss, dropping into a Kung Fu position & you didn’t know whether to laugh at the idiot or treat him as a threat.
Threat to others road users Nasska and probably the Mrs if he got home..!!
Probably but my responsibility finished once he was on the footpath. Most of the time it was an easy, if boring, job but then you’d get one night out of the blue when people would nut off, start scraps, women would kick off domestics & she’d be all on for young & old.
The boss had his priorities. Looking after him & his missus while keeping his furnishing & fittings in one piece kept him a happy man. 🙂
Why are we seeing more of this now and not a couple of years ago?
https://twitter.com/Demo2020cracy/status/1756668068103704935
Cultural report in 3. 2…oh wait..
A former New Zealand sports champion has been charged with importing cocaine and possessing the drug for supply.
The man appeared in Auckland District Court this afternoon on one charge of importing the Class A substance and another charge of possessing it for supply.
Both charges carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/former-nz-sports-champ-before-auckland-court-on-cocaine-importation-and-possession-for-supply-charges/W6HISCQB4NGRRKR62DGOEHKMLM/
Since he’s a sportsman he’ll be okay. Automatic name suppression & a discharge without conviction in case he wants to play overseas are a guarantee.
I reckon he’ll get a retrospective sportsperson of year award too.
It wasn’t for supply..FFS I only had 5gr.
I see the Pentagons War Chief Austin is back in hospital in the critical care unit. The prognosis isn’t very good. His cancer seems to be turboed.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-11/pentagon-chief-austin-hospitalized-for-signs-of-bladder-issue
Maori Rolex.
https://twitter.com/TomWatson197640/status/1756814931842973842
An ankle Rolex! Just need your mate to read it!
Did someone mention Rolex?
Have I good a deal for you.
Genuine Rolex’s at a filthy discount.
Call me.
‘Hang loose recluse’ giving his translation of the Putin-Tucker interview.
https://twitter.com/_aussie17/status/1756900042815012986