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Yesterday I promised Stigie that I’d go back and find a historical Kiwiblog thread I had in mind, in the context of something we were discussing.
It took a few searches to track down this 2007 thread entitled No smacking compromise. For context, now only registered users can comment at Kiwiblog, but this wasn’t the case back then. My recollection is that, in those good old days, discussion was fast and furious but, overall, things worked reasonably well until around the time of this thread.
Things got off to a promising start, then D4J turned up. The madness starts here (a D4J wind-up comment from “Busted”). A massive flame war ensued between people like D4J, James Sleep and “Mrs Disgusted”. There was even a relatively benign comment from “James Sleep & dad4justice live from Christchurch Police Station”. Looking back at the thread, I’m surprised at the extent of thread degeneration.
DPF eventually stepped in: “I can confirm that an someone other than Peter Burns has been posting at Dad4Justice. If they do so again I will file a formal complaint with their ISP. The new blog backend will allow people to register unqiue identities. Movable Type should allow this but for some reason it is broken on this installation. I do not have the time to go through dozens of posts and work out which were from whom. I suggest Peter and James just both accept they have been victims of a shit stirrer“.
The issue seemed to be that D4J and James Sleep were commenting, and other people were impersonating them, and it was impossible for anyone reading the thread to figure out what was real and what was impersonation.
I guess there’s a lesson for YSB: some people seem to go out of their way to disrupt blog discussion.
Thanks Nostra for the time you have put in to entertain us humble folk from the years gone by.
Entertainment such as this doesn’t come too much better on any other blogs.
Btw, when does Big Bruv come into the fiasco with Dad ? This maybe before i got there !~
Stigie:
I think it all started in September 2008 old chap!
dad4justice: big bruv telling me to grow. Peter Burns is my name , what’s your matey !!!
big bruv: You can call me Sir.
Wow, was it really eleven years ago? Does anybody know what became of D4J?
Probably been elevated from the women shoe fitting store that was Dad’s forte to further up the chain where he sits quietly still waiting for your emails to come through BB..?
Did you know that he was once on TV? He featured in a clip with Gerrie Brownlie after the Christchurch earthquakes, he was doing demo at the time.
I seriously hope that this kind of idiotic bullshit doesn’t infect YSB. I’m all for free speech (yes, I genuinely am) but I don’t want to have to put up with idiots like Morrissey, Stephieboy, D4J, Hugh and others like them here.
One of the great things about YSB is that commenters here stick to the point of the discussion, we reply to each other respectfully and intelligently and we don’t indulge in flame wars and name calling.
I was a fairly long time commenter on KB, but I was beginning to get bored with it and then Farrar’s idiotic descent into the báizuǒ just finished it for me.
Dave, I’d never heard the term báizuǒ before.
Thanks for drawing it to my attention.
Agreed re KIwiblog – there are a lot of good folk in there … but far too many of the types you list.
The big turn off for me was often not seeing a post of mine appear for three hours … by which time it was either a) out of date or b) superceded by other comments that had also been delayed three hours.
Thanks Biscuit…. but we really have to acknowledge Braybot Nemesis who brought báizuǒ up for discussion yesterday on the HYS thread and I was just running with it (although I already knew it).
Braybot’s original comment yesterday is spot on and well worth a read. Cheers.
Not under my watch. I deleted the recent example of what you are describing. He even tried to rejoin again as “the Queen” without getting past the system.
How fucking dumb do you have to be to try that.
Oscar Knightley shows how deluded the left are when he singles out Boris Johnson for his lies and how he won the UK Election. But forgets how Jacinda came to power and PM of NZ via Winston Peters. He goes on to say Johnstons Party only recieved 41% of the vote, but in Britains first past the post system that is all they needed to secure power and the 59% that didn’t want Johnson to win will be in a state of shock.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/118136676/in-politics-concepts-like-integrity-and-trustworthiness-no-longer-seem-to-apply
So it was alright for Labour and Jacinda to team up with Mr 7% and the media including this clown Oscar to tell National to suck it up that’s how the system works but when it.suits there narrative Jacinda and the Coalition can lie there arse’s off without this Journalist or past your use by date scribe calling them out for exactly what Boris Johnson has done.
Oscar Knightley can stick to whatever he’s good at and stfu.
I’m sick to the teeth of these entitled wankers who think a bit of time on the telly makes them world experts on everything.
The concepts like integrity and trstworthiness obviously, don’t apply to you, Mr Knightly!
Same marvelous lizzy.
Why Stuff bothers with these people only Stuff knows.
Too fucking right happychappy! The Left are the biggest hypocrites around bar none!
We need Dig’s email system so we can all let Oscar know about his double standards.
Oh, I am sure he knows already and is weeping into his double shot latta!
Nah, he will be oblivious. Dr Jordan Peterson said “when the right and left talk it is like they speak in a foreign language”.
I agree, the left do speak in gibberish! 😊
Kightley is a miserable bugger.
I have been in his presence several times. One of these was at a function where I was seated at the same table as him.
About 10 to a table.
I would suspect he has depression. Like most ‘comedians’
He was simply looking down at the table much of the time. He had difficulty interacting.
Give me Dave Fane any day. Now he is humorous.
Kightley was born in Samoa and can piss off back there any time he likes but he gets if pretty good in NZ so he wont and will continue to annoy us good folks here.
Kightley is the type of immigrant we don’t need.
This is mainly about the UK but I beleive it could happen here.
Why Does This Keep Happening? Terror, 7th century religion and Western foreign policy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HA8w_GZJrE&fbclid=IwAR20bH_04Kaag6ASwSYUgNmAMCT4pw8XWdyzUFhHp1QobK6psVsY2BuXuY8
Turned another 20 jacindas in bookshops yesterday. It felt great!
Mike:
Hopefully it won’t be long before the supply/demand balance is restored, and Jacinda books start appearing in the $1 Warehouse bin!
Heh that will be fun, might have to walk past the dollar bin and toss in a match. The wimmins weekly etc too shiny for butt paper, reminds me of the old single ply waxy bog paper from another era. The paperbacks could be useable. In Thailand we have the “bum gun” instead of jacinda paper, much more efficient and hygenic.
Fancy putting her face on the arse end of a bus, to promote a magazine that only has a short life and then is into the bin!
Mike, clearly my neighbourhod is better than yours, heh heh.
I cant remember the last time I was confronted with a pic of Jass in a local bookstore.
Although I guess its possible that friends of yours have already cased the joint and done the reversals you mention to save both my eyeballs and the contents of my stomach!.
Lol I just hit the malls, doing a little xmas shopping, if I see her face in a bookshop or supermarket I just wonder over, pick up the mag, have a quick pretend browse then return it back to front. Childish, I know..but needs must.
Best to have happy thoughts with Dinky donkey joining the stable and a lovely range of other Wonky Donkey xmas pressies.
I did it in the supermarket the other day too. Couldn’t help myself at the time.
It looks like the Madrid Conference is not going that well.
But now they are looking forward to Glasgow next year and another two week taxpayer funded junket.
In Glasgow they will need lots of that evil fossil fuel to keep them warm in December.
In Madrid not so much.
Will the mass presence of Africans this time be so keen to go to a cold place?
Freeloaders.
Here we go…
‘Not my prime minister’, protesters march in London against Johnson
“Several hundred noisy protesters marched through central London on Friday to protest against Britain’s election result, chanting “Boris Johnson: Not My Prime Minister” and “Boris, Boris, Boris: Out, Out, Out”. The protesters, brandishing signs that read “Defy Tory (Conservative) Rule” and “Refugees Welcome”, walked at speed from outside Johnson’s Downing Street residence to Trafalgar Square and on to the theater district, blocking traffic and drawing a heavy police presence“.
These “noisy protesters” will be beside themselves when they realise that, under the Fixed-term Parliament Act 2011, the next UK election isn’t due to take place until May 2024!
Hugh Grant isn’t going to be happy either!
Apparently every candidate that Grant endorse publicly LOST.
Those protests were obviously pre planned. Too many people for it to be “spontaneous” and too many professionally printed signs.
Does anyone know his email address? Give him Cindy’s contact details and he can endorse her.
From Stuff (ed) on Madrid
ttps://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/12/us-japan-brazil-and-australia-hold-up-climate-efforts.html
It seems that the US (which is leaving) Australia Japan and Brazil and others! (which others) are not co-operating.
It seems that its mostly the EU (which has a lot fo money) and small island countries (that want money) that are pushing this.
Flogged this from KB.. .hat tip Maggy W
“An item about how NZ’s aid money to Tokelau seems to disappear into the ether
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/405329/auditor-general-unable-to-find-how-tokelau-s-government-spent-10-million
This state of affairs has been going on for years….
so what does the CoL do?
…allocate MORE money to Tokelau
Last year, the Auditor-General asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to step in and improve fiscal controls in Tokelau, prompting New Zealand’s Administrator to Tokelau, Ross Ardern, to allocate extra funding to its government.”
Fancy that, Cindys old man not keeping his fingers tightly on the purse strings!
What have they bought a fleet of Mercedes or something?
Ahhh I love the smell of corruption in the morning.
Pleased to hear the Arderns are looking after themselves.
I hope they have a jolly old time sitting around the Xmas tree opening up their goodie bags of folding stuff.
Mormons don’t do Christmas do they?
No but have a history of fraud to be going on with. Oh and polygamy. They need to flog stuff to pay for the wives.
One costs most of us too much.!
Oh dear.
Where’s Angry with his ‘nose’?
“Stinks to high heaven”, doesn’t it Andy.
What are you going to do about it?
Nothing as usual!
Morrissey has been banned from Kiwiblog for a month.
[Mod: It takes a pretty twisted soul to use the obituary of a great New Zealander for a political rant which is totally off topic and doesn’t even mention Snell. Have a month off, and come back next year.]
Watch out Maggy and Waikatogirl – he’s probably about to finalise his Chez Breen swingers’ party invite list.
What I find amazing is that Morrissey’s comment was made at 7.39am yet he’d been summarily judged & sentenced by 8.0am.
What caused such an instant reaction from a KB moderator? Has one moderator broken ranks & doing some moderating? Have they developed insomnia? Will we ever be told? 🙂
Nasska:
The moderator on duty must’ve wet the bet overnight as he/she has already released 3 comments on today’s GD thread. 3 comments by 8:15am – how unusual!
So dismayed with Kiwiblog these days, taken me a while but the moderation system has killed debate (fun or serious) to the extent one forgets where you are up to when commenting there, losing all sense of the thread!. Go you YSB!
PhilP, I so agree.
DPF has a page on his blog that names and shames all those who have needed some sort of major sanctioning.
Your name is, natch, absent.
As is mine.
Not to mention 99% of bloggers.
Under the new regime, however, every post has to pre-approved although, quite clearly, that is a redundancy when it comes to most posters.
Exactly why DPF doesn’t take the weight off his workers/volunteers by having comments from never-before-sanctioned bloggers auto-approved eludes me.
With the clearly-stated proviso that such auto-approval rights may be withdrawn at any time.
AS is the system YSB operates…
I dunno how many posts I have made there but I am obviously now provably unlikely to rush into any ‘PhilP is a ***, a *****, a *****. And don’t START me on his mother!’-type rant.
” Will we ever be told?”
“NO”
If another invitation is forthcoming to Chez Breen I have to clean up cat vomit that night. 🤢
I imagine more fun would be had cleaning up the cat spew…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYBebVohDBs
Supreme Court Just Crippled the Second House Impeachment Charge Against Trump
Both impeachment charges are so weak they’ll need crutches to get into the Senate, and (like many Democrat careers) they’ll never make it out of there alive.
I did like the sledge from Gaetz in the judicial committee hearing when he told all the new democrat congress folk not to buy a house in Washington, but to rent one as they will not be there after the next election.
KellyAnn Conway just described the articles of impeachment as light bathroom reading. Lol.
It looks like NZ Immigration is open to all types of schemes in the arranged marriage category for spouses to come to NZ.
https://m.timesofindia.com/world/rest-of-world/nz-opens-doors-to-spouses-from-arranged-marriages-held-in-india/articleshow/72499443.cms
This won’t be welcomed by those that want these loopholes closed.
I was surprised that the Indian newspaper quoted a United Nations study that said New Zealand’s Indian community was only 71,000. Think of a corner dairy, curry shop, liquor wholesaler, taxi driver, courier driver or any predominantly cash business; I thought that number would be well into six figures, not 71,000.
But taking into account that Fonterra have about 11,000 suppliers it could be said that we have less cowboys than we have Indians.
You are so funny and right!
Look at that list, the majority of Indians are all self employed. Can the same be said for the rest of the immigrants, and bludgers from neighbouring countries west and northwest of India?
Well to do Dr and Labour supporter thinks it’s good the workers are buying him an electric bike. Breathlessly reports RNZ the State owned propaganda agency.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/405517/weight-loss-easier-commuting-among-e-bike-benefits-workers-say
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/381818/cyclists-want-law-change-after-near-misses-with-buses
I wonder how many public servants will survive their daily commute.
They should ban cyclists on many roads. That will fix it.
Ban cyclist from the road if there is a cycle lane next to it!
Rip up every urban cycle lane!
They cause congestion.
here in Taurang no one uses them.
Same in Hastings Dig.
They spent millions on cycle ways and $300,000 on a cycle way across a bridge down the road.Hardly ever see anyone using them .
I saw one on Friday. Cna’t think why its so memorable. Oh hang on he nearly got run over, by me for being fucking stupid.
I blame the education system.
Talking cyclists and roads.
Fletch and NZTA have spent years building a new bridge oen foxton way. Flask it looks , but no one though about the cyclists so they will still ride the bridge along with the 50 tonners and various piss poor drivers. Meanwhile the old bridge is going to be demolished becuase it would cost a mere $1 mill to fix. No one has told us what the demolition cost is going to be. $15mill at a guess. Can’t see the logic in pulling it down when it could be used as a back up and for cycles.
Thats the new way for ya.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/118144394/manawat-river-bridge-opens-to-thousands-of-cyclists-pedestrians-and-motorists
From Harvey’s link:
Richard Barter is the manager for Share the Road, CAN’s cycling safety programme for commercial drivers, which involves getting drivers out of the bus and into the cyclist’s seat. … “We also take them through exercises where they understand what safe following feels like and also, what being passed safely feels like. “So they actually stand on the side of the road and they get passed by a bus and they will measure the distance and be asked, ‘just how did that feel? Was that enough?’.”
That’ll work – a training course based on feelings!
An avid cyclist himself, Mr Barter said that accidents can be avoided if cyclists communicate more with drivers. “My approach is quite straightforward – when I hear a bus approaching I will always turn and wave to the driver and then, things start to go well – I engage with that driver as a person and then they will respond as a person and we work together on that passing manoeuvre.
Actually, based on this nonsense, this Mr Barter fellow seems like the wrong person to be training bus drivers!
..”I engage with that driver as a person and then they will respond as a person and we work together on that passing manoeuvre”.
Turn and wave to the driver..bwhahahaha! What a dickhead. Where do these people come from?? Busy engaging with the bus driver then does a rear ender into a car. Meanwhile the bus driver runs over some bloke on a lime scooter because he was waving back at the dickhead on the bicycle. Bus driver stops suddenly and gets one in the rear from a girl who was texting and driving. Heh.
Turn and wave to the driver and wobble out onto the road and get run over!
Wave to the driver, yeah right. Waving at drivers is just cyclists demanding ME FIRST!
I didn’t know the “one finger salute” was classed as a wave.
Or sell their subsidised bikes at a profit after a week
US, Japan, Brazil and Australia hold up climate efforts
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/12/us-japan-brazil-and-australia-hold-up-climate-efforts.html
Major economies have resisted calls for bolder climate commitments as a UN summit in Madrid limps towards a delayed conclusion.
With the two-week gathering spilling into the weekend, campaigners and many delegates slammed Chile, presiding over the talks, for drafting a summit text they said risked throwing the 2015 Paris Agreement into reverse.
“At a time when scientists are queuing up to warn about terrifying consequences if emissions keep rising, and school children are taking to the streets in their millions, what we have here in Madrid is a betrayal of people across the world,” said Mohamed Adow, director of climate and energy think-tank Power Shift Africa.
The annual climate marathon had been due to conclude on Friday, but dragged on with ministers mired in multiple disputes over implementing the Paris deal. The Paris agreement has so far failed to stem the upward march of global carbon emissions.
How Dare they!
And “others”
I think we have hit the wall when it comes to Climate Change.
The recent hysteria in the media over the last year fueled by Soros and Climate Change Cover has failed and has turned most sane people off it.
Scientists cant agree if Co2 is good or bad.
So that leaves methane.
So at Madrid they could not get many countries to agree to commit suicide, African countries want to develop, so they need power (coal and oil). China will start to look at it in 2030. India, Turkey and Vietnam are all building lots of coal fired power stations.
What would those idiots in Madrid no, if the world really started heating up every year and if the seas really started rising. Would they ask NZ to pay more?
Now the evil wankers are salivating about a meeting next year in Glasgow!
Madrid climate talks will set the tone for Glasgow 2020
While there is much excitement about Glasgow being the focus next year, there is also concern. Friends of the Earth Scotland wants poorer, developing nations to have more involvement, and not just at the top table. But they have expressed concerns that current border control policies would be restrictive. Mary Church, head of campaigns, said: “We are calling on the Scottish government and the UK government to do everything that they can to ensure that there is strong global-south representation when the COP comes to Glasgow. “That means ensuring smooth visa processes, particular for people in Africa and west Africa who face really serious challenges getting visas to the UK.”
Two points can be made. First, the UK would understandably want to minimise the number of “climate refugees” – people who book one-way trips to attend climate conferences and who decide to extend their stay. Second, there are reportedly 25,000 people at the Madrid conference, and I don’t see what possible consensus could come out of such a ridiculously large-scale talkfest.
“Second, there are reportedly 25,000 people at the Madrid conference, and I don’t see what possible consensus could come out of such a ridiculously large-scale talkfest.”
Lots of piss, reading between lines and sex. Roll on Glasgow!
But Mike, sex leads to children, and more children leads to more carbon emissions, which leads to more climate change, which leads to more climate conferences. Oh – I see your point!
But half of them will be into same sex, sex! So it’s ok, not much chance of breeding!
Exactly Sooty..Michael Fitzpatrick and Patrick Fitzmichael.
Sodomisers and carpet munchers rejoice!
Suppose it’s better than having six toes on each foot…?
One of my cats does.
Most of them seem to be over weight unkempt women.
Plenty of sex on the side and alcohol to boot.
A bit like the olympic games and other such meet fests that we all seem to have to pay for.
An extension from this article.
Could be an idea.
Paremoremo to Otago corrections facility. P&O cruises.
Floating prison.
Let the criminals feel what being vulnerable is like. Take them 50 km’s off shore and turn the engines off.
Oakland official proposes using cruise ship to house the homeless
https://abc7news.com/society/oakland-official-proposes-using-cruise-ship-to-house-the-homeless/5747877/
Could I recommend those boats that the people traffickers in Africa use, they seem to sink quite often.
My Mama used to say:
Life is like a box of chocolates,
You never know what you are going to get.
‘Boris Trump’.
Lets get this show on the road.
Ardern better grab a bite of the apple.
Lets do this.
Trump congratulates Boris Johnson and calls for ‘massive’ U.S.-U.K. trade deal
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-congratulates-boris-johnson-and-calls-for-massive-us-uk-trade-deal-2019-12-13
Too late. President Trump is well aware that the PTPM detests him after calling him a “professional arsehole” and “orange”. Trump has her number and won’t be calling for a trade deal.
Did Frowny Face congratulate BOJO? Or was she preparing for some more Disaster Porn. I actually think she looks forward to these kind of events.
Andrew Little has been mentioned a few times on this thread already, so I thought I’d check out his recent media releases. Get ready for this. On 4 December, he issued a Pike River announcement:
The next phase of the Pike River Re-entry project is underway, Minister Responsible for Pike River Re-entry Andrew Little says. “Fresh air will be pumped into the Pike River Mine drift this week, following acceptance of the plan for re-entry beyond the 170m barrier by New Zealand’s independent health and safety regulator WorkSafe.” … “This is welcome Christmas news for the families, for the Agency’s staff, and all New Zealanders,” Andrew Little said.
I guess, in the absence of being able to bottle up the fresh air and send it to the families via NZ Post, he can pump it into the mine and pat himself on the back for doing such a good job!
Can I fart in to a pickle jar and send that to them?
Sooty, send it to Morrissey, he is into that sort of thing.
“This is welcome Christmas news for the families, for the Agency’s staff, and all New Zealanders,” Andrew Little said.
Speaking on behalf of myself..I couldnt give a rats arse about this whole re-entry wankfest. My concern is the complete waste of our money by these bastards.
Send a message to andrew, just for Xmas like.
Feel free to speak on my behalf Mike.
This is welcome Happy Holidays news for the families, for the Agency’s staff, and all New Zealanders,” Andrew Little said.
Fixed it.
I just seen the British election figures
Roughly
Conservatives nearly 14 million
Labour just over 10 million
Lib dems under 4 million
SNP 1,242,000
So that really was a big win for Boris
The other good news was the Greens vote dropped by 2.14%.
They got 1.63% or 525,371 votes.
With all the shit about the envirornment constantly in the news, one would have expected their support to be much higher
No DN , vote figures do not matter, seats are all that matter.
If the figures were important then Boris loses because Labour, the Lib Dems and the SNP would have formed a coalition.
Yes Ross12
You make a very good point.
I had not noticed that.
But do they have a Whinestone?
Exactly R12.
Which is why we shall now see the lunatic left in the UK switch their focus away from psychopathic Corbyn Communism to a more underground approach to get rid of the FPP system and introduce MMP. Our very own national hero Swissball Rapist heads up the UK organisation lobbying for this. Already there have been tweets about how Boris would never have gotten a majority if there had been PR. LibDems will orgasm over this prospect as PR would’ve seen them with 50 seats instead of 13.
What none of them take into account of course is that if PR had been used, the tough choice between Brexit Party and Tories would not have existed and BP would have exploded upwards – basically serving as the support party to the Tories that National lack here.
Overall, it is the only path to communism in the UK. The fight will centre around this now.
Say g’day to the ‘Quiet Britons’: PM
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6115699009001
G’day cobbers! The number of patriotic PM’s is rising in our Western neighbours with Trump, Boris and Morrison. Time NZ has a PM with NZ’ers best interest at heart. Roll on election 2020.
Yes as Trump says
You are either a patriot or a glabalist!
Singapore, facebook and misinformation.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/12/singapore-s-government-orders-opposition-party-to-label-ads-as-misleading.html
If that came in here, all the COL adds wouldn’t get passed their makers.
Mike, re your 7.17am post, clearly my neighbourhod is better than yours, heh heh.
I can’t remember the last time I was confronted with a pic of Jass in a local bookstore.
Although I guess it’s possible that friends of yours have already cased the joint and done the reversals you mention to save my eyeballs … and the contents of my stomach!.
Mike:
Did you fly Air NZ on your recent trip from Bangkok to Auckland?
Revealed: Where Air New Zealand’s next safety video is heading
Air New Zealand’s next safety video will be about a young girl travelling through the country and emphasising the importance of taking care of the environment. … ‘The video is going to be a charming story of a young Kiwi girl and her new friend. It will have a strong emphasis on the importance of Kiwis and visitors taking care of our own backyard,” said the airline’s general manager of global brand content Jodi Williams. The content is very much in keeping with the airline’s sustainability push amid growing concern about the impact of flying and tourism.
More touchy feely crap Im picking, but anything is bedder than the last one Air NZ did. That was diabolical.
I flew in on Singapore Air this time. I try not to fly Air NZ, I just do not like ’em. Going back to Phuket via Gold Coast on Air Asia who are superb.
young Kiwi girl and her new friend.
Is that statement setting us up for a lesbian relationship with an older woman. Helen perhaps?
The content is very much in keeping with the airline’s sustainability push amid growing concern about the impact of flying and tourism.
The content will give rise to a totally new phenomenon…. the intensive use of sick bags before the aircraft has even left the ground.
I’ve travelled Air New Zealand recently and I actually exclaimed ‘Bullshit’ in a fairly loud voice halfway through one of their imbecilic ‘safety’ videos. I was going to take it further, but my wife pointed out that we could be thrown off the plane for not paying attention…. so I reluctantly shut up.
This one is going to have a little Greta lookalike lecturing us all on Global Warming…
Air New Zealand never bloody learn do they? That ‘Hip Hop’ ad was the most diabolical crime ever committed to film- I still can’t erase the horror of a Transgender thing ‘Gangsta Rapping” at me as I was trying to get comfortable for a long haul flight….
Sustainability eh? AirNZ’d active “sustainability push” is to for environmentally aware passengers to pay a ‘donation’ for crappy toxic pine trees to be planted all over productive NZ farmland to make investors in carbon credits a lot of money. 🤨🤨
And to feel righteous.
I have to say I like being able to uptick myself lol no post should or shall remain unticked.
As they change colour once read, at least when you scroll through to check on any new posts you don’t keep stopping to re-read your own eloquent posts! 😉
It is a great feature.
You can also remove your vote if you accidentally hit the wrong one.
Never knew that!
Green Indulgences…
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/09/04/spare-us-prince-harrys-royal-hypocrisy/
I see that indians is Assam (part of NE India) do not want anymore indians coming in there.
I don’t blame them!
I was reading about that earlier. They specifically don’t want more muslims from Bangladesh and Burma coming in and who in their right mind could blame them for that?
I think you are wrong there. The new law allows Hindus from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to come to India and get citizenship. Not muslims!
The people in Assam just don’t want more people there as they will take their jobs and houses and land etc.
OMG….. Boris Trump! That’s one of the most delicious things I’ve read lately! It would be worthwhile to change one’s name by deed poll just to set up a political party and launch it!
Boris trumps Cindy?
Thank goodness we do not have this system for political interference….yet.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/405511/us-governor-issues-428-pardons-during-final-days-in-office
Imagine who the COL would pardon.
Matt Bevan is a Republican, and the condemnation is bi-partisan.
Details of who he set free are horrendous.
Māori and the poor suffer the most crime – report
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/12/m-ori-and-the-poor-suffer-the-most-crime-report.html
“You’re more likely to be a victim if you live in a low socio-economic area than a high one.”
– Surprise! Why isn’t that obvious? 🤨 🤡
Well they just borrow stuff.
Like the man says when asked why they moved to aussie.
Whanau can’t borrow my stuff, wreck it and not bother to bring it back.
Whanua is th problem nearly always. Especially if they are a differnt tribe.
Remember Maori for Maori Viking !~ //
Or as Kris Faafoi would say, whanau whanau.
Should an MP attend every marriage subject to immigration regulations to give the personal seal of approval?
The King use to attend and shag the bride!
William Wallace was not a fan of that
Read PakehaSaves, Maori Masters. By Trevor bentley. That will open your minds to their behavoir.
It was the same in South Africa. The people that wanted to try and get ahead, who went out to work were ambushed on their way back to the township by ANC members – had their money stolen, etc.
Culture.
Ahh, the halcyon daze
Just a little bit of music to wash the brunch dishes to,
Mireille Mathieu – La Dernière Valse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clb6xT14okc
Extreme left terrorist group plans to attack Rome. As well as the usual property destruction, they plan to violently attack white people.
No doubt under police protection as is usual.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/405530/sardines-pack-in-for-anti-far-right-protest-in-rome
Lefties do love a good protest!
Nothing like screaming your anger with the World and spitting at those ‘Fascist’ Police before your Mum picks you up and takes you back home to your Playstation…
A bit of ‘hating and wrecking’ is really a leftie thing. 😉
Makes them feel righteous. Fuck knows why !~
Dot worry they are over exaggerated.
There are only a few of them packed into a big yard.
I saw them. they are mostly white people, whats wrong with them?
This lovely Sunday, I have two beautiful lamb shanks that will be charred over a wood fire in our Forno, then into my cast iron pot for a few more hours of cooking. Mama Bear picked up some eggplants, and I found a gorgeous recipe for them in the Spices cookbook. It’s grilled eggplant slices, cherry tomatoes, chilli, red-onion and all sorts of good things like that. Maybe make a flat bread to go with it all, what do you reckon?
It’s been an insanely busy few weeks, so I’m really looking forward to putting the keyboard down and doing a bit of cooking today.
And a nice cold beer.
Sounds delicious Pascal!
Capital idea. My descriptions are usually better than the food, but hey – it’s fun trying, right?
I keep hubby on his toes exploring additions to my culinary repertoire. Always fun inventing new dishes along with eating good, tasty traditional grub.
Bon Appetite!
Is your real name Letitia Cropley?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKqoutFDX9I
Nothing so exotic as Letitia
Lol!
I am a relatively tolerant man.
The bulimics, who live over the back fence had a big Christmas Party last night.
I waited until after midnight, then asked them to keep it down.
Being kept awake does your head in.
I couldn’t possibly comment. (sarc)
Especially when already woke enough.
“So woke she can’t close her eyes”
-Fox News 😎
On the 3rd of December 2018 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attended a Town Hall meeting on Climate Change.
This was the pearler she came up with.
“We need to invent technology, that’s never been invented yet”
I bet she makes her Mum so proud. Just like Genters mum.
And then consider that Ardern is so much worse she makes AOC look like a NASA Scientist!
As this hostess describes Corbyn, I can’t help but look at todays pic Ed. (I must admit, I had a little bit of vomit in the throat)
The similarities are astounding.
The socialist puppets read from the exact same book, word for word… Fuckem.!!
Sky News Australia blasts ‘simpleton’ Jeremy Corbyn and congratulates Brits for turning against ‘hard-left terrorist sympathiser’
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/sky-news-australia-general-election-jeremy-corbyn-conservative-party-victory-a4312736.html
A former flight instructor at NAS Pensacola gives a few insights into the recent shooting spree by the Royal
Saudi Arabian AF officer.
He describes what arse holes these Saudi’s are to instruct and is pretty adamant that their training in the USA should be stopped immediately. A long but interesting read and will do nothing to allay your fears about flying commercial with an Arabian/Musim pilot.
https://dbdailyupdate.com/index.php/2019/12/09/what-really-happened-at-nas-pensacola-and-why/
“Saudi Arabia is currently our strongest ally in the Middle East”
No. And not is Israel an “ally”. Both are parasites.
i think they are
Who else would be a strong ally of the USA in the middle east?
Maybe Jordan, but they are hardly strong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhCNqxtFgWo
Hannity: Dems think they know better than American voters
What utter bastards taking money right up until the receivership was formalised/announced.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/118061500/customers-owed-190k-after-tiny-house-company-goes-into-liquidation
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/118199148/hey-big-spender–why-were-spending-more-but-have-nothing-to-show-for-it
Steven Joyce: We’re spending more but have nothing to show for it
(Heading for above link. For some reason I cannot edit to add)
Yep, disgusting
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2019/12/internet-disgusted-by-plane-passenger-scratching-skin-off-dirty-feet.html
Good news!
The Climate Change meeting in Madrid is failing.
Caroline Scmidt say that they need to do more.
But the deleagtes cat agree on the amount of reduction or who is going to pay what.
Brazil and others are not playing along!
They will have to kick the can down to Glasgow next year!
What’s the problem, is it white males or capitalism?
That’s what they will be saying.
I’m saying its either not happening
Or if it is blame the 4 or 5 million people from the third world
One for the wrecker
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/12/wild-australian-road-rage-incident-leaves-ute-crushed-man-hospitalised.html
This won’t make the news. MSM would hate it because its not fake.
Trump supporters infiltrate a meeting where Adam Schiff was speaking tonight.
They were shouting liar, liar, liar…
Shifty won’t be able to walk down the street soon. Oh dear…never mind.
Anti-impeachment protestors are interrupting @AdamSchiff’s event on the House’s Armenian Genocide Recognition resolution.
Adam they didn’t buy your SHITT! Angry Constituents Fire back at Adam Schiff in California over his abuse of power!
A handful of pro-Trump agitators tried to hijack an Armenian community gathering tonight (Glendale, CA) to mark Congressional passage of a historic resolution commemorating the #Armenian #Genocide – Turkey’s WWI-era mass extermination and exile of millions of Christians.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/drug-bust-400k-worth-methamphetamine-seized-in-wellington
You can always tell what’s really going on when the MSM sneak shit under the radar concerning the elite.
My suggestion to my fellow YSBers is to wait for an event and read about everything that doesn’t get a light shone on it.
That way Ardern isn’t an everyday distraction that leads you away from the truth.
As far as I can see, from other blog sites too, YSB tends to sort the wheat from the chaff fairly well.
We are the news now.
Keep it up.
Follow the money.
Prince Andrew, Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell pictured at the Ascot races
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12290569
Reporter slapped!
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/12/us-man-who-slapped-reporter-s-bottom-on-live-tv-arrested-on-sexual-battery-charge.html
If you watch the video half way down the screen, it seems that two guys slapped her arse.
And she seems to be smiling.
Can’t people have a bit of fun these days?
It would probably be some fetid diversity professor 800 kms away, still sucking on mums breast complaining about the rights of undergarments.
It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the pound metoo movement.
Q. What is the difference between a South Auckland girl & an
elephant?
A. About 20kg.
Q. How do you equalise the two?
A. Feed the elephant.
Quietly Queen Elizabeth, 93, takes a step back but remains Monarch
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12293894
So long as she outlives her first-born the old dear is doing the right thing by me!
If that fucking idiot ends up King we’ll have President Clark within the year.
Dumbo certainly does have a challenger.
The photo of Charlie in that article shows a bit of a flush looks like he has been tippling a few drams to keep the cold out.
I wonder if Charlie, whilst tucking in Mumsie and fluffing her pillow ever thinks hmmmmm.
A list for those who haven’t given enough.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/118074275/giving-at-christmas-how-you-can-help-aucklands-homeless-and-others-in-need
I find that lentils are the best.
I often put a can in the donation bin my my local supermarket.
I saw an Indian lady on tv in idnia saying they were starving, they just wanted some rice and lentils!
Condoms would be the best, but they are a little expensive.
And chewy Diggy. Quite flavourless too, so I’m told.
I understood you get flavoured ones now?
Asking for a much younger friend of course.
……”Condoms would be the best, but they are a little expensive.”…..
Save your money……they’re bloody near free now courtesy of the long pocketed taxpayer. What is required is for the fuckees to summon up enough brain cells to use them!
…..”You can get condoms from Family Planning. Our nurses can give you a prescription to take to the pharmacy. It will cost $5, no matter how many boxes you need (up to a limit of 12), plus your appointment fee. You might be able to talk with a nurse on the phone and get a prescription for condoms, without needing to come in to a clinic. “…….
https://www.familyplanning.org.nz/clinics/services/condoms
You also notice the male pill is not widely available, if at all.
Social engineering, anyone?
Gotta keep that factory pumpin.
It’s all about breeding the next batch of hopeless Liarbour voters.
Make any suggestion that they kerb their incredible fertility & you’ll be labelled an eugenicist. It’s uncontrolled breeding by low IQ no-hopers that will fuck the planet.
CO2 never stood a chance.
Yep. Imagine if blokes said, nope, no kids and downed a pill.
The ramifications would be mind blowing.
Men would suddenly have equality concerning reproduction.
The gravy train would end.
That’s why the male pill is not available.
You need semi retarded goat botherers to oil the machine, according to Looba.
And ferals, and bludgers, and robbers, and prisoners.
Its got to be stopped
At the end of Rachael’s link the bludgers have kindly provided a list of suitable gifts.
A “bath toy” is suggested for babies & 2-4 yr olds. Going by the smell of most of those I’ve got within twenty metres of it should be extended to all age groups.
Reporter: “Excuse me, may I interview you?”
Man: “Yes!”
Reporter: “Name?”
Man: “Abdul Al-Rhazim.”
Reporter: “Sex?”
Man: “Three to five times a week.”
Reporter: “No no! I mean male or female?”
Man: “Yes, male, female… sometimes camel.”
Reporter: “Holy cow!”
Man: “Yes, cow, sheep… animals in general.”
Reporter: “But isn’t that hostile?”
Man: “Yes, horse style, dog style, any style.”
Reporter: “Oh dear!”
Man: “No, no deer. Deer run too fast. Hard to catch.”
“Jake Schmidt, from the US-based Natural Resources Defense Council, said: “In Madrid, the key polluting countries responsible for 80% of the world’s climate-wrecking emissions stood mute, while smaller countries announced they’ll work to drive down harmful emissions in the coming year.
“The mute majority must step up, and ramp up, their commitments to tackle the growing climate crisis well ahead of the COP26 gathering.”
Why?
Where is the next one after Glasgow?
https://sdg.iisd.org/events/2021-un-climate-change-conference-unfccc-cop-27/
Anyone else watching BBC Earth series bout the Planets presented by the very cute Prof Brian Cox.
Pity Scoldilocks doesn’t tune in. She’d get a better understanding of global climate.
Awww, cute!
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/12/swoop-the-magpie-and-mowgli-the-cat-form-unique-friendship.html
If you’ve got 3 minutes, this is a great Boris Johnson paraody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj-YK3JJCIU
Courtesy of a great (long) post on that other blog
If you read the comments they praise the team behind the conservatives social media camping.
National need to get them!
Earlier this year John Fraser was banned from YSB. Apparently, among other things, he used his wife’s email account to send abusive emails to Chuck Bird.
John comments at YourNZ (where he seems to be about as popular as a fart smell in a lift) and Maggy drew my attention to this comment: “What a laugh, over on the ALT Right blog called YSB were you can abuse the PM to your heart’s content, and its TOTAL FREE SPEECH as long as hollysheert,editor allows it.I lasted 2 days after it started“.
So John, seeing as you’re reading this thread, Merry Christmas – and go easy on the alchohol!
He’s obviously still smarting over his banning from YSB. 😂
What a lefty creep.
I detect the bouquet of sour grapes & prune juice! 🙂
Gracious,…
so that character is Lurcher over on YourNZ.
You chaps have really seen some wierdos on blogs over the years.
I obviously lived a sheltered life until I retired.
Maggy:
Lurcher has the dubious distinction of being the first victim of Kiwiblog’s moderation system. This was his comment:
“Just watched REAL NZs with their insurance problems in ChCh on TV3 campbell live then i thought of the crap like IGM and the other wankers on HATE KIWIBLOG saying LEECHER lefties.If i was Mr Farra i will say you are attached with the rightwing fuckers who hate real NZs Dipshit posters are still dipshit posters, but they are still your blog base you and slater, ME i dont give a fuck IM RETIRED YOU CUNTS SUPPORT ME WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, work hard im RELAXED like key”
He’s nuttier than a fruitcake with extra almonds on top!
ACC or no ACC?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/118004926/family-of-migrant-worker-who-died-on-the-job-seeks-compensationhttps://www.stuff.co.nz/business/118004926/family-of-migrant-worker-who-died-on-the-job-seeks-compensation
No
he flouted all of our laws
He knew he was working under the table and probably paying little if any tax.
His wife needs to chase the builder
He got off pretty lightly by all accounts.
I’m hoping all the corrupt leaders are nabbed.
Former president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, sentenced to 2 years for corruption, money-laundering
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/former-president-sudan-omar-al-bashir-sentenced-2-years-corruption-money-laundering
Yes only $130 million in cash in his room.
It was just a gift!
And his lawyer wants to appeal!
Evil bastard, I hope he rots in hell