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Morning everyone, since I had the immense pleasure of going to work yesterday I’ve decided to go fishing today. Hopefully Matt and Ricky have left me some, though from what I’ve seen I suspect they have no idea what quota means or what size limits are.
Quotas and size limits are colonialist constructs, bigot.
Not if you have a permit from the local hapu. Take what you like.
ok here’s some koha. for the boys.
Just ask any moa.
You just went to work for the triple time and a day in lieu!!!!
Back from the briny, 6 snapper biggest 620 mm smallest 400.
lucky bastard, id be keen on fishing today aswell but the seas looking pretty poo down here so ive opted to slave at work for the morn rather than leave burley trails in foveaux straight.
shortest day today i think, usually the sea starts to come right after that for a while so hopefully be out fishing a bit over the next month or so.
Thats ok, us in the commercial fishing fleet have caught most of the fish anyway so what ever scraps we missed you can have
don’t know if this is right or not.
BREAKING: A 5.2 magnitude earthquake has just struck Central Iran, outside of Tehran
seems it is.
Huge earthquake strikes Iran as Israel bombing raid rains down on Tehran -https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/iran-earthquake-huge-israel-bombing-raid-rains-down-tehran
A 5.2 magnitude earthquake has just struck Central Iran as Israel continues its attack on Tehran.
The quake’s epicentre was just outside the city of Semnan, around 210km east of the capital.
At 35 meters of depth, the quake is regarded as shallow.
It comes as Iran and Israel continue to exchange missile fire since last Friday’s blitz on Tehran.
35m? b2 stealth bomber induced earthquake if thats correct.
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/55-magnitude-quake-rattles-northern-iran-amid-israel-war-glbs-2743975-2025-06-21
No. It’s Km.
The fwit strikes again
Copied directly from the news report so up your arse prick.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/iran-earthquake-huge-israel-bombing-raid-rains-down-tehran
to lazy to look it up yourself.
To be fair, you prefaced your post saying you didn’t know if the report was right. Checking it out before you posted it would have been helpful.
You accused someone else of being lazy. Mate …. Really?
Well maybe if the link worked first time?
Do you actually read what you copy and paste oh lazy one?
gb gnus isn’t exactly known for accuracy, but then neither are you.
Heck, even SB and RoL noted that metres instead of Km might have been significant.
oh, and I did a Look up on other sites and found they were reporting correctly. Hence, I posted a link – that worked – showing the correct information.
stick that up your arse, prick – and swivel.
Well, aren’t you a nice little saint?
As I’m always doing other things at the same time, I just skip read and if it’s wrong, too bad.
These other things you are doing at the same time – do you manage to mess them up too?
Exactly what I was thinking. Earth quakes are usually measured in km of depth… That was a large bomb.
May they drop a shed load more of them!
Bunker bombs & now earthquakes!
Iranians will be searching the horizon for Saint Jacinda of the Plague accompanied by the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Looks like God beat Trump to it. Don’t fuck with His people 😎
https://youtu.be/CfUa5_UoQhI?si=W8bcvt3ttr5a_ez4
Really interesting take on trump and what’s happening.
Britain supporting both Ukraine and Israel. Who is the warmonger?
very interesting and concise.
We have to remember who reigned in the past in the house of the King.
The Catholic Krauts are well entrenched, even if they did try their own religion.
Joins all the dots for me.
WTF does that mean? I’ll probably regret answering.
More likely, you will never get the picture nor the understanding if you haven’t got it from that video.
Its religion controlling the world.
A look at the cost of living crisis in NZ – record numbers are leaving
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICNr8LoTcDI
Why Living in New Zealand Is No Longer Possible
New Zealand is collapsing — and no one is talking about it.
Doctors. Teachers. Engineers. They’re all fleeing paradise. Why? Because the cost of living has spiraled out of control. In this video, we uncover the shocking truth
Most of the causes they mention are due to immigration levels, and to an extent, ongoing overspending by successive governments.
Immigration is generally what’s driving housing prices in many western nations.
I would still also like to know what percentage of the outflow are people who were born here, because I only know one person in that category, but know of many Indians who’ve moved on. From my perspective, in general, the more people of foreign origin who fuck off, the better.
Nude Nut,
“New Zealand has fantastic potential”,
in covering as a better manager to be ‘managing the decline’.
NN the facilitator of activist iwification Tama Potaka
After one pays the koha, jumps, how high, to be skimmed by tikanga, mauri etc. with drop off a hat hakas, & waiatas, lwhile Matt & Riki are on your back for more mandatory compliance in league with ‘ealth & safty regulations, to pay fees, levies, required consultancy etc..
While scam artists for investing to skim ones money, while it is atually the government that is benefiting from inflation, that wrecks ordinary people’s savings.
The funny thing is Muldoon, though there was inflation, did have “inflation proof” bonds, that paid a low rate of %interest as well, and the inflationary emolument was Not taxed. !
Then for others those “bonus bonds” for ones who wanted to have an ongoing lottery ticket.
Now the ongoing noises of managing better, to having more investment, more development, build more houses, over Class 1A land & curse the land-lords for supposed capital gains but, 15 years ago, many got thoroughly burnt, (greed? the new normal) with the 2008-2009 global financial crisis (GFC)
Not that I figure Muldoon was perfect, but he did see that inflation had a chilling effect, & tried to safeguard the people’s savings.
That was also going to put a constraint on managing government finances too in having issued those bonds.
Of course the pressure cooker release in 1984 was very unsettling to many and a major time of change for many individually affected.
At the same time some could also see opportunities.
Finally in 1988 the freezing works unions were busted, as the stock were simply killed died on farm, and enough of a push was able to be made with modernizing and stopped the concept of ghost workers being paid in the Union as a payoff for modernizing.
And in the meantime the Tongariro Power Scheme, Benmore Dam and others, along with the Kapuni & Maui gas pipelines, with the flexibilty of a refinery and a back-up emergency electric power station.
Now it is the siren call of more students, more social political sciences, to staff an increasing creative bureaucracy of further laws, regulations & rules, that has become a scourge on the western world.
As if immigration in the way to go for building a country’s GDP, which seems to only lower the per capita GDP.
In 1975 the average weekly wage was $95 & a house cost an average of $24,300.
In 2025 the average weekly wage was $1876 & a house cost an average of $912,900.
In fifty years wages have increased by a multiple of 19.75 & houses have increased by a multiple of 37.56.
If anyone is still in doubt as to why people are poor & abandoning NZ then our standard of basic numeracy is worse than I thought.
you wanna factor interest rates into that?
credit availability it what distorted the market so much, probs messed with wages too as can access short term loans if caught short instead of pushing for better money or switching jobs.
the add to that accomodation allowances further distorting rental and housing markets further pushing up prices.
too much money going after limited supply of goods (housing in this case) ends in disaster.
i hate the idea of blanket CGT but i think a targetted CGT could help remove some distortion from the market. how youd target only the investor/speculator class without hindering development i dont know, perhaps only apply it to rental houses older then 20yrs or something?
as for all the folk leaving i think cost of living is only part of it. anyone with half a brain can see where all this maori shit is heading and can see it accelerating big time so why not get your family away from it now with added bonus of higher wages?
btw aussie cost of living is high too, city living there is very similar if not worse then here
…..”how youd target only the investor/speculator class without hindering development”…..
I favour going back to a system that served NZ well from the 50s through until 1984 & the 4th Labour Pestilence. We had the State Advances Corporation who granted first mortgages to owner occupiers of family homes. Rates varied with government meddling but were generally in the range of 2 – 4% (short term second mortgages were crippling at anywhere between 14-23%) but they got dealt to quickly.
The results were generally positive. New homes added to the housing stock, families had secure nests & the responsibility/pride engendered through home ownership stabilised society.
Yes I know. Favouritism, traditional nuclear families, homogenisation blah, blah BUT it worked.
Nasska,Yes that was the system.
The doors to finance, via banks, insurance companies, as sources for 1st mortgage were very controlled by the government, whether for homes, farms or business’s
Access to “overseas funds” being very controlled, as that was a way to control who could have a licence to import, so that it was in closer balance to what was exported.
Sure it used tariffs, custom taxes to help local industries, but perhaps that should be reviewed & figured on to how Trump is using the tariff as a form of 10% GST on imports?
And I find it so funny that the homes that were built then, even if maintained, would now be considered unfit for rental purpose.
The costs to upgrade to the rental standard, has meant many older & sound farm houses, if not sold off, or the wife wants to set up as ‘holiday’ bach, which for some pay off, but their work is not aways calculated in.
Then the old houses have been bull dozed to escape the ongoing hassle of being asked to provide cheap rental accomodation which proves to be a liability
That’s because math is racist. Somebody on the internet said so, which means it must be true.
Can’t be true .NN said the economy is growing and he is signing trade deals that will make us rich.
wow..shocking.
Herr Starmer is under scrutiny from what I can tell!
Will he last the week?
whats more concerning….
the rise of AI or the collapse of human intelligence?
Here is a video that’s worth watching.
The enterprise software company DataDog is investing almost US$1b a year into artificial intelligence.
It’s about Datadog and what Datadog does and how it is using AI.
Open your eyes to what happens out there and how it gets monitored.
How is your information safeguarded against attacks?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/why-us42b-datadog-is-going-all-in-on-ai/3E4PDYWY6YFFOLLB4ODDQES3Q4/
When you have watched that one then watch this one.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/video/herald-now/inside-the-amazon-ai-chip-lab/KQGZ6VASV7BXKLFZC55SCAN7NI/
And no they are not available on YouTube, so it’s the Herald or remain uninformed.
Don’t bother whinging.
The worst is ‘human intelligence’ not being engaged in actual thinking, so it has become ‘stupid’
Bonhoeffer puts it like this:
….. Because evil people find it hard to take power, they need stupid people to do their work.
Like sheep in a field, a stupid person can be guided, steered, and manipulated to do any number of things.
Evil is a puppet master, and it loves nothing so much as the mindless puppets who enable it — be they in the general public or inside the corridors of power.
The lesson from Bonhoeffer is to laugh at those daft, silly moments when in close company.
But, we should get angry and scared when stupidity takes reign.
https://bigthink.com/thinking/bonhoeffers-theory-stupidity-evil/
A good question when one knows they are actually a ‘stupid boy’ [ 😄 ]
Is AI the summation of all the input from human stupidity or intelligience?
When, how, as it will be done, that AI will be given power over us?
Too late for human intelligence imo.
the funny thing is history keeps getting rewritten, everything else is getting wokified and dumbed down and AI will only ever be as good as its input data so it could go full circle.
even now AI has a mixed result and quite often wrong, the folk reliant or high use of AI are proven to be getting dumber and memory retention and attention spans non existent.
smart folk will avoid AI, dumb folk will embrace it… but so will a few smart folk who love to exploit dumb fucks.
If you do not embrace AI, you will be left behind. They are just touching the surface of it at the moment. Everything we take for granted as not doable now, will soon be done in the blink of an eye. Combine AI with the advances in Crypto, and every thing will change.
I am waiting for St Elon to reveal his latest advancement with Grok. FYI, Grok is powered now by 200,000 Nvidia chips. That is one hell of a lot of computing power.
AI will destroy the crypto future, itll be used by some clever folk to hack the blockchain or manipulate the market.
quantum computing will also end crypto if they ever get it to work, only need to get to 51+% of the computing power behind the blockchain and they can make up whatever ledger they want… quantum computing will easily do this, you think the chinese wouldnt do it if theyre first to it?
Human Intelligence collapsed many years ago but it will now plumb the depths of insanity, aided by AI.
How we change from the first baby to later ones:
Names
First Child: Your name was inspired by a woman of royalty. She was
loved by millions.
Second Child: Your name was inspired by a beloved member of the family.
Everyone loved her.
Third Child: I got your name from a web suggestion site.
Holding the new baby
First Child: We’re the only ones who can hold her.
Second Child: You can hold her, but you have to wash your hands first.
Third Child: Someone please hold this kid for me!
Food and Feeding
First Child: I will feed you only pesticide-free organic foods that
I’ve prepared by hand in a carefully-sanitised kitchen.
Second Child: I will feed you baby foods from a jar that don’t have
preservatives or additives.
Third Child: Do you want corn flakes or toast for breakfast?
Safety
First Child: Don’t run in the house. You could fall and hurt yourself.
Second Child: Don’t run with scissors.
Third Child: Don’t play with Daddy’s good chainsaw.
Sleeping/Naps
First Child: You need to go to bed by 8:30.
Second Child: You need to go to bed by 9:00.
Third Child: It’s 11:30, I’m going to bed. Turn the TV off when you’re
done.
Bathing
First Child: Your baths will be a mixture of sparkling spring water and
pasteurised milk with essential oils
Second Child: Your baths will be a mixture of warm water and baby oil
Third Child: We’ll hose you off in the backyard twice a week.
As the 3rd child I concur.
A quick look at a voice in the wilderness from nigh on 30 years ago.
A practical experienced voice of a “fish & chip shop” owner/business.
Pauline Hanson was crucified for suggesting Australia leave the UN, cease foreign aid and halt immigration in 1996.
Now she looks like a visionary who was rightly concerned about the future of Australia.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1935928811008434526
1 min 35 secs :
No body else of consequence spoke up, to consider it a worthy debate to be had.
Many have worked around to stop people thinking, and making out that it was ok, even good to be ‘stupid’ & not to ask questions.
As 30 years earlier Enoch Powell was mocked, ridiculed & scathingly called a racist.
This dicusses the fall-out, the issues from the 1968 speech, and the context to the current times albeit with a wiki lean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of_Blood_speech
Some debate did ensue then, & this does show some of the context.
Some supporters, but not enough to get real discussion & debate going on the actual issues, so the topic was able to be suppressed.
Enoch Powell’s also said:
“It depends on how you define the word “racialist.” If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and from that, races, then we are all racialists. However, if you mean a man who despises a human being because he belongs to another race, or a man who believes that one race is inherently superior to another, then the answer is emphatically “No”.”
That qualification of his stance was never published yet he was vilified for his apprehension over the effects of sudden & uncontrolled immigration.
He was one of the first victims of cancel culture.
I was watching out my window for the rocket lab launch last night at 9.20 but it was abandoned about two minutes before time because of the wind .
It’s scheduled to launch 7.30 tonight. Can see it on yt.
Davis Seymour kicked a wasps nest of humourless Lefties when he spoke to the Adam Smith Institute, a neoliberal think tank based in London, during a visit to the UK this month. Those who know what’s best for us are less than impressed with his description of smokers as “fiscal heroes”.
From https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/06/21/seymours-light-up-message-alarms-tobacco-researchers/
#. ” “If you want to save your country’s balance sheet, light up, because … lots of excise tax, no pension – I mean, you’re a hero,” he said to laughter from the audience.
#. “Seymour said it was “just a sad fact” that smokers were also likely to die younger, reducing the amount of superannuation they collected, while he was unconvinced their healthcare costs would be markedly higher than those who died of other illnesses.”
Amen! NZ would be a better place to live in if we learnt to mind our own fucking business the Gargoyle of Mount Eden, who kicked off the anti smoking madness, included.
I couldn’t give a shit if people want to smoke. That’s their choice but fuck its an anti social pasttime in a pub or building where others are, especially when one is having a meal.
filthy habit worse than smoking desiel.
Can’t say it bothers me much. That said i was the only smoker in our household & I gave it up about 25 years back. Ditto with diesel though I’m probably immune to it by now.
What grinds my gears is the smell of stale beer & arseholes who are too tired to shower.
A take I fully agree with on Iran and Tucker Carlson:
https://pjmedia.com/caskeet/2025/06/20/tucker-carlson-unconditionally-surrenders-in-the-civil-war-that-wasnt-n4940990
Sorry I don’t get this. When I was a 16 yr old there was this incredibly beautiful teacher at the school. If she had fucked my brains out, I’d still be celebrating today. Have young men become complete pussies? https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2025/06/20/new-york-school-worker-charged-sending-nude-photos-herself-teen-boy/
and when she has a moment the one in the link can d=send me the pics instead.
I know what you’re getting at mate. When I was fifteen some older mates took me down the grab-a-granny. I didn’t want to go as I was a young & impressionable teenager.
Anyway, I was plied with free drinks (which I really did not want to accept) & this 35 year old woman groomed me & forced me to have sex with her (I only came twice).
Do I qualify for #Metoo?
This whole thing around the criminality of sexual behavior between consenting parties does my head in, and the States seems to be one of the most draconian in this respect. Once kids are about 14 they are sexually developed, and for the most part can decide to shag or not shag. The reality is that many Yr 9 kids are shagging at a rate that would make most of us jealous. And according to the law they are criminals. Now I get some older tart forcing a kid to shag, that’s not consensual, but then any non consensual sex is criminal. 200 years ago, this was a non event. Why have we become so worked up about an act that is completely natural for sexually developed people?
…..”Why have we become so worked up about an act that is completely natural for sexually developed people?”…..
Probably because of the natural outcome from that act, ie pregnancy. It is only in very recent times that effective birth control has become available. Take a time, say a hundred years ago, pre contraception & pre DPB when a daughter’s pregnancy outside marriage meant that her family had to accept financial responsibility for her & her child for the next fifteen years. It was an scenario which could completely derail her parents’ old age.
The twin curse of incredible fecundity coupled with a long period from birth to adulthood underlies human double standards when it comes to recreational sex.
It’s the real reason why primitives such as Muslims treat their female children as second class citizens & marry them off before they become pregnant.
What bullshit when the telly and movies are full of sex let alone naaska’s favourites at Porn hub.
The last time V2 had a wank all he produced was a cloud of dust!
Expensive bullshit. How long can this industry drain the taxpayer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH8zwrtz0OU
Kapa-Kingi Demonstrates How Racism is Killing NZ
WhangareiTim
Seymour tries to explain reality to a Green. How long has the Filipino been in?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzq7E1u5Hrk
Hon David Seymour Educates NZ Filipino Green MP
Hard to believe these Green MPs receive well over $200,000 a year in salary!