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The fricken road cone industry is a victim of is own laziness. If they didn’t leave them laying round all over the country when they are not needed people might still slow down when they see them. Just like the flashing warning lights on slow moving vehicles , so many others are using them they have become white noise out on the roads just like road signs.
same with anything hi viz, theyve all become meaningless and ineffective.
im not sure if road cones are a carrot or a stick but a different approach to twat drivers at roadworks would be more effective and cheaper… eg. instead of paying 6 obese natives laying out 1280 road cones and doing fuck all we could have 1 obese native put signs up each end and sit in between with a bucket of rocks… be a twat unsafe driver, get a broken windscreen.
viola traffic management slashed from 10k per day to $300 and a bucket of kfc and i bet it would be more effective.
I think the real boost to useless hi viz jackets came with the Christchurch Earthquakes. I always remember seeing inside window cleaners working away with their jackets on. Now, everywhere and just another piece of unseen road furniture. Bit like roadside signs. Back in the 80’s there were very strict regulations on what you could do as far as putting up signs on State Highways, size and distance from the road. Now there are so many have become a blurr and a distraction to anything important.,
Hard hats went from protecting the wearer getting shat on by seagulls, to a necessary piece of safety equipment required by any worker!
Jesus with a rant like that I must be off to Timaru in a truck and anticipating a shit slow trip.
are you more pissy about the drive or the destination?
Timaru. The most depressed city in Nil Ziland. Give it to the sambos as full and final settlement.
mrs sb is a timaruian, we could probs throw in oamaru and waimate to make the bros think theyre getting an extra good deal! (sorry hp)
I like Oamaru. Visiting is like stepping back in time 100+ years. They even have a good Thai restaurant on Thames St. I have relos in Wainakarua.
Wainakarua the pretend area between Herbert and Hampden lol
True..blink and ya miss it. Good whitebaiting though, not far. 😂 😂
I’ve worked out how to knock them over. If you’re going around a corner with the standard 20 cones lined up you just close right into them and clip them as you go past. I can take out 3 or 4 at a time and I’m getting better at it. Doesn’t seem to do any damage to my ute and it would appear to really piss off the dead heads who have to pick them up from where they’ve flown to and put them back. I see it as a win win situation.
Just open you’re (see what I did their) driver’s door. You should be able to get as many as you want.
probs 20 years ago when i lived in tasman region and i would travel south at xmas time there was a fuckload of cones between tapawera and murchison, several km of them at a 5-6m spacing.
anyways stupid boys return trip was on deserted roads at 2am… i opened the hilux door and knocked down the whole row… then turned around and done the other side for fun.
some cunt wouldve been gutted the next day when he had to walk along standing them up again.
nutha mate just used to drive over them, backfired one day tho when we pulled into a self serve fuel station and the local fulton hogan bosses son was there and we had half a dozen cones jammed up under his ute… whoops
Remember when it was just a few white painted 44 gallon drums. If I remember correctly they would have some water in them to stop them moving in the wind. Then after being deliberately hit was filled up completely, perhaps with concrete, and someone died when driving into it. Well that’s I remember anyway.
Remember at night time; I recall there were little lanterns glowing their distinctive soft strong red with their red lenses.
If I recall correctly they sort of blinked off & on.
As you drove up to you had to decide which side of the drum to pass it by.?
Was it on the left side of the road, the middle of the road, or the other side of the road.
That is in the days when head lights were much weaker than today.
And road corners were a lot sharper than today’s general sweepers.
Never did get up close & stop to inspect them.
I think they were reasonably secured against something?
Part of that 44 gallon red & white drum, the one with some concrete?
In the time of the Ministry of Works.
I do not know what even powered them. Probably a battery?
Always wondered if some were snaffled & souvenired?
…”Always wondered if some were snaffled & souvenired?”….
They would of been but no-one could think of anything to do with them. As an exception, I recall most of the Massey University Aggie student flats in the 60’s had a couple in the lounge to go with the street signs & posters of Bob Dylan.
Dunedin flats used to be full of those orange flashing lights from roadworks.
I remember the bright flashing orange ones too, that came later.
Earlier the soft red glow ones
Found them, so my guess being battery was wrong.
Nor did they flash.
Parafin lamps
Just click on the white blank space above for those style of lamps to liven up.
I guess the old MOW’s was antiquated back, even in my younger years.
Though I did see many leaning on a shovel, but strangely never saw a wheelbarrow around.
The old pick, shovel, wheelbarrow, and the road-man responsible to maintain his section of road was the stories of the 1930’s.
A house, a wage, tools supplied was not too bad in those times, and able to bring up a family.
…..”never saw a wheelbarrow around.”…..
Neither did I & we lived out in the boohai where change was ‘gradual’ if non existent. My oldest memories of the MoW were red/white JO Bedfords carrying a crew of three.
Breast feeding of shovels had developed into an art form but strangely the culverts were clearer & the potholes shallower than they are today.
Malnourished Early Settler whinges about cost of living and says this “and then I would Zip or Afterpay an Uber Eats gift card to spend on groceries.”
To bad about all the old aged Pensioners who probably receive less than her Dole and family Benefit.
Discuss.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/as-kiwis-battle-rising-electricity-bills-campaigners-call-for-change-power-to-the-people-part-1/LLE2GYWHT5BODH5FAXE6ZQGFDI/
A house all to herself and 1 child.
3 bedroom?
Why not share a house with another solo mum.
At least the heat from the heater will be past on to the other, that is doubling productivity of the electricity, and what is in the house like the television, & then the kitchen, oven, fridge, and also the bath, washing machines.
Where is the father’s contribution? Nothing??
Despite her whining S1, you can guarantee she is apart from the Dole and family Support, she will be getting a Housing allowance, Food Grants and all sorts of other free shit, all on your Dime.
AH, the thing that stood out to me about that article is the lack of self-awareness. It hasn’t even occurred to her that it is anything other than her right to live off the work of the rest of us. And guess what, we’re not paying her enough. Best I get back to work now so I can pay some more tax for the poor petal.
Well Saggy, as a busted arse, Old Aged Pensioner myself who is closer to 80 than 70, I have just got home from my early morning employment and paying my Secondary Tax so this whining, grizzling, solo mother can sit on her fat, entitled arse all day, on my Dime. If she wanted to work and better herself she could, but I guess the motivation is just not there.
good on ya hooli, out of curiousity do you still slave away because you want to or need to?
and surely you jest, her 2 current job choices are suiting her fine except for the power bills…
job no1. solo mum bene bludger.
job no2. full time student.
zero real work, 100% handouts. why would she change that arrangement? im suprised she hasnt thought of having 3 more kids to get a bigger bene cheque.
No mate, I work because I want too, I am more than comfortably off having had substantial businesses in Auckland, then large Kiwifruit and Avo Orchards in Katikati. I work with Special Needs Children, some have Spina Bifida, Cerebal Palsy, Down Syndrome or as a result of Drugs. Many of these Special needs Children are looked after by their Grandparents as the the addled Parents are too far gone to know what day of the week it is or they are in Spring Hill Chokey or Arohata at King Chucks pleasure.
Whatever, it is most rewarding and always reminds me of Mr Fredrick Daggs most wonderful NZ National Anthem Song, “We Don’t Know How Lucky We Are.”
good an ya dude, i know a few grandparents raising their grandkids but theyre not special needs. tough job for them and financially draining when theyre supposed to be chilling out.
still its a far better option then keeping the kids neglected and abused with the dero meth head parents.
The yanks have great grandparents raising kids because of 2nd generation meth addicted parents ,
Good on you AH. Legend. World needs more people like you.
My first Wife would disagree with you Saggy.
I didn’t say you were any good in the sack!
poor choices/budgeting/spending problem being dressed up as energy hardship.
she has an efficient heat pump turned off but using a power hungry fan heater.
also solo mum and student so double dipping handouts. shes a fucking leech, send her back to coconut land.
Don’t think it works like that if you’re a solo parent and a student. Not saying I have any sympathy for her, though
She moans about a power bill of $120 – oh if only mine was that low – and then later in the article a disabled pensioner looking after a disabled son is paying $362.
Perhaps the first moaner needs to get a job, the pictures of her home doesn’t look like she is living in squalor so shes getting money from somewhere (thank you, tax payers).
Given the fancy couch she is ensconced on, perhaps she would have been better getting a second-hand floor cushion or, like us oldies, an old beer crate.
While I agree power is an expense, so are a lot of other nicesties.
Really she is not a good example of poverty, but of a targeted lot of bullshit from labour.
No sympathy for their greedy eyes.
What’s the difference between a Maori and a Gimmigrant?
Ironically, the more you do for people or give them money, the more dependent upon you they become. In the long run they become more and more dysfunctional.
Long-term welfare weakens and controls.
thats the difference between giving a man a fish and teaching him to fish.
problem is tho half these bludgers you could teach to fish but thats to hard so unless you keep giving him a fish he’ll just bash ya and steal yours instead.
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer for the rest of his life.
While you row!
Don’t know.
maori had to wait several hundred years for white people to arrive before they started bludging. theyve certainly made up for lost time tho.
yeah prior to bludging they could only resort to bludgeoning.
PeGabbard has the bad oil on :Pelosi and many others that get rich in congress.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1174582079927756
The question is. Do we have the same problem? I reckon.
Yep, English grammar may be alive and well but it’s not living in NZ.
Are the US sick of Winning yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQdR4GerLsc
BREAKING: Trump reaches MAJOR trade deal with EU
$750B of US energy plus $600B.
Of course, America sells energy to Europe. Even Biden knew that and sabotaged the Russian pipeline, and Trump also threatened Russia in his first term over them supplying gas to Germany etc.
Its America first and fuck the rest of you.
Russia will be supplying Britain with gas soon, as Britain has used its North Sea gas up.
MI6 and the Brits don’t trust the Americans and the CIA. Unsurprisingly.
Not until he rules the world. King Trump!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MugKSMXbFss
Hey, Earl…
#short
That’s funny WG
But she would complain if he went next door, Too!
Can you imagine some native doing this when they see their own stealing?
Nah neither can I. They would just blame it on colonialism
https://x.com/tommyrazorcuts/status/1949547057082958306?s=46
They all the same. Thieving clack bunts. Even necklacing too good for ’em.
Send this link to any green liarbour te partly maori voter
https://x.com/kiwiwayne2/status/1949615381045240162?s=46
https://nitter.net/kiwiwayne2/status/1949615381045240162?s=46
From 1 of the comments.:—
doyle has a shit outlook on life literally
Yep, close encounters of the stinky kind.
Amazing interview, and the moment Trump signed his Presidential Pardon.
Trevor Milton built a hydrogen truck then he was destroyed along with his company.
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-trevor-milton
How Wall Street & the FBI Colluded to Destroy Trevor Milton After His Tech Threatened Big Oil
The Tucker Carlson Show
How Wall Street short sellers worked with the media and federal prosecutors to destroy Trevor Milton’s company and put him in jail for life. This is a shocking story.
Behind a paywall so unless any of our fellow readers have supported Stuff’s begging bowl you’ll have to rely on the FSU’s commentary in it’s latest email. Apparently” New Plymouth councillors reckon buying local could save money – and bring growth, green gains and more mahi for Māori.”
That’s right. White people need not apply. From the FSU email:
#. “New Plymouth Council has made its intentions unmistakably clear: when it comes to awarding contracts, your race matters more than your product or price.”
#. “They’re proposing a new procurement strategy that explicitly prioritises businesses owned by Māori, iwi, hapū, whānau, and a vaguely defined group called “minority communities.”
#. “The council wraps this in the language of “social procurement” and “delivering value for money.” But the real focus is on meeting “cultural needs” and making decisions based on race.”
For those who live in the shadow of Mount Egmont the future is grim. Your Council’s intention is to ram this through before the October elections.
#. “If you live in New Plymouth, it’s time to ask your mayor and councillors what exactly they’re doing with your money, and why they’re rushing this through without proper transparency. ”
Just pay up & shut up eh Whitey!
Stuff doesn’t have a pay wall. All you have to do is register. Probably in the works, but has never had one.
Good luck with DEI and racist policy New Plymouth
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sipm4WVCUxE
From DEI to Disaster | Victor Davis Hanson
#short
They’re at it again! If it weren’t yet another attempt to extinguish the immune systems of the earth’s population it would be laughable. From https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-vaccine-nb181-us-cases-rise-summer-razor-blade-throat-rcna220223?
#. “It’s been nicknamed “razor blade throat,” as there have been anecdotal reports of some people getting painful sore throats”.
#. “The uptick in cases comes as many Americans have likely gone a year or longer without a Covid shot.”
#. “Getting a shot is especially important………for those who haven’t had one in over a year and whose immunity has likely waned.”
We’re doomed! DOOMED I tell ya!
Yep just had 3 days of it. Painful, but nothing a bit of Leem’s Lip and Colloidal Silver Spray doesn’t fix.
A painful throat bug swept through here 6-8 weeks ago.
Not fun, but we’ve all survived without injections of anything.
For many if not most councils the scuttling of “Three Waters” was a calamity. Their last hope of rescue from the tsunami occasioned by ignoring infrastructure during decades of profligacy & waste was disappearing.
The chooks have come home to roost & this article from https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/25/cash-strapped-councils-set-to-slash-spending-on-water-infrastructure/ well tells the story.
But where has the money gone. Rates have been squandered on rubbish such as:
1) Convention centres/town halls (not needed, society has changed)
2) Public transport (especially trains. Socialists love trains for other people)
3) Rebranding & public relations (never needed by monopolies; just tell the truth, it’s cheaper)
4) Twin cities & overseas junkets (Pap!)
5) Cycleways (you’re joking)
6) Festival promotions & sponsoring of minority groups (not a core function)
Rein in the fantasies! Roads, rubbish & water is all we need & certainly all we can afford.
This is how they got their jab
https://x.com/its_the_dr/status/1949660430739149311?s=46
The Mad Queen & Bloomfield should be fully paid up members of Equity New Zealand.
Yep, that’s how they all got the jab.
Double dosed sausage Hopkins wasn’t even effected!
Well well. String him up and…..
King of the globalists falls: Klaus Schwab exposed in Davos disgrace
Klaus Schwab, architect of the World Economic Forum and darling of the global elite, has been forced out after 55 years amid serious allegations of corruption, abuse of power, and lewd behaviour.
The 87-year-old founder of the WEF was accused of misusing millions in organisational funds, manipulating economic data for political purposes, and sexually harassing staff.
He might have been able to get it up in his younger days.
But I doubt it these days all the little boys would have to work up a sweat!
Wont stop the vileness or momentum of WEF
It is well established and controls many PMs/Presidents/traitors in the western world.
Mike Hunty
Reminding us ‘Lower orders’ yet again that ‘Power corrupts, and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely’, although sadly (And because Herr Schwab has ‘friends’ in very high places), I doubt that anything of consequence will come of it.
I could however be wrong…
Disappear you Sick Creep
Creep of Sickness.
thats not daddy klaus, its a look alike. it got debunked years ago when that picture surfaced and there were several interviews with the guy
Is that genuine? If it is he’s one sick puppy.
https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/klaus-schwab-wife-hilde-world-economic-forum-questionable-travel-expenses-investigation/
He screwed the WEF & they loved him. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving arsehole nor a more worthy organisation.
But I reckon S1’s image, unfortunately, owes more to https://www.deviantart.com/ than fact. 🙂
NN full of shit as usual. The Nats are the most unimaginative, unmotivated bunch of useless pricks since the other side of the arse cheek was turfed out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6TQedP68IA
NZ Job Adverts have dropped again… except for in certain sectors and guess what they are…
Pigeon Post
Maori wonderfulness?
I see in some comments there that :—
…… The Chief Ombudsman has found Tauranga City Council’s reasons for withholding the invitees and sponsors of a $40,000 private cocktail party it co-hosted did not outweigh public interest.
The invite-only May 10, 2024, event at the Cargo Shed was billed as a “celebration of the city” and also used to…
Sorry, rest of story hidden behind the Heralds’ paywall. …..
A rumour that the most exquisite expresso coffee machine shots aided the recovery of the invitees before being chauffered home.
Our most influential unware whip kept every one in line to be within budget with no overruns.
Will that list be published with some very busy working land-lords ratepayers.?
Sean Plunket’s The Platform – Wright Family Trust ends start-up funding, multi-millionaire shareholder tells of new revenue mix, challenges
Quite touch and go’; ‘lumpy, bumpy’: As funding arrangements change for The Platform, its multi-millionaire shareholder and outspoken host speak of the challenges of owning and operating a media platform.
A multi-millionaire backer of Sean Plunket’s The Platform says his family trust isn’t providing further funding for the media venture – and reveals he has bought three-quarters of the business himself.
Wayne Wright jnr told Media Insider that the Wright Family Trust had ceased “start-up” funding to The Platform in March.
Writer David Farrier reported the move on his Webworm platform today, although both Wright and Plunket said listeners had already been informed in March.
Wright and Plunket said The Platform, which started in September 2021, now operated on advertising and subscription revenue, donations and merchandise sales, although both spoke of the challenges in the current media landscape.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/media-insider/media-insider-sean-plunkets-the-platform-wright-family-trust-ends-start-up-funding-multi-millionaire-shareholder-tells-of-new-revenue-mix-challenges/XACMY3WHB5ESFI5P5YGTL6LTO4/
that explains why hes had the begging bowl out lots lately.
haha, mocks and abuses a good portion of his listeners then expects them to pay up but ends up having a cry and wondering why we dont subscibe.
i still think the clowm should demand some money from his jew mates in israel, fucking moron has rammed pro israel propaganda down his listeners throats for months and recieved zero payments.
and reading from the adern book.
Just give it a rest.
not that I listen; I see some selected YT; vids after the fact.
I hear Hamas pay well for propaganda///
As do the jews
but they usually skip the cash payouts and use blackmail instead.
aka
Robert Maxwell, Epstein and many others among them.
David farrier getting all jizzy that it is all over for the platform .
David Farrier is a bit of a cunt like David Farrar, then !!
Wright has taken funding directly and away from the Wright Family Trust and funds Platform directly through another vehicle .
Wright 75% shareholder, Plunkett 25% shareholder of The Platform
Wright Family Trust gets most of its revenue from Govt in the form of Childcare subsidies for its Best Start outfit.
so,
Wiminz go to work, pay taxes , the govt uses those taxes to pay someone else to raise their kids.
Mmmmm.
Ok
Isn’t that what people complained about communism ?
that kids are raised in communidy creches
where they certainly get lots of Te Raro indoctrination !
Smart move by those that marched through the institutions before us !!!
Best Start indoctrination now .
Cheers!
…..”Best Start indoctrination now “……
Aristotle once said; “give me a child until he is seven & I will show you the man.”
The Catholic church knows this is vital if the indoctrination is to succeed & the socialists readily accepted early inculcation as indispensable if a new generation of good little obedient comrades is to emerge.
For some reason the hoi polloi tend to regard the brainwashing as benign.
Tony Ryall was/is the CEO and neither of them are socialists. Might be good for kids.
Howitis commented:
…..”that kids are raised in communidy creches
where they certainly get lots of Te Raro indoctrination “…..
Not everything is as it seems Dorothy. “Community” is a codeword for “socialist” & can often be substituted by the “Glorious Peoples ******* “. If a teacher or “early childhood educator” gets within five kilometres of the door of a creche it will turn into an indoctrination centre.
As night shall follow day so shall Te Reo & Tikanga follow mad women with causes.
Communidy >
Commune >
Kibbutz .
Lets all share, own nothing, smoke weed and sing Kum ba ya .
I listen to Plunket and Laws almost daily from here in Phuket. Keeps me up to date with what’s going on in Aotearoa.
Where??
Not Panapa, though. She gives me gas.
She is too much woman for you and your spindly legs !!
How come previous generations, a tiny populated country could establish and sustain large industries successfully, plus we had economic stability and growth?
I guess we don’t need the newsprint paper like we used to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk8W6BtWE0c
Rare 1957 Logging Film – A Nostalgic Look at Kawerau’s Timber Past 🌲📽️https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/svg/1f1f3-1f1ff.svg🪓
some clown commented on there YT that
—————
@John-ee5dh3 hours ago
The internet should never have been aloud to put up the news this destroyed so many people jobs
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Wow, speeling azide, John thinks the internet should not have gnews
how about radio , John
or teevee
John ain’t so bright .
Don’t need so much newsprint- if any really.
but do need lots of electricity to run data centres
[good thing those selectrix cars are not competing for power, eh ]
but the means of production for creating electricity is being diverted into inefficient forms (windymills, and solar panels)
…..”How come previous generations, a tiny populated country could establish and sustain large industries successfully, plus we had economic stability and growth?”……
Different times WG. Post WW2 the world economy was surging & primary producers were in good shape due to an insatiable demand for protein & raw products both of which we had in abundance. When you look at the motorways, hospitals, schools & towns that were constructed in the twenty years after VJ you could be excused for wondering how our expansion actually happened at the speed it did.
Then it started to turn to custard. Unions began their ceaseless strikes for more money which were covers for the advancement of communism. Recessions produced some unemployment which hadn’t been experienced for 25 years. Then the UK joined the ECC followed by the oil shocks of the 70s.
We had lived on the sheep’s back but we paid our way. Now we sell farmland to pay the interest on the money our governments have borrowed & squandered.
Rhetorical question but thanks for the excellent summary Nasska.
Yep! It’s a paperless life!
From Stuffed- another example of economic illiteracy from that party of genius’s led by the sausage roll kid.
“The Government is planning to scrap in-store surcharges for Visa and Mastercard payments from mid-2026, but Labour and Hospitality NZ have warned the cost could be shifted to small businesses and ultimately shoppers.”
Who the fuck do they think is paying the surcharge now if not the shoppers.
well to be fair its the same bunch of clowns that think landlords pay for everything so they lumped then with a ton of extra costs and couldnt work out why rents shot up… or dump billions into the economy and got really stumped as to why inflation skyrocketed.
if robo was the most financially literate they had then id hate to fucking know what the rest of them are like.
Jeepers
Fruityblog having a hernia about my adblocker.
Adblock Plus
great product
Fruity pumps the thing full of ads
last looked 2 years ago it was about 50 to 80 adverts per Post !!!
so, outrageous abuse by him .
takes a while to load on high speed computer and over 500 MBS download speed.