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I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

was the reaper really starring or just staring?
old coots in the rest home were probably begging the reaper to come on in and end their miserable existence.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

That’s a depressing start to the day.
Mum and dad both ended their days like that. It’s a hard row to hoe.

Enjoy life while you can and find a laugh wherever you go.

It’s our wedding anniversary today 💕

Last edited 10 months ago by waikatogirl
Saggy
Reply to  waikatogirl
10 months ago

Happy WA WG ! 🎉

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Saggy
10 months ago

Thanks Sagz.

Hubby is still an ongoing project after 43 years.

Last edited 10 months ago by waikatogirl
nasska
Reply to  waikatogirl
10 months ago

Mrs Nasska, bless her heart, is still trying after 55 years. 🙂

Mike Hunty
Reply to  nasska
10 months ago

55 years! Ya don’t even get that sentence for murder!

Saggy
Reply to  waikatogirl
10 months ago

That’s as it should be.

Hooker Phil
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

Going to see my brother today, alzheimers so his area has a lot just sitting there. Went to a big one in Dunedin last year and walking past the single “hospital” rooms was fairly depressing. agree with you Hunty.

bobthebldr
bobthebldr
Reply to  Hooker Phil
10 months ago

my sister in law…completely blank.

Mike Hunty
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

ooohhh Im telling “Mrs Ed.. Mrs Ed”…

nasska
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

Can happen when the mother stands for labour.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  nasska
10 months ago

Always put a pillow on the floor/tub to catch the baby in case of butterfingers. Because it’s going to be a slippery little bugger!

Mike Hunty
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

Yep. My Dad spent his final years in one. I would rather top myself than spend one minute in any of them.

Hooker Phil
10 months ago

In Christchurch overnight, did a bit of a tour around a city I once lived in and knew well. Other than half the time not knowing what street I was in and of course not recognising hardly any of the old buildings I was actually quite impressed. I can see why the new and young would see it has quite the place to be. It is 30kph around lots of the inner streets, this was between 7.30 – 9.00 pm and people were everywhere wandering around. It gave an impression of safeness.
The biggest buzz was seeing the new stadium, I didn’t realize just how close to the city centre it is, it is going to be a dominate feature of everything that happens. The number of hotels, motels and inner city apartment type living was really noticeable.
I have seen reports the the Canterbury University is now considered the one to go to, I can see the future of Christchurch and Canterbury looking very, very bright and exciting.

DylanHunt
Reply to  Hooker Phil
10 months ago

“The biggest buzz was seeing the new stadium,”

In the centre of the city with no parking 30,000 mad sports people having to wait hours to get home 5km away. It will make Smart Stadium appear like it was built in the desert.

Mike Hunty
Reply to  Hooker Phil
10 months ago

Meh..City of the Damned, ChCh. Bought my first house there in the 80s, just beside Lancaster Park—$42000.

Hooker Phil
Reply to  Mike Hunty
10 months ago

My first one in 1971- Avonhead – either $12,500 or $13,500, cannot quite remember. Sold in 1980 for about $18,000 I think, 5 years later it sold for $54,000.

Viking
Reply to  Mike Hunty
10 months ago

Nothing will change the dammed bit.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Yes but they are rebuilding the cathedral, when a phone box would do for 364 days of the year. Thank you Jim Anderton for donating your estate to the rebuild.

Viking
Reply to  Sooty
10 months ago

Won’t be ready for Bolgers send off then. Oh wrong god.

nasska
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

It’s 9AM. Shouldn’t you be at work?

Viking
Reply to  nasska
10 months ago

No worries, been working.
got ya jaarmies off yet?

Private Godfrey
Reply to  nasska
10 months ago

That’s going to get you told off

Hooker Phil
10 months ago

Have also travelled a few miles in the last few days and had a couple of pet hates in my face a few times.
Why for traffic lights controlled road works does it require someone in a yellow jacket to be about 50/100 metres past the lights. In the case of the two young girls on the works near Mossburn, one lying on the grass at one end and the other standing near the fence at the other, what was the point. Or the bloke standing by them at one end at Temuka yesterday waving his stupid robotic arm at everyone.
And of course the orange cones along the middle of the complete passing lane at Ealing and traffic at 50km, well over a kilometre with not one piece of machinery or worker in sight.

DylanHunt
Reply to  Hooker Phil
10 months ago

Typical 2025 traffic management. 4km of road cones and speed restrictions to do 10m of tar seal. The wait time at either end is proportional to the restricted space. 4km instead of 400m means that between turns the traffic banks up tens times the distance.

Dougal10
Reply to  Hooker Phil
10 months ago

That Ealing one is just fecking horrible , do they still have both side roads blocked off as well.

Hooker Phil
Reply to  Dougal10
10 months ago

Just the west yesterday

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Hooker Phil
10 months ago

You have to wonder if the traffic management are taking the piss, at times!

Viking
Reply to  Hooker Phil
10 months ago

Peace be with you.

If that’s all you have to moan about, then you are lucky.

Lots around with bigger problems than that.

Hooker Phil
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Fuck off Viking – it’s my observations to a blog that people might find more of interest than endless F/B posting with no explanations as to why it could be interesting. At times you make euthanasia for old cunts a worthwhile proposition.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Hooker Phil
10 months ago

lol, wasnt that long ago our resident grouch was complaining about roadworks, cones and traffic management in his own locality.
he really is a ballbag, and i totally agree with a mandatory euthanasia 🙂

Viking
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

Its in the water you drink. No wonder Ngai Tahu want to get rid of you arseholes.

Viking
Reply to  Hooker Phil
10 months ago

At times, you make euthanasia for old cunts a worthwhile proposition.

Be careful what you wish for. Your turn is right in front of you.
You are probably older than I am.

Viking
Reply to  Hooker Phil
10 months ago

Oh dear, we are precious today.
Please join the queue at the rest home.
If you want spoon feeding, that’s the place.

I’ll put it down to the wind.
Animals get snotty on windy days. Ask SB.
The reason is that they can’t hear nor smell what’s going on, which imperils their safety.

These first-world problems eh?

Hooker Phil
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Fuck you really are a cunt viking with your continual shit posts. Not one positive vibe emulating from you.

Viking
Reply to  Hooker Phil
10 months ago

Really, you do have a problem, don’t you?

Private Godfrey
Reply to  Hooker Phil
10 months ago

That’s going to get you told off

Viking
Reply to  Private Godfrey
10 months ago

He speaks for himself, so we can see his attitude towards others.

Tarquin
10 months ago

A car and an electric bus had a prang in Auckland last night. A few people taken to hospital and it took all night to extinguish the burning bus. Fire investigators say the fire was caused by a hot exhaust coming into contact with dry grass and everyone should move along there’s nothing to see here.

DylanHunt
Reply to  Tarquin
10 months ago

I didn’t think EV’s had exhausts.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  DylanHunt
10 months ago

You are a dangerous, far right conspiracy theorist with sort of talk
the other Hunt

Social credit point deduction coming up for youse !

nasska
Reply to  DylanHunt
10 months ago

In the strange & wonderous world of our girlchild MSM journalists all things are possible. Lewis Carol signposted the way.

Saggy
Reply to  Tarquin
10 months ago

Heard on the tranny about an hour ago, that Tamaki Drive remains closed both ways between Mechanics Bay and Ngapipi Rd because it’s an electric bus, and is unsafe. Well how many millions in lost productivity is that one electric bus costing this morning. What a virtue-signaling shit show.

Last edited 10 months ago by Saggy
Saggy
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

You got me, Ed. Now everybody knows. Bad day at the office.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Saggy
10 months ago

From
Robert
to
Roberta

just add a dress and fake pearls
and size 11 pumps .

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  howitis
10 months ago

A battery to power a bus must be fairly large.
What half a dozen times an electric car.
Just imagine the grass fires they could start!

The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  Tarquin
10 months ago

T, Auckland Transport and the Police have now clarified the cause of this slight incident where minor burns were inflicted on passengers through no fault of the vehicle. Initially they thought is was a hot exhaust coming into contact with dry long grass as you correctly pointed out, but on closer investigation, the authorities realised this minor fire took place on Tamaki Drive and as such, it was very warm water caused by Global Warming from the Hauraki Gulf splashing up over the bund onto the affected vehicles and roadway.

As such AT after serious consultation with experts in the matter, will have to put up the cost of travel up to mitigate the recurrence of a similar event.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
10 months ago

There is one dead.
possibly car driver.
No extra info .
but if it was a burning battery that killed someone
then no consequences !!!
BAU

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  howitis
10 months ago

Apparently the bus driver died.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  waikatogirl
10 months ago

He was on fire and no one had the means to put him out other than trying to smother it!

The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  howitis
10 months ago

Yep, the bollocks has started. The Bus was owned by Kinetic/GoBus, whatever they like to call themselves on the day. The CEO this morning claimed the Bus battery was not involved, of course it wasn’t, if it was the Contract with AT would not look good now, would it. Excuse my cynicism.

Pity about the Kinetic Bus Driver who passed away, just doing his poorly paid job, no doubt a very good, decent person.

Tarquin
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
10 months ago

That’s twice in a row we’ve been blatantly lied to about EV’s. How can a bus burn all night but the battery is fine? Even Temu couldn’t fill a bus with enough plastic shit to keep it burning for that long. Something is horribly wrong with this whole picture.

nasska
Reply to  Tarquin
10 months ago

The battery isn’t fine & I’ll take the word of a senior firefighter before that of a lying scum Council spokesperson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ximCwNZPq7o

“It’s (the bus) in what we call thermal runaway which means that it’s basically the batteries have caught fire & it requires a lot of water to maintain their extinguishment”.

Anyone else fed up to the back teeth with being lied to by authorities pushing barrows?

Saggy
Reply to  Tarquin
10 months ago

Not to mention the 10 fire appliances trying to put it out. No doubt the road is going to require a bit of remedial work.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Tarquin
10 months ago

Who was carting the “grass” the car or a down and out on the bus?

DylanHunt
Reply to  Tarquin
10 months ago

If that was petrol or diesel it would have been out in a few tens of minutes with foam.

Dougal10
Reply to  Tarquin
10 months ago

They probably need to investigate that hot exhaust fire again , there are only 2 way it could happen 1 is a boy racer car straight piped with sparks coming out which would be fecking near impossible while parking
2 a diesel ute doing an emissions exhaust burn while backing into the park

Tarquin
Reply to  Dougal10
10 months ago

There was a picture in yesterday’s Horrid showing the burnt out cars with beautiful green grass in the background. As an aside, there is a block of land at the intersection of Port Marsden Highway and Marsden Point road about 2 or 3 acres where they stated doing earth works but gave up after covid. The whole block is overgrown with kaikuyu grass and gorse, a week or two ago they sprayed it with some really mean weed killer. Everything has died and turned brown. Can’t be long before the local trash throw some fire works in – it’ll be one hell of a fire and with a bit of luck and a reasonable south westerly it might even take out the super expensive Indian ( believe it or not ) gas station across the road.

Viking
10 months ago

morning.
I heard the boss was in the hospital the other day and was heard chatting with the nurse.

tits-only
Viking
10 months ago

Looks like a breezy day down south ways.
Wind map is quite impressive.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Ideal weather for strikers to stand around on street corners, waving banners, spitting in loudspeakers! Saw somewhere that they were going to move their protest inside!
Pussies!!!

The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  Sooty
10 months ago

They are not committed to da cause, Bruvva.

DylanHunt
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

“God”, or Mikey, or the ghost of whoever passed this year, is sending a message to the strikers.

Dougal10
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

If you go to “windy ” it just standard map for last month , remember met service cry wolf regularly. We getting norwest rain today which is sucking up some of the wind energy , but it has been blowing for 4 weeks now .

Tarquin
Reply to  Dougal10
10 months ago

I have this vision of a load of scrawny vegan teachers getting blown down Wellywood streets. Very satisfying. While I’m at it, does Metservice employ anyone who doesn’t sound like they flew in from Rwanda ten minutes ago?

Mike Hunty
Reply to  Tarquin
10 months ago

My teacher accused me of plagiarism.
Her words, not mine.
Yeah yeah…I’ll see myself out.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Mike Hunty
10 months ago

My sister did plagiarism and won a 14 day boat cruise.

DylanHunt
10 months ago

Oh, I am so relieved he was starring inside not staring inside. Were they shooting a movie in an old people’s home?

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  DylanHunt
10 months ago

Proofreading is hard.

Viking
10 months ago

Its a Grand Day on the Kapiti Coast.
Uncle Jim will be able to look up to the hill and see his favourite white lady.

Howtis: Keep an eye on the bastard, he might get resurrected and that won’t do.

The funeral for former prime minister Jim Bolger will be held this Thursday on the Kāpiti Coast, with standard parliamentary proceedings expected to be delayed to allow MPs to attend.
Bolger, who was prime minister from 1990 to 1997, died last week after months of treatment for kidney failure, aged 90.
Speaking at Monday’s post-cabinet press conference, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said Bolger’s funeral would be held at the Our Lady of Kāpiti Parish.

MPs from across the spectrum, Luxon included, are expected to attend.
“It’s what he wanted, at his local Catholic Church,” Luxon said.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

My father is buried in the hill in Paraparaumu
Valley Road. Opposite the 9 hole golf course .

I would like to think the old bastard lefty is not buried there.
There is one in Waikanae
plonk him there .

Nunnas
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Coz luxflakes knows what people (even dead ones) want, sounds like an old tui ad: I know what the people want, yeah right.

Tarquin
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

I’m currently trying to organise a tree falling on Finlayson. Doesn’t matter too much if I miss him and take out someone else, the place will be chock full of drains on our society.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Tarquin
10 months ago

Try some larger, sharper pins and give them a good wiggle when inserting. 🪄

howitis
howitis
Reply to  waikatogirl
10 months ago

 larger, sharper pins 

yep yep the sellout creep findlaysen would know about pricks jabbing into himself.

another bloody catholic as well
at St Patrick’s College Wtn
not to be confused
 with boy rape central, St Patrick’s Cge, Silverstream.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  waikatogirl
10 months ago

^ waikatos minnie deans life hack.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

Takes a prick to know one.

nasska
10 months ago

Victoria in general & Melbourne in particular are set to be the most unliveable places to eke out an existence. Latest brainfart involves cutting the limit from 50 km/h to 30 km/h on residential roads so that a few road lice can wobble around without care nor attention.

Our homegrown safety maniacs will want to follow suit.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15210937/Victoria-speed-limit-cyclists-RMIT.html

howitis
howitis
Reply to  nasska
10 months ago

Melbourne is fukkadoodle do
goneburger

We had our bloody jacinda
They have their bloody jacinta
premier jacinta allen

another catholic that wants to lord it over others .

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  howitis
10 months ago

Only place worse than Melbourne is Canberra.
Did you see the Aussies are leaping up and down about two kiwis taking a police helicopter from Melbourne to Tasmania, got caught out and promised to fly commercial home.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
10 months ago

Japanese values for Japan. The new PM has definite policies for their future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH_mkC4Kmvk
Japan Says NO THANKS

Last edited 10 months ago by waikatogirl
I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

afghanistan the folk that cant afford goats have a young boy instead, on videos and photos youll see older men with 10 or 12yr old looking boys and youd just think its their son… nope its their fuck toy.

Alice
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

Bacha Bazi it’s called.

Private Godfrey
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

Some of those countries have a different definition of “child”

nasska
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

……….
North Korea – Death by firing squad
Bangladesh – Death penalty
Britain – Child gets called a prostitute
NZ – Depends. If paedophile has a current Labour Party membership prosecution is unlikely, name suppression is guaranteed & penalties are non existent. *

*Refer Karangaheke Young Labour Camp 2018

Curious
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

Unless of course the rapist is a white native they will get jail time and likely dealt to inside.

Saggy
10 months ago

Haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha. . . .

Audrey Young in Ferald:

Brickbat . . .Goes to Labour leader Chris Hipkins. Let me count the ways: not knowing that his first new policy in two years, the NZ Future Fund, was virtually identical to an NZ First policy, not having enough detail, and not knowing his second policy in two years, GP funding, had just been announced by his health spokeswoman in NZ Doctor. Messy.”

Last edited 10 months ago by Saggy
howitis
howitis
Reply to  Saggy
10 months ago

laugh all you like

he has a higher rating as preferred PM than the bald critter luxon

of course the Choice is
poached egg
or
boiled egg

either way you get an egg
a WEF egg.

Last edited 10 months ago by howitis
Alice
10 months ago
Alice
10 months ago

Japan’s new PM has the right idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH_mkC4Kmvk

Alice
10 months ago

Katie’s criminal enterprise:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TNcq5bE9pRk

howitis
howitis
10 months ago

on Megyn Kelly

on wa wa woke nutter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtF75rZAss0

Woke Woman Gets Self-Aware After She Moves Out of America Over Trump

see first 3.5 minutes of 6

esp 2.28 to 3.32

had me on the floor laughing

howitis
howitis
10 months ago

Another late coroner report
for a 4 person death in a vehicle 29 July 2019
———-
A driver whose van crashed into a forestry truck has had his name cleared after police wrongly suggested he had consumed cannabis and was responsible for the accident that claimed four lives.
A Serious Crash Unit (SCU) report said Storm Lacy should have seen and avoided the truck and trailer unit he crashed into but didn’t because he had cannabis in his system.
————–

the cops were lying
no surprise

This makes a farce of the the Serious crash unit wankers closing the road for hours
so they can gather evidence

Nah, they fucked up, and lied
no surprise

The driver was sober and not a drug user.
this is what the cops do then never shift off their bullshit.

So the family of the 3 passenger may have though the driver was to blame
for 6 years
until his name was cleared
from an accident last decade

6 years to get your name cleared because
crooked lazy cops

so
now the coroner  has referred all four deaths back to WorkSafe for further investigation.
from 6 years ago

What a WOFT
zero productivity jobsworths squawking around in circles

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/van-driver-storm-lacy-entirely-sober-before-fatal-logging-truck-crash-in-kaingaroa-forest/B5EROQVYKRBF5HYGNMDRNX4SEI/

howitis
howitis
10 months ago

Where Labor goes
Labour goes

coming up

——————
A long-awaited plan by the Albanese government to ‘protect Australians right to pay with cash’ is a sham according to consumer advocates who warn it could instead accelerate the country’s shift toward a cashless society.

The draft legislation, quietly released at 4pm last Friday, appears to require only large supermarkets and major petrol chains to accept cash, and even then only for purchases under $500.

Smaller businesses, government agencies, and most retailers would be completely exempt from the so-called ‘cash mandate’,
meaning they can continue refusing cash payments without penalty.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
10 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8axGboAfzk
Stephen Franks On Te Pāti Māori’s Burning Of The Bill Outside Parliament

Michael Laws talks to Free Speech Union’s Stephen Franks about Te Pāti Māori burning a copy of the Marine and Coastal Area Amendment Bill outside Parliament, free speech, and more.
 …

Last edited 10 months ago by waikatogirl
I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

well looks like there wont be a shortage of firewood next winter!!!
also looks like many down here are going to reap the rewards of bowing to green ideology and replacing their fires with heat pumps and not having gas cooking 🙂 theres power lines down everywhere around here, id be very suprised if we get power restored tonight… or tommorow. aw well, looks like i best go wheel the geny out of the shed for the likely event of still no power tonight.

Saggy
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

Got my genny wired into the switchboard and it’s battery on permanent trickle charger. Just need to hit the go button and throw the cutover switch from mains. Saves friggin round in the dark when you need it.

Last edited 10 months ago by Saggy
I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Saggy
10 months ago

my father is a sparky and going to sort the same setup… for the last 7yrs. one of those jobs that gets forgotten about easily.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

How will you charge your car SB ?
This is terrible

Write a ledder of complaint to

algore@lyingbastards.com

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  howitis
10 months ago

when the powers out like this i charge them with jerry cans of diesel and petrol

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

geny was flat fml, got the old girl going now so crisis averted i can charge my ph to access pornhub and also ysb to wind up an old grouch in tauranga 🙂
went and visited a mate on the way home from work, his kids are complete wrecks with no power so no gaming. its fucking hilarious, theyre absolutely lost and the wifi not going so no internet either. i rekon if it was just their house without they wouldve called oranga tamiriki for child abuse!

Nunnas
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

Haha the differences between us last of the non internet kids and modern playstation babysitter kids is fucking great. No internet for them and they think the world is ending, we just shrug and find other shit to do.

Decided to pull out my genny this morning, due to power cut, never used it since it was given to me and it was broken, go figure haha

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Nunnas
10 months ago

our kids only really started tinkering on devices the past year or so (10 and 12yrs old).
the lil dude is currently building a bedroom fort and my daughter is playing cards with mrs sb. id say their school mates will be rocking back and forth in the fetal position tho, those lil fuckers are highly addicted to devices.

my workmate is distraught aswell, no power at the bottlestore for eftpos! stupid boy always carries cash for times like that.

Nunnas
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

Can only say one thing to that, good on ya.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

Did you get discount for cash!

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

Ah, must be German
and work for NZ Initiative !

nasska
Reply to  howitis
10 months ago

Bussy Doyle would be in his element. He’d qualify as a dietician! 🙂

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  nasska
10 months ago

bussy wouldnt bother with the scales tho, he would do well as a dubai porta potty!

nasska
10 months ago

“Ouch,” the nurse said, “That’s a nasty gash.”

“You’re telling me,” I agreed. “but to be fair it was better before she had the triplets.” 

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  nasska
10 months ago

3 lil babies probs leave a lot better fun hole than 1 big 8pounder + baby.
im still very thankful my 2 kids came out the sunroof, mrs sb is still like new.

nasska
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

The ball & chain is a small, slight woman but there wasn’t too much drama with our daughters. Son although was an ounce short of 9lb & bloody near wrecked her.

Too much traction is overrated in any case! 🙂

Viking
10 months ago

White elephant? Hardly, Snowy 2.0 will last 150 years and work with batteries to push out gas,

https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/135843/white-elephant-hardly-snowy-20-will-last-150-years-and-work-batteries-push-out

A consortium behind a private bid to build the Onslow pumped hydro scheme became a registered company last Friday, with former Transpower chair Keith Turner, former Environment Minister David Parker, former Meridian renewable energy generation manager Ken Smales and senior environmental and commercial lawyer John Hardie as directors.
All shares are owned by Pumped Hydro Holdings, whose shareholders include the four directors of the consortium and a company owned by businessman and former merchant banker Rodger Finlay.
Finlay is the current acting chair of the Reserve Bank and a former chair of NZ Oil and Gas – now Echelon Resources. The remaining 2 per cent is held by Oscar Francis of Dunedin.
Hardie, Parker and Turner are all directors of the holding company.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Taxpayer funded no doubt.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

Bend over everyone!

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

onslow is a fucking retarded idea, but if its done private without blowing billions of taxpayers money then go for it… but with the involvement of some of those names you just know a dumb fuck govt esp a woke luxon or labour lead one will hand them all the billions they need.

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

With that maggot Parker involved, it’s bound to be a sinkhole for tax dollars. The creep has promoted a wealth tax, along with his other treacheries.

howitis
howitis
Reply to  Editor
10 months ago

…. Chris ‘Temu’ Hipkins announces a….

yep
announcements are pretty much all we get from politicins

I don’t mind so much now

as long as they are tied up bullshitting, then the less damage they do.

Speaking of Funds
did we ever get an accounting if the Provincial Growth Fund

I some how suspect that there was as much leakage as the Funds that go to Ukraine

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  howitis
10 months ago

Nah! All going to various back pockets!

Viking
10 months ago

Waimakariri River in high flood, residents urged to prepare for evacuation
Environment Canterbury said at 5.30pm on Thursday that the flow at the Gorge had exceeded 2400 cubic metres per second and was still increasing.
The river is currently contained within terraces from the Gorge to Highfield Road and controlled by stopbanks. There are two sets of stopbanks, the primary system is designed for flows up to 4500 cubic metres per second, and the secondary system for 6500 cubic metres per second.
Authorities have identified a vulnerability in the stopbank around Kairaki, which could pose a risk if flows exceed 2500 cubic metres per second.
Residents in the Kairaki and Pines Beach areas have been urged to begin preparing for possible evacuation. Those living on the secondary floodplain, including McLeans Island, Coutts Island, and Templars Island, are also being asked to prepare in case the situation worsens.
Environment Canterbury said it was continuing to monitor the situation closely.

https://www.chrislynchmedia.com/news-items/waimakariri-river-in-high-flood-residents-urged-to-prepare-for-evacuation/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNmmipleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHie1QjG9oLxq8f4ExnPx3q1wzfWvqaYvMV71TsIsHUbdN6krDG6MiYDSIvNc_aem_Dyd9OA9sP4XE3mI_oLYj4Q

Brought to you from Facebook . Just for the local whiners from there.
I do think of your safety.

nasska
Reply to  Viking
10 months ago

A C&P like that should qualify you for a gold Royal Humane Society medal. I can see the headlines now:

“Mad curtain cleaner quotes Facebook & saves a 1000 souls!” 🙂

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  nasska
10 months ago

vikey believes everything on the internet so you need to add the /////// otherwise he will be expecting that medal and the poor rest home nurse wont know wtf hes on about.

rightoverlabour
10 months ago

Just in case any of you judgy bastards get ideas, I was at work today….

Viking
Reply to  rightoverlabour
10 months ago

You and I both.
Doesn’t appear many others of fame on this blog were.
spent all day here.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  rightoverlabour
10 months ago

sure sure, you were really draped in a palestine flag screaming about ti tiriti whilst hoping for a pay rise werent you!!!

are you teachers only day tommorow aswell? im sure all those teachers that are will be putting in a full days work training on the new curriculum and not just take a long weekend at the students expense…. yeah, we know theyre lying scum.

rightoverlabour
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
10 months ago

You jest… I suspect the PPTA is more concerned about Palestine than wages. Strange how they only pick Palestine out of the myriad of wars that are currently underway all over the world. The only good thing about this though is the huge number on centrist teachers they have pissed off…..

nasska
Reply to  rightoverlabour
10 months ago

His Holiness has been advised & is much impressed by your dedication. 🙂

rightoverlabour
Reply to  nasska
10 months ago

He called to say that your comment had been noted…

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
10 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXMa-rd2AU8
Struggling Kiwis Pay More While Luxon Pays Less — The Hypocrisy Is Staggering

Duncan Garner Podcast

Christopher Luxon’s $8,000 rates relief on his Waiheke mansion is a slap in the face to struggling Kiwis.

Last edited 10 months ago by waikatogirl
Starving Artist
Starving Artist
10 months ago

Young muslims leaving Islam – Allah be praised!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Dvzq1oztnM8:

Viking
10 months ago

Farm workers in Australia got a massive shock this week when they discovered a very unexpected intruder inside their grow operation: a **kangaroo that had broken in and helped himself to the crop**. By the time authorities arrived on the scene, the marsupial was stumbling, glassy-eyed, and clearly not his usual self, having spent hours on an impromptu feast before anyone realized what was happening.

Due to his obviously altered state, the kangaroo was safely detained and placed into custody for careful monitoring. Officials confirmed that this wasn’t a quick fix; the extremely high-spirited marsupial required nearly **four full days** to completely sober up and return to his normal self.

He then emigrated to Southland.

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