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That top pic you have there on your header..that should give you chills, Viking. 😉
Why would that be?
Your decadent lifestyle will get you there first.
You’re up the front of the queue, fossil.
I can see you because I’m wayyyyyy down the bottom.
Be careful how you poke the bear. That second ticker you have might not last you forever.
Wana bet.😉
Are those cycle parking or mobility scooter parking in front?
Morning all, dark and cold up this way. Looking like an early winter is on its way. Tried turning the radio but it’s that full of weather porn I gave up after about 30 seconds.
To hell with the power bill, the heaters on in Upper Hutt – and it’s been raining and windy all night. Trying to get the dog to go outside but he has more sense than most.
Absolutely pissing down in the darkest King Country. Hasn’t stopped since March 2024.
Similar weather pattern to up here.
is it a pattern if its permanent, wouldnt that just become normal?
poor T has been complaining on here for several years now of the constant rain. im not sure how much rain falls but if i only went off his reports it would seem more rain days there than here in southland and possibly fiordland.
i rekon its punishment for your inaccurate doll deployment, you didnt drop it in a puddle a few years ago by any chance?
Check out Rubios’ speech to the woke
https://x.com/koshercockney/status/2022768334350008801?s=12
Brilliant!!
I wonder if any of our dim witted lot in Wellington would understand any of it!
Speaking of dimwitted, have any NZ ministers proposing this Indian open door trade policy bothered to speak with UK or Australia counterparts about their regrets of the same policy?
Britain have cancelled open door for Indian students arriving with 7 or 8 family members in tow requiring scarce family housing. The students invariably don’t bother attending their studies, instead head out to find employment and ‘disappearing’ into the city and happily overstay their immigration visa.
Is he part Vulcan?
if you watch or read any news this morn it appears the apocalypse has happened and full blown doom is upon us.
wonder how many morons deaded themselves by being dumbfucks? theres bound to be a few and if not theyll try hard today.
Wait for all the uninsured to complain about the taxpayer not giving them free stuff to cover their loss that they are responsible for
yup, everytime without fail. and now dont forget the bleats of getting hard to insure blah blah blah, that seems to be the new fearporn thing being pushed.
bout time large swathes of high risk properties become uninsurable, imo tho if theyre currently covered then their should be obligation for companies to continue to provide cover but upon sale/change of ownership zip zilch nada or have exclusions from those specific risks like flood, landslips and bushfire for the clowns that live amongst tinder dry bush… the rest of nz that lives in lower risk zones subsidize alot of those fuckers premiums.
Yeah the problem with all this is that the insurance companies can tank the value of your property, in many cases with no reason except they’ve drawn an arbitrary line on some map and you happen to be on the wrong side of it.
By looking at a map on their clipboard!
welcome to consequences of dumb or poorly calculated decisions.
im certain many wealthy folk purchase their beachfront properties as an investment via expecting govt/council buyouts in the near future.
my heart will bleed for those poor multi millionaires that cant insure and their values plumet/////
i dont see reason to cancel insurance entirely, just have exclusions. im sure there will be some companies that could offer standalone flood insurance… for a price, why should the rest of us subsidize it via our premiums?
if large areas are uninsurable they could band together and fund more flood protection too, targeted council levies for flood bank upgrades etc but once again the entire town/city shouldnt be funding that just the affected properties…. but reeeeeeee “i dont wanna pay for my property to be protected, i want everyone else to pay for it”
seriously i have zero sympathy for those who buy or build in moronic places, just cuz it got granted a consent dosent mean its a good idea to build it.
Poo skins no doubt
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360938713/woman-hospitalised-after-hamilton-home-invasion
Heading towards River Rd. Hope the were swimming to the otherwise to get away!
[Police] ……. urged anyone with information to come forward. ….
….. even the smallest detail could be crucial to the investigation.
“If you know something about this abhorrent crime, please come forward as soon as possible.” ……
Really, not even some essential smallest detail from the police.
Ok there were 2 of them.
Possible Age? Skin colour? Weight? Fat or skinny, Beard? Tattoos? Hair? Hat or Cap? Male or Female? Skirt or Trousers? Jeans?
assaulted at her Fairfield home.
With hands turned into fists? any other weapons like hammers? knives? screw drivers? crow bars?
So was she made comatose?, under going major surgery, so unable to speak or tell of what she saw?
Seems that the charges, if caught should be attempted murder.
offenders fled towards River Rd.
So were they driving?, scooter, bycycle, car or on foot, walking, jogging, running?
Are the police seriously looking, or aiding and abetting by ommission, the commission of crimes?
Siumpleton
Knowing the area, there may be more to the story than the public are being told..
Open Letter to Rupert Lowe @RupertLowe10
, Ben Habib @benhabib6
, and All Strong Voices on Social Media Who Still Love Britain
Dear Rupert and Ben, and fellow patriots who refuse to let Britain slip away,
For thirty long years, the British people have been brainwashed – relentlessly conditioned to tremble at the very thought of handgun ownership. The heartbreaking tragedy at Dunblane in 1996 was cynically weaponised to ram through the Firearms (Amendment) Acts of 1997, banning civilian handguns almost entirely. Ever since, a suffocating culture of fear has been deliberately fostered, so toxic that even our bravest politicians and most fearless media voices dare not touch this sacred cow. This is not prudence – it is outright cowardice before one of the most crucial battles for our ancient liberties!
Permitting pepper spray for street defence is a pathetic crumb, a feeble gesture that insults our intelligence. It is nowhere near enough. Real protection against the deadliest threats – above all, the state’s creeping monopoly on lethal force – demands that responsible citizens be armed with effective means of self-defence. History screams the warning: when governments disarm their people, tyranny follows as night follows day. In Nazi Germany, gun registration and bans in the 1930s rendered millions helpless as the regime slaughtered them. Under Stalin’s USSR and Mao’s China, the same pattern of disarmament paved the way for the murder of tens of millions – unarmed populations offered no resistance while monsters committed genocide on an industrial scale.
In Britain, the 1997 ban has not made us safer – it has made us sitting ducks. Studies immediately after the ban revealed a 40% surge in handgun crime. Criminals laugh at laws; they simply flooded the black market with smuggled, converted, and reactivated weapons – a market that thrives to this day. Despite the virtual eradication of legal handguns, gun crime continues to climb, with thousands of offences every year involving illegal firearms.
Now look across Europe at nations that still trust their people. Switzerland, with one of the highest rates of civilian gun ownership on the continent, enjoys an intentional homicide rate of just 0.5 per 100,000 – half the UK’s shameful 1.2. The Czech Republic allows rigorously screened citizens to carry concealed handguns, yet boasts a homicide rate of 0.6–0.8. Norway, awash with firearms, records around 0.5. These proud societies prove beyond doubt that responsible, regulated gun ownership does not breed chaos – it forges safer, freer nations.
And spare a thought for Australia, which rushed down the same disastrous road after Port Arthur in 1996, imposing draconian bans. Disarmament left citizens defenceless: in the 2024 Bondi Junction stabbing, a lone knifeman murdered six and wounded twelve before armed police finally arrived. Worse still, just days ago on 14 December 2025, a terrorist gunman massacred at least 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration near Bondi Beach – proof that banning guns among the law-abiding only empowers criminals and terrorists.
Across the Atlantic, the radical socialist wing of the US Democratic Party has been hell-bent on gutting the Second Amendment and shredding the Constitution itself. Had they prevailed, America – the last great bastion of freedom – would have collapsed into the same disarmed serfdom that invites communist tyranny. Thank God President Trump’s victory in 2024 stopped them dead in their tracks and saved the land of the free – for now.
Britain teeters on the brink. We cannot – we must not -allow the state to hold a total monopoly on violence while thugs and terrorists arm themselves with impunity. The British people must reclaim the maturity, the responsibility, the backbone that once made this nation the envy of the world. Trusting decent, vetted citizens with the means of their own defence is not reckless – it is absolutely vital!
Rupert, Ben, and every fearless voice on social media who still burns with love for this country: shatter the silence! Ignite the debate now! Confront the decades of brainwashing head-on. Demand an urgent, honest, evidence-driven national conversation to repeal the cowardly 1997 handgun ban and restore the sacred right of law-abiding Britons to defend themselves. Only by boldly shifting public perception can we rescue the liberties that made Britain truly great.
The hour is late. The time for courage is now!
Yours in defiance,
James of Yarmouth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGNqWJUkQuk&t=26s
Greens at play. Don’t watch this if you’ve already had breakfast!
Chloe derides Act and NZF for not attending. So presumably the Nat’s lowered themselves into that sewer for votes. Was Luxon in a thong? 😱
I think that was his arse at the camera, bending down to sit on protester!
I can’t work out why so many of them are wearing tea towels. Surely the true adherents of the tea towel religion who want to throw all gays off tall buildings must be the real enemy? These noise making wannabe’s are definitely suffering from some kind of mental illness and should be treated accordingly.
What I don’t get is why their sexuality has to define their lives. I really couldn’t give a toss what they get up to behind closed doors, but rub peoples’ noses in it and you’re going to fuck them right off. Which of course is what they insist on doing.
george carlin had a great piece on gender/cultural identity many years ago, even tho he was a comedian it was 100% pure fact.
ill try find it later and put up a link once im outve the bush.
At least we now know for certainty where Chippies allegiances lie…
Not all Green initiatives are bad. MP Teanau Tuiono has introduced a bill that will put the brakes on predations of Pak n’Save customers nationwide. From https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/new-zealand-bill-seeks-personhood-for-whales/
#. “A parliamentary bill introduced in Aotearoa New Zealand is seeking to fundamentally reshape how whales are protected in law, proposing that cetaceans be recognised as legal persons with inherent rights.”
With whales alongside mountains & the Wanganui River the defined base of ‘Legal Persons’ is getting to be a tad overcrowded.
A good old Wellington storm.
Storms like we grew up expecting all the time.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360938867/no-trains-planes-or-ferries-latest-transport-disruption-wellington
Let them all whinge.
Didn’t seem much worse than usual. I went to work as normal. It seems that private business owners have done the same.
Whanganui poo plant in trouble now as well as Christchurch
Wonder who is pumping the most poo out to sea know, Auckland or Wellington?
Yes it is Viking but the last 24 hrs has by far been the windiest we have experienced in 30 + years we have been here. There have been stronger winds at other times, but they may have lasted a couple of hours at the most, not the constant strong winds of the last 24-36 hours. And this is mid February !
I am just happy our roof is still on —as for the garden, that is another matter. Have been waiting for a couple weeks of fine weather to get the tomatoes ripened —waste of time hoping for that.
Was thinking that the weather was pretty bad four years ago around this time during the protest.
My yardstick is, “Have I seen a trampoline being blown down the street?” The answer is no, so it can’t be that bad. 🙂
Are there tomatoes on the vine?
Yeah, most are in a place sheltered from the direct southerly.
Even up here in the warmer Waikato the tomatoes are slow. Worst crop for years due to so much rain wind. Hubby’s runner beans stopped flowering weeks ago. Only enough for a couple of meals off them this year. Only thing taking off in the garden are the weeds.
waikatogirl
The lawns however are suffering no such restrictions, and are growing like crazy…
The beans are one thing that has gone well for me –they have been pumping it out for a couple of weeks. But the runner beans have been smashed in the wind. Hopefully with a bit of sunshine, from tomorrow, they will pick up.
I remember visiting Wellington when I was a kid. Back in those days they had ropes tied between poles going up the roads so you had something to hang on to if the breeze got up a bit. I was amazed at this but you don’t seem to see them anymore. Makes you wonder if all the old people and non left wing voters have been blown away.
Tarquin
As a four-year old I literally had my first ‘flying lesson’ while hanging onto one such rope at a pedestrian crossing on Lambton Quay.
The wind certainly got me airborne, but then very un-sportingly(IMHO) moved away to somewhere else, at which point I discovered that concrete footpaths can be rather solid if hit at speed from about about one metres’ altitude.
The resultant impact was somewhat severe (At least to me), very unexpected and resulted in superficial (But very painful – again to me) skin damage to hands and knees.
My Mother laughed when I landed, which, given the seriousness of the situation (to me) was, I thought, somewhat inappropriate…
Such was my introduction to Wellington’s ‘Breezes’..
Wonder how far up the hills the poo splatter line gets to.
Barack Obama: Aliens are real
Barack Obama has said aliens are real – but insisted that none are kept at the top-secret Area 51 military base in the United States.
In a podcast interview, the former President became the first US leader to affirm his belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life.
“They’re real, but I haven’t seen them – and they’re not being kept in [Area 51]. There’s no underground facility, unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the US.”
In a wide-ranging talk with Brian Taylor Cohen, a left-wing political commentator, Obama also described the Trump administration as a “clown show” and compared the behaviour of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to that of a dictatorship.
Area 51, the air force military base in southern Nevada created during the Cold War, has long been rumoured to house aliens and unidentified flying objects.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/barack-obama-aliens-are-real/XAGRYFBANNFUHNEJ5WT4CXSH7U/
That piece of shit just needs to look in a mirror to see an alien. As the woke say “undocumented”, but demented
Do you really think they told him?
He needs a deflection from the Epstein files
I think he was too dumb to be involved.
Obumma’s ‘fix it’ lawyer was front and centre in photos.
Why are aliens always depicted as being roughly human-size? They could be the size of microbes, or as big as Stewart Island.
He is correct they are not in Area 51. Some, like himself, were in the White House. and by all accounts many of them visited Epstein Island,
Having sex with small children and sacrificing human children to eat, is not human.
Obama also described the Trump administration as a “clown show”.
Obama is clearly concerned that as an illegal alien in the USA, he might be on one of Trumps lists. Obama is the real dictator, a smiling assassin, directing Biden by remote.
And of course there are the aliens that are trying to reduce the human population of the earth, stopping meat production, farming, wanting us to eat bugs, vaccines that kill and sterilise, corralling us into 15 minute cites like sheep in a paddock…
… The list is extensive
There’s been the lizard people conspiracy theory for years. Could it be that these so called elites and rulers are actually an alien species?
I think we should be more concerned about the repulsive creatures already here on earth who call themselves human. TPM act like a bunch of barbarians from 7000BC
Hipkins is no better!
That gargoyle sat on the bitches shoulder all through the covid flue as covid minister and came out the other side as leader of Labor, how fucked is that!
Unlikely to be the size of Stewart Island but who knows they might provide some competition for the shoppers at Masterton Pak n Save. Ask Nasska his opinion.
The freaks at Masterton’s Pak n’Save are unlikely to attract much competition from out of space. Here tectonic plates shift on DPB payout days as the solo mothers heave their vast bulk across the face of the protesting earth.
An ex high ranking Canadian military guy said something similar the other day.
Up until now I have not followed anyone on X but I am now following Rupert Lowe. I will never return to the UK now but I do want the British people to sort their country out and cease being the laughing stock they have become in recent years.
https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/2023079105692844042
I can’t quite work out why Rupert Lowe hasn’t joined with Ben Habib’s already set up Advance Party whose policies mirror Restore’s intent. Ben has said all along he’s happy for Rupert to take the leadership and basically roll in all aspects including changing the party name. The only thing, I wonder does Rupert have an ego? He has lots of young, enthusiastic cheerleaders telling Rupert he’s fantastic so hope he doesn’t develop a god complex like Nigel Farage.
I thought that I read somewhere that had in fact occurred. If they stay separate both will fail for sure.
A Herald visual journalist who is trapped in a town under a state of emergency says people were forced to sleep in their cars on the roadside.
Mike Scott said he photographed motorists trying to clear the road of downed trees near Taihape last night before he returned to Ōhingaiti, and “that was it”.
“I knew that I couldn’t go either way. So, yeah, I had to sleep in my car.”
Scott told Ryan Bridge TODAY, downed trees have blocked roads in and out of Ōhingaiti, so he is “hemmed in”.
The Rangitīkei District, where the town is, is in a state of emergency along with the Ōtorohanga, Waipā, Tararua and Manawatū Districts.
bo hoo.
No one there had a chainsaw? They do work in the rain. We had a tree block a main rd near Hunua and it was cleared within a few hours .
An unknown area, where trees are down, dark, no real lighting, to see if how a tree is hung up on another, while wind is blowing, nor sure if trees bought down power wires, and if the the power is off or on, with the self automated reconnecting switches, etc…
Plus are any fences, electric fence wires in the fucking mess.
From one who has gone & cut up some massive branches, on a road, and had some good commonsense trust worthy neighbours in attendance, a local tractor, which all coordinated & took total command of the situation.
Afterward a neighbour put on a billy of tea, and some made up pizza with left overs.
No road coney, clipboard, tick boxer people either. 😀
On a main highway the fucking public will just drive right into one, & push their luck to fuck things up.
He’s crying because he couldn’t use the employers charge card for food and accommodation!
Zuckerberg is at it again. Meta is weighing whether to add face recognition to its camera-equipped smart glasses. Moreover an internal memo from the company states we “will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
From https://reclaimthenet.org/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-surveillance
#. “The technology would scan the face of every person who enters the glasses’ field of view, building a faceprint to match against a database. Every passerby. Every stranger on the subway. Every person who happens to walk through the frame of someone else’s device. None of them consented. Most of them won’t even know they were captured.”
Skulduggery from Facebook. Unbelievable! /////
H/T RCR Bites
Break out the calamine lotion & the rubber ring cushions. The reverend father approaches!
From https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellington/police-probe-new-rowan-donoghue-abuse-allegations-at-st-patricks-silverstream/ROIKGY6ONFBZ7IFTBZMPSMHVXE/
#. “A former priest who admitted sexually abusing young people at a Christchurch boys’ school has now been accused of further offending in Wellington.’
#. “Former students at the Upper Hutt school have alleged similar offending as what took place in Christchurch, which included multiple charges of indecent assault on a boy aged 12-16, indecent assault on a boy 16 and over, and sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection.”
In the name of the Father, the Son & the Holy Ghost let me feel your junk! 🙂
https://x.com/ryangerritsen/status/2022809661863330283?s=46
Not a chance sunshine
But, but that’s not the same. Errrr. . . .
Brilliant. Starmer won’t see the irony.
🤣 😂 😂 🤣
Debbie Packer, the Irish import. Piece of shit of the highest order.
I reckon she alone is keeping that skin colouring business going.
Hey Hunty, what colour’s her bottom?
🤮 🤢 🤔 🤔 🥴
Lilly white!
You have to look the part or you will questioned of you Ethanticity
Angry faggots being angry faggots.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17vtKsFC8f/
They really got their frilly knickers tangled around their junk when we didn’t appreciate their library story telling attempts to get the crap “normalised”.
My go to for my Irish roots music is Celtic Thunder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip1cJrHHXao
Their album “Celtic Thunder Essentials” is worth downloading from any music streaming site
Saw a sign just before, we are having National Bag Pipe compition!
This beautiful woman one day walks into a doctors office and the doctor is bowled over by how stunningly awesome she is.
All his professionallism goes right out the window…
He tells her to take her pants, she does, and he starts rubbing her thighs.
“Do you know what I am doing?” asks the doctor?
“Yes, checking for abnormalities.” she replies.
He tells her to take off her shirt and bra, she takes them off.
The doctor begins rubbing her breasts and asks, “Do you know what I am doing now?”, she replies, “Yes, checking for cancer.”
Finally, he tells her to take off her panties, lays her on the table, gets on top of her and starts having s*x with her.
He says to her, “Do you know what I am doing now?”
She replies, “Yes, getting herpies – thats why I am here!”
Grok says:
My friend asked his doctor, “Is it true I have herpies?”
The doctor sighed and said, “It’s herpes… but with that spelling, yeah, you’ve definitely got the extra ‘ie’ — meaning it’s gonna be twice as awkward when you try to explain it on a first date.”
Ai has a way to go in terms of generating jokes…
Disgusting
Luxon and Wayne Brown wetting themselves that they’ve got a Aussie state of origin game coming to Auckland, the usual bullshit of how much money and economic growth it will bring, no mention how much tax and ratepayers dollars will be paid to the Australian rugby league tho.
5 million.Taxpayer subsidy.
In the press a few days ago.
We’ve long been told not to throw away electronics & old smartphones as they can be largely recycled. Ever wondered how? Ever paused to think how your moment of selflessness helps the planet?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tIwU3SqpH6U
Watch & weep.
yup, everything they do over there is toxic as fuck and zero fucks given about pollution and human health… that bar at the end however is worth a small fortune, its probs at least 6-8oz of gold!
Investment of the decade. Hope lot’s of lefties and vegans put up some funds.
$10,000 in Beyond Meat in 2021—- worth today 0.71c.