Ilovethebomb

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[–] Ilovethebomb 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Why do you think that might be the case? Do you think all Green parties are one organisation or something?

[–] Ilovethebomb 2 points 22 hours ago

I mean, no shit. They're a political party, of course they want to get back into government. This is like an athlete or racing driver saying they want to win.

 

The police said in a statement neither the victim nor police dog required attention for any injuries.

I'm glad the dog is OK, and it's so funny to me the police felt the need to clarify that.

[–] Ilovethebomb 3 points 6 days ago

I wonder how much our recent fuel crisis helped with that?

[–] Ilovethebomb 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No, the registered owner was the one who had the chip registered to them.

 

NZ police being absolutely useless as usual. "it's a civil matter", never mind that the cat is registered in their name.

[–] Ilovethebomb 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Winston sounds like such a fucking tool when he starts ranting on about woke this and that.

[–] Ilovethebomb 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess so, unless there's some serious magic thinking happening over there.

It does make getting a 20+kwh house battery an absolute no brainer though.

[–] Ilovethebomb 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've seen that comment a few times.

They're most likely to go with Labour, that's the main party who best aligns with them, but saying that means they have a lot less bargaining power.

Labour takes the Green party for granted to an extent because they're never going to go with National, TOP stating who they will work with would be a massive mistake for them to make.

[–] Ilovethebomb 1 points 2 weeks ago

Quite interesting that the US is so low down the list. Having said that, I wouldn't trust their news either.

[–] Ilovethebomb 5 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I suspect most of them are coming from Labour and Green voters.

[–] Ilovethebomb 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm tempted to sign up for one of these under a pseudonym. Do you think anyone would notice that Heywood Jablome had joined their scheme.

[–] Ilovethebomb 3 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I decided a long time ago that the hassle and privacy issues of those loyalty schemes do not make being a member worthwhile.

[–] Ilovethebomb 3 points 3 weeks ago

Pretty sure you can't get arrested for that, they'd just take the house.

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"borrowed" from the palmerston north Facebook page, multiple people thought this would work. It didn't.

They tried it earlier with a van, and managed to get the back wheels off the ground.

 

They're considering moving towards rates based on land value, rather than land+improvements. Land value tax seems to be all the rage lately.

 

There's a question I have about incidents like this.

If the road is closed, and will be for a matter of hours as the crash analysis process is worked through, why isn't there a procedure to get stuck vehicles off the motorway, by allowing them to turn around and drive up the on ramp?

Five hours is an appalling amount of time to be stuck.

 

Who could possibly have seen this coming?

 

I found this pretty funny, Labour accused of being a no-show at Fieldays, it turns out they didn't book a tent, and were indeed on site talking to people all day.

A bit embarrassing for the Tories.

 

What do people think about this one? It doesn't seem like a particularly great start to his political career.

 

https://www.tematapihi.govt.nz/ is the website.

I've had a quick poke around, lots of animations that are slow to load, very flashy website, doesn't seem very well adapted to mobile. Pretty annoying to navigate, to be honest.

 

There's something heartwarming about this story. The boss, in this case a senior lawyer, pulls an "if you don't like it, quit", and all her staff proceed to do so.

Love it.

 

Even $12.50 for fifteen minutes is pretty brutal, which is what he ended up paying.

 

I'd love to know what others think about this. My view is it's already very easy to cast a vote, as easy as we can realistically make it, and we should be asking ourselves why fifteen percent of the population don't bother to vote, rather than forcing them to do so.

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