YES!!!!! @NTA World famous in New Zealand!!!!! Excellent. Having that article published here in NZ is as good as having a passport. Welcome ashore...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/latest/119143490/first-person-in-the-world-to-have-a-tesla-powerwall-battery-pays-less-than-50-cents-a-day-for-power

The Fern has a medalist in the World Masters Games!!!

Willie The Waiter just won Bronze Medal in the individual pursuit!!!

Congrats bro!!!!

@mariner4life said in RWC: All Blacks v Canada (Pool :

perhaps, if you are in danger of going fucking blind from playing rugby, you should give it away?

or just wear some goggles.

Oops! It's a loop

Just watching Star Wars again

19 fucking 77

George Lucas. That's just fucked how you nailed that bitch.

There are fuck all movies that don't date but this fucker doesn't.

Boozed by the way

Remember all those years ago when we joked around about Foster becoming coach.

Oh how we laughed....

If we win this, all off-season I will be saying "we could have won the damn thing if Jacobsen wasn't injured..."

Some one must have hacked his account as BSG would always scoff and laugh at those who did grand exits. Must be someone else.

Our illustrious founder of TheSilverFern.com got to witness his beloved Whangamata Rugby team win the Thames Valley premier comp for the first time in an age!

Dave Dillon got in on the coaching panel as he is back from Japan and while he isn't taking the credit it appears his influence certainly helped get them over the line.

@BartMan you must be chuffed!!!

@KiwiMurph said in RWC: England v New Zealand (SF1):

These huas read the fern!

three times in the past week, about a couple of hours after a conversation on these threads, suddenly an article would appear.

@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

@Hooroo said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:

Apparently two confirmed cases In Tok and 5 probable! (or maybe it's one confirmed and 5 probable)

I'm happy to be working in Tok today...….

By myself!

without booze!

but a compulsion to talk to myself

Anyone on the fern live in Melbourne? Particularly, Moonee Valley area?

@Snowy I would argue that the best thing for Kawerau and Tokoroa was Hart selling the Pulp, Paper and packaging business to OJI.

Where he stripped all the cash and wealth out, OJI appear long term as an investment strategy

@Snowy said in NZ Politics:

@Hooroo said in NZ Politics:

The only one looking ropey is Norske Skog as they only make newsprint (at this stage) Covid has decimated that already declining business.

Isn't that Kawerau?

Tokoroa was massive job cuts that I remember:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/tokoroa-to-lose-200-jobs-as-kinleith-mill-cuts-costs/XDMNNNFBNGMEZJTPHWMLCFSEDU/

So it was just the framing side of it that closed then?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/tokoroa-sawmill-to-close/U5JZJM6WKZMASSQTQFE4E6U5OA/

Yes, Norske is Kawerau and isn't large. There is also our Pulp mill which is of a reasonable size.

That mill workforce depletion was just the outsourcing of Maintenance of which most of them got a job. We haven't downsized in the past decade in terms of production and if anything the investment is growing

@Snowy said in NZ Politics:

@Hooroo said in NZ Politics:

Fair enough. I can't back up my claim in any case so may well be wrong.

I actually think you might be correct. Some forestry jobs are quite well paid but I think the Tokoroa (Kinleith) mill closed over a decade ago. Kawerau might be closing as well as of a couple of weeks ago. They were pulp and paper only I think.

Which brings us back to the cost of building materials as Kinleith made framing timber. As I understand it we now export logs, and import the finished framing. The processing isn't done here (not much anyway). CHH is owned by Rank Group (very unfortunate name) and in turn owned by NZ's richest man Graeme Hart. I can see how that works.

They are both going strong. (I'm look after both the mills from a finance perspective) The only one looking ropey is Norske Skog as they only make newsprint (at this stage) Covid has decimated that already declining business.

The CHH side of Kinleith is predominately a plywood mill.

@Snowy said in NZ Politics:

@Hooroo We can make it Kaitaia or Raetihi, Taumaranui. The point remains that you have to live where the cheap housing is to get a foot in the door (literally) and then it becomes harder to keep an income big enough. It would be more achievable than Auckland though.

@canefan Paying for KFC might be an issue with a negative cashflow but worth moving there for I'm sure (as well as it being a lovely tropical pacific island of course).

Fair enough. I can't back up my claim in any case so may well be wrong.

As for KFC Tokoroa, I had some yesterday to support my hangover. It is indeed good KFC. And if you are really nice and polite and friendly, they magic an extra wing or two

@Snowy said in NZ Politics:

@nzzp said in NZ Politics:

@canefan a 3 bed terrace, 125m2 in Glen Innes going for $890k.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/new-homes/new-townhouse-terraced/auckland/auckland-city/glen-innes/listing/2704820389?bof=DWQfiKHF

Honestly, it's nuts. If that doesn't feel expensive, god knows what does.

Also, peopel forget that big mortgages take a long time to pay back, even if interest rates are low. $800k mortgage at $750k/week ($3k/month) will take 22 years. And you've got interest on that of (currently) $400/week (at 2.5%). That is a lot of money for a starter home.

Doesn't really add up does it? A 30 year mortgage with %20 deposit would have repayments of $2810 at %2.5 interest (and who knows how long that will last).

Average wage before tax is apparently around $53k, so around net $43k, $3583 per mth.

So welcome to Tokoroa where you probaly can't earn $53K anyway.

I do believe Tokoroa has one of the highest average incomes in NZ, along with Kawerau due to the MIlls and associated by-lines of industry.

I will try and back that up with some tangible data

@bayimports said in Rough tips and other bets...:

@Hooroo said in Rough tips and other bets...:

@voodoo said in Rough tips and other bets...:

So good!

Hopefully have a similar or worse hangover on Sunday. Wicked to have a horse on Cox Plate day even if she isn't in the feature.

and rain for tomorrow and saturday!

YEs please! I'll be doing a nude rain dance, just to bring it along!

@nzzp said in Great tries burned into your memory:

@mariner4life said in Great tries burned into your memory:

@nzzp said in Great tries burned into your memory:

I was in the midst of my modelling career,

back the truck right the fuck up

ah, technical modelling - finite element analysis. Can't see how you would possibly be confused ... just makes introductions a bit more interesting eh

Ha ha! That's excellent!

@mariner4life said in Great tries burned into your memory:

@nzzp said in Great tries burned into your memory:

I was in the midst of my modelling career,

back the truck right the fuck up

your what?

Please please please be it that @nzzp is actually a chick and we get a decent story!!!

@JK said in Rough tips and other bets...:

@Hooroo said in Rough tips and other bets...:

@voodoo said in Rough tips and other bets...:

@Hooroo just gutting you cant be there in person!

Fully! Off to Auckland for the night instead.

Perfect timing mate because everyone here is about to leave for the long weekend

Love Auckland during the Holidays. Especially Sunday mornings where I can get on a E scooter and burn about!