Now, I am aware of what I said regarding The Apology but today my feeling on the "Grieving NZers" and "Your pain is our shame" is one of, well, embarrassment.

The level of outrage and number of people publicly grieving for an outsider is frankly almost vomit inducing. Not because this poor girl is not worth it. But because our own people are too.The next time a native baby is killed or a native woman is raped I 100% know this public spectacle and vigil will not fucken happen.

And NZ media you need to just stop fucken now with this "shame" & "grieving" bullshit.

I went into the madness yesterday and this morning.

Yesterday was surreal. The local mall was dead. All the shops were open but no one really shopping. The supermarket on the other hand. What a shit show. We managed to get our usual shop in with a few extra provisions. One of the things that amazes me is what some people think they will need.

white and jasmine rice has sold out. But tons of basmati and brown rice still left. Rice is rice ffs.

Instant pancakes sold out. But flour still in abundance. Lots of instant products missing. But the stuff that will yield more meals still sitting there.

The worst thing I saw was and Asian man coughing without covering his mouth in the grocers. I don’t care that he was Asian. That’s not why I mentioned his ethnicity. I said it because the bogan chick that told him to “fuck off back off to China” thought it was important. He was a fucken ignorant disgusting c@nt but who coughed hard 3 times without covering his mouth. Fruit and vege all around him. But his being Asian made him more of a target for what will no doubt become known as Coracism.

Today was slightly less strained than yesterday. People were in cafes doing Sunday as they always do. So I’m hopeful we aren’t descending into a mad max scenario. Where TP is the new guzzolene.

In any case I’m optimistic that the worst we will see is a 1-2 week shut down. It’ll send some small businesses broke and that’s a bloody shame. It could be worse. Who really knows.

I have been thinking about the virus itself all wrong though. I haven’t really been worried about getting sick or my wife n kids getting sick. We are all very healthy and active people. Yesterday a conversation with my dad made me rethink this. He’s really shiting himself. He’ll probably be fine if infected. 62 but looks 50. Strong as an Ox and still very active. He’s terrified by this thing though. I hadn’t really given much concern to the elderly mortality. My concern is always my kids and wife. But speaking with dad and hearing my wife speak to her 80yo widower mum. Sitting alone in a house in Upper Hutt with no support system as we all live abroad. I’m a bit ashamed I’ve not taken this more seriously. I’ve been nonchalantly saying over water cooler talk “oh it’s only the elderly and people who are already sick”. Like their lives mean less than mine.

I’ve been bemused by the potential for a lockdown and such. But I’m a little disgusted with myself for being so flippant about a situation that has such a high mortality rate. That Italian obits tweet is just shocking. All elderly people in those photos. All that knowledge, teachings, experience is gone for many families.

If a lockdown means that I get a few more years of horrible shortbread for Xmas from my mother in law, hopefully another 20 odd years of beers with the old man and another 20 plus years of kiwi care packages from my mum. Then so be it. Lock my ass up.

Go Australia.

I feel sick.

@salacious-crumb said in 17 Test AB to Play for Tonga at World Cup:

I'm seeing Ma'a Nonu's name mentioned, and I'm a huge Nonu fan, but seeing him in a different national rep jersey to me stinks of mercenariness, and 'tho would be good for Tonga, I'm not convinced the optics are good for the game.

It would be a massive coup for Tonga considering he is Samoan....

We are about to be a single income family. The Mrs runs a gym that will close at 12 pm today. We are all healthy and that's what matters. We have a chest freezer that is full to bursting. We haven't hoarded but we have added quite a bit to what we already had.

I'm not going to lie, I'm scared shitless. Work seemed to be really positive about our ability to work remotely and now there does not seem to be much point. We have savings and I will be requesting my Kiwisaver be paid out to some extent. I'm not prepared for 6 months of no income though. If that time frame proves accurate it's going to be dicey for me.

We are positive people and I'll push trolleys in the car park at Woollies if I have to. If that's what it takes to see this shitty situation through. I just hope it gets better fast.

Best of luck to all of you.

@Virgil I hate muthafuckas like this. The police are doing their fucken job. You looked suspicious and they detained you. The day after the largest mass murder in our history you really want to take the people protecting all of us to task for doing their jobs?!

Just fuck off. Fuck. Right. Off.

Cranberries will always have a special place in my heart in that in my first year in Uni I managed to land a perfect 10 chick in my quan study group. All because I lied about loving the Zombie song and she was a massive fan. To be honest I used to get the Cranberries and Garbage confused all the time. But I mananged to get my bullshit straight enough to get the job done.

Thanks Dolores.

Sorry I’ve been coming and going on here with out reading previous comments. But I need to vent.

Today I went to the chemist to pick up my daughters prescription. It’s not a life threatening ailment but she needs it none the less.

I was absolutely disgusted by the amount of elderly people at the mall. Just treating the mall as means to get together. There was a group of women standing in the entry at the mall. You had no choice but to walk almost up against them or tell them to move. I chose the latter and it took everything I had not to scold them further. At the pharmacy 3 more women, complete strangers to each other by the sounds, had a long conversation about hair dye. All within a metre of each other.

At the Brumbies there was another group sifting through packets of hot cross buns.

I’m not buying the “these people only have so many years left. If they want to go out let them choose..” bs argument I’ve heard from some quarters.

The entire country is holding its breath to save you. Stay fucking home! There are high school seniors that will lose their ability to attend formal, play their last footy game, go to parties and turn 18 and have their first drink in a pub. But is all good Betty. You have your 15min chat about fucken cats and “oh isn’t this virus business ghastly” while selfishly ignoring that the rest of the country is slowly going bankrupt in order to save your Jurassic ass.

Yes this is a different tone to my initial comments about missing the impact on the elderly. But this has to be said. If you’re not going to help yourselves then why should the rest of us?!

Not snake related.

I have a 1-year-old collie/kelpie cross. mad as fuck. Great dog though. He doesn't bite or really excessively whine or bark. Kids love him, the Mrs cats(yes plural) fucken hate him but he loves them.

Anyway a few months ago, one night(11ish) I hear a bat/flying fox outside making a bit of a racket. There are a few fruit trees in my street so I didn't make much of it. Bats are always around. But then it got louder and then I could hear the dog growling. I got out of bed to have a look and my dog is having a fight with a huge fucking bat. There's some back and forth but the dog is getting the best of this thing and it's screaming. I intervene, on the wife's say so and a neighbour shouting at me to "sort it the fuck out". It suddenly started pissing down(I wish I was making this up). My back yard is landscaped chaos. Big fucken boulders everywhere, flax bushes, palm trees...a fucken obstacle course filled with golden orb spider webs. So Im out there trying not to walk into, face first, palm-sized spiders fending off a crazed dog, protecting a winged harbinger of germs and disease. Trying not to slip over in the fast forming puddles in my yard because there is no such thing as drainage in this country.

I had never minded Fruit Bats until that night. Close up they were kind of cute. However, seeing one walk across the ground in the ungodly manner that it did changed my perspective. If you are ever curious look up "bat walking" on youtube. Nightmarish stuff. There was a moment where I really had to almost belt the dog in order to get him off the bat and I never hit my dog. The weirdest thing happened though. The bat just kind of accepted that I was helping it and never bit me or swiped at me. I was able to pick it up and carefully place(throw) it over the fence to safety. Then I went inside and chopped both my hands off.

Shame Reed couldnt make the trip

@JC

I have loved Bill Withers songs my entire life. Mum played them to me and my brother as babies.

A lovely Day it is not.

RIP Bill

@barbarian I can see a lot of parallels between the situation he finds himself in and the one George W did with 911. Morrison is an unpopular man trying to lead his country through an incredibly difficult time. The sweeping reforms in homeland security and America's everyday life were far-reaching and we are now living with many of those changes in our own countries. This will be the same. Sweeping changes to our daily and in many cases permanent.

I'm not sure exactly what's happening with my work life. I'm still going to work, actual work. I'm still driving down the M1 and seeing other cars I recognise going to the same industrial area I work in. So one would assume those people are also business as usual. Yet according to the QLD city council website, level 3 conditions have now been superseded by level 4 conditions. But we are not actually in 4 four. If we were in level 4 I would be restricted to working from home. Traveling to a job I'm from restricted from attending would attract fines to both myself and my employer.

Yet I have been assured by multiple sources that we are still in level 3.

SO WHY THE FUCK ARE THE CURRENT WORKING RESTRICTIONS BEING SUPERSEDED AND UPPED TO LEVEL 4????

The miscommunication between local government and central government is making life a lot harder than it needs to be,

Edit: Mods this is in the wrong forum sorry.

@MiketheSnow this made my day mate.

@booboo I'm on the GC. It looks much worse in Sydney, regarding social distancing and how it's being flouted. By all ages, I might add.

There is no doubt that deaths have and will continue to occur in the younger age brackets but the majority is horrendously one-sided.

Sorry I’ve been coming and going on here with out reading previous comments. But I need to vent.

Today I went to the chemist to pick up my daughters prescription. It’s not a life threatening ailment but she needs it none the less.

I was absolutely disgusted by the amount of elderly people at the mall. Just treating the mall as means to get together. There was a group of women standing in the entry at the mall. You had no choice but to walk almost up against them or tell them to move. I chose the latter and it took everything I had not to scold them further. At the pharmacy 3 more women, complete strangers to each other by the sounds, had a long conversation about hair dye. All within a metre of each other.

At the Brumbies there was another group sifting through packets of hot cross buns.

I’m not buying the “these people only have so many years left. If they want to go out let them choose..” bs argument I’ve heard from some quarters.

The entire country is holding its breath to save you. Stay fucking home! There are high school seniors that will lose their ability to attend formal, play their last footy game, go to parties and turn 18 and have their first drink in a pub. But is all good Betty. You have your 15min chat about fucken cats and “oh isn’t this virus business ghastly” while selfishly ignoring that the rest of the country is slowly going bankrupt in order to save your Jurassic ass.

Yes this is a different tone to my initial comments about missing the impact on the elderly. But this has to be said. If you’re not going to help yourselves then why should the rest of us?!

For those of you who don't know my wife is a PT. She's basically lost her job as she knows it but she and the gym owners are industrious types. So they've been looking at the whole online thing. Not before having their hopes raised and demolished first though.

Scomo said on Tuesday that 10 ppl could train together for PT and boot camp sessions, in parks. The gym has a loyal following and there were a lot of members keen to keep the gym open to a point. The very next day the local government closed all the parks...

But the online thing seems to be working. She does work out every day and then posts it to anyone that has purchased a newly created app for her gym. It seems to have worked after the first day of buy-ins. Is anyone here using a similar app or doing the online thing? I'm guessing it's more of a thing for women.

@mariner4life We have effectively stopped physically accepting clients into our building. From Monday I think I will be working from home. But I think I could effectively work at the office without catching anything. Noone is allowed in my office. We all talk via phone now. The lunchroom is 2 at a time. We have almost contactless entry the building as well. I basically get in my car, straight into my office and the reverse on the way home.

To be honest I fucking love the ability to close off my office and not be bothered by anyone. It's better than having a home office. No noise, no kids playing xbox. No being tempted to rub one out in the middle of the day....Pornhub Premium is free afterall.

@Bones I shared a hospital room with Kenny the busker. I'd just had my appendix out and he was regaling the nurses with tales of his Native American heritage.

I wanted him to shut the fuck up so I could sleep. He went on for hours!

@Rapido We'll be ok mate. There are worse off people and I think I have made it sound worse than it is. Or I hope I have.