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Holy shit. This is incredible. Not only did they do a story on it (just imagine what would have had to have happened in order to get to this point) , they also got comment from a companies operations director to comment as well as an expert comment from some bloke at Massey Uni.
Weep for the state of media in NZ.
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@rembrandt said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Holy shit. This is incredible. Not only did they do a story on it (just imagine what would have had to have happened in order to get to this point) , they also got comment from a companies operations director to comment as well as an expert comment from some bloke at Massey Uni.
Weep for the state of media in NZ.
anyone who is always up before the sun without a damn good reason is a creepy fuck.
I would heartily support a public flogging, let alone a banning from a Facebook page.
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While good, god-fearing people are safe and sound in their beds, this creep is up. Possibly taking photos of your undies on washing lines. And what do the authorities do about it? Nothing. Thankfully, one group of Facebook admins had the courage to stand up for what's right. This is their story
"A Sunrise Too Far"
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@rocky-rockbottom and @mariner4life
When Oscar Wilde said that "sarcasm is the lowest form of wit", he finished it with "but the highest form of intelligence".You should both be commended.
I must admit that I don't live that far from Torbay, and I am a little frightened by this sort of horror less than a couple of hours away. I mean what next - sunset photos? Fuck.
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I agree with him; his photos aren't professional.
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12152882
A few minutes of flight time and it takes them days to find the black boxes. What are the chances in a Malaysian Airlines scenario other than zero? Amazing that they haven't sorted out some other recording system that isn't housed in the plane. Or they have but they're too tight to implement it
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Funny article. I drive 100% of the time unless drunk when my wife and I are in the car, and I'll be fucked if that's changing any time soon especially for the long hauls. She also prefers to be in the passenger seat as that allows her precious social media time on her phone.
I think there are more men that enjoy driving than there are women, doubt that's going to change
The whole thing will be a moot point soon when Elon rolls out his driverless cars to the public anyway,
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@no-quarter Without reading the article (Ferning at its best) I'd say there's no hard and fast rule. I know couples where the woman exclusively drives and I know couples where it's the opposite, and when couples have two cars usually it just depends on whose car they're driving.
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@no-quarter said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Funny article. I drive 100% of the time unless drunk when my wife and I are in the car, and I'll be fucked if that's changing any time soon especially for the long hauls. She also prefers to be in the passenger seat as that allows her precious social media time on her phone.
I think there are more men that enjoy driving than there are women, doubt that's going to change
The whole thing will be a moot point soon when Elon rolls out his driverless cars to the public anyway,
I pretty much have a driverless car already. It's the wife's car. I really wish she'd just pay a bit more attention.
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@catogrande said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@no-quarter said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Funny article. I drive 100% of the time unless drunk when my wife and I are in the car, and I'll be fucked if that's changing any time soon especially for the long hauls. She also prefers to be in the passenger seat as that allows her precious social media time on her phone.
I think there are more men that enjoy driving than there are women, doubt that's going to change
The whole thing will be a moot point soon when Elon rolls out his driverless cars to the public anyway,
I pretty much have a driverless car already. It's the wife's car. I really wish she'd just pay a bit more attention.
My mother hit a tree with her car leaving the panelbeaters when I was a kid. To this day describes herself as a “very good driver”. Everyone I’ve ever heard call themselves a very good driver is usually not.
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@no-quarter said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Funny article. I drive 100% of the time unless drunk when my wife and I are in the car, and I'll be fucked if that's changing any time soon especially for the long hauls. She also prefers to be in the passenger seat as that allows her precious social media time on her phone.
I think there are more men that enjoy driving than there are women, doubt that's going to change
The whole thing will be a moot point soon when Elon rolls out his driverless cars to the public anyway,
Lesbians drive Subaru’s
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@catogrande said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@no-quarter said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Funny article. I drive 100% of the time unless drunk when my wife and I are in the car, and I'll be fucked if that's changing any time soon especially for the long hauls. She also prefers to be in the passenger seat as that allows her precious social media time on her phone.
I think there are more men that enjoy driving than there are women, doubt that's going to change
The whole thing will be a moot point soon when Elon rolls out his driverless cars to the public anyway,
I pretty much have a driverless car already. It's the wife's car. I really wish she'd just pay a bit more attention.
My mother hit a tree with her car leaving the panelbeaters when I was a kid. To this day describes herself as a “very good driver”. Everyone I’ve ever heard call themselves a very good driver is usually not.
Fucken word to this post. I'll freely admit to being careless and inconsiderate at times. I'm human. I make mistakes. I have a fuck ton of evidence pointing out mates who claim they are brilliant making bad mistakes, best one was one who went through a roundabout with a trailer and didn't give way to his right, but, you know the honking and abuse he received was "the other guys fault"
Asians and Indians are fucken bad drivers though. Especially the women.
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@no-quarter I think historically, and statistically, males did drive more often when going on family trips, which has also contributed to the males more likely to have accidents than females (add in the show off factor too and well, perfect storm)
I remember as a young boy in the late 70s and early 80s, we went on family outings, dad drove, even after he'd had a few beers and mum hadnt had anything to drink.
my bro and I were given a bottle of coke and a bag of burger rings or chips and sent out to the old Escort Van to go and read or fight until we got tired and needed to sleep
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I always drive irrespective of whose car it is because I am a terrible passenger
Not that I am a fantastic driver but having been involved in seven write offs by 25 and having been either the passenger and / or stationary for every one makes you reluctant to give over control.
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@mn5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@catogrande said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@no-quarter said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Funny article. I drive 100% of the time unless drunk when my wife and I are in the car, and I'll be fucked if that's changing any time soon especially for the long hauls. She also prefers to be in the passenger seat as that allows her precious social media time on her phone.
I think there are more men that enjoy driving than there are women, doubt that's going to change
The whole thing will be a moot point soon when Elon rolls out his driverless cars to the public anyway,
I pretty much have a driverless car already. It's the wife's car. I really wish she'd just pay a bit more attention.
My mother hit a tree with her car leaving the panelbeaters when I was a kid. To this day describes herself as a “very good driver”. Everyone I’ve ever heard call themselves a very good driver is usually not.
Fucken word to this post. I'll freely admit to being careless and inconsiderate at times. I'm human. I make mistakes. I have a fuck ton of evidence pointing out mates who claim they are brilliant making bad mistakes, best one was one who went through a roundabout with a trailer and didn't give way to his right, but, you know the honking and abuse he received was "the other guys fault"
Asians and Indians are fucken bad drivers though. Especially the women.
As someone from the Asian demographic I would tend to agree that they are fucking hopeless drivers (I have influenced CF Jnr because he knows the bad drivers are either Indian, Asian, women or old people LOL). There are lots of shit caucasian drivers too, in general I find the asian/indians to be incompetent whereas many of the euros are just plain rude and inconsiderate
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I remember as a young boy in the late 70s and early 80s, we went on family outings, dad drove, even after he'd had a few beers and mum hadnt had anything to drink.
my bro and I were given a bottle of coke and a bag of burger rings or chips and sent out to the old Escort Van to go and read or fight until we got tired and needed to sleep
That sounds very similar to my childhood except it was a Holden stationwagon and with 2 sisters.
@canefan You hear horrible stories (after a fatal accident) about Chinese arriving in NZ and never have driven on an open road, i.e., they learnt to "drive" on a simulator.
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I'm a firm believer that driving is partially observed behaviour. If you've been brought up by a couple of generations of drivers, you observe and adopt. However, being the first generation to progress from riding a cow or herding goats makes it entirely a new phenomenon.
That being said, despite watching Chinese create five lanes of traffic in Shanghai where three lanes were clearly painted on the road, I saw a surprisingly small amount of accidents. Perhaps they export their shit drivers?
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@no-quarter I think historically, and statistically, males did drive more often when going on family trips, which has also contributed to the males more likely to have accidents than females (add in the show off factor too and well, perfect storm)
I remember as a young boy in the late 70s and early 80s, we went on family outings, dad drove, even after he'd had a few beers and mum hadnt had anything to drink.
my bro and I were given a bottle of coke and a bag of burger rings or chips and sent out to the old Escort Van to go and read or fight until we got tired and needed to sleep
Oh the memories, we only got raspberry and lemonade and a packet of chippies . My mother denies this ever happened now .
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@antipodean said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I'm a firm believer that driving is partially observed behaviour. If you've been brought up by a couple of generations of drivers, you observe and adopt. However, being the first generation to progress from riding a cow or herding goats makes it entirely a new phenomenon.
That being said, despite watching Chinese create five lanes of traffic in Shanghai where three lanes were clearly painted on the road, I saw a surprisingly small amount of accidents. Perhaps they export their shit drivers?
that was my impression too. The roads there look like carnage, but there are so few accidents. They have the ability to take small gaps, use their horn to make sure everyone knows they are there, and don't get pissed because someone has the audacity to merge in front of them.
Maybe the fact that most Australasian drivers are aggressive dicks is what puts them off?
