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Gayford was strip searched at LA airport years ago, I pity the poor bastard that cavity searched Feeney
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=151542
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@jegga said in NZ Politics:
Let’s say you had a budget coming out that was a bit embarrassing as you had to reneg on promises like making dr visits cheaper and to make matters worse you’d been called on your fiscal shortcomings before the election and denied they existed .
What would you do to take the focus off it?
Probably a bit early to stage induced labour , go into high dudgeon mode over your outrage that people talk about your partner on social media is a good option though .
From what I can see via google searches the "rumors" are absolutely outrageous, but still probably not as bad as the stuff that was floating around about John Key. That was next level.
I honestly hadn't heard of any rumors up until they did this big announcement - I agree I think they're trying to play the victim to take some heat off the absolute clustrerfuck they've been up to this point.
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Legend has it that LBJ, in one of his early congressional campaigns, told one of his aides to spread the story that Johnson’s opponent fucked pigs. The aide responded “Christ, Lyndon, we can’t call the guy a pigfucker. It isn’t true.” To which LBJ supposedly replied “Of course it ain’t true, but I want to make the son-of-a-bitch deny it.”
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@taniwharugby looks remarkably like our cat ... that we put down last year
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@booboo said in NZ Politics:
@taniwharugby looks remarkably like our cat ... that we put down last year
Sorry to hear that. We had to do the same for our 18 year old ginger cat last year. He was also remarkably similar in appearance. He would have eaten TR's children rather than biscuits though so it's not Buster reincarnated.
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@snowy said in NZ Politics:
@booboo said in NZ Politics:
@taniwharugby looks remarkably like our cat ... that we put down last year
Sorry to hear that. We had to do the same for our 18 year old ginger cat last year. He was also remarkably similar in appearance. He would have eaten TR's children rather than biscuits though so it's not Buster reincarnated.
Yeah Bumble was 18 too. But unlike Buster definitely more inclined to eat bikkies rather than the kids. He'd purr them to death. Ginger moggies are cool.
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@no-quarter said in NZ Politics:
@jegga said in NZ Politics:
Let’s say you had a budget coming out that was a bit embarrassing as you had to reneg on promises like making dr visits cheaper and to make matters worse you’d been called on your fiscal shortcomings before the election and denied they existed .
What would you do to take the focus off it?
Probably a bit early to stage induced labour , go into high dudgeon mode over your outrage that people talk about your partner on social media is a good option though .
From what I can see via google searches the "rumors" are absolutely outrageous, but still probably not as bad as the stuff that was floating around about John Key. That was next level.
I honestly hadn't heard of any rumors up until they did this big announcement - I agree I think they're trying to play the victim to take some heat off the absolute clustrerfuck they've been up to this point.
What was the John Key rumours?
Let's face it he's obviously a member of the Illuminati...
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@taniwharugby Hekia Parata?
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@toddy said in NZ Politics:
@taniwharugby Hekia Parata?
Imagine how smug a child born of those two would be - Jegga would long for the days of Max Key.
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@kirwan nah she's too busy at the moment...
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I wonder if Hillary told Jacinda about her links with Sir Edmund?
As told by Mark Steyn:
...in the mid-Nineties when she visited New Zealand and met Sir Edmund Hillary, the conqueror of Everest, and for some reason decided to tell him he was the guy her parents had named her after. Hmm. Edmund Hillary reached the top of Everest in 1953. Hillary Rodham was born in 1947, when Sir Edmund was an obscure New Zealand beekeeper and a somewhat unlikely inspiration for two young parents in the Chicago suburbs. ------- Eventually, when it was noticed that Hillary was born six years before the ascent of Everest, Clinton aides tried assuring skeptics that her parents had seen a press interview with Sir Edmund in his beekeeping days, Mr. and Mrs. Rodham apparently being the only Illinois subscribers to The New Zealand Apiarist.
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Saw this report on Newshub....
So I sourced the original....
Look at that fucking chart!
Has no-one from Newshub or Yale (or the NZ government for that matter) ever been overseas and wandered round London, or a US city - let alone Poland or Mexico.
I'd guess that, actually, five of the top six countries in that chart would probably have amongst the lowest levels of genuine homelessness. Sweden FFS!!!
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@Chris-B hmm that newshub article seems to have ommitted this statement from their source:
"Absence of a definition of homelessness, agreed to by most nations, hampers meaningful comparisons".
Gee, I wonder why. The author wouldn't have an agenda would they? I mean, including NZs very wide definition of homelessness at the very least would help provide a bit of context.
The state of mainstream media today...
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@no-quarter Not just mainstream media - the author of the original is apparently a former director of the UN Population Division.
You'd imagine he's traveled the world a bit and has some clue about poverty and relative measures.
I had a boss who used to talk about passing "The Red Face Test". Is what we're saying sensible enough that it can be defended?
Homelessness in the OECD is highest in NZ, Australia, Canada, Germany and Sweden? Which OECD countries are wealthy, have relatively strong social welfare systems, when you wander around them you see large numbers of people sleeping in cardboard boxes, are too fucking cold to live outside....
My headline would be "Global Homelessness statistics: Worthless".
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