@Bones said in BIL Lions - Warburton: not the Test captain?:
BOD fans must still be really bitter the Lions won, having dropped a has been and replaced him with a can do...
Wouldn't be a proper lions series without BOD being dropped by a kiwi and being bitter about it .
@NTA said in Beaver book:
This thread is far less pornographic than the title suggests.
Were you looking for a book about a fluffybunny?
@nepia said in Bledisloe I:
I'm not sure why it's a big deal, just don't watch it if you're not interested (like haka and anthems). It's a few minutes out of a nearly 3 hour game and pre match.
You appear to be new to the internet.
Laurel Hubbard pulls out of the women’s weightlifting due to injury, medical staff suspect she twisted a testicle.
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@Rugger-Quizzes said in All Blacks v BI Lions Test #2:
ABs staying at the intercontinental in Wgtn near my work and saw a few of them about. Nice to see most of the tight 5 head off to Fritz's Weiners for some food! Saw Crotty as well, didn't seem to be limping about so maybe hammy not as bad as thought!
Odd, I haven't received my breakfast invite yet.
Apparently BOD was a pundit on the Irish coverage and didn't take the result well. If anyone has the footage and can post it I will be eternally grateful
@ACT-Crusader said in All Black Squad for Rugby Championship:
I swear all you have to do is wear a red n black jersey and you are a certainty....
@rancid-schnitzel said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:
@mn5 said in Ireland Vs All Blacks:
Joe Stanley was the big hard midfielder of that era and was under 90kg if I recall correctly.
Just makes me realise how much the AB selectors missed a trick by not picking Marty 'Chuck' Berry. He woulda absolutely dominated.
According to his stats, he was 83kg. That's probably lighter than Andrew Mehrtens.
That’s not saying much.Have you seen Mehrtens lately?
He was at the cafe when I had breakfast with Joe Moody , Jerome Kaino , Damien McKenzie and Liam Squire . Mehrts defence was always a bit suspect but he can tackle any buffet by the looks of him.
@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12142701
If you assume that the police and lawyers' case got through to the truth, then it's typical BS from the bully's mum. Great camera work to film it all yourself while getting the bash
Filmed in portrait mode too . Clearly the bully is a fluffybunny of monumental porpotions .
To be fair these clowns are beyond parody now , the photo of dear leader in this article barbecueing with her coat on and all the dials turned off says more about them than that song
@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
@jegga Interesting Question. Here are their 2017 Election promises
Health
From July 1, 2018, Labour will lower the cost of GP visits by $10; provide increasing government funding for all practices that lower their fees by $10; lowering the average non-VLCA fee from $42 to $32 and the maximum fee from $69 to $59; increasing funding for GP training places, taking the intake to 300 per year Done the fees not sure about rest
Immigration
Ensure businesses are able to get genuinely skilled migrants when they need them. This will include introducing an Exceptional Skills Visa for highly skilled or talented people and introducing a KiwiBuild Visa for residential construction firms who train a local when they hire a worker from overseas. Strengthen the labour market test for work visas so they are not being used for jobs Kiwis can do, and make the skills shortage lists more regional so migrants coming in under them can only live and work in areas where there is a genuine skills shortage.Pretty hard to judge as Border came down but suspect this is a fail
Trade
Expand New Zealand's export markets through trade agreements; preserve regulatory sovereignty, including the right to ban foreign buyers of New Zealand homes and farmland; diversify the export base; support exporters to add value to exports.Too long term to judge. Pretty anodyne policy targets
Conservation
Establish a $75 million annual Tourism and Conservation Infrastructure Fund to pay for projects that will improve the experience of visitors to New Zealand and enhance the natural environment. The $75 million a year will come from a $25 per visit levy on international visitors who are not citizens or residents of New Zealand.Did they do this? Can't remember. Window dressing anyway
Transport
Create a passenger rail service linking Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga and, if justified by demand, upgrade it in stages to a rapid rail network throughout the Golden Triangle; build light rail from the CBD to Auckland Airport as part of a new light rail network to be built over the next decade with routes to the central suburbs, the airport, and West Auckland, which will later be extended to the North Shore; commit an additional $100 million from the National Land Transport Fund in capital investment to Greater Christchurch multi-modal public transport, including commuter rail from Rolleston to the CBD as a first step.LOL
Employment
Labour's workplace relations package includes increasing the minimum wage to $16.50 an hour; replacing the current National Government's "fire at will'' law with fair trial periods that provide both protection against unjustified dismissal and a simple, fair, and fast referee service; introducing Fair Pay Agreements that set fair, basic employment conditions across an industry based on the employment standards that apply in that industry; promoting the living wage by paying it to all workers in the core public service, and extending it to contractors over time; doubling the number of Labour Inspectors. I'd say - unsurprisingly - they have a pass here. Hard to believe minimum wage was less than $16 only four years ago
Housing
Building homes people can afford to buy, and restoring the Kiwi dream of owning your own place through the KiwiBuild programme and the Affordable House Authority; A three-point plan to crack down on speculators by banning offshore speculators from buying houses, taxing speculators who flip a house within five years, and ending the speculators' tax loophole; ensuring homes are healthy to live in and building state houses for families in need.Well they did expand the Brightline test but Housing has been another failYou can also add in the most transparent government ever, the climate change is our nuclear moment and the war on child poverty as high profile fails.
It was only election promises. Not many governments live up to them and Labour can say that they went out the window when they had to enter a coalition, but there is no denying they have over promised and under delivered on most things.
Ardern campaigned on reducing homelessness in fact in 2018 she claimed she’d have the homeless housed within four weeks
Jacinda Ardern pledges shelter for all homeless people within four weeks
New Zealand government announces $100m to get 40,000 homeless people into accommodation before winter hits
That didn’t go well https://borgenproject.org/homelessness-in-new-zealand/
Their biggest promise was kiwibuild which was supposed to increase our housing stock and bring down property prices . The policy itself has been an abject failure and property prices have soared under labours watch .
There’s fuck all for them to look back on and point to as a success apart from the astounding feat of isolating one of the most isolated countries on the planet which they have now managed to fuck up
Really, fuck these people. The idiots in National who backed Muller and reduced the party to a shambles can get fucked too
@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
@jegga getting ready for the backlash over an ultimately fucked up Covid response? After all they were neck and neck with Bridges NP until Covid intervened.
Can you think of a single policy they campaigned on that’s actually been a success? Labour fanboys bleated about $27 mill on Keys vanity project but these clowns just blew $54 million on a bridge that didn’t actually get built .
They campaigned last time on covid and that’s turned to shit now we have gas prices going up which means inflation is on the way and already businesses going broke .
If it’s any comfort to you NZ going into recession it traditionally the first sign labour are about to lose an election.
@jc said in NZ Politics:
@jegga So a 16 year old is old enough to decide who runs the country but not old enough to decide whether to drink alcohol or smoke / vape?
Not old enough to choose a tattoo but old enough to choose who runs the country.
Pathetic really cynical , they must be assuming that National won't continue to be a joke in two years and they'll need every vote they can get.
@kirwan said in NZ Politics:
@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
@jegga while the optics are terrible I can actually see a point to getting a gang leader to tell gang members to get jabbed. As long as that's what he did and all he did.
The Panel on National Radio had a listener poll on lowering the voting age to 16 and apparently 60% were in favour.
I reckon they misheard and thought the moot was "should the voting age be changed to 60?"!
In an environment where peope are not allowed to see their relatives die in hospital, special treatment for criminals can go and get fucked.
I was being sarcastic when I branded them the Labour Mongrel Mob, now I have to wonder if I was on the money. Literally.
Its now two gang leaders not one. One of them was Harry Tam , after all as he says Jacinda Ardern trusts him why don't you?
People are getting so used to their excesses now that gang members killing someone with an axe on a towns main street barely occupies the news cycle any more.
Fatal attack sparked by road rage; victim killed by gang members in front of families
The victim of a homicide after a road-rage incident in Ōtorohanga is a hard-working father of six. He was Anthony Takrouna Bell, of Te Kuiti. A Givealitt
Labours shills have been busy today trying to pretend that there was no problem waiting six weeks to talk to Pfizer because they didn’t have their vaccine ready . That of course ignores the fact that pretty much every other nation that went with Pfizer didn’t see any problem doing a deal at that stage and we went to the front…..,sorry back of the queue.
This is another story that’s aged well
Government accused of politicking with vaccine news during election
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News of NZ's first vaccine purchase was held for six days and dropped in 'election week'.
Once again , fuck these people.
Or this , i am shocked, shocked I tell you that this the same people behind the enormous success of Kiwibuild which has built to date (checks notes) …...1000 houses? Wtf ?
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New Zealand has the second lowest vaccination rates in the OECD per capita.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has defended New Zealand’s slow roll out of the Covid-19 vaccine, insisting its not a level playing field between countries.
New Zealand is well below fellow OECD countries when it comes to our vaccination rates per capita.
That’s compared to the likes of Israel with 60.97 per cent, France at 13.58 per cent and Ireland with 12.90 per cent of people vaccinated on a per capita basis.
Ardern bit back at criticism, highlighting the importance of ensuring nations hit hardest by Covid-19 have access to the vaccine.
This aged well
The complex roll-out of Covid vaccinations
New Zealand must wait its turn for Covid-19 vaccinations - but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
In New Zealand, we're in a special situation. We don't have to give emergency approval. We can take a step back and look at all the evidence before we make a decision on whether this vaccine is safe and effective enough. It's not a foregone conclusion ... and it shows we're doing our own homework, and not relying on other countries to do it for us.
"The situation in New Zealand is such that we can wait, if we have to.
"No one is dying if we wait. Whereas in other countries, even if the vaccine was less safe, they may give authorisation because it would save more lives in the net."
Daalder points out the moral imperative too: the whole world wants to get their hands on Covid vaccines. But, to put it simply, other countries need it more than New Zealand at this point.
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