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It fell flat on it's face; the public view them as dirty hippies hippies and homeless poors, compounded by the lovely Fairfax journalism which did absolutely nothing to try and bring any semblance of balance to the issue.  That being said, it created at least some disucssion about the homeless in Wellington (especially because of Ben "Blanket Man" Hana's death). So yea, gently caress Fairfax, gently caress Penny Bright, gently caress John Key eat the poor etc.
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Jan 26, 2012 23:22
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If it makes you feel better (it won't), you can get NCEA Level 1 'Literacy' by literally handing in a 200 word essay as many times as you like until I got mine like that 
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Jan 30, 2012 00:32
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Source for that? So I can lord over my right wing friends?
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Feb 10, 2012 05:32
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Cause we're apathetic (at least in practice) to a fault?
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Feb 10, 2012 08:11
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Ark Silva posted:Almost every word in that article speaks true. Waitangi day means nothing. It is just a day off work for a lot of the country. 
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Feb 13, 2012 01:02
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Varkk posted:It looks like the idea behind assett sales is based on numbers which Bill English just made up to make it seem like it makes sense. The only problem with that plan is that even with his imaginary numbers it still doesn't make any financial sense to sell the assetts. With projected savings in the debt servicing around $250-300 million in 2016 and lost revenue from the assetts around $350 million "It was a guess; it wasn't even our best one"
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Feb 17, 2012 03:19
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Metlink are doing a shake-up of the bus routes around Wellington. I'm not hoping for much (other than an unjustified price hike and 3 years of inconvenience), but you can find some information here.
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Feb 21, 2012 01:24
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If he thinks that indigenous relations are better in Australia than New Zealand then  cause has he been living under a rock/in a basement?
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Mar 7, 2012 05:41
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Ugggggh the kind of person who would argue that 'our darkies were treated better than yours' is probably not worth anyone's time.
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Mar 7, 2012 07:06
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BeanTaco posted:My education under NCEA was so bad I'm not entirely sure what "pupil score percentile" even means When was that? I did NCEA level 3 last year and it's not a bad system at all. I worked hard, did 5 external subjects, got 3 scholarships and an E endorsement and got into Uni no questions. Compare that to a lot of my friends who did unit standards, sat no externals, pissed around all year and technically 'achieved' level 3 but were laughed at by just about every tertiary provider they went to. They even offered IB at my school and it was a complete loving joke - endless hours in the library, long periods of study, extra lessons with teachers. 3 teachers left for 'family reasons' (read: they were working 80 hour weeks under IB) that a lot of the IB students were hung out to dry at the end of the year. I started it in 6th form, dropped it by the end of the year. I technically don't have NCEA level 2 but who cares cause gently caress you IB.
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Mar 21, 2012 02:45
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Good I hope she loving hangs.
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Mar 27, 2012 23:32
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I was at the Hikoi. It was awesome. 
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May 5, 2012 07:54
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dusty posted: You see the asian lady with the pram looking left? I'm the guy in the red shirt. We were arguing about me coming to some stupid socialist club or whatever.
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May 6, 2012 09:54
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It's intergenerational corporate theft under the guise of neo-liberalism and led by that loving smiling assassin.
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May 7, 2012 03:34
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It is an excellent feeling watching National slowly alienating their potential coalition partners over the past 5 years, only for it to start biting them back in the arse now.
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May 10, 2012 01:45
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Well with compelling arguments such as:quote:marriage isnt about two people. its about a husband and a wife. end of story. same sex couples get all the same legal rights as a married couple in a civil union. quote:No to gay marriage. Its a mistake we will regret. quote:Don't do it, it's wrong and un-natural. NZ will go further down hill. Fake edit: the stuff comment section is like a New Zealand version of Free Republic.
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May 14, 2012 02:30
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Hey John, Please stop using my homeland of Greece as a scapegoat to your ideological and fiscal failures. When you become a big boy maybe you can come out to the people of New Zealand for what you really are: a money grabbing prick. XOXO Hairypanis
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May 23, 2012 01:32
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This little gem has been doing the facebook rounds:quote:R.I.P NEW ZEALAND. You went soft on discipline. You went soft on immigration. You went soft on crime. Parents were told 'No you cant smack the kids.' Teachers were prevented from chastising kids in schools. The police couldn't clip a troublemaker round the ears. Kids have rights blah blah blah. Well done New Zealand. You shall reap what you sow. We have lost a (nearly) whole generation & turned (most of) them into selfish, disrespectful little a-holes! Things need to change! Copy and paste if you have the guts to agree It's surprising how many of my friends from high school have become National voters. Please, tell me more about how New Zealand's youth are the root cause of all our woes 
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Jun 8, 2012 04:20
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Jun 11, 2012 05:49
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My politics 101 class on Facebook often astounds me with the poo poo they post.
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Jun 12, 2012 07:50
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Shoutout to this thread as I'm about to head into my Politics 111 exam. Haven't studied, but between this thread and my own bias, I'm sure I'll get a B-
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Jun 18, 2012 21:56
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Angry Moo Cow posted:Thanks, it is a bit of a pain but insurance peeps have been pretty cool about the whole thing. One of the contractors they used ended up stealing a whole bunch of stuff while I was at work (yes, I have a pretty decent job already - study is to help prevent my brain turning to rot) so that was fun to deal with. Sorry to hear that bro. Hope the baby is ok and the shitheads at the uni faculty give you a pass.
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Jun 19, 2012 03:24
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Vagabundo posted:poo poo man, TV3 should just air this footage on loop. I loving love that video, especially how all the apologists have come flooding out of the woodowork (it came from facebook): quote:John Key is a better PM than David Shearer or Phil Goff would be. Let's face it with the ammount of spending they have promissed NZ would be getting bailouts from Australia and the amnount of debt would sky rocket. People fail to realise how much of a potential debt problem we have, the NZIER earlier this year said something like 10-15 years time NZ will have debt worse than Greece. When we are trying to avoid the cliff edge things need to be privatised and spending cut, it is a part of structural reform. If you are going to criticise Key then at least make an imtelligent argument rather than calling it "Liberal conspiracies" and "Zionist capatalist conspiracy". With the dividend argument. Look at the reason why companies do an IPO. They know that the equity they raise is worth a lot more than the dividends they loose. Dividends are not proportional to the percentage you own of the company, you could own 10% of the company but the dividends you recieve will be a lot less than 10% of the owners equity. Highly profitable firms do IPO's traditionally. 
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Jun 28, 2012 09:40
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New Zealand Megathread - We're old gently caress you
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Jul 16, 2012 15:34
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Trouble Man posted:Hello yes welcome to how the New Zealand government works no matter which team is in charge and which Minister. "Maaaaaoooreeees". There is no  big enough.
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Jul 24, 2012 12:02
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National actually using the select committee or not skipping it at all?
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Aug 31, 2012 07:38
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Varkk posted:Hey guys just popping backin to tell everyone to submit on the following bill currently before parliament Cheers for this. gently caress National forever.
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Sep 28, 2012 06:06
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For any of you at Victoria, I'm voting Rory McCourt for VUWSA president just to rile up all my National friends.
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Oct 2, 2012 05:09
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Law posted:Can someone explain the Green's whole 'print money to lower dollar value and create manufacturing jobs' thing for those of us who are economically illiterate? Quantative Easing is when you intentionally devalue your dollar (usually by printing more money) in order to promote exports. Our dollar is really overvalued at the moment. More exports = more jobs essentially. National won't do it because it means you have to counteract inflationary pressure by lowering a big tax like petrol tax or GST. And they just recently raised GST to So in short, Steven Joyce and National are lying fucks and, as usual, the media aren't willing to do any research.
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Oct 10, 2012 13:30
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A cardiologist family member of mine said that people with diabetes often have a heart condition. Drinking + stress + maia + diabetes means probably a heart failure. But who knows, just speculating really.
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Nov 4, 2012 05:32
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If you want to see just how poo poo Peter Dunne is dealing with people, take a look at his facebook page. Look carefully at the photos and comments. (i take no responsibility )
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  Most of the comments were deleted but i took a few screenshots of his photos. FB allows you to tag friends of friends in photos, usually without their consent. When one of my weird politicky friends managed to friend him, we went to town. The worst part is that FB makes things being tagged a 'big deal', so a lot of these are in full size planted nicely on his timeline, nestled in between his speeches and stupid comments:
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Nov 7, 2012 00:53
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Good. Hopefully this will provoke some kind of discussion about our dogshit, overpriced internet and phones. Also, software patents are completely loving stupid, but National is too busy with 8" of America down their throat and Fairfax is busy reporting on the real issues of today.
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Dec 17, 2012 06:35
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R.I.P. you old bastard 
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Feb 1, 2013 00:09
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WarpedNaba posted:There are like a thousand and one things reminding us of that whenever you take a bus into town. Why do we need one more? Now that you mention it, I can't remember this many homeless/mentally disabled out wandering the streets since...well ever really. Maybe I just grew older and started noticing them all? Or maybe National's gutting cuts to social welfare, mental health facilities and city councils are beginning to rear their ugly head?
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10784735quote:No, if Maori want Waitangi Day for themselves, let them have it. Let them go and raid a bit more kai moana than they need for the big, and feed themselves silly, speak of the injustices heaped upon them by the greedy Pakeha and work out new ways of bamboozling the Pakeha to come up with a few more millions. Burn, you old bastard. e: when not being a racist old bastard, Holmes used to make sweet sweet country music http://open.spotify.com/track/09jkQhFHhfMJGNVb0zEiCe
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Varkk posted:It is Waitangi day tomorrow where we can all get together and play our traditional NZ game of blaming everything on the 'blaaaady maaaaaaris' or the 'evil white motherfuckers'. I've already got bingo from my Facebook feed alone and it isn't even Waitangi day. 
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truther posted:I smell it from the car in front of me if they're smoking. How about something like "if you have passengers you can't smoke unless they give consent (and kids under like, 14, can't consent)"?
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