Seen a couple of articles about this now.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3005112...huge-fines

Pensioners who travelled overseas, presumably knowing the government warnings about getting trapped overseas, now being stung with fines/repayment of pensions, as they have been out of the country too long...

I'm of two minds about this one...
On the one hand, they knew the risks and conditions of pension payments etc before leaving...
On the other, well covid has fucked up a lot of stuff for everyone... Is this "being kind"?

Yuk!
What are people doing in their cars?

https://www.autocar.co.nz/filthy-researc...let-seats/

https://youtu.be/gC7yx8zH2eA

You know that when someone as left leaning as Campbell comes out with such cutting criticism as this you are in trouble.  Williams had no answers to his questions.

Would love to see him ask similar hard questions of Ardern.

or is she some right wing ringer come lately with an axe to grind?

her accusations are succinct and her questions blunt.
as an outsider im loath to judge just yet. 
best wait until i see how she peels a banana.
she doesnt say where she was prior to here, just 'overseas'
somewhere with a pretty good press agency i guess.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/12768281...o-arrogant

This story is hilarious, must be the new tactic.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/127...bis-plants

Still not good enough for Mayor Sandra Goudie...

'"I'm not taking the Pfizer vaccine, that I will wait for the Novavax because I have that personal choice and everybody has that personal choice," she told Newstalk ZB in October.

However, today she told the Herald that she would not be getting the Novavax vaccine either.'

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-o...AYNHMVDJHY

Not this time

Central Auckland dairy worker praised for kicking violent customer - NZ Herald
Fuckin Good Job

Came across this earlier.

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2022/02/03/ki...6vNwbQ9kFg


https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/kitset-house.html

There's quite a variety of them, no idea as to quality though but they might be worth looking into. If they could be a solution then that would make a huge difference to many homeless people here.

Does History ever repeats itself?

Split Enz pair Tim Finn and Eddie Rayner come full circle with new band Forenzics | Stuff.co.nz

Will await sound with interest

I think David Seymour has hit the nail on the head with this speech, you dont have to agree but its a bit more refreshing than the 1.pm speech today which I started watching but had to turn off after 5 minutes due to same old broken record bullshit!

Might work better if I put the link in.

https://tinyurl.com/y7zavp29