We are witnessing the decline of the Queen now, and the realisation that she isn't going to live forever. A bit like the feelings we have, when we know we are going to lose a parent.

Yes, we know she's an old lady, and it's to be expected, but I feel a sense of sadness of the inevitable.

Are you a royalist? Are you going to feel a sense of sadness when she passes?

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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/roy...3GF4DPL4Y/

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/que...CYTMAMDWM/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/2...cal-advice

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/ce...3b2a67a086

Always impressed when I see those Boston Dynamic robots doing their thing, but it's the hand vault that got me this time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk

Still not sure what the end goal is, but I appreciate the tech.

New Zealand Herald: Covid 19 Delta outbreak: Sir Russell Coutts accuses Government of 'dictatorship' in social media post.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/covid-1...JQ4PXX4C4/

Easy way to get 5 million dollars.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/20...pop-tarts/

Was thinking about my political leaning last night, and would say "anti-National" would be the best descriptor. I've dallied with all the other main parties at some point (except the nutty ones), but never the Nats.

As a youngster, I don't recall politics being discussed in the house. There were just two colours - red and blue. To me, neither of the colours had any connotations associated to them. People might as well have been voting on their favourite hue, and I'm sure some still do.

As a uni student, I was generally apathetic to the whole thing. "He's got a silly name, I'll vote for him." Still didn't have a clue who Mum or Dad voted for, nor did I care.

But then I woke up a little. It quickly became apparent that all politicians have an ulterior motive, but that National's spineless turdingtons were the worst of all. Politics would start to enter discussion around the dining table, and it turned out Mum & Dad were lefties after all. Lefty farmers. Who would have thunk it?


What of you others? Did you grow up in a staunchly one-true-colour household, or was it a bit more organic?

The National Party at its finest, desperately trying to find something it can cling on to with its grubby little fingers. Note to Judith: you can't be critical of something and then say you'd do the same exact thing in the same interview.

'National Party leader Judith Collins has come out firmly against creating a "two-class system" by bringing in vaccine certificates, but she also wants to bring in vaccine certificates.'

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/454...rtificates

Have you watched her rant on YouTube? 

How does one transform from TV news presenter to a radically crazed anti-vax, Sharman-worshipping, wanna-be political party leader??? 

Your thoughts everyone?

Well, here we are, a home away from home from the TMMB. 

Morning ladies    If you are here, then you have made the switch.  Hopefully we can continue our morning chat.

Couldn't help noticing on TM that someone wanted a backup of the Computing forum...

"wholetruth" was sadly shot into space in a bizarre trampolining incident (tbh, it was a double bounce disaster), but his next of kin was given access to all the code (what, and nothing else?), so a backup has been made of Computing. No doubt it will be uploaded somewhere at some point - will keep you posted.

Can backup some others - happy to take requests as long as it's not that Health & Beauty trainwreck. Would happily backup the sensible posts, but the words of dim-witted cretins are really not worth the 1s and 0s in any time or space.

When I'm scrolling down I keep seeing the same messages repeated and repeated and it puts me off using this forum.  Is it something I'm doing wrong?