MT_Tinman: Land of the Wrong White Crowd
Thoughts of a grumpy old white man.
Sunday, 1 February 2026
Saturday, 31 January 2026
Freeloaders
United Nations on the verge of 'imminent financial collapse'
The UN is finding out that the one guarantee in life is that communists and racist freeloaders only operate on someone else's dime.
Getting them to accept lower amounts of graft, let alone to actually pay their way, always proves impossible.
The UN collapsing under its own incompetence and corruption will be great for the planet.
I look forward to an American (USA, + various South American countries) and Chinese led world where ambition and industry is rewarded instead of punished.
Wednesday, 28 January 2026
Cops
One in four Kiwis don’t trust cops
I'm guessing the "Kiwis" they refer to are New Zealanders, most of the birds are too shy to be interviewed or fill in questionnaires.
As always I am in the minority.
After 25 years of relative peace and quiet I endured another 25 years of regularly dealing with NZ Police personnel - my business, not theirs, most of the time.
I can not group the people I dealt with under one umbrella: The older men who had risen through the ranks were always impressive, always engendered respect and, largely, were damned good men to chat with.
Likewise those involved with fire-arms: Always impressive in their professionalism but never in any way threatening. Likewise, while not NZ Police, the Ocker cops in Christchurch after the big shake were never anything other than brilliant at a very hard time for Cantabrians.
Unfortunately there it stops.
I didn't meet every Christchurch based cop, not even the majority of them but the front-line police people I came into contact with were often (not always) lazy, ill-disciplined bully-boys with no ability to think, let alone act, without orders and I never, over 25 years, met a sheila cop who wasn't utter scum, disgracing the uniform at every opportunity.
Strangely the unsworn Police people I met, male and female, were all bloody good people.
3 out of 4, given those observations, is almost a win.
Monday, 26 January 2026
Gone, 60%, Just Like That!
Three out of five members of government retail crime advisory group resign
Tragedy!
Tragedy of the highest order.
How are shoplifters going to thieve without a Government advisory group telling them how to do it?
Saturday, 24 January 2026
CVs
Job seekers: Are they?
NewstalkZB (so I assume the Herald) has a headline up:
Expert issues warning as more job hunters use AI to craft CVs
The "expert" is, as always, a "CEO" of something I've never heard of and, also as always, a fucking sheila.
When was the last time you heard of a proper CEO perusing CVs?
This shows because once again the CEO, if you believe the NZ Herald/NewstalkZB on the source, has got it wrong.
As an ex-employer, unless I was looking for a minimum wage, low IQ fuckwit with some internet ability, I can assure you an obviously AI produced CV would instantly go in the "Don't-Waste-Your-Time pile" - and all AI produced bullshit is obvious.
AI produces thoughtless, uninteresting and brainless bullshit that reproduces the mistakes and prejudices of the original writers, magnified many times. The spelling and grammar is usually painfully correct and the "points" repeated endlessly until the word quota is met.
The last thing any manager wants is an employee unable to think or solve basic problems and one who is also dishonest is a must to avoid for any job requiring a CV. In CVs AI = dishonesty and laziness.
Individual CVs may contain as big a load of bullshit as a combined Labour/Greens convention but at least they demonstrate imagination and an actual desire to be considered for the position.
NewstalkZB/NZH must do better!
Thursday, 22 January 2026
Reviews

The headline:
Tainui leader gives scathing review of Govt and ‘fractured’ relationship with Māori
I await the Govt. review of the Tainui fraudster.
I especially await NewstalkZB slime scum highlighting that review.
ACC

I refer you to this headline on NewstalkZB:
"Already paying off": ACC confident it can dig itself out of its fiscal hole
I'm sure that ACC are confident. They'll simply stop honoring their insurance to people they are sure they can shaft.
People such as the self-employed, the sole-traders and the small-businessmen: people they know do not have the time or (in many cases) means to take on ACC.
They've done it before; They'll do it again.
That means, of course, they'll be able to continue to force compensation on the fraudsters and layabouts, just as they've always done.
As an aside: Megan Main ACC CEO? When was the last time a major business or tax-payer funded organisation even held it's own, let alone succeeded with a sheila in charge?
A quick perusal of AD doesn't throw up any outstanding examples.
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