When?

 The headline: 

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• Aidan Donoghue: Victoria University Students' Association President on the Government scrapping the fees-free scheme

'Gobsmacked': Govt move to scrap fees-free scheme met with outrage from student groups

 Think hard.

When was the last time a Government action (according to the msm) not met with "outrage"? 

 

NZ Public Healthcare

 I was reading a column on public health futures,

 Roger Partridge: Health innovators face the structural question

 The only options put forward were : 

More tax - with a different name.

More tax - with different middlemen.

Sums up New Zealand public healthcare perfectly.

Tinman Chicken Soup: recipe

  

I’m a lazy bastard so I purchased a slow cooker. Up until now I used a multi-cooker.

I warmed the pressure cooker up while I grabbed three chicken thigh cuts from the fridge along with a cup of frozen mushroom slices and a handful of dried peas (whole).

I threw them in the warmed cooker, added a cut chilli (cut to open up the seed area) and a cup (combined) of light soy sauce, apple cider vinegar and a splash of red sauce,

Added water to almost cover the mix.

Cooked on low overnight – about 9 hours.

In the morning I boned the chicken and removed skin and fat/gristle lumps from the mix and used a food processor to reduce the mix to a lumpy soup.

The last couple of days I’ve made a chicken-noodle cup-a-soup, added it to a cup of the chicken mix and heated in microwave until steaming hot.

Add a pour of cream and eat in the late autumn sun.

A bloody good lunch!

Note: I use chilli instead of onion and/or garlick and next time I’ll use white wine instead of vinegar and soy but either will work.

Instead of the cup-a-soup try a cup of 2 tablespoon chicken stock and  water boiled.

Will make 4 meals or serve six as soup.

New Dictionary Meaning

 Untenable: Clear your desk and fuck off!

Concerned of Kaiapoi

Dear Reader, I just read this story on the NewstalkZB site:

 Deputy principal committed serious misconduct through ‘vulgar’ comments about students

'Guess how heavy they are': Deputy principal's inappropriate and 'vulgar' comments

 I am seriously concerned that young, impressionable children are being "taught" by those recorded as having officially complained about this halfwit.

 God Defend New Zealand!

Sheep (who don't vote labour)

 

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• Kiwi shearers facing charges after footage showing abuse of sheep uncovered

NZ shearers facing charges after sheep abuse footage uncovered

 

There are nasty bastards out there, some of whom are involved with shearing.

I've personally seen some awful abuse (usually of pressers) by shearing gang members, 90% of the time the worst offenders being of the brown, female variety.

Shearing sheds are often fairly hard places, sheep are, almost always, bastards who regularly need serious coercion of the physical kind just so their overall well-being (note me slipping into "woke" language there) is ensured.

I think now of the number of times I've thrown that last bitch over the fence into the shearing pen because the c&*t won't go through the gate.

Most stock handlers keep a length of PVC pipe on hand simply for the more recalcitrant.

Hearing a PETA inspired prosecution is underway because shearers have been observed hitting sheep with a blunt instrument or stitching wounds without anesthetic (shearers ain't vets but the sheep comes first and the vet is often hours away) or holding the bitch down with their (usually bare or sack clad) feet while they beautify them is unsurprising.

PETA is an organisation that prefers to kill millions of very small animals violently while pretending to care for larger varieties. 

I expect one of the charges will be that informed, written consent for a hair-cut was not obtained from each animal. 

A shearing shed is not a beauty salon: the sheep need the shearing shed and the beauty treatments must be successful and the sheep benefit from them - unlike the human kind which fail 99.99% of the time.

Prosecute the bad bastards but for being bad bastards, not doing a job PETA scum and their utter scum reporter mates couldn't.

Climate Change

 Climate change appears to be raising it's ugly head once again.

Noticably climate change became a "popular" cause (coincidentally of course) at the exact time that Eastern European communism bit the dust - Western European communism, particularly in France and Great Britain, continues unabated.

It has been interesting to observe this phenomena and I can't help but notice that since the anti-carbon lot started gaining influence the bloody weather has got worse.

Another coincidence?