I'm worried that someone may find this blog.
It is not my intention, I write only that I may retain my thoughts, not for anyone else.
If you do find it, disregard it. It isn't for you.
If you've read this far you really are a masochist. Join the club.
I dreamed that someone actually read my comments and then critiqued my use of English.
I'd hate that!
Since that dream I have considered promoting this blog - and dismissed the idea.
Bloody silly idea!
Friday 30 August 2019
Thursday 29 August 2019
Fires
I have just read a column on fires around the globe.
https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/
It is the third such column I've read in the last two days.
The annual Amazon fires have been in the news recently with the usual suspects, politicians who want to control your every thought and action, people who pretend to be someone else for a living, noise (usually of the horrible type) makers etc. making statements of the shock/horror type while every one of them comes up with the same solution, that being that eating meat, drinking anything other than water or milk and enjoying yourself is the reason Armageddon is nigh.
Having watched this phenomena for some time now I've decided there can only be one reaction to these people and those who repeat their propoganda.
There is no use arguing with them or pointing out the errors of their thinking.
From now on I shall, openly and in their face, laugh at them.
I encourage you to do the same.
https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/
It is the third such column I've read in the last two days.
The annual Amazon fires have been in the news recently with the usual suspects, politicians who want to control your every thought and action, people who pretend to be someone else for a living, noise (usually of the horrible type) makers etc. making statements of the shock/horror type while every one of them comes up with the same solution, that being that eating meat, drinking anything other than water or milk and enjoying yourself is the reason Armageddon is nigh.
Having watched this phenomena for some time now I've decided there can only be one reaction to these people and those who repeat their propoganda.
There is no use arguing with them or pointing out the errors of their thinking.
From now on I shall, openly and in their face, laugh at them.
I encourage you to do the same.
free lunches
I notice the government has announced they will be trialing free lunches for some schools.
I haven't noticed the government announcing an investigation as to why some parents are not feeding their children despite being given excessive amounts of tax-payer money for the express purpose of doing so.
Could this government be, once again, trying to buy votes from the dishonest the lazy and the brain dead?
I haven't noticed the government announcing an investigation as to why some parents are not feeding their children despite being given excessive amounts of tax-payer money for the express purpose of doing so.
Could this government be, once again, trying to buy votes from the dishonest the lazy and the brain dead?
Shock! Horror!
Shock, horror headline on Newshub:
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/08/exploitative-beer-cheaper-than-a-can-of-coke-targeting-poor-auckland-communities.html
Isn't that what they want?
Isn't the great Satan sugar and, particularly, the sugar pushers, head of which is Coca Cola?
Beer is, in fact, good for you. It gives you malt, vitamins and minerals.
Coca Cola gives you pleasure, quenches your thirst and is produced by "Big Business" so must be very, very bad for anyone.
Surely even the tiniest greenie mind ( a serious competition indeed) must understand that beer is by far the preferable product.
So what is their problem?
'Exploitative': Beer cheaper than a can of coke targeting poor Auckland communities
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/08/exploitative-beer-cheaper-than-a-can-of-coke-targeting-poor-auckland-communities.html
Isn't that what they want?
Isn't the great Satan sugar and, particularly, the sugar pushers, head of which is Coca Cola?
Beer is, in fact, good for you. It gives you malt, vitamins and minerals.
Coca Cola gives you pleasure, quenches your thirst and is produced by "Big Business" so must be very, very bad for anyone.
Surely even the tiniest greenie mind ( a serious competition indeed) must understand that beer is by far the preferable product.
So what is their problem?
Wednesday 28 August 2019
Fluoride
Given that NZ's drinking water is mostly fluoridated and NZ in 2017 voted in such a way the current government was made possible I fear this headline is correct.
ITN: FLUORIDE MAKES YOU STUPID.....
https://www.sott.net/article/419135-Objective-Health-ITN-Fluoride-Makes-You-Stupid-RFK-JR-Hits-Back-Tech-Censorship
Of course ChCh electing, twice, a grossly incompetent, leftist drunk tends to suggest it ain't only fluoride.
ITN: FLUORIDE MAKES YOU STUPID.....
https://www.sott.net/article/419135-Objective-Health-ITN-Fluoride-Makes-You-Stupid-RFK-JR-Hits-Back-Tech-Censorship
Of course ChCh electing, twice, a grossly incompetent, leftist drunk tends to suggest it ain't only fluoride.
Five? Yes!
Cricket's test haters are again talking a reduction to four days for test cricket.
In Colombo this last week we saw the perfect reason why five-day tests are still the best option.
Had that been a four day test the game would have resulted in a boring draw that would have further enhanced the anti-test argument.
Instead because the test had a fifth day we saw a marvelous finish where the visiting team was not just trying to dismiss the hosts for a win but also fighting the elements - in this case , light and pending rain - to gain that win and thirty points in the test championship.
If a test only goes four days, fantastic. Players and officials get a day off.
If a test is badly rain affected, as in Sri Lanka last week, five days mean we can still get a result and a brilliant, tension filled finish.
Notably many tests are rain affected and probably more will be while teams are forced to use extra days at different times of the year than is tradition to complete the recently introduced test championship
Until test cricket is played in covered stadiums let's keep the five day format.
Let's keep getting those wonderfully entertaining, result producing, final days.
In Colombo this last week we saw the perfect reason why five-day tests are still the best option.
Had that been a four day test the game would have resulted in a boring draw that would have further enhanced the anti-test argument.
Instead because the test had a fifth day we saw a marvelous finish where the visiting team was not just trying to dismiss the hosts for a win but also fighting the elements - in this case , light and pending rain - to gain that win and thirty points in the test championship.
If a test only goes four days, fantastic. Players and officials get a day off.
If a test is badly rain affected, as in Sri Lanka last week, five days mean we can still get a result and a brilliant, tension filled finish.
Notably many tests are rain affected and probably more will be while teams are forced to use extra days at different times of the year than is tradition to complete the recently introduced test championship
Until test cricket is played in covered stadiums let's keep the five day format.
Let's keep getting those wonderfully entertaining, result producing, final days.
Sunday 25 August 2019
Disgusting at best
I watched the worst minute of television I've ever experienced last night (Sunday).
I watched it for about a minute because I was that shocked I needed the minute to believe what I was watching/listening to.
That minute was the most disgraceful racism I've ever heard broadcast.
It was the sort of thing sometimes heard in pubs or overheard in public, usually shouted by very small men or drunk and disheveled women who's main aim is to attract attention to themselves.
The sort of thing that passes for normal discourse among female (of both sexes) green politicians.
The program was something called The Comedy Cellar (or similar) and the minute was entirely a black sheila (it took some effort to restrain from a different word there) spouting racism.
The sheila was filmed in close-up, accompanied by what I assume iwas a laugh track - there was no humour, not even any attempt at humour in anything I heard during that minute so I doubt there was any noise at all from any audience present.
I enjoy comedy, particularly of the edgy kind, even when I'm the target, I enjoy laughing but to laugh something needs to be funny.
This wasn't.
"Each to his own, such is life" you may say but the problem I have was that had the role been reversed and this same shit spoken by a white, particularly by a white man, the slime would have a field day.
Every news organisation in the world would headline with demands for imprisonment, castration and anything else they could dream up.
Because it's by a sheila, a black sheila, it's somehow OK.
Why is any broadcaster, in this case SKY, allowed to present this blatantly racist crap?
I watched it for about a minute because I was that shocked I needed the minute to believe what I was watching/listening to.
That minute was the most disgraceful racism I've ever heard broadcast.
It was the sort of thing sometimes heard in pubs or overheard in public, usually shouted by very small men or drunk and disheveled women who's main aim is to attract attention to themselves.
The sort of thing that passes for normal discourse among female (of both sexes) green politicians.
The program was something called The Comedy Cellar (or similar) and the minute was entirely a black sheila (it took some effort to restrain from a different word there) spouting racism.
The sheila was filmed in close-up, accompanied by what I assume iwas a laugh track - there was no humour, not even any attempt at humour in anything I heard during that minute so I doubt there was any noise at all from any audience present.
I enjoy comedy, particularly of the edgy kind, even when I'm the target, I enjoy laughing but to laugh something needs to be funny.
This wasn't.
"Each to his own, such is life" you may say but the problem I have was that had the role been reversed and this same shit spoken by a white, particularly by a white man, the slime would have a field day.
Every news organisation in the world would headline with demands for imprisonment, castration and anything else they could dream up.
Because it's by a sheila, a black sheila, it's somehow OK.
Why is any broadcaster, in this case SKY, allowed to present this blatantly racist crap?
Tuesday 20 August 2019
Recipe: Corn Soup
This recipe is so that I may remember it.
Yesterday I poached some mushrooms in wine (1 cup) and chicken stock (2 cups).
Today made corn soup:
1 tin creamed corn
2 Cups chicken stock
1 Tablespoon Ginger
1 Tablespoon HOT Thai chilli sauce
Black pepper, freshly ground, to taste
Optional: Stir in 1 beaten egg just before you finish cooking.
Heat the lot in a good sized saucepan and simmer until the mix starts thickening.
Upon serving add two sliced, pre-poached mushrooms.
NOTE: You may add finely chopped chicken leftovers during cooking but not required for a damned nice, tasty soup.
Yesterday I poached some mushrooms in wine (1 cup) and chicken stock (2 cups).
Today made corn soup:
1 tin creamed corn
2 Cups chicken stock
1 Tablespoon Ginger
1 Tablespoon HOT Thai chilli sauce
Black pepper, freshly ground, to taste
Optional: Stir in 1 beaten egg just before you finish cooking.
Heat the lot in a good sized saucepan and simmer until the mix starts thickening.
Upon serving add two sliced, pre-poached mushrooms.
NOTE: You may add finely chopped chicken leftovers during cooking but not required for a damned nice, tasty soup.
Winter
Over the last month NZ has experienced cold weather.
Storms from the Souther Ocean sweeping up the country on a regular basis, heaps of cold white horrible wet stuff on the mountains, a few days of rain and generally inclement conditions.
The slime appear to be worrying about this, the latest suggestion being an unproven idea that global warming is creating this cooling.
These conditions are weather of course, they're only "climate" if they conform with global warming.
Strangely I have experienced these type of conditions before, quite a few times in fact.
In my day we called this phenomena "Winter".
Storms from the Souther Ocean sweeping up the country on a regular basis, heaps of cold white horrible wet stuff on the mountains, a few days of rain and generally inclement conditions.
The slime appear to be worrying about this, the latest suggestion being an unproven idea that global warming is creating this cooling.
These conditions are weather of course, they're only "climate" if they conform with global warming.
Strangely I have experienced these type of conditions before, quite a few times in fact.
In my day we called this phenomena "Winter".
Pathetic!
I draw your attention to the following article:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/115152711/tenant-claims-transgender-comment-made-while-viewing-a-unit-in-otahuhu-auckland
In it some sheila (who claims to be gainfully employed but I suspect otherwise) complains she overheard a real-estate agent advising a prospective tenant on the sexuality of an upstairs tenant in the property.
Having known a significant number of transgender people over the years and, as part of my business, dealt with many more, I personally would be happy, in those circumstances, getting this information - transgender people rating very high in the noise making category, only behind very camp queers, in my experience.
The notable thing is not just that such an inane story headlined on Stuff.co.nz, nor the fact that sometimes people say the strangest things, particularly when given only partial instructions.
No, the notable thing about this story is that someone, even a complete idiot female, should go to the press with such a story and then the press should take it seriously.
The idiot female is now quoted as saying it will go to the Human Rights Tribunal (or whatever they call themselves this week).
Note this is not the person who's sexuality has been advertised but some stupid c#@& who overheard the comment being spoken to her companion.
One would hope when the idiot sheila does this the Human Rights Tribunal, without wasting even more taxpayer dollars unnecessarily, tells her "On yer bike lady".
Sadly I suspect not.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/115152711/tenant-claims-transgender-comment-made-while-viewing-a-unit-in-otahuhu-auckland
In it some sheila (who claims to be gainfully employed but I suspect otherwise) complains she overheard a real-estate agent advising a prospective tenant on the sexuality of an upstairs tenant in the property.
Having known a significant number of transgender people over the years and, as part of my business, dealt with many more, I personally would be happy, in those circumstances, getting this information - transgender people rating very high in the noise making category, only behind very camp queers, in my experience.
The notable thing is not just that such an inane story headlined on Stuff.co.nz, nor the fact that sometimes people say the strangest things, particularly when given only partial instructions.
No, the notable thing about this story is that someone, even a complete idiot female, should go to the press with such a story and then the press should take it seriously.
The idiot female is now quoted as saying it will go to the Human Rights Tribunal (or whatever they call themselves this week).
Note this is not the person who's sexuality has been advertised but some stupid c#@& who overheard the comment being spoken to her companion.
One would hope when the idiot sheila does this the Human Rights Tribunal, without wasting even more taxpayer dollars unnecessarily, tells her "On yer bike lady".
Sadly I suspect not.
Monday 19 August 2019
Mr Jones III
I see the Mr Jones is still being attacked (or should that be gummed?) by the NZ slime for telling the truth.
Is it a state secret?
Is it a state secret?
Road Policing - a Shake-up Needed
A competitor for NZ's most stupid and inane column ever raises (accidentally) a point that need discussion
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115118124/passing-lane-dilemma-driver-battles-ticket-for-exceeding-the-limit-when-slow-lane-cars-sped-up
That point is NZ road policing and it's aim.
The main question is whether policing NZ roads is about picking up the most minor incidents and fining whomever is claimed to be responsible or is it about recognising mistakes, analysing whether those mistakes are simply humans being human or a driving fault that can be corrected and actually doing something to correct that fault.
Of course there is the third course, which is about inconveniencing as many as possible by acting as dictatorial stormtroopers with a desperate need to intimidate as many as possible i.e. exactly what NZ traffic policing is now.
There is a need for traffic police to be able to punish the few who deliberately put others in danger but the main thrust of current road policing has nothing (despite police lies) about road safety and everything to do with controlling the motorists.
Too often is enforcement aimed at poor bastards like the gentleman above who, perfectly safely, broke an arbitrary speed limit for a short time, in this case for proven safety reasons.
The policeman who stopped him and wrote the ticket will not have considered the fact that no danger was created by the gentleman's action, indeed that policeman is trained not to do so. He's trained to punish every minor transgression and mistake with a monetary penalty.
We need a serious shake-up of this part of NZ life.
Most minor traffic incidents are just that and if they need any action at all from authorities that action needs to be a gentle reminder of where the motorist went wrong and suggestions of how not to make the same mistake.
Things like traveling for a very short time above the speed limit, whether accidentally (this happens often) or deliberately for safety reasons, driving too slow without consideration for others, failing to actually stop at a stop sign when roads are obviously clear, minor failing to give way (often just a misjudgement that the experience will overcome) and failing to keep left when not dangerous to others can be prevented or admonished by a word or gesture.
Minor traffic accidents, where no injury occurs do not, most of the time, require police presence. Under current law one must report such accidents to enable police to write tickets remotely, usually a the behest of the at-fault party from my experience.
This again is simply road-tax gathering.
I include in this speed cameras and other such remote devices unless these devices are being used only to detect the idiots among us who do actually diminish road safety by their actions. Where this use is not applicable they should be removed.
I'm guessing at least 90% of traffic fines don't need to happen. They happen now because police are trained and required, mainly by busybody local politicians and those who hate to see people relax and enjoy themselves, to find a fault and issue a fine, at every opportunity.
Once these petty fines (and yes, they are all fines) for minor mistakes cease policemen may find themselves far more acceptable to the general public.
They may even find that when they have genuine reason to consult the public people may readily and happily assist.
For a relatively short time more police may be necessary on the roads but as they will have virtually no ability to penalise drivers, cadets or even lay road safety officers could do the job.
After the initial period I suspect NZ will have far more policemen doing real policemen jobs.
This action, of course, will affect the coffers that rely on these road taxes but probably a lot less than a certain politician using NZ Airforce aeroplanes to get to it's Pacific Island holidays.
Disclaimer: I am a professional driver (pro for approx 20 years) who has seldom been ticketed but regularly sees, swears at and avoids the type of minor indiscretion mentioned.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115118124/passing-lane-dilemma-driver-battles-ticket-for-exceeding-the-limit-when-slow-lane-cars-sped-up
That point is NZ road policing and it's aim.
The main question is whether policing NZ roads is about picking up the most minor incidents and fining whomever is claimed to be responsible or is it about recognising mistakes, analysing whether those mistakes are simply humans being human or a driving fault that can be corrected and actually doing something to correct that fault.
Of course there is the third course, which is about inconveniencing as many as possible by acting as dictatorial stormtroopers with a desperate need to intimidate as many as possible i.e. exactly what NZ traffic policing is now.
There is a need for traffic police to be able to punish the few who deliberately put others in danger but the main thrust of current road policing has nothing (despite police lies) about road safety and everything to do with controlling the motorists.
Too often is enforcement aimed at poor bastards like the gentleman above who, perfectly safely, broke an arbitrary speed limit for a short time, in this case for proven safety reasons.
The policeman who stopped him and wrote the ticket will not have considered the fact that no danger was created by the gentleman's action, indeed that policeman is trained not to do so. He's trained to punish every minor transgression and mistake with a monetary penalty.
We need a serious shake-up of this part of NZ life.
Most minor traffic incidents are just that and if they need any action at all from authorities that action needs to be a gentle reminder of where the motorist went wrong and suggestions of how not to make the same mistake.
Things like traveling for a very short time above the speed limit, whether accidentally (this happens often) or deliberately for safety reasons, driving too slow without consideration for others, failing to actually stop at a stop sign when roads are obviously clear, minor failing to give way (often just a misjudgement that the experience will overcome) and failing to keep left when not dangerous to others can be prevented or admonished by a word or gesture.
Minor traffic accidents, where no injury occurs do not, most of the time, require police presence. Under current law one must report such accidents to enable police to write tickets remotely, usually a the behest of the at-fault party from my experience.
This again is simply road-tax gathering.
I include in this speed cameras and other such remote devices unless these devices are being used only to detect the idiots among us who do actually diminish road safety by their actions. Where this use is not applicable they should be removed.
I'm guessing at least 90% of traffic fines don't need to happen. They happen now because police are trained and required, mainly by busybody local politicians and those who hate to see people relax and enjoy themselves, to find a fault and issue a fine, at every opportunity.
Once these petty fines (and yes, they are all fines) for minor mistakes cease policemen may find themselves far more acceptable to the general public.
They may even find that when they have genuine reason to consult the public people may readily and happily assist.
For a relatively short time more police may be necessary on the roads but as they will have virtually no ability to penalise drivers, cadets or even lay road safety officers could do the job.
After the initial period I suspect NZ will have far more policemen doing real policemen jobs.
This action, of course, will affect the coffers that rely on these road taxes but probably a lot less than a certain politician using NZ Airforce aeroplanes to get to it's Pacific Island holidays.
Disclaimer: I am a professional driver (pro for approx 20 years) who has seldom been ticketed but regularly sees, swears at and avoids the type of minor indiscretion mentioned.
Friday 16 August 2019
Terrifying
I find this story, a view on where NZ will head next if the current government is allowed to carry on, absolutely terrifying.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/08/16/nineteen-eighty-four-is-now-a-policing-manual/
This is, admittedly as yet without the violence, exactly the way of Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, Himmler etc.
It is the way civil rights and womens issues movements are being deliberately dragged.
I would add Adern and O'Driscoll to the list but they're not (quite) there yet.
The western world needs a serious shake up. The whole western world needs desperately to stamp on this travesty - hard.
Hopefully very soon, before the only way out is armed rebellion that will, potentially, destroy civilisation as we know it.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/08/16/nineteen-eighty-four-is-now-a-policing-manual/
This is, admittedly as yet without the violence, exactly the way of Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, Himmler etc.
It is the way civil rights and womens issues movements are being deliberately dragged.
I would add Adern and O'Driscoll to the list but they're not (quite) there yet.
The western world needs a serious shake up. The whole western world needs desperately to stamp on this travesty - hard.
Hopefully very soon, before the only way out is armed rebellion that will, potentially, destroy civilisation as we know it.
Self discipline
Stuff has a story about a young man turning his life around on it's front page.
I'm not going to link to it, it's just another anti-alcohol story as written, yet another block in the attempt by the communistic nose-pokers to stop people enjoying themselves.
The story is about a young man typical of his type: brought up in a household that did not value self discipline, went into the army where all discipline is enforced by superiors and self discipline has no value at all and got into trouble because of that lack of self discipline.
Like so many others he ended up first in jail, then home with a bracelet.
Now I wish to make myself clear.
This young man is maori, as are so many of his type, but this problem is not limited to maori although maori, as a group (unfair I know), tend not to demand self discipline from their young people.
There are many from other races, particularly europeans and, unfortunately and increasingly, asians, who suffer from the same handicap. Those with African, Persian and Arab heritage will not be far behind (I speak here of New Zealand only).
This is a relatively new development in civilised society, a development that appears in all of the western world.
Probably the worst example is the United Kingdom, particularly London, where thieving, maiming and killing by young (mainly) men are rife.
I believe that this is the one thing that we (partially civilised humans) must address urgently.
If we don't we risk a serious descent back to a time where all life was a fight for survival, where every time you venture abroad you risk life and limb.
Getting back to the young man, he was lucky.
He met a strong young woman who demanded self discipline as the price for their continuing relationship.
At the moment they appear to be living happily ever after.
I'm happy for them.
Unfortunately the world does not have enough people like that young women. We must, as a priority, start teaching young people, and those involved in the upbringing of young people, the value, in fact the need, for self discipline.
Only then will this young couple's (and your) children be safe.
I'm not going to link to it, it's just another anti-alcohol story as written, yet another block in the attempt by the communistic nose-pokers to stop people enjoying themselves.
The story is about a young man typical of his type: brought up in a household that did not value self discipline, went into the army where all discipline is enforced by superiors and self discipline has no value at all and got into trouble because of that lack of self discipline.
Like so many others he ended up first in jail, then home with a bracelet.
Now I wish to make myself clear.
This young man is maori, as are so many of his type, but this problem is not limited to maori although maori, as a group (unfair I know), tend not to demand self discipline from their young people.
There are many from other races, particularly europeans and, unfortunately and increasingly, asians, who suffer from the same handicap. Those with African, Persian and Arab heritage will not be far behind (I speak here of New Zealand only).
This is a relatively new development in civilised society, a development that appears in all of the western world.
Probably the worst example is the United Kingdom, particularly London, where thieving, maiming and killing by young (mainly) men are rife.
I believe that this is the one thing that we (partially civilised humans) must address urgently.
If we don't we risk a serious descent back to a time where all life was a fight for survival, where every time you venture abroad you risk life and limb.
Getting back to the young man, he was lucky.
He met a strong young woman who demanded self discipline as the price for their continuing relationship.
At the moment they appear to be living happily ever after.
I'm happy for them.
Unfortunately the world does not have enough people like that young women. We must, as a priority, start teaching young people, and those involved in the upbringing of young people, the value, in fact the need, for self discipline.
Only then will this young couple's (and your) children be safe.
Low even for the slime
A headline on Newshub this morning.
REVEALED: SECOND ARPS LETTER EXPRESSES DISTAIN FOR ADERN, PETERS
You can't argue with Mr Arps on that!
The actual headline when at the story:
They want prisoners to vote but seek to deny wrongfully imprisoned people a political opinion, an opinion(based on observation) shared by more than half adult New Zealanders?
How low can the slime and the disgusting government they support go?
REVEALED: SECOND ARPS LETTER EXPRESSES DISTAIN FOR ADERN, PETERS
You can't argue with Mr Arps on that!
The actual headline when at the story:
Second letter from Philip Arps calls for 'traitors' execution, disdain for Jacinda Ardern, Winston Peters
They want prisoners to vote but seek to deny wrongfully imprisoned people a political opinion, an opinion(based on observation) shared by more than half adult New Zealanders?
How low can the slime and the disgusting government they support go?
Mr Jones II
Mr Jones continues to reveal the truth:
Obviously Mr Jones still knows a thing or two and the NZ slime hate him for that fact.
Australian shock jock renews tirade against Jacinda Ardern, calling her 'gormless'
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/australian-shock-jock-renews-tirade-against-jacinda-ardern-calling-her-gormlessObviously Mr Jones still knows a thing or two and the NZ slime hate him for that fact.
Thursday 15 August 2019
Words
A couple of innocent (one innocent in law until proven guilty, one falsely imprisoned for a thought crime) men wrote letters.
They were posted to whom they were addressed to.
One of those letters apparently went to Russia, one to a forum-type site called 4-Chan where it was published.
The Department of Corrections (via the minister) and the accidental Prime Minister have publicly apologised for these letters.
Both have appeared in front of the media, therefore on television, to make apologetic statements, blaming someone else of course, for these letters being posted.
Shock! Horror!
I wonder whether it is yet another Labour sex scandal, the fast failing economy or the fact that the accidental PM has once again upset our closest neighbours (and largest trading partner) that needs covering?
They were posted to whom they were addressed to.
One of those letters apparently went to Russia, one to a forum-type site called 4-Chan where it was published.
The Department of Corrections (via the minister) and the accidental Prime Minister have publicly apologised for these letters.
Both have appeared in front of the media, therefore on television, to make apologetic statements, blaming someone else of course, for these letters being posted.
Shock! Horror!
I wonder whether it is yet another Labour sex scandal, the fast failing economy or the fact that the accidental PM has once again upset our closest neighbours (and largest trading partner) that needs covering?
Wednesday 14 August 2019
Mr Jones
Mr Jones knows a thing or two.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/shove-a-sock-down-her-throat-australian-broadcaster-alan-jones-blasts-jacinda-ardern.html
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/shove-a-sock-down-her-throat-australian-broadcaster-alan-jones-blasts-jacinda-ardern.html
One language please.
I was reading comment on the attempted land theft happening in Jafaville this morning.
The column had the chance of being interesting in that it put forward a point of view I hadn't thought of in that context.
Unfortunately I had to give up the column because of the generous distribution throughout it of gobblety-gook.
I'm guessing this gobblety-gook was the recently invented "maori" but whatever it was I have no idea of it's meaning. I doubt I'm alone.
Why bother writing stuff for publication in relatively mainstream media if you don't want it understood?
This business of throwing gobblety-gook expressions in otherwise english language columns is rife. It appears to be a particularly NZ thing, I don't come across it in international publications.
It needs to stop.
Adding foreign words to prose when perfectly good english words are available destroys the reader's train of thought and often makes a whole article unreadable, sometimes meaningless.
Doing so doesn't make the writer look smart, or bi-lingual or anything similar. If anything it makes that writer look too thick to know the words of his/her chosen language.
Let the reader not think I'm against writing in any language the author wants to.
That is the author's choice but the author makes that choice based on the audience he/she wants to reach.
I also recognise that there are times when only a foreign word will suffice.
My complaint is the use of unnecessary use of a different language simply as a "look at me, I'm PC" statement in articles published in places the public are likely to find them.
This practice is simply damned annoying.
Please cease and desist!
The column had the chance of being interesting in that it put forward a point of view I hadn't thought of in that context.
Unfortunately I had to give up the column because of the generous distribution throughout it of gobblety-gook.
I'm guessing this gobblety-gook was the recently invented "maori" but whatever it was I have no idea of it's meaning. I doubt I'm alone.
Why bother writing stuff for publication in relatively mainstream media if you don't want it understood?
This business of throwing gobblety-gook expressions in otherwise english language columns is rife. It appears to be a particularly NZ thing, I don't come across it in international publications.
It needs to stop.
Adding foreign words to prose when perfectly good english words are available destroys the reader's train of thought and often makes a whole article unreadable, sometimes meaningless.
Doing so doesn't make the writer look smart, or bi-lingual or anything similar. If anything it makes that writer look too thick to know the words of his/her chosen language.
Let the reader not think I'm against writing in any language the author wants to.
That is the author's choice but the author makes that choice based on the audience he/she wants to reach.
I also recognise that there are times when only a foreign word will suffice.
My complaint is the use of unnecessary use of a different language simply as a "look at me, I'm PC" statement in articles published in places the public are likely to find them.
This practice is simply damned annoying.
Please cease and desist!
Tuesday 13 August 2019
New Peguin found.
They've found the skeleton remains of a large penguin in Waipara - one of NZ's new and good wine producing areas a little north of Christchurch.
It seems the peguin stood about 1.6m tall.
It died out about 56 million years ago - no doubt because of colonisation by white men.
It seems the peguin stood about 1.6m tall.
It died out about 56 million years ago - no doubt because of colonisation by white men.
Redressing an Injustice
The Chief Statistician has resigned over the disgrace that was the 2018 census.
Good! About time!
Hopefully this failure will also put a stop to the bloody silly suggestion of having voting and voting registration available online.
However one point that has not been discussed is about those penalised for not completing the 2018 census.
From figures I've read one person in five did not do so but a mere handful were penalised for this non-action.
Surely, after such a massive fail and in the interests of honesty and justice, all 20% of the population should be before a judge or those poor bastards who have been should be apologised to and any financial penalty paid returned to them.
Good! About time!
Hopefully this failure will also put a stop to the bloody silly suggestion of having voting and voting registration available online.
However one point that has not been discussed is about those penalised for not completing the 2018 census.
From figures I've read one person in five did not do so but a mere handful were penalised for this non-action.
Surely, after such a massive fail and in the interests of honesty and justice, all 20% of the population should be before a judge or those poor bastards who have been should be apologised to and any financial penalty paid returned to them.
Shaw
I met James Shaw not long after he ascended (?) to the co-leadership of the Green Party.
He came across as a likeable but not particularly impressive fellow.
Today he appears to remain exactly that and some commentators are picking up on this.
He was asked today how he gets along with his co-leader and was suddenly defensive about the subject.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/james-shaw-s-awkward-moment-on-the-am-show-defending-relationship-with-marama-davidson.html
I can understand that defensiveness.
Anyone with eyes and a brain can see that Shaw (Jimmy-two-mums to many) is no more than a token penis in the man-hating, indeed hetrosexual hating, group that is the Green caucus.
Thankfully for New Zealand we can add "incompetent in government" to that description.
He came across as a likeable but not particularly impressive fellow.
Today he appears to remain exactly that and some commentators are picking up on this.
He was asked today how he gets along with his co-leader and was suddenly defensive about the subject.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/james-shaw-s-awkward-moment-on-the-am-show-defending-relationship-with-marama-davidson.html
I can understand that defensiveness.
Anyone with eyes and a brain can see that Shaw (Jimmy-two-mums to many) is no more than a token penis in the man-hating, indeed hetrosexual hating, group that is the Green caucus.
Thankfully for New Zealand we can add "incompetent in government" to that description.
Solar led climate change
This is about the tenth article I have read recently (and the second today, the first being from Chinese scientists) stating that Solar conditions are responsible for most climate change:
https://www.thegwpf.com/revealed-the-climate-story-forbes-doesnt-want-you-to-read/
Many of the stories also point out the censorship through control of study grants, publishing space etc. that is protecting the climate alarmist religion.
Maybe the conspiracy theorists who claim global warming is yet another attempt at people (and therefore wealth) control.
https://www.thegwpf.com/revealed-the-climate-story-forbes-doesnt-want-you-to-read/
Many of the stories also point out the censorship through control of study grants, publishing space etc. that is protecting the climate alarmist religion.
Maybe the conspiracy theorists who claim global warming is yet another attempt at people (and therefore wealth) control.
Quasi government
The accidental PM has stated the NZ Government will provide no assistance to NZ dairy farmers damaged by the massive Fontera loss.
Note it didn't stay silent on the issue - despite, so far, no requests for assistance having been made, it ruled any assistance out.
My guess is that dairy farmers don't tend to vote for nutters deliberately attempting to destroy their livelihood.
(Dairy farmers, in this respect, differ from many other small business owners who now wonder why their businesses are struggling.)
Note it didn't stay silent on the issue - despite, so far, no requests for assistance having been made, it ruled any assistance out.
My guess is that dairy farmers don't tend to vote for nutters deliberately attempting to destroy their livelihood.
(Dairy farmers, in this respect, differ from many other small business owners who now wonder why their businesses are struggling.)
Cooking water
I've started cooking with peanut oil.
It was suggested to me that it would be better than my usual cheap-brand olive oil and it is.
Tastes better.
Peanut oil, though, doesn't thin like olive oil.
I found this out the other day when I purchased a couple of chicken fillets from my local supermarket.
I'm using an induction hob and a wok. Didn't bother with a lid, it's a little chicken in a wok not a shallow frypan.
Heated the wok, heated the oil, threw in the sliced chicken and the dish started spitting, heavily.
The chicken had been pumped so full of water it instantly released it into the oil causing a fairly major cleaning job after the meal, cleaning my cooking knife rack, the bench and hob and even the window behind the cooking area.
Oh, and cleaning my head where a rather large drop of hot oil landed 😬
I literally had to drain the wok of water before continuing cooking - and this is after throwing only 2/3 of one breast in.
That's a lot of $10. per kg water going to waste.
A group of local idiots have been protesting about approx. 1% of 1% of available water being bottled and sold to China.
Why aren't they protesting about bloody Pak'n'Save wasting as much water by pumping it into chicken? Or beef?
It was suggested to me that it would be better than my usual cheap-brand olive oil and it is.
Tastes better.
Peanut oil, though, doesn't thin like olive oil.
I found this out the other day when I purchased a couple of chicken fillets from my local supermarket.
I'm using an induction hob and a wok. Didn't bother with a lid, it's a little chicken in a wok not a shallow frypan.
Heated the wok, heated the oil, threw in the sliced chicken and the dish started spitting, heavily.
The chicken had been pumped so full of water it instantly released it into the oil causing a fairly major cleaning job after the meal, cleaning my cooking knife rack, the bench and hob and even the window behind the cooking area.
Oh, and cleaning my head where a rather large drop of hot oil landed 😬
I literally had to drain the wok of water before continuing cooking - and this is after throwing only 2/3 of one breast in.
That's a lot of $10. per kg water going to waste.
A group of local idiots have been protesting about approx. 1% of 1% of available water being bottled and sold to China.
Why aren't they protesting about bloody Pak'n'Save wasting as much water by pumping it into chicken? Or beef?
Tuesday 6 August 2019
Ignorant scum get their way.
Cloud Ocean pulls plug on Christchurch water bottling plant
https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/business/114828350/cloud-ocean-pulls-plug-on-christchurch-water-bottling-plant
Now let's see the pig ignorant wankers of Aotearoa Water Action, combined with the Christchurch City Council xenophobic fuckwits, get off their fat, racist arses and find jobs for the 160 poor bastards their scumbaggery have made jobless.
My only comment on abortion
The government has anounced a law update for abortion in NZ.
I have no comment on abortion: I will never get pregnant and will never again get a sheila pregnant so it's not my place to comment.
The only thing that concerns me is yet another attack on free speech in NZ contained in the proposed bill.
That attack is, of course, the banning of protest outside abortion clinics.
If the government don't want anti-abortion protesters (or any other sort of protesters) outside clinics they should ensure ownership of all land within the prescribed area to enable them to use already existing trespass laws.
The banning of protesters as part of this bill is just another attack on free speech, another move in the attempt by the current clowns to complete the move to create a quasi-communist police state here in the South Pacific.
I have no comment on abortion: I will never get pregnant and will never again get a sheila pregnant so it's not my place to comment.
The only thing that concerns me is yet another attack on free speech in NZ contained in the proposed bill.
That attack is, of course, the banning of protest outside abortion clinics.
If the government don't want anti-abortion protesters (or any other sort of protesters) outside clinics they should ensure ownership of all land within the prescribed area to enable them to use already existing trespass laws.
The banning of protesters as part of this bill is just another attack on free speech, another move in the attempt by the current clowns to complete the move to create a quasi-communist police state here in the South Pacific.
Another attack on free speech
Whangarei Police have prevented a citizen of New Zealand from exercising his right to freedom of thought and expression.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/396138/council-and-police-defend-shutting-down-hellfire-preacher-in-whangarei-mall
The gentleman was spouting christian-based nonsense in an area open for public speakers/buskers etc.
The police moved him on with threats of arrest.
The Police, admitting they are completely incompetent to do their job, claimed public safety and order was at risk because some people disagreed with the nonsense.
For the record I also disagree with this type of nonsense, indeed, while not offended, I am appalled any adult could actually believe this Falau-type bullshit
I cannot help but wonder what the Police's actions would have been had the gentleman had a brown skin and been spouting the recently invented gobblety gook that is an official language in New Zealand or, god forbid, spouting crap about a certain Mediterranean prophet.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/396138/council-and-police-defend-shutting-down-hellfire-preacher-in-whangarei-mall
The gentleman was spouting christian-based nonsense in an area open for public speakers/buskers etc.
The police moved him on with threats of arrest.
The Police, admitting they are completely incompetent to do their job, claimed public safety and order was at risk because some people disagreed with the nonsense.
For the record I also disagree with this type of nonsense, indeed, while not offended, I am appalled any adult could actually believe this Falau-type bullshit
I cannot help but wonder what the Police's actions would have been had the gentleman had a brown skin and been spouting the recently invented gobblety gook that is an official language in New Zealand or, god forbid, spouting crap about a certain Mediterranean prophet.
Monday 5 August 2019
MSM Panic
There is a meeting today, apparently, because the MSM is losing money.
They are concerned that people are finding alternative venues to get their news.
On the same front page of Stuff I read this is a headline:
They are concerned that people are finding alternative venues to get their news.
On the same front page of Stuff I read this is a headline:
Live: Ihumātao protests
12:36 PM Hunt for the Wilderpeople actor Julian Dennison is among the crowd at Parliament.
Maybe this is the reason people like me don't consult Stuff for serious news (and in my case wouldn't at all if it wasn't free)?
Could it be that the advent of some completely unknown (at least to me) who makes a living pretending to be someone else joining an illegal protest that would not exist if the police upheld the law of New Zealand is considered front page news indicates the Stuff are irrelevant to thinking New Zealanders?
Could it also be that the most likely to purchase the product of the MSM are older people, the group that in recent times the MSM has been actively propagandizing against?
Those older people (many of whom are white males) value honest reporting without editorial (or reporter) comment and value, when comment is made, both sides of an argument being presented.
UPDATE: The very next day the headline given prime position on the front page.
UPDATE: The very next day the headline given prime position on the front page.
Jack Tame ready to date again
Sunday 4 August 2019
Weakness
The Poms have finally unearthed Steve Smith's weakness.
Let him score 140 then attack him with rubbish bowling 😃
Let him score 140 then attack him with rubbish bowling 😃
Friday 2 August 2019
Ashes Reporting in NZ
The Ashes are in full swing again, and it's great to see.
One thing I do note however, is that NZ reporting of the games are not headlined by the sublime 144 of Steve Smith on return from exile or the fact that the Poms could not amass the equivalent number of runs to Australia's first innings (They scored 27 less) despite batting on a wicket that had settled down by session three, day one, to allow the last two Ocker wickets to contribute 166 and the Ocker attack being led by a bowler damned near old enough to have coached Dennis Lillee.
Not even on the fact that the Poms are 17 behind with 6 wickets in hand after day two.
The headlines both days have been about a small crowd of wankers commenting on some misjudgements from long ago by three of the Ockers, misjudgements those Ockers have paid very heavily for.
The wankers can be excused, they are, after-all, Poms but the slime can not, except, of course by the fact that they are slime and therefore far from in touch with reality.
One thing I do note however, is that NZ reporting of the games are not headlined by the sublime 144 of Steve Smith on return from exile or the fact that the Poms could not amass the equivalent number of runs to Australia's first innings (They scored 27 less) despite batting on a wicket that had settled down by session three, day one, to allow the last two Ocker wickets to contribute 166 and the Ocker attack being led by a bowler damned near old enough to have coached Dennis Lillee.
Not even on the fact that the Poms are 17 behind with 6 wickets in hand after day two.
The headlines both days have been about a small crowd of wankers commenting on some misjudgements from long ago by three of the Ockers, misjudgements those Ockers have paid very heavily for.
The wankers can be excused, they are, after-all, Poms but the slime can not, except, of course by the fact that they are slime and therefore far from in touch with reality.
Asthetics
Has anyone else been appalled by the very large numbers and names adorning the players in the current Ashes test?
If this is a requirement for an international test championship I'm agin' it!
If this is a requirement for an international test championship I'm agin' it!
Thursday 1 August 2019
What next?
In 2017 it was accepted that our galaxy was a flat spiral.
Then the halfwit voters elected a quasi-communist government.
Now look what's happened!
RNZ Headline: Milky Way galaxy is warped and twisted, not flat
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/395852/milky-way-galaxy-is-warped-and-twisted-not-flat
Then the halfwit voters elected a quasi-communist government.
Now look what's happened!
RNZ Headline: Milky Way galaxy is warped and twisted, not flat
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/395852/milky-way-galaxy-is-warped-and-twisted-not-flat
Say goodnight differently.
Packaging fine Alto has been fined $250K after a worker got their fingers into a machine, I presume accidentally.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/packaging-firm-previous-failings-fined-250k-after-worker-loses-fingers-in-unguarded-machine
The story states that the worker had the tips of two of their fingers removed after the incident. The worker has been compensated $32K.
Alto has been remiss previously and the fine is probably fair enough, as is the worker compensation as it's out of the fine.
What is not fair is this statement from Chief inspector, specialist interventions, Hayden Mander, who said the company should have been aware of the risks involved.
<i>"This company has not learned from its previous failings. If you've been subject to 10 notices for health and safety failings since 2014, you've got to know you're not doing something right," he said.
"The right response to this alarming record should have been a company-wide review of its machine guarding - instead a worker has been left with life changing injuries."</i>
Life changing injuries?
Get off the grass!
The only thing "life changing" about losing the tips of two fingers is that this worker will, at the end of each shift, now have to find a new way of saying goodnight to the boss.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/packaging-firm-previous-failings-fined-250k-after-worker-loses-fingers-in-unguarded-machine
The story states that the worker had the tips of two of their fingers removed after the incident. The worker has been compensated $32K.
Alto has been remiss previously and the fine is probably fair enough, as is the worker compensation as it's out of the fine.
What is not fair is this statement from Chief inspector, specialist interventions, Hayden Mander, who said the company should have been aware of the risks involved.
<i>"This company has not learned from its previous failings. If you've been subject to 10 notices for health and safety failings since 2014, you've got to know you're not doing something right," he said.
"The right response to this alarming record should have been a company-wide review of its machine guarding - instead a worker has been left with life changing injuries."</i>
Life changing injuries?
Get off the grass!
The only thing "life changing" about losing the tips of two fingers is that this worker will, at the end of each shift, now have to find a new way of saying goodnight to the boss.
It's OK if you're ....
It has been announced that a black seppo noisemaker called Tyler, The Creator has been granted a visa to perform in New Zealand.
No doubt many members of the current government will rock up (with free tickets of course) to hear his racket.
You may have heard of this noisemaker: He was part of a group, Odd Future, that was banned in 2014.
A RNZ report from 2014 states that a spokesperson for Immigration New Zealand, Border operations manager Karen Urwin explained why.
Though Urwin said at the time that Odd Future was barred on grounds of threat to public order, and not because of their lyrical content, internal correspondence – the sender and recipient(s) of which has been redacted in reliance on the section of the Act that protects the privacy of natural persons – shows the explicit content of their music was taken into account:
Obviously if you make horrible noise, as in the Rape-John-Key's-Daughter scum, you are not held to any standard at all by the current clowns.
No doubt many members of the current government will rock up (with free tickets of course) to hear his racket.
You may have heard of this noisemaker: He was part of a group, Odd Future, that was banned in 2014.
A RNZ report from 2014 states that a spokesperson for Immigration New Zealand, Border operations manager Karen Urwin explained why.
Though Urwin said at the time that Odd Future was barred on grounds of threat to public order, and not because of their lyrical content, internal correspondence – the sender and recipient(s) of which has been redacted in reliance on the section of the Act that protects the privacy of natural persons – shows the explicit content of their music was taken into account:
This group clearly has a history of
promoting and inciting hatred. ... Their lyrics are homophobic and
racist. They glorify rape and murder fantasies, as well as cannibalism
and necrophilia. ... Were they to be permitted to travel to New Zealand
and to perform I believe, on the basis of their track record thus far,
that they are likely to incite violence (towards women), racial, sexist
and homophobic disharmony in New Zealand.
Obviously if you make horrible noise, as in the Rape-John-Key's-Daughter scum, you are not held to any standard at all by the current clowns.
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