I am aghast!

Aghast I tell you.

A "new" report https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/could-happen-tomorrow-government-warned-of-chances-of-catastrophic-earthquake/ suggest New Zealand is vulnerable to a natural event that may cause problems.

New?

As a schoolboy way back when we strode alongside dinosaurs on the way to school the talk of the town was about a catastrophic earthquake or tidal wave (the Japanese fellow was unknown back then) striking New Zealand causing problems.

We had two.

One caused a bit of mayhem in Lyttleton harbour (in Teddington the bar had to close - genuine catastrophe), the other caused row-boats in Ferrymead and the mudflats to swim about a bit.

But the potential earthquake was always present. When Mr Nordmier or Kiwi Keith or even Mr Muldoon was reigning supreme some even prayed for the that earthquake to hit "The Shaky Isles".

Alas it never did and Wellington, despite it's best efforts, has not been shaken out of existence or washed into the sea

The "new" report suggests similar things may happen.

Please forgive the unsteady hand typing this report, the shaking in my boots is rising higher.

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You don't want it?

 

You finished with that?

It has no value to you any more. You don’t want it?

Tell you what; You clean and wash it and dry it (at your expense), sort it and give me the things I can sell. You can then pay me to come and collect it (that part is not optional) and I’ll punish you if you have included anything I don’t want.

You’ll also have to pay me to take away all the other stuff you don’t want (again, not optional) and I’ll punish you if you get that wrong as well.

Have a nice day.

THAT is council recycling in New Zealand.

White Men Misbehaving

 News reports (therefore unreliable at best0 tell us a group of racist white men, some with a bit of Maori mixed in, are attempting to sabotage a well-known fishing contest up north.

Apparently they are blocking roads, boat ramps etc.

Plod, of course, are too busy trying to trap some poor bastard doing 3Km/per hour faster than he ridiculously slow and completely arbitrary speed limit and investigating people exercising free speech from the wrong side to uphold the law.

My advice to any prospective fishermen wanting to partake: come armed and ready to use those arms.

Shooting noxious pests in New Zealand, as long as you don't endanger innocents, can be fun.

Restart

 A restart, not just to the blog but within my life.

I needed to move following an unfortunate series of events.

I purchased a caravan from "Selwyn Caravans and Motors Ltd."

The "Ltd" is right!

DO NOT PURCHASE FROM THIS OUTFIT! THE OPERATOR IS A THIEF AND A LIAR!

I now live in a caravan at Woodend Beach. Life is interesting. (which makes me also a liar). But it's not bad.

I had decided to stop blogging and commenting on blogs but too much utter bullshit is happening.

Not just within the slime (msm - that greasy shit that floats over everything contributing only a very bad smell and an unpleasant experience) but with racists, including mainly white men pretending to be brown) and communists (socialists are communists without the intestinal fortitude) and now the truly nasty antisemitism crowd being given free license to mouth off refused to genuine good people (read: rightwingers).

I need an outlet. This blog is it.

Of course this blog is unread by millions (correctly so) so if you're here by mistake accept my apologies, read my ravings and thank your lucky stars your brain is not like mine.

I wish any poor bastard reading this a speedy recovery and note that if nothing else typing this entry has convinced me to buy a new, reasonably priced keyboard instead of this cheap crap.

Phil

A heartfelt Plea

When you look at newspapers from a time that newspapers were paper tools for delivering news, the first thing that strikes you is even the front page contained just news.

Only the odd line drawing advertisement broke the page, even when the news was dramatic and relevant.

Photographs were reserved for either inside sections or, occasionally, a special added outer-sheet designed to be removed to get at the news sections.

I miss those times.

I usually read the news in the mornings when drinking coffee, eating breakfast (or both), on-line. Every story, every item I click on is accompanied by a photograph.

Sometimes (i.e. Mr Musk's latest rocket test results) that photograph is both useful and topical but 99.999999999% of the time the photograph is a headshot of a fucking politician, often one who is not even relevant to the story. Always a grinning, ugly, pathetic publicity-type shot, usually altered to look positive or negative depending on whether the editor agrees with that person's politics.

Mr Publisher, I know what Biden, Trump, the communist c*&t, the whinging Ginger, Luxon etc. look like. Reminding me simply spoils the coffee/breakfast - one of the very few pleasures in this old man's day.

Mr Newspaper Publisher, Mr Editor, instead of this visual obscenity fill the gap up with more news. I realise this will probably mean your content will need to extend beyond the communist propaganda you now present exclusively but it could well be worth it.

I might start buying your newspaper again.

A Polite Query

New Zealand is coming to the end (hopefully) of a so-far unique circumstance.

The end of the first Government in New Zealand's history where the Government has deliberately worked against New Zealand and the vast majority of it's people.

Given the disgraceful behaviour during the Covid panic, the move towards open apartheid, the seriously damaging destruction of health services and the total abdication of responsibility for the provision of useful education for young New Zealand, every rational person (and virtually all of us irrational people) in New Zealand must admit this.

Thankfully this Government has also been incompetent and we still get to hold a meaningful and democratic election this year - which, if the current clowns are re-elected will almost certainly be New Zealand's last.

The campaign for this election has started but with a whimper rather than a bang.

Rather than emphasise the total dishonesty of the current Government and promise to investigate the extent of that dishonesty, rather than promise to explore the individual rewards gained by members of this Government, if only to display that the current lot were deluded rather than corrupt, the opposition are treating the 20-23 Government as if they were faultless, even honorable.

There can be no doubt many, if not all, senior Government personnel have profitted from their terms in office - e.g. is the former PM in the position she's in because of her display of complete lack of competence?

Why are Mr Seymour, Mr Luxon, Mr Peters not demanding inquiries even now? Why are they not promising forensic inquiries of the 20-23 senior Government elected representatives' finances and circumstances (bribes ain't always cash in the hand) as soon as they take office, again if only to rule out widespread corruption among this Labour/Green/Racist group?

Are they too polite?

Or does New Zealand simply need a brand new batch of politicians?

Truth In Advertising

Truth In Advertising

There are two advertisements running on New Zealand television that break the normal and actually demonstrate facts, albeit accidentally.

Congratulations must first go to MacDonalds who, with their advertisement for a larger burger (I think called a grand mc mac) graphically demonstrate the true nature of so many older maori, particularly sheilas i.e. greedy, grasping and totally selfish.

The second is for New Zealand Police and is boasting at how they are too busy pulling over responsible and safe drivers for very minor infractions to be able to police the absolute nutters causing major accidents and deaths on New Zealand roads.

I congratulate both these organisation, truth is so unusual nowdays.