Sorry but when did Maori ever celebrate Christmas before Europeans arrived? When did they have Saint Nicholas giving out presents? When did they have Reindeer?Dont destroy fun beliefs for the sake of stupid public relations idiocy.The 1% destroying the small amount of fun for all children
So if they hired her and she couldnt lift the boxes without help (requiring two people todo the job of one) would she get fired?Or what happens if she hurt herself due to strain (therefore ACC could come into play) would the company be at fault for not employing extra people to help her in the role??They thought she wasnt capable of doing the role so therefore she didnt get the job, same reason lots of people dont get certain jobs they apply for, they just happen to mention the reason and now its a discrimination issue in the media
If they dont know basic English then they shouldnt be doing the exam in the first place, let them fail and perhaps next time they will do better.We shouldnt lower our standards of study and learning due to those who dont know, may as well give everything an A+ if they want excuses for not knowing words.Imagine if a doctor gave the wrong drugs because he didnt know what the word allergy meant, should we just allow him to pass the medical exam because his English isnt as good as everyone else?
as the price of houses increase so does the rent, otherwise the landlords cant afford the houses to begin with... when the price of houses goes down then so does the rent, but as prices keep going up so does rent, simple as that
The reforms would also make it much easier for tenants to own petsNo problem there...As long as they also make it much easier for landlords to charge for property damage!
Yea I get sick of typing things to have them not appear in any comment list too, complete waste of time writing paragraphs to have someone just click no and have it dumped
To some extent this a symptom of our own success yea right... its todo with Chinese and foreign buyers snapping up all the local properties for cheap... leaving nothing for citizens, raising the cost of property... the cost of living... and putting everyone who lives here under more pressure because NZ is just left open for anyone to buy whatever they want and unfortunately theres a lot more rich people overseas than here so NZ houses are cheap as chips to them to invest in
So sick of this going on an on and on.... will they still be complaining in 1000 years too when prices of everything go up even more and lands worth 10 times more than it is now...
What happens when an entire hydro damn is taken out with an earthquake and unable to be rebuilt properly for years, they cant even rebuild simple roading systems within 12 months let alone an entire hydro damn after a quake
Dirty tenant but yet blame the landlord... looks like he cant even be bothered vacuming up the bugs, let them rot there and attract more of them or lay their eggs and bread more because he cant be stuffed cleaning them up, theres only so much a landlord can do when a tenant is that dirty
If it was right next to some other non government persons house she wouldnt give a toss and would be all for it and say the person is being unreasonable and it would just go ahead anyway...
Id have them arrested for theft or destruction of property if they eat before paying, as the product has gone or is no longer able to be sold due to contamination/damage
Good on the person for doing what Auckland Transport SHOULD be doing, soon people will be installing there own speed humps in streets to stop speeding/hooning cars from killing someone because AT cant be bothered doing their job
How in a world of being able to have GPS even on a watch... can a bus take the wrong route....Dont they have terminals where a driver can just enter in a pre programmed trip number and just follow the screens directions if your theyre not 100% sure of the route themselves??Pretty sure there must be a company out there selling GPS terminals with programmable routes/roads it cant be that hard to get a system like that for a bus company... unless they just dont want to pay for it and instead provide a useless service
Gotta depress lots of girls in the nightclubs who keep asking me for free drinks....Sorry dear I dont want to get you drunk and be accused of rape because you want me more later... go find another guy to buy you that drink who doesnt care or is maybe drunk himself...
Its my right to get some stupid picture permanently added into my body, and its also any companies right to not like that picture and not employee me because of it.Good on Air NZ for employing staff who take pride in their appearance and not ruin their bodies with stupid pictures without thinking of the future of what those pictures/text might cause.Remember the clever boy with Devast8 tattooed on his face? Would any company want to employee someone like that to do client facing work?
Getting sick of the whole pay equality thing when certain people demand higher pay when they dont do the same quality of work or have the same experience as people earning more but yet they expect the same pay!
Main problem is plastic products wrapped in plastic.When i buy computer cables for instance, they come wrapped/contained in more plastic than is in the actual cable to start with! Why does half a meter of tiny cable need to be sealed/packaged in half a KG of hard indestructible plastic shell??? Blame China for all the massive increase is useless plastic waste because they are the ones sending it out to other countries in the first place, we were just sending it back to its original source
No major problem, now ill just have to BUY rolls of plastic bags to put small rubbish into, wrap my lunch in instead of reusing the bags I get from the supermarket etc etc...All this does is save supermarkets $$$ as they now charge extra for the same thing but thicker plastic instead, still funny that there is NO way we can easily recycle plastic bags still as our recycle bins dont allow plastic bags!!How about giving us the ability to put plastic bags in a recycle bin at home instead of just banning them???
Insulin can kill if injected in high amounts, it surely must be illegal to sell if its not prescribed to a diabetic???No diabetic would purchase it as they get it from a pharmacy for free apart from the script fee, so the only people who might want it are body builders who know exactly how much to inject without killing themselves
Cant afford to heat.. cant afford to eat... i know lets have more kids... thatll solve the problem, seems to be the way lots of people in this country think
Of course the current petrol hasnt been impacted by any price changes... but how would the petrol stations rip you off if they didnt raise prices instantly like they do :)
Theres a lot more than a simple bridge clip on to fix that problem.... still cant catch a train from downtown to the shore for starters... then the multiple bus trips to get anywhere meaningful for most people, if the buses are not full or on time
Cheating, potential hookups, heartbreaks, medical emergencies, pregnancies, family issues... any or all of this to create some free media pointless clickbait headlines for a stupid show...
I remember seeing plans for new apartments in Newmarket Auckland, tiny two bedroom apartment but it had 3 bathrooms!I suppose thats for the 10 overseas students who will be living in bunkbeds in the living room and rooms?
So many shows now just shove in a a black actor/actress into a part not because they actually suit the part or they can act but just because of the skin color just so they can tick the box of being P.C.
So what happens when the idiot driver pulls onto the 100kmph motorway and doesnt figure out you need to accelerate to get upto 100kmph and take 5 minutes to get from 50kmph to 100kmph on the 10 meters of onramp they have available... or the other idiots that drive at a constant 70-80k in the 100k road...
Dont forget the money you save on service for non petrol engines, oil changes, cambelt/otherbelt changes (on some cars)But im guessing the BMW i3 will fail just as much as other petrol BMWs and need overpriced servicing to fix something that will break eventually (battery failure, some electric motor malfunction, electrics failure somewhere etc etc that has all been designed to only be fixed by a certified BMW service center
Any cashless system needs to not charge extra for using it.. such as $0.xx for txt, or $0.50 for creditcard transactions, it needs to be as cheap as cash otherwise its basically just charging more for the same thing to consumers and giving no other choice
Im sure NZ will try and re-invent it so that local companies can overcharge for NZ Certified floating building products that do the same job as much cheaper non-nz products that have been used for 80+ years overseas with no problems, but just dont have an NZ stamp on them therefore wont get consent for build
yup add macrons... makes it even harder for anyone to know what to say... so well just keep saying it like we have forever more... and ignore whatever extra stupid characters they add to already unpronounceable names to make it even more difficult for people to know what to call some place
Theyd only allow it if the council would make a good $100,000 in having an inspector tick a box on a piece of paper and say its livable and wont rot... even if it then rots 5 years later...
If housing and rent didnt cost so much in this country the whole childcare thing wouldnt be so much of an issue as people could afford some time off work to look after the kids
They declined because they couldnt be bothered looking for a way todo it.... easier to say not possible than spend 30 minutes looking for an easy way to put in a manhole like she got someone else todo...
Builderscrack is awesome, wouldnt have been able to get some good sized jobs done without itSpark will find some way of ripping off people with any service they come up with, theyll get everyone using it, then raise prices, then find a way of charging both businesses and customers for using it... eg want to ask for a quote? Thatll be $10 please user...oh you want a quote from more than just 2 businesses at once? thats another $10, just give it time and watch what they do to put profit before anything else...
Ive seen to many cyclists who just completely ignore the backup of cars behind them, half way in the middle of the road when they could simply move over and make room for all the cars/buses being help up behind them to get past as if theyre just asking to get hit
Its more useless plastic from China that they refuse to take back, they keep pumping more plastic into other countries and now refuse to take any back for recycling, they are the problem
Same as the N word... definition was originally Latin niger, which means black, and the Spanish negro, meaning a black person, then eventually became derogatory
I dont see how that can happen when Uber have GPS logs of both the driver and passenger... so if the driver never picked you up how could the GPS logs of both be equal? Also if the other driver picked her up Uber would have records of said customer getting in the other Uber drivers car, so how could she be charged for two rides at almost the same time? Would be pretty simpel for Uber to confirm fraud and cancel the drivers account so they cant be an Uber driver anymore
What happens if 100 people each cut a small part of a ring of bark around it... no single person ring barked the tree, it was 100 :) Who they going to take to court...
Should be daily backups of any server, so no major loss... unless there backup routine is so bad that they dont have backups and their IT should be fired...
Put a tax on plastic coated plastic product imports... the number of computer related things that are simple USB sticks that are wrapped in impossible to open hard plastic wrapping that get chucked straight into the bin when you buy the product is ridiculous. There is more plastic in the box than in the product itself!!Then of course you get plastic bags wrapped around plastic cables in plastic boxes...Less useless plastic imported = less to deal with!If manufacturers got charged more the more useless plastic they use then less plastic would end up in the bin as they would figure out ways of putting in less plastic to their products packaging/wraps
Funny how when petrol prices lowered per barrel the same didnt happen at the pump...So theyll rise to $3, then barrel prices will plummet to the old $2 pump prices but I guarantee they wont lower pump prices to the same level they were at... getting ripped off and no way to stop it
Instead of designing the roading properly so that people arnt easily killed, just lower the speed limits... hell why not just make all speed limits 20kmph everywhere... thatll solve the problem wont it??Ive asked Auckland transport to improve a roundabout where its designed to allow cars to speed at full speed around a blind corner where kids cross and cars come out of a driveway, almost crashes every day... they said we cant do anything about it because its a BUS route! I told them yes I know, my cars been hit by a bus going around that corner without slowing down!Badly designed roading from the start and they just dont care, no thought to how drivers actually drive and that 90% of the time they wont slow down when they should, modifications done to roads AFTER that fact (which usually costs more) because of lack of thought in the initial designs
Someone explain how a petrol station on Onewa Rd can charge $2.56 for 98 while a gull a few Km away charges only $2.22 when petrol stations are claiming they only make a few cents per liter... some petrol stations are totally ripping off customers
We have tried to meet someone from council about the issue but havent heard back, Pauline said.Yup same issue... 18 months in and still nothing, and emailed again Well turn up next week if your available.. emailed back saying im available at any time they wish.... that was 4 months ago and never heard back... Useless...
So what happens when some idiot goes into the 80 tunnel at 100.. then panics and slows down near the end to 50 so his average is 80? It will happen, you know it will, some driver near the end will slam on their brakes realizing that their average might be a bit high before they reach the next camera and travel the rest of the distance well below the allowed speed therefore slowing down ALL other traffic
The should be happy they got anything, plenty of developments go under (Mt Wellington Spring Park for instance) and the people who waited for 4 years got NOTHING but the small deposit they put in, plus had to sign away rights to any legal fight against the developer to even get their deposit back from the lawyers trust account
Auckland's Powerstation owner apologises for booking controversial speakers
Free speech is allowed... as long as everyone else agrees with you I guess...
Hana KÅkÅ might have worked with a bit more warning
Sorry but when did Maori ever celebrate Christmas before Europeans arrived? When did they have Saint Nicholas giving out presents? When did they have Reindeer?Dont destroy fun beliefs for the sake of stupid public relations idiocy.The 1% destroying the small amount of fun for all children
Unsuccessful female candidate told store opted for physically strong male
So if they hired her and she couldnt lift the boxes without help (requiring two people todo the job of one) would she get fired?Or what happens if she hurt herself due to strain (therefore ACC could come into play) would the company be at fault for not employing extra people to help her in the role??They thought she wasnt capable of doing the role so therefore she didnt get the job, same reason lots of people dont get certain jobs they apply for, they just happen to mention the reason and now its a discrimination issue in the media
Students launch petition after being flummoxed by word trivial in NZQA exam
If they dont know basic English then they shouldnt be doing the exam in the first place, let them fail and perhaps next time they will do better.We shouldnt lower our standards of study and learning due to those who dont know, may as well give everything an A+ if they want excuses for not knowing words.Imagine if a doctor gave the wrong drugs because he didnt know what the word allergy meant, should we just allow him to pass the medical exam because his English isnt as good as everyone else?
Asbestos concerns prompt Christchurch council staff to abandon check of Lynda McKenzie's self-help insulation
Now we know why rates keep going up... to pay the extra people to stand around with a notebook who are probably paid $100 per hour todo so...
Heres where rents have been rising fastest
as the price of houses increase so does the rent, otherwise the landlords cant afford the houses to begin with... when the price of houses goes down then so does the rent, but as prices keep going up so does rent, simple as that
Housing NZ tenant, 84, forced to move as newly renovated home set for demolition
So in 46 years he couldnt find his own place to purchase??
Limits on rent increases and an end to rental bidding as Government reviews rental rules
The reforms would also make it much easier for tenants to own petsNo problem there...As long as they also make it much easier for landlords to charge for property damage!
Interest rates to rise significantly, house prices fall, economist says
Every week its a news article about house prices either rising or crashing... one or the other each week
Asbestos concerns prompt Christchurch council staff to abandon check of Lynda McKenzie's self-help insulation
I hope she sends them the invoice for a refund for the work she got done that they legally should have done for her
Auckland limer says school hoarding e-scooters for students to use
Shouldnt students be forced to park them outside the school on public land??
"Roundup foes driven by hatred for Monsanto",
Yea I get sick of typing things to have them not appear in any comment list too, complete waste of time writing paragraphs to have someone just click no and have it dumped
Heres where rents have been rising fastest
To some extent this a symptom of our own success yea right... its todo with Chinese and foreign buyers snapping up all the local properties for cheap... leaving nothing for citizens, raising the cost of property... the cost of living... and putting everyone who lives here under more pressure because NZ is just left open for anyone to buy whatever they want and unfortunately theres a lot more rich people overseas than here so NZ houses are cheap as chips to them to invest in
Treaty of Waitangi: What was lost
So sick of this going on an on and on.... will they still be complaining in 1000 years too when prices of everything go up even more and lands worth 10 times more than it is now...
Playing with the notion that PÄkehÄ is a racist word
Pakeha is just as bad as the N word.. shouldnt be used and should be banned as a racist word to describe white people
"'Creaking and groaning' New Zealand energy system poses risk to economy",
What happens when an entire hydro damn is taken out with an earthquake and unable to be rebuilt properly for years, they cant even rebuild simple roading systems within 12 months let alone an entire hydro damn after a quake
Hamilton man stuck in cockroach limbo
Dirty tenant but yet blame the landlord... looks like he cant even be bothered vacuming up the bugs, let them rot there and attract more of them or lay their eggs and bread more because he cant be stuffed cleaning them up, theres only so much a landlord can do when a tenant is that dirty
Nelson Santa Parade organisers apologise for MÄori Santa
Tell the kids if your a bad boy or girl then Hana KÅkÅ comes and takes your presents that Santa left for you....
MPs criticism of cycle rail route near her property plain wrong
If it was right next to some other non government persons house she wouldnt give a toss and would be all for it and say the person is being unreasonable and it would just go ahead anyway...
New World warned customers it would fine them for eating unpaid items
You dont own it until youve payed for it, therefore you have no right to open or eat anything until its been payed for
New World warned customers it would fine them for eating unpaid items
Id have them arrested for theft or destruction of property if they eat before paying, as the product has gone or is no longer able to be sold due to contamination/damage
Playing with the notion that PÄkehÄ is a racist word
Pakeha for a white person is the same as calling someone in America with dark skin the N word....
Housing Minister Phil Twyford's reforms likely to raise rents, officials warn
Raised my rental weekly price $50 a week already....
DIY yellow parking lines created on unofficial 'park and ride' street
Good on the person for doing what Auckland Transport SHOULD be doing, soon people will be installing there own speed humps in streets to stop speeding/hooning cars from killing someone because AT cant be bothered doing their job
Playing with the notion that PÄkehÄ is a racist word
the P word is the new N word for New Zealanders of white skin
One Wellington bus driven up wrong road and abandoned, another runs out of fuel
How in a world of being able to have GPS even on a watch... can a bus take the wrong route....Dont they have terminals where a driver can just enter in a pre programmed trip number and just follow the screens directions if your theyre not 100% sure of the route themselves??Pretty sure there must be a company out there selling GPS terminals with programmable routes/roads it cant be that hard to get a system like that for a bus company... unless they just dont want to pay for it and instead provide a useless service
Competition watchdog bid to force Wilson Parking to give up parking building
Couldnt happen to a nicer company... wish the govt would make them give up more carparks to competition
How teen comedies like Superbad normalize sexual assault
Gotta depress lots of girls in the nightclubs who keep asking me for free drinks....Sorry dear I dont want to get you drunk and be accused of rape because you want me more later... go find another guy to buy you that drink who doesnt care or is maybe drunk himself...
The Good Neighbour Call Station: Burglar-busting home security since way back
bet alarm companies would hate systems like that.. they cant charge you ripoff $$$ per month to monitor it and not bother checking when it goes off...
Former Matrix Homes workers unsure where next pay cheque will come from
Guess well soon be importing pre built houses from China as there will be no house builders here as they keep failing
Cafe owners face going broke over councils ridiculous 12 chair limit
Have customers bring their own foldout beach chairs :)
Petone cafe owner upset at being attacked by mums with prams
Ive left many a cafe early instead of buying another coffee due to screaming kids who their parents ignore and keep reading the newspaper...
Tinker Bell's wings clipped by Air New Zealand
Its my right to get some stupid picture permanently added into my body, and its also any companies right to not like that picture and not employee me because of it.Good on Air NZ for employing staff who take pride in their appearance and not ruin their bodies with stupid pictures without thinking of the future of what those pictures/text might cause.Remember the clever boy with Devast8 tattooed on his face? Would any company want to employee someone like that to do client facing work?
BusinessNZ criticises 'unilateral' addition of 'back pay' to pay equity bill
Getting sick of the whole pay equality thing when certain people demand higher pay when they dont do the same quality of work or have the same experience as people earning more but yet they expect the same pay!
Richard Gere becoming a father again at 69
Imagine being a teenager with an 85 year old father... lets go play ball dad... sure just let me get my zimmer frame
Consent for nine-metre retaining wall as much as construction
Couldnt they perhaps install terracing instead, so each wall will be below the required consent height
China's ban on importing other countries' waste shakes up plastic war
Main problem is plastic products wrapped in plastic.When i buy computer cables for instance, they come wrapped/contained in more plastic than is in the actual cable to start with! Why does half a meter of tiny cable need to be sealed/packaged in half a KG of hard indestructible plastic shell??? Blame China for all the massive increase is useless plastic waste because they are the ones sending it out to other countries in the first place, we were just sending it back to its original source
New Zealand to ban single-use plastic bags
No major problem, now ill just have to BUY rolls of plastic bags to put small rubbish into, wrap my lunch in instead of reusing the bags I get from the supermarket etc etc...All this does is save supermarkets $$$ as they now charge extra for the same thing but thicker plastic instead, still funny that there is NO way we can easily recycle plastic bags still as our recycle bins dont allow plastic bags!!How about giving us the ability to put plastic bags in a recycle bin at home instead of just banning them???
Cameras, charges and minders after private well targeted by commercial users
Why not put a limiter on the pump/tap that only allows a litre per MINUTE flow rate... would take them 2000 minutes to get that much water
People will 'subscribe' to EVs the same way they do for Spotify and Netflix
Good way to get people to test how well a EV suits them for a few months before deciding on purchasing their own one later...
Shifting petrol prices putting Auckland motorists under the pump
BP - 3.5km away Onewa Rd 98 = $2.56Gull 5km away 98 = $2.22So come up with some awesome excuse for that price hike BP...
Milking it: NZs milk price: Whos getting rich?
Isnt this the same conversation about ripoff Milk prices year after year and nothing changes....
Facebook sales of prescription medicines in New Zealand draw wrath of pharmacist
Insulin can kill if injected in high amounts, it surely must be illegal to sell if its not prescribed to a diabetic???No diabetic would purchase it as they get it from a pharmacy for free apart from the script fee, so the only people who might want it are body builders who know exactly how much to inject without killing themselves
New Zealanders hungry and cold in their own homes this winter
Cant afford to heat.. cant afford to eat... i know lets have more kids... thatll solve the problem, seems to be the way lots of people in this country think
Fuel prices creep up towards record high, again
Of course the current petrol hasnt been impacted by any price changes... but how would the petrol stations rip you off if they didnt raise prices instantly like they do :)
Government announces it will fund and build SkyPath along Auckland Harbour Bridge, but cannot give completion date
Theres a lot more than a simple bridge clip on to fix that problem.... still cant catch a train from downtown to the shore for starters... then the multiple bus trips to get anywhere meaningful for most people, if the buses are not full or on time
The Block NZ: Cheating claim halts reveal on 'Blank Canvas' week
Cheating, potential hookups, heartbreaks, medical emergencies, pregnancies, family issues... any or all of this to create some free media pointless clickbait headlines for a stupid show...
Gogglebox NZ reveals final households ahead of premiere
Wow TV is just getting more and more stupid...
WeChat users offered top secret luxury apartment planned for Aucklands North Harbour
Are there any American/South African made buildings being sold to Americans or South Africans only first?
Kevin McCloud asks just how may toilets do we need in a house?
I remember seeing plans for new apartments in Newmarket Auckland, tiny two bedroom apartment but it had 3 bathrooms!I suppose thats for the 10 overseas students who will be living in bunkbeds in the living room and rooms?
Buffy the Vampire Slayer born again in TV reboot with black cast
So many shows now just shove in a a black actor/actress into a part not because they actually suit the part or they can act but just because of the skin color just so they can tick the box of being P.C.
The solution to Aucklands traffic problems is already here
So what happens when the idiot driver pulls onto the 100kmph motorway and doesnt figure out you need to accelerate to get upto 100kmph and take 5 minutes to get from 50kmph to 100kmph on the 10 meters of onramp they have available... or the other idiots that drive at a constant 70-80k in the 100k road...
Government could buy Kate Sheppard's historic Christchurch home
What a waste of money... give me my tax back if its going to purchasing houses like this
How much will an EV really cost to run?
Dont forget the money you save on service for non petrol engines, oil changes, cambelt/otherbelt changes (on some cars)But im guessing the BMW i3 will fail just as much as other petrol BMWs and need overpriced servicing to fix something that will break eventually (battery failure, some electric motor malfunction, electrics failure somewhere etc etc that has all been designed to only be fixed by a certified BMW service center
The Block NZ: Claire and Agni's fourth bedroom is illegal, but you can sleep there
Ita a 3 room with an office/study
'Ticketless' parking meters just the ticket after North Island tiki tour
Any cashless system needs to not charge extra for using it.. such as $0.xx for txt, or $0.50 for creditcard transactions, it needs to be as cheap as cash otherwise its basically just charging more for the same thing to consumers and giving no other choice
More than 45 per cent of calls to Inland Revenue disconnected in June
Send them an invoice for your time wasted on hold
Employers must respect other religions and cultures
isnt the Maori custom of forbidding females from speaking in powhiri called sexist?
Pitched as a solution for sea level rise, questions remain over floating houses' affordability
Im sure NZ will try and re-invent it so that local companies can overcharge for NZ Certified floating building products that do the same job as much cheaper non-nz products that have been used for 80+ years overseas with no problems, but just dont have an NZ stamp on them therefore wont get consent for build
AT spends $380k on 'invisible' pedestrian crossings in Orewa
AT doing things wrong as usual... no surprise there
New Zealanders hungry and cold in their own homes this winter
Double glazing doesnt prevent moisture in a house
"Takanini or Takaanini? Auckland Transport's new sign leaves commuters confused",
yup add macrons... makes it even harder for anyone to know what to say... so well just keep saying it like we have forever more... and ignore whatever extra stupid characters they add to already unpronounceable names to make it even more difficult for people to know what to call some place
Crashes likely if 'confusing' giveway switch-up not put back
Perhaps he used to be employed by Auckland Transport, theyd do the same thing im sure
Tower hits homeowner with $10,000 premium hike under new quake risk assessment
you get what you pay for.... just wait until you try and claim from tthem, youll get nothing but court costs :)
Christchurch contractor mistakenly encases trees in concrete
Shows the human population getting more and more stupid as the centuries go by...
Government announces it will fund and build SkyPath along Auckland Harbour Bridge, but cannot give completion date
Stop thinking logically... build it to small so you can spend way more at a later date fixing your original screw ups :)
WeChat users offered top secret luxury apartment planned for Aucklands North Harbour
China bringing their incredibly racist culture to NZ too...
"American Dream in a box: Sears once also sold mail-order prefab kit homes",
Theyd only allow it if the council would make a good $100,000 in having an inspector tick a box on a piece of paper and say its livable and wont rot... even if it then rots 5 years later...
Chair umpire's sexist power play ruins powerful US Open women's final
Its either sexist or racist... whatever card she wants to pull out to get revenge...
Medicine cut for MS patient because he can't walk 500 metres
Wouldnt he get the drug for free if he moved back to the UK?
Stop judging us for putting our kids in daycare, parents say
If housing and rent didnt cost so much in this country the whole childcare thing wouldnt be so much of an issue as people could afford some time off work to look after the kids
Christchurch council said it couldn't insulate its flat - so Lynda McKenzie got it done herself
They declined because they couldnt be bothered looking for a way todo it.... easier to say not possible than spend 30 minutes looking for an easy way to put in a manhole like she got someone else todo...
New World warns shoppers its giveaway Pods are not microwavable
Because of course you can trust a China based manufacturer to truthfully test their product.... yea right...
Spark launches rival to Builderscrack to help people find tradies
Builderscrack is awesome, wouldnt have been able to get some good sized jobs done without itSpark will find some way of ripping off people with any service they come up with, theyll get everyone using it, then raise prices, then find a way of charging both businesses and customers for using it... eg want to ask for a quote? Thatll be $10 please user...oh you want a quote from more than just 2 businesses at once? thats another $10, just give it time and watch what they do to put profit before anything else...
Sharrows: The cycling solution to narrow streets and parked cars
Ive seen to many cyclists who just completely ignore the backup of cars behind them, half way in the middle of the road when they could simply move over and make room for all the cars/buses being help up behind them to get past as if theyre just asking to get hit
Fears over threat to city drinking supplies from water bottling plant
Chinese company cant even be bothered to get their labeling correct... typical... nothing new here...
"Michael Hill shares drop after company reveals new tactics not paying off yet",
Yup... no discounts, just keep that %1000 profit on the shiny little pieces of glass... as if NZers arnt ripped off on everything else already...
Apple sees nothing impossible with new iPhones - including what we'll pay
Wow.. bigger screen... amazing...
New World warns shoppers its giveaway Pods are not microwavable
Its more useless plastic from China that they refuse to take back, they keep pumping more plastic into other countries and now refuse to take any back for recycling, they are the problem
Playing with the notion that PÄkehÄ is a racist word
Same as the N word... definition was originally Latin niger, which means black, and the Spanish negro, meaning a black person, then eventually became derogatory
Taiwanese fishing boat investigated after being caught in NZ waters
So its basically China ripping off our fish too.... seeing as Taiwan is (in Chinass mind) part of China
It's called vomit fraud. And it could make your Uber trip really expensive
I dont see how that can happen when Uber have GPS logs of both the driver and passenger... so if the driver never picked you up how could the GPS logs of both be equal? Also if the other driver picked her up Uber would have records of said customer getting in the other Uber drivers car, so how could she be charged for two rides at almost the same time? Would be pretty simpel for Uber to confirm fraud and cancel the drivers account so they cant be an Uber driver anymore
Retirees spend $20k battling to remove council's wilding pines
What happens if 100 people each cut a small part of a ring of bark around it... no single person ring barked the tree, it was 100 :) Who they going to take to court...
Social housing provider bubble wraps windows after tenant complains of cold
Magnetically attached acrylic see-through sheets do the job and look good, just cost a bit more than bubble wrap...
Taranaki High School in digital lockdown after hacker demands US$5000 to release school work
Should be daily backups of any server, so no major loss... unless there backup routine is so bad that they dont have backups and their IT should be fired...
'Concertina' sleeve house challenges our ideas of a family home
Looks like an office not a home
Playing with the notion that PÄkehÄ is a racist word
So your saying the N word is fine as it just means african american?
Recycling goes from hero to zero as China's plastic ban hits
Put a tax on plastic coated plastic product imports... the number of computer related things that are simple USB sticks that are wrapped in impossible to open hard plastic wrapping that get chucked straight into the bin when you buy the product is ridiculous. There is more plastic in the box than in the product itself!!Then of course you get plastic bags wrapped around plastic cables in plastic boxes...Less useless plastic imported = less to deal with!If manufacturers got charged more the more useless plastic they use then less plastic would end up in the bin as they would figure out ways of putting in less plastic to their products packaging/wraps
"Google ignores New Zealand with phone launch",
Yup.. NZ, bottom of the pile in most companies sales decisions, not worth the effort, were just a holiday island for the rich
Why I hate 'sales' and 'specials'
Harvey Norman special on a certain product... normal price $800 special weekend price $650, price from their special customer department $550
"High prices new normal: Here's how petrol could hit $3 a litre",
Funny how when petrol prices lowered per barrel the same didnt happen at the pump...So theyll rise to $3, then barrel prices will plummet to the old $2 pump prices but I guarantee they wont lower pump prices to the same level they were at... getting ripped off and no way to stop it
Speed limit cuts would be a 'band aid', says husband of Auckland road crash victim
Instead of designing the roading properly so that people arnt easily killed, just lower the speed limits... hell why not just make all speed limits 20kmph everywhere... thatll solve the problem wont it??Ive asked Auckland transport to improve a roundabout where its designed to allow cars to speed at full speed around a blind corner where kids cross and cars come out of a driveway, almost crashes every day... they said we cant do anything about it because its a BUS route! I told them yes I know, my cars been hit by a bus going around that corner without slowing down!Badly designed roading from the start and they just dont care, no thought to how drivers actually drive and that 90% of the time they wont slow down when they should, modifications done to roads AFTER that fact (which usually costs more) because of lack of thought in the initial designs
Auckland commuters counting the cost of regional fuel tax
Someone explain how a petrol station on Onewa Rd can charge $2.56 for 98 while a gull a few Km away charges only $2.22 when petrol stations are claiming they only make a few cents per liter... some petrol stations are totally ripping off customers
Agent expects bids over $750k for uninhabitable two-bedroom house
Plenty from China...
Pensioners' property floods as new houses continue to be built
We have tried to meet someone from council about the issue but havent heard back, Pauline said.Yup same issue... 18 months in and still nothing, and emailed again Well turn up next week if your available.. emailed back saying im available at any time they wish.... that was 4 months ago and never heard back... Useless...
Government announces it will fund and build SkyPath along Auckland Harbour Bridge, but cannot give completion date
Yea right... 100% guarantee it will blow the budget by millions due to unforeseen costs... ha..
High-tech average speed cameras coming to Auckland motorways
So what happens when some idiot goes into the 80 tunnel at 100.. then panics and slows down near the end to 50 so his average is 80? It will happen, you know it will, some driver near the end will slam on their brakes realizing that their average might be a bit high before they reach the next camera and travel the rest of the distance well below the allowed speed therefore slowing down ALL other traffic
Negotiations breakdown in Bella Vista debacle: all homeowners to sue Tauranga City Council
The should be happy they got anything, plenty of developments go under (Mt Wellington Spring Park for instance) and the people who waited for 4 years got NOTHING but the small deposit they put in, plus had to sign away rights to any legal fight against the developer to even get their deposit back from the lawyers trust account
Auckland City Rail Link engineering firm goes into administration
As long as China doesnt get it mits into it...
Otago lines company accused of causing power cuts due to under investment
Same as everything in NZ, prices go up, quality goes down...