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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    @Smudge shows how appalling my powers of observation are , we have a jar of the chilli one my mrs got in a gift basket.
    It must have been good because my boy ate all of it and put the empty jar back in the cupboard.

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    #2019

    Key quote, " sent the media into a frenzy". You could also add accepting everything without question and assuming his target is lying if the defend themselves.
    No surprise journalists occupy the lowest ranking in public trust , perhaps they might like to look outside their circle and see how the rest of NZ sees Hagar.

    Stuff
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    #2020

    @jegga as @Baron-Silas-Greenback alludes to in the NZ Politics thread, is odd how Hagar seems to get a free pass in the NZ Media, free publicity, very little questions, his words are seen as fact.

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    Massive Gold Coin Worth Millions Stolen From German Museum

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    @Tim said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    Massive Gold Coin Worth Millions Stolen From German Museum

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    That's a lot of spacies right there

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  • taniwharugbyT Offline
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    it weighs 100kg....so wouldn't have been easy to carry either, unless you had a beast like @MN5 to carry it for you!

    Assume the only thing for that is to melt it down?

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    you could be on the pokies for daaaaays!

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  • MN5M Offline
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    @jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @MN5 there can't be that many people left that actually care what she thinks anymore surely? Her brand has been in decline for years and she's pretty fucking weird even by NZ shitlebrity standards.

    Actually thinking about the fuss over the Beyoncé of the news last year you might be right. Ffs.

    Unfortunately there is cos fuck the haterz. ...she's so beautiful, funny, strong, inspirational and tells it like it is!!!

    ......according to dipshit braindead fuckheads on FB comments anyway.....

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    @MN5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @MN5 there can't be that many people left that actually care what she thinks anymore surely? Her brand has been in decline for years and she's pretty fucking weird even by NZ shitlebrity standards.

    Actually thinking about the fuss over the Beyoncé of the news last year you might be right. Ffs.

    Unfortunately there is cos fuck the haterz. ...she's so beautiful, funny, strong, inspirational and tells it like it is!!!

    ......according to dipshit braindead fuckheads on FB comments anyway.....

    Are these people your friends?

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  • MN5M Offline
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    @jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @MN5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @MN5 there can't be that many people left that actually care what she thinks anymore surely? Her brand has been in decline for years and she's pretty fucking weird even by NZ shitlebrity standards.

    Actually thinking about the fuss over the Beyoncé of the news last year you might be right. Ffs.

    Unfortunately there is cos fuck the haterz. ...she's so beautiful, funny, strong, inspirational and tells it like it is!!!

    ......according to dipshit braindead fuckheads on FB comments anyway.....

    Are these people your friends?

    Yep.....I mean ummmm na

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    @MN5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @MN5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @MN5 there can't be that many people left that actually care what she thinks anymore surely? Her brand has been in decline for years and she's pretty fucking weird even by NZ shitlebrity standards.

    Actually thinking about the fuss over the Beyoncé of the news last year you might be right. Ffs.

    Unfortunately there is cos fuck the haterz. ...she's so beautiful, funny, strong, inspirational and tells it like it is!!!

    ......according to dipshit braindead fuckheads on FB comments anyway.....

    Are these people your friends?

    Yep.....I mean ummmm na

    Ffs

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  • taniwharugbyT Offline
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    that'll learn ya!

    Thought this was amusing:

    Those poor sods. Not only did they have a miserable year stuck in the middle of nowhere, they returned to civilisation to find out they weren't famous, Britain had voted to leave the European Union and Donald Trump was President. Now if they had filmed their reaction to that news then maybe ratings would have been better and they'd still be on the air.

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/90928920/the-madness-of-reality-tvs-weirdest-shows

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    @SammyC said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @Smudge said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    Doesn't really fit in this thread but it's a cool story and that peanut butter is pretty damn good .

    http://m.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11825854

    Allow me to hijack this by suggesting everyone try my mate's brand Fix & Fogg. Got bored with teaching law, so started making peanut butter about four years ago and now distributes throughout Australasia.

    Fix & Fogg is excellent. I'm a big fan of the spicy one.

    I don't even like peanut butter but I reckon I've turned over an extra $1000 for them solely on recommending it to everyone I know. And I haven't heard a complaint about their product yet.

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    #2031

    @Smudge just added it to the shopping list for this week!

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    @taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @Smudge just added it to the shopping list for this week!

    Good work! Take that, Pic's! (although F&F have a good relationship with Pic's, but I'm still determined to create a PB war across Cook Strait)

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  • taniwharugbyT Offline
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    replied to Smudge on last edited by taniwharugby
    #2033

    @Smudge ha, Mrs TR just said to me before, I saw some spicy Peanut butter in New World today, would you like that? Said she woulda got me some, but at $8 thought she better check first 😝

    Shes a keeper!

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    I just tried to find out how the chilli one was eaten before I got to try it and was told the same thing happened to the plain and chocolate jars that were bought over the past couple of weeks .

    Apparently my reaction to this news was hilarious and I should have seen the look on my face. Ffs.

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  • gollumG Offline
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    We still doing great news? Cause I feel this one will get a response, "Enjoy" -

    Lauren Libbert  /  May 4, 2016  /  Femail

    Agony of being a 50/50 mum

    Agony of being a 50/50 mum

    Nicola Hewitt, 42, an office manager from Kenley, Surrey, faces the trauma of being without her children Devon, 10, and Sonny, eight, every weekend. Many women face this problem too.

    Agony of being a 50/50 mum: Women once held the upper hand in custody battles. Now fathers are winning EQUAL access... and mothers are struggling to cope

    • Nicola Hewitt, 42, an office manager from Kenley, Surrey, faces the trauma of being without her children Devon, 10, and Sonny, eight, every weekend
    • Veronica Sweeney-Bird, a 33-year-old bar worker from Tunbridge Wells, a week-on, week-off shared care arrangement for her two daughters
    • Mothers are having to divide time with their children equally with their exes

    Every mother lives for those small, joyful moments when her child masters something new - a book once too challenging, the telling of a joke previously stumbled over, a food devoured that had formerly been rejected. For it's in the gentle minutiae of a little one's life that you really see their budding personality grow. Imagine, then, the agonising pain of being privy to your child's life for only half the time. The milestones missed. The lost cuddles before bedtime. The long nights spent wondering if they are sleeping sweetly or crying out for Mummy.

    This is the reality for Britain's growing legion of 50/50 mothers, who divide their time with the children equally with their exes. It's a growing phenomenon that - on the surface - might seem the fairest way for separated parents to organise their lives. But it comes at an emotional price for the mothers involved - and the consequences for children are as yet untold.

    Veronica Sweeney-Bird is one such mother who wishes more than anything that her two little girls were having a more relaxed, stable childhood. Instead, every other Thursday, she drops one off at nursery and one at primary school, full of foreboding as she kisses them goodbye. A week-on, week-off shared care arrangement with her ex-husband is the high price Veronica has to pay for her broken marriage. And two years on from the split, she still struggles to cope with the moment she says goodbye to her girls for seven long days.

    'I so hate being a 50/50 mother,' says the 33-year-old bar worker from Tunbridge Wells, who was married for seven years. 'When it's not my week to have the children, I have to try to switch off from being a mum and it's so very hard. Nicola looks after her two children during the week, meaning she must deal with school runs and tired evenings, whereas her ex-husband gets them at the weekend

    'When they're not here I daren't even go into the girls' room because just seeing all their clothes and toys is very painful. I know I'll just dissolve into tears and won't be able to function.' Veronica only ventures into their room the night before they are due home, to tidy up and get ready for their return.
    'I know they're coming back so I feel more excited than upset and can handle it,' she says. Nicola finds holidays and special days especially hard - such as Mother's Day and her birthday. She also finds that the children can be needier and more attention-seeking after having been away from her
    Although her ex-husband lives just a ten-minute walk away, relations are strained and there is little contact between them apart from a court-ordered FaceTime conversation with her daughters - Ziva, five , and Tali, three - every other day while they are with him. 'Even that is hard because Ziva doesn't like talking on the phone and I can't force her,' says Veronica.

    On Mother's Day this year, Veronica wasn't even able to speak to the girls, as it didn't fall on her court-appointed FaceTime day - something, she says, she found utterly heartbreaking Although she trusts her ex-husband implicitly with the care of her girls, the lack of easy communication means she knows little of what they do in their time apart. More than this, decisions about their care are often made that are out of her control.

    'I once went to pick the girls on my Thursday and was shocked to see that he had taken them to the hairdresser's without telling me,' says Veronica. 'Tali's hair had just grown long enough to tie into ponytails and now it was too short to tie up. I was devastated.'

    On Mother's Day this year, Veronica wasn't even able to speak to the girls, as it didn't fall on her court-appointed FaceTime day - something, she says, she found utterly heartbreaking. And recently her ex informed her that Ziva would be going to an after-school judo class every Wednesday - which encroaches on her own week with the girls.

    'Ziva really enjoys it, so that's OK,' says Veronica, 'but I don't like not being part of the discussion to decide what activities my own children are going to take part in. 'When you have children, you want to have a say in every element of their upbringing. But in my situation, that's impossible.'
    Such emotionally gruelling arrangements over childcare are becoming increasingly common. While official figures suggest that only 3 per cent of separated parents share their children's time equally, experts say this is a gross underestimate because many arrangements are unofficial - and so unrecorded.

    More and more couples are agreeing to split care of their children without any intervention by the courts, according to Jane Robey, the chief executive officer of National Family Mediation, an organisation that conducts over 30,000 mediations a year between separating couples.
    'Ten years ago, shared care wasn't really an option,' says Jane. 'Now there is a cultural shift towards fathers taking an active role in their children's upbringing. So many men are saying they want to be involved in day-to-day parental care.'

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    Don't understand the point of that article. 50/50 sharing means that both sides suffer equally as opposed to more traditional every other weekend sort of things where (generally) the father got screwed and had to go through it.

    Equality isn't about picking and choosing.

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    @MajorRage The point is MR that it is a Daily Mail article and therefore is pandering to the permanently outraged sisterhood.

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