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

    *Obviously a dressing gown in the form of lingerie is exempt from this .

    Temporary dispensation

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

    @mariner4life Queensland - budgie smugglers and a mullet pass for sophistication

    Jealousy is a curse

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

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

    Man some people are easily triggered.

    I do struggle with why a Belgian Brewery would name a beer Maori Tears, particularly in this age of greater appreciation of the dangers of cultural appropriation.

    As for Sofitel - well I guess there is gender stereotyping but it seems pretty tame to generate the level of fuss and outrage.

    I mean to be accurate - who wears their dressing gowns to bed? He should be scratching his balls, farting and secretly reading porn inside the paper.

    His eyes are saying "you know you want to" and hers I wish he'd go have a dump so I can breathe

    She’s probably picking out a gift she expects in return for filthy hotel sex.

    Btw I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t understand the purpose of dressing gowns. You’re either dressed or you’re not , pick one ffs *

    *Obviously a dressing gown in the form of lingerie is exempt from this .

    I like wearing a dressing gown, it's like being draped in a big towel. I just refuse to do up the front which invariably has me banned from the pool.

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    @antipodean 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:

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

    Man some people are easily triggered.

    I do struggle with why a Belgian Brewery would name a beer Maori Tears, particularly in this age of greater appreciation of the dangers of cultural appropriation.

    As for Sofitel - well I guess there is gender stereotyping but it seems pretty tame to generate the level of fuss and outrage.

    I mean to be accurate - who wears their dressing gowns to bed? He should be scratching his balls, farting and secretly reading porn inside the paper.

    His eyes are saying "you know you want to" and hers I wish he'd go have a dump so I can breathe

    She’s probably picking out a gift she expects in return for filthy hotel sex.

    Btw I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t understand the purpose of dressing gowns. You’re either dressed or you’re not , pick one ffs *

    *Obviously a dressing gown in the form of lingerie is exempt from this .

    I like wearing a dressing gown, it's like being draped in a big towel. I just refuse to do up the front which invariably has me banned from the pool.

    You swim in a public pool naked ?

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

    @antipodean 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:

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

    Man some people are easily triggered.

    I do struggle with why a Belgian Brewery would name a beer Maori Tears, particularly in this age of greater appreciation of the dangers of cultural appropriation.

    As for Sofitel - well I guess there is gender stereotyping but it seems pretty tame to generate the level of fuss and outrage.

    I mean to be accurate - who wears their dressing gowns to bed? He should be scratching his balls, farting and secretly reading porn inside the paper.

    His eyes are saying "you know you want to" and hers I wish he'd go have a dump so I can breathe

    She’s probably picking out a gift she expects in return for filthy hotel sex.

    Btw I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t understand the purpose of dressing gowns. You’re either dressed or you’re not , pick one ffs *

    *Obviously a dressing gown in the form of lingerie is exempt from this .

    I like wearing a dressing gown, it's like being draped in a big towel. I just refuse to do up the front which invariably has me banned from the pool.

    You swim in a public pool naked ?

    You’re either dressed or you’re not , pick one ffs

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    OK I admit it.

    I absolutely love Stuff comments.

    Overall they are significantly wittier, better researched and more reflective of reality than the absolute dross they comment on. Bravo NZ public, you give me hope.

    Stuff
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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    @rembrandt they stopped comments pretty early on in this one . It’s a bit rich for Curran to bleat when she pounced on David Bendon Popes seat when he was apparently having a nervous breakdown after being dragged through the media spotlight for his fuckwitted behaviour when he was a teacher.

    Some gold in here

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/107683474/Clare-Curran-Traumatic-time-for-myself-and-my-family

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    Cyber bullying costs nz almost half a billion dollars?

    Oh Shamubeel Eaquab came up with those unsubstantiated figures? Not surprising then.

    .
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/107717359/online-bullying-costing-nz-444m-says-report

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

    Cyber bullying costs nz almost half a billion dollars?

    Oh Shamubeel Eaquab came up with those unsubstantiated figures? Not surprising then.

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    https://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/107717359/online-bullying-costing-nz-444m-says-report

    Wow Jegga, you’re so cynical. As a matter of fact it’s well known that each single hurty feeling costs $18.50, the rest is just maths.

    Actually I agree, these types of article are just nonsense and a decent journo would ask for his working and pull it to pieces. Asking people how much they would pay to avoid it is charlatan economics. If people aren’t actually paying you can’t trust what they say it’s worth.

    What’s the economic cost of disappointment at not wining Lotto?

    And as for the loss of life component, is there anything more subjective and emotive than the dollar value of a human life?

    I don’t believe that everyone in the country pays $100 each every year to avoid something which has a fairly vague definition especially if, as we are led to believe, the young are predominantly the victims. Well sorry but they are effectively economically unproductive.

    Edit: I see this is just one of several stories in the Herald today on this subject. Given it’s a theme, dollars to donuts they commissioned the economist to come up with this bullshit, so no wonder they aren’t very critical of it.

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    @jc perhaps Shamubeel can can put a dollar figure on poor Lizzie’s suffering?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12139889

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    While I’m on the topic of Shamubeel he was all over the homeless crisis , back in February he co authored a report that claimed there was 23509 homeless people in Auckland. Of course they used the most tenuous criteria for homelessness they possibly could .

    Stuff

    Turns out there’s actually 800 people living on the street in Auckland.

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/10/official-count-reveals-800-homeless-people-in-auckland.amp.html

    When did our news outlets decide he was an authority on everything? I thought Gareth Morgan was our national authority on everything, is there room for two of them ?

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    @jegga Coz he's a hero of the millennials and has a pie chart that conclusively proves WMAM's are the root cause of all evil in the world.

    The only good Boomer is a dead Boomer - wait a while and they all will be!

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    No worries love, can't see much downside to a fireplace not passing a building inspection...

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/northland/107697789/solo-mum-devastated-over-council-consents-for-tiny-house

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

    No worries love, can't see much downside to a fireplace not passing a building inspection...

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/northland/107697789/solo-mum-devastated-over-council-consents-for-tiny-house

    I don’t know what a certified tradesman is but I’d a licensed builder did the work he needs to be in court for that . There are loopholes around transportable building but they still need to be built to code and as for the dodgy fireplace ffs .

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    I doubt they’ll ever pay up but this amused me

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/107787714/israeli-court-nz-activists-must-pay-for-lorde-cancellation

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  • BonesB Online
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    @jegga from skim reading in my Facebook feed he was a bloke travelling around nz or something. I've probably got it completely wrong though. The lady is all up in the Facebook comments section.

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

    @jegga from skim reading in my Facebook feed he was a bloke travelling around nz or something. I've probably got it completely wrong though. The lady is all up in the Facebook comments section.

    Interesting, I might have missed it but I don’t think she named him in the article.

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

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

    No worries love, can't see much downside to a fireplace not passing a building inspection...

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/northland/107697789/solo-mum-devastated-over-council-consents-for-tiny-house

    I don’t know what a certified tradesman is but I’d a licensed builder did the work he needs to be in court for that . There are loopholes around transportable building but they still need to be built to code and as for the dodgy fireplace ffs .

    As a layman it seems astounding how low the bar is in construction with regard to fixing shit up that doesn't last

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    @majorrage when I was at WDC in Building Compliance it was amusing coming across some of the illegal or unconsented structures...some had been there so long but just ignored.

    This is without taking into account the work that had been done without consent because some of the rules were pretty anal (ie they applied, found thhe hoops they had to jump through and requiring resource consent disproportionate to the work they were doing)

    Both my neighbours have a porta cabin on thier property, neither are consented and one I know would be subject to development contributions as it is self contained...fortunately we get on with them so I'd not dob them in...the other neighbours way up the back, illegally building a big shed on the other hand, noisy feckers, so they might get a visit from the council at some point!

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    @canefan 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:

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

    No worries love, can't see much downside to a fireplace not passing a building inspection...

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/northland/107697789/solo-mum-devastated-over-council-consents-for-tiny-house

    I don’t know what a certified tradesman is but I’d a licensed builder did the work he needs to be in court for that . There are loopholes around transportable building but they still need to be built to code and as for the dodgy fireplace ffs .

    As a layman it seems astounding how low the bar is in construction with regard to fixing shit up that doesn't last

    Lbps are liable for defects for up to 10 years

    Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment

    Builder and designer rights and obligations

    Builder and designer rights and obligations

    Builders and designers should help their clients understand the building process and their rights and obligations within

    Suppliers will on the other hand likely tell you to GFYs

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