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@canefan I'm really struggling to understand how a student could lay dead for eight farking weeks in accommodation. Friends? Family? Classmates? Tutors? Accommodation staff? Those who had adjacent rooms??? SMELL????
I mean come on now. Not like the poor guy was a hermit living in a mountain or bush hut or something.
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@Bones said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Mokey I guess due to the transitory nature of such accommodation...plus the variety of smells already floating about...
Wasn't it a student hostel? So not that transitory.
By the backend of term 3 you'd likely know each other pretty well.
I seem to recall we had some pretty reclusive types in our hostel, but not THAT reclusive.
But I can see how people could be not missed, especially if he had no friends. There's no obligation to turn up to class - So lecturers / tutors don't care.
I can see circumstances where he is not missed, but they are very sad circumstances.
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@booboo Yeah it is sad. But I don’t see how it’s the Fault of the company owning the accommodation. When I stayed in a hostel back in medieval times I wouldn’t have been impressed by someone from the facility checking up on me and in retrospect I was still a frigging baby. This young man was 20? Where were his friends? Why didn’t his family call the hostel and ask them to check on him?
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@JC said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@booboo Yeah it is sad. But I don’t see how it’s the Fault of the company owning the accommodation. When I stayed in a hostel back in medieval times I wouldn’t have been impressed by someone from the facility checking up on me and in retrospect I was still a frigging baby. This young man was 20? Where were his friends? Why didn’t his family call the hostel and ask them to check on him?
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@Mokey very sad indeed...although I listened to a podcast where a woman, and 2 small children, not both hers, were missing for over 30 years, never reported missing, which makes it much more difficult to identify.
Next story...
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@taniwharugby Who would have thought that an airport might be noisy?
The poor developer innocently bought land next to one that has been there for many decades and shock, horror they are running noisy aircraft engines! So rude.
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@Snowy said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@taniwharugby Who would have thought that an airport might be noisy?
The poor developer innocently bought land next to one that has been there for many decades and shock, horror they are running noisy aircraft engines! So rude.
I went out with a girl who lived near wellington airport, when I went to her house for the first time a plane took off and the house started vibrating and the picture on the tv went funny. Everyone else in the house acted like nothing was wrong and just raised their voices to be heard over the engines. I guess you get used to it after a while.
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@Snowy said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@taniwharugby Who would have thought that an airport might be noisy?
The poor developer innocently bought land next to one that has been there for many decades and shock, horror they are running noisy aircraft engines! So rude.
Testing engines. At night.
Operating planes is permitted - but testing engines at night breaches the plan.
Welcome to teh joy of the RMA. If you don't have a rule allowing you to do something, you can't do it.
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Snowy said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@taniwharugby Who would have thought that an airport might be noisy?
The poor developer innocently bought land next to one that has been there for many decades and shock, horror they are running noisy aircraft engines! So rude.
I went out with a girl who lived near wellington airport, when I went to her house for the first time a plane took off and the house started vibrating and the picture on the tv went funny. Everyone else in the house acted like nothing was wrong and just raised their voices to be heard over the engines. I guess you get used to it after a while.
Sounds like that Aussie flick "The Castle".
My sister's neighbours sold their house a few years ago. New folk moved in and complained about the noise from the freight trains going past. I politely asked what they thought the two steel tracks sitting on railway sleepers at the bottom of the property were?
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@Snowy said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@taniwharugby Who would have thought that an airport might be noisy?
The poor developer innocently bought land next to one that has been there for many decades and shock, horror they are running noisy aircraft engines! So rude.
I went out with a girl who lived near wellington airport, when I went to her house for the first time a plane took off and the house started vibrating and the picture on the tv went funny. Everyone else in the house acted like nothing was wrong and just raised their voices to be heard over the engines. I guess you get used to it after a while.
I lived in a house by that viewing car park at welly airport for a while at the same rime as 11/9. Didn't get any of that, you definitely get used to it - not like it's Heathrow.
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Stuff posted this article which is mostly garbage or blown out of proportion - for example she was banned from twitter for life for saying "men aren't women"
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They also did this and it is really really well done imho
Red to Green: The stark evolution of Christchurch's abandoned acres
Red to Green: The stark evolution of a city’s abandoned acres
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Stuff posted this article which is mostly garbage or blown out of proportion - for example she was banned from twitter for life for saying "men aren't women"
Same Massey who wouldn't let Don Brash speak to the politics club FFS. This is the hole you dig if you start trying to pick and choose which thoughts are safe to be articulated at a university.
Muppets.
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Stuff posted this article which is mostly garbage or blown out of proportion - for example she was banned from twitter for life for saying "men aren't women"
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