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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?

    First bold: agree entirely
    Second bold: that is really perplexing

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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...🤦

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/crime/news/article.cfm?c_id=30&objectid=12271423&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nzh_fb&fbclid=IwAR08g9vQS0EYrJwFYWkUH3gMCWMxg4Syke6g8qvnNYYq10h9mPvSrYL9W_w

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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 all the planes I have flown in are always so quiet, and I had always thoght living next to an airport would be great because it'd be sooooo quiet.

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

    Testing engines. At night.

    Yes, they do that. It is when they fix them mostly, and need them the next day.

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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"

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/116144130/banned-from-twitter-but-welcome-at-massey-radical-feminist-group-to-host-event

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    They also did this and it is really really well done imho

    Charlie Mitchell, Iain McGregor, Alden Williams

    Red to Green: The stark evolution of Christchurch's abandoned acres

    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"

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/116144130/banned-from-twitter-but-welcome-at-massey-radical-feminist-group-to-host-event

    15 complaints

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    @nzzp 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:

    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.

    Brash spoke at Massey once the ‘security’ issue had been ironed out. I thought this was common knowledge?

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

    @nzzp 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:

    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.

    Brash spoke at Massey once the ‘security’ issue had been ironed out. I thought this was common knowledge?

    fark, did he? I thought he spoke in Auckland

    OK, googled it - looks like he did.

    Oct 16, 2018  /  New Zealand

    Don Brash speaks at Massey University after controversy

    Don Brash speaks at Massey University after controversy

    An appearance by former National leader Don Brash at Massey University, that was mired in controversy when first announced then canned in August, happened today without any protest.

    Fair play (eventually) Massey

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

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

    @nzzp 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:

    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.

    Brash spoke at Massey once the ‘security’ issue had been ironed out. I thought this was common knowledge?

    fark, did he? I thought he spoke in Auckland

    OK, googled it - looks like he did.

    Oct 16, 2018  /  New Zealand

    Don Brash speaks at Massey University after controversy

    Don Brash speaks at Massey University after controversy

    An appearance by former National leader Don Brash at Massey University, that was mired in controversy when first announced then canned in August, happened today without any protest.

    Fair play (eventually) Massey

    Protesters showed up to drown him out and the crowd started chanting "we want Brash " . So well done to them for making him relevant again

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  • BonesB Offline
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    Life imitates art?

    Gunther from Friends claims Jennifer Aniston has blanked him for 15 years - Mirror Online

    Sofia Petkar  /  Sep 28, 2019  /  Celebrity News

    Gunther from Friends claims Jennifer Aniston has blanked him for 15 years - The Mirror

    Gunther from Friends claims Jennifer Aniston has blanked him for 15 years - The Mirror

    James Michael Tyler played the bleach-blonde coffee shop owner who pined over Rachel Green for a decade - but says he hasn't seen or spoken to her since the wrap party

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  • SnowyS Offline
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    Big news here:

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/116121201/tvnz-bans-hair-straighteners-in-the-newsroom-to-minimise-risk-during-rugby-world-cup

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