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[Nepia]

@mn5 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:

@mn5 Settle down Mike.

I like Mike purely cos he winds up extreme lefties so well and often.

Him and Kate are now an NZ Herald righty double team. Anyway, Bob Jones does it better ....

[Snowy]

@mn5 said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

She's hotter than H Barry.

That is a very low standard. I didn't actually know what Kate looked like (and picked the worst photo I could find).

[antipodean]

@snowy I thought Worzel Gummidge had had a make over...

[Snowy]

@antipodean It's not a great look is it.

[taniwharugby]

outcome of the inquiry would determine where this could end up...but knowing how soft NZ tends to be in a lot of these instances, not holding my breath

Although TBF, a Dangerous driving conviction in NZ can be the result of having an accident while doing 110km or failing to stop at a stop sign and having an accident

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11998870

[jegga]

Sad to hear

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/101632830/stuff-outlines-newspaper-closures-as-part-of-shift-to-digital

[Rembrandt]

@jegga yet I'd be celebrating if 'Stuff.co.nz' closed down

[taniwharugby]

we'd have to shut this thread down too!

[MN5]

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

we'd have to shut this thread down too!

Best thread on the fern, hands down

[Bones]

You lotharios are fussy pricks. I would.

[jegga]

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

You lotharios are fussy pricks. I would.

Yep. I wouldn't even be troubled about being eskimo brothers with Hosking.

[Toddy]

@jegga Who is the dude in the picture?

[jegga]

[Smudge]

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

Sad to hear

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/101632830/stuff-outlines-newspaper-closures-as-part-of-shift-to-digital

This is legitimately sad to hear, and the strangest part is that many of Stuff's community titles were making money, unlike their daily mastheads. Many journos are seeing this as an opportunity to have a crack at these communities independently, so hopefully it's not the last we see of some of these papers (or at least something similar in an area).

There's still great money to be made in real estate advertising for small papers - the weekly Oamaru Mail has about 20-30 pages of house ads in there every week.

[jegga]

Wait, the herald has “premium content”?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11999816

[Donsteppa]

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

Wait, the herald has “premium content”?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11999816

Somewhere in the archives back when it was still a broadsheet...

[Virgil]

Herald better hire some journalists first, teams of gossip writers and hacks like ratpo hardly count

[antipodean]

I'd pay, for the whole thing to be behind a paywall I can't access.

[jegga]

Interesting article, I wonder if the author ever contemplated getting a life?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/kiwi-traveller/101516380/bewildering-heights-observation-towers-are-overrated

[taniwharugby]

@jegga what's next, too much sand on beaches, some mountains are too high?