Hard News: It was a munted year
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Lucy Stewart, in reply to
Oh and that argument about having to pay more the get good leaders – bullshit pure and utter. The really good leaders take a fair salary, by no means small but also they are aware of what is excessive, that’s why they are good.
I believe that, in the business world at least, they've also done studies which show that bringing in someone from outside and paying them a massive salary to come in and "fix things" just doesn't work - even if the person genuinely did do good things at their first place, they're too removed from the culture and inner workings of the next to do anything useful. The idea that you have to pay someone big bucks to come and save you doesn't work.
And the idea that you have to pay someone big bucks to stay - salary is hardly the only thing that makes people like their jobs, and if everything else (job satisfaction, relationships with colleagues, etc) is good people will rarely be tempted away by pay increases, unless they're entirely mercenary, in which case they'll go eventually anyway. (I was going to say "or the salary increase is just that big", because everyone does have their price, but at CEO salaries it's all a bit meaningless anyway in terms of day-to-day living.)
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
That's where performance pay comes in. Oh wait, it only applies to teachers, not executives...
And if Brownlee does carry out his threat to sack the CCC, there's little to stop the Govt from going GLC on Auckland.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Being there, the Chinese whispers dept...
He actually seems to have been reported to
have said “trunk”, “trunks” and “truck”.
Clearly, Bob’s diction has slipped since his TV days.In the same vein, I loved this post from Over the net about mishearing the late Don Driver.
Finally, when we were pushing hard about the materials he was using, Don looked up and said, “Sacramental.” Sacramental. That'll do. We figured we could write a whole Don Driver book around sacramental. “In what way sacramental?” we asked him. Don gave one of his classic shrugs. “What I said was sack and metal”. Ok.
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Auckland Council Bailout Govt
Steven Joyce, again?. :( -
My new postcard line...
apologies to van Gogh... -
Joe Wylie, in reply to
My new postcard line…
apologies to van Gogh…Excellent dude, I doubt that Vincent would mind.
In that spirit of muntedness, one from Ms Goodie G: Brighton, immediately after the June 6.1 event. Not a situation that Marryatt, Brownlee and Parker would have a clue about.(BTW they're not waiting for a bus. They're just scared.)
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meanwhile in town the Queen's dogs
were protected by a Dalek...
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and here's the down low...
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Lilith __, in reply to
meanwhile in town the Queen’s dogs
were protected by a Dalek…Queen’s dogs targeted by guerilla knitters! Is this some form of bark-cloth?
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Islander, in reply to
Heh! Giggled over this-
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nzlemming, in reply to
meanwhile in town the Queen's dogs
were protected by a Dalek...You so need to put a plunger on that bin.
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First there are payment delays, then there's nepotism, and now drug smuggling.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
, and now drug smuggling.
Jeez, so the bastards are cutting off your Coke supply as well as messin' with yer wherewithal?.
Outrageous.
Bloody Government.
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"munted " is an ugly sounding word. I wouldn't use it.
But what happened to "naturally I completed my set"? or is that too many words to qualify for the list? Rest of that list is pretty uninspiring, NZ is not really an especially creative place as far as language goes. Just my opinion, of course.
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Saw First Citizen John Key on the TV News last night, in answer question of 1,000 NZers exiting to Oz per week, spouting on about bridging the wage gap between NZ and Oz.
I think he said something about "we" have to do something - who were the "we" and what was the "something" they had to do?
Just a bit of joke - the reckless abandonment that presently passes for economic policy.
Now there stands a munter.
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Hebe, in reply to
How else do you think EQC met their all-inspected-by-Christmas target? It all adds up: speed, lack of attention to detail (we have received no EQC documents for the September 2010 or February 2011 damage claims), and the asessors' glazed eyes.
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Gavin Brown, in reply to
Yes. I know its origin.
It evolved from a slang insult "munter", which was first coined in Northcote College in around 1985-86 by bored members of a German class. "Munter" means "gay" in German - in the sense of "bright, joyous". The students were looking for another slur to add to their already extensive and complex homophobic vocabulary. This was a rare opportunity to put their English-German dictionary to use.
The word "munter" spread through North Shore schools, becoming a common insult, and was soon transformed into a verb, "to munt" - initially used to imply the occurrence of unwanted anal sex but later evolving to describe any form of serious misfortune or hardship - e.g. being tackled after receiving a hospital pass, experiencing a devastating earthquake, etc.
The use of munted as an adjective evolved from there.
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