Posts by Che Tibby
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Years ago, a friend of mine got bored and decided to see if the spicerack could get him high by trying them in his bong.
getn wasterd, ur doin it wrng.
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Maybe it is the Presbyterian in me, but I could see the debt fuelled spending binge that has happened over recent years coming to an end together with the inevitable hangover.
i'm not presbyterian, and i agree with you whole-heartedly.
there's also the issue of subsidisation of housing.
anyone have a figure handy on how much the "tax offsets" in the form of LAQCs are costing the taxpayer? i know there are tens of thousands of the things, but an actual figure on what this subsidisation is costing me would be interesting.
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PS. those south auckland homes could cost between $600 and $800 per week for a 90% mortgage.
renting at $320 p/w is probably a good option...
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god bless the wowsers...
the one they really want to keep an eye on is nutmeg.
back in the day i remember being 3 days into a trip and thinking... "fck... i'm going to stay like this..."
i either recovered, or just got used to it.
mind you. i am a lot less anxious these days.
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an etymological note. "Fuck" seems to have been used in English for at least 500 years, and related words exist in other Germanic languages.
saw a doco that clearly linked it to dutch sailors.
a lot of our "diritiest" words are ex-dutch, apparently.
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$12.50 an hour, less tax, part-time. ~$300-$350 p/w.
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I'd rather have one $300 shirt that feels good, looks sharp and lasts for years than three $100 shirts
lots of people can afford neither, because $300 is their total weekly wage. and their jobs making shirts here will disappear.
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and, what about the Coddington Award for Creative Writing
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Locke welcomed the arrival of the new government in Cambodia in 1975, but so did many other people, and other governments
and they were right to do so. the tragedy was that the "new stable government" rapidly went downhill under a huge weight of paranoia and dogma.
for those who need the background, the previous, generations-stable government was "bombed into the stone-age" by a zealous and self-righteous nixon.
the khmer rouge offered something like stability to a country being progressively, and deliberately, destroyed.
thankfully, the vietnamese intervened again in 1979 and ousted the khmer rouge.
crazy, crazy days. and the usa was to blame.
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It's a lot of people to pull out of the civil service. That's what... 4-5% of them?
yup.
i can't even begin to wonder where the national party is looking to. but, from chatting with david farrar the other week you'd think that the TEC is in the headlights.
now whether farrar has the ear of national party policy-writers is another matter altogether...
the interesting thing is that the number of jobs targetted for axing is approximately the same as the number of big infrastructure projects that have sprung up in the last election cycle. things like staffing kiwisaver, staffing the recent round of prisons, staffing "welfare for families".