I travelled w my kid’s waterpolo team to a tournament a few years back. Teenage boy polo players eat astonishing amounts of food. For mid pm snack I suggested toasted sandwiches. Boys baffled cos ‘there’s no toastie maker’. They were v happy to learn about frying pan method
October 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I travelled w my kid’s waterpolo team to a tournament a few years back. Teenage boy polo players eat astonishing amounts of food. For mid pm snack I suggested toasted sandwiches. Boys baffled cos ‘there’s no toastie maker’. They were v happy to learn about frying pan method
Or maybe put thru bills that aren’t so objectively shit that thousands of people who would rather be doing almost anything else feel they must submit in the forlorn hope that the sheer volume of submissions makes the coalition of chaos rethink
October 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Or maybe put thru bills that aren’t so objectively shit that thousands of people who would rather be doing almost anything else feel they must submit in the forlorn hope that the sheer volume of submissions makes the coalition of chaos rethink
Ability to string together many words and even many sentences that may be grammatically correct but have absolutely no real meaning? A human version of an LLM
September 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Ability to string together many words and even many sentences that may be grammatically correct but have absolutely no real meaning? A human version of an LLM
Ffs but always somewhere else when parliament is doing controversial fuckery like the vile Treaty Principles Bill and RSB & when his govt MPs/Ministers need reining in
September 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Ffs but always somewhere else when parliament is doing controversial fuckery like the vile Treaty Principles Bill and RSB & when his govt MPs/Ministers need reining in
Posts don’t appear as part of thread for me & not u 🙄. When you clicked on OP to comment you’d see it was part of a NZ specific thread. No one is blaming u for mistakenly assuming this was not specific to a country u don’t live in we’re just annoyed when this is pointed out to u, u keep digging in
August 31, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Posts don’t appear as part of thread for me & not u 🙄. When you clicked on OP to comment you’d see it was part of a NZ specific thread. No one is blaming u for mistakenly assuming this was not specific to a country u don’t live in we’re just annoyed when this is pointed out to u, u keep digging in
The OP was part of a thread which mentioned the NZ Min of Finance by name and then referred to a specific electorate w a non-English name. That context & specificity were right there in the original thread posts which you chose to ignore 🤷🏻♀️
August 31, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The OP was part of a thread which mentioned the NZ Min of Finance by name and then referred to a specific electorate w a non-English name. That context & specificity were right there in the original thread posts which you chose to ignore 🤷🏻♀️
1st post in the thread u were trying to dunk on had name of NZ Min of Finance & 2nd post had not-English name of an NZ electorate. If either of those was familiar to u, you’d know it was about NZ. Since u didn’t, that was your clue it might not be about u/your country
August 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
1st post in the thread u were trying to dunk on had name of NZ Min of Finance & 2nd post had not-English name of an NZ electorate. If either of those was familiar to u, you’d know it was about NZ. Since u didn’t, that was your clue it might not be about u/your country
Some schools have a ‘community service’ type component. Eg volunteer surf lifeguards, coaching primary/intermediate school sport etc count. The coaching has added bonus of younger kids looking up to the older ones and listening more than they do to adults (esp good for intermediate boys😂)
August 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Some schools have a ‘community service’ type component. Eg volunteer surf lifeguards, coaching primary/intermediate school sport etc count. The coaching has added bonus of younger kids looking up to the older ones and listening more than they do to adults (esp good for intermediate boys😂)
So tourist goes to 1 of biggest street fests in world, an Afro-Caribbean fest, that started out of desire for better race relations, cultural unity & to celebrate culture of those immigrant communities & whinges cos it’s not white enough? Then posts on global platform so whole 🌏can see he’s an idiot
August 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
So tourist goes to 1 of biggest street fests in world, an Afro-Caribbean fest, that started out of desire for better race relations, cultural unity & to celebrate culture of those immigrant communities & whinges cos it’s not white enough? Then posts on global platform so whole 🌏can see he’s an idiot
Because parents juggle time off at the holidays so the parents aren’t going to work or their kids are looked after by grandparents etc in ways that allow parents to use less traffic intensive options (bussing or travelling together etc)
August 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Because parents juggle time off at the holidays so the parents aren’t going to work or their kids are looked after by grandparents etc in ways that allow parents to use less traffic intensive options (bussing or travelling together etc)