How about increasing minimum wage to the same level as inflation creating...................more inflation.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/gove...QJNJMM7HQ/

Adding  more costs for businesses,  who increaee the costs of their products creating more inflation.
Forcing other peoples wages up in line with this increase creating more inflation.

Interesting that many union negotiated wage increases in the same period were for sometimes less than half of this increase - my staff for example received a 4% increase - only 2/3s the actual value of "official" inflation.

anybody's mind about Vaccine mandates, they havent even had discourse with authority.
because theyre a confused, disorganised rabble that doesnt know they want either. no one wants to hear their line of shit, same old lies, misinformation and garbage
what a joke.

they say they will stay until the mandates are gone.
lol, hunker down losers its not going to happen on your schedule, its going to happen when its deemed safe to do so.
seeing them in action was good, it confirmed to me who and what they are. just a ragtag bunch of basement dwellers and walter mittys, conspiracy driven morons we would be better off without ta covid.  so i feel better about that.
im not picking on innocents.

they think they are the tip of the iceberg. maths as we know not being their strong suit. 4% 0f 5,000,000 is 200,000.
that seems substantial, (even though that number includes kids and those precluded by health to take the vaccine) as a voting bloc possibly so. but its only four deluded reprobates in a crowd of 100, bahahahaha, delusional fools. no, not the tip of an iceberg, more like a turd in a birdbath.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/10-02-...EkZJePV3NY

A recent conversation raised the subject of table manners, and it has always intrigued me how different we all are on the subject. My Father was strict on the correct way of doing things, I suspect because his looming Victorian Father had the same attitude to matters of etiquette. His insistence on 'the right way' did make a shy child more confident when faced with potentially awkward social experiences and the recent conversation around a child without that benefit was a good illustration. This kid, at age eleven, cannot handle a knife and fork, and is uncomfortable with eating in company outside the family. The question between friends concerned the 'do we teach him or do we leave his parenting alone lest we offend' conundrum...

So to then come across this little piece on Stuff about buttering bread at the table made me smile, and explained a little habit I have, obviously another of my Dad's bits of childhood brainwashing...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-...tte-expert

Our neighbour is unhappy about the height of our trees which cast shade on some of his garden. We planted mature trees that are now about 3 metres tall but don't overhang his side at all.  Without the trees, he can look into our garden and into our house.

He's not the sort to go through the legal process (District Court) to get the trees trimmed so what's the likely criminal charge (if any) if he decides to jump the fence and lop them off himself? It would be useful to have something to mention to him before he does anything. We do have security cameras aimed at the boundary and we will go to the Disputes Tribunal if he kills them (they cost a bit). 

No posts encouraging me to be a good neighbour, please. If you lived next door to this guy, you'd be planting big trees too.

protesting outside primary schools.
are they doing it at primary schools because thats the only demographic that wont kick the shit out of them, and still might be gullible enough to buy their line of horseshit?
why would they pick this as a battleground? just what kind of imbecilic antisocial tosspot thinking leads to this?
i just cant fathom it. how much of an ignorant arsehole one has to be to make this seem like a good idea.?
.....[Deleted: Unacceptable content.].....

Thousands of anti-mandate protesters gathered on Parliament's lawn have said they're "in for the long haul" and intend to stay for days.

Send Tamaki down there and call it a picnic

all gathered in wellington today
thick arrogant wankers thought they might win some hearts and minds by bringing the capital to a standstill
bullying shopowners and staff to the point most of them closed up.
the logic truly befits the gormless buffoons
this is tough enough without these gutless crybaby bitches making it worse.
cops should have waded into them, cave in a few heads we'll see how many of the useless unemployable losers come back for more.
who knew we had so many slack-jawed sub human luddites among us?
its been a real eye opener.

Could the answer be in our average level of health being comparatively better than most Western (and other) countries? Case in point; obesity, food quality, air quality, population density, geographic isolation (limiting infection levels), active lifestyle.

The most at risk sectors of NZ's population are those that are already health compromised otherwise we seem to be in good shape regarding our resistance to infection or our ability to weather the storm in the case we are exposed to infection levels beyond our natural resistance to fend off the pathogen's effects.

This article presents the scenario of a modern society's compromised inherent health being the real problem we face and as a result pharmaceutical interventions become a necessary input, in the same way that modern farming practices are highly reliant on chemical inputs in order to address the industrialisation of their management methods. In both cases the real solution lies in correcting the ways we manage ourselves, whether in terms of soil/gut health, food inputs, toxin exposure, chemical/pharmaceutical inputs, and overall psychological wellbeing.

Our government, like many internationally, are being slated over their socially restrictive responses regarding COVID but in a world that is badly out of balance are they just taking the most straightforward and expedient approach in an attempt to 'normalise' national health rather than making real advances in bringing us back to a realistically healthy normal?

Newshub-Reid Research poll: Nearly 40 pct of people think National's Christopher Luxon is doing a good job.

But what the fuck has he done? I cant think of anything life changing, 

as always Im usually wrong about things so please feel free to enlighten me.