Came across this earlier; when there was a lot of interest in a rental property, the landlord promptly added another $50 pw to the rent, making a total of $900pw. Its extremely unlikely that, if a prospective tenant says they'll pay the $900 the landlord would then take a tenant who's able to pay only the quoted rent of $850. it was advertised on TM.
If that isn't blatant greed, then its an excellent imitation.



https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed...g-response

"A hopeful Auckland renter has been left fuming after the owner of a Silverdale property bumped the rent up $50 to $900 per week after their online listing received an “overwhelming response”.

Millwater resident Julie Gielen said the rent hike strikes her as an investor exploiting a housing crisis, and has lodged a complaint with Tenancy Services, saying it breaches a law that prohibits rental bidding."

Why does every second news story or lightweight documentary have references to areas, weights and distances of random items instead of actual measurements?

This vessel is capable of transporting the equivalent of 11 African elephants, the fire covers an area of 2500 rugby fields, the flow is equivalent to 200 Olympic sized swimming pools, or that distance is the equivalent to that between London and Timbuktu. What is wrong with these fuckwits that they can't use standard units of metres, tonnes, kilometres or hectares? Is it because they have previously demonstrated that they don't know the difference between a millimetre or centremetre, kilometres or mile, or metre or foot. The product of an education system where there are no wrong answers if your intention was well meaning? Idiocracy in the making!

I heard someone say that kids are different these days.
I disagree.
Kids are the same.
What's changed, is society with lower expectations, lack of discipline, and acceptance of disrespect.
Give kids boundaries, expectations, rules, limits, rewards and consequences.
They will rise to the challenge, and exceed your expectations every time.


Agree or disagree??

A very interesting piece in the Washington Post this morning.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technolog...3f8b7dfb69

Siouxsie Wiles & Shaun Hendy are saying that Auckland university could have done more to ensure their safety. There've been some incidents involving people turning up & making threats as well as harassment via social media.

Those opposed to vaccinations do seem to be quite excitable, & get carried away easily.





https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industr...f-auckland

"High profile academics and Covid-19 commentators Shaun Hendy and Siouxsie Wiles say harassment towards them is escalating, and their employer the University of Auckland has not done enough to ensure their safety.

A recently released Employment Relations Authority determination says Hendy and Wiles brought separate but similar claims against the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland."

Well, that's a new one on me, but having heard that Desmond Tutu requested it I googled and I think I might prefer that to the hot version...

There's 2L of milk sitting in the fridge that needs using. What should I do with it?

Hope that everyone's enjoying/avoiding the summery heat!

You know it's a bit different when Invercargill gets to 32 degrees.

Is there a way that when you press the shutdown icon in the menu that windows will close no matter if you have anything open. e.g. I use notepad a fair bit and its usually open in the task bar, I forget that its open and go to log off my PC then my PC will go through the close down stages and so I wander off, when I come to use it again I notice that it hasn't logged off and on the screen there is a notice saying notepad is open do I want to close it and it hasn't shut down Grrrr
I know how to force close programs that wont close before I log off, thats not the problem, I just want to log off and it closes.