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Winston's Hi viz performance - harm_less - 08-08-2025
As if we needed any more confirmation of this MP being an argumentative old fart who is struggling to keep up with modern protocols here we go again
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360785299/winston-crl-boss-im-not-wearing-high-viz
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - Oh_hunnihunni - 08-08-2025
Silly old man who cannot stop himself from grandstanding.
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - heisenberg - 09-08-2025
sure its needed, just like they all have to wear hard hats incase a train falls on them
health n safety bollocks
hi vis has become the new invisible
look at every time some new road is opened and the politicians with their gaggle of accompanying head nodders turn up for the "grand opening" they are all wearing hard hats, high vis , safety glasses, no need for any of that, no chance any of them could be harmed by some piece of equipment going haywire
its all part of the nanny state road cone do as your told take the vax we know best single source of truth bullshit
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - harm_less - 09-08-2025
Hi-viz apparel on a worksite is as much to impress on those there that hazards exist and to be mindful of their activities in that regard. Modern H&S protocols are largely required because of the 'somebody else's fault' mindset that is so prevalent in people today. Hi-viz protects people from their own stupidity because that stupidity is a risk to them, their workmates and their employer. Failure to comply can cost money and lives.
There is no limit to the unpredictability and mindless actions of so many in today's world because to a large extent we have been taught that every accident is avoidable and blame is attributable to the weakest link in the worksite chain of command. In other words it is always 'someone else's fault'.
When Winston decides to randomly wander off to take a closer look at whatever project detail takes his unpredictable attentions wearing hi-viz will serve to alert others to the risks he may be taking in an area that he isn't expected to be in. An impetuous old fart such as him is just who should be made as visible as possible for his own protection but he is too self centred and irresponsible to comply with the protocol as the video shows.
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - Oh_hunnihunni - 09-08-2025
Wandering off also refers to the fact that any hangers on to the official party are also easily identified. Why do you think the first thing wrong uns in the movies do is shed that gear first chance they get...
Next time Winnie gets offered hi vi, it better be really flashy. Maybe even neon green...
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - Lilith7 - 09-08-2025
I watched an interview Moana did with him last week - he didn't answer one question, just wriggled & blustered his way through the entire interview.
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - king1 - 09-08-2025
I guess we'll need an excessive Hi-Viz hotline
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - harm_less - 09-08-2025
(09-08-2025, 01:02 PM)king1 Wrote: I guess we'll need an excessive Hi-Viz hotlineI guess hi-viz does clash with tin foil hats so Winnie's followers will be all over that
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - Lilith7 - 09-08-2025
I can't be the only person who thinks Winnie should perhaps do the right thing & retire...
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - Oh_hunnihunni - 09-08-2025
And I can't believe I am the only person who thinks MPs should have an expiry date. Like governments.
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - Lilith7 - 09-08-2025
(09-08-2025, 03:30 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: And I can't believe I am the only person who thinks MPs should have an expiry date. Like governments.
I am a terrible person - when I read that, I had this lovely mental image of Winston being informed that his days as a politician were over...
They should have an expiry date though - perhaps 65...
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - heisenberg - 10-08-2025
(09-08-2025, 03:35 PM)Lilith7 Wrote:(09-08-2025, 03:30 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: And I can't believe I am the only person who thinks MPs should have an expiry date. Like governments.
I am a terrible person - when I read that, I had this lovely mental image of Winston being informed that his days as a politician were over...
They should have an expiry date though - perhaps 65...
i agree and all the taxpayer funded perks should stop like every other person retiring like the security and the airfares and the ongoing salary
(09-08-2025, 01:02 PM)king1 Wrote: I guess we'll need an excessive Hi-Viz hotline
all the leftards will love that curtain twitching phone dobbers
i want to report someone not living in fear
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - Oh_hunnihunni - 10-08-2025
Seems likely. After all, this government set up the road cone hotline, and got masses of calls as a result.
Build it and they will come out from behind those lace curtains, lol. More wasted tax dollars...
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - Praktica - 10-08-2025
Here's an idea - why don't we have a hotline where we can "report" someone who is homeless, so that they can be provided shelter and suppport? Far more useful than the stupidity of reporting road cones!
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - Lilith7 - 10-08-2025
(10-08-2025, 01:26 PM)Praktica Wrote: Here's an idea - why don't we have a hotline where we can "report" someone who is homeless, so that they can be provided shelter and suppport? Far more useful than the stupidity of reporting road cones!
It could work, too - if we had a govt interested in housing people..maybe next time.
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - heisenberg - 10-08-2025
(10-08-2025, 03:32 PM)Lilith7 Wrote:(10-08-2025, 01:26 PM)Praktica Wrote: Here's an idea - why don't we have a hotline where we can "report" someone who is homeless, so that they can be provided shelter and suppport? Far more useful than the stupidity of reporting road cones!
It could work, too - if we had a govt interested in housing people..maybe next time.
like labour filling up motels costing millions of taxpayers same time as KO was paying top dollar for houses locking people out from being able to afford a house, hard to compete with the taxpayers chequebook
(10-08-2025, 01:26 PM)Praktica Wrote: Here's an idea - why don't we have a hotline where we can "report" someone who is homeless, so that they can be provided shelter and suppport? Far more useful than the stupidity of reporting road cones!
what are you doing for your local homeless? fukc all i bet
i fell for a hard luck story and put a homeless couple into one of my properties and was repaid with smashed windows and stuff stolen, once bitten etc
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - Oh_hunnihunni - 10-08-2025
I was very nearly one of the homeless, thanks to a rip off LL who pocketed my bond, raised the rent twice in a year, and refused to fix the very leaky roof... so, sorry, but landlords get no sympathy from me. If I was queen of the world, people could own the place they live in, plus a holiday home regularly used by family. Any other properties would attract serious taxation, not write offs.
That would force investment into much more productive assets and help break the favourite kiwi hobby of selling houses to each other, which has rendered most homes unaffordable for the next generation.
And I say that as someone who did quite well out of flipping back in the day...
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - Lilith7 - 11-08-2025
(10-08-2025, 05:40 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I was very nearly one of the homeless, thanks to a rip off LL who pocketed my bond, raised the rent twice in a year, and refused to fix the very leaky roof... so, sorry, but landlords get no sympathy from me. If I was queen of the world, people could own the place they live in, plus a holiday home regularly used by family. Any other properties would attract serious taxation, not write offs.
That would force investment into much more productive assets and help break the favourite kiwi hobby of selling houses to each other, which has rendered most homes unaffordable for the next generation.
And I say that as someone who did quite well out of flipping back in the day...
And the problem with it this - it would make sense & be a fairer system.
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - heisenberg - 11-08-2025
(10-08-2025, 05:40 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Any other properties would attract serious taxation, not write offs.
just get passed on to the tenants, probably force the ma na pa investors out leaving the heartless professional LLs who will jack up the rents to cover costs
not everyone can or wants to buy a house
RE: Winston's Hi viz performance - king1 - 11-08-2025
(11-08-2025, 12:15 PM)heisenberg Wrote:(10-08-2025, 05:40 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Any other properties would attract serious taxation, not write offs.
just get passed on to the tenants, probably force the ma na pa investors out leaving the heartless professional LLs who will jack up the rents to cover costs
not everyone can or wants to buy a house
Not entirely true that... no-one can just pass on all costs as they see fit. The rental market is not excluded from the laws of supply and demand, the market sets the price landlords can charge, not the landlords costs or whims.