AWOL_muppet

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

We should get comcom to look into it so they can do absolutely fucking nothing, like the last few scams they've rubber-stamped

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yes! Beach waves and bird noises or something? Sounds great!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I kinda sympathise though - the shops there have always struggled as long as I can remember (which, in fairness, probably isn't that long). Newtown has been dead for about a decade, easily.

Yes both parties are being dicks and the florist is probably conflating issues and blaming the bike lanes incorrectly.

It seems like one upside is, countdowns expansive parking is, I believe, available for people to use (I vaguely recall signage about it)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I hate how the music gets stuck in my head or has associations I'd rather not mix with my displeasure when dealing with.

That and my cynical view of aussie companies trying to look local using kiwi music (while the call taker is wherever is cheapest)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (8 children)

What would your ideal hold 'music' be?

I've always hated these things and think music is a terrible choice as it can only ever reinforce the 'middle of the road' tastes (something I have big problems with in NZ).

But the ringer sound just reduces your brain to mush after a few minutes as well...

Would silence work, with the occasional 'you're _n_th in the queue' update? I think that's my best choice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh wow, I forgot about APOD!

I loved some of their colourised nebula images

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've been looking at our electricity usage and discovered our meter stopped reporting it's usage a few months ago - that really skews things!

I chucked in a manual reading which wasn't too far off their estimate, but I'm irked that 'something' has stopped talking. Gave it a few pokes to see but no new data. On the ph to provider now, jooyyyeeee. Powershop really do have some strangely funky hold music, it's quite enjoyable - pity it's mono and basically 8kHz or whatever the phone lines do to muddy everything!

Also, is it just me or have many of the gentailers stopped publishing their actual rates / seeking new customers?

My son bought a cold home last week which is working it's way through the house. Sucks...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks this is awesome! I won't share it with my wife, however

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (8 children)

How come no one paired bubbly with ice cream for adult-spiders?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sooo... Does that indicate it's not a steering issue?

I'm wondering about drunk captains, but really that'd be more of a cruise ship thing, in all fairness

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Shiiit, I'd pay to see that

 

What got me the most was:

"I am really comfortable with asking government agencies to consider, are there ways that you can innovate to deliver the same level of service while taking less taxpayer dollars to do it."

"In fact, that should be how we conduct ourselves every day, not just in the lead up to a Budget"

Honestly, we've been doing that every year for decades, now!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Oh no... Not again?

Classic national. Great article, though

 

Now is time to change Te Papa's Treaty of Waitangi display, the museum's co-leaders say.

It comes after the museum left a defaced version of the Treaty of Waitangi on display over summer to enable "valuable conversations" about te Tiriti o Waitangi

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Te Papa said it would consult with te Tiriti experts, iwi and communities for the permanent exhibition

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The removed panel will be stored by the museum, and while no decision has been made about its future, Johnston said it was part of the exhibition's history and the story of te Tiriti o Waitangi.

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