Useful Advice for the Amateur Red Wine/Port Fancier

When should wine be decanted?

Well I've never known nor cared until recently but I've decided to relook at Reds as I always enjoyed them so I took a trip around Google to find out. Unsurprisingly there is a multitude of advice and video (god I hate how to video's) but I found this. Easy read and simple enough to do.

I also found this, the decanter I got for my 21st birthday which has never been used...until now. 

"Decanting wine has a practical purpose but is frequently regarded as mere affectation. Do you decant, and if so, what?

As if the stress of getting Christmas lunch on the table were not enough, there's also that last minute panic of wondering whether anything needs to be decanted. If you do, you're not alone. Few aspects of wine service are more misunderstood. Decanting is probably as often performed unnecessarily on wines that don't need it as omitted (possibly for reasons of embarrassment) for wines that do.
The most obvious reason to decant is that the wine has thrown a deposit, and that's really only likely with vintage or crusted ports and aged unfiltered reds. For the process to work effectively the bottle needs to have been upright for several hours, then be carefully poured into the decanter in front of a light (traditionally a candle) so you can see as the sediment inches towards the neck. You need to do this in a single movement so that it doesn't fall back and get mixed up with the wine again.
You may also want to get some air into a wine that smells slightly stinky - there are more of these around given the growing popularity of natural wines made with no or very little sulphur - or full-bodied young reds that need a bit of aeration to mellow over-aggressive tannins. You might even want to decant a full-bodied white if you feel it's tasting a bit funky or not showing at its best. When deprived of oxygen wines can develop strange aromas. If they get worse after decanting the wine is probably corked.
How far ahead to decant depends on the wine. it may simply be a question of getting a bit of air into it, in which case simply decanting before you pour will do the trick (much more effective than pulling the cork and leaving the bottle open for an hour or so).
Wines you don't want to decant too far ahead - or at all - are fragile old reds which might fall apart once exposed to air, most ports (you don't need to decant a late bottled vintage or a tawny, for example) or crisp dry fino or manzanilla sherries, which should be served chilled from the fridge - however much that may horrify elderly relatives.
Decanters don't need to be expensive cut glass crystal heirlooms. We've picked most of ours up from charity shops. You can even use a jug. If you're embarrassed by the whole process you can simply double decant: pour the wine into a jug and from the jug back into the bottle (rinsed if the wine has thrown a deposit).
The ideal shape, if you're looking for presents, is one with a wide base like this which gives you plenty of room to swirl the wine - gently - around. And which actually looks quite stylish on the table.
Which, if any, wines might you decant, or would you feel self-conscious about doing it in front of family and friends?"

Fiona Beckett-The Guardian

Page Two of Todays HOS-Sick days for pets???

Pet Sick Leave? Seems there are businesses in the world that give their employees leave to look after pets.

Well OK...fine..it's their business but FFS once more the Herald seems to be coming in on the side of abject stupidity.

For on thing how does a story like this get the inside cover? Actually how does it get into a newspaper (I laugh and laugh) at all?

You want to use up your annual leave looking after your kitten fine by me. Don't however feel the need to ask for some kind of extra provision in the holidays act to get more time off although you can almost guarantee this will be the Heralds next bludging campaign. 

Jesus these people give me the shits and I hope like hell I never meet the med student in the article. People that are obsessed with animals tend to put humans lower down the list.

Todays HOS-Page One

School installs toilet for transgender pupil, aged 6

 Yep. They really did. Now this is a long winded load of horsehit and I can't be bothered with the whole article, it has no place in a newspaper and belongs in a woman's magazine, reading it was enough to tip me over the rage edge, suffice to say the parents of this kid must be some kind of fucking whack jobs and the school and board of trustees are nothing more than pandering wankers. 

The article claims "a research project  in America in 2014 stated children become aware of their gender identity by age 3 to 5, and a report in the UK yesterday said children as young as 3 were being treated at gender transition clinics."

What a load of crap. I could with no effort whatsoever find a research group that claims beer will assist you to longer life or smoking lowers stress and chocolate is good for you but nobody with half a brain really believes the cheery picking of self interested lobby groups. 

This so called  research will no doubt have been conducted by and/or on the behalf of the poofters ponces and queers in the USA and UK that are forever pushing their homo agendas down everyone elses throats.

There is no fucking way a fucking three year old (or a six year old) is sexually aware of their fucking gender and wants to be opposite to the way they were born. 

The fucking queers and steers will stop at nothing to have themselves put out there at every opportunity right down to driving it into our primary schools. Everyone involved in this should be ashamed.

Jim Beam Introduces a New Pour Insert for Their Bottles

Bought this today, a one litre bottle of Jim Beam.

Q. What's wrong with this picture?
A. These fuckwits have inserted a pourer. Now its not a controlled pour and nor can you remove the fucking thing.

So what's your point you ask?

This. I can't put my controlled nip pourer in here. These brain dead cunts have created a spout for the use of  those with the fucking DT's one presumes but it's no fucking use to anyone that uses a mechanical nip pourer.

What genius thought this was a good idea? Do these pricks ever actually connect with their customers? Do they know they have customers? Do they care?

Well let me help you out Mr. Beam. You can stick up bourbon ya arse. This is the last bottle I will be buying!
Idiots!

Is This Even a Story?

Saw this in the paper this morning and it reinforced for me my decision to cancel my Herald subscription.

US tourist: New Zealand Airbnb host stole my husband

Seriously, what is this? Some sort of hit job? I didn't even know what Airbnb was? Apparently its some kind of Uber style Bed n Breakfast site. Well OK...whatever..so these tightwads don't want to pay to stay in a proper hotel..well whoopie.

And her scumbag hubby does the dirty? So what? How is this news?
Why would anyone in their right mind think this was worthy of a place in a newspaper? The NZ Herald's editors, its journalists (I laugh and laugh) and NZME need to take a good long hard look at themselves if this is the kind of crap they believe their readers aspire to.

Good riddance to it.

Marvelly Takes Another Swipe at Men

Everyone knows I’m no fan of Lizzy Marvelly so it comes as no surprise to me that she now claims to have been sexually assaulted on numerous occasions by unnamed bogey men high fliers in the music industry.

The Herald’s female editor is so enraptured with the story that it gets a preview on page three and the editorial is all about it. 

Another diatribe of simpering stupidity from an attention seeker once more thrusting herself into the limelight, this time with over exaggerated vacuous accounts of her near rape experiences such as a hand on the thigh, someone getting too close to wish her good luck before going on stage and claims of piggish behaviour done by a man in front of another. 

Now I’m aware that such men exist but seldom are there two of them in the same room and even rarer when one does not step in. However it’s her story and she believes it. I’m not convinced. The account is serious enough to warrant a sexual harassment charge.  So where is it? She names nobody simply makes innuendo that the music industry is rife with appalling males. 

This hysterical performance rabbiting on about the natural interactions between men and women that has been occurring for a 100,000 years which is now offending Lizzy and the lesbo manhating feminazis is symptomatic of the entitled, privileged generation of women we are currently seeing that want to be put on pedestals, yet have pay parity without taking the same risks or efforts. Precious petals that want the best of all worlds while demonising and walking all over men.

Its high time men told harpies like this to go boil their heads. Marvelly is nothing more than another feminist man hater with little talent and nothing of value to add. 

No one can deny that there are far too many cases of abuse of power by men over women however the pendulum has swing so far to the left now that men are being tried and found guilty of being men. This is simply not acceptable.  

For those that genuinely need help you should call:

• Lifeline: 0800 543 354
• Rape Crisis: 0800 883300
• Auckland Sexual Abuse Help Foundation: 09 6231700

Everyone else should get a fucking grip!

Sharing-Knock it Off!

There's a new phenomenon among men I've noticed recently. And its sharing.

This is a bad thing how, I hear you ask?
Let me explain.....

Movies & TV shows you watched.
If I'd wanted to see it I would and for all you know I may still be planning to and I don't need the end ruined by you, this also applies to the fucking rugby score.

Dreams.
For fucks sake no!
Nobody wants to hear about your bloody dream. Its bad enough having to listen to your girlfriend prattling on about her dream and "what do you think it means?"
No! Don't share your dream at work or with your mate!

Sex.
See dreams and then extrapolate.

Discussing sex and/or dreams at the pub!
Huge fail!!!!! 
The pub is for talking about sports, politics, work and fishing. Nobody wants to know the details of your fantasies or your conquests.

Men do NOT discuss their sex lives. Anywhere! Ever! Period!
I do not fucking well want to know what you did with your wife or girlfriend. Especially when she is someone I know.
And I don't need a mental picture of you doing it. NO NO FUCKING NO!

I blame Facebook and Twitter for this explosion of abject stupidity and self centered need for affirmation.
Stop fucking sharing!

Obama on Brexit

Obama has declared that Britain should not leave the EU.
He's cited the USA/Brit relationship and dead US Soldiers in European cemeteries as to why he gets a say.

Somewhat ironic given he'd never dare suggest that the USA should join the EU and open its borders to unskilled migrants who mostly just want to get on a benefit for the rest of their lives, commit crimes and set up 3rd world enclaves governed by primitive vicious laws ruled over by misogynist thugs.

Nor would he advocate the use of the US dollar to prop up the socialist basket cases of Greece and Spain closely followed by France and Italy.

Barry should keep his opinions on this matter to himself instead of issuing veiled threats. He needs to remember that his lot were late for the last two major conflicts and throwing that into the poms faces could well be seen as gratuitous.

Typical socialists, never happy unless they are telling someone else what to do.
Perhaps Bernie Sanders would like to advocate the USA joins Canada and Mexico and they all have one currency and can come and go as they please and sign up for each others benefits.

I'm sure the socialist Canadian PM would love it? No? 

A Dumb Blonde and a dumber 60 Minutes Crew

You know I wasn't going to have a rant about this but fuck it..I am.

This story gives me the fucking shits. There are all the underlying things no one wants to talk about so I'm gonna. No one reads this anyway.

1. Racism
2. Sexism
3.  Progressiveness
4. Media  

 1: White chick marries middle eastern man AND the fact that middle eastern man does a runner with the kids to his homeland.
Personally she's not getting much support from me here. What the hell did she expect from an entire culture known for its misogyny? 
Was this her little rebellion against her parents? I neither know nor care.

2. In Australia as in NZ when a custody battle is looming men are not just seen as they actually are hugely disadvantaged, they have few rights and little hope of proving they could be a better parent than the mother even if the mother (and I'm generalising here not speaking of any specific person) happened to be some worthless undesirable skank. 
Men have virtually no chance of winning custody of their kids. 
This guy has taken an opportunity and fucked off back to his homeland where the situation is reversed. Men have all the power in the middle east.
Again not much sympathy here for her. She didn't see this coming?

3. The progressives love these guys. The multiculturalism agenda is thriving in Oz and here in NZ. The sympathy card is being played all across the media with talk of how if the boot was on the other foot and a lebo had come here and kidnapped the kids there would be howls of outrage. 
Which of course is true. But the progressives are livid that it is! 

4. The media. They have been found wanting, accused of making the news not reporting it.
Well bloody hell. Its taken some people a bloody long time to wake up to that somewhat salient fact now hasn't it?
I've got sweet FA sympathy for them as they sit in their jail cell either. 

Personally I've got no fucking sympathy for any of them apart from the poor bloody kids. This is the end result of progressive multiculturalism and the rest of them can go fuck themselves. 


 

Crim Journos-Making the News

Seems the Heralds readers don't approve of journalists  being implicated in kidnapping and making the news.
But it must only apply to overseas ones because not many of that readership seemed too upset when Heather du Plessis Allan was breaking the law and forging police officers credentials to buy guns.

Guess it's not a one size fits all.  Wonder how the Herald feels about some of its employees that are making a name for themselves these days by being the news instead of reporting it given their mini poll? 

Maori Water Rights

Lizzie Marvelly, the NZ Heralds latest addition to its growing staff of long winded, feminist, PC pandering nit wits fails to see that giving one particular group a spot on boards and committees due simply to the fact that they are Maori IS racist. 

Purakanui Falls-Catlins

"For over a decade the Crown has recognised that Maori have interests in water - interests that are supported by the common law custom of Native Title. As far as laws go, it's an old one, imported from Britain and developed over centuries of interaction with different indigenous peoples. Its basic tenet is that a change in sovereignty doesn't automatically mean a change in property ownership. In our local context, it means Maori have rights and interests in land and water until they voluntarily decide to gift, sell or assign them.
Common law also states that no one owns water, and much of the concern around the ownership of water stems from the idea that someone could seek to exclude others from using it."

Well sure, all this is on face value is true but what she forgets is Maori sold an awful lot and now want it back for free but she goes on....and on...and on....

"So why is it that the mere presence of Maori at the brainstorming table inspires a group of ex-politicians to spend thousands of dollars placing hysterical advertisements in national newspapers?"

Gee Lizzy, would it be because our pandering Government is once more falling in line with the Maori party and allowing the brownmailers more say in our affairs than they have earned? 
These people haven't been elected by anyone yet they will quickly introduce a Taniwha tax and consultation rights and fees with Iwi. 
And another unelected Maori Statutory Board will be born!

"Lost in the racially-charged discourse is the fact that Maori have been involved in the protection of waterways for generations. As a group, Maori bring a huge amount of knowledge, value and mana to the conversation. As the Government has already acknowledged"

What a load of rubbish. Maori protected the waterways and the environment for generations? From what? Their stone age culture? Give me a break. 
This brainless git is simply spewing out the platitudes learned in radical socialist university courses and mouthed by a spineless Government looking to placate it's largest partner in the MMP shambles it refused to reform.

This is just another way of handing out more cash to Maori by stealth.

Pokerstars New Format-Knockouts

Well they haven't thought this through now have they?

Who thought this was a great idea?

I always sit in this chair and look...bang..can't see my second hole card while their fancy little animation hangs in the air AFTER the deal has commenced.

Genius!

Avatars

An avatar is the name given to the little picture people put in their profiles.. I have no idea why it's called an avatar and I don't care.
But I noticed something I was doing on some interactive sites recently that I didn't realise I did but now I see it.

If somebody has a dimwitted, ugly, offensive (to me anyway) or controversial avatar I tend to flit past their comments and opinions regardless of whether that person's opinion is potentially of merit or not. Therefore simply because you have chosen a stupid avatar that while it may have meaning for you has none to anyone else your opinion and thoughts are being sidelined.


Evil or nasty moronic cartoons, children's characters, limp lame and insulting pics will simply have you sidelined.

Seems if a bit of humor is attached or an attractive picture people will look a bit further.

I have no idea if this is a "thing" or just me but I'm willing to bet it is.
Think before you avatar!

Panama Papers-Is This the Years Biggest Yawn so Far?

The most batshit boring story of the year and the media and Labour Parties are up in arms.
They firmly believe they have John Key in their sights the morons.

John Key has a lawyer and a family trust? Really? Who could ever have foreseen that?



What a bunch of twats.
Corrin Dan and the imbecile Little need to grow a brain!

Z promo-Is this the gayist piece of stupidity ever?

A "Z" service station promo called wheres Meg?
Why the hell would I care and who the hell is meg?
Seems like a Facebook farce to me, I'm not going to click links and watch videos for a chance to win a bloody Toyota Prius! And what the hell sort of petrol company flogs off a Prius as a promo tool?

Might as well be a solar panel the tools.

There is no easy sign up option, no scratch and win, just a video I have no interest in watching and this load of gobblygook indicating that once more if you're not part of the Facebook fuckwit crowd you can't play.

How to play:

1. Enter your unique code to get started (So if you haven't fucking signed in where do you enter your code?)
2. Sign in via Facebook or by registering your details (Where the fuck do you sign in?)
3. Check out the daily clue and try to work out where in New Zealand Meg is hanging out for that day.
4. Search for Meg’s location on the map and use the zoom (+/-) to get close enough to drop your pin
5. Drag and drop the pin on the map to make your guess
6. Drag the pin around to refine
7. Confirm your guess
8. Play again if you have another unique code

If you get stuck, email us at wheresmeg@z.co.nz so the team can help you out. (Fuck off!A Prius isn't worth the effort!)

So shove ya promo where the sun don't shine Z. I don't do Facebook and I'm not playing!  And I won't be back.

Google Nik is now Free

If you're a photography buff you may want to go take a look at this and download it.

https://www.google.com/nikcollection/ 

Now I'm going to have a play with it.

Enjoy. 

Why Doesn't The Council Inspect for Stupidity Instead?

Auckland Council who are so flush with cash are now going to inspect car parks to insure more stupid pricks don't drive off them.

What sort of a fucking imbecile drives off a car parking building? These numpties are saying the wheel stops were there but may have been "off center?" If they were there at all then the clown must have hit at least one side of it and yet still managed to find the fastest way to the street.

Once more people just to afraid to lay the responsibility where it belongs, which quite frankly is at the foot of the idiot driving the car.

Dollars to a pound of pig shit that this fucking muppet isn't a kiwi, can't speak fucking English and got his drivers license in a country famous for issuing them to people that have never actually driven a car.
However regardless of where he got it the prick should never be allowed behind the wheel again!




On top of that the council need to wake up and stop sticking their noses into things that have nothing to do with the. Worksafe will already be investigating this. Why do the jobsworths need to poke their noses in?

This Barber Highly Recommended

Was walking past here today and noticed that the only customer was about to leave and I needed a haircut so I popped in and took a seat.

Within moments I'm in a chair with a "Is it a number 1 or number 2" (Awesome! Guy takes one look and gets a read, my hair was fairly (for me) long) Two I reply, then a pleasant "Having a good day?"
I agreed I was.

And the action began. No stuffing around no chit chat just a haircut, clippers literally flying, lightening fast comb changes (I wasn't expecting frills but there were) and then a cut throat razor clean up of neck back and sides. And that thing was flying too.

Within minutes I'm in front of counter with best hair cut in decades done in about 5 mins tops. (The lack of a neck protector meant a bit of an itchy afternoon however but hey...a real man doesn't let that grind him down..next time I'll ask)

All this for 12 bucks, like seriously...12 BUCKS! From a real barber, no poncing around and as the man said as I more than happily handed over the card "In and out...no fuss"

Damn straight! I'll be back! I don't live anywhere near Onehunga but I'm over there enough and good service deserves reward.

Oh and I also recommend a pie from Crosby's Pies two doors up.

universal basic income

There has been a fair amount of chat around this so here's my 2 cents worth.

Today Gareth Morgan was named in the NZH editorial as "an economist" that supports this piece of economic stupidity and sabotage.

Well first off Morgan can call himself whatever he likes just as I can call myself a "Civil Engineer" but god help me if I ever tried to sign something off!

This is a moronic idea and with out even bothering to drill into the numbers (which are hideous) even at face value on its first utterance it was nothing more than another feeble attempt at voter bribery by Labour.

The simple fact is that people even talking about this piece of utter fucking stupidity are simply adding fuel to the fire and giving it some kind of credibility when it has none.

When the Herald rubbishes a Labour bribe and stamps it as unaffordable then the games over. The socialists there are probably lining up at his office to knife Curry in the back for shooting their luvvie pipe dream to pieces. Morgan will never speak to him again. (Or at least until his next piece of socialism is ready for airing)
Of course when Gareth takes all his coin and holdings out of trusts and makes it as taxable as my income then perhaps I'd take him a bit more seriously?

NAH!

As Predicted

Well I got that as right as could reasonably be expected in this post.

Hard to believe the Herald are so blind they can't even see their continuous pattern of finding and reporting on whiners is so predictable. But there you have it.

As I said, women, kids trapped in car...going nowhere. Surprise surprise. Has this halfwit never seen a news report at Easter in the past? Clearly not!

Whiners and imbeciles howling about their own choices. World is full of them and the media can find them at the drop of a hat. Give me strength!

Giving Local Council Control over Easter

Well alright..not exactly but the Government is once more considering abrogating more responsibility to councils. Cameron Brewer writes on this today about Easter trading laws.

He states the councils positions around the country in their submissions were against the idea as it would will add significant legal and financial burden, which of course it will as they get hammered by SME's demanding to be allowed to trade.

"By allowing each and every TLA in the country to establish different Easter trading bylaws, some may argue central government is simply passing the buck on a tricky topic. It creates significant costs while lumping yet another responsibility on councils far exceeding their traditional role"

It would also be bloody confusing for the rest of us.
This legislation and its responsibility sits with the Government and that's where it should stay. Councils should be pushing back and steadfastly refusing to take on more government tasks. Local Government already has far to much sway over our lives.

"While it makes the six o'clock news every Easter, on reflection I don't believe there is much public mood for change. Most New Zealanders I believe would support keeping most businesses closed for 3.5 days out of 365."

So do I.  The reality is Easter is used by many families as a time to get together. It's hardly a family opportunity if some members are being "asked politely" by the boss to make themselves available for work and they can have time and a half and a lieu day some other time when everyone else is back at work.

Regardless of your reason why!

Cameron Brewer-NZ Herald

Road rage video a fake

These self righteous pricks are becoming a law unto themselves as they post videos of frustrated motorists that they are deliberately setting up.
In this case it appears the lycra wearing tosser faked the rage (dubbed I suppose). Given the cops were investigating before the maggot came clean I'd imagine the cars owner has been through some misery.

On top of that the scumbag claims to work in media.
Well the media is littered with SJW's trying to make the world a better place for arrogant cocks on pushbikes one must admit.

The police need to prosecute the MAML.

NZ Herald

Easter Traffic

OMG. No way. The roads were all snarled up this morning. How come no one saw this coming? Oh..wait..they did and like a clever kiwi they went bugger that and stayed home.

Every year the same and every year the numpties feel the need to report on it.

I'm sure the TV news will have some sniveling woman whining about how muggy it is and how her three little precious darlings only wanted to go on holiday and now can't get to the toilet and John Key should be doing something about it.
Meanwhile of course Labour and the Greens want roading projects slashed and for people to push bike everywhere (except them of course...they're far to important) and an end to "Holiday Highways"

Add to that the big news about the police being out there to reduce the road toll and being out their preventing accidents not just gathering revenue by parking at the end of passing lanes.

"A driver was caught travelling close to double the speed limit on a wet and stormy Waikato road yesterday, just as the Easter holiday period began.

Travelling 82km/h in a 50km/h speed zone, the motorist was zapped by the Waikato Roading Police Team yesterday afternoon."

I'm trying to work out how a third equals double but then again facts have very little to do with journalism and never have so no real surprise here. Most sane people would have expected the number to be 98 not 82!

Photo and quote from NZ Herald

Flag Referendum

I'm not going to bang on about this except to say I made no secret of my intent to vote for the current flag because as far as I'm concerned it reflects my heritage and that of my ancestors that made this country what it is. A fact that my children also seem to appreciate as my vote also followed my kids wishes.

However those that voted with me and have allowed my preference to prevail because their intent and wish was a protest vote from the left simply to make John Key look small and look a like a loser are dip shits, tossers and halfwits.

The left wanted a change and you have pissed it away. This is the mentality of you wankers. Anything for a score eh? Once more cutting off the nose to spite the face.



Cheers!

Well of course...Maori taking legal action over Kermadec sanctuary

They can't help themselves Iwi are at it again with the hand out mentality which is seeing them rapidly becoming public enemy No.1.

Te Ohu Kaimoana said all iwi, not just northern iwi, had rights to Fisheries Management Area 10, because of a Treaty of Waitangi settlement in 1992.
"These rights - like all quota and customary non-commercial rights - endure and are not limited in time irrespective of whether iwi (or their members) have or have not fished in the area."
Its legal action was backed by large northern iwi Ngati Whatua and Ngapuhi as well as other iwi around the country.
The Government is not offering compensation to affected iwi, saying that the fishing take was small - around 20 tonnes a year - and that Maori with quota rights had not fished the area in five years.
The fishing take is believed to be worth around $165,000 a year.The absence of compensation was raised in Parliament this week, when legislation which will establish the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary was debated.The Maori Party and the Act Party said that affected fisheries should receive some form of reimbursement.Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox said 58 iwi with interests in the region had been ignored by the Government.

 The reality is the damn place is halfway to Tonga for crying out loud and yet they claim "customary rights?" Bullshit. Go fish it with a Waka then and lets see how many of you make it back.

These wankers are just after everything they can get yet this time key has already said there won't be any kind of settlement because

"Parliament has the sovereign right to do what it likes".

 Lets see if he has the stones to sit the 2nd generation bludger Fox down and put her back in her rightful list MP place.
I'm not putting a bet on it!

Jones x Peters = Trump?

Rodney Hide has got the comments section of the HOS in a lather with his comparison of Trump being a cross between Bob Jones and Winston Peters.

John Northcott has this to say:

"Is inexplicably popular.
Has a mob of braying sycophants to whom he can do no wrong.
Is unpopular with a large proportion of the population.
Avoids difficult questions with bullying personal attacks and put-downs.
Has an obsession with hair.
Donald Trump? No, John Key."

Good to see the Key haters can find a way to get it out there no matter what.

Then there's this whack job Jim:

"Good- high time we rounded up all of the criminals in this Country also and put them all on trial. They are killing off Kiwis - farmer suicides, teenage suicides and youth suicides via the legal highs poison scam, kids living in cars, dying in cold homes, 20% of the population on new age whacko meds that destroy health- more child abuse and sex abuse than every recorded, the meth scourge as they spend our money going after much safer cannabis etc. Its like a Bolshevik takeover- and time we said enough and rounded them all up."

Jim

Hard to say what he's on or who he wants rounded up but you go Jim!

Scooby Doo is not a big Rodney fan though and puts it out there:

"Another pointless biased article against Winston Peters, NZ Herald's speciality!
Winston Peters is indeed a very experienced politician, he is nothing like Trump. Trump is totally American and would not be tolerated in NZ.

"Peters life is politics. It's all he knows and all he does".
Wrong, he was a lawyer previously as I'm sure you know!

Winston is not against immigration per se, but Auckland clogged to the brim as it is now, is a good indication of what happens with uncontrolled immigration and lack of infrastructure.

You on the other hand, set up the so-called disastrous "Super City", we were told this was to save money. Instead we got massive blowouts, gross wastage of ratepayer money, lack of budgeting skills, extremely unhappy ratepayers treated like Santa Claus and efpos machines, lack of transparency and consultation and far too many staff; I could go on all day. You would be wise not to point any fingers at Winston Peters. He has NZ's best interests at heart."

ScoobyDo

However it's this quote from Rodney's article that I go along with,

"The Trump phenomenon is not unfamiliar. I am enjoying his rise - not that I like Trump but I love the gnashing of teeth he causes. He is not the political experts' choice for President.
They think him unfit. But they forget it's democracy. It's the people who choose political leaders and, quite often, the people want to give the establishment a good kicking."

Damn straight. The simple fact is the people are sick and tired of mealy mouthed politicians telling them how to live and think and leaping on the PC bandwagon even when in their heart of hearts they don't truly believe in the cause but are to gutless and cowardly to say anything that might affect their standing in the polls.

I'm no fan of Trump but I'm loving the wailing of the left in the media and in general.

Wicked Campers Upsetting the Prudes-again

Paula Bennett is leading a charge against humor and freedom of expression because in this case shes offended.
Apparently none of the people in this article are easily offended and one 67yr old complainant is happy to curse like a sailor to get her point across about how offended she is.

Does it ever end? A group of women are upset about a successful company that uses one liners that have been around for years (none are original as near as I can tell) and they are upset because they seem to be aimed at women?

 Here's a little factoid for Paula and Wendy, there is an awful lot of crap advertising on radio and TV these days which is aimed at men yet nobody gets at all offended.  If these slogans were primarily aimed at men would they be offended? Somehow I don't think so.

There's no quote in this load of Fisher drivel worth repeating with the exception of one from Wicked Campers regarding listening to complaints and his action to address them he said the company had

 "employed a team of highly-intelligent, socially-conscious super monkeys to closely monitor the subject matter featured on our vehicles and scream loudly when offended".

 The duty of the monkeys?

 "Satisfying the whims and wishes of the humour-inept, self-righteous moral majority while wearing little monkey tuxedos and funny hats."

Classic!

To be honest Paula, between this and your pledge card last year you've lost my electorate vote. Get a life. 

(Quotes and photos courtesy of The Herald on Sunday online)

Do these pricks really believe their own drivel?

Seriously? Auckland's CBD will be in lockdown for the next four years for projects  almost nobody wants and this moron has this to say.

"Auckland Transport spokesman Mark Hannan said cycleways and bus services would help alleviate traffic."

 How on earth stealing roads that motorists and ratepayers paid for and giving them to private bus companies and the few MAML's that use cycleways is going to reduce congestion is a mystery that only this twat and his social engineering scumbag entity seem to understand.

The rest of seem to be able to comprehend that many people NEED their car for a variety of purposes and can't take a bus to work, therefore forcing the roads from two lanes to one will probably not be much help!

These wankers and their idiot agendas led by the current incumbent idiot mayor need rinsed by our next mayor, unfortunately not one person with the stones to do it has put their hat in the ring.

Not one!

Lizzie Marvelly: Bachelor makes a feminist's heart ache

"As a feminist, I find few things more torturous than watching The Bachelor. Or more problematic."

Really? Then don't fucking watch it. Jesus wept, that's as far as I got through this insipid morons weekly diatribe,  which is further than I'd prefer.

Why the Herald has decided to become nothing more than than the soapbox for wannabe left wing actors, singers and politicians is beyond me but that's where its at.

Who the fuck really cares what a whiny cunt like Lizzie thinks? What has she ever brought to the party? When the fuck has she ever lost anything or gone without, suffered or struggled?

This cunt doesn't even know she's born just like the sniveling little teenager that preceded her Verity Johnson.

Both a pair of spoiled, witless brats. 

The overpaid and entitled don't care if you can't afford eggs.

SAFE and its minions are at it again, with a half witted ill thought out campaign to force Countdown to only stock free range eggs.

Antoinette Laird, the head of external relations for Foodstuffs, which manages Pak'nSave and New World, said the poultry industry did not have enough capacity to supply exclusively non-cage eggs, given customer demand.
"We believe it's important to maintain the affordability of an important dietary product such as eggs to all consumers."

Skilton said it was disappointing that it came down to money. "It's disheartening to see animals treated that way just for money."

 Emmett Skilton, Kevin Milne, Antonia Prebble, Robyn Malcolm, Jaquie Brown, Ben Barrington, Joe Cotton and Suzanne Paul need to wind their necks in. Do these pillocks fail to understand the principles of supply and demand?
These are the same snivelers that whine about child poverty yet all this policy would achieve is driving the costs of eggs into the the luxury item bracket. Morons.

Pokerstars-Tickets Not Showing Related Tournaments

Sent the following to Pokerstars:

I have about 30 something pokerstars giveaway tickets that have cost me a fortune to collect yet i cannot find a single game to register any of them too. Why?

These tickets have been expiring for weeks, I had more.

This is a blatant rip off. It’s bad enough you are happy to take southern hemisphere coin yet refuse to schedule any games in time slots that suit us, now this!

 

Totally rude! Why is this happening? 

 

This is the reply:

 

Thank you for your email.
We appreciate you taking the time to submit this Bug Report.

We value your feedback and would like to assure you that it is currently under investigation of our Programming Team.

We know how important it is for you and all other players, to get this issue fixed as soon as possible.

In the meantime, you can still register into desired tournaments using the preferred ticket by locating the eligible tournaments directly from the tournaments lobby.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused.

Thank you for your patience and for playing on PokerStars.

 Now that's all very well and good...so they have a bug. Well bloody well fix it! It's impossible to find these games in the tourney lobby, no one even knows what they are called and besides which given they are only played between 5 and 7am NZ time it's not like many of us will see them pop up.

And I notice my comment re their schedule slide straight through to the keeper as well. Not that I expected anything else.

Ill Immigrants Want to Burden Kiwi's Pt.2

And today the HOS continues with it's assault on the kiwi taxpayers wallet with demands from the moronic do good pantie waists at the Human Rights Commission that immigration should be more compassionate?
Mojo Mathers comment "If today's criteria had been applied to me when my family applied to migrate here back in 1981, it is likely I (or my mother who is a survivor of a major motorcycle accident) would have been rejected as well," is laughable.
Lets be honest, if that criteria had been applied NZ would be better off and we would be one less troughing watermelon fruitcake, I fail too see how that's a bad thing!

Ian Lees-Galloway has learned a new word and throws it out throws it out there but isn't saying what we should give up to keep foreign cripples and autistic kids in life long care.

Autism NZ CEO now wants lawyers involved as he thinks our right to determine who can and can't come and live in our country breach some treaty of the commies at the UN; the fucking idiot.

All he's going to do is piss away his associations money on suits that will eventually come back and tell him what a half wit could fathom for himself; that we bloody well do have the right to say who does and doesn't live here and we can and should apply any bloody criteria we like.

Nobody is suggesting that NZ's autistic kids should be packed up and sent away. I'm sick and tired of these grandstanding cunts that will say and do anything to get their names in the paper.

Ill Immigrants Want to Burden Kiwi's

The Herald is once more advocating that immigrants to this country get special treatment and that the Immigration ministry is remiss in not listening to the Heralds simpering and hand wringing as our bureaucrats finally do what we pay them to do which is look after our best interests not the interests of a small minority of unfortunately afflicted which have the nous to run to the press.

Statements like this need to be challenged "The Brazilian-born woman, who is in a wheelchair, has been rejected residency because of fears she may be a burden on the health system. Her doctors say that is unlikely."

Of course her doctor is going to say that, why wouldn't he/she? It's an open ended statement and "unlikely" doesn't mean a thing.
Quite frankly its just as "unlikely" that she won't be a burden on our already over strained health system in much the same way as an Autistic kid will be both a burden on our health and education systems.

I'm sorry but this just isn't NZ's problem to bear, we have our own burdens on society. 

It's high time our immigration officials took a harder stance on the quality of immigrant to this land. One only has to sit in a public hospital emergency room to see the multitude of entitled, pushy, arrogant, non English speaking patients that should really have gone to a GP but refuse to as it will cost them. 

I've just gone through this experience after being referred to North Shore Hospital by my GP. The attitude of some of these people is mind boggling and one even demanded an interpreter which a nurse whispered to me would be paid for by the hospital...which means me! Last time I looked the bloody hospitals weren't paying their way. The taxpayer was.

So stuff the Herald and its cry baby soapbox for those that are a bit hard done by and good on immigration for making the tough calls and putting NZ first for a change.

It's about bloody time!

Fat Tony on Northland

From WOBH-Cam Slaters comments in red background

Mike Williams aka Fat Tony has a column in the Hawkes Bay Today about Steve Joyce’s Northland debacle.

MAKE no mistake, the outcome of the Northland byelection last Saturday is a political boilover of seismic proportions.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters won one of the National Party’s safest seats with an election night majority of more than 4000 votes, erasing a National Party majority of over 9000 votes in the general election just a few months before. Winston Peters’ final majority is likely to increase when the nearly 1000 newly-enrolled special votes get included in the total.
This 13,000 vote turnaround is unprecedented in our political history, but it is the internal dynamics of Peters’ triumph that should give Prime Minister John Key and National Party campaign manager Stephen Joyce pause for very serious reflection.
Apart from a governing party losing a safe seat, two statistics set this contest apart from any previous byelection. About half of the voters chose to cast their ballot before election day and the level of participation was huge.

The early voting phenomenon is unprecedented, and it exceeds a trend in recent polls.
The turnout level is a genuine abnormality. It has been a rule of thumb for years that byelection turnout levels are half of the previous general poll. The Christchurch East byelection saw 13,000 electors vote compared with the 28,000 who had voted in the previous general election.
This is the established pattern.
Northland broke that mould. With 28,000 voting in the byelection, this wasn’t much short of the 34,000 that voted in the general election five months before.

And Steve Joyce and John Key think it is of no consequence that a) the turnout was up and b) they lost a seat National has held for 70 years.

These two statistics suggest anger, and we should explore what National did wrong, what the other parties did right and what this might mean for electoral politics in New Zealand.
National was overconfident to the point of arrogance.
Although National knew about the likelihood of a byelection before anyone else and Key decided on the date, they were the last big party to nominate a candidate. National then took a week to get its billboards up and they chose to plaster their candidate’s image over recycled former MP Mike Sabin hoardings.
When the rains came some local punters were faced with images of Sabin, just the man National wanted everyone to forget.

It was amateur hour stuff. People were and are angry…but Key and Joyce think it doesn’t matter…they think their polling won’t be affected…and so no one in National is even looking at the debacle.

The malign influence of Australian political consultants Crosby Textor was also evident and almost certainly counter-productive.
This outfit specialises in the political equivalent of sledging and their newly-minted New Zealand affiliate, Hannifin de Joux, having opened its account with a duck in Northland, will be ruing its timing.

Jo de Joux didn’t even go to Northland…the party hired her, paid her a not inconsequential amount and she stayed in Auckland ran the campaign for Steve Joyce by remote…hectoring and abusing volunteers from the comfort of her home.

I was surprised that some old hands like Matthew Hooton and Michelle Boag were not involved in National’s campaign. This might have avoided destructive clangers like Joyce getting caught prompting his candidate from behind a camera when the hapless Mark Osborne appeared on Q+A on TV1.
Boag or Hooton would have known that if you need to do this, (and sometimes you do) then get a discreet earpiece and don’t advertise it.

Fat Tony places too much stock in Michelle Boag, he well knows she was the president that delivered up the lowest ever result for National of 20.93% and that promoting her is very, very cynical. We all know he wants her back to screw up another campaign, but it won’t work because the National party have a long memory.
It seems the only people who aren’t looking at the implications of the loss in Northland by Steve Joyce and his dream team of campaigners is the dream team.
No lessons are being learned.

– HB Today


Key needs to sit the never elected for anything Joyce down and explain a few things.
He has clearly misread NZ's stomach for corporate welfare, the TNZ and Sky City debacles have hurt National as had the perception of 3rd term arrogance, which Key actually warned about on election night.

It is time the Nats started paying a lot more attention to the WOBH blog and to Slater and his commentors sentiments.

Many long time hard core supporters are now venting frustration at the lack of change in 7 years and the Nats lack of intestinal fortitude in winding back the excesses of the Clark era and her bribes along with the ongoing rorts often referred to as the Treaty Settlement and RMA.

NRL: Isaac Luke investigated for homophobic slur

The NRL are beyond belief. Why? Why are they getting so touchy feely about the use of words.
Good grief.
The Herald is outraged....of course.

What he  actually said:

"get off my page you lil poofters" Luke wrote.
"This is about a kid your fans knocked out. Well now two kids Yous dropped. We train at Redfern come down and see if you fellas are still carrying on #rulesarerules even though it was a hard penalty to take. I bet yous would've done the same had we done it to one of your players. Or we would've have even had u gooses commenting had it happened earlier on in the game. Now get off my page."

Now seriously these do gooders in the NRL need to wind their necks in. He called a couple of punks poofters on an instagram page. So what?
How is that homophobic? Were they homos? Are all homos poofters? Are all poofters homos?
Since when?

These people give me the shits and the liberal wave of new age censorship and the willingness of the masses to allow it should be shunned at every opportunitiy.

It would be completely different if Luke had been promoting harm to homosexuals or was actually engaging in some kind of activity or language slamming them. He wasn't.
He wasn't even talking about homosexuals. The use of the word poofter means nothing. Next thing the queers and steers will be alleging discrimination over the use of the words gay or rainbow...oh..wait...silly me...they are.
Fuck 'em all the pansies!