Startling Lady of Gore

A headline from GB News stating: Motorists switch to using public transport to avoid paying £5 daily congestion charge

In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge.
A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."

Catherine Wedd and Grant McCallum, both members of the environment select committee which met at Parliament on Monday, are the latest National MPs to throw their support behind the prime minister. "At the moment, in our government, he is the best prime minister that we have," Wedd told Stuff. "I think that Christopher Luxon ... is doing a really, really good job."

Huge endorsement from Nats MP for Chris Hipkins here 😁 #NZPol

Man this is like when my dad described holding my baby sister for the first time as the best moment of his life, right in front of my big brother and me.
Luxon will definitely go down in history as a PM that we had.

Honestly! Like I was complaining about this to my (male) friend after the lecture and he was going ‘well maybe he was afraid to be too enthusiastic, he wanted to be respectful’ dude you and I were in the same cheerful 9am lecture about wound dehiscence that had mandatory audience participation

My gynae lecturer is so unenthusiastic about the vagina. Mumbling as fast as possible to get through it like a vagina defeated him in honourable combat and now he’s ashamed to look at one directly. As a lesbian I cannot understand the impulse

requiem for vanished birdsong

every leap year they should reverse the direction of the international date line and on whichever side gains the extra day the ladies get to whatever illegalities they want on that day

Boys dressed as Big Ears, Noddy and Mr Plod sitting in Noddy's car on a float, a man in a mask on the right, during the Farmers Santa Parade on Queen Street, Auckland Central.

Farmers Santa Parade. Queen Street, Auckland, 1989.
Photo by Miles Hargest.
Ref 273-HAR102-05, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections.

Mother and small daughter (I assume) posing for a studio portrait in gas masks. Black and white.

Picture by Millard Photographic Studio, undated.
Ref 2020.60.197, Tairawhiti Museum

Two little girls in matching outfits with very fair hair pose under a mural of a dolphin. Black and white photo.

The Dastardly Dolphin and two sinister accomplices. Marineland, Napier, 1973. Photo by Russell Spiller.
Ref 2407/2425/285211, Hawkes Bay Knowledge Bank

A small smiling girl in black and white lifts a baby. A Dangerous and Daring Dolphin lurks behind her on a mural.

Last moments of two Napier children, 1973. The Dastardly Dolphin claimed many lives.
Photo by Russell Spiller.
Ref 2407/2425/285139, Hawkes Bay Knowledge Bank.

Black and white picture of a lonely young person apparently fretting while dressed as Santa. The absence of any other people gives an air of bleakness to the scene.

The Many Woes of Father Christmas, undated.
Ref 876/1234/37275, Hawkes Bay Knowledge Bank.

I like discovering things that my mum likes are actually quite good. Today I found out about cottage cheese.

Alcian Blue, a dye used to look at epithelial and connective tissue. The stains are pink, white, and blue.

Alcian Blue histology dye says trans rights!

Travelling back in time to tell Gilbert and Sullivan the concept of Pushing Daisies.

Victorians would be feral for a beautiful woman back from the dead who can never touch her lover or she dies again.

Poll: would you use the fridge Connor found on the side of the road

Overheard in the quad today: “Yeah we got our fridge for free, Connor found it on the side of the road!”

Ok someone’s very proud of that byline aren’t they

One of my favourite midrash on Purim is the claim that everyone stopped taking the emperor’s edicts seriously after the one ordering women to obey their husbands.

There is an alternate universe where I am writing a Reform temple’s newsletter. I have accepted this.

A very stylish crab in a Purim costume made of green and brown seaweed. It mainly eats mussels and paua, but I dont know how crab kashrut works.

Did you know that crabs also celebrate Purim?
The hairy seaweed crab is NZ’s most common rock pool crab. It decorates its shell with sponges & seaweed every year. Smaller, unrelated crustaceans will sometimes cling to its back to get leftovers.
So far, no underwater graggers have been discovered.

NZ Herald, Audrey Young: "Christopher Luxon's Clare Curran moment - can he recover?"

I'm sorry, I can't believe NZME journalists are STILL using Labour MP Clare Curran as a synonym for fumbling to answer questions.

Do you know what she did? She used a personal Gmail account for Ministerial use in 2018.

Know who did that more recently? Current MP and media darling Erica Stanford.

I have a distinct memory of being like six and not knowing where babies came from but knowing about pregnancy and c-sections but how could that work in caveman times? And a then assuming a friendly lion cut the baby out

Solid 6/10, would bump it up one if it was shaped like some part of Haman’s anatomy

For religious reasons, I am currently eating Whittakers banana caramel chocolate.
Happy Purim!

Black and white photo of four uncanny masks. The one in front really does look like Muldoon.

Pupils from a third form art class at Hornby High School wearing papier-mache masks of Robert Muldoon.
From left, Diane McIIwrick, Angela Sweeney, Jason Radonovich, Aaron Hughes and Grant Downing.
Christchurch Star, 14 November 1983.

Small freckled boy surrounded by masks.

Paul Krauss, 12, of Bishopdale, with masks at the novelty stall at the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Show.
Christchurch Star, 12 November 1987.

Man and woman dressed in fowl grit bags, black and white photo. Quite styly.

Prize-winning couple dressed in fowl grit bags for Napier Mardi Gras competition, 1921.
Ref 655952, Hawkes Bay Knowledge Bank

Polaroid picture of three persons dressed as clowns.

Three Youths.
Ref 478456, Hawkes Bay Knowledge Bank.

Carterton Centennial Parade, 1957.
Ref 20-143/19, Wairarapa Archive.