Lawrence

You know what would be a really popular law? A total ban on Christmas decorations in shops before December 1st.

This is my pitch for being Prime
Minister of New Zealand.

There sure are a lot of people who have been bullied by their unions into striking today

So much of this govt's strike messaging is 'these selfish ingrates are paid well & don't have the moral right to strike' which is so far beyond believable reality that it's just a weird choice. If they just said 'no money left soz', they'd get more public sympathy than for this Evil Mr Burns stuff.

World's most popular apps stop working in major internet outage Multiple websites that are seemingly not connected have gone down in a shock outage

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Just wanting to watch the last episode of Task and Neon won’t load

“Politically motivated strikes” gotta be the funniest phrase I’ve ever read.

WHAT LED TO PEOPLE NOT GETTING PAID ENOUGH AND WORKING CONDITIONS BEING SHIT EH?

Was it fairies? Gnomes perhaps. Everything is fucking politics. They think we are stupid.

I went to the cinema last night. They played the trailer for the Springsteen biopic. The annoyingly chatty woman behind me exclaimed loudly “OH IT’S THE BOB DYLAN MOVIE” and I am not proud to say I grunted back “no it’s the SPRINGSTEEN movie”.

This is why people hate me.

I declare the “humid, windy and overcast spring day” the worst weather type of all time.

Luxon is the kind of man who claims every entitlement he qualifies for whether he needs it or not.

Luxon is the kind of man that takes benefit entitlements away from 18 and 19 year olds, saying that "the world doesn't owe them a living."

Luxon has created an economy where they can't find jobs.

Well that episode of Peacemaker felt … very pertinent

The pre-election CTU ads were spot on & were true.

“Out of touch. Too much risk” was the primary message, and inside the paper, the ad elaborated, saying he was focused on the wealthiest, called people “bottom feeders”, would scrap Fair Pay Agreements, and would give landlords tax breaks."

They are one of those bands who are objectively very good, but which I really actively dislike.

Small consolation given how bad everything is, but it gives me some solace to know that not only will Luxon be remembered as the worst PM in living memory, but Willis will also be remembered as the worst finance minister.

God David Seymour is an asshole
God Simeon Brown is an asshole

Trying to visualise what a gold-standard shitter’s bathroom would look like.

Homeowners on real estate shows are always searching for a "chef's kitchen" but never a "shitter's bathroom" or a "wanker's office"

Is the thing “not drive very far”?

That, my friend, is the ugliest vehicle in the history of humankind

Petty things that annoy me - Louise Upston putting the emphasis the “Jam” in Pearl Jam. She’s Gen X, surely she’s heard someone say the band’s name at some point in the last 30 years.

Good to see Prime and Xu-Nan going hard at Stanford in the House yesterday.

Stuart Nash’s employer launches ‘formal review’ after crude comments Recruitment firm Robert Walters says the former Labour MP’s remarks ‒ that a woman is a person with “a p...y and a pair of t..s” ‒ were “deeply inappropriate”.

The Platform continues to ruin careers besides Plunket's own and I low-key love it for it. www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

I went to a funeral at an evangelical church today and I’d forgotten how much evangelical ministers say “just” when they’re speaking IYKYK

All of them.

Many people probably agree with this take though.

God, those Phillips kids are going to need years and years of deprogramming and therapy aren’t they?

Reminds me of the kid at primary school who would take his pants and undies COMPLETELY OFF to go to the toilet. Yeah, that’s not how clothes work dude.

That interview is a very very hard watch. Breaks my heart to think of him sitting around for 20 years and not playing the guitar.

Parenting has made me way less of a film festival regular than in my pre-parent days. However, I managed to catch three great NZIFF music documentaries recently

* Anchor Me - The Don McGlashan Story
* Life in One Chord (about Shayne Carter)
* It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley

All highly recommended

Rewatching Twin Peaks for the first time in quite a while. Forgotten what a slog the second half of season 2 is. But excited to The Return.

Here is the thing I hate the most though. HE MAKES JOHN KEY LOOK GOOD IN COMPARISON. And I fucking *hated* John Key.