Basement Jatzz

"Shut up! We did not lose Vietnam! It was a tie!"

I can't help but think that if, in 1945, you told people that the US and Israel would be the aggressors of WW3 you would have been laughed out of the room

Aww I love that for them

Absolutely. They "o" everything. Rego, servo, bottlo, houso, arvo, avo

Between this and her chick hatching this afternoon, Rakiura is must-see TV 😄

Years ago a friend of mine worked for ECan. She said their operating model was that if they didn't have an overwhelming reason to say no to an application, they had to approve it. That's how we got dairy farms in the Mackenzie Country. I think about that a lot 😞

I've seen the dwellings in Glenavy fishing village referred to as cribs and baches in equal measure, so the border is definitely somewhere around Oamaru/Timaru

R.I.P. the Hutt Valley train tracks

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omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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Who needs an algorithm when you have MEEP

You just want to smack his head with a giant teaspoon to see if his brain is the consistency of a dippy egg.

I'm ok with them getting rid of the full licence test if they introduce retesting every 10 years or so. Iron out the bad habits people pick up

I love this. My grandmother was a notorious airline cutlery thief. I didn't know anyone else did this 😂

Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura the kākāpō – 2026 nest YouTube video by Department of Conservation

If you're not watching Kākāpō Cam, then you should be! Rakiura the kākāpō is nesting on the island of Whenua Hou and she might lay her 4th egg this afternoon!
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Of course they're keeping the inferior one at the posh end of town and shutting the one where people are poorer, more elderly, less mobile and less likely to own a car. That tracks.

Halfway through Shadowlands by Matthew Green

They lived and they died
They prayed to their gods
But the stone gods did not make a sound
And their empire crumbled, 'til all that was left
Were the stones the workmen found

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Alright, New Zealand "summer". I'm lighting the fire. You win. Are you happy now?

Help us make hope normal again.

Join the Green Party now.

Screenshot of a facebook post by a cousin of the affected family which includes a link to the givealittle page https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BnsWWhV8J/

Found the link and more info on fb

Ngatai- Cooper whanau devastated but lucky to be alive! Help this whanau that are devastated by loosing everything in flash floods

givealittle.co.nz/cause/ngatai...

He's just added Four Seasons in One Day to his Spotify summer playlist in solidarity with Northland

North Otago Pharmacy in Oamaru will be able to help. They were doing boosters after the local medical centres stopped offering them

Want! It's probably a good thing I won't be in Dunedin for another couple of weeks

That's amazing. The Interislander sticker!

I'm a very pale kiwi who has to avoid the sun like the plague. I went on holiday to Scandinavia and got the best tan of my life. (Not on purpose, I still wore sunscreen.) That is the angle of the sun that my skin is designed for - Arctic Circle-adjacent.

I'm guessing it's full of Nickelback, 30 Seconds to Mars, Kid Rock, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews Band and other bland shit approximating music

a woman says i have a lot of questions number one how dare you .. Alt: Kelly Kapoor of The Office sits in a meeting, frowning at someone out of view and saying "I have a lot of questions. Number one, how dare you?"

I'm itching to post a question on their listing

So that's why everything looked orange this afternoon when the cloud thinned briefly

There was a double fatality crash a stone's throw from this spot two years ago. Perhaps it's now considered a black spot?

Or maybe they've upped the budget overall - they are also going to be patrolling around Oamaru schools when the new term starts

Kakanui, New Zealand seen as a line of misty hills in the distance with a sliver of ocean in front, beneath a moody and cloudy sunset sky

Kakanui looking ethereal this evening