Posts by krothville
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Also, how do you upload multiple photos per post?
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Capture: The Colour Of Spring, in reply to Nora Leggs,
I really love that piece of artwork up near the Auckland Central Library, so good!! ^_^
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Oh sure, lol. But I think there's an awful lot of ridiculous commentary on gen-y-ers that has no basis in reality ;)
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to izogi,
maybe someone’s afraid that JK wouldn’t show up if he thought he was going to be challenged.
More than "afraid", they *know* he won't front to an interview if he thinks he's actually going to have to pull his finger out of his arse about National's policies and priorities over the next term.
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to Farmer Green,
Lol, I'm not sure how expecting good working conditions (such as a 10-15 min tea break, and a paid lunch break) connects to gen-y-ers expecting everything to be handed to them on a platter.
In fact, I'd say (with the exception of those born into riches and privilege through family connections), gen-y is the most realistic of all. My grandparents' generation fought hard to get basic rights and minimum working conditions, and my parents' generation pissed them all away through complacency. My generation have seen everything slowly eroded, and we feel helpless to stop it. We expect to have to work shitty jobs, 3 on the go at once, for the rest of our lives. But that doesn't mean we can't point out how horrible lack of job security and paid breaks and decent wages is. These commentators who keep spouting the nonsense that gen-y has ridiculous expectations are often the 50+ers, completely detached and so out of it.
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Marc C,
My conclusion is now, that the feedback was probably so critical, that TV3 decided to NOT publish the comments that Lisa Owen had actually asked viewers to make.
Probably they will publish carefully vetted comments, at a later time, when none of the audience has remembered about it to check.
Also, I'm pretty pissed off that all the coverage has been over the Labour leader thing, when will still have very little idea about what we can expect from the elected government over the next 3 years.
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Hard News: The humanity, in reply to tussock,
Sick, absolutely sick. Anecdotal evidence from a family member who recently spoke to a couple of NZer seasonal workers that Sealord or Talleys also do this.
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to tussock,
Such weak employment laws that there's a lot of people aren't treated well, gets to be a race to the bottom for conditions in an oversupplied and compulsive market.
Sounds like hospo. Yep, and National are going to be weakening the laws even more this term apparently.
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OnPoint: Sunlight Resistance, in reply to Kumara Republic,
The Graun has deep coffers. They're making a huge commitment to expanding coverage of the globe with as much local content as possible, and to long form and investigative journalism. Now they're having a go at being subsidised by those who want to contribute to the paper's continuance, without resorting to pay walls. It's still early days, but y'know, they are trying, and trying a whole lot of different things.
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Hard News: The humanity, in reply to Richard Grevers,
collected weekly from the organic farm down the road - and considerably cheaper than supermarket.
We had to give up on that, the "local" farmer got a bit greedy and was charging the same or more than supermarkets, so since it was already an hour's drive north, it wasn't affordable any more.
Yeah, Alfie, for a long time we only bought the "farmhouse" milk with the cream on the top. Now that we don't use even half as much as before, we treat ourselves to the Lewis Rd Creamery stuff...
Be good to get confirmation about the possibility of all milk in the supermarkets being reconstituted. Though I presume that milk that comes with cream on top is not reconstituted.
