Posts by Gareth Ward
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We're really going to need him against Italy.
It did seem to me that the ABs are now playing a bit of South African game - kicking for territory and defence. Our back up first-fives don't really seem to shine in that mode...
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I love that Hone hates the puritanical ways of the white man, yet visited Paris to see Notre Dame...
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I just won't read the HoS. My wife refers to it as my nemisis.
But an intriguing "DJ" story given who the editor is, no?Todays editorial is also a very very average affair - Roughan got a visit from an Infratil lobbyist, and now apparently Snapper is the awesome answer to integrated ticketing, contrary to an involved RFP process, deep probity audit and the common sense of running with an incredibly experienced player when the key complaint is "how much longer does this have to take?"
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So, you didn't need to go to a meeting because it could all be handled with some over-dinner discussions? May I suggest that you therefore didn't need to fly to Europe at all? A phone call would have been as effective?
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So I guess that means models are normal too.
I sometimes think the issue isn't really that the models are tall and thin (so long as they're healthy etc), more that "we" have decided the fashion model is meant to be some kind of sex object/desirable form.
If tall and thin works to make the clothes look good (and yes, I'm resisting the "walking coathanger" gibe as it seems very unfair to the girls) then so be it - use what works. But why "making a particular dress hang right on a runway" is so heavily equated to the desirable body I'm not so sure... -
Bees have appeared naturally over thousands of years without any interference from puny mankind. The sun alone drives 90% of bee appearance in the last thousand years and I saw a bee the other day BEFORE I mowed the lawn - your pinko theory can't explain that lag now can it?!
It is well known that the UN has a deep liberal apicultural agenda, and wish to implement the lesbian queen socialist utopia of the colony.
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And let's not over-egg slarty's plans here - none of them are really THAT much grander than introducing GST, or even just Kiwisaver.
The drug decriminalisation maybe, but the rest of them are just major policy changes - not ending the Cold War. -
Right Danyl, I certainly envisage the NZ model being the same as the Aussie one though - you'd make the compulsion through IRD and therefore from the employer. There really isn't another useful way of doing it.
The 2+2 model now should be formalised as 4 of salary, without the "good faith agreement to take the moneys" scam that National introduced.
Quite right on 401k.
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If the state is compelling people to pay money into Kiwisaver then the state will have to guarantee the investment.
Why? That's the certainly not the case in Australia or with 401ks in the US?
We'd certainly need proper financial investment reform, but if a Govt fronted and said "complusory super, at 15% tax, income-tested super payments by 2025 and serious financial industry reform from now" I'd swoon...
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Well put Slarty. I don't agree with all your proposed ideas (I'm not sure what French Matthew will use to describe me but I'm quite against a carbon tax abating GST) but I dare say that's the point.