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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 02/10/2026

Canterbury Biltong makes me sad. Sure it’s better than the jerky you can buy in stores, but it’s not (good) biltong.

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BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.

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Should send every single fast track approved project to review by select committee as well!

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Maybe he has finally woken up?!?

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Mr gobbledegook vs Mr snoozefest yeah, nah, I’m busy that day.

and while we're at it ... this whole "under urgency" bullshit HAS to be tightened up. none of the crap this govt pushed through "under urgency" warranted "urgency". it's an obvious loophole that has to get fixed. anything "urgent" enough to bypass scrutiny and process HAS to require 75% majority.

"an entrenched written constitution is adopted," THIS >> i am sick and tired of this crap where a govt spends all their time undoing shit from the previous one and then does shit the next one undoes and round and round we go going nowhere

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and yes, i mean the latter .... CAN'T just change things (under urgency) whenever they feel like it.

Ah. Right. Still, Peters is a populist cunt.

And this time they better make it that the next govt can just undo it under urgency, again. There has to be a way to protect basic rights like this and Te Tiriti etc from this constant fuckery. We can’t keep doing and undoing and doing and undoing. It’s exhausting.

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I’m not going to go find the article or torture myself reading that, but what a completely bonkers piece of crap. Also, who publishes a headline like this? WTAF.

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Not the first time (or the last) that he has stood there and blamed “the Labour government” THAT HE WAS AN ACTIVE PART OF for something. Look what he did with the ferries for example. And many many other things.

How much easier can they make it? It’s already pretty much get on a plane and go. Are they gonna come pick me up at my house and sort out my flights for me? What an odd thing to focus on?!?!?!

It doesn’t have to be perfect the first time, and if something is going to take considerable time and effort to do now but isn’t needed until later, then defer it. But we already know we need this now. It’s more expensive to do later. Or it just doesn’t get done and you live with half-baked.

It amazes* me that there's always time to come back and do something later instead of doing it right the first time. Instead let's immediately incur debt for something we could've just done properly. It will always cost you more later, and often later never comes. *FRUSTRATES

tone deaf is his middle name Christopher Tone-Deaf Sorted Out-Of-Touch Luxon it's so him

They’re scared of her because she’s challenging their status quo. Nobody likes change, especially not conservatives (yes I painted Labour blue there on purpose)

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Yup. How she survived burning $600M+ for no boats (and then having to shell out that amount and more again for inferior boats) out of ideology and spite remains the biggest mystery of this govt.

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“top” is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in that headline.

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Well ok, fine, but we’re rushing headlong in to our own crisis brought on by not saving for retirement, draining what little retirement funds you have to buy a house and then relying on selling your house to fund your retirement

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This year’s sick has a looooong tail to it where everyone says they just so drained and so tired for weeks after. Look after yourself.

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Ah, and now it’s not bad enough there’s all these buses and bus lanes everywhere, we also now have to give way to buses trying to pull in to the road (referencing the new road rules I imagine). This is going to make it so slow. We’ll get nowhere if we have to let buses in all the time. 🤦

Also complaining how it’s getting harder and harder to drive these days …. If only there were a way you could get someone else to drive you to the shops ….

Nevermind banning under 16s from social media, we should ban over 60s from the internet.

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Oh good. Now one of them is ranting about “15 minute cities” and how it’s a ploy by the government to control everyone. Keep them locked up. It’s basically a police state apartheid (apparently). Yeah, they read about if on Facebook …. FFS

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Now one of them is going off about how awful it is that there’s these buses everywhere. It’s not safe to drive anymore. They can’t park anywhere. How are they meant to get to the shops or the hair salon now?

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Early for an appointment so I stopped for a coffee in St Heliers and found myself next to a table of “blue rinse”’ers complaining endlessly about council ruining their views and their neighbourhoods with these buildings and the bloody immigrants and and …. This is why we can’t have nice things.

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Ah yeah, Chris Luxon, the man of the people with his $25K watch and his 7 houses. So in touch of the basics. #nzpol

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Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 27/09/2026

Really pleased to get a full tank of petrol today for $60. Granted it was for my lawnmower, but…. I’m trying to be positive.

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Guys I didn’t realise before how important this work was but the people behind taxpayersunion.org.nz deserve all your time and attention, please don’t pass up this click

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"In the Auckland market, she says, that usually means people sitting on homes worth around $1.6 million on average." well that's just the thing .... those homes aren't worth $1.6M. not really. we're heading for our own version of the mortgage crisis that hit the USA a while ago.

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this is why the whole attitude of Kiwis of " sell the family home to fund their retirement. " blows my mind. see also withdrawing from your retirement savings to buy a house. i get that houses are unaffordable and people have to, but jeez man, this model is not sustainable.

True. That will mellow it out a bit and changes the flavour again as the chemicals from the garlic mix with air.

But when you consume garlic like my wife does, nobody got time or patience to bruise, slice or crush, just chew on a whole clove. 😂

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They are quite different. They it one day. Bruised makes for a much “stronger” taste. Sliced a more mild taste. Different dishes, different approaches

Bruising isn’t bad per se, just use it immediately to benefit from the stronger flavour. Sometimes I’ll bruise sometimes I’ll finely slice depending on desired flavour Crushing it and leaving it for months in a jar is not ideal.

It’s the same as crushing or bruising herbs makes them taste quite different to finely slicing them.

Bruised, crushed, and sliced garlic each produce different flavors because each method ruptures a different number of cells, changing how much allicin is created.

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The majority of Kiwis will be better off with the Greens plan, but somehow everyone is panicking about “taxing the rich”. You’re not “the rich” they’re looking at. And if you are, an extra 2% tax on your wealth would hardly be noticed.

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