OK I'm going full Larry David on this one. Gonna get it fixed, somehow

Might have to add bins to my crusade against things parked on the footpath. Before I do, died I anyone have any plausible explanation why everyone on just one side of the street would leave all their bins out permanently? It's so weird and I feel like we're the only family that doesn't

Not wrong, Stuff

OK, that's my non-cricket sports quota filled for 2026

This 90-minute match is about to enter its fourth hour

Hang on, are the blue guys allowed to have the ball?

Spanish goalie has the most relaxing job in the world

It's been over an hour and a half since kickoff and we're barely into the second half? This really is American football

Pity they've got The Count at this game, but no one has scored any goals so we haven't heard from him yet

When the timeline accidentally delivers

I had one of these chips nearly 10 minutes ago and I'm not yet ready for a second

Yes.

Must be near the end of the school holidays. Ms 7 just told me she read an entire book backwards

Been a while since I listened to Rage's first album the whole way through, and the second half of it has so many incredible "YEEEEAAAAGHHHHHH" shouts, up there with James Hetfield and Rob Zombie

Me, every second paragraph, trying to subedit this story this morning

the future is here and it is picking images for news alerts

Intellectually I know that The Hague is a real place and things other than The International Criminal Court exist there. I was still not prepared to read the sentence: “Shrek Rave Is Coming To The Hague!”

Auckland earthquake whisperer has competition

It's almost impressive how Winston Peters can turn something as mundane as naming a couple of boats into a reason to stoke the culture wars www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The seventh person came through - I'm getting $8 back for my troubles. As it's school holidays, I think we're already due for two more jars of peanut butter anyway

The Auckland earthquake whisperer apparently felt 'extreme' shaking during this morning's 4.0 aftershock at the bottom of the South Island

Question to other Xennial/younger parents out there: where are you getting posters for your kids' rooms from? I grew up poor but my walls were always covered; but now posters in stores cost $20, limited range (and mostly old stuff), and kids don't buy mags/CDs/newspapers. Where do they come from?

Should have nationalised Screaming For Vengeance instead

I was overcharged $4 at Pak n Save the other day and have spoken or interacted with six different people at PnS about it and they all say they want to refund me, but cannot. Apparently it's going to a seventh person tomorrow morning for review

Deciding whether to go to Costco instead of spending locally / getting back from Costco

Is this a new Roko's Basilisk or merely a Pascal's Wager

Turns out I really suck at this game I bought today with my birthday voucher money

At West City and just walked past a young woman carrying a beefy Bluetooth speaker cranking System is a Down, in the mall, which is about the most West Auckland thing I've ever seen

Most new music should come with a "don't listen to this shit" label, but this is a start www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/m...

For the old Hamilton crew www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ego...

Ten years ago the 'are people really giving the finger behind Luxon?' thing would have delivered an entire day's worth of clicks to a certain now-defunct news service, AND ruined a press secretary's day off. The things they took from us

Working on a little project and revisiting so many 'sweet summer child' vibed headlines

I think he's talking about his latest round of Civilization VI... right???

Pretty weird he found one that looks just like the health minister

Just walked past a new dairy which quite obviously was intended to be a vape shop before they realised there were already 6 other vape shops in a 200m radius (ignoring there are already a dozen dairies within the same radius)

I just got one of the most poorly designed messages in a game ever.

All of the hundreds of millions of dollars (and time) spent on probes and investigations and commissions of inquiry into NZ's response to Covid-19 could have been replaced by these few paragraphs on Wikipedia

Kids just played me a song from a modern cartoon one of them was convinced he heard in the supermarket today. Worked in 15 seconds it was a hip hop reimagining of Toni Basil's 1981 hit 'Mickey', probably itself borrowed from something else...

Episode 420

The clever ways loyalty fees are running you

Punk Music: Israeli military says it intercepted two ballistic cars fired from Qiulae Wong

Still is

This reminds me of a bizarre thing I remember very clearly from when I was about nine years old and my teacher repeated the old 'i before e, except after c' myth, and a friend of mine - who was NOT a nerd at all - piped up, 'But miss, what about WEIRD? What about weird, miss?'

Why did it take a 5yo to point this out and not a teacher? www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3610...

There's no backwards compatibility anymore

This is some stellar guerilla marketing for Medieval Total War 3 www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

Annoyed I spent so much of my younger years listening to second-rate Britpop when this existed, but I had no idea it even existed until relatively recently

Ham Awards on the TV news? I assume this guy won, since he's always way over the limit

They caught the fugitive Donald! And.... *squints at teleprompter* ... he's going to be turned into bacon? www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions...