New Zealand's least memorable vacuum cleaner salesman....

Random thought: You really wouldn't expect to find the worst designed shower/bath in a home valued at $5 million, would you?

That will be it!

This sort of thing isn't new, but technology makes it so much easier. Nothing is sacred anymore.

Volume up!

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

I'd say this is a mantra for all people across the globe. "Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again and again". Organise. Defend. Resist.

This Week's Onion Magazine:

Yeah, not that construction was any a better word when the construction industry is well and truly in the doldrums #NZPol

This:

Aww, diddums!

I'm about to fly for the first time in nearly 11 years. I tried really hard to find a viable overland option to get from Dunedin to Auckland, but flying takes a fraction of the time and money. I'm going to say goodbye to someone.

I was awoken by such a grim phone call this morning that I made a pot of tea AND a pot of coffee to take back to bed with me.

I have no idea how credible this guy is, but I do think his theory is plausible. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19622...

Ffs!

Trump posting “no one is above the law” achieves one of the largest failures of self-awareness I can imagine.

A WWII film that I think now mustve been Battle of Midway. My father took me go see it when I was about eight. When the ship's sinking and there are men in the water and then the leaking fuel catches fire.

The life of an introvert really just boils down to working up the energy to act like an extrovert, until you can go home and be comfortably introverted.

I've just woken up. Is Niçola Willis still Finance Minister?

Sox Pistols

The most galling thing about my recent scamming experience was that the bastards used my credit card details to purchase the spyware they installed on my computer!

I am ashamed to admit I have fallen victim go a scam and I feel sick to my stomach.

Is it just me, or are headlines becoming weirder?

Accurate as always. youtube.com/watch?v=OjGH...

Instead of scrapping NCEA can we scrap this government 🫠🫠🫠

Um, the proposed "new" school qualifications sound suspiciously like the School Cert and UE I sat - ur, ahem - fifty years ago.

Willis pushing partial privatisation of Kiwibank just so it can access $500m of new capital. $500m also happens to be the combined subsidy she is giving to Phillip Morris tobacco ($300m) and fossil fuel cos ($200m). Let’s redirect that cash to Kiwibank and keep it. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

i think both sides are to blame here

Sound the Emergency Alert!

Here's an idea.

I have donated a week's grocery spend too. I wish I could give more.

Continuous refilling of the Tūī feeder required on this very wet day. Every time I go into the kitchen I am faced with trees filled with Tūī staring at me

Here's the sitting president of the United States endorsing ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

How the car industry cooked up 'jaywalking' to claim the roads from pedestrians. (2m)

Don "Quixote" Trump, tilting at windmills.

Weird. He hasn't got a leg to stand on when it goes to court.

It was a sad day when I went to the tip and found Ernie trapped under discarded whiteware.

But the people of Gaza still need a hot meal. Yesterday, we served 80,000+ meals—and we are ready to start cooking again the moment that aid trucks make it safely to our field kitchens. Read more: wck.org/news/gaza-update-7-20 (2/2)

Is it just me, or are the contestants on the current season of Alone a bit more clueless, and a bit less likeable than in previous seasons?

I hoped the "prominent New Zealander" would be someone else, doing something less predictable. I'm a bad person, aren't I?

There comes a time each day when I can no longer stomach news stories about pedophiles that I must retreat to watching nothing but wildflower meadow* videos on YouTube.

I read this as "chronic venomous insufficiency" and thought that can't be true.

Breaking the Enigma code: "enigmas" is an anagram of "gamines". Says it all, really.