Sign. And vote this government out. Essentially this bill will open up places like the Rimutaka Ranges for evonomic development. This is not us. www.forestandbird.org.nz/campaigns/sa...

I’m Gen X and still think of myself as young. I still act pretty much like I did when I was younger. I have adult kids who look to me for advice. No one told us how to deal with adult shit. I recently put my older brother into dementia care. Then my mother. There’s no manual huh.

Recently travelled to Chch with some friends. The businessman in front of me at the bar ordered a coffee (it was around 8am) and I then ordered 4 bloody Mary’s. he looked at me, then looked at the lady behind the bar and said ‘can you make that five?’ Much respect.

Great podcast that analyses the Joe Rogan podcast and breaksdown the misinformation in each episode. This one is on Peter Theil and shows what a charlatan the guy is. A little embarrassing clip on his NZ citizenship is also mentioned. open.spotify.com/episode/2W36...

His playbook is so obvious that next he will start inferring that Rarotonga should be a NZ province and that we should have a tariff war with Aus. Hope this clown isn’t on Signal.

Wife: Are you drinking on a Monday? Me: I’M SUPPORTING OUR ALLIES THE ONLY WAY I KNOW HOW

Decided about six months ago to enter the stock market for the first time, using the Sharesies app. I gave myself $1k, spread it over 5 NZ companies. In only six months I’ve already lost $150! Better than Teslas stock at least.

Just looked at X for the first time in ages. Heaps of new followers. Looked through them all. All fake. All pro Trump or Elon. Some pretending to be kiwi tradies or similar. What a ridiculous platform that is now.

This is Simeon Brown effectively giving everyone in the Wairarapa the middle finger. And where is our electorate MP in all of this? Nowhere to be seen. Fucking appalling.

Insufferable bullshit. Higher unemployment. People leaving NZ in record numbers. Massive Construction sector losses (Fletcher loss blamed on massive demand reduction). Management speak is all well and good but you get nowhere by simply cancelling everything. Walk the fucking walk.

Our living room when we bought our house vs our living room post renovation:

For Gen X or older. This is an image from one of the most successful ad campaigns in the 80s (Jif). ‘Cleans and shines without hard scratching’ What the hell was kind of boot was this that was scratching the surface? Never made sense to me. Follow me for more riveting and relevant posts.

~out of office~* *building site

-Willis knew nothing about ferries when she cancelled the order -Peter’s approved of the iRex ferries in 2020 as SOE minister and wrote enthusiastically about them -Peter’s is now once again in charge -No plan in place -Luxon and Willis can now blame him when budget blows out

I buy my brown onions from the self checkout but call it fillet steak because I like to give back to the struggling supermarkets.

We just had a heat pump/air con unit installed in our bedroom and boy it has changed our lives. Wairarapa summers are hot. That is all.

The most frustrating experience on twitter is watching seemingly intelligent people you’ve followed for years slowly go further down the rabbit hole. To the point where some farmer living in paradise is now frothing against Bill Gates vaccinating animals. I mean, what?

My son’s girlfriend came in today asking what the horrible high pitched noise was when walking into our gate. We went out and found this (pointed at our entrance). I couldn’t hear anything (age I guess) but both her and my son said it’s an awful sound. What do you suggest I do?

Right. Just packed the $150k camping van with wine and cheese and am about to leave for Wellington to park up at Parliament to join the occupying protestors. Wait, they’ve already gone? You mean it was a respectful protest and they cleaned up after themselves? Pfft.

Building something for a farmer client at the moment who leans right. He started talking about the Hikoi yesterday and I thought ‘here we go’. Turns out he’s all for it. Absolutely disgusted with Seymour’s bill. I reckon Seymour has totally mis-read the room on this one.

Home office all finished and wife has started working from home. Loves her new office view.

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Whenever I’ve watched QT at parliament I’m astounded by the braying, the sarcasm, the insults and the way our MPs act as if it’s a school yard. But no, it’s Te Pati Māori that’s now brought parliament into disrepute 🙄

Go to Waitangi. Take the tour with the people that know the history. Look at the receipts. Then get to me. There’s a lot we weren’t taught in school.

I have nothing but contempt for this nasty little creep.

“But there’s a catch”? Reckon I’ve spotted the catch straight away

Love Joe Bennetts writing.

Giving my adult children who have returned home the ol’ side eye at the moment

Pffft. Homer said it first.

Thom Yorke was something else last night I tell you what

Fox in charge of the hen house. Or former ‘political figure’ sex offender in charge of a young sporting club. Oh ACT, you’re so good at this.

Got followed by someone on twitter and looked at their profile. It was just videos of a woman having sex with dogs. That site is trash. Will start using this site more often from now on.

Mystifies me that cycle lanes have become a partisan issue. Every time I mention them in here the usual conservatives appear and tell me how wasteful they are. Yet when Key and Brownlee announced $100m funding back in the day, we saw no pushback from either side.

$3000-$4000 potential water bill on top of rates. Let that sink in for a moment. Still think 3Waters was a bad idea?

building advice. Don’t always accept the cheapest quote. The first picture was the sub- frame for a deck and veranda from the cheapest quote. The second is the sub-frame we did after taking apart the previous builders work. He walked off the job after the clients questioned him.

funny how the last government had budgets in place for health and ferries but this one doesn’t. But does have money for tax cuts and landlords. Weird. Can’t understand it.

Building my wife her own office at home. Sorry Wgtn CBD but it just makes sense.

He’ll of a time to be a builder in South Wairarapa. Both Greytown and Martinborough have stopped further developments due to crappy infrastructure. Complete incompetence and kicking the can down the road has finally caught up. Three waters anyone?

This fucking government. Let’s just fuck over first home buyers to keep landlords happy. Shameful. Absolutely shameful.

Not sacking Costello has meant a baseline has been established for cabinet ministers. This will be the worst government ever.

It's from TikTok to avoid getting flagged by the algorithm.

Is ‘unalived’ a thing now? I’ve seen it used a few times recently instead of ‘dead’.

Elon has inserted a microchip into someone and it’s treated like a big deal. Why didn’t he just use the vaccine to insert it like everyone else did?

Wife spoke to our mortgage broker today to discuss whether we should re-fix now or wait. ‘Well, it’s hard to know what with all that’s going on in the world, especially now they’re geo-engineering the weather so we get less sunshine, plus all those immigrants in the US!’ FFS.

The Boneface People #boozeupabook

Why the fuck are we involved in this?

Yo @foxylustygrover.bsky.social , what do you think of this look for commune units. This one is two seperate bedrooms.

This cycle way was specifically to allow kids to bike to school safely. One of the opponents was actually quoted in the article saying ‘kids get dropped off by their parents now anyway’. This is the most negative government ever.

Never send my wife shopping for booze with my daughter. I think we’ve got enough vodka for Christmas Day.

Only on twitter could I tweet this and get accused of trying score points because my industry has more suicides than others. Honestly, the place is fucked.