They are a good customer and expect to be treated as such

Would you give a special deal to someone who slags you off to your other customers?

Just ask any A&E or ambulance driver what constitutes the majority of their workload

Booze. Without a shred of a doubt

Cool.

So it's none of my business when you're gasping on the pavement having a minor stroke or heart attack? I'll just let you enjoy your bodily autonomy that bit longer, mmkay?

Sure, if they're willing to bear all the costs throughout their life of their smoking, I have no problem with that

But they don't.

They want hospital beds and ambulances, They want cancer treatment and easier access for emphysema sufferers. They want COPD medicine and extra nurses to dress them

it wasn't to fund a tax cut - there was almost no cost to this

It was rolled back to appease their retarded base, that thinks tobacco companies are hard done by

I live in a small rural town.

We could get any sort of social or green agenda passed if we just gave then all a diesel ute and let them shoot animals whenever they got the death fetish

Less ‘pro Iran’ than anti Zionist/Trump

I’m not sure Americans have really gotten to the point they have realised what an agent of chaos trump has been since he was re-elected, because mostly it’s the rest of us paying

I look at them whining that their fuel is $4 a gallon and mine is $3.35 a litre

Two-for-one points to a bogan

The Lady Macbeth of NZ politics can’t wash her hands fast enough

She sees enemies everywhere

The one good thing that will come out of this is that some former Fucker Cuntson fanboy will count up all his miseries and losses and decide to Brian Thompson his slimy ass

He’s not nearly as tormented as he deserves to be

There should be a rush on voudou dolls…

We can only hope for a similar end

Slip Combat Rock and Ramones into the White Album sleeve and you’ll be fine

Remember, it’s all about subversion and sticking it to the man!

I quite like British Invasion pop, because it was what I heard as a kid, but my personal favourites from my teens are punk, new wave and post-punk. I don’t mind a bit of Jimi, Floyd or ELP, a smattering of Manfred Mann, but Blondie, the Cure, Talking Heads, Eno and the Clash are in my head and heart

My dad is 89

His regular playlist is mostly Nina Simone, Dionne Warwick, the Kinks, the Beatles, Neil Diamond, the Hollies, Simon and Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell and classical guitar maestros

Pretty sweeping statement from someone who probably couldn’t name a single British editor or name three British broadsheets

A couple of points:

- William Lewis is no longer with the WaPo - the chief editor, Adam O'Neal, is American
- The WaPo editorial board is run by Jeff Bezos - an American

For a long time they were something we should have collected as they were 50% pure silver but with a face value of 20c

Today the melt value of a florin is nearly $25

There are coffee and biscuit tins all over NZ with a tonne of them - they only recovered around 65% of coins issued

Only when ‘most people’ are Americans

The rest of the 96% of the world aren’t as presumptuous

Nope. You asked what GRP was, so I told you.

You really need to re-read the thread. It was a joke my countryman made regarding your use of GOP in relation to NZ politics

If you have to explain the joke it ceases to be funny and becomes a chore

You got two kids called Autistic Sans Suffix??

That must be fun…

(I can say that because I have a touch of the ‘tism, meself…)

I went to school with two unfortunates: Richard Whacker and Phillippe Mijolé

There was also a guy who went to a neighbouring school, who I ended up at uni with, called Wayne Kerr - he ended up using his middle name, Mike, which everyone just cut down to Miker and he’s still Miker to this day

My boss was John Smith and we travelled a lot.

I was a very young-looking long-haired graduate, checking into hotels in Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong with a big hairy bear going by John Smith…

He eventually changed his name.

Ours is different - we don't have an approved list, we deny some children's names and make them have another go.

Who remembers these, what were they called and how much were they worth and what was their equivalent in decimal currency?

Bloody things cost me a new radiator.

Banging along a long, straight country lane near Cricklade and hit one of them at about 70mph

Then there was the fun job of picking out bits of exploded pheasant from my grille and fan belt, fan and idler pulleys.

And the thing is, once you've reached the age of majority, you can call yourself anything you like

It's just to protect babies from weed/meth-smoking weirdos that think ridiculous names are fun

There was one idiot that tried to give their kid like 60 or so names - basically a long quoted phrase

We still do.

Not so much a committee, but managed by the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages

The list isn't easy to find. They post the ones they declined for the year.

www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.n...

I'm here for the whingebaggery

That's not a conspiracy theory, it's established fact