OUR UNMARRIED NONRELIGIOUS WOMAN PRIME MINISTER IS PREGNANT AND THE FATHER IS GOING TO BE A STAY AT HOME DAD THIS IS LIKE AMERICAN REPUBLICAN NIGHTMARE MATERIAL AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH
#shouting
"this is our Gallipoli" - you mean a pointless campaign orchestrated by overseas powers leading to tragic and massive loss of life in the deluded forces on the ground? sounds about right
I invented a cocktail the same shade as his bronzer. It is plum-infused gin, apple crumble cider and fresh lime juice over ice. Like the Cheeto, it is sour but when it's gone you feel refreshed.
This
#nzhellhole
hashtag is more than I could ever have dreamed when I originally mocked that numpty, everyone. Even though we're all suffering so much here it's great to know we can commiserate as a team. Until the jackbooted thugs in these quarantine camps take away our phones.
Even if you love
@realDonaldTrump
& find this disgusting, we Americans are insanely lucky to still be one of the few people in human history who can do this.
Unpopular opinion: I don't want mandates removed from schools and I don't want teachers who rejected vaccines to get their jobs back. Fuck off and be weird in some other job.
I love people from the UK Announcing To the World that they will never return here for a visit while Ardern is in power, like we give any kind of shit.
Re the bleach question: when Tova said "it is worth asking about though" and Jacinda said "is it?" I actually laughed out loud. That was funny as shit.
I'm sorry but this is hilarious. Really reaching out to the people on Struggle Street in... Botany
They are next to a McMansion that has those STUPID PILLARS so you can pretend you're a plantation owner
@LI_politico
My great-aunt was delightfully obtuse about this when discussing my mother's birth and my grandparents' marriage date. "oh hm, was the wedding 1944 or 1945, can't remember, hm" IT WAS 1945 AUNTIE BETTY AND MY MOTHER WAS BORN SEVEN MONTHS LATER
I am one of Luxo's vaunted "squeezed middle" and it's closing in on six months since the election. So far I haven't had one single living cost lowered and a bunch of them have been raised. I'm starting to think he might have been full of shit eh 🤔
Shoutout to Humbug Cafe in Glen Eden, who had all doors and windows open, a gigantic air purifier running, a table set up for people to order outside if they were nervous, and a giant no mask no entry ("your tshirt doesn't count") sign.
"0-5 we're caretakers, 5-12 we're cops, 12-18 we're coaches and 18 plus we're consultants" is how Christopher Luxon described his parenting on Newshub today. That sounded pretty pat to me so I googled it. And yes, as suspected, it is fundy shit.
Not to be bested by the anti-lockdown protest in Auckland with one attendee, the anti-lockdown protest in Wellington had NO attendees. Dammit, Wellington, you're just better than us eh.
Will the Jacinda-hating righties acknowledge that fronting crisis pressers, showing leadership, and giving out useful information you have gathered from multiple sources is in fact a really hard skill to master, now that Wayne Brown has instantly crashed and burned doing it?
Good morning, Son One woke up with a sore throat and while in the loooooonnnng queue for a swab we got a notice from his school saying there's a Covid case there. He is now in his room with all his devices and the door shut. So anyway, fuck all this very much and I hate it.
People voted for Jacinda because she said lots of us dying was unacceptable to her and led the government's response with that in mind. That's it. That's why Labour won. It ain't that deep.
"Was it disrespectful to chant at Trump at RBG's casket?" ask the American civility police. God you're all so boring. Throw a dildo at him, it's the New Zealand way.
"British activist Posie Parker has tonight been seen checking into a flight at Auckland International Airport, escorted by numerous police officers after facing overwhelming opposition at a rally today.... seen checking into an Emirates flight about 6.30pm."
Sometimes I freak out about our luck - not in geography or demographics or our inherent awesomeness or anything like that - but in WINSTON PETERS choosing a centre-left party during coalition negotiations in 2017. Because we'd probably be pretty fucked by now otherwise.
There's not much point saying "WELL YOU VOTED FOR HIM" at us on Twitter. You think anyone on Twitter from Auckland voted for this guy? We're all fucking commies
I got married in Las Vegas but I'm really regretting it now. I should have had my wedding on some trampled hay surrounded by disease-ridden conspiracy theorists.
@Miss_Keene
@otago
The other thing is that binge eating is usually a response to artificial scarcity and not a sign of an "addictive personality" at all. Diets cause binging.
Terfs after one (1) google: "Turns OUT you have terrible domestic violence stats, CHECKMATE NEW ZEALAND"
NZ: "Yeah, mostly from cis men which is why your obsession is weird and stupid 🤷♀️"
Someone explain to me how a charter school being "converted" from a public school doesn't equal David Seymour just handing over millions of dollars worth of OUR buildings (and land??) to private operators
Can you imagine, just on a human level, having your first kid and being PM simultaneously, and then under your watch: March 15; Whakaari; and this. And maintaining this sort of competence and leadership throughout.
I have been very critical of some policy directions but... WHEW.
Look. I don't want to rain on everyone's moral panic parade, but most of the time, if you see a gang dude out somewhere, he's just, like, buying a pie or something, I dunno. Are most of us running into public gang battles on the day to day? It seems very much a non-issue.
Urrrghhh, that Stuff article. "There's a degree of suspicion of unvaccinated people" YES BECAUSE UNVACCINATED AUCKLANDERS ARE TEN TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE INFECTED THAN VACCINATED ONES you absolute planks
Journalist: "How much does the protest activity influence your advice on that matter [vaccine passes and mandates]?"
*very slight are you kidding me look* "Uh. Not much."
Dr Bloomfield, we still love you man
Men getting all huffy and sad panda about how Marama Davidson said they do most of the violence is absolutely fucking ridiculous. It's a goddamn fact. If you can't handle facts no wonder our IPV stats are so bad.
How can Premier House be unliveable when we spent three million dollars on it in 2018 and Jacinda ACTUALLY LIVED IN IT? Does it lack the requisite white walls and empty bookshelves so beloved of our current leader?
Eleven schools out of over 2000 with "staffing issues" and a whole four applications for exemptions. So: storm in a teacup, like the wise people of Twitter who actually looked at what happened overseas said.
Look. It's not that I have no sympathy for businesspeople losing custom thanks to Omicron, but all your leaders ASKED to be open and not be put in lockdown, and the fact that the public are refusing to go out and breathe each others' air is NOT FIXABLE BY WHINING.
Some of you might be a bit youthful to remember Katrina and how long those poor people waited and waited and waited at the Superdome with no supplies or rescue. NZ's govt may be incredibly annoying in many ways but they're not going to do that. Govt does actually matter, SEYMOUR
"Hospitality businesses are upset that the government's relaxation of Covid-19 health measures does not go far enough."
GUESS WHAT
WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK
These people whining about their mythical rich friends who will move to Australia WHERE THEY HAVE A CAPITAL GAINS TAX AND A TOP TAX RATE OF 45%
1. How dumb are they
2. Good, fuck off
Do you know what Karen Carpenter died from? Heart failure related to anorexia. She was 32.
Do you know what Cass Elliot died from? Heart failure related to extreme yo-yo dieting. She was also 32.
In the pop-cultural narrative, who gets all the mocking and sandwich jokes? Yeah.
We only need about 68k more first doses to get to 90% in Auckland team! In the last seven days we did 32k first doses! We could get this done in a week if we really turn this mother out!
Son One has been angling to drink coffee for YEARS. I said he could start on decaf at age 12 and he stored that away so, long story short, he now owns his own plunger pot, decaf L'Affare and Playstation mug and is wandering around looking as sophisticated as he can.
So is anyone with any sort of platform going to take
@chrisluxonmp
to task for going overseas to shit all over NZ, the country he plans to represent? Media peeps? Anyone? Bueller?
Dr Boomfeel is clearly allowed to leave because I'm sure this has been the worst two years of his life but they'd better anoint someone equally able to calm me the fuck down I swear to god
Teachers are getting sick at much higher rates than previous years, and earlier in the winter - particularly with Covid. Is the government responding?
Full interview with Minister Erica Stanford:
If these people don't stop whining about "discrimination" I swear to god. You know how children aren't allowed in R18 movies because it would be bad for them? You are the child in this situation. It would be bad for you to go to an indoor venue unvaccinated.
It is truly irritating to have the Northern Hemisphere cohort be all "HAHA I THOUGHT THEY WERE GOLD STANDARD" whenever there are new community cases here. You know where our new outbreaks are coming from? YOUR OUT OF CONTROL DAMN COUNTRIES YOU STUPID FUCKS
Just watched Jacinda's FB live from tonight and discovered that she answers all the kids' letters sent to her as a top priority so they have a great first interaction with our political system. And I'm like OH COME THE FUCK ON NO ONE CAN BE THIS NICE
One day someone will write a thinkpiece about all the seemingly OK white guys in NZ who went completely off the rails when they had to do what a woman-led government told them to and spend lengthy amounts of time at home with their own families who they CHOSE TO HAVE.
Not sure why so many people are like WE CAN'T HANDLE MORE LEVEL FOUR. If this turns out to be getting away from us how many people do you want to wind up in hospital or dead because we couldn't tough it out? Because that's the choice.
They have been saying for months now, Auckland can only hold the line for so long. The vast majority of us have been doing our best for you but my god, just get the fucking vaccine already.
It is actually astonishing that the narrative that the Greens are impractical is still so strong when they have COSTED the policy and know exactly where the money comes from.
The Nats? *handwaving about government spending*
Fanboys: "they know how to Do a Business!"
Honestly, if you have enough time to spend six hours fucking with your nine year old over her ability to use a tin opener you need to get some hobbies.
I need to tell you that my vague and adorable mother, discussing Jacinda, said "I feel a bit sorry for her, she must be so worried. Whenever she gets up on that podium she's always wringing her hands."
*dying* "Mama. She's using HAND SANITISER."
"Oh!"
😂
So many trolls want to tell me that I am not attractive enough for them to fuck. Dude, I am a hundred year old fat married lady, I am not on Twitter looking for incels to blow
There are only about 75,000 people in metro Auckland who are eligible to be vaccinated but remain unvaccinated, and that is dropping by about 1000-1500 a day, give or take. By January we'll be down to the absolute dregs. Time to stop pandering to them, seriously.
Louise Upston is now number six in National's cabinet. In the spirit of maintaining grudges until I die, that person was the MINISTER FOR WOMEN in John Key's government and said PUBLICLY that she is NOT A FEMINIST
You know when NZers start ranting on about our flag and how we have to defend it that they are deeply down some extremely online American rabbit hole. We care so little about our dumb flag that we voted to keep one we hate just to spite that one dude and his pet project
Georgina Beyer beating Paul Henry in a conservative rural electorate is one of the best political things that's ever happened here, because it was both broadly good 💕 and an astonishing gift for we petty people 💅