The Daily Blog Open Mic – 7th February 2025

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Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog,  3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.

All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.

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7 COMMENTS

  1. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/541146/waiheke-housing-new-rules-for-digital-nomads-could-push-us-out-residents
    More bad news. Digital nomads and a government raking off bagfuls of money sucking up to the wealthy overseas in order to join them. ‘What about us’ cry the children (and mothers and ordinary citizens?)
    Here’s a Scrooge McDuck money piece – 1967 version. May only be for a Treasury and Politician level ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9d8l-Gkweg

  2. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/541206/a-relentlessly-dull-world-the-case-for-adding-more-colour-to-nz-s-grey-prisons
    Gang colours poof! The colours represent the charmless minds of people in charge of everything – black and white cars, brown houses, grey prisons – what’s difference.

    https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220713-the-hidden-meaning-of-your-favourite-colour
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%E2%80%93Miller_pink

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279745276_Does_Baker-Miller_pink_reduce_aggression_in_prison_detention_cells_A_critical_empirical_examination

  4. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/541277/wellington-mum-shocked-at-1000-school-uniform-bill
    Beneficiaries might be able to buy second hand at a more affordable price but –
    May not have been able to save for it as they have had debts placed on them when help was needed – there used to be grants of a few hundred dollars that could be applied for and drawn on each year.

    Now the idea is under-pay them, and when they can’t afford the cost of living, rent going up, paying off the debt etc also and providing some interest or pleasure into their family life, they must spend all their savings and borrow from the purse-lipped state, never can get ahead or have some reserve. Then there is the problem of travelling to the second hand premises, and the cost, and finding the right size, and leaving the kids home alone, or having to be at work when it’s open. Life is made deliberately hard for bennies so don’t shoot your mouths off about them those that have a default position like that.

    All that equality stuff was just a facade. What everybody was working for were social aspirations, and social class really. And the book Posh Boys about Brit sets the baseline for it.
    That’s why Labour men have been so quick to kick off the working man, and women are the same.

    And the superior style of schools and their boards. They must have their crest embroidered on, can’t be an iron-on one. They can’t buy a dark blue t shirt for $4, plus iron-on logo for say $10, it must be an embroidered one from shop stocking the school items (school gets a percentage) with an embroidered logo etc for $30 or so. It’s really classist. A while ago the Nelson College for Girls had wool winter plaid skirts that were well pleated and almost to the ankles. Very expensive. They were made to last that is if the family could last also! Now because females don’t care what they wear, hah, the materials have changed and the style is back to mini-length and hopefully a bit below their bums to cope with cold winter winds. But no real practicality there or desire to be fair to struggling parents.

    Decades ago one mother with son at Nelson College who was struggling to help him get a good education and start; he was chosen for a top sports team, might have been cricket. But he had to have The Blazer with embroidered Crest, and Mum couldn’t afford that so he couldn’t play for his school. Sounds like mid 18th century Brit eh. I think classism is stronger than racism as a pernicious trait amongst Kiwis.

  5. https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360557277/good-bugger-tough-bastard-humble-hard-man-lines-30th-coast-coast (This is so earth-shattering that it is listed in staccato sentences. Imagine if there was a flip – how amazing that would be.
    Dave Maitland has had bowel surgery, a shattered pelvis, a smashed foot, and prostate cancer. But nothing has stopped the 67-year-old competing in New Zealand’s premier adventure race a record 30 times. Mike White reports.
    When Dave Maitland woke up after his bowel burst, the doctor was at the end of his bed, waggling his finger.
    “You should be dead, so many times,” the surgeon said, with disbelief.

    The reality is, Maitland should be dead.
    He should be crippled.
    Given some of the things he did as a young bloke, he should probably be in jail.
    But he’s not.
    He’s a father of two, a devoted grandfather of two more.

    He’s a top manager at construction company Downer.
    He’s a top bloke, according to anyone you ask.

    And on Friday the 67-year-old will be at Kumara Beach south of Greymouth for the 30th time, listening for the starter’s hooter to splinter the dawn and set 1000 Coast to Coast athletes on their way.
    Getting ready to give it a really good shake.
    The general consensus is, it’s a bloody good thing he’s not dead…

    Let us do a flip in NZ. Let’s put all our efforts into having a good country where everyone has a place and is doing something they are good at, and has a reasonable home and hope for the next ten years maybe 20. Sport will be a fun time activity.

    Living and reasonable standards for all and friendliness and a smile amongst the lot of us will be the goal to sweat over. (including the Maori guys who were begging in the street yesterday. One asked for some food and I asked him what he would like – a chicken dimsim which I got from Sonny the Sikh at nearby shop. The other owes $100 to his landlady and doesn’t know where he’ll get it so I gave him $6 towards it. He’s had a head injury and hasn’t any tools but he could be helped to do some jobs and take part in society with friendly help. Seemed good guys.)

    We are so up ourselves. Because we haven’t had any great disadvantages in our younger life that have put us on a wrong footing we think we are self-made people. But we have been lucky to have the start and opportunities and the ability to take them up. (Notice he is in Downer – roads etc. where the money is and expertise needed – the right place with the right skills.) And we’re lucky not to get hooked on soft or hard drugs or alcohol. Our country has provided the background for our status, and our peculiar mixes of temperament and brain have worked for or despite or against us. So be grateful, not so up ourselves, and pull together in the NZAO waka I say!!-!!

    Look what Maori and Pakeha can do on water for sport – think how we could surge forward on land working with each other!
    https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/02/04/nina-poletti-from-canes-to-coast-to-coast/

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