The Daily Blog Open Mic – 23rd May 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.

EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist abuse, homophobic abuse, racist abuse, anti-muslim abuse, transphobic abuse, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird Bullshit about the UN taking over the world  and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.

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  3. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2505/S00189/budget-2025-growing-the-economy-to-help-kiwis-get-ahead.htm
    So we have school lunches. What about the hard working ‘elected’ crushers in Parliament? What do you give them so they do a better job of their studies and examinations of prowess? How do you get them to eat their words? The twisted or alphabetti spaghetti with tomato sauce to stain their escutcheons; or a heaping serving of beans to the old and young farts so they can do more of what they do best.

  4. NZ geographic has an item on how our native frogs are being preyed on by nasties such as ferrets. And pigs. In the past a bounty has been offered to tackle and limit damage. This is something that would be useful for men who like hunting and they could be a real help in taking down pigs, and removing the carcases. Ferrets would probably be removed with traps.
    WILDLIFE
    One pig. One night. Fifty-six frogs.

  5. Peasants come on – bring down the gummint. I’ve got a wonderful idea and that is stop doing anything involving money so the gummint won’t get any GST. It’s what they use to keep the place going, anything else they give out to foreigners in plain brown wrappers, with a special seal on them, or such, don’t forget that.

    They just waste it anyway, sending out young drivers ramming ships into reefs costing $77 million or such.
    And other things such as ferries, just because this female Mini of Finance or such decided she didn’t like the colour of the furnishings in the main cabin, or such. That cost millions. Well I think we should just unilaterally hold our breath and refuse to let it out until hell freezes over or such.

    I mean. I haven’t a clue really but am looking for one, unlike the gummint who couldn’t find a spy under a rug, and would have to employ some spying private detective company for millions or such, to show them what was under their feet. But then you find that was a ploy, they knew all along, but there was a hearing about something they didn’t want to know about so it put off the bad news for another election or such.

  6. Aw gee is freedom of opinion available for everyone else but certain people who it has been decided have unsatisfactory ideas about ordinary living habits. No violence you notice, no bad language etc. but getting to be a witch-hunt ain’t it? Perhaps we will have to learn at argument clinics like Monty Python’s. 3m
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/people/identity/australian-podcaster-s-viral-clip-sparks-discussion-about-traditional-gender-normsWhat is benevolent sexism?
    Social psychologists have defined benevolent sexism as attitudes toward women that appear positive or well-meaning on the surface but ultimately suggest that women are inferior to men, often by portraying them as fragile, less competent, or in need of protection….

    q. What is benevolent dictatorship – is it repressive automatic autocratic criticism?

    • Further thought – doing something helpful for somebody else.
      This – https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/562046/pacific-dengue-cases-surge-but-don-t-cancel-your-holiday-yet-health-expert
      Tourists visiting country could show empathy by donating to a fund to help cope with their latest crisis. We know that there will be crises all around the world in both developed and undeveloped lands, and the undeveloped are perhaps being crisied by the developed!

      So if you can afford to travel and have genuine interest in the country you are visiting (unless you are brain-dead and louche – some tourists are) what about countries setting up national appeals and tourists contributing to them some amount -some koha, make it known as a NZAO thing – do good, make smiles etc?

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