The Daily Blog Open Mic – 25th May 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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This relating to insurance in NZ, interesting.. We may be getting harsher treatment than other countries.
,,,tevens said modifications made to cars could be a problem.
“If an insurer is unaware of the modifications, there’s a specific exclusion, if they haven’t been told about them and priced accordingly. They’re likely to find out, when they go to claim, that not only are they not covered, but of course,
…our draconian laws on non-disclosure, which still stand, mean that they probably won’t have any cover going forward either.
“You know, vehicle modifications are still a big one in New Zealand.”
Consumer NZ insurance specialist Rebecca Styles said insurers could have a broad definition of what would count as modification.,,,
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/562041/serial-book-vandal-targeting-biographies-of-maori-pasifika-women
New Zealand crime 9 minutes ago
Serial book vandal targeting biographies of Māori, Pasifika women
This just shows how everything must be done quickly in this modern age. This man can’t wait for the next edition of a serial – must have it NOW. In the old days people in the USA would gather at the wharf waiting for the next ship arrival which would bring copies of Charles Dickens latest serialised novel. What has happened to poor Nell? And it became a community event waiting for the ship and discussing local matters and so on. (Note play on words, of serial. Must find some lightness somewhere.)
What next? This looks pretty on the screen; there has to be something to worry us.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/562083/aspergillus-fungi-that-can-eat-you-from-the-inside-out-could-spread-as-the-world-heats-up
I’m going off modern women. This German one gets my goat. I have heard that continental people are more direct than we Kiwi feet-shufflers. But this is Ayn Randish – she was Russian and no doubt different even over there.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbeing/can-delivering-blunt-one-liners-make-you-more-confident
How about trying to talk to this German sheila.
‘I just realised this topic doesn’t interest me’
Because we are afraid of appearing rude, we usually don’t dare saying things like this mid-conversation, Kuschik says, but ‘I just realised this topic doesn’t interest me’ is actually a way of being polite with which she’s had great results.
“It’s not saying, ‘You’re boring’. What it really says is ‘I’m afraid I’m just not the right audience for this topic’. It says, ‘This subject doesn’t really interest me, so I don’t have anything of value to add’.
What would be a suitable reply in the same vein?
How about Oh I don’t know about being autistic? That uses I language and doesn’t mention
‘you’ as suggested is correct.
Idea – what about applying one’s mind for a minute or two to something that is new to you or that gives an insight into that person’s psyche. A whole new aspect of life’s diversity may enlighten you, you ignorant, stuck-up person is my ignorant internal response?
So – I haven’t come across that idea before. Do many people you know take a big interest in it?
There is that bit about holding a conversation with open-ended questions that make people feel you are interested in them and invite a reply. What about trying that approach first – then if the person does drone on apply the freeze?
She apparently is a life coach – I advise to her, take an interest in others and find what a richly interesting life you can lead is my advice, and I make no charge.