The Daily Blog Open Mic – 27th February 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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C.r.a.p. Flannel-foot stuff from machine-mind programmed to be ‘naice’. Watch out for those channelling AI stuff to put their oar in to a NZAO human waka.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/543151/four-year-parliamentary-term-legislation-to-be-introduced-would-go-to-referendum
Not on your nellie. The time to introduce 4 year terms was before 1984 and the national drop-trousers. We are near-naked now and extending the term of either bumfreezes for the homeless, tenting for the fire prone, or sleeping on old mattresses in the attic or family’s bach for the slipped-out, will not serve the nation better. It just increases the thickness of smugness on the morning toast. We can’t toast that!!
And who knows what the bewildered and malfunctioning would vote for. The huge amount of siphoning that the gummint gets away with has challenged then dulled the senses of so many. And some have just shut down thought, replacing it with a series of mental flash cards they hoist – it’s enough (cough) to make you hoik.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/543145/hawke-s-bay-man-absolutely-flabbergasted-after-being-trespassed-from-supermarket-after-raising-safety-concern
Foodstuffs South Island had better change its legal standing and register as a separate entity from the north before people start to say about all NEW Worlds and Paknsave etc that their New behaviours are unreasonable and Foodstuffs can get stuffed.
They are vulnerable to this sort of thing because they franchise their name. But the name is being downgraded and soon it will be cheaper to get a franchise because of this low, autocratic and hateful treatment of customers. Try it, say get stuffed at your next visit and see how they react – they won’t like it and will probably ban you. They are too hoity-toity to care about customers, people, whom they probably class as bottom feeders. ‘Money doesn’t maketh the man’ is a saying. but these plutocrats don’t pay attention to that.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/543029/where-were-the-warning-labels-bowel-cancer-survivor-on-processed-meat
Frizelle recommended eating processed and red meats in moderation.
“It’s very hard to get through your life in our world without eating processed foods.”
Frizelle said there had been a rise in bowel cancer amongst those aged under 50-years-old in New Zealand. Symptoms of the disease included changes in bowel motions/habits, rectal bleeding, anaemia, severe persistent or periodic abdominal pain, a lump or mass in the abdomen, tiredness and loss of weight for no obvious reason.
Health info to know about.
Despite POTUS 47, there is some strength to European support for Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGB0M8etUxU