So…
Are you an expert on everything, or just whatever anyone else happens to be talking about at the moment?
the issue of the asylum-seekers’ country-shopping is one that is going to need to be resolved between Australia and New Zealand.
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| — | kw on picky beggers |
Still, the stance by Malaysian Airlines is a start. Today restrictions on screaming babies, tomorrow the obese, next week the smelly. Let’s bring classy back to international travel.
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| — | kw, fat hatred strikes back |
I had a phone call from a well-mannered, articulate Ports driver on Wednesday night who said he’d always enjoyed my radio show but was concerned I was starting to believe the propaganda from the Ports management.
I nearly choked on my chips.
The union puts out a black-and-white video, all beautifully shot and lit, featuring the families of Ports workers speaking over cloying, sentimental background music and he tells me the Ports of Auckland is producing propaganda?!
Dear me.
The three-minute clip, where wives and children talk about the dispute being about family, not about money, and how all they want is for things to stay the same, would belong right up there with the best in terms of emotive filming. The message throughout the video is that no guaranteed hours means no guaranteed income and yet anyone who listens to the news will know that the workers have been offered a guarantee of 160 hours a month.
Now, there may be conditions to that, but it does put paid to the union’s simplistic message.
I sympathise with the workers - all along they were the ones who were going to get hurt. Not Gary Parsloe. Not the Ports management.
And maybe they’re the ones who are right and all of us working all hours on contracts are wrong. Maybe we should have all taken the stand that the union is taking now when we were moved off staff and on to flexible contracts.
But we didn’t and those flexible contracts seem to be the way most companies do business. The union’s pleas for things to stay the same seemed somewhat redundant in the modern world - and now the workers are redundant too.
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| — | KW on warfies and unions |
To a certain extent I understand where Bennett is coming from. I too came from a small town and I too had high aims and ambitions. I longed to be the lover of a man who had his own jet, and would buy me islands and would make me ache with a burning desire.
But it was not to be. I wasn’t pretty or slim or calculating enough to be a rich man’s tart, and I wasn’t clever enough to manufacture the existence I dreamed of.
So I gave it up and settled for what I could get, and I’m happy.
Bennett, the sad prick, couldn’t settle and so he lied and cheated and deceived. Theft because you’re a sad, dumpy, middle-aged guy who can only bang hot girls by buying them is the worst possible excuse for theft.
Put him away.
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| — | satan |
if Kim Dotcom lost 16kg in a month on remand at Auckland prison, I might see if I can get locked in a cell for a few weeks. I know of no spa that guarantees that sort of weight loss.
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| — | nice, kw |
So, Treasury has recommended that interest on student loans be reintroduced and tertiary funding be targeted at younger students and higher-level qualifications. Amen to that…Make it tougher to get into universities. Set extremely high benchmarks for anyone wanting to enter any of the disciplines…We need to change the way we fund our universities and we must stop promising our young people that there’s a pot of gold at the end of the educational rainbow. The only golden arch many of these kids will ever see is the one at Macca’s when they apply for a job flipping burgers. And they’ll be lucky if they get that.
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| — | kw |
