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#3000966 24-Nov-2022 16:42

Bought four $5 Resene test pots to try out the colour before I order a big tin of the paint colour. Turned the pots upside down so any sediment at the bottom would go to the top to assist in stirring.

Only because the sun was shining on it, I spotted a disclaimer imprinted into the black plastic on the bottom of the pot which read;

'Production batches may differ from the colour in this test pot.'

Why am I buying test pots when the only reason I can think of for a test pot is to test the colour to ensure it is what I will get in the larger tin and to avoid making expensive mistakes.

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#3000969 24-Nov-2022 16:50

Eva888: 'Production batches may differ from the colour in this test pot.'

They put that on there because there's not enough room to say "When you buy a test pot and paint it onto a non-prepped surface with no undercoat and only put on a single coat and only cover a tiny spot at one end and then hold it up to somewhere under artificial light and then based on that buy a large pot, prep the surface, undercoat it and put on two top coats over a large area and look at it in direct sunlight and the colours aren't what you expected, we won't give you your money back".

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#3000973 24-Nov-2022 16:54

neb:They put that on there because there's not enough room to say "When you buy a test pot and paint it onto a non-prepped surface with no undercoat and only put on a single coat and only cover a tiny spot at one end and then hold it up to somewhere under artificial light and then based on that buy a large pot, prep the surface, undercoat it and put on two top coats over a large area and look at it in direct sunlight and the colours aren't what you expected, we won't give you your money back".

They need to make the test pots bigger then I guess.

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#3000977 24-Nov-2022 16:59

msukiwi:
Senecio:NZTA and everyone else know that the path to a lower road toll is better roads and driver education/training. They don't have the budget to upgrade the roads and don't have the patience to address driver education so all they can come up with is to lower the speed limits. Which only passes the problem to someone else, the police. NZTA don't do enforcement.

Is it just me or since they got rid of the MOT and rolled enforcement into the Police that behaviour on the Road has got way worse?

It’s just you. That and the population is ~30% bigger.

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#3000990 24-Nov-2022 17:48

Paul1977:

They need to make the test pots bigger then I guess.

They need to make them in gloss since thats the paint I will be buying, they are all in super dull finishes so dont match what you order at all.

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#3000991 24-Nov-2022 17:53

richms:
They need to make them in gloss since thats the paint I will be buying, they are all in super dull finishes so dont match what you order at all.

There's some reason why they don't do that, can't remember what it was but I think it was because matt is the lowest-common-denominator base that works with everything.

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#3001021 24-Nov-2022 19:31

Felt gutted hearing about the innocent family man working in a dairy in Auckland being knifed to death by an animal who you can bet has never done a days work because it’s easier to steal what he needs.

Feel such sorrow for the hard working dairy owners who just want to be safe and go home each night to their families and yet that can’t be guaranteed and they must live in constant fear. Fog guns aren’t going to stop this. Arm them with Tasers.

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#3001022 24-Nov-2022 19:32

Behodar:

One of the neighbour's friends regularly comes up the street, pulls into my driveway to turn around, then sits outside the neighbour's place for 5-10 minutes with the (noisy) engine running.

Carma! He approached at the wrong angle this evening and scraped the bottom of his car on the concrete.

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#3001038 24-Nov-2022 20:35

Behodar:

Carma! He approached at the wrong angle this evening and scraped the bottom of his car on the concrete.

If he had been driving on the left it would have been kharma.

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#3001072 25-Nov-2022 02:11

neb: The absolute rort that electric toothbrushes are in NZ. Case in point, Oral-B Pro 2000 in NZ from a generic supplier, $159. Exact same thing in Australia from a generic supplier, $69, and that includes free shipping to NZ.

For anyone thinking of getting one of these, the 700 is currently on Black Friday sale on Amazon for $44. NZ price is $119 for the same thing. The 700 is identical to the 2000 except for the 700 being NiMH and the 2000 being LiIon.

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#3001179 25-Nov-2022 09:19

Eva888: ....snip.... Arm them with Tasers.

Absolutely not. If you arm the dairy staff with Tasers, the criminals turn up with guns. And then everyone else thinks they should have Tasers and guns. Once you start down this path, everything goes downhill very quickly and there's no coming back from it. Dairy (and other retail staff in this situation) are better off just letting the criminals take the money/product and let the police deal with it. Police often catch the offenders, but it's the justice system that lets everyone down.

What might help is for judges to stop being soft with sentencing. Maximum allowed sentence for serious offences, and any offence committed by repeat offenders. We also need a better way to deal with younger offenders, who know full well what they're doing, and know they're going to get away with it.

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#3001192 25-Nov-2022 09:48

The PaymyPark app which charges 1.72 surchage for topping up $20. OK maybe the banks charges them. But if you choose account2account which is a direct debit from your bank account they still charge $1.2! For $50 it's worse. Credit is $4.12 and account to account is $3. There should be no charge for account2account.

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#3001238 25-Nov-2022 11:01

Stu:
Eva888: ....snip.... Arm them with Tasers.

Absolutely not. If you arm the dairy staff with Tasers, the criminals turn up with guns. And then everyone else thinks they should have Tasers and guns. Once you start down this path, everything goes downhill very quickly and there's no coming back from it. Dairy (and other retail staff in this situation) are better off just letting the criminals take the money/product and let the police deal with it. Police often catch the offenders, but it's the justice system that lets everyone down.

What might help is for judges to stop being soft with sentencing. Maximum allowed sentence for serious offences, and any offence committed by repeat offenders. We also need a better way to deal with younger offenders, who know full well what they're doing, and know they're going to get away with it.

The criminals already have access to an arsenal of guns and weapons that they use regardless. It’s the innocent folk that aren’t armed and are trying to ward off these lowlifes with their bodies. Many shopkeepers now keep a bat or a crowbar to protect themselves when a taser would work fast from a distance. I have no problem with all shopkeepers being licensed to carry them on site, not the general public.

It’s not about letting them take the money or goods, it’s the repercussions that follow where the shopkeeper can no longer get insurance or the excess is in the thousands and unaffordable. What about the mental health of the victims. Such attacks cause lifelong traumas to these people and their families.

We pussy foot around being PC about the criminals and no one gives a damn about the victims. Instead of giving them a layabout prison sentence where they sit around all day planning the next crime with their inmates, Shove them into a work gangs shovelling the roads for their bed and board. A few stints of hard labour will make them think twice about offending again.

Society has no problem having paid workers digging ditches by hand or working in a quarry or being in the army doing boot camp, but dare to suggest the equivalent hard labour for a criminal and oh dear...that’s cruel.

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#3001258 25-Nov-2022 11:35

The fact that changing the address for car ownership is so ridiculously difficult in 2022.

It should be a simple online process - but if the vehicles are owned by a company it is a royal PITA.

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#3001261 25-Nov-2022 11:43

Waking up in the middle of the night to hear a smoke detector somewhere in the house chirping every few minutes to let you know that its battery is running low, then when you get up in the morning and go looking for the offending detector its decided that the battery isn't low after all and has stopped chirping.

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