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#3254557 29-Jun-2024 19:12

allan:

Coffee grounds a couple of times at our place - despite telling family don't!!!

I've always found that coffee grounds help flush out gunk from drains rather than block them - they're rough rather than oily, and don't tend to stick together.

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#3254561 29-Jun-2024 19:40

A $4 plunger got it fixed in 2 minutes! No call out fee for a weekend plumber!

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#3254588 30-Jun-2024 07:45

How useless NZF is at screening All Whites games. Still no highlights up from semi-final game, and the final isnt even listed on the website in terms of when/where it will happen/be screened…

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#3254886 30-Jun-2024 17:46

I get annoyed by motor vehicle manufacturers who are too stupid, cheap, indifferent, or lazy to film right-hand drive vehicles here and just use their US left footage instead, no doubt thinking kiwis are too dumb to notice the difference.

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#3254889 30-Jun-2024 18:09

Rikkitic: < and just use their US left footage instead, no doubt thinking kiwis are too dumb to notice the difference.

Well they are the ones buying US manufactured cars.

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#3255184 1-Jul-2024 15:23

This is more of a perplexment than an annoyance. I don't get the squeamishness around the reporting of suicides in this country. Of course suicide is a serious and tragic matter, but the way it is dealt with by media is silly and dishonest and ultimately demeaning to the victim.

To take a recent example that I won't specify in case it gets me into trouble, someone recently 'passed away' in prison. Like all suicide stories, it is painfully obvious that the cause of death was suicide because of the way the report bends itself into pretzels not to mention the fact. But if that isn't enough, all the mental health help numbers at the end of the item are certainly sufficient to remove any lingering doubt. So why be so precious about it? If it is a matter of liability, 'suspected suicide' should cover that.

I don't mean to make light of the matter but New Zealand has long been infamous for its high suicide rate and I think this kind of 'let's pretend it's something else' approach doesn't help anything. It just pushes those who are struggling deeper into a hole by implying that suicide is something too shameful even to mention. This is made all the more ridiculous when the cause of death is made so obvious by the way it is skirted around in the reporting. If we can't even bear to mention the word, how the hell are we supposed to help anyone who is struggling with it?

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#3255190 1-Jul-2024 15:47

jonherries: How useless NZF is at screening All Whites games. Still no highlights up from semi-final game, and the final isnt even listed on the website in terms of when/where it will happen/be screened…

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All All Whites games as well as all of our National League coverage is now on the FIFA+ app.

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#3255191 1-Jul-2024 15:47

I thought it was around copycats? I can't remember to be honest, I think it's been a law? a long time.

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#3255316 1-Jul-2024 19:39

Covered here on the Mental Health Foundation website.

But yep, essentially it's supposed that people seeing reports of suicide will be more likely to attempt it themselves.

To me that sounds a lot more like "if we pretend it doesn't happen, then the problem goes away" but then, I'm not a researcher so my "evidence" is a sample set of my own brain.

But yes, I do agree that the linguistic jungle gyms they go through to avoid stating the obvious, makes it very obvious.

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#3255326 1-Jul-2024 20:09

Handsomedan:
jonherries: How useless NZF is at screening All Whites games. Still no highlights up from semi-final game, and the final isnt even listed on the website in terms of when/where it will happen/be screened…

Jon

All All Whites games as well as all of our National League coverage is now on the FIFA+ app.

Except that isn’t entirely true as there is content on youtube from NZF and the Fifa+ announcement says friendlies and local games only - OFC wasn’t friendlies?

In addition the Fifa+ stuff is buried in news in a press release from last year with no reference on the site other than this, and none of the OFC fixtures were listed on the site either, but there were highlights on youtube for the first rounds and not the semi/final…

Therefore I think my small annoyance stands.

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#3255330 1-Jul-2024 20:27

Rikkitic:

I get annoyed by motor vehicle manufacturers who are too to film right-hand drive vehicles here and just use their US left footage instead, no doubt thinking kiwis are too dumb to notice the difference.

All they need to do is flip the video horizontally and the job’s a good ‘un - even less people would notice. 😀

Actually doesn’t worry me at all. Expensive local TV ads would only drive up the local price of cars (pun intended). I don’t think they are “… stupid, cheap, indifferent, or lazy…” - they’re just pragmatic. And I doubt that they think the Kiwi buyers of their cars are dumb.

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#3255334 1-Jul-2024 20:42

On the other hand, I remember a minor furore a few years ago when a company producing an NZ tourism ad flipped some footage, making the cars drive on the right, because they thought it "looked better".

Edit: Found it.

Mr Bowler said the botch-up happened during the video's production process; the makers flipped the image for "artistic reasons".

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#3255344 1-Jul-2024 21:07

Rikkitic: perplexment

1. There is an active investigation/enquiry
2. Anyone on a reality show should get lifelong and genuine support paid out of the royalties as it is streamed broadcast and YouTubed for ever and ever and ever. All but exceptional people are going to strike some issues related to that sooner or later.

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#3255398 1-Jul-2024 21:29

Behodar:

On the other hand, I remember a minor furore a few years ago when a company producing an NZ tourism ad flipped some footage, making the cars drive on the right, because they thought it "looked better".

Edit: Found it.

How very dumb! And then we get upset when tourists get off the plane, into their rental car/RV - and set off on the RH side of the road.

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#3255445 2-Jul-2024 08:53

Good grief.

Page title, as shown in Google results: "[Thing] release date officially announced".

The actual heading, once you open the page: "[Thing] gets an official release window".

This is followed by nine paragraphs of waffle, for paragraph ten to finally say "slated for a release towards the end of the 2024. An exact date hasn't been provided". This is followed with another four paragraphs of rubbish.

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