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#3277352 31-Aug-2024 09:12

Had a call from someone elderly I often help that they lost their licence and credit card. This happened after 5 pm yesterday. I looked up NZTA that provided an 0800 number to report lost card. It’s closed till Monday. Online you can’t do much without a Real Me. So they will need to go to VTNZ on Monday to replace it. Meanwhile the licence can be floating around in anyone’s hands for two days without the means of cancelling it as you do a credit card and possibly used fraudulently.

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#3277356 31-Aug-2024 10:00

Geektastic:

I wondered if it was a “pre flight” list item.

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Check.

Maybe you’re thinking of the ‘stick shaker’ feature found on many aircraft? 😀

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#3277594 31-Aug-2024 22:01

Renewing a tech journal subscription on a site that runs on an ESP32 or maybe an Arduino and which has dire warnings about not hitting the back button or reloading the page at any point, and for which about nine out of ten paths through the site end in "Sorry, an internal error occurred".

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#3277676 1-Sep-2024 08:48

Trouser pockets. Why are they such crappy material ? I'm forever getting holes in trouser pockets. I presume its from keys and things attacking them. Don't trouser pocket designers think of these things !?!?!?

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#3277678 1-Sep-2024 08:58

rb99:

Trouser pockets. Why are they such crappy material ? I'm forever getting holes in trouser pockets. I presume its from keys and things attacking them. Don't trouser pocket designers think of these things !?!?!?

track suit and gym long pants with very shallow pockets that phones fall out off whilst exercising

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#3277928 1-Sep-2024 19:05

rb99: Trouser pockets. Why are they such crappy material ? I'm forever getting holes in trouser pockets. I presume its from keys and things attacking them. Don't trouser pocket designers think of these things !?!?!?

I've found that putting my keys in a stout plastic bag has significantly reduced pocket damage. I have to change the plastic every six months or so when it's been worn to shreds by the keys and other EDC on my keyring, but I haven't had any more problems with holes work in pockets.

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#3278196 2-Sep-2024 13:08

My kids have been pretty sheltered. They are sensitive, kind and gentle, long may it last. Our philosophy has been to let them be kids for as long as possible.

Recently, my sons class started with Gladiator which has an R rating. He is year 10. He had a bit of a freak out at the level of violence and blood and requested to leave the classroom. He has addressed the fact he feels uncomfortable with the film, with the teacher and asked to do another, in his own time, meeting all the academic requirements of the project, and the teacher has agreed, though has made multiple mentions that without being present for the film and doing a different film will put him at a disadvantage.

The thing that gets my goat though, is the way his peers have treated him since, giving him absolute hell for finding it too scary and graphic. My kids would never treat anyone that way, and my son is really struggling with the level of negative attention.

Kids can be nasty little shits.

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#3278251 2-Sep-2024 13:46

not taking away from whats happened but its only rated M

If it were rated R it would be illegal for the teacher to show it to the kids and they could be up for charges because of it.

"Restricted

R means legally age-restricted. It is an offence to allow someone underage to watch or access restricted films and video games. RP means younger people can only watch with a parent or guardian.

Restrictions apply whether you are in a cinema or at home. Adults cannot give tamariki permission to watch restricted films or play restricted video games. Doing so can lead to a large fine – so if a cinema denies you access on account of age, they’re just doing their job."

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#3278259 2-Sep-2024 14:10

I most certainly Would be talking to the school and if not satisfied, the education department, The Classification Office and any other appropriate bureaucracy.

That whole scenario is just not on. Your child should not be penalised for an illegal act by the teacher/School. Even if it was a history lesson, no child should’ve been shown such a horrifically violent movie. At The very least a note should’ve been sent home, asking for parental consent prior to the viewing.

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#3278260 2-Sep-2024 14:14

It's rated M, not R. I'm not sure why Jase quoted the R restrictions for an M-rated movie.

I actually have a US import of the same movie, and it is rated R over there!

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#3278261 2-Sep-2024 14:18

Behodar:

It's rated M, not R. I'm not sure why Jase quoted the R restrictions for an M-rated movie.

I actually have a US import of the same movie, and it is rated R over there!

fair enough. But it is still a violent movie and I still think the teacher should have carried out a parental permission slip. Plus the kid should not be academically penalised.

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#3278270 2-Sep-2024 14:43

Of everything you could choose, why Gladiator ? Is more my thought.

If this NZ there are probably movies closer to home that would at least expose a student to something other than the tidal-wave of international media. They get that everyday.

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#3278272 2-Sep-2024 15:09

networkn:

The thing that gets my goat though, is the way his peers have treated him since, giving him absolute hell for finding it too scary and graphic. My kids would never treat anyone that way, and my son is really struggling with the level of negative attention.

Kids can be nasty little shits.

I am sorry to hear that. Your son deserves to be supported, not bullied (that's what it is) for expressing his feelings. Apart from that, the other children should be made to understand in no uncertain terms that attacking someone simply for expressing how they feel about something is ugly behaviour that should never be tolerated. I wonder about the quality of that teacher.

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#3278277 2-Sep-2024 15:44

ezbee:

Of everything you could choose, why Gladiator ? Is more my thought.

If this NZ there are probably movies closer to home that would at least expose a student to something other than the tidal-wave of international media. They get that everyday.

Seemed a questionable choice to me too. Regardless of it's censor rating, it has graphic violence my kids aren't exposed to, and considering there are some exceptional NZ Movies with little violence such as Whale Rider, it's even worse.

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#3278278 2-Sep-2024 15:48

Today at Disney...walked 11km

The "Disney Experience" so far has been like

Pay a large sum of money to go into a shopping mall that has limited product range and most of it is just variations on a theme

The goods are grossly over priced, the food is even more over priced.

Even though you have in effect paid to go on the rides, you will need to pay more to be able to do the rides in finite time as wait times are typically up to 2 hours long. My hips and my back are not up to this queuing , apart from the fact I have better things to do in this time.

Allowing people to pay more to jump the queue and force others to wait even longer.... yeah that sucks.

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