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  #2923814 8-Jun-2022 08:24
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floydbloke:

 

From the five-minute quiz in today's DomPost.

 

 

 

If I was eating nasi goreng, it wouldn't be a Thai dish! 

 

 

 

 





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  #2923821 8-Jun-2022 08:50
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Stuff did fix this stuff-up a couple of hours later


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  #2923836 8-Jun-2022 09:34
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Rikkitic:

 

floydbloke:

 

From the five-minute quiz in today's DomPost.

 

 

 

If I was eating nasi goreng, it wouldn't be a Thai dish! 

 

 

Let's hope our Indonesian friends aren't too enraged over Stuff's insensitive cultural ignorance.





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  #2923838 8-Jun-2022 09:36
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floydbloke:

 

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Let's hope our Indonesian friends aren't too enraged over Stuff's insensitive cultural ignorance.

 

 

 

 

At least it wasn't a cartoon in a newspaper!






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  #2924160 9-Jun-2022 09:04
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floydbloke:

 

From the five-minute quiz in today's DomPost.

 

 

 

 I swear the folk at Stuff must monitor this topic, in today's paper.

 





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  #2924336 9-Jun-2022 15:12
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Herald

“For months her disappearance was a mystery until her body was discovered in the Arizona desert seven months later.”

So, for seven months then?!





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  #2924368 9-Jun-2022 16:31
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Geektastic: Herald

“For months her disappearance was a mystery until her body was discovered in the Arizona desert seven months later.”

So, for seven months then?!

 

Grey area. Her disappearance might have been planned and known about for the first month, but only became a mystery after that.

 

 





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  #2924431 9-Jun-2022 18:29
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Rikkitic:

 

Geektastic: Herald

“For months her disappearance was a mystery until her body was discovered in the Arizona desert seven months later.”

So, for seven months then?!

 

Grey area. Her disappearance might have been planned and known about for the first month, but only became a mystery after that.

 

 

 

True, but I think the point being made was timeframe was known, in this case 7 months, but the headline seemed have to hype things up by saying months to dramatise things.





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  #2925799 12-Jun-2022 17:07
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From: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300611374/people-arrested-cars-impounded-after-illegal-street-racing-in-palmerston-north

 

"Police were aware a large gathering had been planed, so put plans in place to target illegal activity."

 

Stuff saving electrons again!


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  #2925815 12-Jun-2022 17:50
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From the New Zealand Herald today's article on Former NZ First MP Richard Prosser death:

 

 

The Counterspin website, one of New Zealand's biggest online platforms for anti-vaccination campaigners and conspiracy theories, said: "After hearing the sad news in our chat, we can confirm that Richard Prosser has left us after a long battle with depression."

 

 

With so many different sources, why bring to attention an obscure platform that peddles misinformation, lies and hoax about vaccination, mandate and other alt-right crap?





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  #2925849 12-Jun-2022 22:18
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Twice tonight, first on Channel 10 at 5.30, then on TV 3 at 6 pm, there was a warning that the next item showed images of dead birds.

 

I hope that supermarkets will follow this and put similar warnings over the poultry section so that the squeamish amongst us can avert our eyes.





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  #2931844 19-Jun-2022 21:59
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“The police Eagle helicopter was initially advised about the incident but did not attend.” - Herald

Unless we now have fully sentient AI in helicopters, this is just sloppy writing.





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  #2931851 19-Jun-2022 22:32
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Clickbait

 

 


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  #2931921 20-Jun-2022 07:46
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I don’t quite see why you think this is clickbait. Which to me is that the headline is not borne out by the text.

 

The leader of the free world falls off his bike and could have injured himself. Unfortunately one side will say

 

”This is proof he is suffering from dementia and shouldn’t be in office”

 

the other team will say

 

”Isn’t it great that someone who is nearly 80 is still active and confident enough to be riding a bike”.

 

In reality he got his foot caught in the pedal cage, which is what Stuff reported and is something that can happen to any cyclist.





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  #2931970 20-Jun-2022 07:53
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Geektastic: “The police Eagle helicopter was initially advised about the incident but did not attend.” - Herald

Unless we now have fully sentient AI in helicopters, this is just sloppy writing.

 

We could check, apparently all you need to do is ask it if it minds being shutdown





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