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#3052449 20-Mar-2023 18:28

sparkyred:

I did a double take.

I too would like to purchase a hole in the ground with a Bentley unceremoniously dumped in it.

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#3053940 23-Mar-2023 23:41

Royal photographer reveals King Charles’ affectionate term for Camilla

Keep it clean folks, lets not have unsanitary guesses at what it is.

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#3054166 24-Mar-2023 15:15

The Stuff quiz. "Where do you think this photo was taken?"

The question was not "where was this photo taken?"; it explicitly asked what I think. It then told me that I was "incorrect".

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#3054179 24-Mar-2023 16:04

Behodar:

The Stuff quiz. "Where do you think this photo was taken?"

The question was not "where was this photo taken?"; it explicitly asked what I think. It then told me that I was "incorrect".

Ríghtly so. You were incorrect for thinking.

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#3054183 24-Mar-2023 16:11

Also the stuff quiz: "what is a woggle?"

Ans: "Boy Scout neckerchief fastener"

In New Zealand, Scouts are not Boy Scouts, they are just Scouts, and they can be boys or girls. And they don't wear neckerchiefs, they wear scarves.

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#3054184 24-Mar-2023 16:12

CNN: Fox News reporter hugs her son on air after he comes out of school shooting

He came out shooting? That must have been some hug!

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#3055028 26-Mar-2023 20:26

Congratulations Prime Minister?!

Hello, Ground!

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#3055167 27-Mar-2023 09:46

Not an issue with the headline per se, but this is one of the best versions of this awful dirge I have ever heard. The best, being Alan Slater's arrangement used for Expo '88 and TV One start/end of broadcasting.

Singer mixes up New Zealand anthem after late call-up for boxing world title fight

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#3055178 27-Mar-2023 10:25

Sorry, they mention that she got another line garbled but I hear her singing "Hear our voices, we retreat(entreat),". Lost before the bout started.

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#3055183 27-Mar-2023 10:33

Bung: Sorry, they mention that she got another line garbled but I hear her singing "Hear our voices, we retreat(entreat),". Lost before the bout started.

Must've been thinking about the French.

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#3056941 31-Mar-2023 08:51

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/nz/300843671/the-best-tiny-town-in-each-of-new-zealands-regions

"Northland: Ahipara

this classic Kiwi beach town is a mini New Zealand version of Surfers Paradise "

", Matakana somehow manages to evoke Tuscany, Fiji and New York’s the Hamptons "

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#3056999 31-Mar-2023 09:58

nzben:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/nz/300843671/the-best-tiny-town-in-each-of-new-zealands-regions

"Northland: Ahipara

this classic Kiwi beach town is a mini New Zealand version of Surfers Paradise "

", Matakana somehow manages to evoke Tuscany, Fiji and New York’s the Hamptons "

That's worse than dumb. Have they actually been to Surfers, Tuscany etc. I think not, otherwise they wouldn't write utter crap like this.

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#3057053 31-Mar-2023 11:06

Technofreak:

That's worse than dumb. Have they actually been to Surfers, Tuscany etc. I think not, otherwise they wouldn't write utter crap like this.

Same with media parrots squawking about Hawke's Bay's 'Mediterranean' climate. Clearly they have never been to the Mediterranean.

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#3057079 31-Mar-2023 12:16

Rikkitic:

Technofreak:

That's worse than dumb. Have they actually been to Surfers, Tuscany etc. I think not, otherwise they wouldn't write utter crap like this.

Same with media parrots squawking about Hawke's Bay's 'Mediterranean' climate. Clearly they have never been to the Mediterranean.

I can't vouch for The Hamptons, but can confirm that Matakana is unlike either Tuscany or Fiji, and also that Ahipara is rather unlike, some may say the complete opposite of Surfers Paradise.

Photographic evidence attached...

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#3057080 31-Mar-2023 12:23

nzben:

I can't vouch for The Hamptons, but can confirm that Matakana is unlike either Tuscany or Fiji, and also that Ahipara is rather unlike, some may say the complete opposite of Surfers Paradise.

Perhaps they were thinking of how Surfers used to be (decades ago). Even now there are still some isolated homes or small blocks of units on the waterfront.

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