Where is Unmanly?

neb: Not really dumb but looks pretty weird if you don't know the background, there's a beach north of here called Manly Beach, named after the Sydney suburb of the same name. So you get news stories like this:

Rikkitic: Where is Unmanly?

The review into the tragic death on the Taihape - Napier (Gentle Annie) road during Cyclone Gabrielle last year contains words that I thought only Sir Humphrey Appleby was capable of uttering:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350235175/road-disaster-lack-communication-and-mans-death 

“That lack of situational awareness in our view lead to what I would describe as more of a positive bias towards a positive outcome and not planning what we would describe as worst case scenario, so the mitigations in terms of what could, in the worst case occur, would be mitigated,”

Zigg: RNZ: What you need to know as daylight saving ends.. Really?

As daylight saving ends there's a public interest in a PSA to check your smoke alarm batteries and those things that you're meant to do once or twice a year, but it doesn't need to be dressed up with a clickbait title.

Actually maybe it does, for the people who only click on clickbait... hmm, I'm torn on this one.

gzt: 
I did a similar double take today with a story about Paremata.

The one In Wellington ; )

We have similar problems here with suburbs like Miami, Gold Coast, QLD - not Miami, Gold Coast, Florida.

San Francisco likely has similar confusion with Brisbane, California.

Kyanar:

 

gzt: 
I did a similar double take today with a story about Paremata.

The one In Wellington ; )

 

We have similar problems here with suburbs like Miami, Gold Coast, QLD - not Miami, Gold Coast, Florida.

 

San Francisco likely has similar confusion with Brisbane, California.

 

There’s a Dunedin near Tampa in Florida, US, too.

eracode:

 

There’s a Dunedin near Tampa in Florida, US, too.

 

And Melbourne near Orlando in Florida.

Geektastic: “No Kāinga Ora tenants living in the state’s approximately 72,0000 residences get the supplement.”

They obviously have a different counting system at The Herald to the one I’m used to!

Maybe they follow the European system and that's a decimal point? Not sure why it's rounded to 4DP though...

Kyanar:

 

Geektastic: “No Kāinga Ora tenants living in the state’s approximately 72,0000 residences get the supplement.”

They obviously have a different counting system at The Herald to the one I’m used to!

 

Maybe they follow the European system and that's a decimal point? Not sure why it's rounded to 4DP though...

 

It is hard to imagine 0.0001 of a state house, I agree!

From the BBC: "Eclipse watchers hope for clear skies"

Really? 

RNZ tells me that an eclipse is "expected" to cover parts of NZ in 2028. Are they worried that the sun, moon, or land mass may have significantly moved by then?