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#3362520 10-Apr-2025 08:28

I went to what looked a reasonably flash restaurant last night for dinner.

I asked the wait-person if they had Johnnie Walker Red Label.

They said all "our red wines are listed here" handing me the wine list.

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#3362531 10-Apr-2025 09:29

kiwifidget:

I went to what looked a reasonably flash restaurant last night for dinner.

I asked the wait-person if they had Johnnie Walker Red Label.

They said all "our red wines are listed here" handing me the wine list.

I wonder what they would have said if you'd asked for Black Label. "Sorry, we only have red and white".?

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#3362535 10-Apr-2025 09:43

kiwifidget:

I went to what looked a reasonably flash restaurant last night for dinner.

I asked the wait-person if they had Johnnie Walker Red Label.

They said all "our red wines are listed here" handing me the wine list.

The person was probably horrified by your preference for a blend instead of a pure malt and tried to point you in the direction of a more sensible choice, while thinking you wouldn't appreciate a pure Highland or Islay at that time. They put themselves on the line to protect you in front of your friends.

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#3362544 10-Apr-2025 10:44

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freitasm:

I would think very hard before paying my way to be in a program that TVNZ will profit from. And it's not even like going across the city to participate. It's going to another country.

Yeah, for something like The Chase where it's likely perhaps a 1 day committment and at the end you could walk away with serious money.

I doubt the producers will have too much money to give away. It'll be like the NZ version of who wants to be a millionaire - the questions were so hard it should have been named who wants to win $1,000.

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#3362851 11-Apr-2025 08:05

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Looks like a bolt on to the Australia version, which is currently casting in OZ
https://go.mycastingnet.com/Apply/Show/TheChaseAustraliaS15

"Kiwi contestants will go head-to-head with The Chase Australia’s Chasers,

ITV Studios Australia has been commissioned to produce the limited run, with filming taking place in Sydney, Australia."

The OZ studio doesn't pay travel/accom expenses for OZ contestants, so I'm guessing we get the same treatment.

Aha - NZH reports: "The application form ... asks where a contestant is from originally in New Zealand, and how long they’ve lived in Australia. TVNZ confirmed it is focused on finding Kiwis now domiciled in Australia."

For me, this will reduce the level of interest I might have had in the show. ITV Australia and TVNZ are stretching things calling it 'The Chase New Zealand'.

However it could be a great opportunity to test Robert Muldoon's famous quip in the 1980s that New Zealanders who move to Australia “raise the IQ of both countries”.

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#3363802 13-Apr-2025 20:41

I just had a Captcha challenge... in an ad. As in "please prove you are human to see this ad".

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#3363803 13-Apr-2025 20:42

CSRF type stuff in an ad?

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#3363804 13-Apr-2025 20:46

An actual pop-up ad in a new window! Judging from the URL it's one of those dodgy gambling sites.

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#3363855 14-Apr-2025 09:40

Behodar:

An actual pop-up ad in a new window! Judging from the URL it's one of those dodgy gambling sites.

Friends elders got done with a "captcha" that had them paste some crap into the run dialog. Seems that captcha is being used as a way to get tech ignorant people to perform tasks that they should not do. Before it was just the accept notifications which gets you the fake virus popups, now its just please install the malware for us.

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#3363867 14-Apr-2025 10:16

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Behodar:

An actual pop-up ad in a new window! Judging from the URL it's one of those dodgy gambling sites.

Friends elders got done with a "captcha" that had them paste some crap into the run dialog. Seems that captcha is being used as a way to get tech ignorant people to perform tasks that they should not do. Before it was just the accept notifications which gets you the fake virus popups, now its just please install the malware for us.

This seems to be around pretending to be Cloudflare. It asks people to copy something and paste into the command-line.

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#3364143 15-Apr-2025 09:21

Does she really have nothing better to do?

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#3364167 15-Apr-2025 10:18

Rikkitic:

Does she really have nothing better to do?

Why not include a bit of context so readers can decide if they're interested in the link, particularly since your post appears to be more suited to the Politics topic?

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#3364223 15-Apr-2025 10:51

Radio NZ website, 11 April 2025

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#3364237 15-Apr-2025 11:21

floydbloke:

Why not include a bit of context so readers can decide if they're interested in the link, particularly since your post appears to be more suited to the Politics topic?

Sorry, I was blinded by the sheer stupidity of it all and made an emotional response. I left Politics for that very reason. Colour me corrected.

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#3364239 15-Apr-2025 11:28

Rikkitic:
Does she really have nothing better to do?
"Recent documents that have reached my office from the Ministry of Health have referred to women as 'pregnant people', 'people with a cervix' or 'individuals capable of childbearing'," she said in the letter.

Just dealing with biology, and being a male, I'm not an expert. I'm also steering away from gender identity. I'm talking about biology only here folks, not politics.

But all "pregnant people" ≠ "women", since, last I heard and I could be mistaken, some women are not pregnant. Who'd have thunk?

"people with a cervix " ≠ "women". Congenital conditions or Medical procedures can mean a women doesn't have a cervix.

"individuals capable of childbearing". Sane answer as above but add Surgical interventions (like hysterectomy) and age (like menopause).

Has Associate Health Minister Casey Costello learned the basics of human sexual biology as part of the Health and Physical Education curriculum, which is taught in Primary schools?

Does she believe health care patients are that stupid, and so need medical terminology appropriate for 5 year olds?

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