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  #3387190 26-Jun-2025 12:57
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Today’s Banality News Award goes to the Herald:

 

 

 

“Another added: “Dude, they freaking killed Marge Simpson.”

 

 

 

A national newspaper reduced to filling space with random quotes from strangers on the internet. 

 

Is that what we’ve sunk to?






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  #3387211 26-Jun-2025 14:54
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There is more to the article than that.

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  #3387241 26-Jun-2025 17:38
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gzt: There is more to the article than that.

 

 

 

 Barely. 

 

It’s the pointlessness of including random comments that aren’t even attributed. Random comments on social media aren’t news. 






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  #3387592 27-Jun-2025 10:17
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NZH is truly pathetic with its fixation on overblown weather stories. A current story says "Auckland braces for severe thunderstorms ..." and that "Thunderstorms are barrelling towards Auckland ...".

 

I know blitzortung doesn't show the full picture (shows only cloud-to-ground strikes and not cloud-to-cloud) but right now it is showing precisely zero lightning strikes anywhere over NZ, let alone severe ones barrelling towards Auckland. About a week ago they had an almost identical headline - which came to exactly nothing with no lightning strikes.

 

Nonetheless, being a cautious type, here I am jammed in a doorway, bracing myself - just in case they're right for once. 





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  #3387598 27-Jun-2025 11:06
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eracode:

 

NZH is truly pathetic with its fixation on overblown weather stories. A current story says "Auckland braces for severe thunderstorms ..." and that "Thunderstorms are barrelling towards Auckland ...".

 

 

I subscribe to MetService's alerts by both email and via iPhone App. I presume the media base their reporting on these.

 

Having just had an alerted "thunderstorm" pass over head that dumped 30mm of rain in about ten minutes, the headline is probably fair.

 

I suspect these days, the term "thunderstorm" has become a generic description for torrential downpours and cloud bursts, even if they are not accompanied by lightning and thunder.


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  #3387612 27-Jun-2025 12:37
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Daily Telegraph headline

"The boomerang is European, not Australian, study suggests"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/25/the-boomerang-is-european-not-australian-study-suggests/

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  #3387639 27-Jun-2025 13:54
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“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

 

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  #3387752 28-Jun-2025 07:33
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I guess Stuff reporters/editors skipped geography at school.

 





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  #3387754 28-Jun-2025 08:13
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NZ Herald: Lotto Powerball: The ‘matrix’ change that will make winning millions of times tougher

 

"The current odds of winning Lotto Powerball are 1 in 38m. Should Lotto add one extra Powerball number, the odds would decrease to 1 in 42.2m."

 

So, a little over 11% tougher.


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  #3387797 28-Jun-2025 14:45
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SirHumphreyAppleby:

 

NZ Herald: Lotto Powerball: The ‘matrix’ change that will make winning millions of times tougher

 

 

As a user on Reddit pointed out, the title has now been updated to "Lotto Powerball: The ‘matrix’ change that will make winning that much tougher", with the following statement added at the bottom...

 

*This article corrects an earlier version which said the proposed changes would make the chances of winning Lotto millions of times tougher. It would in fact change the odds from 1 in 38m to 1 in 42.2m.

 

 


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  #3387803 28-Jun-2025 16:03
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I hope I've identified your avatar correctly, because it seems that the Herald did, in fact, get caught.


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  #3387804 28-Jun-2025 16:05
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Behodar:

 

I hope I've identified your avatar correctly, because it seems that the Herald did, in fact, get caught.

 

 

You are correct. Egg on their face, indeed.


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  #3388085 29-Jun-2025 18:18
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Just received a text from Gull re petrol discount:

 

“Fuel savings for all Kiwis! Save 12 cents per litre at Gull from 7am tomorrow to 7am Friday (30 Jun-1 Jul)”.

 

So when does it finish, Gull? Tuesday 1 July or Friday 4 July?





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  #3388460 1-Jul-2025 00:09
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A great deal reported in the Herald today. 

 

“New World has the pricey butter listed on their website for $16.49, with a club card deal dropping it to $16.49.”

 

 

 

I know that sometimes Kiwi English has different meanings from the actual meaning, but I must say that I did think dripping in this context still meant lowering! Apparently not. 






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