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  #3398455 30-Jul-2025 17:01
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PolicyGuy:

 

I'd classify this as an abuse of the Emergency Alert system.

 

If I may ask, where are you? I live near the coast and got the alert. Was it nationwide (silly) or just in coastal areas?

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  #3398502 30-Jul-2025 21:35
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Non-news... A 1:34 video, waste of bytes.

 




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  #3398589 31-Jul-2025 06:38
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Well they're definitely abusing the system now: I just got woken up by one that blasted right through the mute switch and just repeated the same stuff they'd already told us during waking hours.

 

Edit: Sorry, didn't notice that there's another thread about this.

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  #3398593 31-Jul-2025 06:42
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freitasm:

 

Non-news... A 1:34 video, waste of bytes.

 

 

Actually, I thought that showed the incompetence of the acting speaker quite well...

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  #3398603 31-Jul-2025 07:45
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This whole article feels like someone needed to make a note about the 6.30am mobile alert: Tsunami emergency alert gives NZ an early morning wake up | Stuff

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  #3398610 31-Jul-2025 08:08
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It was deliberately done to punish those who were late to bed after going to the beach at midnight 😁

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  #3398611 31-Jul-2025 08:20
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Bung:

 

It was deliberately done to punish those who were late to bed after going to the beach at midnight 😁

 

 

Yep - this was midnight last night at Mairangi Bay.




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  #3399947 4-Aug-2025 16:39
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My brain started melting as I worked through this one. 

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  #3399954 4-Aug-2025 17:53
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@lachlanw Yeah, took me a second glance, I guess a comma would make a whole difference there.

 

"Man killed in Auckland prison identified, as 32-year-old charged with his murder"

 

 

 




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  #3399959 4-Aug-2025 18:29
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One of those things that sounds good from a competent newsreader and not so good in print without punctuation.

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  #3400046 4-Aug-2025 21:07
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As a movie character once said for comedic effect, "I need to get to Hollywood to rescue my ex-girlfriend who was killed in a car explosion's monkey!"

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  #3400849 8-Aug-2025 08:51
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*Sigh* Really? Just really? How can you possibly lose track of numbers within the first word of the headline & the first word of the article? The editor should return their pay cheque this week.




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  #3400850 8-Aug-2025 08:51
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Ah, Stuff quality.

So he was raped then? 

A more descriptive headline would be "Prince Andrew raped at 11, biography claims"

 

And that would explain a lot.

 




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  #3400898 8-Aug-2025 09:01
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Even the BBC:

 

"One of Italy's food associations said they were "astonished" to see the recipe on such an esteemed British food site, which was owned by the BBC until 2024."

 

Four paragraphs later:

 

"The Good Food food brand was owned by BBC Studios (the BBC's commercial wing) until 2018, when it was sold to Immediate Media Co - with the BBC prefix being dropped from its name last year."

 

 

 

(Also, the article itself is something of a war situation brewing between Italy and the UK).




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  #3400948 8-Aug-2025 09:34
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Some of the most pointless arguments in the world occur between Italians from different regions over the a recipe. This is made worse by many popular dishes being recent inventions from outside Italy. 

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