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#3415626 17-Sep-2025 14:13

Police, intelligence agencies warn businesses and venues of extremist threats at crowded spaces

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-intelligence-agencies-warn-businesses-and-venues-of-extremist-threats-at-crowded-spaces/IQ7TZAFBKNFXVGI6HEWCKLB4FE/#google_vignette

"It’s part of Protecting Our Crowded Places from Attack, New Zealand’s first-ever national strategy for preventing and managing mass-casualty events"

Not an imminent threat then and absolutely no need for that headline NZHerald unless you want clicks lots of clicks above everything.

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#3416849 20-Sep-2025 21:48

The stamp sold for a record-breaking price of... $263,25.

Or, right. No, it was $263,250.

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#3417582 23-Sep-2025 06:57

Death Notices in NZH is contracted out to an outfit called Legacy. I have ad blockers on my devices. When I open their page, I see this message:

"We help to honour and remember. Legacy brings people together to celebrate the lives and legacies of those most important to them. Help us provide the best services and resources to families in need. Please disable your adblocker and enjoy Legacy.com's full experience."

Maybe having a well-funded website does help with providing a good service - but do they really think that seeing ads will enable me to better enjoy Legacy’s full experience? Or are they pulling on heart-strings and sympathy-shaming? Be honest about it and say ‘you’re depriving us of revenue’.

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#3417583 23-Sep-2025 06:59

Some adblockers block more than ads, including scripts and breaking things.

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#3417584 23-Sep-2025 07:01

freitasm:

Some adblockers block more than ads, including scripts and breaking things.

Fair point. Fortunately mine don't.

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#3418985 26-Sep-2025 12:43

The Herald doesn’t appear to be concerned whether journalists can construct proper sentences:

“moved off the runway and taxied a short distance away where it has remained for time.”

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#3419094 27-Sep-2025 08:06

"United Nations torture watchdog visiting New Zealand prisons"

Maybe it's because I only just woke up, but I did not read that the way RNZ presumably intended.

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#3419104 27-Sep-2025 08:59

I heard that the watchdog visited a local Police station. The only "customer" in the cells was a rather harmless regular who was full of praise for his treatment. The hard-core were all at court.

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#3419914 30-Sep-2025 08:59

Not a headline, but...

His 2020 writing on the supermarkets took a Dickensian title - A Tale of Two Countdowns.

"Two Countdowns, both alike in vicinity; In fair Napier, where we lay our scene; From Russian fudge, break to new Dilmah tea; Where hand sanitiser on special ensures Covid-cautious hands remain clean," began his history about the sites.

That's Shakespeare, not Dickens! [Edit: The title is indeed Dickens; I missed that word. But the text is from Romeo and Juliet.]

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/574509/why-are-there-two-woolworths-diagonally-opposite-each-other-in-napier

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#3420476 2-Oct-2025 08:43

Stuff Quiz [again!]:

No, he didn't really write that at all....

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#3420503 2-Oct-2025 09:54

Behodar:

Not a headline, but...

His 2020 writing on the supermarkets took a Dickensian title - A Tale of Two Countdowns.

"Two Countdowns, both alike in vicinity; In fair Napier, where we lay our scene; From Russian fudge, break to new Dilmah tea; Where hand sanitiser on special ensures Covid-cautious hands remain clean," began his history about the sites.

That's Shakespeare, not Dickens! [Edit: The title is indeed Dickens; I missed that word. But the text is from Romeo and Juliet.]

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/574509/why-are-there-two-woolworths-diagonally-opposite-each-other-in-napier

I wouldn't worry about those details. When you're a licensed poet , you can get away with things like that.

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#3421989 6-Oct-2025 08:59

Stuff quiz AGAIN:

I'm sure that Dr Benjamin Spock, pediatrician and author, would be surprised to discover he's actually fictional....

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#3422201 6-Oct-2025 15:16

For what it's worth, they've corrected it now.

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#3424199 12-Oct-2025 09:17

“From New Zealand’s youngest mayor marred in first-term controversy” - Herald.

Classic schoolboy eggcorn.

The word the journalist was searching for and failing to find was ‘mired’.

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#3424309 12-Oct-2025 11:57

Geektastic:

“From New Zealand’s youngest mayor marred in first-term controversy” - Herald.

Classic schoolboy eggcorn.

The word the journalist was searching for and failing to find was ‘mired’.

Maybe but marred sort of works too.

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