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#3495529 26-May-2026 15:46

freitasm:

NZ Herald: The average KiwiSaver balance for your age - NZ Herald

No such information in the article.

Average balances range from $3512 for those under 17 to $194,276 for those aged 86-plus, although the latter is skewed by a smaller number of investors in that age bracket.

The average balance across all members is now $41,286, up 11.3% from 2024. Men’s average is $47,452 and women’s $38,212.

I was expecting a table. Nothing like that.

They must have removed it. I read the article earlier this morning and it had a table.

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#3495585 26-May-2026 16:41

Original article on RNZ has table

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/596311/the-average-kiwisaver-balance-for-your-age

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#3495737 27-May-2026 11:21

RunningMan:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/588965/two-vehicle-crash-closes-sh1-near-bay-of-plenty

Two-vehicle crash closes SH1 near Bay of Plenty

Nope RNZ, it's not even close to the Bay of Plenty. It's literally on the shores of Lake Taupo. They seem to have an obsession with anything that happens near Taupo being moved into the Bay of Plenty.

And again.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/596413/spill-closes-road-after-truck-rolls-in-bay-in-plenty

That stretch of road is in Waikato.

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#3495750 27-May-2026 12:26

Herald

WorkSafe notified after fatal quake bike crash on rural property near Christchurch

Quad bike not quake

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#3495751 27-May-2026 12:31

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Herald

WorkSafe notified after fatal quake bike crash on rural property near Christchurch

Quad bike not quake

Maybe they have quake bikes in Christchurch.

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#3498777 30-May-2026 15:17

I know everything is bigger in America, but...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360986222/watch-kiwi-hikers-grizzly-bear-encounter-caught-camera-holy-heck

(The video is worth watching though, bloody scary.)

The Institute of Unfinished Research has concluded that 6 out of 10 people

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#3499266 2-Jun-2026 01:17

This story in today’s NZH says we’re all crapping the wrong way. FFS.

Amongst the story’s wonderful advice is a comment that sitting on a loo is unnatural and means that we’re fighting against our puborectalis muscle.

It then says:

“Raising your knees above your waist when sitting on the toilet can help this muscle do its job properly…

This can be helped with a stool to rest your feet on.”

That’s very poor advice - it's unlikely to provide meaningful support, is extremely smelly and leaves a terrible mess on the floor. Not to mention the horrible job (pardon the pun) of cleaning your footwear after the event. And let’s not imagine bare feet.

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#3499302 2-Jun-2026 09:21

You're obviously doing it wrong. The advice to raise your knees doesn’t remove your bum from the existing toilet. In India you can find Western style toilets with extensions either side of the rim for traditionalists to place their feet while squatting. That could be more challenging.

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#3499440 2-Jun-2026 10:37

You missed the part about putting your feet on the stool... Think sample, not foot.

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#3499460 2-Jun-2026 11:21

Ge0rge:

You missed the part about putting your feet on the stool... Think sample, not foot.

? Don't understand what you mean - that was the whole point of my post.

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#3499465 2-Jun-2026 11:56

eracode:

Ge0rge:

You missed the part about putting your feet on the stool... Think sample, not foot.

? Don't understand what you mean - that was the whole point of my post.

Aimed at bung, not you - pretty confident your post and mine are talking about the same thing.

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#3499474 2-Jun-2026 12:44

Only doctors and Henry VIII would be thinking of stool in that way.

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#3499476 2-Jun-2026 12:50

Ge0rge:

eracode:

Ge0rge:

You missed the part about putting your feet on the stool... Think sample, not foot.

? Don't understand what you mean - that was the whole point of my post.

Aimed at bung, not you - pretty confident your post and mine are talking about the same thing.

Ah -sorry - didn’t pick that up.

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#3499536 2-Jun-2026 15:46

Herald:

“Whimp said records were still being attained and that de Graaf had appointed him.

“We’ve had the claims from IRD but we’re still to cite all the company records and then we’ll form an opinion.”

See me after class.

obtained, not attained. Sight, not cite

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#3500822 6-Jun-2026 21:09

No doubt a valued Air NZ staff member, but an Air New Zealand crew member he is not. In an airline "crew member" refers to the staff that crew (fly or operate) the aircraft.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/talanoa/air-nz-crew-member-famous-samoan-singer-puni-sings-for-passengers-at-auckland-airport/X5IAQBKP7VHBVJFEIGLUO4H4EU/

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