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SirHumphreyAppleby
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  #2530810 29-Jul-2020 15:11
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neb: Weeelll... that makes sense, they're reporting the results of a survey of 2K people, so all of those items are just what was reported on the survey, including "other" for uncategorisable replies.

 

If you're generous and count "being too far from my family", once you remove "Nothing would turn me off from a property" and "other", since one is miscategorised as a turn off and one is unspecific, you're only left with 17 factors. The headline promised 18 specific factors.

 

I'm surprised pseudoephedrine contamination isn't on that list.

 

I'd happily buy a asbestos-filled deceased estate on the flight path. Must have fibre though.


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  #2530840 29-Jul-2020 16:26
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picky picky !





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  #2534691 4-Aug-2020 18:10
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This, from a report about a murder in Stuff:

“He felt sorry for Watene's father who would grow up not knowing his father.”






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  #2535638 6-Aug-2020 10:58
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https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/08/bomb-squad-called-to-mall-in-hamilton.html

 

This article refers to Wednesday morning a couple of times... isn't this happening today? Is it still Wednesday in Hamiltron? 😂





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  #2535668 6-Aug-2020 11:50
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sittingduckz:

 

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/08/bomb-squad-called-to-mall-in-hamilton.html

 

This article refers to Wednesday morning a couple of times... isn't this happening today? Is it still Wednesday in Hamiltron? 😂

 

 

It saves rewriting when they repost it tomorrow as "Shoppers shocked by threat" and Saturday as "Bomb found in Hamilton mall?"

 

 


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  #2536209 7-Aug-2020 12:17
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https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/300074555/the-dark-side-of-a-side-hustle-my-brush-with-multilevel-marketing

 

This article is solid enough, just one persons brief brush with the industry and some lessons they took from it, probably something that normally be published in a magazine sold at a supermarket checkout. Anyway, the author noted how she had a moral objection to taking advantage of people just for money. Good for her.

 

Then came the kicker - the author is a "Wellington author, actor and tarot reader."


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  #2536247 7-Aug-2020 13:08
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I noticed the same earlier. Haha. Perhaps she shoulda read her own Tarot cards and avoided being sucked into a MLM group.


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  #2540270 13-Aug-2020 15:07
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Believe it or not, this is listed under “Headlines” in Stuff:

“What are Pandora Vanderpump and husband Jason Sabo up to these days?”

I haven’t the faintest idea who they are, nor why I should give a tinker’s cuss what they are up to.

I have even less idea why they are worthy of a headline.





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  #2549242 25-Aug-2020 09:47
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Not a headline, but this sentence from an article on Covid-19 caught my eye:

 

"The scientists hypothesised the asymptomatic symptom might indicate "subsequent infections may be milder"."

 

Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=12359217


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  #2549257 25-Aug-2020 10:26
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"Teacheing"?
"Accurate"?
"Reliable"?

This is exactly why I'm not giving a cent to Stuff 🙄


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  #2549262 25-Aug-2020 10:38
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Mehrts:

 

Click to see full size

 

"Teacheing"?
"Accurate"?
"Reliable"?

This is exactly why I'm not giving a cent to Stuff 🙄

 

 

I see this everywhere now. Even in so-called 'quality' media. Sub-editors, proofreaders, and even editors have been discarded across the board as unnecessary expenses. Young 'journalists' lacking a real education and meaningful experience are now expected to report the news, and do the editorial tasks as well. This is the result.

 

 

 

 

 

 





Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

 


 


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  #2549306 25-Aug-2020 11:18
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Rikkitic:

 

I see this everywhere now. Even in so-called 'quality' media. Sub-editors, proofreaders, and even editors have been discarded across the board as unnecessary expenses. Young 'journalists' lacking a real education and meaningful experience are now expected to report the news, and do the editorial tasks as well. This is the result.

 

 

And even on Geekzone. Shock. Horror.

 

My two pet hates are:

 

loose when the context should be lose,

 

and boarder when it's the border


Rikkitic
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  #2549310 25-Aug-2020 11:32
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cshwone:

 

My two pet hates are:

 

loose when the context should be lose,

 

and boarder when it's the border

 

 

It get's loser on the boarder's when borders play it lose.

 

 





Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

 


 


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  #2549318 25-Aug-2020 11:41
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Rikkitic:

 

cshwone:

 

My two pet hates are:

 

loose when the context should be lose,

 

and boarder when it's the border

 

 

It get's loser on the boarder's when borders play it lose.

 

 

 

 

Is this an example of a four for one special?





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  #2549331 25-Aug-2020 11:48
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Oh, I saw this a while back too 😅🤦

 

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