So she wanted more money than her manager and they said no? Pretty sure thats got nothing todo with what sex the manager was but because they were above you in the scale of job title, but hey.. blame it on the man as usual...
Bought a house in Auckland from Trademe, they self advertised on Wednesday on Trademe, we looked at it on Saturday, bought it on Sunday... no realestate agents required
Isnt this what insurance is bought for? If their insurance doesnt cover everything thats happened then they didnt get the right insurance or take the insruance company to court...
Maybe not taxed, but FORCED by council fines (a good sized fine) to keep them in 100% tip top shape on the outside for the neighbors, no boarded up windows, overgrown ivory, unkempt lawns, general messiness
Even Netflix is Geolocking its OWN showsYou can get Netflix made shows from US Netflix that you cant get in NZ Netflix, so were subsidizing the US to make and watch shows they wont let NZ users see, back to pirating (or VPN my US Netflix as usual)
Only if she has insurance, im betting shell rack up AT LEAST $500,000 of hospital treatment over in the US for a shattered pelvis. US healthcare is just a ripoff
So with paywave will there be the usual EXTRA cost added to every transaction?? So if you only need $2 of parking you also get charged the 50c transaction fee? Which goes into someones pocket... It should be the same price for cash or paywave to make it fair because it must cost them more to service cash having to send people out to empty machines and deal with all the coins constantly
Whats ruined me about the shows is when you see what you get for your money overseas compared to in NZThey can almost totally rebuild an entire 100 year old house for the cost of a single new car in NZWe are totally ripped off by builders and suppliers in NZ with much lower selection and quality of options for twice the price
Sky said people who bought the mobile service would not be able to transfer the picture to their television using devices such as Chromecast or Apples Airplay.Sick of companies trying to control the same content and what size screen your allowed to watch it on or charge you more for a bigger screen for exactly the same information. Sky is dying a slow death and its funny to watch them keep failing
Believe it when I see anything actually built and finished and handed over in a descent timeframe... whats the bet developers will go under half way through the builds, then prices will rise to finish them off...
Are there BMW service centers on the way? Being a BMW it will most likely end up having some part of it broken, falling off, random error messages, leaking something.... and end up on the back of a towtruck for the rest of the trip
The reason i dont goto the movies of the last few years is the prices, nothing todo with Netflix or watching at home, but paying $20+ for some cheap popcorn, drink and a midget icecream (also some cinemas dont even display prices for anything which is a dead giveaway your going to get ripped off!!) was just getting ridiculous plus they kept raising prices for the movies as well, just not worth it anymore.They basically are pricing people out of going, sort of like how Sky kept raising prices with lower selection and they wonder why they kept loosing more customers.... people will only pay so much before they give up on something
Take the company who installed it to court to get it fixed, not being able to repair an 8 yr old industrial/commercial grade heatpump is pretty ridiculous, imagine if it was installed in a business and they couldnt repair it for months??
Designed for high speed? Thats why we dont have that quality in NZ.. they cant make as much money through speeding fines... god forbit people might want todo 100kmph on a motorway in NZ...
Its amazing how people/companies will spend millions upon millions on a building/renovations but will spend little to nothing on fire prevention/alarms/sprinkler systems
They have one listed on their website price is over $79,000 BY NEGOTIATION so in other words they wont even tell you what its worth....I say if a company wont tell you a fixed price for a simple shed with appliances then onto one who will...
Whats the problem of having diversity statistics? Do truthful statistics hurt people? Why dont they also add crime statistics or will someone say that hurts certain populations too, its just more hard factual data but theres always someone who has to call out the PC brigade on everything they can.
Who needs school friends... all your friends are made after school at uni/tech/bars/parties/work as long as kids know they have that to look forward to theyll cope :)
Lower rates for people who actually LIVE in the house they own, punish the land bankers/investors who just buy houses, leave them empty or rent them out
never-ending row after row of road cones and reduced speed limits... thats a good thing for the government, it means they can tax you more with speeding fines :)
As if just looking at that design you could guarantee 200% that idiots would climb to the top and drop down from the start! Its obvious that kids would try itWhy is it people design things that you know someone can/will hurt themselves, same as road designers in this country, designing roads which guarantee someone will be killed as you know not everyone drives to the way it looks on paper
I bet in 100 years time Polystyrene will be the horror of the foundation/housing market when something is found that it does something to someone or has started breaking down into something else and the only way to get rid of it is to totally demolish an entire building including totally digging out the foundation to get to it and the nightmare to get rid of it when it breaks into little pieces.Look what happened to Asbestos which we all thought was a miracle fireproofing product just a few years ago...
Next the ISPs will try charging for line installs for internet connections and service upgrades... we dont have enough swtich ports, youll have to pay us to upgrade our equipment if you want your properties to connect to the internet...
Just wondering... if someones kid falls from the top of the structure (say one of the supporting branches of the tree breaks or the rail snaps off due to not being up to required building standards of support) whos at fault? The council for not enforcing safety standards or the home owner for building an unsafe structure?
Just wait until you find out the cost of parts if anything goes wrong out of warranty, if they will even sell them to you, plus any detected crashes the car will automatically disable features until you pay Tesla some more $$$ to re-certify you car for the features you already paid for... you cant get your own car serviced or fixed anywhere else but Tesla plus they will disable your cars features if they detect you got it fixed somewhere else
Wouldnt it be a health and safety issue having a person bleeding around others??Couldnt they give him towels or some bandages to wrap the wound to it wasnt bleeding everywhere and potentially , maybe even some wetwipes to wipe up the blood all over his body?
40 years of collected equipment sounds like time for a good forced cleanup of old tech....Bet the wife loves that all the old garbage (in her mind) gets put into a skip bin :)
So basically the idiot tenements with the bath/shower were letting water go straight to the floor from the water hitting the curtains and not keeping the curtains facing inside the tub like any intelligent person would do and yet its the managements/owners fault that all this water going to the floor created the problem...Next time theyll have a bath instead of a shower and let the tub overfill with water and blame the management company for not telling them they should turn the water off when the tubs full...
Never worn a beenie in my life.. but ive got hair to keep my heard warm... pretty sure most students have hair too? Perhaps if they were bald then it might be a news worthy article
Did Trump talk to Kim about the American student who they returned to the US brain dead after holding him in jail for a year for trying to take home some propaganda advertising as a souvenir of his tirip to NK?
Chinese owner fights access to NZ farm, says would harm NZ image
If we cant buy Chinese land then they shouldnt be allowed to buy ours... end of story...
High-paid families feeling the squeeze
Because they have to have the latest model IPads and Macbooks when they come out each year... have to spend on those before house/warmth/life
US announces it will leave UN human rights council
Well Trump did call Kim a great leader...
Gutless poultry owners too chicken to kill their birds are dumping them
So they complain if you lock them up... then complain if you set them free?????
Meth tester: Govt report could kill clean-up industry
Common sense never seems to rule in this country
You can't win when you're a woman working in IT
So she wanted more money than her manager and they said no? Pretty sure thats got nothing todo with what sex the manager was but because they were above you in the scale of job title, but hey.. blame it on the man as usual...
Kirstie Allsopp defends flying business class while putting her children in economy
With most flights Economy legroom is designed for 1-12 year olds so its as if their in business class at their heights
Poverty causing 'third world' dental problems, Hamilton dentist says
Costs me $160 for a 30 minute hygiene clean every 6 months or so
How are real estate agents paid?
Bought a house in Auckland from Trademe, they self advertised on Wednesday on Trademe, we looked at it on Saturday, bought it on Sunday... no realestate agents required
Council orders removal of 'non-compliant' Dunedin tree house
Just put up some metal scaffolding and make it a multi year plan to paint the tree ;) Is scaffolding classed as a building?
Sewerage pipe 'explodes' destroying Auckland home
Isnt this what insurance is bought for? If their insurance doesnt cover everything thats happened then they didnt get the right insurance or take the insruance company to court...
House building costs track well above inflation
Blame the monopoly of building materials in this country... build a house with better selection of materials for half the price overseas
Opinion: Tax ghost houses and pour the money back into affordable housing
Maybe not taxed, but FORCED by council fines (a good sized fine) to keep them in 100% tip top shape on the outside for the neighbors, no boarded up windows, overgrown ivory, unkempt lawns, general messiness
Piracy sites have uncertain future
Even Netflix is Geolocking its OWN showsYou can get Netflix made shows from US Netflix that you cant get in NZ Netflix, so were subsidizing the US to make and watch shows they wont let NZ users see, back to pirating (or VPN my US Netflix as usual)
Spark gets heavy about Agile
agile=contract workers who can be gotten rid of quickly at end of tasks
Angry accountants threaten to file paper returns
Try telling the IRD you couldnt file something because of an IT fault... your guilty in their eyes regardless of anything else
'Why was Mum allowed to rack up a $12,000 bill?'
Sold a house and didnt have $12k available to pay the power bill off????? So they sold the house for a loss then??? Doesnt add up...
Missing New Zealand tramper found injured in California forest
Only if she has insurance, im betting shell rack up AT LEAST $500,000 of hospital treatment over in the US for a shattered pelvis. US healthcare is just a ripoff
Zoning change cuts family off from school just 800m away
Love how he brings up the health and safety wording bit... that always gets its up the food chain...
Earning up to $10k a month, mum says unfair to say shes rich
and yet how many people out there have 5+ kids (and still adding more) and living off the tax payer on the benefit...
Snapper cards to be phased out as method of payment for Wellington parking machines
So with paywave will there be the usual EXTRA cost added to every transaction?? So if you only need $2 of parking you also get charged the 50c transaction fee? Which goes into someones pocket... It should be the same price for cash or paywave to make it fair because it must cost them more to service cash having to send people out to empty machines and deal with all the coins constantly
Property owner faces monthly bill of $24,000 for encroaching on public land in Christchurch
Pitty they cant do the same to property investors who buy houses and leave them empty and rundown for years
Speed limits to drop on 40 KÄpiti Coast roads
NZ roads are getting so bad they just keep lowering the speed until we all stop and go nowhere...
Party for more than 100 teens at rented home angers owner
Dont you have to use a credit card on Airbnb and you have to be aged 18+ to have a credit card?
Auckland eateries encouraged to allow customers to bring own takeaway containers
So when you get food poisoning the food eatery will simply blame your containers and not their food
This is what years of watching home renovation shows has done to me
Whats ruined me about the shows is when you see what you get for your money overseas compared to in NZThey can almost totally rebuild an entire 100 year old house for the cost of a single new car in NZWe are totally ripped off by builders and suppliers in NZ with much lower selection and quality of options for twice the price
Sky TV launches mobile-only sports offering at $15.99 a month
Sky said people who bought the mobile service would not be able to transfer the picture to their television using devices such as Chromecast or Apples Airplay.Sick of companies trying to control the same content and what size screen your allowed to watch it on or charge you more for a bigger screen for exactly the same information. Sky is dying a slow death and its funny to watch them keep failing
KiwiBuild: Couples earning up to $180k will be able to buy homes
Believe it when I see anything actually built and finished and handed over in a descent timeframe... whats the bet developers will go under half way through the builds, then prices will rise to finish them off...
Can you drive an EV from Auckland to Wellington in one day stress-free?
Are there BMW service centers on the way? Being a BMW it will most likely end up having some part of it broken, falling off, random error messages, leaking something.... and end up on the back of a towtruck for the rest of the trip
The Neighbourhood Support volunteer fighting to clean up one of NZ's toughest streets
Thatll just help to train them to create their own army of gang members for free...
Cinema pay disputes 'not Netflix's fault'
The reason i dont goto the movies of the last few years is the prices, nothing todo with Netflix or watching at home, but paying $20+ for some cheap popcorn, drink and a midget icecream (also some cinemas dont even display prices for anything which is a dead giveaway your going to get ripped off!!) was just getting ridiculous plus they kept raising prices for the movies as well, just not worth it anymore.They basically are pricing people out of going, sort of like how Sky kept raising prices with lower selection and they wonder why they kept loosing more customers.... people will only pay so much before they give up on something
I speed dated the Heartbreak Island boys and here's what happened
wise-beyond-my-years 25-year-old, yup thats a NZ girl in so many ways.... they have that sort of reputation which is not a good thing
Buyer beware message from freezing pensioner with broken heat pump
Take the company who installed it to court to get it fixed, not being able to repair an 8 yr old industrial/commercial grade heatpump is pretty ridiculous, imagine if it was installed in a business and they couldnt repair it for months??
Kapiti Expressway: more cracks and still waiting for repairs to leaky surface
Designed for high speed? Thats why we dont have that quality in NZ.. they cant make as much money through speeding fines... god forbit people might want todo 100kmph on a motorway in NZ...
Charles Rennie Mackintosh architectural treasure up in flames for second time
Its amazing how people/companies will spend millions upon millions on a building/renovations but will spend little to nothing on fire prevention/alarms/sprinkler systems
First 9 Homestar house completed: Why is it so much better?
And probably build bigger, more insulated and with better products for 50% less in other countries
A tiny home solves two very different housing problems
They have one listed on their website price is over $79,000 BY NEGOTIATION so in other words they wont even tell you what its worth....I say if a company wont tell you a fixed price for a simple shed with appliances then onto one who will...
Herald Homes and OneRoof apologise after backlash from 'racist' ads
Whats the problem of having diversity statistics? Do truthful statistics hurt people? Why dont they also add crime statistics or will someone say that hurts certain populations too, its just more hard factual data but theres always someone who has to call out the PC brigade on everything they can.
Mary-anne Scott: My daughter is self-conscious because she has no friends
Who needs school friends... all your friends are made after school at uni/tech/bars/parties/work as long as kids know they have that to look forward to theyll cope :)
Police and council-led bike theft prevention campaign doing little to deter criminals
Cops will only arrest them if theyre doing 4kmph over the speed limit.... bit hard to get a bike up to 54kmph if your a fat thief...
Cost of home ownership goes through the roof
Lower rates for people who actually LIVE in the house they own, punish the land bankers/investors who just buy houses, leave them empty or rent them out
'My son doesn't feel safe there' - mother of boy assaulted at south Auckland school
Its the job of the police to arrest people for assault
North-west Aucklanders face long wait for fast internet
I dont understand how they can charge $50+ for a
Supermarkets (mostly) say no to BYO containers to buy meat
wax coated cardboard containers? If they can serve a hot coffee in one im sure they can put meat in them
Grand Designs UK: How a 26-year-old built the perfect London pad
Plus this episode came out last year some time... really old
Kapiti Expressway: more cracks and still waiting for repairs to leaky surface
never-ending row after row of road cones and reduced speed limits... thats a good thing for the government, it means they can tax you more with speeding fines :)
Shocking video shows kids taunted into dropping on to deadly Auckland skate ramp
As if just looking at that design you could guarantee 200% that idiots would climb to the top and drop down from the start! Its obvious that kids would try itWhy is it people design things that you know someone can/will hurt themselves, same as road designers in this country, designing roads which guarantee someone will be killed as you know not everyone drives to the way it looks on paper
Growth in north Auckland too expensive to grow, says think tank
Because people want a house with land more than they want to live in a shoebox with people above and below them
Tesla bursts into flames in video captured by US actress Mary McCormack
If there was petrol anywhere in that car then youd have a problem.... way safer having a fire in an electric car than a petrol car any day....
Suzy Cato says she knew her dance 'was not without fault'
I blame the Russians... hacking votes for David :P
Eight-year-old off to LA for treatment to stop spine from strangling heart, lungs
Free but useless healthcare in NZ depending what problem you have...
Recycled polystyrene on the rise as quick cost-effective option for aiding construction
I bet in 100 years time Polystyrene will be the horror of the foundation/housing market when something is found that it does something to someone or has started breaking down into something else and the only way to get rid of it is to totally demolish an entire building including totally digging out the foundation to get to it and the nightmare to get rid of it when it breaks into little pieces.Look what happened to Asbestos which we all thought was a miracle fireproofing product just a few years ago...
'Miracle cure' saves breast cancer patient with only months to live
This treatment will only expand if they can find a way to make $$$$ from it, to much profit in cancer drugs
$50,000 to get electricity down the street is unfair, developer says
Next the ISPs will try charging for line installs for internet connections and service upgrades... we dont have enough swtich ports, youll have to pay us to upgrade our equipment if you want your properties to connect to the internet...
Dunedin tree house neighbours have past bad blood
Just wondering... if someones kid falls from the top of the structure (say one of the supporting branches of the tree breaks or the rail snaps off due to not being up to required building standards of support) whos at fault? The council for not enforcing safety standards or the home owner for building an unsafe structure?
Inside Tesla's first-ever New Zealand store
Just wait until you find out the cost of parts if anything goes wrong out of warranty, if they will even sell them to you, plus any detected crashes the car will automatically disable features until you pay Tesla some more $$$ to re-certify you car for the features you already paid for... you cant get your own car serviced or fixed anywhere else but Tesla plus they will disable your cars features if they detect you got it fixed somewhere else
Wounded man waits as people 'looking for free treatment' clog A&E
Wouldnt it be a health and safety issue having a person bleeding around others??Couldnt they give him towels or some bandages to wrap the wound to it wasnt bleeding everywhere and potentially , maybe even some wetwipes to wipe up the blood all over his body?
Poverty causing 'third world' dental problems, Hamilton dentist says
Probably only cost him $20 for the booze, $20 for the drill :) than probably cost $1000+ after due to his stupidity...
Flooding victim faces 'horrendous' cleanup after water main breaks, again
40 years of collected equipment sounds like time for a good forced cleanup of old tech....Bet the wife loves that all the old garbage (in her mind) gets put into a skip bin :)
Oxygen ordered to pay tenants after two-month delay in fixing leak
So basically the idiot tenements with the bath/shower were letting water go straight to the floor from the water hitting the curtains and not keeping the curtains facing inside the tub like any intelligent person would do and yet its the managements/owners fault that all this water going to the floor created the problem...Next time theyll have a bath instead of a shower and let the tub overfill with water and blame the management company for not telling them they should turn the water off when the tubs full...
Beanies banned at school, even on frosty mornings
Never worn a beenie in my life.. but ive got hair to keep my heard warm... pretty sure most students have hair too? Perhaps if they were bald then it might be a news worthy article
Gull slams regional fuel tax legislation, says it will force prices to hike
Go electric....
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un chat over Singapore summit lunch of beef short ribs
Did Trump talk to Kim about the American student who they returned to the US brain dead after holding him in jail for a year for trying to take home some propaganda advertising as a souvenir of his tirip to NK?