If you have ever wondered how the virtue signalling ban on plastic straws is affecting those who need them, wonder no more. This recent Twitter thread gives us a window into the life of one young woman who just wanted a one little plastic straw! I was declined a straw
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Warning This leaked memo is a work of fiction and is satirical. The following was found in the men’s restroom of a Wellington Massage Parlour by a lady…of my acquaintance. TOP SECRET MEMO FOR GREEN
We pay actors to stand in front of a camera and play pretends. We pay sportspeople to run around after a ball or jump over things. They are not paid their mega-bucks to shoot their yaps off and lecture and browbeat us all with their half-witted opinions. Some are learning
Incredibly (but perhaps not surprisingly), some of the mainstream media have been misrepresenting the current abortion law. In fact, we’ve contacted the media a couple of times asking them to correct their misrepresentations (which fortunately they have!) So with the assistance of legal advice, we’ve produced a new
If I told you that the Ministry for Fresh Fruit and Vegetables was supporting a law that restricted each Kiwi family to only two pieces of fruit and one vegetable a week would you scratch your head? What about if I told you that a group that had been formed
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‘Bro-zzie’ Matthew Tukaki has slammed David Seymour for defending freedom of speech calling his views ” irrelevant”. Tukaki has an impressive Australian resume and was nominated in 2016 for Australian of the year but, as executive director of the Maori Council, he clearly still considers himself a spokesperson for Maori on
[…] Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford was not just any pepi. Her mother was Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, the second woman ever to give birth while leading a country. […] Disappointingly, there are still real issues impacting women’s health that Neve’s birth hasn’t affected. Ardern gave birth in Auckland
It was 60 years’ ago this weekend that Jack Turner, from Turners & Growers coined the name ‘kiwifruit’ in a management meeting. The rest, as they say, is history. The prominent produce company Turners and Growers announced that it would from 1959 on export Chinese gooseberries as ‘kiwifruit’. Introduced to
Some years ago, talking about their hit song, Little Lion Man, frontman Marcus Mumford expressed some ambivalence about its use of the word “fuck” in the chorus. It was used, he said, to underscore the depth of negativity in the song. Profanity, he argued, should be used sparingly, otherwise, it
This is going to become a weekly column. I took it upon myself to write articles in the last couple of weeks about how the sycophantic media always throws out a baby story when the government has had a bad week. I must admit, though that I didn’t expect
This Sunday morning post is to provide you with the links to the top TEN most read posts of the past week so that you can easily catch up on the most interesting and popular posts written by our writers over the past 7 days ( Sunday to Monday). https://www.
The word for today is… disparage (verb) – 1. To speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way. 2. To reduce in esteem or rank. Source : The Free Dictionary Etymology : In Middle English, to “disparage” someone meant causing that person to marry someone of inferior rank. Disparage derives from the Anglo-French
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