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Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
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Riding past the morgue.

HardtailHack

used an iron once
Jan 20, 2009
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Yes.
It is also clear you lack hygienic eating practices.
Go wash your hands!

*edit*
Hmm that post had more snark than was warranted.
I'll leave it up as I wrote it so, I'll own it.
But my apologies.

I've been awake for over 30hours now and the build site today has made me overly cranky.... Time for me to log out for a while.
Bye.
Haha, there's no snark in that.
I need to find the study that surveyed a bunch of kids and studied their sick days and they came to the conclusion that kids that had a dishwasher in the house got sick more often than those that didn't. It was believed that the sponge and cloth exposed the kids to some goodies that kept their immune system in tip top shape.
Or it could have been made up to help secure some funding.....

Would have any idea what the retail price is on a 32h Hadley Boost front hub is?
Do you have an account with this mob?
 

DaveW

Space Monkey
Jul 2, 2001
11,725
3,204
The bunker at parliament
Yeah Alister at Blueshark still supplies me.
Those are not a cheap item though!.... Gone up since the last lot I purchased for a client.
If I was to sell at full margin they'd be about $440 (NZD) but something like that I usually retailed at $399 NZD.
 

daisycutter

Turbo Monkey
Apr 8, 2006
1,703
206
New York City
Haha, there's no snark in that.
I need to find the study that surveyed a bunch of kids and studied their sick days and they came to the conclusion that kids that had a dishwasher in the house got sick more often than those that didn't. It was believed that the sponge and cloth exposed the kids to some goodies that kept their immune system in tip top shape.
Or it could have been made up to help secure some funding.....

Would have any idea what the retail price is on a 32h Hadley Boost front hub is?
Do you have an account with this mob?
 

HardtailHack

used an iron once
Jan 20, 2009
8,007
7,517
Yeah Alister at Blueshark still supplies me.
Those are not a cheap item though!.... Gone up since the last lot I purchased for a client.
If I was to sell at full margin they'd be about $440 (NZD) but something like that I usually retailed at $399 NZD.
Thanks, it is a lot of money but it is a forever hub.
I found that the Onyx hub has a pretty similar design so if Qvist won't do me a custom one I'll get an Onyx.

That's where I got my last ones from, a pair is a bit cheaper from Foes, but they are a Foes branded hub.
 

HardtailHack

used an iron once
Jan 20, 2009
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I normally only buy Aussie made breakfast cereal because putting it on a ship seems dumb, but I make the exception for some Vogel's products from NZ.

This stuff is insane, I have to get up 5mins earlier if I have it for breakfast as it takes so long to eat but you stay full for so much longer than grain based breakfast cereal.
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Changleen

Paranoid Member
Jan 9, 2004
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I normally only buy Aussie made breakfast cereal because putting it on a ship seems dumb, but I make the exception for some Vogel's products from NZ.

This stuff is insane, I have to get up 5mins earlier if I have it for breakfast as it takes so long to eat but you stay full for so much longer than grain based breakfast cereal.
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That stuff is pretty popular, there’s a whole range of flavours, the wife was into it for a bit.
 

HardtailHack

used an iron once
Jan 20, 2009
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So it's nuts and sugar? :think:
Ohhhh you've ruined it for me, I didn't spot the sweetner. Normally they are listed right at the end but you must need a fair bit of Erythritol so it's further up the list.

  • Ingredients

    Nuts & Seeds (91%) (Coconut (Sulphites), Peanuts (23%), Sunflower Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds, Linseeds, Almonds (4%), Cashews), Erythritol, Coconut Oil, Natural Flavours , Antioxidant (Natural Mixed Tocopherols, Rosemary Extract), Salt



  • And it seems they've pulled the low sugar peanut butter cereal. Back to Aussie made stuff again.
 

Changleen

Paranoid Member
Jan 9, 2004
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Pōneke
Been looking into immigrating to NZ again, as is tradition every four years. Took yer jobs?
Warning: Our newish government are dickfuck neoliberal tosspots who got into power mostly because they pandered to racist morons and other low-information voters who have been harmed by the anal leakage of US culture war bullshit and conspiracy theorists (so thanks for that).
They have proceeded to cancel billions of dollars of in-flight projects and programmes, essentially stamping on the economic brakes in what was otherwise a mild recession and have turned it into an acute economic downturn. They are doing this so they can sell off public services to international corporations, but a good segment of the population haven’t acknowledged this yet. They have fired 7500 public servants, reduced funding for police, teachers, etc, and haven’t lifted a finger as important provincial employers go bust, devastating several rural communities.
Jobs are super hard to get at the moment and housing is still very expensive, although it is starting to come down now.

Edit: The mountain biking is still dope though.
 

Sandwich

Pig my fish!
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May 23, 2002
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borcester rhymes
Warning: Our newish government are dickfuck neoliberal tosspots who got into power mostly because they pandered to racist morons and other low-information voters who have been harmed by the anal leakage of US culture war bullshit and conspiracy theorists (so thanks for that).
We’re number 1!

They have proceeded to cancel billions of dollars of in-flight projects and programmes, essentially stamping on the economic brakes in what was otherwise a mild recession and have turned it into an acute economic downturn. They are doing this so they can sell off public services to international corporations, but a good segment of the population haven’t acknowledged this yet. They have fired 7500 public servants, reduced funding for police, teachers, etc, and haven’t lifted a finger as important provincial employers go bust, devastating several rural communities.
Jobs are super hard to get at the moment and housing is still very expensive, although it is starting to come down now.

Edit: The mountain biking is still dope though.
That’s a page right out of Elon’s book. Bummer
 

Changleen

Paranoid Member
Jan 9, 2004
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More on that from our excellent Bernard Hickey:


NZ slumps deeper into recession as rest-of-world lands softly
New Zealand’s economy is now well into a third year of economic stagnation and recession that is already deeper in per-capita terms than the 2008/09 recession after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Back then, the Key-English Government of 2008-2017 could rightly argue that recession was caused by a drought, the very-global GFC and finance company collapses here, which was why they chose not to deliver tax cuts in their first Budget and instead avoided knee-jerk Government spending cuts.

That National Government was reluctant to repeat the experience of cutting Government spending hard for the poorest in the teeth of a recession, as happened in 1991-1993 because of threatened credit rating downgrades and dangerously-high Government foreign debt and borrowing costs in foreign currency. Then-Finance Minister Ruth Richardson could credibly (although still contested) argue the cuts were needed to keep foreign investors happy and avoid some sort of currency collapse and accelerated blowout in Government interest costs.

There can be no such justification now. New Zealand’s Government debt-to-GDP ratio is less than two-thirds its peak levels of 1991 and the interest costs are less than a quarter of their levels back in 1991, relative to GDP.

Where is the crisis?
The austerity has only just begun, as Treasury’s Chief Economic Adviser Dominick Stephens pointed out in a speech in late September, which included this chart.

From speech by Dominick Stephens.
“The Treasury’s latest forecasts assume that most of the return to surplus will be driven by declines in per capita government consumption. The implied speed and size of this decline is generally unprecedented in recent history in New Zealand. “ Treasury’s Chief Economic Adviser Dominick Stephens
The Government is betting the private sector will step up to replace the $40 billion or so in spending cuts forecast over the next three years, either through foreign investment to buy assets or households taking on extra debt against an even more inflated housing market.

But IMF and other studies show a multiplier effect from Budget cuts that reduces GDP by almost three times more than the Budget cuts, and that the economic effects are worse than improving the Budget position through tax increases, which generate a one to one reduction (rather than a three to one reduction).

“New IMF Fiscal Monitor provides estimates showing that fiscal consolidation measures always reduce output and consumption - cuts in public investment are particularly detrimental. "If taxes are progressive, raising them leads to smaller output losses." Philipp Heimberger, Macroeconomist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies via X

This week’s IMF Fiscal Monitor reportreleased also showed untargeted Government cuts hit the poorest the hardest, and by more proportionally than the cuts themselves.

Meanwhile, other countries with higher debt ratios, including Australia and the US, are not deliberately crunching their economies with unnecessarily harsh budget cuts. They are all running looser fiscal policy with higher levels of public investment.
 

Changleen

Paranoid Member
Jan 9, 2004
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We’re number 1!
I wish America would get on and regulate social media platforms. They are self-evidently causing and/or enabling so much harm on a worldwide scale. Unfortunately the US has massive cultural power and the idiocy you allow for yourselves has a huge spillover effect on the rest of the planet, especially the Anglosphere. It’s a trite but true saying that with great power comes great responsibility. You all need to be *more* responsible than the next country, *more* moral, more humane. Again, unfortunately…
 

Changleen

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Jan 9, 2004
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Been looking into immigrating to NZ again, as is tradition every four years. Took yer jobs?
On this note, there was an item on RNZ this morning saying there are more houses on the market right now than there have been for a decade, and of course our interest rates are finally falling down, and the USD is pretty damn high vs. the NZD too. It’s just the jerbs part that might be tricky for a while.

 
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Sandwich

Pig my fish!
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May 23, 2002
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Yeah, while that’s all neat, I have no idea where the jobs would be. Would love to be on the South Island, but perhaps more likely to have biotech near Auckland. Then again, this is a pipe dream so I can make believe all I want.
 

Sandwich

Pig my fish!
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May 23, 2002
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I mean, I’ve seen positions in Palmerston North, Auckland, Christchurch, and somewhere on the south coast of your South Island that I can’t even find anymore. They’re so spread out.