Sign of the times...

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Signs of the times...


#1 All dry-cleaners: "Satisfaction guaranteed, or your dirt back!"

#2 In a hair-salon window: "Curl up and dye."

#3 In a furniture shop: "Our beds are trained not to climb on your children. Please show the same courtesy."


#4 On a maternity ward door: "Push, push, push

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Fortune didn't favour the brave or smile on him...

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Fortune didn't favour the brave or smile on him...



A Kiwi man from Invercargill in Southland who thought fortune had smiled on him when he found a $2000 ring that had been dropped on the main street, has ended up in the pokey on a charge of theft.



Instead of handing in the ring to the local police, and waiting for the owner to claim it, he decided to get cute and took the ring to the local jewellers for valuing.



However when the ring's owner reported it missing,the police found the man on the store's CCTV footage.



Not a case of fortune favouring the brave, but the naive, I would suggest. I don't know whether he convinced the police,the owner and the jewellery store of his innocence? But it made for an interesting story here.



Fortune didn't favour the brave or smile on.


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Tangaroa - God of the Sea...

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TANGAROA   Tangaroa -   God of the Sea   -   New Zealand and  Rarotonga

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The Kiwi Riverman Post has not published lately due to technical problems...

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The Kiwi Riverman Post has not published lately due to technical problems. My faulty computer probably hasn't helped in that regard. Hopefully this will all be rectified this week.  As they say - normal transmission should resume soon

Hutts Blogesphere to the rescue? Yes Indeed! But there have been a number of New Zealand related posts published at http://anzacbloggersunite.blog.co.nz/ during the last couple of weeks. Why don't you go over there and  have a read?

http://communitybloggersevolve.blog.co.uk  This blog group has also received a boost this week. Another site to visit.

You can join either/ both groups by opening a blog at Blog.co.uk   Would love to read them.

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Getting a new toilet and bathroom...

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Getting a new toilet and bathroom...



First published at Qondio:



Toilet week at Qondio is appropriate for us. We are actually getting a new bathroom with toilet and a walk-in level shower made for us. The bath was taken out and dumped. We are older people and sitting on a chair having a shower will become a reality very soon. Just put in a plastic chair and we will be away...showering.



The downside has been we haven't been able to stay at home until the building and installation has been carried out. We had to move out temporarily until the job has been completed. Cleaning up is easy because the whole floor is waterproofed. Mop and bucket; even a little hose would go well too!



Acknowledgements: Peter Petterson


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Kiwi prison warders prepared for action...

Kiwi prison warders ready for action...


 The equipment is available to prison staff if they suspect violence is imminent. Photo / Mark Mitchell

The Corrections Department has shown off new prison guard safety equipment introduced in all prisons to a parliamentary select committee.



The personal protective equipment includes a bullet-proof vest, a shield, safety boots, knee and arm pads, fire-proof overalls, a baton and a helmet.



Department chief executive Barry Matthews gave the committee a breakdown of the new safety equipment, which has been slowly introduced in the last six months.



"This equipment is not available to the staff all the time. It is accessible by staff when they get an indication of violence that is about to occur."



A pepper spray device used to go in cells without the door having to be opened was also shown.



Mr Matthews said it was still being tested.



Select committee chairwoman Sandra Goudie (National) thanked the department for the display, saying "it is important for us to see what protection correction officers have because of the [Jason Palmer] incident".



American-born prison guard Jason Palmer died last month after being punched by an inmate at Springhill Prison.



He was punched shortly after he and two other prison guards opened the inmate's cell door.



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NZ Men's Health Week starting tomorrow...

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NZ Men's Health Week starting tomorrow





NZ men unhealthy- smoking, obesity, liquor their downfall as Men's Health Week gets under way tomorrow

The poor state of New Zealand men's health is in the spotlight.



Figures just released show nearly a quarter of New Zealand men smoke, more than 50 percent are overweight, and 27 percent indulge in potentially hazardous drinking. Two men die every day from a preventable illness, according to the Men's Health Trust, which is promoting Men's Health Week, launching tomorrow. Spokesman Dr Graeme Washer says New Zealand men see a doctor only a third as often as women do. He says men also lack awareness about health screening for preventable diseases like diabetes and cancer.



On average, men in this country live four years less than women.









Acknowledgements: © 2010 NZCity, NewsTalkZB

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Just heard on our TV news that cheap fish from the polluted Mekong River being sold here in NZ...

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Just heard on our TV news that most of the fish sold in New Zealand for fish and chips comes from Vietnam. It is called Basa. It is a cheap quality catfish grown in the Mekong River - one of the dirtiest and polluted rivers in Asia, and maybe the world.



Unfortunately it is cheap quality budget valued fish that suits a depressed economic market. It has been described as tasteless with almost no smell. Most of our supermarkets are stocking the fish. Many of our fishing boats are tied up because the New Zealand hoki is not being sold in the supermarkets here.



A blind taste test resulted in nearly all of the tasters selecting the hoki. One customer became nauseated and was unwell for three days after eating the so-called Basa fish.



There is really something fishy down here in New Zealand, and it smells too! A bit of corruption perhaps, some graft and backhanders along the line? Much of the fish has been sold without a country of origin sticker. I bet that will change after the publicity on television here - something just fifty years old here too!

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Social network sites - the good, the bad and the ugly - Ning goes premium...

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Social network sites - the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Visited a few, and joined a few. I have decided to visit Netlog a bit more. Ning have announced they are ceasing free membership in a few weeks and starting up a premium service.. Thought about updating, but now have second thoughts. If I forget to pay annual fees, or can't pay I will lose everything in my Ning. I will recirculate my posts to another sites. the pictures there are from my computer in any case.

Joined Sidetick last year. Thought I could make a few bob (bucks to Americans) and became involved and was well on the way to my US$100 payout. Then they dropped a bombshell that foreigners like me would no longer be able to earn money there like north Americans, Aussies, Brits and Israelis. This kiwi boy was as foreign as some rabid North korean.

I went on the offensive, wrote a few posts at Sidetick and on the blogesphere telling the online world what a bunch of a-holes Sidetick really were! They disabled my account. Jeez was I worried? Yeah right! Don't get involved with them  they can't be trusted at all! Even Adsense can be bloody minded too!

Hey readers, why not tell me what sites you have been involved with?

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Kiwi police hunting for Russian computer hacker...

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Kiwi police looking for Russian computer hacker


A Russian computer hacker is selling account details of millions of Facebook users - he may be hiding in New Zealand.

Police are hunting a Russian computer hacker who may have set up shop in New Zealand, selling the account details of millions of Facebook users.



Detectives from the National Cyber Crime Centre are investigating whether the hacker Kirllos is using New Zealand as a base.



He's offering to sell Facebook user names and passwords on an underground hacker forum.








Acknowledgements: © 2010 NZCity, NewsTalkZB

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Can't handle the jandal - no intestinal fortitude...

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Can't handle the jandal - no intestinal fortitude


In New Zealand we have a saying for those who lack a bit of intestinal fortitude - they can't handle the jandal. What on earth is a jandal I might hear you say?



In Aussie lingo jandals are the thongs you wear on your feet at the beach or as part of casual wear. Another name is flip flops.



So I will point the bone at a Blogevolve.com  members who can't handle the jandal and state they weren't real members of BE anyway.



Some blog for money, fair enough, others claim they can't handle the splogs here. The Terminator regularly deletes as much splog as humanly possible.



The excuses of some are what I said they were; a lack of intestinal fortitude, application and an inability to handle the jandal.

Am I really being hard on people? Tell that to the two people struggling to keep the blogsite going! Blog at Blogevolve until the cows come home!

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Give them a pick and shovel and send the bastards down the mines...

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Give them a pick and shovel, and send the bastards down the mines.


Beneficiary bashing express has just pulled in to the station - send them down the mines..The beneficiary bashing express has just pulled into the station. The National Government is right on cue!



Where are all the jobs the beneficiaries are expected to get? The Nats said our welfare sysytem is too generous; they have been overseas to get the latest news from Wisconson I suppose. Welfare looks like it may get rationed. After 12 months they will need to have a good case to get it back again.



Multi-millionaire John Key and former beneficiary Minister Paula Bennett would have to be two of the biggest hypocrites in New Zealand! Wankers would be the most appropriate name for these two hypocrites.



What with the mining debate and all, unemployment can be wiped out out one foul swoop - give them a pickaxe and shovel and send them down the mines!

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