Hard News: Some reprehensible bullshit
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$10K doesn't get you much for a bathroom? We renovated our apartment's bathroom for $4,500, took out the old crappy corner shower and put in a shower/bath, it looks sweet as!
With tiled walls too.
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Meanwhile over at the Sunday Star Times on page 3..... [We have Judith]
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"Is this what you people got into journalism for?"
Money and attention? Yes, of course.
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
$10K doesn't get you much for a bathroom?
I was hoping someone would say that. New Zealanders and their renovations - this could be the most contributed to thread in the history of PAS.
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Councillor Brewer should relax – if his friend John Banks gets in next time the blackout curtains and wardrobe will be handy for hiding cheques he doesn’t want to see and dressing for helicopter rides which he won’t remember.
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Anyone who has renovated their own home will know what a $10,000 bathroom looks like, and it don’t look like much.
You go with some jumped up Grey Lynn tiling procedure, you wear the results.
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JC Carter, in reply to
By the comment "we renovated" I assume you did not pay commercial rates for builders (and joiners) and the ever lovely plumbers at 30-50$ per hour. Or did you do the kiwi DIY? 20 years ago I used to price retrofit wet accessible bathrooms for 8-15K - a reasonable proportion of this was<25$ labour.
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Richard Wain, in reply to
Yep commercial rates for everyone. We didn't do the whole bathroom - like I said, the shower/bath
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
By the comment “we renovated” I assume you did not pay commercial rates for builders (and joiners) and the ever lovely plumbers at 30-50$ per hour.
This comment sounds so many shades of wrong.
FFS. Pick your budget. Go with that. Shop around. Not everyone needs to watch the Bloody Block. Unless of course the human population is bereft of ideas with a need for just one more season. -
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
this could be the most contributed to thread in the history of PAS.
Thanks for that ;) Maybe Len Brown will join in.
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Dirty Politics trainspotters will of course be aware that Brewer is a business partner of Carrick Graham, but may not be aware that Sharon Stewart is also mates with Slater.
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Oh, and also: the reporter Cheryl Howie pursued Bevan Chuang for comment on the story. What did they expect she’d say?
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Oh, and also: the reporter Cheryl Howie ursued Bevan Chuang for comment on the story. What did they expect she’d say?
Is there a Mayoral Election any time soon? I noticed Banks getting Kudos in the Herald over the last couple of weeks. That would explain this smear of Len. The guns have been hired?
I suppose then , a bit of balance in the wings then. -
Anyone who has renovated their own home will know what a $10,000 bathroom looks like, and it don’t look like much.
If you are building a new bathroom in a converted space, with waterproof membranes, redirected plumbing, electrical, tiles, bog, basin etc, and finished to a high standard ( it is a mayoral office )I can tell you now, that 10k is a good price.
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Len Brown might think he's cool but he's not. There are two secret hidden sex doors in the Oval Office, both of which lead to secret hidden sex dungeons where various American presidents have engaged in secret hidden sex, sometimes with each other. Auckland is strictly in the minor league.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
$10K doesn’t get you much for a bathroom? We renovated our apartment’s bathroom for $4,500, took out the old crappy corner shower and put in a shower/bath, it looks sweet as!
No, it really doesn’t if you’re hiring professionals who will go to some effort to make sure the work in fully compliant with all relevant building codes. Now if Auckland City was getting dodgy cowboys to do illegal (and potentially dangerous) work on the cheap and downlow that would be a real scandal, don’t you think?
You know, if I was building myself a “play space”, I think I’d do better than a two-seater couch and a dressing mirror.
Of course you would, Russell. You’d do your homework and quickly grasp the only place for mirrors in a respectable fuck dungeon are on the ceiling, carefully positioned for optimal sightlines from the sling and rack combo (New Zealand made from sustainable materials of course!) You’d even work out some contra deal for all the… bits and pieces, I’d bet.
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Andrew Geddis, in reply to
I was hoping someone would say that. New Zealanders and their renovations - this could be the most contributed to thread in the history of PAS.
Auckland local body politics + outrage at the Herald + home renovations? I'd say Russell has hit the trifecta here ... .
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Sam F, in reply to
If only they'd plumbed in a coffee machine this one might have lasted till Easter :)
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Dylan Reeve, in reply to
There are two secret hidden sex doors in the Oval Office, both of which lead to secret hidden sex dungeons where various American presidents have engaged in secret hidden sex, sometimes with each other.
I bet Obama hides his gay lovers in there.
Len probably doesn't even have any gay lovers. Amateur.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
portal loo...
...secret hidden sex doors
Not just doors then,
but 'sexits', surely?ensuite as....
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Andrew Geddis, in reply to
If only they’d plumbed in a coffee machine this one might have lasted till Easter :)
How about if Len gets advice on how to prepare a leg of lamb for Korean bbq in his hidden $10,000 bathroom? Does that get us past New Year?
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You forgot cycling. We need to cycle the leg of lamb to the hidden renovated bathroom, have a quick short black, and get back to hating on the Herald.
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giovanni tiso, in reply to
and get back to hating on the Herald.
Hating on The Listener is so 2008.
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The mayor’s office will not have blinds like any other office, but “blackout blinds”
And take away the sleazy, nudge-nudge, wink-wink scare quotes any decent home furnishing store should have a wide range of blackout drapery readily available. They're not only great for blocking out light and noise, but the insulation qualities don't do any harm if you're one of those people who has a small panic attack every time the power bill arrives.
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The headline does provide a useful public service, though. It immediately tells you not to bother with the execrable Herald, thereby adding valuable minutes to your summer Sunday. Thanks guys!
Next week's issue: "Mayor's Rubber Revelation!" (a condom machine has been installed in a pub, somewhere on Queen St, a short walk from Brown's office).
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