Posts by Sacha
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singularly nerdily focused on saving for/buying a house, in a way that the previous generation never needed to be
They did, to be fair, it's just that the ratio of average income to average house price was so much lower for them. And there were fewer lifestyle distractions to spend your money on otherwise. But sacrifices were most assuredly made.
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Shakespeare's plays use around 16,000 words
Which I remember reading was twice as much as anyone else at the time - no refs though, and as always I'm expecting correction if that's wrong.
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ODT obliges - and check that headline straight from the press release.
The measures will have the effect of broadly reinstating the tax cuts that National cancelled because of the recession, and funding them from elsewhere.
Elsewhere..
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Photos of adult workplaces should never be shown to small children, lest they are frightened into becoming vagabonds or slackers.
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Doh
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Their children are of little consequence.
Someone has to go down the mines, Paul
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While we're being nostalgic, remember those pre-election "wave goodbye" billboards?
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You don't have to register for GST if you earn below $30k
Optional below 40k
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I believe what's irking people is not a misunderstanding of MMP's tendency to reduce extremes like we saw in the 80s and 90s.
It's more about the hypocrisy of the current bunch's chestbeating proclamations of boldness and ambition compared with their actual dull managerialism and poverty of vision. They could at least be honest about that, but then I guess they might be unsuited for politics.
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the benefits to NEW ZEALAND are negligible
Yes, and it's the stunning lack of ambition in digging up minerals to sell off for cents on the dollar rather than creating high-value export industries for our children's futures that gets me. That's going to drive them overseas at least as much as being unable to buy a house.