Posts by Kyle Matthews
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In Iceland's case, the crushing debt that the citizens have to repay was incurred by the banking sector.
In an article I read, it was every sector, though they'd incurred debt by moving into the banking sector. The article was quite incredulous about how hundreds of fishermen all owed millions of dollars.
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Whatever happened to that Joseph Kuhtze beer?
I think my dad bought their entire stock. It's quite sad really.
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How about a holographic weta then?
Well if you're going to go digital, you might as well try and have it crawling across the hillside. That would be a cool introduction to Wellington/NZ.
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Argonath gates from Lord of the Rings flanking the cutting
I'm guessing they cost a lot more irl than they do when you make them inside a computer.
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I think the most surreal WINZ story comes from my husband, who is a musician. He was on and off the UB for years but now makes a living from it. At one stage he was being lectured by his case worker about 'whether there was a future for him in music' only to be interrupted by another case worker who recognised my husband and wanted him to write down the chords of one of his songs for him
I was once sitting in the WINZ office, signing up for the dole (having just finished my last exam), when I was phoned on my cell with a job offer. I'm not sure if the case worker quite believed it, but sure enough, I only got the dole for about 5 weeks.
I also found that writing inter-correspontental acknowledgements apologising for delays in acquiring information to be expedient in the case of ongoing negotiations.
Ah see, that's not child support. In child support it's "we have assessed your income, this is how much you pay each fortnight, we have already taken it out of your pay packet". If you try and negotiate its "no it is correct we are not wrong, and even if we are we'll assess that at the end of the year and make an adjustment for you". "All your bases belong to us" ain't got nothing on the child support system.
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Don't worry; I won't give up my day job. :)
Not bad at all.
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I was constantly being sent multiple copies of letters with contradictory messages
Man, you never want to be payer of child support then. I have received three different letters on the same day, all saying "because your circumstances have changed, your child support payments have changed". None of them were actually correct.
I've gotten to the stage now where anything from the child support department of the IRD just goes straight in the filing cabinet. Reading them is just a waste of a couple of minutes.
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much like their insect-collecting brethren pillaging the globe to fill the fine museums of the empire.
I think you need to clarify that it wasn't art until it crossed into Europe's 200 mile zone. "Shit wot people made" up until then.
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This just in
Now your theories on whether the whole thing was just a stunt to get his name out and all over the media, and then withdraw the video and make it a cult 'censored' classic?
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Um, the DIA banned an issue of Critic for objectionable content. No video, no pictures, just text that said the wrong thing.
That was also half meaningless as Critic had been out for some time and was well distributed by the time it got banned. I'm not sure if they took it off their web site.
Most of ya'll crack me the fuck down, but if any older men want to take me aside for some respect lessons them step up or step off and your credentials better be impeccable !
You're like 14 right?