Posts by andrew llewellyn
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BTW - "Huge" = around 12-13%, about a year ago, anyway.
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. . . why do people think once they've got a state house they're entitled to live there forever? (But that's a whole other subject).
What makes you think more than a tiny fraction do? The turnover rate for State Houses is huge. HUGE! However, the average tenure in a state house is something like 7 years. The vast majority have cleared out, or done a runner long before that, but there are quite a number of tenants who have been in the same state house for more than 60 years.
Typically they're little old ladies whose kids left home in the 1950s, and whose husbands died years ago. HNZC would no doubt, dearly love to rehome thse people, to smaller properties, & free up the larger ones for larger families.
But "evicting" little old ladies isn't a good look - even if it is to more appropriate homes - HNZC knows that's not how it'll hit the papers. It's a lose/lose situation.
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I hear you can get a cream for that nowadays
And preferential treatment in Australian cells!
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Heh heh - don't sugar it up guys, tell it like you see it!
No doubt this is mentioned in one of those links above, but where do the Fay Rich Whites live these days?
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can anyone in this forum say that they did nothing stupid and or illegal at that age?
P & receiving $30k stolen goods? I can say that.
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Surely neither you nor Damien believe people should get what they want?
This reminds me, I heard (Hey, hey it's) Andrew Shaw on the radio the other day, explaining why it's someone else's fault a long time ago that TV programmers shower us with shit each day.
Am I alone in finding him incredibly pompous?
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how many of the folks who pushed those stories up the Herald's hit parade were just getting off on seeing Holmes - and presumably his spoilt rich-bitch daughter - get thoroughly humiliated in public?
I'll punt that that'd be quite a few. I further punt that Dancing with the Stars has worked miracles for Holmes in the eye of the viewing public, and that attempts to sully him through his step daughter could backfire.
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Re: The magic mushrooms... could they have been introduced by pakeha?
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I'm also proud that I could honestly say I didn't actually know who Millie is.
Me neither till yesterday. Is she related to Gilda?
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I wondered how come she is the spitting image of Hine, yet described as "adopted".
But anyway, Holmesie's her step dad. The lovely Hine is her mum.