Sideswiped

After the implosion of an illustrious career in the clenched media industry, I have been shunted into a career pivot. I now work at the dump. And I am love it. Which is why I have been a bit slack on the stack. I am having a stint managing the Tipping Point a reuse shop at the West Auckland dump, saving stuff from landfill and giving our community an affordable retail options. So for Auckland readers, you can bring donations to Tipping Point at Gate A and go shopping Gate B, 50 the Concourse.

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Climate scientists are ‘worthies’ but billionaire are great. The cash will trickle down into your back pocket any day now. This guy is a simpleton, and illiterate when it comes to reading the room. When talking about women, a true wanker and stoker of division has a few boxes to tick to rile up their audience — weight, over emotional-ness, fashion and cooking to belittle. And in his excruciatingly long minute, Mike didn’t disappoint.

There are 156,000 New Zealanders looking for work. I am one of them. There is a fair bit of whakamā around this, especially when you were doing lush things for linear TV and your own long running column. I’d love to be a trad wife but I still need to earn enough coin to pay the struggling Australian banks my Auckland-sized mortgage. But this is not a pity party, I have some work copywriting for a large corporate client, but I need more hours.

Dogshit - very poor quality Bullshit - not true Horseshit - nonsense Apeshit - rambunctious Batshit - insane Chickenshit - coward Ratshit - poor quality No shit - obviously Holy shit - mindfblowing Hot shit - very good Dipshit - dumbass Tough shit - take it or leave it Jack shit - nothing The shit - perfection Husband decided to mark wife’s birthday with an evening out in Blackpool, Lancashire.

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Hey National. This is not second term winning behaviour. It’s fuel for another bra burning. Remember the votes you drained from yourselves with ACT’s Treaty Bill? This will be the same. Soon you will only have middle-aged white blokes and landlords.

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"You have the energy of a tired snail returning home from a funeral" (NZ unparliamentary language, 1963) “You look like a passion fruit that was left in a drawer” (Portuguese) “If you went down a mine, the coal would come up by itself” (Hungarian) “Your family tree is a circle” (German) “You are a potato with the face of a guinea pig” (French) “Visibly homeschooled” Pierre Elliott Trudeau on being called an asshole on the Nixon tapes, “I’ve been called worse things by better people.” “There...

Cost Of Living Crisis Dinner: Treat the whanau to empty calories, delicious emulsifiers and nitrites. Liar, liar coalition on fire: @MusicalChairs14 explains why this ACT ad is bullshit… “The average weighted interest rate on NZ mortgages in October 2023 was 5.61%. It is now around 6.1%. Kiwis with mortgages are currently paying over $436m per week in interest. It was $381m in October 2023.” I don’t know about your hood, but For Sale signs are popping up all around ours.