Annual Ronaldo Porn

Bless for the paparrazi, we don't have to wait until after the World Cup for Ronaldo to show his body off in wet bathers.

This year's post-season is so short he hasn't had time to cruise off to LA, so he's hired some bird and boat and taken off for a few days RnR before the big event.

She will be gone post-World Cup and hopefully we will have the infamous wet white ensemble out.

You cannot blame women (and gay men) for enjoying the footballers post-season holidays, more than we do their actual performance on the pitch.

Save The Whale

HoS on Whale



HoS appears to have been reading the sad plight of my mate and the mate of many bloggers, Whaleoil aka Cameron Slater.

Today is probably the most truthful article yet on Whaleoil because it was written with cut and pasted words from his wife and best mate aka Spanish Bride from his blog.

I've only known Cameron for a few years and all the time I have known him has been under the mantra of Whaleoil. Unlike SB, I have not known him as Cameron, before his spiral into depression.

I don't know all the background of his fight with Fidelity and what led up to his depressive state, because I wasn't there. SB was. She remarks that he was a different man before the events leading to his illness. I believe that now totally.

There is no one else I have ever met quite like Cameron as Whaleoil. His behaviour is outrageous. Friends compared notes and said that this is just him. It is not. What makes me astonished though with Fidelity's conduct is that they do not seem to have at any stage lead him to get help. That is medical help and counselling for rehabilitation. It used to be humourous watching Whaleoil be outrageous. It is now not so fun anymore once everyone has worked out he has a genuine problem.

The answer with Doctors has always been to prescribe more bloody pills. Whaleoil is on more pills than patients at mental homes. I know this because unknown to him I checked his dosage on his pillpackets and asked someone I know who works at an actual mental hospital. He is sedated by a cocktail of these pills which leave him tired, moody and disconnected with the world. When I realised his dosage, I knew the seriousness of the black hole he had fallen into. He's tried to come off the pills, that too has had bad consequences.

I hate pills as a solution for depression. They are not and they are over-prescribed. I hate watching all too many friends zombie around on them. They are not real people while sedated under the latest and greatest profit minded cure to make everyone "happy". The underlying problem still remains and I can't see any joy on being reliant on a pill to be happy, or even stable enough to get out of bed. It takes away the human nature of being happy and sad and managing both states.

Whaleoil does not think consequences, SB has highlighted that all too clearly. He will be fine sitting with you in a bar watching you drink (contrary to popular opinion he does not drink regularly and I've only seen him drunk once) then the slightest irritant across the bar and he will be talking about smacking another person's head in. Change the topic and his attention away and he's forgotten five minutes later of even being angry.

While medicated and unassisted emotionally with any form of therapy, he simply cannot work. The easiest question for doubters that he can be integrated into the workforce for a 40 hour week is this: would you want Whaleoil working in your office? Five minutes with him and any HR representative would instantly dismiss his job application. Fidelity's treatment has turned an otherwise creative, intelligent mind into a zombie who now firmly believes he cannot work. At the moment I am on the side of stating that he cannot.

Whaleoil is a great friend because he cares about his friends, but an unreliable one. That is, even the slightest task you know he may not do it on time. As the reliable party in the relationship you have to organise everything around Whaleoil not being able to perform his part. This frustrates him when he realises what has happened.

Insurance companies are not paid to care. I feel however they are paid to follow contracts and assist their clients back into the workforce so they are not made to rely on payouts. There's no doubt in my mind that Cameron Slater as Whaleoil is one of the most clinically depressed people I have ever met. While the original event leading to this depression may have been minor in the scheme of things Fidelity and the medical professionals who treated him from that point in time have failed miserably and created Whaleoil as we all read him today on his blog.

Fidelity created the monster that is Whaleoil. There is no doubt about that after watching him the past few months. Even when Fidelity were still paying him, the posts were written when he wasn't actually getting better. On a few good days, a Whaleoil post can be brilliantly coherent, well-reasoned and rational. On a bad day a Whaleoil post can be the most offensive thing on the internet.

There is only so much that friends and family can do for Whaleoil. The frustrating thing is that no one can wave a magic wand and make him better. It has gone past that and I've seen everyone try. His close family we can see have tried everything. His wife and kids are amazing in the circumstance, their love is unconditional.

Whaleoil needs serious medical attention from medics without a conflict of interest from working for an insurance company or more medics who border on being criminals in my view - the depression script writers. They should be given Oscars for their script writing abilities. He needs a time out, away from the stresses of modern life getting back to basics of routine and normality. But most of all he needs help and therapy to re-connect with himself, his old self. The one that his wife speaks of but most bloggers would never have seen.

Cameron Slater.

Heard that he is a fucking great bloke.

If Fidelity Insurance found that bloke, I'm sure they would have a case closed and not look like the bunch of cunts they will be made to look like when it is disclosed they haven't done a single thing, other than medication, to try and find him.

Links

Keeping Stock
Kiwiblog
Roarprawn 1
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Go To Your Room

More PC nonsense from people who have never had half-decent parents.

As a child, I was sent to my room on a regular basis for various breaches of the unwritten parental code. So regularly that I had to develop a coping strategy for the parental "time out".

I did and it was reading. Everything.

Being sent to my room meant that I had uninterrupted silent periods that could not be filled with anything other than sleeping, or doing more homework which meant more reading.

The net result was that I was the best reader at my primary school, years ahead in reading age to other children. I read out every book that my mother would bring home so she'd have to go back to the library for more. She was a little dim not to realise that I actually enjoyed being sent to my room, well perhaps she wasn't and realised from being a primary school teacher that my reading was getting more advanced than it ever would otherwise, so developed more stupid reasons to send me to my room.

So now the PC twits are suggesting that locking your kids in the room is bad for them? I deny such PC nonsense vehemently. I didn't need to be physically locked in the room because once I had worked out that being in my room need not be a sentence, but enjoyable, the last place I wanted to be was out in the living room with shitty parents volatile enough probably at that point to belt the crap out of you with that polythene pipe.

I took the safe haven of the room every time.

Sue Bradford, you know the woman who is known to have created such balanced genius offspring from her parental methods, has got her knickers in a knot again.

Well Sue if your kids had spent more time in their rooms disciplined with solid study time surrounded by a rich library of books then perhaps you would have seen a better result than you have.

Being sent to your room is preferable than being smacked as a child. While I support the anti-smacking legislation on the basis that parents are generally too dumb in NZ to know what is a "smack" and an outright belting, I draw the line at concluding being sent to your room, or even locked in it is child abuse or abusive behaviour especially if surrounded solely by a rich collection of child and teenage literature.

Did We Really Vote For This?

Maori support required to fill in a passport form?

Yes, welcome to New Zealand 2010 where the Department of Internal Affairs has rolled over on its yellow belly and APOLOGISED to a random silly first name syndromed Maori for:

"failing to deliver services contingent to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi".

You have to be fucking joking?

How about the DIA apologise for not reading the USA issued rules last year where through the NZ consulate in LA they issued a temporary passport to get me out of the USA, told me I could travel back and forward through the USA for the remainder of the trip then I read up on the internet that while overseas I could not get back to the USA without a full passport? Forcing me to sit on the beach in the Caribbean another 10 days while a full passport arrived from London.

That cost a hell of a lot more to me personally than it did some random silly Maori claiming the Treaty principles were not adhered to in filling out a passport form for not a child, but a 19 year old.

Back to the random Maori.

Hello what was Mummy doing with a 19 year old in the first place? Can't he fill in his own form?

Tell me what possible assistance a middle class Maori would require to fill in a bloody passport form for a 19 year old? The passport form is available in both English and Maori and if the woman was smart enough to know about and read the Treaty Principles on the wall she was smart enough to fill in the damn form in English or Maori. She's got a post graduate diploma in Business according to this website and this one.

For God's sake the website is even in Maori. The pandering to Maori interests is an A+ already.

The only possible reason I can think of is that the form requests information about a deceased relative of the 19 year old such as a next of kin. Even then the process is very simple, you follow the form and provide a death certificate or reason in the application. I am sure hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders have managed quite adequately in doing so before Rowyne Peters arrived on the scene. There would be nothing special about her or Maori over the same situation for an Asian or European with a deceased relative. I've certified photographs before for people who have just had a relative die.

Even more of a disgrace was the pandering to this silly cow by attending a hui in the Maori suburb of Epsom and promising to send staff to the Marae for extra tuition in sympathising to Maori while filling in a State form for a passport.

Can someone put in an Official Information Request to find out precisely how much it has cost the taxpayer to pander to this insipid woman who seems to specialise in special interest Maori pushing agendas all over town?

New Zealand voted out such idiotic political correctness at the last election. The new regime seems to be getting an F for fail for ridding us of this sort of nonsense.

Dedication To Housewife Types

Base mixed and pressed in

Dramatic hand action shot showing superior wrist strength and agility. Note rubber gloves provided for excellent food hygiene.

Mixing bowls of ingredients prepared



And the final product - mango and raspberry topped cheesecake!

It is no secret that I am no fan of housewives and their passionate desire to make housework look as difficult as possible in order to lord their importance over a man's life confusing him that he needs a woman to survive.

When the opportunity arises I of course take every available opportunity to rub their noses in it. Tonight was no exception.

The residences in which I live has events designed to let you meet some of your neighbours. Last month they advertised a cake making and decorating class. So I put my name down and went tonight. The worst that could happen was I would meet some blokes hoping for exactly the same thing - a hook up joint for members of the opposite sexes.

So Busted Blonde - f**k you for belittling me and bet you can't make a cake like this. My staff will taste test it tomorrow because the wonderous thing about baking - by the end I saw just how much sugar, milk and cream is actually in the small cheesecake and decided it best I didn't Pork Chop it and have my cake and eat it too.

Those of you on my Facebook page can see step by step pictures with the final product.

Thing about cooking and baking is this. It is easy and every female brought up in a family unit knows how to do it because we watch our mothers and grandmothers do it. So easy in fact that the dimmest of women can actually achieve it reasonably well as all it requires is an ability to following numbered instructions performing repetitious tasks. This being the case, it is not a matter of not being able to bake or cook - it is just a matter of every night having better things to do with one's time.

The "M" Word

A loyal reader has sent in these emails that make hilarious reading into the inner workings of the "M"aori Party. My underlining is included.

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All they seem to care about at present is the "M" word and how many times they can insert it into Bills. So let us start a competition to read through Bills and count how many times the "M" word comes up. When drafting it will be good to get the Maori Party onside to keep name dropping the "M" word.

It seems Hone isn't that happy with the research unit and their quest for a bit of substance over style and Aunt Tari, gives Hone a slap about it after Hone accuses one of writing like a Labour, Green Party or Socialist Workers analyst.

I would also like the writer to expand upon the comment "the credit industry is an important element in stimulating (unsustainable) economic growth regardless of the probability of low-income earners worsening their financial position. Would the writer like a law passed to make extending credit illegal for Maori and other low income groups? Not a bad idea as it would cut down on unnecessary TV's, Sky TV and new consumables immediately. Wouldn't the "M" electorate leave the "M" Party in droves?

The "M" Party wants to take away our credit and live within our means!

Thing is as we know the Maori Party are trying to assist in legislation that is meant to prevent stupidity - people getting into debt that they cannot pay the interest on. As we all know, you cannot legislate and should not legislate against stupidity. This Bill is a stupid attempt to legislate against people acting stupidly and all Hone cares about is how many times the "M" word is inserted.

Today David Garrett's Three Strikes passed into law. This new law is just waiting for its first victim to present ACT with a poster child crim for their campaign at the next election. Statistically the odds are in favour of this crim being male and Maori.

The Maori Party did not support the Three Strikes law. Hone claimed the race card that Maori put themselves into jail after breaking the law in such large numbers.

Mr Harawira said there was systemic bias "and outright bloody racism" against Maori in respect of arrests, charges, convictions and jail sentences.

Perhaps though all Garrett needed to do was insert the "M" word in a dozen times and under Hone's crusade, it was a sitter to be supported.

Carter Knee Deep In Manure

"Smile and Wave" Key has at a recent press conference shut down all discussion on the Crafar farm sale. While mentioning he had spoken to David "Brown Envelope" Carter over the Minister's comments regarding the potential success of the UBNZ/Natural Dairy OIO application, SAW then did his best not to add to the issue. Carter is now a firm no comment.

It is quite clear that SAW knows and respects the process of the OIO by his lack of comment, but the issue is - does his Minister in stating the sale was "unlikely to go through"?

While FIGJAM Power and Maurice "Tigger" Williamson will decide the outcome of the application in all likelihood, have Brown Envelope's comments now thrown the whole thing into disarray where they have to accept if conditions are met else face a claim of collusion, pre-determination and damages that the poor taxpayer will have to fork out for?

Throwing a spanner in the works is that rumours are now out that Landcorp went to KordaMentha last week and put an offer on the table for the Crafar farms. At that stage KordaMentha had already signed the conditional deal with UBNZ for the farms based on the outcome of the OIO approval. The Landcorp offer seems to be at a lower price.

And here is where the issues with private vs public ownership in a market coming into play and why government shouldn't intervene through a publicly owned business in private business where it also is a regulator. The OIO process, for the good of New Zealand's reputation, cannot be corrupted in any way, but how bad would it look now if the OIO approval is turned down for any reason other than lack of capital, by Ministers FIGJAM and Tigger, and Landcorp end up owning the farms? That Transparency International rating for least corrupt country would be given a fair nudge. This sort of play is precisely what the Chinese gone past are accused of running in their own country. And we know how that looks and how it would affect New Zealanders trying to trade in China under free trade agreements.

And if Landcorp have actually bid to buy the Crafar farms, will farmers now be able to scream "yellow peril" every time they want to sell land and have Landcorp buy it? If not then why not? Trevor Mallard on Red Alert has already suggested Landcorp buy the farms . Has the SOE listened to Labour?

The issue remains that here are some Chinese players, actually trying to play by the rules and process to gain OIO approval, now having a Minister and a Senior one at that, comment about the likelihood of success of their application. A Minister through his role as Minister of Agriculture close to Landcorp and Fonterra.

I doubt SAW or his Cabinet knew about the Landcorp bid, but can the same thing be said about Carter?

The Chinese are now incensed by the matter, putting out very strong comment for a culture that usually has a "wait and see" approach to business deals.

So question for the day and homework for the MSM, is the rumour true and have Landcorp bid for the Crafar farms and now wait in the wings?

The Real Blog of the Year Competition

Looks like some competition has arisen for the Qantas Awards;
Air New Zealand Best Blog Award

Budget Post

I will be unavailable for Budget Day coverage due to travel commitments. Thankfully as my blood pressure doesn't need the simmering.

The best post I've seen thus far is a break-down from Gooner on what the tax cuts will mean for him. It's not a nice picture.

While the higher income earners (earning 200+k a year) will no doubt be reaping in thousands of dollars of tax cuts, the majority of National voters are in the middle income categories, people with demographic profiles as Gooner. A reasonably young bloke with wife and kids who has a professional job. Gooner is reasonably moderate so isn't a "prick" and I don't think would qualify by any reasonable reckoning as being "rich".

Smile and Wave wasn't elected to increase taxes. If case studies show in effect he has for the majority of his electorate then he will hear about it.

Reducing taxes for those few earning 200k at the expense of those in the 70-150k bracket may hit National rather hard.

Lets wait and see but I don't hold out much hope for any radical changes that are so needed.

So far it smells like the left hand robbing the right hand and dropping crumbs on the way.

Budget 2010: The tax cut that you only get to smile and wave at as it drives on by.

Labour on Right Track

Clare Curran has written an excellent post asking Smile and Wave and the Dipstick from Dipton to explain New Zealand's slide in competitiveness from 15th to 20th out of 58 countries.

Smile and Wave and Dipstick are accountable.

The issue for Clare is that if you click on the link the top two countries in this world competitiveness scoreboard are Hong Kong and Singapore. Be careful what you wish for when quoting random surveys.

So I agree with Clare, why can't New Zealand adopt the economic policies of Hong Kong and Singapore to improve it's ranking to the top 2? The role models for competitiveness.

Why can’t NZ be much higher in rankings where the top two countries are low tax, low spending, small governments that recognise that you can’t vote yourself an income in a civilised society?

Tomorrow's shuffle of tax cuts with tax increases, taking from the right hand and giving to the left will do nothing to increase this ranking.

Labour should demand Hong Kong and Singapore's tax policies are immediately adopted. Business tax slashed in half as well as the top tax rate to a flat tax rate of 16%.

Justice Is Blonde

This is Lauryn Eagle

Eagle, 22, was convicted in Sutherland Local Court in April of driving while suspended and giving a false name to police.

She had been pulled over by police on December 14, 2009, 10 days after her licence had been suspended by the Roads and Traffic Authority.

Today The Miss Universe candidate was let off:

The judge said at the time of the offences Eagle had been suffering "the emotional effects following the death of her father (21 months before)".

He noted her career had been affected by the conviction.

"The court has come to the conclusion that the appellant has received sufficient punishment in all the circumstances for the offences," the judge said.

Lets face it what were the odds that a woman who looks this amazing in a swimsuit, was ever going to have a conviction recorded by a good old blokey appeals Judge in Australia?

Very lucky she didn't get a female Judge!

No Nikki NO!!!

First it was this Pinko at Grandpa Holmes' party.

Now Nikki Kaye's lining up next to this waste of space.

Alert for Michelle Boag......where are you Michelle.......calling Michelle.....come in Michelle.

Photos courtesy of The A List and Norrie

Qantas Media Awards - Blog of the Year FAIL

Judges in the Qantas blog of the year cannot read the notes on their own form or the website itself.

New Zealand has a strong community of independent bloggers designed to keep MSM bastards honest because that is what blogging is all about. So let us do just that.

Here was the entry form for Blog of the Year where in the notes it states:

The judges will seek to recognise how content generated by the website’s community of readers is incorporated into coverage of a story or particular subject. Examples could include reader generated comment, photographs, news tips etc.

Entry Form Best Blog(5)

But the sitter of the argument is that The Blog of the Year was posted in the Website section that has a list of sub-categories with Blog of the Year. Here it is reproduced, in bold so the Judges can see it in the left hand column:

Websites

Open to all websites primarily dedicated to reporting news or views on news.

In other words - moving away from blogs that were finalists and won last year - Fairfax sponsored fluff that had one senior reporter say to me "after seeing that I went to the toilet and found a roll of paper saying "Qantas awards, please take one"".

Any Blog of the Year in New Zealand that does not have the Manatee as a finalist for his work on Kiwiblog or even Bernard Hickey's blog interest.co.nz after his demolishing the Crafar's, isn't universal and lends no credibility to itself. I suffice to say it pains me to say that I would rather Public Address won the award than two blogs on newsworthy moments such as changing nappies and parenting. One that ended 2 months before the year was up written by a Dom Post repeater and the other by a mother of 2 children that is not a blog, but an online column. Neither of these blogs were "primarily dedicated to reporting news or views on news". They should be disqualified forthwith for not meeting the required criteria.

The third entrant is the only real blogger in the true definition of the word and I can't see much in the way of news or views on news on his site, least of all the four samples of work he said today that he offered up.

Notwithstanding, out of the three lets hope he wins.

But really when the mainstream media cannot even Judge an award by their own criteria and rules, you've got to ask - how can they be trusted to repeat correctly?

Lets out the flunkies that judged this award. Come forth and identify yourselves.

Whaleoil has a slightly less analytical take on the matter here.

Hong Kong Votes Down Universal Suffrage

I was very proud of Hong Kongers over the weekend.

Just 15.8% turned out to vote in by-elections that are being viewed as a referendum on Universal Suffrage. Well I think. The whole thing is going on in Cantonese and with my inferior Cantonese, I haven't really a clue what the politics behind it are other than a few words and what I read in the SCMP.

Five dimwits forced the by-election and turned it into a referendum by opposing the wondrous "functional constituencies". As I have explained it is these seats that keep business in control of Hong Kong by giving business and businesspeople another vote.

Anyway Hong Kongers voted with their feet and gave no real mandate for anything. The Chinese aren't in a hurry to vote, and when people don't vote we know they don't care for change.

Sunday Impertinent Question

What were Murray McCully and Don Brash chomping at each other over at Soul this Sunday afternoon?

Seems things got a tad heated from Brash towards McCully at one point the good Doctor put on a good show of hands waving in agitation at McCully. They both departed in separate directions.

Now boys it's one thing to have a prayer session, another thing to have it at Soul. But in the interests of stability we do have to ask - why at Soul in front of a clientele who know too well who you both are?

Maori Get Prissy

Good on Maori for wanting a slice of the World Cup pie by offering accommodation for tourists renting out marae.

A New Zealand Experience product manager David Tanenui said some marae will offer a "five-star" option while others will be communal backpacker-style lodgings.

Some Maori are getting a tad prissy about what they have to offer however:

Ngarimu Blair, a trustee of Ngati Whatua o Orakei in Auckland, confirmed they had been approached about hosting visitors during the tournament. He said: "If we did, we would only offer it to high-end market and families. I couldn't see us opening our marae to the Barmy Army to come and spew all over our sacred carvings.

Those Barmy Army style travellers are precisely your target market. I cannot imagine a young family happy to pay $200 a night per person to sleep on the floor with others and leave their shoes outside, using communal services. Barmy Army travellers also are high-end in the sense of what they spend. The rugby supporters are generally high earning professionals tacked on with lower incomed reasonably well behaved mates who when they travel, do so as a pack. If they can't get a hotel, then a marae where they can do all their communal blokey team-bonding stuff is precisely what they may want.

The "high end" market will be staying in hotels. The hotels run the risk of any visitor spewing on their artwork as well. Which is why they have security and supervision of these areas.

Marae are what they are - in effect large garages with often old, musty mattresses placed in close proximity to each other. Staying on a marae requires a lack of freedom as each marae has rules and protocol for staying on them.

To explain it as 5 star lodgings will only lead to complaints from visitors.

So It's Her Debt As Well?

Hotchin reads "How to Make Friends and Influence People"

Jonathan Marshall has been on junket to Hawaii to catch the Hotchin's at play. He probably paid for the trip on this quote from Queen Amanda Hotchin:

We don't have to justify where we get our money or what it's spent on, to anyone," was all she had to say.

Told that many Hanover investors were furious with her husband's displays of wealth, and the no-expense-spared holiday in the Hawaii sun, she said: "I don't care what anyone says." She then threatened to call local police.

This from a woman dripping with jewels who socialised her way right through the Hanover issues.

I don't particularly have an issue with Mr Hotchin's behaviour as he fronted investors at meetings to explain his failings. The failings themselves are being investigated by various authorities presently and any charges are then his issue.

I do though have an issue with a wife using the royal "we" in this situation. Is she willing to front over the debt? Is half his debts, really hers? I will blog shortly about a case where a woman has received a matrimonial property payment before her husband went bust. Surely creditors should be allowed to claw back the debt through her ill-gotten gains given her payments are sourced from the past and often an estimate of future earnings of the husband?

The only difference between Queen Amanda and a wife who along with their husband has lost their life savings in Hanover is the man they married.

Queen Amanda would have been better, as all wives are in this circumstance of a husband involved in business dealings gone sour, to stay low-key, STFU and not say a thing. What she did say was both stupid and highly insensitive to people who have lost money. Lord knows why they were stupid enough to go on the holiday in the first place knowing it would get out at some point.

After flying business class to Hawaii announcing a heir to their misfortune's birthday over the PA system and staying in a rented property that costs $43,000 a month. Well and of course the ultimate accessory for the thin and rich who want to stay thin and rich, flying over the personal trainer.

I can understand why Hanover investors, regardless of how foolish they may or may not have been, would be a little pissed off this morning.

Mistressology (ck)

Ms Kala Elliott has issues. She's threatened Busted Blonde for posting a short post and using the heading "Mistressology"



Apparently she's gone to the bother of registering the silly words as a trademark (only in the UK) but then forgot the golden rule of legal threats.

You pay your lawyer to deliver them.

If you threaten others legally without lawyers letterhead it means one thing:

You are a broken arse who won't pay the 3-400 quid an hour a lawyer would charge to send such a threat.

MISTRESSOLOGY
Mistressology
mistressology

Application for a series of three marks.

Class 25
Clothing, footwear, headgear.

Class 41
Education and training services; lifestyle counselling and consultancy [training].

Headgear would describe what Kala will need dealing with Busted Blonde. Who Whale correctly describes as a "large Maori woman who takes two months off every year to go catch mutton birds and kill them by crunching their heads between her teeth". I will add the words "cunning and entertaining" in there somewhere.

The first rule of Mistressology Kala really is to choose your target well. You don't pick on women who when they are alerted to your existence will chew your head off and spit it out into a large bowl of soup and feed it to the homeless.

And We Thought Dr Cullen Was Bad....

This is the US Attorney General Eric Himpton Holder Jr.

He has opened his mouth and criticised Arizona's new immigration law. He's said it is unconstitutional and actively joined public debate leading to a massive over-reaction in what the law will actually mean inciting minorities to protest.

Yet he hasn't even read the 10 pages. Which makes you wonder how many of those opposing it actually have?

ERIC HOLDER, ATTORNEY GENERAL: I have not had a chance to, I've glanced at it. I have not read it.

POE: It's ten pages. It's a lot shorter than the healthcare bill which was 2,000 pages long. I'll give you my copy of it if you would like to have a copy. Even though you haven't read the law, do you have an opinion as to whether it's Constitutional?

HOLDER: I have not really, I have not been briefed yet.

Any decent Leader would sack their employee for such careless stupidity and blatant laziness. But Obama is in charge, this dope will probably get invited around for a drinking session at The White House.

OECD - Organisation for Economic Catastrophic Disaster?

The OECD has a new meaning - Organisation for Economic Catastrophic Disaster

They list objectives as:

• Support sustainable economic growth
• Boost employment
• Raise living standards
• Maintain financial stability
• Assist other countries' economic development
• Contribute to growth in world trade

So how is it going chaps?

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.

I am sick of the OECD. I am sick of their collective lording over the world. I am sick of banks and financial institutions and money laundering laws being referred to in comparison to these countries. A bureaucracy of 320 million Euros a year and a staggering 2,500 staff.

I am sick of statistics showing New Zealand is third or fifth or last in the OECD. I mean who cares? What do these people do all day? Sit at computers entering data giving ranks to OECD countries. That seems to be about it.

The OECD excludes low tax, low welfare states: Hong Kong and Singapore . It excludes the soon to be number 1 economy in the world, China. It excludes Brazil, India, Indonesia and Russia. It excludes many of the Islands I travel to.

The hypocrisy of the OECD is the US and Euro are in the crapper, Greece is greasy, it is easier for a terrorist to open a bank account in downtown New York than it is for someone with a clean due diligence record to open a bank account in a non-OECD country. Customer due diligence for financial services required in non-OECD countries is measurably higher than in OECD countries even when the client is from an OECD country.

"The OECD for a stronger, cleaner, fairer world economy"?

The worst thing about the OECD is it is headquartered in France. This should cast natural suspicion over the motives and objectives of the organisation.

I am no longer interested in statistics about the OECD. It is a dying Old Boys club that should no longer be aspired to join and co-operate with. Asian economies are the way of the future and the Froggies will try as long as possible to exclude them on the grounds that their low welfare, low taxation policies may just be infectious.

Tiger Needs His Balm

Tiger Woods has shown some of his worse form since entering sex addiction therapy and attempting to reconcile (unsuccessfully to date) with his wife.

There is nothing wrong with Tiger. Nothing that can't be solved by winning golf tournaments again.

Tiger Woods needs rooting. He is at his best when he is travelling, prowling and on the high he needs to play good golf.

I say stuff the sex addiction therapy and Nike and his remaining sponsors need to encourage Tiger to go back to rooting anything that moves. The wife is leaving in any case, so what on earth is he doing bothering with "getting his life back together"? His life was good golf. The only thing missing in his life right now is trophies.

Vegas hookers and Major titles.

Lisa Lewis Getting It On The Arse

Needle that it.

Lisa Lewis is running a series of Lisa on Life You Tube's ranging from cooking, milking cows to duck shooting. If it's good enough for Matthew Ridge to have his own show with Marc Ellis, I say it is good enough for Lisa.

I just had to point to this one of Lisa getting her bum jabbed with extreme close ups.

Speechless as it is priceless reality TV viewing for its simple rawness.

Bet Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year 2010, Cathy Quinn couldn't pull this off.

Story of Week

Runaway hides in the hood.

Chinese boy Chunji Gao runs away to join a Polynesian family who adopt him for three weeks.

The story is great as it shows a complete clash of cultures with authority.

The Polynesian family who adopted him did so without calling the Police or attempting to find out where he came from or that he was missing. They either a) mistrust the Police so much they won't even call them, b) couldn't be bothered as they liked "Bob" and decided to keep him.

"They provided him with clothing and food and he is learning to eat taro," Mr Meale said.

"He is very, very happy in this house. They all refer to him at the house as 'Bob' because he told them his name was Bob."

His father was relieved his son had been found, but the boy wanted to stay with the Polynesian family.

"Bob" now wants to stay with his Polynesian family. And quite rightly so, his father will be wanting to give him a hiding back home that he will remember for a long time. Worse still in the Chinese culture to runaway, than to swap families let alone an Island family who will be seen to be poorer than the immigrant Chinese one.

"Bob" just wanted to be liked. His new family are showing him all sorts of new experiences and he's more than likely being protected from the sort of teasing that probably caused him to run out of his own community. "Bob" should opt for a student exchange. Living in Botany can't be easy.

Wasn't there a Bro'town episode similar to this? Wong and White?

Can't Legislate Against (Teenage) Stupidity

Tragic but avoidable.

Poor Smile and Wave. A kid dies at Kings College, little Max's school, and he's now getting mad parents in effect asking him to do their collective job for them of looking after their children and children of their friends:

Dr Abercrombie told the Herald she had a teenage son at King's and was aware of the pressures he faced at school.

"His mates drink and he's 13. They drink seven shots in half an hour of neat vodka. And they drink until they vomit, and that actually probably saves their lives sometimes.

Hello? Seven shots in half an hour at 13? I've got twenty years on them and there's no way I could handle that neat in addition no doubt to other drinks! There is also no way I would let a kid that young go near alcohol. Especially vodka. Vodka is not beer.

That these parents can claim to know how much the children are drinking perhaps tells them the answer - if they can't control or enforce with their kids then how the hell is Smile and Wave and his MP's going to?

James Webster's death couldn't be legislated to prevent. He stole a bottle of vodka from Grandma's cabinet. All photos of him show him as a baby-faced waif in size.

Raising ages and prices of alcohol won't prevent a death like this. He didn't buy the alcohol and it wasn't supplied to him. Adults actually watched him until he went to sleep from all reports so he must have swallowed his own vomit or has one of those conditions that people have such as a dicky ticker that means they die in this state (ie. the little guy from Boyzone). Blaming Smile and Wave for it or thinking he can prevent it is stupid.

The Websters were on television tonight. It was media gold for the television networks as tears welled in the millions of viewers eyes. What came of the interview was that it was pretty clear that the parents were not big drinkers if at all, which leads me to ask, are children more equipped to handle alcohol with parents who drink a lot and are social animals? The parents didn't blame anyone else for what their kid did but the clincher for me was this:

"An hour later he was found in the toilet inside unconscious. One of his mates went and got an adult who carried him out. The adult, I believe, placed him in the recovery position on the grass."

You placed a comatosed teenager in the recovery position - ON THE GRASS and left him!! This must be the largest adult FAIL recorded this year. The Webster's didn't blame this "adult", but I will. If he's that drunk he should be in an ambulance and taken to hospital, or under constant supervision, not left like a dog outside on the grass.

The Webster's didn't look like the sort of parents who would leave another parent's kid out on the grass. Mrs Webster looks like the sort of nice caring lady who would call the boy's parents and sit with him until they got there and if there was any trouble, call an ambulance.

Sadly it was James' fault he got into that state but he is 16. There's a reason 16 year olds don't vote. They do dumb shit like this. They aren't adults and don't necessarily know to call ambulances, least be they don't want a dressing down from their parents for being caught out at A & E. They are still kids. This one looked even younger than 16, there's no way he could be mistaken for being older.

Such responsibility for these silly teenagers is with not only parents as lets face it, children don't get pissed in front of their parents that often so the responsibility is with ADULTS. It is the reason I hate drinking with young people. I always have the overriding sense of duty to ensure they don't come to grief, which cuts into my own enjoyment. You can see it happening, telegraph an idiot, to the minute I can usually spot an incoming spew or a passing out. You can see it, because you've done it yourself.

99999 times out of 100000 kids get away with being stupid. Most of us have done dumb shit and been saved in similar situations by adults who know better. Adults who at least take you inside, sit you upwards and give you a bucket before a slap. I didn't learn how to drink from my parents as they don't have the first clue how to drink. I had to learn from other adults and luckily I found good ones to learn from.

James was the unlucky one who paid the ultimate price for having a stupid adult leaving him on the grass.

On the plus side, his female friend Jamie on Close Up tonight was a star. Very composed and well spoken in memory of her mate. Sainsbury milked the cash cow on that one.

On the downside there has been some rather revolting commentary about the family and from other children.

Kids will always do this sort of dumb stuff and they will do it away from their parents. Sadly it is the responsibility of other adults to sort it. If you don't wish to do that, then stay away from young people at parties or when they are drinking because if you are there I am afraid you have that responsibility because you are older and should know better.

How To........Bitch out your Ex's Missus.....

With some class

Deborah Coddington (former MP) has a full frontal clawing of former BFF, Catherine (Judd) Isaac (former ACT Party President and now Ex's Missus). Steps followed:

- Bitch out Paula Bennett.
- Announce the Welfare Working Group (surely an oxymoron);
- Link to Business Roundtable to immediately stain it;
- State Ex's Missus is there "merely to write the press releases";
- Accuse Ex's Missus of not having enough brains to do her own work "But Kerr omitted to add he is now the husband of Catherine Isaac. Innocent oversight - maybe, or an assertion that spouses don't influence each other? Many would find the latter disingenuous".

Now having Judd/Isaac on the Group I think is a fabulous development. She must surely be the most elegant looking woman on a Saturday morning at a political conference in well perhaps ..... the world. Wearing a red dress to an ACT conference was a statement in elegance, worn graciously with adoring bloke hanging off her lithe forearm at every movement. It was duly noted for its sheer awesomeness. As I must add, were Coddington's appearances elegantly dressed to ACT conferences.

The WWG (or as Deborah Coddington may now term it "WAG") is meant to look into long-term welfare dependence, identify causes and solutions. Well one of the sinkers to dependency is personal presentation. Judd/Isaac could write a paper herself on looking like a fabulous clothes horse seven days a week.

ACT's spotty teenagers all report that indeed Kerr wrote Coddington's speeches when she was an MP. I don't believe them for a minute given Coddington is literate enough to write professionally. If so, why would Coddington believe that somehow Judd/Isaac cannot operate independently from Kerr in this appointment?

Judd/Isaac is no better or worse qualified for this sort of appointment than pretty much every other appointment. Who she is married to should not matter because there for the grace of God would Coddington herself have gone. Coddington should know better than to have a sling for these reasons, given she has often being maligned herself for being just a pair of legs on a ticket or being Mrs Carruthers. I have no doubt Judd/Isaac can indeed write her own press releases and shock horror, form her own opinions on welfare.

That they may match Roger Kerr's and his views are right wing only makes sense. He ran around with a political centre-wet before, and won't make the same mistake again. Who do you expect Kerr to be hitched to? A Pinko? He would be eliminated forthwith from Head of the VRWC.

But in the end, Coddington shows some graceful feet of her own and saves us the gasping with her own piss-taking disclosure:

Since I'm arguing they should make full disclosure, I will too: readers with elephantine memories may recall I was the subject of some fleeting headlines involving Kerr, Judd and chases across Parliament grounds in 2004.

Both have the same issues as women in relation to how they are treated based on their looks (over what they are actually saying) and who they are married to so they should learn to play nicer.

Poorly Hung Parliaments

Redesigning Democracy

Britain's election overnight is the best example of how centre-right wing governments can no longer rule in world politics where it matters.

It is not because there is a purposive shift to the left itself, but because there has been such a shift to welfarism and with it middle class welfare that there are so few net taxpayers that beneficiaries are now voting themselves an income.

This has to stop and soon. The left has caused generational change towards welfarism and it's about time we called them out on it.

Well done to them. They've been cunning and conniving for years selling their sob stories to work magic to this goal and with Britain having the most unpopular regime in living memory in the worst financial times in living memory, Britain still can't get an outright majority to depose the ruling party to govern alone after all these years? Come on!! Critical mass has now been reached. If ever there was a time a Tory government could get an outright majority it would be now and they have not. They have to go to Nick Clegg, who right now is being courted by Gordon Brown and hodge podge parties of the centre, left and "we don't even bloody recognise Parliament".

The Tories should have won by an outright, very strong majority.

The Boston tea party of the 1760's was the first association of the slogan "No taxation without representation". Boston also was the birthplace of the phrase "taxation without representation is tyranny". Well there needs to be a new movement in the evolution of democracy:

"No representation without paying net taxation".

Namby pamnby politics worldwide has seen business and net taxpayers hand over power to the "people". America proved this when electing Obama to reform the country for the "people" with more welfarism and more government spending. But who are the people? And what right do people have to vote themselves an income? And vote in governments who promise to give them more than they contribute to the tax system? What sort of silly system has this become?



It has now got to the position where businesses and taxpayers have given up so much that they have allowed net beneficiaries to control the State. Is this what democracy was meant to end up as? Ironic given the birth place Greece currently faces ruins from this modern day welfarism democracy.

Current day democracy is unsustainable. And I will tell you why.

It is irrational for a human being to give up power. The US invades a country then has to pay billions of dollars to restore it and say sorry. That is irrational. There's no point. Why would you do it? You overpower something to take control of it. Giving it back after all that effort makes it pointless to begin with.

In a playground the big kid doesn't have to take nonsense from a small kid. If the small kid hits him he whacks him harder. Why in life is it different? Parents tell children how to behave and what to do. Does a parent hand over that power to a child? No way. Do you buy a house at a mortgagee sale to hand it back to the vendor because he had to sell it? Hell no, you boot him or her out and take over.

Likewise as majority taxpayers, the wealthy and businesses that run a country give up their dominance for this so called "democratic" process. Why? Why would a rational individual count themselves equal in power to someone who doesn't actually contribute to the tax system that finances government?

I am saying that in a true democracy, if you don't actually pay more tax than you take in benefits then you shouldn't vote. Even if you pay just $5,000 in tax, yet receive $4.999 in benefits, you are a net taxpayer and qualify to vote. Take more than the $5,000 and you don't. If you don't contribute to the pie, you shouldn't have a say in who runs and distributes the pie. The ultimate in common sense.

Gordon Brown should have been turfed out by majority. History. Yet Britain voted for Gordon because they rely on Gordon for their income. Britain is now full of bludgers, degenerates born in Britain to those who have defined the "bludge" and immigrants who do not contribute to anything in Britain other than crime statistics and misery. Britain today is not even the Britain I first landed on in 2003. Nowadays Britain is divided by those who contribute regardless how small net way and those who bludge. Britain is no longer Great. Britain is Weak Britain. Dragged down by Europe. Dragged down by playing haven to every degenerate in Europe, the Middle East and Africa who thinks moving to Britain is better than living in their homeland.



David Cameron right now should have a SEG (s**t eating grin) as he sits down dreaming up ways to make the reform that Britain must make to put the Great back into it. He shouldn't be having to call Nick Clegg. He shouldn't have to worry about Gordon Brown cobbling together some stiched up coalition that votes issue by issue to bring the Tory Party to its knees.

New Zealand should now be run by a centre right party. There should be no need to have coalition partners for the ruling Party. No need to bow and scrape to the Maori Party. Or even ACT. National should be National with ACT policies. That's what a poll of net taxpayers would choose as policy and why ACT was formed - to fill the gap in this nancy MMP system. Strip out those who are net beneficiaries in New Zealand and there is nothing like a majority constituency for the left. Nothing to cling to at those musty Union meetings. You would have a majority centre right party, a small Labour party and a Green movement.

You see the centre right worldwide is weak and it's weak because it has given up power on the whim of "popularity". Well it's done sweet jack other than place the net taxpayer in the position it will soon become a minority in the country to which it pays the most to be a participant in. The weak and poor have whinged enough and made us feel guilty enough for us to give them a say in who owns our future. Why? Why did we do it?

It is deeper than MMP or not MMP. We are now talking about for example everyone having one vote or two votes, but some people who contribute to the tax system as a net taxpayer having another vote. Democracy itself has many shapes and forms, why can't we move it towards another?

Similar happens in Singapore or Hong Kong. Business runs Hong Kong because functional constituencies get the vote. It comprises 60 members, with 30 elected directly by geographical constituencies and 30 elected by functional, occupation-based constituencies. Why can't companies effectively vote? They pay more tax than individuals do. Why can't New Zealand professions and business get a vote?

At law in New Zealand a corporate is in most situations deemed to be a "person". Lets extend that definition of a person to voting in a democracy.

No taxation without representation? Where do large taxpaying businesses get a vote on current voting papers? The Unions get a vote and they get guaranteed bums on seats in Parliament. You only have to look at the candidates on a Labour Party ticket. Have a look at the National Party ticket, how many big business people are on that ticket? Not many. If any.

There's nothing anti-democractic about corporate or functional constituency representation as countries are built by corporates and welfare is for the genuinely needy. Welfare is NOT and never has been designed for a family on a combined income of NZ70,000 or in some cases NZ100,000. It's not for an able bodied worker who refuses to look for a job or can't hold down a job. It's not for interest free loans for the best and brightest students who will have the highest paying jobs. It's not for providing inter-generational welfare for those who beat up their kids and women. It's not for racial minorities who feel aggrieved for something that never actually disadvantaged them personally in the first place. That's not what democracy is about.

When democracy was coined, welfare was for the genuinely needy and those in hardship for a temporary time, or for those in permanent hardship for a permanent time. Fair enough as well, I support this kind of welfare by definition. Most fair minded people will. No one can disagree with the intention of welfare from the ghosts of the past.

But the world has changed and democracy is unsustainable in an OECD style welfare state.

Asian countries, China inparticularly does not play by these rules. They view Western democracy as weak as they should with what has happened to mighty countries they once looked up to like the US and Britain. Middle class Chinese can now look right through the skin of a white man and ask pertinent questions as to why money is given to those to not contribute and even more blasphemous, why these people are given a vote to decide the future of the country. They haven't earned it. Why have they handed power to those who do not contribute to it?

Chinese mock the emissions trading system. They mock paying people not to work. They mock harder paying those in work to have more than one child, or a person not in work to have that child.

The Tory party can claim a victory but they can't count. Britain is still ruled by a leftist majority and despite the Tory Party's best efforts the Labour Party (as Gordon Brown will not be around if he is not PM) and more so Nick Clegg now stand as Kingmakers to run Britain further into the ground. To claim power Cameron will have to sell out so much that it won't be worth it. Clegg will be finished if he joins Cameron and cannot gain anything from the relationship that truly represents the more than 20% total vote he managed to capture. If you look at total votes (that are changing all the time after the count), Labour and the Lib Dems together gained more than 50% of them. The Tory's on their own just 37%. That is, if you are looking at a mandate based on votes cast, the largest polling party and the second largest party added with the Lib Dems both make the 50% total vote mandate to govern.

Well done Britain. No longer Great and you will get what you deserve. A government that cannot slash taxes and spending to the level required. A government dependent on counting votes carefully every time it wishes to pass legislation.

Thank God you handed Hong Kong over in 1997. Lord knows where Hong Kong would be now if it caught your disease.

I received recently an email from Peter Shirtcliffe and Graeme Hunt's "Put MMP to the Vote". I deleted it for different reasons than Wussell Brown. I did so on the basis I do not support piss-pot political campaigns so diluted that they are not worth fighting for. Proof evident, that I have never voted National. When I receive an email from Shirtcliffe and Hunt proposing a Hong Kong style functional constituency voting system where they incorporate corporates getting a say in the election of M.P's then they will have my full support.

Letters to the Editor Day II

Hong Kongers spike Mainlanders lack of manners at the World Expo, which answers a reader's question about Hong Kongers attitudes to the Mainland.

And Hong Kong's attitude to carbon emissions. We follow China and not the UN, which will see increased emissions from the pollution capital of itself.

HK adopts mainland carbon target - our emissions will increase.



Bloody awesome.

Why The World Will Be Good When China Runs It

Letters to the Editor Special

I am going to commence a series of educational posts about Letters to the Editor in the South China Morning Post.

The paper seems to have no political bent at all (other than being pro-Beijing) but it sports perhaps the most entertaining and fabulous letters to the editor that a VRWC member can ever possibly view.

Reading the letters will understand why I live in Hong Kong and do not wish to leave any time soon so am working towards gaining a permanent Hong Kong ID card which I should qualify for in February 2012. It is the people and their attitudes I enjoy. They are quite simply - awe inspiring. Every poor person wishes to be rich and doesn't want higher taxes on the wealthy because they wish to be wealthy.

Forget the namby pamby nonsense in the Dom and the Herald, Hong Kongers just let it rip with outcries of capitalist thought, independence and anti-welfarism imaginable.

The people writing these letters remember are not being asked to by political parties (as we don't have any as such as they are all right wing as the VRWC dreams the world to be). They are also not the city's elite and are probably very middle class on very average New Zealand incomes. Remember only a third of the working population in Hong Kong pay any tax at all as the rest do not make the $NZ18,000 a year threshold.

I will take shots on the Blackberry at lunchtime of the worthy letters over the next few weeks. They will warm your heart and soul and give you some comfort that when China takes over the world - it will be a kick arse world to live in.

All and all the Chinese have woken up and realised that democracy in the 2000's breeds rampant welfarism that in turn leads to collapsed financial systems as people vote themselves an income, and a house that they cannot afford. One person, one vote in China and Hong Kong would ruin both places once left wing political parties took hold.

First up - Fuck you IRS, your rules are stupid and chasing down your people is your own problem.

Second - Grit your teeth and work hard, lower taxes.

"From the 1950's to 1970's there was little in the way of welfare payments in Hong Kong. Most people lived in squalid conditions, but nobody complained. .....People just gritted their teeth and worked hard......When it comes to paying tax the lower the better".



There will be more to come. These two above were in today's paper.

Speedo Outgrows His Trunks

Today it was reported that Mark "Speedo" Weldon cashed in his bonus shares.

Or did he?

After initial reports on Stuff and Scoop, the reports were taken down.

Stuff
Scoop

I thought I saw one also on the Herald but their articles don't cache.

I read the reports when they were up and thought there were some factual errors based on my following of NZX over the years, perhaps that was the case.

The NZX ongoing disclosure is here

Looks on the surface happy days all round for the company whose employees including compliance staff are reliant on the stock price increasing. From growth by investments in market activity gained from regulatory activities income.

Before the media goes nuts over Speedo's apparent $NZ11 million windfall, spare a thought for a Hong Kong wage earner who last year earned US73 million and paid US11.7 millon in tax.

Yvonne Law Shing Mo-han of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu believed the top earner had made a lucrative business deal last year for the employer which is a listed company and therefore was awarded handsome bonuses. "The earner may be about to retire and therefore has traded [accumulated] share options when the market regained its strong momentum last year," she said.

Thank God s/he didn't live in NZ or his/her tax bill would have been around US28 million. But paying that much tax here he/she still could have done with some structuring advice as to how to minimalise it!

The questions to be asked when Speedo cashes up are much tax did he pay? And whether after such a windfall he can be bothered renewing his contract considering the only way really is down? Oh and the rumours swirling he is preparing to stand for the National Party at the next election. Or will he quit NZX and go run a true publicly listed company?

Some work for Bernard Hickey and the boys before 10 when having my hotel room back, I shall be fast asleep.

Update - Pattrick Smellie explains the cock up in his original reporting (that other news outlets repeated).

Yorkshire Tears

'Ear all, see all, say nowt;

Eyt all, sup all, pay nowt;

And if ivver tha does owt fer nowt -

Do it fer thissen.

'Hear all, see all, say nothing; Eat all, drink all, pay nothing; And if ever you do anything for nothing - Do it for yourself.



Much to my disgrace given my late Grandfather's heritage, it was not a Jew, but a Yorkshirewoman who was first to complain about the prices of Auckland accomodation quotes during the World Cup period. What a surprise.

Jacqui Marsden was quoted NZD$1,600 a night for a bed and breakfast in Mt Eden, minimum 10 nights over the semis, bronze plate and finals period. Even if the owner didn't make a typo, is this an issue?

Marsden who, with her husband, will be in New Zealand for the duration of the cup, said accommodation providers needed to be mindful of not exploiting tourists who were already paying thousands of pounds to travel to New Zealand.

Marsden said most bed and breakfasts she had contacted were charging between $200 and $400 for one room on a per night basis.

This is ridiculous. Hoteliers and guest house owners across New Zealand can charge what the market will stand. For this reason I won't be going near New Zealand during the RWC because I don't wish to watch the rugby live at the stadium so there is no point in being in the country at that period. Everyone knows what it is going to be like. If you are coming for the event, suck it up and pay.

While NZ$1,600 a night for a B&B is on the high side, if the market will not support the price then the price will drop and Mrs Marsden can bid against others at a lower rate.

Has this Yorkshire tight-wad visited ANY international country during a sporting event? Try Monaco during the Grand Prix, or what London will be during the Olympics? South Africa during the Soccer World Cup? Beijing at their Olympics? Hong Kong during the Rugby Sevens? Good luck getting a B&B for NZ$200 a night at any of those events.

Not only are the airfares extortionate, so are the hotels, rental cars and other attractions. Why? We all know why, it's because the suppliers can, that's why as there demand will more than likely outstrip the supply. It is not a "peak season", it is a special event and there is a huge difference.

The imbalance is so large, Aucklanders are renting our their houses during the World Cup. Personally I think this is rather desperate, letting transient strangers live in your home, but Aucklanders need to pay for their overleveraged homes somehow I guess.

So it's a whinging Pom that is the first to complain about the expense. The English, with London prices, should be the last to comment about prices another country charges for sporting events.

New Zealand doesn't want backpackers or "freedom campers" for the Rugby World Cup. They want big spenders who are more likely to behave, smile, not complain, drink better quality alcohol and smell nice.

In other words, those who will be at the Viaduct, Parnell and Ponsonby than go near that ghastly "tent" on the waterfront.

Bow To The Master

I am happy to acknowledge when I am in the presence of a master wordsmith.

A former Ferret contributor from her glory days giving the current Wendyttle creation an absolute warping resulting in severe roadkill, is such a creature.

Cactus Kate reckons that the column is now written by the entity she dubs Wendyttle, i.e. Wendyl Nissen and Paul Little. It seems unlikely – wouldn’t it be better? Most of the items are taken from radio/TV/newspapers, and those that aren’t are about the media. Whoever is writing this stuff doesn’t get out much, or as much as Judith, James and I used to............

I say it isn’t Paul Little writing this, it’s Garth George, moonlighting from the Herald.

This dude is an "A" for bitch and should be hired to resuscitate the Ferret immediately.

Pork Chop Nails Scrap

Facebook celebrity is a buzz at present over the Rachel Glucina Tribute Page. Search for it as the links never work. New Zealand A-listers have been throwing their praise over Rachel's work.

To Pork Chop's credit she gave an outstanding blo-job by blo-job account of the goings on including the spat at Grandpa Holmes' 60th party.

Meanwhile, some of us will never forget the brouhaha that embroiled over single man Simon that night. At one point, he held court in the corner like the king of the playboys with both Gilda Kirkpatrick and Wendyl Nissen vying for his attention. It quickly turned ugly.

Nissen, volunteering sex advice to the eligible bachelor, piped up patronisingly: "Simon, you should find a nice woman... like Gilda".

Mrs Kirkpatrick, who was sitting nearby, took serious umbrage with the remark. She stood up and faced off.

"Hey bitch, what are you implying? I'm a happily married woman!"

Nissen half-heartedly tried to explain she meant no offence, but Gilda wasn't having a bar of it. The battle lines were drawn and the war was on. All attempts by mutual friends to calm the heated tension proved fruitless. Dallow sat there bemused that a brawl had erupted over him.

"You were flirting with my husband two years ago!" Nissen hissed.

"Who's your husband?" Gilda seethed.

Paul Little stood by looking sheepish. The scrap had no happy ending and both women left huffing inexorably.

The following morning Nissen was heard on NewstalkZB declaring she'd had an altercation the night before that she didn't regret it.

This will be a scrap, well worth tuning into.

Now we know that Pork Chop isn't always accurate in the detail so I have created a top 10 especially for the occasion.

"The 10 Most Likely Reasons Wendy L. had the spat with Gilda K."

10. "Never mind Dear sometimes I sleep on the couch as well".
9. "Flirting? No I just wanted him to get the fuck out of the doorway of the women's toilets".
8. "My hen Matilda could kick the crap out of your mutt Kirky".

7. "Jimmy's 105 and still looks more full of life than the caveman you are dragging around".
6. "You are old enough to be my MOTHER dammit".
5. "Can you shut the fuck up about Venice, I've been there a dozen times".
4. "Cougar? At your age, more like cockroach, bitch."
3. Gilda K quipped "Domestic Goddess on a Budget" is for fugly chicks as hot chicks have domestic helpers.
2. Gilda K stated she would never yell out she had a "heavy box" and it was Little wonder the men ran away.
1. Gilda K loudly presented a stunning scientific hypothesis that Wendy L's cleaning products are not environmentally sound.

Facebook Ferret

Click for big size.....

The bad news for Metro is it took me a week to be alerted to this repeating. Which means fuck all people must be reading Metro presently.

Wonder why?

After calling out the Ferret (aka Wendy L. and P.Little - Wendyttle) on April 14th for offences of being lame, weak and using Facebook for research, guess what comes up in the next issue at the arrow?

Lazy repeating. Perhaps the Ferret and Wendyttle need to go on the Gotcha Cool Wall Media Rating System.

P.S: The thought of a "hairy beast" dripping a "big one" on their chest in a Colin Mathura-Jeffree icecream flavour (banana, nuts and chocolate) is just not 100% heterosexual or conducive to 90% of the magazine's readers ie. those scabbing the free Metro down at the local Ponsonby Road cafe for brunch.

Weapon of Mass Consumption

Following on from my supermarket series .

Just not fucking cool.

Note the small basket at the back of this monstrosity with midget attached inside.

He was large enough to walk the bloody supermarket but no our little Emperor has to have his own car. A more responsible parent is dragging their child next to the car.

I blame the one child policy for the parents thinking it is cute to let their child sit in this stupid thing. And yes he was wearing Disneyland head to toe as he will until he's at least 13. Why on earth in a limited space area would you fill it with a barely manoeuvrable cart as this? Let alone the sillymarket renting them out.

His half-arsed "parents" hit me twice. Once as I was minding my own business selecting 400 grams of just shy of $NZ50 a kilo for Australian Chicken breasts to the right of the picture. And another time when I was queuing to empty the wallet of my credit card and Ayrton friggin Senna decided to drive the car so no one else could get down the aisle.

We all know what happened to Ayrton.