Poverty measure ... doesn't make sense to me

[Woodman]

The country was better off in the days of pommy union fuckwits as you put it as major news of poverty and homelessness in NZ were non existent back then.

Really? Ever talked to someone who grew up in a "union" household and how they went hungry while Dad was on strike for some dumbfuck reason.

[Jeeper]

There are people going hungry and living in exceptionally shite conditions and you dumb fuckers think they deserve it? If the poor didn't exist, the value of the $ would be absolute pants. Maybees you should learn how things work, externalities n all, coz ya'll are about as far from the truth as possible as is evidenced by your ignorant diatribe. There's plenty of food and resources to go around, the poor simply don't have the money. The average household spends 17% of its budget on food. 17% of $1000 is ever so slightly less than 17% of $100. End of story. Anything other than that is some form of false moral narrative that's been poured down your throat by your parents who also swallowed the same shit from their parents etc... "Insanity: Doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results." - Einstein. You dumb fucks don't learn anything, because your mum told you. Then again, at least we know that your parents were twats too and really shouldn't be surprised by the bullshit you spout as knowledge. Dumb fucks.

Without questioning the absurdity of some of the economic logic displayed in your comments, would you care to elaborate how would you define poverty? How would you measure it? And how do you purpose to alleviate suffering of humankind who are supposedly living on $100 a week in NZ.

[Maha]

Me too grand dad. One black and white channel with Philip Sherry doing the news.
We were the first family in Bulls to get a 26" color TV. Philips K9 it was. lasted for nearly 30 years, actually became a bit of a family heirloom.

1974 just in time for the CH-CH Commonwealth Games....do you remember when the Bulls bridge collapsed?

[Jeeper]

Me too grand dad. One black and white channel with Philip Sherry doing the news.
We were the first family in Bulls to get a 26" color TV. Philips K9 it was. lasted for nearly 30 years, actually became a bit of a family heirloom.

I remember that TV very well, it was our first colour one. And it lasted a long time too.

Found an image on Google. Brought back a lot of memories of good times.

[JATZ]

You mean the days of no internet, twitter, FB, cell phones and only 2 TV channels.

And you had to get out of your seat to switch between them.

[Voltaire]

Prior to the internet I would waste less time reading shit like I have just typed, Used to do boring stuff like go and see mates, drive around, work on fixing old things.

I wish it could be the 80's every dayyyyyy....

[oldrider]

Prior to the internet I would waste less time reading shit like I have just typed, Used to do boring stuff like go and see mates, drive around, work on fixing old things.

I wish it could be the 80's every dayyyyyy....

"It is at our house" (more like 60's) - downsized - we have no room for the old TV so it stays in the shed waiting to be given away or dumped!

Lovin the return to the real world!

[TheDemonLord]

Lovin the return to the real world!

I played that game once - the graphics were alright, but the plot was terrible, the NPCs were all badly coded, the Character progression was clunky and the Grind was absurd. The boss fights were next to impossible and the 'respawn' option appears to be missing.

2/10 would not play again

[Graystone]

I played that game once - the graphics were alright, but the plot was terrible, the NPCs were all badly coded, the Character progression was clunky and the Grind was absurd. The boss fights were next to impossible and the 'respawn' option appears to be missing.

2/10 would not play again

Great immersion, but atrocious support from the devs.

[Ocean1]

There are people going hungry and living in exceptionally shite conditions and you dumb fuckers think they deserve it?

They deserve what others consider their work's worth.

The end.

[Woodman]

Have you ever thought how the 8hr day,annual leave,sick leave, bereavement leave and meal and smoko breaks came about? They did certainly not come about as a result of all the employers getting together and offering those conditions out of the goodness of their hearts. The strikes that those union members went on were responsibe for all the conditions I mentioned above which you will be enjoying today but as you think they are all dumbfuck ideas I am sure your employer would love you to give up all those "dumbfuck" entitlements to increase their profit margin.

Don't disagree with you but they became out of control bullies.

[Graystone]

If the poor didn't exist

There's probably better reasons not to kill all the poor, like morals...

[Ocean1]

I could be poor too, I felt the inconvenience of that far outweighed the inconvenience of working most days for the last 35 years.
Although nobody goes in to bat for old tired pricks that worked too hard.

Listen, there's only room for so many poor, and all the taxes you've been paying has made the few remaining positions fucking scarce:

http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_...w-incomes.aspx

...So I reckon you're shit outa luck.

[Swoop]

I remember that TV very well, it was our first colour one. And it lasted a long time too.

Found an image on Google. Brought back a lot of memories of good times.

That looks like the one we had.
It had the pop-out drawer at the bottom with the tuning wheels for each of the six (yes SIX!) channels possible, even though there were only two being broadcast...

[pete376403]

I remember when there was no TV. We listened to the wireless and read books.