PM Chris Hipkins

[TheDemonLord]

Aboo-hoo-hoo-hoo.

Your definition of a Women is Aboo-hoo-hoo-hoo?

Are you saying Women are overly emotional and crying? Sounds like quite the sexist definition to me...

[pete376403]

Water is water and steam is steam

As for the river - https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Crossing+the+Rubricon

They spell it with an 'r' - so?

Sp water (H2O) is not steam (H2O)? As for the river, I'd prefer to trust a real encyclopedia - Brittanica: (even if it is from perfidious Albion)
Rubicon
stream, Italy

Alternate titles: Rubico
Written and fact-checked by
Last Updated: Feb 12, 2023 • Article History
Rubicon, Latin Rubico, or Rubicon, small stream that separated Cisalpine Gaul from Italy in the era of the Roman Republic. The movement of Julius Caesar’s forces over the Rubicon into Italy in 49 BC violated the law (the Lex Cornelia Majestatis) that forbade a general to lead an army out of the province to which he was assigned. His act thus amounted to a declaration of war against the Roman Senate and resulted in the three-year civil war that left Caesar ruler of the Roman world. “Crossing the Rubicon” became a popular phrase describing a step that definitely commits a person to a given course of action.

[husaberg]

Sp water (H2O) is not steam (H2O)? As for the river, I'd prefer to trust a real encyclopedia - Brittanica: (even if it is from perfidious Albion)
Rubicon
stream, Italy

Alternate titles: Rubico
Written and fact-checked by
Last Updated: Feb 12, 2023 • Article History
Rubicon, Latin Rubico, or Rubicon, small stream that separated Cisalpine Gaul from Italy in the era of the Roman Republic. The movement of Julius Caesar’s forces over the Rubicon into Italy in 49 BC violated the law (the Lex Cornelia Majestatis) that forbade a general to lead an army out of the province to which he was assigned. His act thus amounted to a declaration of war against the Roman Senate and resulted in the three-year civil war that left Caesar ruler of the Roman world. “Crossing the Rubicon” became a popular phrase describing a step that definitely commits a person to a given course of action.

not to mention
https://www.jeep.ca/en/articles/the-...e-rubicon-name
THE MEANING OF THE RUBICON NAME
2021-02-12
When you go through the Jeep® range, you come across the name Rubicon. In fact, it is used to describe versions of the Wrangler and Gladiator. It also happens to be the models offering the most off-road skills.
But why the Rubicon name? Let's go back a bit to understand it.
Historical Importance
The Rubicon is a small river. In Roman times, it marked the official border between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul, the region south of the Alps that was ruled by Julius Caesar. According to the law of the Roman Republic, any provincial governor who decided to lead his troops across the border back into Italy would be declared a public enemy. Crossing the Rubicon was, quite simply, a declaration of war.
At the beginning of 49 BC, Julius Caesar's influence was growing. Alarmed by his growing power, the Senate ordered him to put his command aside. Caesar had no intention of obeying the Senate and he knew perfectly well what the consequences of his insubordination would be. He understood that civil war would most likely ensue between him and the Roman nobility, led by his most powerful rival and former ally, Pompey. If Caesar decided to cross the Rubicon, there would be no turning back.
We'll let you guess the rest of the story that gave rise to the expression "Crossing the Rubicon". It means to do something that implies that there is no turning back.

[TheDemonLord]

Sp water (H2O) is not steam (H2O)?

One is a liquid state, the other is gaseous

Both are DiHydrogen Monoxide.

As for the river, I'd prefer to trust a real encyclopedia - Brittanica: (even if it is from perfidious Albion)
Rubicon
stream, Italy

Alternate titles: Rubico
Written and fact-checked by
Last Updated: Feb 12, 2023 • Article History
Rubicon, Latin Rubico, or Rubicon, small stream that separated Cisalpine Gaul from Italy in the era of the Roman Republic. The movement of Julius Caesar’s forces over the Rubicon into Italy in 49 BC violated the law (the Lex Cornelia Majestatis) that forbade a general to lead an army out of the province to which he was assigned. His act thus amounted to a declaration of war against the Roman Senate and resulted in the three-year civil war that left Caesar ruler of the Roman world. “Crossing the Rubicon” became a popular phrase describing a step that definitely commits a person to a given course of action.

So, I had an interesting read - it appears that yes, Rubicon is correct....

However, it also appears that the misspelling of 'Rubricon', either as a pun (Rubric + Rubicon) or as a genuine mistake has entered the public lexicon:

https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/JIL/article/...I2-2010-3/1499

Oh well, I've learned something.

[FJRider]

Sp water (H2O) is not steam (H2O)?

From my schoolboy science classes ... their written formula is as follows ... H 2O(l) is liquid water ... but H 2O(g) is steam.


Education in a wonderful thing ...

[onearmedbandit]

You, uh, got some evidence for that claim?

That's some very *specific* claims, explicitly accusing me (at least) of breaching the site rules, so I would hope that for such an accusation you can back it up with some form of Proof.




But I'll save you the trouble, since I know I only have the one account and the Mods can see my IP address (and it's a Static IP) and can confirm that I'm just me - not to mention things like join date etc. etc.

I'm not going to ping the mods for that post, it's not my style and never will be - suffice to say I expect either an edit or a retraction.

Can confirm that there is no shared ip, so either he has no idea what he is talking about or is trolling.

While I don't always agree with what you post I do love to see your haters (who claim to have you on ignore etc) chomping at the bit to talk about you.

[Ocean1]

I'm having a hard time deciding whether it's incompetence or malevolence.

They're not mutually exclusive characteristics, dude.

[R650R]

Oh oh Hipkins is already going down the identity politics path. Apparently three waters has been rebranded as “water infrastructure” after allegedly having Mahuta cop too much “abuse” about what a crappy plan it was.
Bumbling along in an interview he said cabinet should have supported her more blah blah.
A reporter went straight for the jugular and said was that a criticism of Jacindas leadership. That touched a nerve and although he said no straight away he should have really pulled up that journo on such a cheap shot and tossed them out.
Any how apparently all decisions now are part of the collective that cabinet is, he really liked that word used it a few times....

[TheDemonLord]

Oh oh Hipkins is already going down the identity politics path. Apparently three waters has been rebranded as “water infrastructure” after allegedly having Mahuta cop too much “abuse” about what a crappy plan it was.
Bumbling along in an interview he said cabinet should have supported her more blah blah.
A reporter went straight for the jugular and said was that a criticism of Jacindas leadership. That touched a nerve and although he said no straight away he should have really pulled up that journo on such a cheap shot and tossed them out.
Any how apparently all decisions now are part of the collective that cabinet is, he really liked that word used it a few times....

You mean to say that he really believes in these deeply unpopular (not to mention disastrous) policies and only said he'd drop them to try and convince a gullible public who seem to suffer from some form of collective amnesia that's not Jacinda?!?

Well, colour me surprised.

[sugilite:Me]

And there is this too. Im sure the councils won't mind.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/polit...e-waters-reset

[R650R]

A Tiger can't change it's stripes.

Didn’t take long you’ve been proven right. And the work media still complicit in this rolling train wreck. Recent headlines sling lines of “co-governance was probably the wrong term to describe what we wanted” and “three waters used to insult Maori” are just a couple of doozies....
Hopefully the riding mortgage rates will help voters make right choice.

[TheDemonLord]

Didn’t take long you’ve been proven right. And the work media still complicit in this rolling train wreck. Recent headlines sling lines of “co-governance was probably the wrong term to describe what we wanted” and “three waters used to insult Maori” are just a couple of doozies....
Hopefully the riding mortgage rates will help voters make right choice.

At this point, I should start calling myself Telepathic TDL and start charging money for my 'predictions' (AKA Just reading the academic literature so you know what their intentions are).

[sugilite:Me]

To predict a pollie will repackage a turd is about as skilful as predicting the sun will rise from the east on the morrow. But if you want an attaboy , here you go — attaboy!

[TheDemonLord]

To predict a pollie will repackage a turd is about as skilful as predicting the sun will rise from the east on the morrow. But if you want an attaboy , here you go — attaboy!

That made me laugh far more than it should have

[pritch]

Hopefully the riding mortgage rates will help voters make right choice.

This indicates a lack of understanding? National are unlikely to do anything much to lower mortgage rates. Many of their voters don't have mortgages, they have savings and they actually prefer higher interest rates. Anyway the Reserve Bank, who control the interest rate, is supposed to be independent.

We tend to get what we voted for though. Look at the tragic clown show that is Auckland. They should have voted for the brown guy but they couldn't bring themselves to do that, so they voted for a guy named Brown who doesn't even understand English apparently. Coulda been worse, they might've got Leo.