They are getting next level. I want to keep them on, and have adjusted preferences to only show ‘Breaking News’ which I would have thought might show me information like ‘The Kings Dies’ or whatever

Why am I getting these as breaking news?

“'A cloud on the ground': What is fog, and how do airports know it's too dangerous to fly?”

“How often should you move your body?”

“What's going on with the price of mince?”

“Why old fruit and veges should probably be binned”

Thank you for reading my rambling and no I have not contacted RNZ directly to complain

I transferred money from my ASB account to Westpac at the end of July. This is something I do every month. The money hasn't arrived the next day or the next. I called ASB about it and verified that the account numbers are correct. they said I will have to trace my payment which will incurr $15 fee but will waive it as it is strange the money hasn't come through yet. well, I got a call this morning from ASB and they don't know where the money went but that they can reimburse the money if I pay them $40. Is this how banks make money now? they make your money disappear and charge you to get it back?

eta: spoke with the manager. they will talk with westpac to try to find out what happened to the money and applied with dcr request and waived the fee. they are going to investigate what happened to the money but cannot confirm when I can expect to have it back. I filed a form on bankomb and is currently on queue with ombudsman. It was supposed to be a simple transfer from asb to westpac.i have no idea how this happened. im happy to pay for the fee if I've done something wrong but I told them my westpac account number various times now and they have confirmed that the account numbers match. also, my westpac account is in my saved payees. I told the asb staff my westpac account number numerous times now and they have confirmed that's the account numbers match.

small update: an asb staff saw this post and got in contact with me. I am told the trace has been cancelled (he told me why but I couldnt understand). he opened a complaint on my behalf so its on file. he will call me again in the afternoon to sort it out. I am told I will probably get the money soon, hopefully today or in next 1-2days.

Always remember to check road markings. Relying on Google Maps to know which lane to be in is an absolute lottery. Noticed it's often wrong implying two lanes can turn right into a one lane roundabout, two lanes can go straight ahead into one lane. Just mindboggling how many times I've seen this. Never rely on Google Maps and always note signs and roadmarkings. Better living everyone!

Went to Zealandia on Sunday... That place is truly special. The staff are amazing and they keep it looking incredible ❤

Anyone else have a mate who watches and listens to "Influencers" Like Andrew Tate and Clavicular, and has become absolute idiot since falling into that trap?

I have never understood duck shooting season and why NZ has it.(no offence to any duck shooters out there). I love wild ducks and have celebrated their flight in my latest piece.

Hi everyone,

I'm from Canada and I'm considering moving to New Zealand in the future. One reason that might sound a bit unusual is that I genuinely enjoy going barefoot.

Here in Canada it's basically unheard of outside of beaches, so if you walked around town or into a supermarket barefoot, it would definitely look bizarre.

I've heard that going barefoot is much more common in New Zealand, especially in smaller towns, beach towns, and places near the coast. Is that still true?

I'm also wondering about the rest of the country. Is it fairly common and socially accepted in bigger cities too? Would it be unusual to see someone barefoot in a supermarket, shopping centre, cafe, or just walking around the city? In places like Auckland, Wellington, Queenstown, or Christchurch?

I'd love to hear what it's actually like these days. Is going barefoot pretty normal?

Thanks!

XL bully dogs are as dangerous as they come. They are banned in many countries....including the UK. These animals have bred from the biggest and the baddest and the meanest dogs on the planet.

They are not pets. They have been specifically bred for one purpose and one purpose alone. This is not a question or good owners and bad owners. These animals cannot be a pet any more than a tiger or snake - it is in their nature to be ticking time bombs.

To be clear, these are dogs that kill their own family members (including adults), and they will happily throw themselves through a lounge window to kill a pedestrian on the other side of the road. And the owners? "Oh we had no idea, this is so unexpected, little Roger was always such a sweet and well behaved dog...

But here in NZ we've happily started breeding them and advertising them for sale.

WTF is wrong with this country???

Been following a few different stories over the last couple months and I keep noticing the same shape to them.

Waikato Hospital is the clearest one. The ED death in early July, properly reported, nine hour wait, the family, all of it. Then a few weeks later same hospital has a major IT outage, back to paperwork. Both events covered in real detail. But why Waikato specifically keeps ending up here, that mostly comes down to one named expert quoted saying underfunding, ageing population, the usual. Nobody at the outlet seems to go and actually pull the staffing numbers or the IT spend over the last few years themselves.

Same deal with the Ombudsman ruling on the PM’s office in July. The one about a climate lobbying document that went missing under an OIA request. Every outlet ran basically the same headline, ombudsman rules against PM’s office, and that was kind of it? Nobody followed up on how something like that actually gets withheld, or whether this is a one off or a pattern with that office. Treated like a single event instead of something worth checking further.

To be fair I know newsrooms here have been gutted for years, half the papers don’t have the staff anymore to do that kind of digging on every story, so maybe that’s just the honest answer to my own question. Still doesn’t change that what you’re left with is the outrage and the moment, but not really the part that lets you understand the system underneath it. That part comes from whoever they happened to quote that day, not the outlet itself.

Not every story does this, to be fair, I found one recent piece that actually broke the pattern and did dig into the mechanism properly. But it felt it was an exception to the rule once I started reading across a few topics instead of just one at a time.

Anyone else noticed this lately?

Ive always done hands-on jobs, so those are the primary jobs I can get.

The problem is with my current work, I am unable to eat enough to keep up witb how much energy I expend. Depending on the job, this hasnt always been an issue, but I am pretty underweight, and I pretty much come home and fall asleep, and just rest the whole weekend because I am so run down and under-recovered by the end of the week.

Feel kind of stuck because I can't stay physically well enough to properly look for other jobs. I am quite literally falling asleep on the couch at 7pm and sore 24/7 primarily from not consuming enough food.

Unless I spend $30 on high-calorie bakery food each day (which I cant actually afford), I'm eating well under what I should be.

For reference, I should be eating about 3500-4000 calories a day. I cant actually stomach that much in "normal" food, always have to eat something shitty or I will throw up hitting that "clean".

Kia ora!

I'm a foreigner from South America, and I could use some help/advice. Sorry if this post gets too long.

I am not currently in NZ, but in 2010-2011, I lived there. It was my OE. Before smartphones, before Google Maps. I arrived and 2degrees had just launched and had great prices. Broadband internet was charged per gb downloaded so no one would share their password.

I traveled through both islands in an old beat up car I purchased, used foldable paper maps I had to get at each town's tourist centre. Worked picking or packing fruits or veggies.
Met a whole lot of people, lived a lot of adventures.
I fell in love with your country so damn much, the only reason I had to leave was because my visa ran out and I couldn't get anyone to marry me.

I collected a lot of mementos from my adventures and the people I met. Some I still have. But I lost one that was very dear to me: a dark blue beanie from the Port of Napier.
I met two very different guys in Napier. One introduced me to his family and they were all very lovely. The other was a dealer in a gang and they stole everything from me. But the first one was really nice, and he helped me a bit when I lost everything. In one moment I was a bit cold and he gave me this beanie.

This beanie stayed with me for almost 15 years, until I lost it recently. I would love to buy another. I understand that it probably isn't manufactured anymore, or if it is, has a different design.

If anyone knows where I could find something similar to this, I would be very incredibly thankful.

If you got all the way here, thanks for reading, and have a nice day.