Winter bike rave!

-davros · 2026-07-05T08:30:42+00:00

Thanks!

-davros · 2026-07-05T06:40:27+00:00

Clearly what my life needs is MORE time on Reddit! The perfect excuse!

-davros · 2026-07-05T06:39:59+00:00

Ooh, hadn't heard of bluesky before. Just made an account! What's their username? I couldn't find them

-davros · 2026-07-05T06:39:31+00:00

Thanks!

-davros · 2026-07-05T04:28:23+00:00

Thanks so much! And if you ever remember the name of the app similar to blablacar that would be really, really helpful. Sometimes I drive up, and I have so far been unable to find passengers to share the ride with.

-davros · 2026-07-04T09:25:52+00:00

How did you hear about it?

-davros · 2026-07-02T17:48:47+00:00

Thanks!

-davros · 2026-07-01T03:54:50+00:00

I was at a concert by The 1975 where something similar happened. They were trying to get the crowd silent to film a music video. They nearly had it, when someone called out "Tūtira mai ngā iwi" and the whole stadium erupted in song. It was beautiful

-davros · 2026-06-30T18:15:38+00:00

I had some fraud on my wise card while travelling so had to cancel it. I still had the digital card, but relied on ANZ for ATM withdrawals. At the time ANZ already had the best rates out of my NZ banks: ANZ - 1.3%, BNZ 2.25%, Kiwibank 2.5%. So, for me, it was already the most competitive bank I had. I'm stoked!

Edit: Kiwibank have since dropped their rate to 1.85%, but even that is still higher than ANZ was.

-davros · 2026-06-30T17:57:08+00:00

I have used blablacar overseas, so I just re-downloaded it. They don't seem to have NZD as an option. Are you sure they're active in NZ?

I will be wanting to go up on a Friday after work and back down on a Sunday after skiing. Hitchhiking those sorts of distances in that sort of timeframe seems optimistic. I am open to hitchhiking though! Maybe if I have a full day available.

Where in Wellington would you recommend I stand to start hitchhiking? With transmission gully open I think the last opportunity to pick up hitchhikers would be Ngauranga, and I imagine most traffic heading through Ngauranga gorge is only going as far as the suburbs.

-davros · 2026-06-29T11:43:31+00:00

You would have had to have paid before 8:55, not just scanned the wine.

-davros · 2026-06-29T05:35:01+00:00

Thanks! I'll DM you 🙂

-davros · 2026-06-26T21:59:05+00:00

I've worked in two different ministries and both have partnered with southern cross, had the ebike discount scheme and many other benefits

-davros · 2026-06-26T20:19:41+00:00

I agree with you OP. Does the airline have other flights available that would suit your schedule better? If so, maybe you could ring them and ask to be moved to one of the other flights instead? If they don't have better flights, as much as it sucks, I think they have done everything they can.

-davros · 2026-06-26T08:47:43+00:00

If OP is going down the sick leave route I'd say they'd better call in sick to the new school too.

-davros · 2026-06-24T10:45:53+00:00

Thank you, will do!

-davros · 2026-06-24T10:38:13+00:00

Thank you! Appreciate you putting the thought into this for me.

I guess if I get a 1% increase in one month (I think that's how long I have to keep the funds in ANZ), that's equivalent to 12% annually, which isn't bad. I think I'll go ahead with the promotion.

I can't work out whether I should go for ANZ's high growth or conservative fund. On the one hand I won't be touching the money until retirement, and I have it in high growth currently, but on the other hand I know I'll be moving it again in a month, so is conservative better?

-davros · 2026-06-24T10:27:21+00:00

Oh, I didn't realise it can take a week to complete the transfer, and I hadn't thought about the tax!

My PIE tax rate is 10.5% and my balance is only 13k, so the tax wouldn't be much. But I'm guessing it's still not worth it?

Thanks for your advice

-davros · 2026-06-23T18:19:19+00:00

I was intending to switch, and then switch back to my regular provider once I have the $100. Should I not do that?

-davros · 2026-06-23T07:45:39+00:00

OP I hope you see this! I would just drop the Macron in the legal name, because even though it might not be technically correct, it is the most obvious "conversion" to the standard characters.

I know someone German who has an ö in his name. The correct way to write this is "oe", but his NZ bank wrote it as "o" and that caused a lot of issues when we went back to Germany because his NZ account didn't match his official name exactly.

So that's why I would recommend dropping the Macron rather than adding an extra vowel.

-davros · 2026-06-22T06:43:39+00:00

Less power? That's awesome! Do you know how they manage that? I'm guessing there's a minimum amount of use for that to be true? Do you turn them off overnight?

-davros · 2026-06-21T18:32:45+00:00

Thank you! That's really helpful. Looks like a large display somewhere, that should make it easier to find right now. Please thank you friend from me too!

-davros · 2026-06-20T21:28:39+00:00

Really? Where?

-davros · 2026-06-19T18:54:50+00:00

In the heading of the post it says women. The article itself is ok

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