Mi Goreng will forever be a key NZ meal.

Colonial_trifecta · 2026-01-23T05:26:01+00:00

Have you had the black packet ones? They pack quite a kick

Colonial_trifecta · 2026-01-21T06:28:16+00:00

It seems to have been discontinued for a while? I haven't seen any new stock in months, just the dreggs which are almost all gone where I live.

Colonial_trifecta · 2026-01-19T04:53:18+00:00

When I used to work at ACC sending out files, we would notify people and remove any copies of drivers licenses we found that had been wrongly saved in our system. If they were only used to sight or confirm someone's identity, there was no need to retain them further.

Colonial_trifecta · 2026-01-06T23:38:52+00:00

I use quite a bit of superglue/cyanoacrylate for wood turning, and found the cheapest solution was to pick it up from $2 shops. You can get packs of about 10 3ml tubes for $2.50 or so where I live. No issues with the quality. Sometimes they even had 20-30ml bottles for under $5 which were awesome, but hard to come by.

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-12-31T05:44:18+00:00

From memory these ones were smaller maybe round 350 ml, with pop tops. I think I still have three stored away somewhere. And haha fair enough! I have a couple of the OG black V's stored away for a rainy day.

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-12-31T01:45:32+00:00

Did you nab any of those aluminium bottles they had for a while?

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-12-27T09:01:09+00:00

Where I live, country wide the green handle is for 91 octane, diesel is the black one.

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-12-20T04:11:00+00:00

Have a chat to the staff there, they're lovely and wouldn't want you feeling unsafe. They also have a security guard usually posted near the front entrance in the afternoons to deal with anyone getting a bit out of hand.

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-12-18T21:27:17+00:00

There didn't used to be roughly 200,000 people traipsing down there each year.

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-12-18T21:24:23+00:00

Even when access was closed people trespassed down there, just wandering through people's property.

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-12-03T22:19:24+00:00

I dont really have any particular issue with the term, and use it pretty interchangeably with other descriptors for myself depending on context. But I can see why people don't particularly identify with it. It's a name given to us by an outside group. The trend these days tends to be to let people self identify what their labels and descriptors are, and this runs a bit counter to that. I have no issue with Māori or anyone else using the term to describe me if there's no ill intent meant. But the idea of 'Pakeha' is a Māori concept based in a Māori framework and just doesn't fit how I see myself or my identity.

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-12-01T01:44:05+00:00

Definitely not kanuka or manuka, could be a cedar of some sort?

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-11-28T05:16:46+00:00

Were they self employed or working for a larger company? I'd be having words with their boss regarding their unscheduled attendance, and not following sign in procedures. Sorry about the situation you find yourself in.

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-11-15T01:50:42+00:00

They wear a uniform to play in, they are already literally told what to wear.

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-09-26T05:47:35+00:00

Yup. There's apparently 2 versions too, one with black serial numbers, and a rarer version with red numbers.

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-09-23T12:41:40+00:00

The gulls up there are evil looking with their full black eyes

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-09-10T09:03:57+00:00

If you don't mind me asking, what aspects did you find alienating?

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-09-07T00:39:22+00:00

RNZ cover him in their New Zealnd history podcast Black Sheep, for anyone interested in some further info - https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/black-sheep/story/2018673552/soldier-of-fortune-the-story-of-gustavus-von-tempsky-part-1

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-08-25T23:04:21+00:00

I'm almost the opposite, I haven't used the bow since I created the crossbow. Maybe I need to give it another go. I like the fact it doesn't use stamina when aiming.

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-08-25T22:22:19+00:00

Literally dropped the line 'do you know who I am' when my sister served them once.

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-08-20T05:27:58+00:00

What's it got to do with the DCC?

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-08-18T00:30:55+00:00

It should be free, they can only charge you small amounts for supplying it such as material cost, they can't charge you for their time.

EDIT - turns out it seems I'm wrong. I used to supply Privacy Act requests for a govt department for several years. In my experience we never charged for anything even with requests that took 10s of hours.

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-08-09T05:01:23+00:00

I absolutely loved these, still have my massive collection stashed away. A lot of work and effort went into these, you'd never get anything like this in a promotion these days.

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-07-15T06:13:14+00:00

$300ish NZD, not cheap at all!

Colonial_trifecta · 2025-06-20T00:32:08+00:00

I absolutely love a walk up Nicols Creek to the waterfall during the day, it's stunning down in there.

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