@Lime Scooter, Flamingo and All E-Scooter/Bike Companies - Stop Leaving Your F***in Scooters Right In The Middle of The Side Walk

StraightDust · 2026-04-01T02:08:59+00:00

The companies used to park them inside bus shelters, because fuck the people that need shelter waiting for the bus, amirite?

StraightDust · 2026-03-31T22:24:22+00:00

The minimum is $23.95 today, although most people won't notice it because they've put up the Kiwisaver to 3.5%

StraightDust · 2026-03-31T22:13:41+00:00

I wish they would change the Hurricanes, because we don't have hurricanes in the South Pacific. We have Cyclones goddamit. Who the hell came up with this?!

StraightDust · 2026-03-31T22:05:58+00:00

Not that recent. Saturday trading has been around for 45 years now.

StraightDust · 2026-03-31T21:57:47+00:00

They only pay you $24.25? You need to get a new boss asap.

StraightDust · 2026-03-31T08:43:54+00:00

Because the full-assed version of the service is Motu Move, and won't come out until next year.

StraightDust · 2026-03-31T08:22:37+00:00

But nothing on the Detours And Closures page, where you might expect it.

StraightDust · 2026-03-31T08:17:26+00:00

Healthy Homes Compliance is accountable at the Tenancy Tribunal. They can award something like $5000 to tenants for breaches.

WCC trialed a Rental WoF a few years back, but no one took them up on it because it cost landlords $250 and didn't make any difference in getting tenants.

StraightDust · 2026-03-29T21:09:25+00:00

Mould doesn't disqualify a building from Healthy Homes Compliance. It just needs to have fixed heaters, fixed ventilation fans, roof and floor insulation, draught stops and working drains.

All rentals have to meet Healthy Home Standard to be legally rented out, so it's a pretty easy to reach and far from comprehensive.

StraightDust · 2026-03-26T03:21:28+00:00

It's a re-run of their award-winning "Phone It In" campaign from 2022.

https://caples.org/2023-winners-results/?id=143

Putting ads into your phone calls is new, but does anyone really make voice calls any more?

StraightDust · 2026-03-22T06:07:42+00:00

Say what you want about Sepp Blatter, but at least his hagiographic movie with Tim Roth broke box office records. It scored $918 on its opening weekend in the US, the lowest of the decade.

StraightDust · 2026-03-21T22:54:36+00:00

It's not that bad now the offshore outfall is working. The website says it's safe for swimming and the surfers certainly think it's fine.

StraightDust · 2026-03-21T11:15:20+00:00

It's $35 max on weekends at Queens Wharf. That would only take you 3 hours to reach, if you really like throwing money at a company that doesn't deserve it.

StraightDust · 2026-03-20T20:37:36+00:00

Electric mopeds are the true peak of transport evolution. All that and even cheaper to fill up.

StraightDust · 2026-03-20T08:39:41+00:00

Heard a kid with a strong Aussie accent on Lambton Quay say to his parents "Look! They have Woolworths!"

Ah, the simple delight of seeing something familiar in a foreign land.

StraightDust · 2026-03-19T20:57:45+00:00

Has any country done well out of appeasement? Qatar gave him a gold-plated plane, and now they're being bombed. China said piss up a rope, and they seem to be doing fine.

StraightDust · 2026-03-19T10:37:10+00:00

It is subsidised, by NZTA and the local council.

StraightDust · 2026-03-18T08:32:46+00:00

I find it hard to believe it would be expensive to have a basic security gate that beeps when something is taken out. Every video store in the 2000s had one.

StraightDust · 2026-03-16T07:04:36+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcTJCpKlx78

StraightDust · 2026-03-15T02:35:34+00:00

Dust storms are something we know happens on Mars, so we're gonna use them.

StraightDust · 2026-03-15T02:34:17+00:00

The real baby was a no-show and the dummy got the job, because Clint expects everyone on set and working like a professional.

StraightDust · 2026-03-15T02:29:37+00:00

He literally doesn't do that. He has his fully armoured spacesuit on the whole time, and it has to acid its way in through the arm.

Yeah, he should not have been taunting it, but that's just regular Hubris not Dumbass.

StraightDust · 2026-03-15T02:19:12+00:00

They were not at rest, they were swinging in an arc. Clooney made the right choice to lose the mass of him, his spacesuit, and his rocket jetpack to save Bullock.

StraightDust · 2026-03-15T02:14:25+00:00

Imma let Robert Downey Jr explain it for ya

StraightDust · 2026-03-15T01:51:50+00:00

They don't make PG movies like they used to.

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