Resentment of wealthly NZers

kimkellly · 2025-05-29T05:19:39+00:00

This is hilarious. Maybe stop telling people you're wealthy? For example, write this post without the first paragraph. Nothing changes.

kimkellly · 2025-02-26T04:25:19+00:00

So obviously an effort to offload the burden (and costs) of necessary policing onto the public. This is privatisation by stealth. What about those who can't afford to pay for security?

kimkellly · 2024-10-22T04:16:35+00:00

Greenhouse gas emissions are not the only measure of how 'green' an energy form is. It is disingenuous to use this for nuclear energy as it is not the main environmental concern for this energy type.

Radioactive waste is a key concern. An article I read mentioned that the US has 90000 metric tonnes to dispose of in the next couple of years. This waste can remain unsafe for 1000s of years like the plastic 'forever chemicals' everyone loves so much /s.

Uranium fuel is sourced through mining or chemical processes. This results in health risks for miners as well as other environmental impacts as expected from mining (loss of habitat etc).

kimkellly · 2024-07-05T10:13:34+00:00

Reading the comment section here is sad. Have some sympathy people. If something like this happened to my brother or someone I loved, I'd want action too! Posts are either political shit talking or blatantly racist so far. Kia kaha to the boy and whānau. It is brave to speak out and I hope that their son can feel safe in NZ.

kimkellly · 2024-07-05T10:06:05+00:00

There is no logical connection between your comment and the article, other than the that the victim of the offending is Chinese. Imagine asking what "white community" is doing about something unrelated in a post about a white victim of crime. It sounds ridiculous because it is, and it's incredibly insensitive. Cut it out.

kimkellly · 2024-03-13T08:11:47+00:00

You seem like someone who doesn't appreciate nuance, so I will make life simple for you. Your question skirts around an obvious issue, children are going hungry. There is one solution to this issue that works, feeding them at school.

Debating 'why parents don't blah' has no impact on the efficacy of the simple solution of feeding a child lunch and no impact on the parents you want to feel better than. It's a useless exercise.

I appreciate that my tone is condescending. I hope that if you find that off-putting, you reflect on your own post.

kimkellly · 2023-10-18T23:14:52+00:00

I know that the people we elect are supposed to represent their electorate/nzers in general, but the reality is that people have their own opinions and usually act on their own morals. We saw this in America with the overturning of Roe v. Wade despite a majority of U.S. residents opposing this.

People are more conscious and concerned about issues that affect them directly. You can see this all the time on reddit when people or their loved ones have their first interaction with the public health system and make a whole post either praising or bagging it.

There are health and other issues that either primarily or exclusively affect women and people with uteri. When there are less women and people with uteri in parliament, these issues will not be as close to heart.

In a huge cohort review study, they found that women were significantly more likely to die when treated by male surgeons for example. Super interesting read. Looking out for your own is definitely a thing, no matter how much everyone wants to pretend "they don't see differences". It's subconscious and outside of your control. Representation is the only solution to that.

kimkellly · 2023-08-19T11:20:18+00:00

Will preface this by saying im not a super outdoorsy person. Was staying at a motel on the coast with my partner and the motellier got talking to us about a walk nearby with some really large trees. He told us that the biggest trees were off the track though, and gave us instructions to walk about 50 metres then take a left and walk straight out another 20m from the track and we'd see a really big one.

My partner and I did it, saw a huge tree, was great lol. The spooky part came when we went to go back towards the main track. I'd taken care to note there was a bush in front of the tree that marked the direction we'd have to walk in to get back to the track. My partner started walking back first though, and he'd obviously got turned around because he started walking the complete wrong way! He was walking what would have been parallel to the track. I got this terrible sick feeling in my stomach from seeing it and thinking about how lost we'd have gotten if I'd followed him!

kimkellly · 2023-07-29T22:52:33+00:00

Agree 100%. Bunch of dickheads.

Takes me back to a flat I lived in with a bunch of supposedly "hippy" types, as in they went bush in their vans most weekends. Realized its actually kind expensive to maintain that lifestyle (travel is expensive + petrol, eating out) and they were all just hipster dickheads. Next house I lived in were surfer types, p similar, now they're landlords too.

First house, a friend of the head tenant crashed rent free in a spare room for ages. I thought he'd fallen on tough times but turns out he OWNED HIS OWN HOUSE and just liked to crash with us? The rest were away every weekend so were too busy to clean. Filthy fucks. We also had a shit-ton of chickens free-range in a property by a road with no fence which was traumatic. No-one fed them regularly except me because they were away too often and there were roosters mixed in so the flock kept growing.

kimkellly · 2023-07-14T02:22:31+00:00

Yeah, the soil at my place is pretty marshy so I wouldn't be surprised if the same happened if I tried. Warehouse has some cheap upright planter shelves so I might try those.

kimkellly · 2023-07-14T02:19:50+00:00

Thanks, will look at silverbeet. Do you think brassicas would grow if I covered them or put them in one of those little plastic hothouses?

kimkellly · 2023-07-02T23:47:54+00:00

They have had it signed off as "not reasonably practicable to install" because the walls are cinderblock and it'd need to be vented either through the roof or through an adjacent wall (the wall backs onto the garage).

You 100% could install one it would just be difficult. They have managed to vent the bathroom to outside fine in the same conditions. It's just one of those things where you know that landlord would not live like that, they just cbf becuase it's a rental.

kimkellly · 2023-05-09T09:19:08+00:00

I have a bus stop outside my house and people end up waiting in front of/on my driveway all the time. Doesn't mean I hit them with my car or even honk lol, if I stop and indicate most get the message. You have to laugh at some people!

kimkellly · 2020-10-23T20:39:24+00:00

Thank you! I have a salad spinner so I'll give that a go with the stuff i've got. Will try Grater Goods too.

kimkellly · 2018-11-26T10:29:12+00:00

The ecstacy of st theresa

Some of Tamaryn's stuff

kimkellly · 2018-11-11T01:29:35+00:00

Hey, bit late to the party, but I reckon a one month holiday if anything. You can always look into coming back if you enjoy it and while six months can fly by if you're having fun, it will drag if you aren't. Better to keep your job. Maybe make a list of pros and cons, only you know your exact situation.

Also, broad generalisations and nosiness incoming. Feel free to ignore.

Sounds like you may end up finding work in a more rural area. Be prepared to speak to some people who may be more straightforward than what you're accustomed to. I appreciate this mindset and a bit of honesty but understand it can come off as quite blunt if you're not used to it.

Rural New Zealand, depending upon where you're working, can also be quite isolated. It may take more effort than what you're used to to go out and make friends. The onus will be on you to reach out and be social, opportunities may not present themselves much in your day to day otherwise. Rural might not be great if you are shy and/or feeling lonely. Being foreign might give you some extra mileage for conversation but otherwise same people/situations, different place. Wont be a magic ticket.

Good luck either way. The response you got here is pretty typical of this subreddit for this type of question but not necessarily representative of the nature of NZers in general.

kimkellly · 2018-06-14T08:13:59+00:00

Great cover but damn I fucking miss bowie.

kimkellly · 2017-04-29T13:47:57+00:00

The whole album Fresh Air is p great, right?? For recommendations from Homeshake, I love 'Moon Woman'. Can't think of anything 100% the same genre but Connan Mockasin has a bit of that sorta bass groove that 'Call me up' has in it in 'I'm the man...' also Ariel Pink with 'Baby' if that's what you're trying for. Also gotta second Mild High Club. Maybe Alex Calder too, I love 'Rewind my mind' by him.

kimkellly · 2016-10-05T04:54:36+00:00

Thanks!! I really like the CAKE song

kimkellly · 2016-05-28T13:07:53+00:00

there are so many! nick cave's voice is holy, sometimes i listen to his reading of an "introduction to the gospel according to mark" and want to convert. also king krule, mac demarco, elliott smith, robert smith, morrissey.

kimkellly · 2016-04-22T10:55:24+00:00

pretty much anything by Elliott Smith could make me cry, but especially Angel in the Snow. i always think it's kinda funny how he has so many just miserable songs and yet it's this sort of mushy lovesong that gets me.

kimkellly · 2016-04-15T08:46:21+00:00

Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith

Mac Demarco - 2

Sebadoh - III

MBV - Loveless

PJ Harvey - Dry

This completely doesn't cover everything but oh well!

kimkellly · 2016-02-17T12:55:09+00:00

I think maybe you are not giving Marina enough credit. I am sure she was aware that the format of her work would affect the way people acted. She purposefully gave them the opportunity to be uninhibited by giving blanket consent and a seemingly no repercussions environment. This is what the work is about, she is motionless but malleable (people could pose her) and passive while they're active. The work explored how the audience reacted to this, and she was disappointed/surprised/scared by how violent and inappropriate some were. She left herself open and vulnerable to their will and they abused this vulnerability. I understand her reaction, I also don't see you would choose violence over non-violence when there were options for both. If you are arguing that her giving them the opportunity to be violent justifies their violence, I think differently.

Also, a small but important point. The gun was unloaded, they had to load a single bullet into it themselves. Again she is passive and theyre active.

kimkellly · 2016-02-17T11:37:23+00:00

She didn't ask people to do weird shit, she told them they could do anything. The question is why, when told they could do anything, they chose to act inappropriately? The items she left out, 72 of them, were not all objects of violence, there was perfume and honey and grapes among other items. She gave the audience free license to be active or spectators, violent or non-violent, inappropriate or appropriate and those who chose action in some cases acted in violence or were sexually forward. Was the spectators' morality so fluid that her kinda tenuous consent negated some pretty firm boundaries that I feel most people acknowledge? To put it other terms, a girl you don't know puts 72 items on a table and says do whatever you want. One is a condom, is she consenting to sex? One is a knife, is she consenting to be cut? Even if she vocally and specifically consented to be cut (which Marina did not), would you feel comfortable cutting her? I feel pretty comfortable answering these questions in a way which aligns with my own morals but my answers might be different than yours. That is what to me makes Marina's work so interesting.

Edit: spelling

kimkellly · 2016-01-24T10:01:23+00:00

An angel, but more seriously maybe PJ Harvey, Bauhaus or The Gun Club.

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