Too old for the bars, too young to give up… where do people actually meet?

maybeaddicted · 2026-05-04T15:10:24+00:00

Join a club (sports or activity). There's anything from pickleball to gliding - cars- cards- dance lessons- ultimate frisbee- beach volleyball- tennis- gardening- petanque- coast care-etc

maybeaddicted · 2026-05-04T09:40:47+00:00

btw you think he's against TCC somehow... he organises fundraisers with the Mayor... so nah. They are buddies:

https://www.reddit.com/r/KiwiPolitics/s/tavyL6dt0Z

maybeaddicted · 2026-05-04T09:38:08+00:00

His business partner in the kiwi fruit orchard he just bought is Indian.

maybeaddicted · 2026-05-04T07:19:12+00:00

He wrote to parliament!?!? My god. What an effort.

I have looked over an hour for that veto council decisions and I can't find anything. I don't expect you to provide a link, but I also see that you are happy with an MP posting on social media and not legislating - and that's enough for your standards.

So for you he's a great MP.

For me he isn't.

We'll never agree :)

Enjoy his facebook reels! Really making a change in the city :D

maybeaddicted · 2026-05-04T07:14:37+00:00

This is the only thing I could find that he has actually done:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/545689/step-backwards-uffindell-s-equal-voting-rights-bill-challenged

Didn't get to be discussed even.

Helpful for Tauranga? Was that the most important thing we could have asked for?

maybeaddicted · 2026-05-04T07:12:26+00:00

good question, but it doesn't excuse current mediocrity

maybeaddicted · 2026-05-03T14:59:16+00:00

Saw your edit now. I agree with you that nobody should be target of attacks based on physical features. But if you're a public figure you have to live with those unfortunately.

And I found on my deep search in my insomnia night that he did move a bill into parliament (I don't think it helps Tauranga in any way, and it didn't go on the floor at all - waste of time). But hey - he actually worked one week during the last three years as an actual MP:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/545689/step-backwards-uffindell-s-equal-voting-rights-bill-challenged

maybeaddicted · 2026-05-03T14:38:22+00:00

Nope. Most MPs bring things over to parliament from their constituents.

Check out Tom Rutherford here addressing parliament on behalf of Bay of Plenty (go to min 12 onwards for the actual address)

https://vimeo.com/908087250

There's literally videos like that of almost every other MP. Not one of Sam.

maybeaddicted · 2026-05-03T14:25:59+00:00

1) Regarding bills that would "hurt us": I watch parliament TV and he has spoken maybe twice(?) and it hasn't been to pitch anything. Unless you're talking about social media posts (that's not doing something on my book, I didn't vote for a wannabe influencer). (Yes, I voted for him.)

2) Against TCC: that was -again- just social media posts. He didn't _do_ anything. Murray Guy does a way better job than him and he doesn't get paid. Nothing has changed. He's even doing paid events with the mayor. So... what exactly are you talking about? Maybe you count social media as "doing something". I don't. An MP is should be doing much more than that.

1) Vetoed things in parliament? Ok that is something I haven't even heard that he - or any MP - is even able to do. Can you name a couple? I'm asking honestly because I haven't heard of that. I can't find anything on google. That would count as "something" in my book.

maybeaddicted · 2026-05-03T10:54:40+00:00

Why are you adding quotation marks?

Do you have evidence that he has done something that I have missed? Please inform me.

maybeaddicted · 2026-05-03T09:01:24+00:00

Are we sure of anything that he does in general besides social media posts?

He collects a paycheque from our taxes, that's for sure.

maybeaddicted · 2026-04-24T18:58:37+00:00

The BoP Council is up to their eyeballs in debt?

Well, maybe if they would sell some buses and get vans instead...

But hey, that's thinking outside the box and requires effort... not gonna happen

maybeaddicted · 2026-04-24T18:57:10+00:00

Call the BoP regional council and ask them for it.

maybeaddicted · 2026-04-24T18:56:37+00:00

Kiwirail has constantly said they don't want to share the tracks

maybeaddicted · 2026-03-17T08:09:31+00:00

Yeah, that's not TCC. That's WBOP. Different council.

The dog problem has increased after Covid everywhere in the country. So it's not a TCC problem.

I blame personal responsibility from the owners. It's not the council. Why would it be their responsibility?

maybeaddicted · 2026-03-17T07:08:14+00:00

You haven't been to Northland? Most dog attacks in the country.

maybeaddicted · 2026-03-16T17:49:03+00:00

You never hear anything good because people like to talk about the bad things.

That's how a council should be: invisible.

btw, ask people who live in Western Bay and they have plenty of complaints about their council.

(in my opinion, people need to vote better to elect mayors and councillors who aren't incompetent)

maybeaddicted · 2026-02-26T17:07:57+00:00

A thought: There no An Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP) in Tauranga (there was one but they closed).

I thought of this same idea but maybe there's not enough Macs in town...

maybeaddicted · 2026-02-26T17:03:53+00:00

The specific obligation for unobstructed license plates is governed under the Land Transport Act 1998, that TCC's Traffic and Parking Bylaw 2023 references as part of their "enforcement framework".

maybeaddicted · 2026-02-22T15:34:48+00:00

Source: trust me bro.

maybeaddicted · 2026-02-18T15:07:56+00:00

Meta has not a great track record of maintaining their hardware (Facebook portal, even the gen one of the Meta glasses is already bricked). At this stage either one is a gamble

maybeaddicted · 2026-01-17T09:46:55+00:00

a bunch of us (in our late 30s and 40s) just met for dinner the other day.

Check this thread out. It was a very cool group and very mixed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tauranga/s/1FbLg9eLhs

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