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Sarah

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Te Tauihu Aotearoa Tangata Tiriti she/her An optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist. Depends on the day. Being obsessed with Kate Bush and Tori Amos is my personality. You may have to explain a joke that I take too literally. Library type person.


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Idk, it’s gotta be worse, right?

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I’ve never been happier that I met my husband post dairy farming, a rugby boot is bad enough

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Oh god the cow shit no

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A mullet and a shoey no no no no no 😭

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"I guess" and "potentially" are the new "yeah definitely"

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But for the want of a rat's tail...

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The open boot of the car does this to me. The sound of it is nauseating

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Oh, no, that's not cool but I thought he was just trying for a bit of bants but I might have got that wrong

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Your grandma REALLY HATED your rat tail!

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Sadly, Kenny seems kinda cool so I didn't want to be mean.

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That's how you work the system lol

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They just never went out of fashion in the South Island.

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A few months ago my son asked me to cut his off and it was one of the happiest days of my life.

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Why won't the mullet go out of fashion in NZ? 😭

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My husband says I'm only allowed to critique Damian's smile-kick routine when he has a Chiefs jersey on. 😂

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Kenny, nobody has ever mocked the haka before! You are so clever and original!

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Like, imagine having that many siblings? Soooo weird

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Oh, I've had wine, that kind of post was made for me in this moment 😂

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Flush out thoughts? Lol oops

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What do you mean by accomplish? Change the world, make money, create world peace? Probably not. However, many people accomplish learning a little bit about ppl they might never have met irl, feel a little less lonely, flush out thoughts and get feedback. That's something, no?

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That being said, I must be old because both these teams are full of children.

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I hate to break it to you, the US version predates the NZ one. 😬 But they are both perfect classics in their respective nations.

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I've decided to watch ABs this year. I won't live bluesky and annoy you all but who knows what will happen because I have had a glass of wine.

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There's been so little joy for my UK muts lately, enjoy this little bit of beauty.

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He's now lamenting that teachers can't smack kids. Btw, thank you for that interaction because I found it immensely enjoyable to see a dumbarse squirm like that. 😂

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Some of the responses are just straight up proving her point.

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I guess this is as good a time as any to let you know that I am, in fact, a billionaire living in a bolt hole.

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And some of you hate that he is just old because you hate older people. Period. You need to address that with yourself NOW. And some of you are weaponizing the fact that he’s older in an awful way (while ignoring that Trump is, too, just in a different way).

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Americans have a real problem with older people and the concept of aging. The culture is rife with ageism. It’s going to official bite us in the ass if we don’t address it. Wow.

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The guy is a potato looking guy who fooled people with his nice hair.

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No, that one is horrific! This is a Dutch dude who has privately donated hundreds of times and all around the world.

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My daughter has a new friend that moved here recently. It's just the mum and the kids and the dad has stayed in their old town. My daughter, who is very good at building things, has become their handy man and it's adorable.

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Anybody else watch this bonkers Netflix doco about the maniac sperm donor?

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I like how part of National’s campaign vibe was “how dare central govt tell local govts how to do things” and now they’re banning local councils from setting their own speed limits on local roads

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I wish I could sew more than hems because I would love to make that.

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I would have been better off thinking about how I might teach the cat to dance, because no TERF has ever turned up in any space the actual work of feminism is being done. There's not many of them, their ideas are unpopular, and they just want to harrass trans people.

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Also, it's inevitable that when someone is mad googling a NZ topic, if you search their TL, you will probably see they somehow conflate NZ and Australia.

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True. Kiwis don't really understand the intricacies of the political and justice system of the US any more than USians understand here.

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It's a bit baffling. Seems like her inability to see context matters lead her to believe something was being said that wasn't.

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That one is def included in what I'm whingeing about. It's not that I even agree or disagree but seeing people not being able to fathom they might not quite have full context is bizarre. I might pick a random country and argue with the people there why I understand their local issue based on NZ.

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The "we can google all we need to know about intricate NZ issues" seems to have intensified amongst the USians lately. Context doesn't matter, apparently.

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Correct but also understanding that we are a bicultural nation and what that means for all public orgs

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Te Tiriti o Waitangi - This is the document that is the basis of the rights and responsibilities you will have in Aotearoa Tikanga Māori - books by Hirini Mead and Keri Opai are an excellent place to start Whatever your profession is, understanding how the org or business meets Tiriti obligations

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And now I see that his statement is also from that source! Very weird.

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