Ritchie C

@Matt_Pinner A kick in the nuts.

🤔🤔

@Milajoy Hello Clarice.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. Say hello to my little friend. I'll be back. No one puts baby in a corner. What is the BEST movie quote of ALL TIME?

@Hania16836 Nup.

@Avabelly__ In a heartbeat 💓

Would you? 🤔🤔

@shouq_al90149 Brussel sprouts.

Name a vegetable starting with B??

@FrankBr05713205 Absoloutely. Bamboo ones were the best.

This was my calculator in college. On the plus side, it didn't need any batteries. Anybody else ever use one?

@Jamesrus42 For sure.

Do you think Trump will interfere with or attempt to stop the 2026 midterm elections?

@lady_valor_07 Chips

Fries aren’t available, what are you having with this burger?

@shouq_al90149 I'd have to wonder why children of that age aren't bathing themselves.

Am I worng or right ??

@LouieTheRed1 @nzfirst Apart from the subsidiaries?

@nzfirst Thank you Labour, for what proved to be a successful and popular Te Huia passenger train service.

Winston Peters: We stepped up and rebuilt rail in New Zealand

@tweetzbyidil You don't have a friend in this person, you have a user.

I lent my friend money when he was at his lowest. No paperwork at all. No pressure, just trust. He needed help and I showed up. At the time, he couldn’t afford basic things. I didn’t hesitate.. 2 years later, his life completely changed for the better. He was enjoying life, got himself a new car, lives in a mansion, and travels…

@saniyafatma1278 Yes.

@ThrillaRilla369 Ok cancel leave

Your manager tells you they need you to work during your vacation week, because an emergency came up. What do you tell them?

@PronouncedHare Means testing takes away any incentive to save for retirement. It also ends up costing a lot to administer. There are numerous complications. Do you allow super for a widow living in an old house with little income, but not for someone renting with few assets but high income?

Okay some very rough numbers here about why he is full of it. The median Kiwi earns around $62,000 a year. So let's say that over a 40-year working life, they pay roughly $465,000 in income tax. Of that $465,000 in lifetime income tax, roughly $79,000 is proportionally attributable to superannuation, based on super's share of government expenditure (about 17%). Meanwhile, a single retiree collects around $537,000 in NZ Super over a 20-year retirement. Almost seven times what their taxes specifically contributed to the scheme. The gap is funded by today's workers. No value judgment there. It's just a description of how NZ Super works. It is an intergenerational social contract. Current workers support current retirees, on the understanding that the next generation will do the same for them. Calling it "not a benefit" doesn't make it not a benefit. It is, by any technical definition, a government transfer payment. Framing it as a personal savings entitlement is simply not true. And it only works as long as people keep having families of sufficient size to ensure there will always be enough workers to support the retirees without crushing debt. From about the 1970s on, New Zealanders stopped having families of sufficient size to sustain the model without constant immigration (which he also opposes). The means-testing debate is legitimate. Reasonable people disagree. But the question isn't whether to "hack away" super from seniors. It's whether a retiree with $3 million in assets and $150,000 in annual investment income should receive the same universal payment as someone who retires with nothing. Means testing isn't going to save current and future workers from the crushing debt Winston Peters feels entitled to foisting on us, but sooner or later it's going to have to come into the picture.

@DrHelenFry My father. Service in Italy, North Africa and Japan.

Do you have a family member who served in WW2?

@blurb_nz Not seeing a link here? There's a single cause of almost every road death on NZ roads; poor driving. The driving I see every time I am on the roads, I'm surprised the road toll is as low as it is.

18 people dead in the last 2 weeks on our NZ roads! And the Coalition Govt wants to allow trucks to carry more and travel on roads that are not suitable for heavy trucks! Wankers!

@rangir53 Ours went up 25% plus similar rise in line charged. Also notified of another increase in June.

why are they putting our power up another 8%, just recieved a notice? theyve already raised it 2 months ago

@rovnni Have done so. Neighbour was ill treating a horse, reported him to the SPCA and it was taken away and rehomed.

você denunciaria seu vizinho se soubesse que ele estava maltratando o animal de estimação dele?

@mauriceraiti Good spin - nice way to avoid accountability!

Who knew? So Lloyd Burr made a racist remark . Maiki Sherman returned serve with a homophobic reply. Yet strange as it may seem it was all about Maiki and Lloyd didn’t want to take it further. Of course he didn’t . He started it and not such a good story for right wing media.

@BoomerDivvies Even if your maths was correct. Which others have shown it's not, your governments over many years have evidenced startling ineptitude when it comes to financial management. So they'd undoubtedly run up more debt and in a few years you'd be in debt again.

The US deficit is now $39 trillion dollars. But the US population is also huge, 349,000,000 people. So if they all paid $112 then the deficit would be paid off. Why aren't they doing this??