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  • Last week we finally hit that sweet spot where all the ingredients of ratatouille become affordable, even aubergine, so I made one!

    Ah, the taste of childhood. Back when in summer you could buy capsicums by the crate, and ratatouille was just a cheap way to make the kids eat plenty of veg.

  • "Artisenal icecream (banana and havarti with saffron)" 😁

  • Yeah when looking for the article (I only knew the flavours part) I was quite surprised by how similar it sounds!

    Let me know how your banana and cheese icecream turns out.

  • Wait there is such a thing as an icecream machine?!

  • Adorable. I like how the sofa and the cat's forehead are both striped.

  • Yes it's clearly not fit for purpose.

    Unless you have insurance (which I hope you do) if you got struck down bu one of the dread diseases you'd be unlikely to afford to rent a kainaga ora house.

    Because you have a housing deposit you's not elligible for Accomodation supplement leaving you witb $342 a week. Take away 25% rent you're left with $264 per week to cover everything food, bills, utilities.

    It doesn't take much to overset that. One disastwr in your life and suddenly money is supeertight.

  • I agree with all these points. Long term I'd like to see a move away from creating ghettos (especially SROs to more pepperpotting.

  • Maybe. But I would think that's more of an argument for a) police funding and b) pepperpotting which is international best practice for social housing anyway.

    When I lived in leafy suburbs I once saw the police arrive within 5 minutes because a passerby had peed on someone's letterbox.

  • Being poor doesn't always mean you're taking the mickey. But all humans need shelter and warmth.

  • We already have clear laws about assault and harrassment. I would like to see those upheld properly.

    No one should be able to do those things, whether they are in Kainga Ora or own their own flat in Remuera.

  • That's a lot like how when pirates attack a ship there are always a few confused people picturing parrots and peg legs instead of speedboats and semiautomatics.

  • Ikr. Doing that with the richest man instead does not seem to have the same effect.

  • Hmm you're probably right.

  • When you put it like that... really we shouldn't accept anything less.

  • That's a soulless issue? Damn, that means I don't always have one either.

  • President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho will be interested.

  • Exciting!

  • I'm sorry.

  • Wait what would we normally have in mind? I thought mutinies were almost always about conditions.