liv @ liv @lemmy.nz

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Ah so that's what happened to the cheap St Georges Bay Rd hostels (City Garden and Lantana Lodge) ! They must have all been converted into de facto SRO housing by MSD and that's why they no longer operate as travel accommodation.

Some of those rooms were tiny and the place was a labyrinth, and it was dodgy before it had a captive population - must have been a complete hellhole as an always-at-capacity social housing facility.

And yes does sound like another arson. Really lucky nobody lost their lives in this one.

Only other thing I can think of is moisturiser. Like, hand cream and then use a green scrubbing thingy.

Me neither and it's been horrible ha ha.

Happy birthday!!!! Half a century on this planet!!

Nail polish remover and cotton wool or something similarly fibre-filled, like an old towel.

Maybe you should make yourself a Neocities page, that's like pre-social media internet...

It's probably more that it's difficult to prove something damaged his hearing if it's not mechanical. ACC cover hearing damage, but not congenital hearing loss or Meniere's disease, etc.

ACC draw a very hard line. For example if you dislocate your shoulder in an accident they pay for it to be fixed but if they think it dislocated due to, say, rheumatoid arthritis or EDS then you are not covered.

Deaf people don't qualify for ACC anyway unless it was caused by an accident, so were they having to prove an accident caused him neurological damage? That does sound like the kind of thing ACC like to try to squirm out of.

Te Whatu Ora have this rule where disabled people don't qualify for disability funding if the disability is due to a long term illness. It's really bizarre.

True! Until I met them I had always imagined they would have a beautiful "song"...

They also like to take part in the dawn chorus, which is pretty rough if you're sleeping nearby.

Yeah it's really stark too. If you're seriously hurt in an accident you get all these specialists helping you, treatment, equipment, even compensation for lost wages.

If you're seriously hurt by an illness you don't get any of it. I've had both and it was hard to believe it was the same health system.

I have to admit it never occurred to me that anyone thought building a giant wall was going to fix this.

That's right, you have the "90 day cough". Has it been more than 90 days?

Peacocks do have that one cry that sounds exactly like a woman yelling "help"!

That sounds horrible! I really hope you get better soon.

I deleted my comment because I thought I was being too negative and whiny, didn't realise someone had already seen it. In reality things are better today cos I've been able to keep an anti-nausea pill down (seems counter intuitive that this stuff is in pill form).

In better news a morepork has started hanging out in a neighbourhood tree again, meaning we get sweet sounds for ages at night.

I was thinking angle grinder.

Surely "actual coffee culture" is how/where people drink coffee.

But yes, middle-class people are quite likely to own espresso machines at home.

I mentioned the Starbucks thing because it was a kind of famous case in business studies. It had expanded into other markets with no problem. You're sounding kind of angry with me about it?

American coffee culture is very different from NZ.

Starbucks had to close most of its franchises in NZ and Australia because espresso, lattes etc are already the norm here.

Percolated coffee is only really in very working class places like factory cafetarias.

Lemmyvision playlist on youtube.

Ouch!!!

Not sure...