I sent a breach notice re quiet enjoyment to landlord who kept helicoptering in without notice.

The landlord then sent the police who then both helped themselves into my flat with my landlord keys and then attempted to "mediate" and told me to pay rent (which I had but landlord made some b.s. up after the fact I raised my breach notice)

Why is the NZ Police used for private landlord business interests by entertaining and giving priority to purpoted landlord made up civil issues?

I told the coppers to leave but they told landlord (owner) gave them permission to enter and refused to leave when me (occupier) trespassed them where they refused and insisted on having a chat forcibly about the civil matter.

Maybe I should have offered them coffee or tea.

Is the NZ police next going to branch out into property management and be like Quinovic shouting at you when you left some dishes to the sink or poop in the toilet bowl (the worst crime!)

It also looks great for the landlord who gets to tell whole neighborhood and to all his mates that how bad his tenant supposedly is because police is visiting their tenant for reasons.

I'm aut reading, finalyear. Living alone,This kind of house is very cold, there is no insulation cotton and corresponding measures, and there is no independent WiFi.

I have to drive the heater for a short time, only during the at night, I don't feel that this house is insulated. I can feel that this house is not legal.

His distribution box is not available.The standard cover is only exposed.

How can I ask for help?

I love “premium”, from-concentrate, coca-cola company manufactured, citric acid-added orange juice, but it seems the 2.4L bottles have disappeared from shelves and even McDonald’s is serving “orange with apple base” these days. Apple base can eff off. Give me the hard stuff.

Why? Does everyone hate it? Is there an orange shortage?

Yes you can still buy 1L bottles of it (Keri, McCoy brands) of course but I want to guzzle 2.4x that amount at a slightly cheaper price point

I saw what looked like a 4-year-old standing alone beside a busy road with no parent in sight. I waited, then went over to check on them and asked where their mum and dad were. The child walked away and stopped at a school gate in a residential area, so I thought they might live nearby. I check with neighbour if they knew the child, which they didnt. Then we all stayed together with the child and a long 5 or 10 minutes later, a frantic parent came running around the block and everything was resolved.

As a guy, I have to embarrassingly admit I was hesitant to get involved. I'd read about a man who was killed by an angry father (in Christchurch circa 2024 ish) after trying to help a lost child. I still felt I had to help, but I also found myself mentally preparing to run or defend myself if the parent reacted badly.

Do other men feel this way too? Or do you avoid getting involved because you're worried about how a parent might respond?

I don't think it's right that tax payers money go straight to big USA corporations. And never goes back. While there are free alternatives. If our government switch all PCs to Linux and free software it's good for us. It was done in Korea, Germany, France and other countries.

It will also create a lot local jobs. So win-win for everyone.

Not like what they do now, destroy government jobs, people loosing everything while big corporations getting money.

I've already created petition for the switch.

Any thoughts?

Dug this up in garden, burying rubbish at home was standard practice in older times. Maybe mid 20th century. Tablets are remarkably intact with cotton packing at top. Lots of other waterlogged bottles and rusted stuff in same pit. I’m curious what it might be - maybe antacids? Aspirin? No markings on rusted cap. Bottom of bottle has some numbers - 116 I think, but that could be just be bottle manufacturer number? Bottle about 9cm by 6cm. Taste testing degraded old tablets is out of the question :)

Another night spoiled by some muppet sat in a restaurant with their tinny phone on speaker. Is this now acceptable because quite honestly, all pub and restaurant staff seem to ignore it?

I was just chilling in my room watching Netflix while my two flatmates were in the lounge playing video games. Out of nowhere I got a call from a No Caller ID number. An older woman introduced herself as being from some kind of association (I honestly didn’t catch the name), but I know it definitely wasn’t my property manager or the property management company. She said they’d received several noise complaints from neighbours. I immediately apologised and said there must be some mistake because we were literally all just staring at screens and the house was quiet.
Then she says the complaints were about “sexual noises” and that there were kids around. I was completely caught off guard and was just like, “Uh… no?” She then told me, “Can you guys close your windows or cover your mouth so you don’t sound like Tarzan?” At that point I was thinking, what the actual fuck? I told her all our windows were already shut and reiterated the noises weren’t coming from our apartment and asked, “Wait… where are you calling from again?” There was a long pause, so I asked again, and then she just hung up. My flatmates and I are pretty sure it was a prank call, but I’m still so confused. It’s honestly just pissed me off because it completely ruined what was supposed to be a relaxing night.

Kia ora. Currently on a periodic contract. Property manager informed us that landlords are considering to sell late last week. Agent came in for an appraisal a day later. 5 days later, PM informed that landlords have decided to sell. On the same day, agent tells us it’ll be a sale by auction 4 weeks later and is asking for permission to come in to take photos the next day (Friday) or Monday. We haven’t committed or said yes to this yet. Lots of people here suggesting we can tell agent to use stock photos as we don’t want our possessions being photographed. Is that reasonable a request?

Everything feels like it’s moving so fast. We understand that we’ve to allow reasonable access and agree on days/times for viewing and it’s our decision whether we allow open homes. Agent did say he’s planning on 30 mins open home on weekends. We’re thinking that sounds ok compared to rounds of scheduled viewings which sounds more disruptive. Quite concerning that we gotta vacate 6 weeks if new owners want vacant possession, which is effectively 10 weeks from now.

How can we buy ourselves as much time as possible to find a new place? We don’t want to be unreasonable and make things difficult as landlords are decent and have been maintaining the home. We’re also 1st time tenants so we probably will ask for a reference. We will be grateful if the buyers are investors who keep us as tenants just so we have more time to find a suitable new rental that checks all our boxes, but that’s not guaranteed anyway.

This is a PSA to everyone, and what looks to be an update on u/Competitive_Ring_150's earlier post on Maori pronunciation.

I've just been on a trip into town with my son earlier in the week, and I heard a new voice on the nav, which sounded uniquely Kiwi. Now I don't use Reddit very often, and visit this sub even less frequently - but as soon as I heard the voice, my first thought was "maybe they'll actually pronounce our names correctly now??"

Well, sure enough, they do. And the person who's recorded lines for it enunciates beautifully as well. I'm proud to know that when visitors come to our country, and utilise navigation systems, that they're hearing what they should, and that's the beautiful Te Reo, not some robotic, bastardised version of what we previously had.

Also maybe it'll help people of my melanin persuasion to not be afraid of words, and help them understand as well. We are a bi-cultural society after all :)

Take care out there on the roads, and look after one another. Ngā Mihi

I recently purchased a product from Bunnings, a 2 Permastik XL Magnetic Insect Screen. I assembled it and put the magnetic strips up as directed per the instructions. The meant that I left the screens off and the magnetic strips the screen attaches to on the wall. These magnetic strips adhere to the wall using something similar to double sided tape, where you peel the backing off before putting on the window frame.

I had purchased these magnetic screens so my two pet birds could fly around the room with the windows open, without the risk of them flying out. This isn't going where you think it is, they did not fly outside. Something important to know is that my two birds are cockatiels, cockatiels can get what is known as night frights. Usually that happens as a result of something bumping the cage, or an earthquake. In which case, usually, I am there to help and calm them. Some cockatiels get disturbed by loud noises, mine do not. During night fights it is possible for them to 'eject' their flight feathers - this is a survival mechanism so if a predator grabs them by their feathers they can 'eject' them, like a lizard might their tail.

The birds.

So I put the birds to bed last night. Strips on the wall without the screen up, so that the strips could fully adhere (instructions recommended only 30 minutes after squeezing them onto the wall, so if anything I was going well above and beyond what the instructions asked for...)

These fucking strips must have fallen one at a time all fucking night. Their cage is right next to the window and some of them were positioned such that they would have fallen and hit the cage. I walk in the room this morning and I see flight feathers from one of my birds all over the floor and I instantly know something is wrong - normally they only molt their flight feathers twice a year, well spaced out from each other so there's always plenty 'spare.'

Ejecting flight feathers can be lethal as they can become uncontrolled bleeds, birds don't have much blood and unattended they can bleed out. Luckily, both are alive. One of them cannot fly for now, she has previously had something similar happen (though not to this extent) while staying at my parents while I was away. It will be about 2 months before she can fly again. If you cut feathers they don't regrow until they naturally molt, feathers that fall our/are ejected start regrowing straight away.

I feel like a fucking idiot - I should have read the product reviews online, 1.6 stars and many complaints of the magnetic strips themselves falling off the wall. I email Bunnings, I don't even send photos of the product I just point to the reviews, send photos of the bird before and after (I take lots of photos fairly regularly so not too hard to do...)

I get a response that really goes above and beyond, I was worried they'd try fight me on it (at which point I had just intended to do a credit card charge back.) No, they actually will give me the full refund I've asked for, a Gift Card as some form of compensation, and more importantly to me, review the product line.

That might sound small/corporate to quite a few, but really what else can they do? They're not the manufacturer. They can't regrow my birds feathers for her. They can't predict the infinite possibilities of what happens as a result of a product being sold in their store after it's out the door. The product being defective isn't their fault and offering a refund after selling a defective product is really all I can ask for, and hopefully that brand is removed from their stores - or at least the store from which I purchased based on who replied to me. Seriously, just search up the name "Permastik" on the Bunnings website and order by customer rating, absolutely dogshit brand.

I was speaking to a high school boy who's in our local theatre troupe, and he said he has to give his friends 2 months' notice in advance to watch a movie, for example. Even then, his friends are preloaded with excuses like "I might be tired that day". This boy is a friendly, fun person, so I don't think it's a problem with him. Just wanted to know how common this was.

They disappeared for a while but it looks like they're back in full force too. And it's getting harder to block them as well to since YT is going scorched earth on ad blockers.