Preferred Supplier does not mean Required. For most insurers, while they will have a preference of who you use, you can use someone else. This is particularly the case when using better insurers over the cheapest option you could find, or when insuring higher end cars like OPs Mercedes (or for an alternative example my Jaguar when it was backed into by a neighbour, I used the panelbeater Jaguar recommended rather than who the insurer would’ve usually used).

Come on NZHerald, can we do a bit better and not have attack ads??? This isn’t the US 

Third parties (as in those outside of parliament like in this case the Sensible Sentencing Trust) running personal attack ads like these isn’t new anymore. Not really any different to the CTU funded ones personally attacking Luxon that sprang up all over the place before the last election (black and white Muldoon looking photo with the tagline ‘Christopher Luxon: out of touch, too much risk’).

Unfortunately the horse has bolted on stopping these American style attack campaigns, it seems the idea of actually debating policy rather than attacking personalities is over and we are probably going to be a few election cycles before we get back there sadly.

Given an oil pan from Supercheap is only $10, quite probably!

OP doesn’t appear to be asking about flying on an RJ (as in the jet type), rather they are asking about RJ as in Royal Jordanian the airline, to AMM (Amman, the main airport in the country of Jordan).

Working for a major carrier I can assure you outside the states it’s not the norm. In fact some countries go as far as to make the practice illegal, as you are trying to sell a seat you knowingly don’t actually have.

All American airlines over sell flights

FTFY. Most of the civilised world doesn’t allow that kind of behaviour.

Yup, a pit bull mix and two mastiff mixes,

They were an American Bulldog-cross, a Border Collie/Mastiff-cross and a Staffordshire Bull Terrier/Border Collie-cross.

Quote from the article. Where’s the pitbull?

Any dog that’s black and white gets labelled a border collie

Like what you’re doing conflating American Bulldogs and Staffordshire Terriers with Pitbulls?

Depends on if it actually can be polished out or if it’s deep enough to need respraying. As soon as you start repainting panels you can get into thousands very quickly.

If OP is at fault, her insurance will chase OP for the full cost of repairs, not just the excess.

The insurance company will always try and recover their costs from the at fault party, in this either from OP themselves (or had OP been insured, OPs insurer).

Edit to add: this is why you should have at minimum 3rd party insurance, even if your own car is a shitbox. You never know what you might hit and end up on the hook for very expensive repairs.

Generic workshops probably not due to the cost of keeping the various brands stuff up to date. If you can find an independent place that specialises in a particular brand (particularly when it comes to euros there’ll be somewhere that particularly specialises in BMW, Audi, Jaguar etc), they likely will as they’ll have invested in it to be able to do as much as possible on their chosen brand.

the US will soon be moving to ICAO nomenclature

Thus commencing a decades long transition period of Americans learning to fly like the rest of us, made up of some new pilots being ICAO standard , some using a mix of things, and the good ol boys refusing to join the 21st century because ‘Mercia!

Not really, most of the cost blowout was the massive amount of wharfside infrastructure required to handle the new ferries.

especially after reading this subreddit. 

Honestly it seems like many of those who comment here on Amex either don’t have one and just parrot the same points they’ve heard one elsewhere, or only had one years ago when the acceptance was actually pretty poor.

Amex acceptance is pretty widespread in NZ now, although some cities are outliers, Christchurch being the obvious example (credit card surcharges seemingly more frequently than anywhere else in the country and a corresponding lack of Amex acceptance).

I have given links her speaking her own words.

Please do the same.

Making unsubstantiated claims about why someone is in jail a good enough start?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/green-party-mp-tamatha-paul-cant-back-up-claim-person-jailed-for-12-theft/ORAG4A6XIRCTPNMZURBWBM24NQ/

Quote I guess I just take people’s word for it when they come and talk to me as a Member of Parliament.

Again, as an opposition MP, the first thing you need to do is make sure what you’re using to attack the govt is actually correct not just vibes and reckons. Just taking something a random constituent says and running with it without verifying it first (as she is quoted in her own words to have done) fails to meet that standard.

she has been on a mission to actually visit, and listen and see every prison and court in the country.

And yet even with all that, she’s still managed to spout things that were easily verified to be false. As an opposition MP, first thing you need to do is make sure what you’re using to attack the govt (and there’s plenty to validly attack them for) is actually correct, otherwise it largely discredits you and brings doubt to everything else you say.

Only because it’s mandated to be.

Decent and Leaf don’t really belong together.

I’m a fan of EVs when they suit the persons use case and circumstances, but allowing the massive proliferation of cheap early model Leafs (which is the only kind of Leaf that budget will buy) with no active battery cooling and terrible range has to be one of the biggest mistakes we’ve made as a country in terms of our EV transition. As a country we’ve effectively saddled ourselves with all the downstream costs and problems of recycling Japan’s rubbish (and the same can be said for plenty of the ICE imports we’ve allowed too).

Those jurisdictions being not this country. And nor should it be.

It’s a shame but signs like that are far more effective for making people stop and think before barging into a property than one that nicely says “please don’t open this gate and let my dog out”. Watched the courier do exactly that at my neighbours recently, pulled up, open the gate then left it wide open. Had their dog been running round the yard (which it’s perfectly entitled to do) it would’ve been able to get out and go who knows where before they knew what he’d done.

It’s not an isolated incident either, we have similar problems with a particular delivery company who can’t follow the instruction, whos driver said to us when asked “oh I only do thing like that if I can see a dog” 🤦🏼‍♂️.

TLDR: Signs have to be worded to be effective to the lowest common denominator, even if they then look like overkill to reasonable people.

Kind of. Some councils will discount your dog registration if there is a clear way to your front door away from the dog (example dog contained to fenced back yard, front door accessible) but it’s not actually a legal requirement.

It’s not a legal requirement because you can have all the warnings in the world, you can even put on the gate something like “do not enter without ringing this bell/wait to be admitted/call this number for safe entry” but if said delivery person is too dumb to follow the instruction yea you are liable.

The same applies to burglars or anyone else unlawfully on the property, you can have all the warnings, all the protective fencing designs, you could even keep the dog contained entirely inside the house, but if someone breaking in gets bit, it’s your fault as the dog owner not the criminals fault for breaking in 🙄.

Actual pitbulls are already restricted. The problem is people don’t know what they’re talking about and call all sorts of breeds a pitbull in a “I don’t know I’m looking at but it looks vaguely terrier-like so I’ll call it a pitbull” type way which always skews the stats.

Saw a house saying “beware roaming dog” like ffs keep your dog gated don’t warn people your dog roams.

The sign doesn’t mean roaming the neighbourhood, it means roaming the property. Meant as a warning of “hey before you come inside this gate unannounced, be aware that the dog may be running free inside here and you do so at your own risk”.

And much like human DNA tests that will tell you your X% Icelandic and Y% Ghanaian, their accuracy is dubious.

Maybe one day you will have to accept a job paying minimum wage and your opinions will become a bit more humble.

Been there done that. What I won’t do is accept one paying less than minimum wage. Employers who can’t afford to (or just flat won’t) pay minimum wage deserve to go under and be replaced in their sector by someone who can.

You forget that the benefit also pays tax.

Considerably more than. Minimum wage is $23.15, which is $926 for a standard 40 hour week. From next month it goes up to $23.50, which is $940 for a 40 hour week.

Minimum wage hasn’t been less than $850 a week since 2022 (when it was $848).