Call came from someone claiming to be ANZ fraud, the call was spoofed to come from the Wellington number on the back of the card. He knew a lot of my personal details, had my email address, my name, my PO Box, wanted me to tell him recent transactions, but when I asked to be put through to a bank verification he refused saying it needed to be dealt with quickly...... I told him I was ending the call and calling back ANZ to verify, he was not happy saying any fraudulent transactions would be now my responsibility.

Called back ANZ and definitely a scam.

Stay safe out there peeps!

Nz birds are pretty. Drawn as a gift for my brother in law.

...Are we tired of these yet? I hope not, but kind of felt the need to try and clean up the ones I made a while ago and make them a bit easier to read.

I haven't gone through the trouble this time of using different types of lines for different track states, all the lines are just solid colours to help keep things convenient for me, but I retained the dotted lines around the larger metro areas to hopefully help show that it's at a different scale.

Most of the changes are in the cosmetics, such as widening the CRL loop in AKL to make it a bit easier to read, along with elongating the Wellington lines and expanding the Christchurch section to have a bit more detail. No markers for lines because I tried to use as few colours as possible. Would have been seven had it not been for one extra bit at Wellington, so eight it is. Did my best to come up with a believable suburban line for Tauranga, even if it isn't really all that long compred to ones in Hamilton or Christchurch, but it's hopefully at least something. Also made the loop for Taranaki a bit larger to hopefully make it a bit more distinct.

Did my best with making a country outline, I am very aware of how bent the islands look, as well as the shape disparity, but I was trying my best. Not every station was added in, just some of the main ones as well as interchanges, moreso so you can kind of track the lines on the full map and see (roughly) where they'd go on the outline of the country, though some of my placements are probably a bit off. If anyone's interested you are more than welcome to try and make a better version of the islands one, though I think if I do make any adjustments I'm going to leave it to just the simplified one, and not worry about the country outline.

And yes. That includes my post. I’m aware of the irony.

But there have been at least a dozen posts in the last few days about a certain green sheep from that a certain NZ brand has adopted.

Yes the marketing team knew what they were doing. Yes everyone posting memes about it is just providing them with free advertising and exposure.

As someone who has been in the ad industry for decades, I can assure you “how to use reddit” is very much taught in agencies.

• Last years most “Effective” award cites reddit in their entry form.

• NZ Marketing conferences give Keynotes about how to use Reddit in marketing.

• “After releasing it unannounced one morning, the chase quickly filled social media feeds, hit the front page of Reddit and clocked more than 100,000 likes.”

Edit: Great debate happening. Hundreds of people engaging in conversation about his brand’s new mascot.

Went straight through my nail no problem at all.

They turned off the comments lmao

Hello, my friends in New Zealand! I'm from China, and in my twenties, I'm absolutely fascinated by New Zealand. Unfortunately, for now, it's just a dream, and maybe I'll never get the chance to travel abroad in my lifetime. So, to those of you living in New Zealand, would you mind sharing some real photos of your everyday life and the beautiful scenery there? I'd really love to see what life in New Zealand is actually like. 😭

Just finished having a great chat with out new neighbours who rent from a genuinely horrible landlord. Turns out they’ve never voted and don’t really plan to, but still had a lot to say about renting and general cost of living issues.

So you know who will definitely vote? Their elderly landlords and their likely boss (based on voter turnout demographics)

Please please please vote.

Duolingo can only wish it had its finger pressed so firmly to the throbbing pulse of cultural relevance.

Ive been working at New World for the past 5 weeks, and I've noticed that my 8 hour shifts don't have the standard two 10 minute paid breaks and one 30 minutes unpaid break, instead I only get one 1 hour unpaid break and no paid breaks at all. I've been thinking that this might be illegal, but im scared to speak up about because im still on my 6 month training period, which means they can cancel my contract for no reason whenever they want. Does anyone know what I can do about this at all?

P.S. This affects everyone at my work who has a 7, 8, and 9 hour shifts.

24.09.26 press release: Healthcare Concern Increases While Unemployment Overtakes Housing As New Zealanders' Fourth Most Important Issue. This includes link report (pdf) and press release (pdf) at the end of the page. Also available via Scoop.

1:26am, 5 October 2026 edit to add link below and removed duplicated link above:

National Party misrepresents NZ tax poll. AAP Factcheck. September 25, 2026.

I was having a discussion with my wife about countries where the majority of people all love a certain artist or band and I was curious how this works with the Enz.