So long, CPR.
It is summertime in beautiful New Zealand, or almost summertime, and the beaches are filled with happy locals who have spent much of the last year-plus locked indoors. They are out now, and free, but maybe too free flocking to beaches and forgetting how to swim, surf.
There were two mass rescues, yesterday. One in Raglan after hundreds of people got sucked out to sea in a giant rip tide. Fourteen souls were saved and none lost. Another in Auckland where thirteen souls were snatched from Davy Jones’ Locker and none lost.
Lifeguards, brave and bold, hoisting dripping wet, gasping men and women into boats, helping them to shore.
Lifeguards, courageous and resolute, pumping chests and not performing CPR with their mouths because their mouths and noses are covered with abundant caution.
Yes, New Zealand became the first country to require its lifeguards to wear masks whilst on duty. Raglan’s patrol captain Molly Abrams told Radio New Zealand that all lifeguards had been given cotton masks to wear “when practicable” but that “saving lives was still a priority.”
CPR seems outdated, anyhow, so all good.
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Could be, but what’s the cause of all the interest in surfing all of a sudden? People had a lot of time to watch videos the past year or so. And certain vloggers are pimping our sport and lifestyle for profit, getting rich and ruining our past time with kooks. They need to be called out and held responsible. IMO
I’ll burn the fuckers down in that case…
We wear ours too. It’s that whole guarding life part of lifeguarding.
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A colleague recently spent 2 hours in a small bathroom installing fittings with a guy who tested pos for covid, my unvaxxed associate did not catch the bug, the guy who had it had zero symptoms and only got tested cause he had to every day to leave a hot zone.
He was double shot
It’s meth for the workers and coke for the managers over here…
Chas, I’m so glad you brought this up, I have been, literally, curious for years, what is the difference between “practicable” and “practical”? Please I’m asking you to give me a linguist‘s opinion.
Thanks!
Good question. Its actually a matter of time, being past, present and future. For example, Kelly saying now “we are going to build a wave pool at Coolum. We are going to build it in a practical way”. Then 12 months after its finished and the attendance numbers are way down and all the investors lose money he says “well the idea was practicable at the time”
ahhh, the future imperfect tense? thank you Cap!
This is like the idiots I see driving around LA with masks on in their car by themselves with the windows up.
If this is what it’s come to, our civilization is doomed
I ain’t an anti-vaxx freedom fighter, or in favour of holding people down involuntarily so a Doc can insert 5G. But watching said idiots with masks by themselves in cars gives me giggles.
Open your mind. Maybe it’s just to protect the drowning victim from French kisses from the rescuer(s).
Never doubt the intelligence of Ardern and her band of sub-Bogan minions running NZ these days. Even the sheep are nervous for reasons beyond their typical fears of advanced animal husbandry.
“Sub Bogan”….. hahahaha! Awesome
Does anyone here know any assassins that could be crowdfunded to help solve the problems we’re having with our current NZ Govt ?
Any help would be appreciated…
Seriously. What the hell is wrong with those people?
The 4th covid shot should finish them off. Unless they’re shooting saline. Wouldn’t surprise me
Or crack more like it…
We dont have crack down unda.
304’s should be in charge of nothing except pleasing Men!!
Calculating.
Upside down….
Yeah Gov, where is the support the farmers! Who needs clean rivers and lakes when you can have beautiful gassy cattle grazing the barren landscape. If you squint had enough you can imagine those wondrous fires burning native forest.
Most of us have fenced off the rivers etc.
My own streams have far cleaner water than any cities water supply will ever be.
A vast majority of NZ’s bush that got turned into grazing land was burnt off well over a hundred years ago and bounced back very quickly.
Best you go and sit in ya concrete jungle and whinge some other things you nothing about, moron…
Here’s a photo I just took from my house right now especially for you German VAL.
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If you think this is barren you’re an idiot.
R those Jacaranda trees?
No it’s a sort of poplar/cottonwood.
We’ve got a couple of Jacaranda’s (not in this shot though) but they’re not flowering at the moment…
Give them 4 weeks.
Moonrise last weekend with Jacaranda tree.
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Green Beef & Beer
Here’s another angle of NZ farmland right now, with approaching clouds to give it a wash.
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Only a dimwitted fool would consider this to be barren and to have unclean water…
Can smell the Nitrate from here.
My family’s had this place for almost 12 years and we haven’t put a single ounce of any fertiliser or poison on it, and we’re never going to.
The people we bought it off had owned it for about 20 years and hadn’t used any either.
It’s been long-term 100% organic, and we have about 30% less animals than non-organic farms but make as much (or more) income than them with far lower expenses, through having far higher quality animals that produce far higher quality beef…
Bwahahahahahaha! Bwahahahahaha! MENTAL ILLNESS!!!
Late stage syphilis possibly.
Got my 2nd pfizer jab on Saturday. Woke up that night with a bad fever. Was talking to the wife the next morning, she was like are you feeling better? I’m like yeah I had the worst fever I think I was hallucinating. She’s like, you tried to have sex with me. I’m like yeah I thought you were someone else
Fuck, worrying trend in NZ… Covid SUPER Rips! Thoughts and prayers 🙏
COvid super bong rips were the lockdown pandemic
Forget the mask – what about launching the Beachgrit lifeguard short “ballsack boardies” will def keep you safe
Follow the science they say ha ha…… i wish she would hurry up and tell them that sucking your husbands old fella once a day is a covid cure….then I’d be in businesses for the first time since the pandemic started.
No wait that might make some people happy, she would say “sucking your husbands c*#k can give u covid”
WRONG! As long as the provider is wearing a mask while sucking a Covid infection will not occur
Well done for saving that person’s life sir, and how would you like to pay your $200 fine?
Theater of the absurd
In the beginning of the pandemic I saw a guy surfing with a cloth mask on. I don’t know what to say about it, but I felt like I needed to tell someone. I feel better already.
Is that a true fact?
It felt a bit like I was hallucinating but I’m pretty sure it was real
Better than a speedo? Maybe.
We’re here for you brother. Thank you for sharing.
Yet when I put a mask on and try to grab people in the water they call the police