I listen to nothing but AM in the car. Two reasons: Firstly, as soon as I'm out of built-up areas and into the countryside, FM just disappears. Seems to a line-of-sight thing. Secondly, I prefer to listen to the National Programme (RNZ) when I'm driving long-distance, because it's interesting and has no advertising, and I can't stand commercial FM stations with their idiot DJs and incessant commercials.

Look up -isostasy-.

I wondered what had happened to the Piasecki Airgeep from 1958: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Same idea, lighter engines allow smaller size.

A song that dates from 1982. This is not a recent new usage.

A point you might not realise is that te reo Maori (the Maori language) is an official language of Aotearoa/New Zealand. English is not.

Not for HAVING the video - for DISTRIBUTING the video. Where do you get your information from??

Wrong, wrong, wrong. There was NO handgun (strictly illegal in NZ). What the defender had was a handheld eftpos machine, which he threw at the attacker. He also picked up an abandoned (empty) rifle and threw it through the attacker's windscreen as he drove off to the third mosque. By then the police had seen the video, noted the licence number, saw the car, rammed it off the road, and dragged the attacker out. No shooting or waving of guns around by anyone except the attacker.

Because there's no number on the card, you won't be able to use it with a zip-zap machine during a power cut.

I'm in New Zealand. My credit card is used only for online purchases. A lot of shops have signs saying "Cash or EFTPOS only", or "No Paywave". Even in shops that do take credit cards, I'll be asked if I have anything else. It's why I stopped using a credit card for shopping. That's the only way retailers can fight back.

I saw the headline and thought "Gosh, only 3 pounds, that's really cheap!"

Yes, Australia has been metric for 50 years. So I'm guessing the distance apart is something like 25 metres. The difference is that '25 metres' will be understood by everyone, everywhere in the world (except for one isolationist country).

Okay, you've got me. The origin was a remembered newspaper article explaining what the term meant. Now that I actually look it up, all I can find is a Collins dictionary definition of the word 'munt' as being a South African/Zimbabwean derogatory term for a black African. No proven connection with 'munted' that I can see. So there you go; perhaps it is Australian after all, and what I read was a reporter's guess.

The term 'munted' was never heard in NZ before the big Christchurch earthquakes, in which the city got munted, twice. It's actually a South African racist term, and not very nice in its original usage in that country. The older term, still more commonly used, is 'buggered', which has an equally bad origin.

I had my BNZ credit card declined when I was trying to order online. That was a real scare. Managed to complete the transaction by doing direct transfer of funds from another bank. Online purchases are really the only time I use a credit card. Not many people use credit cards for purchases in NZ shops, and if you do you're likely to be hit with a surcharge. That's because of the high per-transaction cost to the retailer, compared with EFTPOS which is a fixed per-month cost.

There's another thing. There are twelve of those little rotors, looking like blades from a motor mower. With no protection. What could possibly go wrong?