2. "Next they'll pass a law saying it's OK for the weirdos to be able to sleep with their sister or their mother #marriageequality."
3. "Maybe scrap benefits and then the taxpayers can have decent public toilets. There's a lot of people on benefits think the world owes them."
4. "For goodness sake, we're having to import immigrants to keep the population up as it is."
Dressing up for big occasion
Lois Leece, of Glendene, writes: "One of my 8-year-old twin grand-daughters with very definite ideas cannot, with any amount of persuasion or cajoling, be convinced to wear a dress. She did, however, say to her mother the other day: 'Mum, I'm going to make Grandma very happy, I'm going to wear a dress to her funeral!' I might add I am a sprightly 71-year-old often to be found boogie boarding at Karekare beach with numerous grandchildren."
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