Can I hope that this is just a minor party proposing a bill they know won’t go anywhere in order to pander to their supporters?

Too easy! I suspect it can’t use more than one input source at once, and you’re supposed to switch between them using the Super+Space combo. So it was probably still set to English.

I tested in Zen and it works fine for me 🤷

I don’t have English as an input, only Māori. It doesn’t prevent you using letters not in Māori, in fact it seems to work the same as English but allow the macrons. I noticed the same thing in Windows as well.

Idk, anything for novelty? If another kid gets chips or roll ups a lot they might want a marmite sandwich?

Yeah true. I refuse to buy those little bags of chips that contain more plastic bag mass than chips.

those mini packets of cinderella raisins

Ooh I forgot about those! The dentist told me not to give the kids dried fruit haha.

I can’t remember what age I started not taking lunch to school, but it was before high school. Before that, yeah, two sandwiches. I never got little packets of chips or things like that as a kid, not sure when that got more common.

I wonder if your kids are trading or something?

For sure. I see empty chip packets come home in their lunch boxes that I never put there. Sometimes a muesli bar wrapper or roll up wrapper. Not sure what they are trading, fruit and sandwiches doesn’t seem exciting enough to entice the other kid,

You can buy bacon without nitrates, but the nitrates are the yummy bit… it does make it pink but if you taste bacon with no added nitrates it’s not the same.

In terms of dosage… this isn’t really a case of benefits outweighing risks. I’m not aware of any health benefits of eating highly processed meat (that you couldn’t get from the unprocessed equivalent). Easiest to minimise consumption to reduce the risk. I’ll still eat it on a burger in the same way I’ll still have the occasional beer even though alcohol is a known carcinogen, but I don’t want processed meat to be an everyday food.

I also have right alt. I can do āēīōū by holding right alt and pressing the letter. Just checking settings, I seem to have the compose key disabled but the alternate character key enabled. I have Māori as the input language.

Hmm the UK Marmite I’ve had wasn’t very syrupy. Well, I haven’t had it except once a long time ago so maybe it was and I don’t remember. Or maybe there are different brands.

Well this is going to turn a bit dark but processed meats are loaded with nitrates (normally sodium nitrate, listed as “Preservative (250)”), which is one of very few things on the WHOs “definitely causes cancer” list. So I try to avoid it if possible.

Outside of occupational risks (and biological ones, like HPV), the “definitely causes cancer” list is very short. The main ones are basically smoking, alcohol, and processed meat.

So it’s not a case of “everything causes cancer” and more a case of specifically avoiding processed meat in lunch boxes/in general.

The list is here: https://monographs.iarc.who.int/list-of-classifications

Group 1 is the definitely causes cancer group. I find it easiest to download and filter in Excel.

The list of groups is here: https://monographs.iarc.who.int/agents-classified-by-the-iarc/

I’m assuming you mean someone who is good for the country (someone we should want to represent us) and not someone who is good at playing the politics game (Winston Peters being an example of the latter and not the former).

I think a politician needs to be able to answer to their constituents. If someone comes and asks why you voted a particular way you need to have an answer (that is not just the party told me to). This includes being able to explain when you voted for something you didn’t agree with because of the party direction. They would need some really good people skills and conflict resolution skills.

I think a good politician should have influence in their party, and influence that party to aim for long term goals even at the risk of not being voted in for the next election. Doing what is right for the country not right for the party.

Outside of that, I think you get into some specific skills for ministers and select committees, etc, that are not necessarily “politician” skills. Prime Minister is another specific skill that is hard to really nail down.

I’m just rambling really, I’m making this up as I go as I don’t really know what would make a good politician. I think I’d recognise it when I see it, which I hope will happen within my lifetime 😅

I don’t have a better answer than I just don’t want to. I don’t want to be a public figure. I don’t want to be always working. I don’t even want to talk to people. I’d make a terrible politician.

And then there’s the part where you want to enact change but the system is rigged against you.

I like the idea, one day when they actually eat my (delicious) cooking reliably maybe I can consider this 😆

Thanks for the ideas!

Yesterday I put two marmite sandwiches and a banana in one of the kid’s lunch boxes and it came home with one sandwich and a banana… so maybe your kids eat more than mine, or maybe that’s a sign my lunches aren’t up to scratch.

British Marmite and NZ Marmite are quite different from each other, so Vegemite is clearly still in the grouping (and you could say is similar to British Marmite).

Thanks for the tip, looks like Kmart has something similar.

Marmite is a yeast spread. It’s a classic spread made from by-products of beer brewing.

It’s (very) savoury. A nice alternative to all the sweet spreads. It also has a strong flavour so while NZ kids grow up on it, if you haven’t then spread it very thinly (I’d suggest butter the bread first).

Hmm, that’s a good thought but my kids have these compartmented lunch boxes they got from their grandmother. Not a lot of room for an ice pack. I think I’ve heard of special ones designed for lunch boxes, I might look into that. Thanks for the reminder!

He seems to have had a pretty typical middle class upbringing. Based on his wikipedia page, I’m guessing he never had an empty lunchbox. He apparently even spent a year at a private school. It does appear he had two parents working.

OK I admit, the only reason I’m posting this is because earlier I was making a Marmite sandwich and banana lunchbox and apparently that’s not enough.

The idea of putting chicken in a lunchbox to sit at room temperature all day just doesn’t feel right.

Any suggestions for what to put in a school lunch that doesn’t come pre-packaged?

I am generally a fan because it does allow for less time and money spent on elections but I do see the value in a shorter term. I don’t quite get the whole thing about having 3 year terms if the select committee isn’t set up a certain way though. Very confusing.