Welcome to Gog

Gog is the community for grumpy old geezers. But you don’t have to be male, old, or a geezer. You just have to be grumpy.
What can I get grumpy about?
Almost anything. The usual rules of "legal, decent and honest" apply. No personal attacks, no obscenities or gross swearing and nothing that could land you (or us) with a libel suit.
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A jail that leaks like a $6m sieve. Who’s being screwed? People who are condemned to live in privately owned leaky homes will not be happy with the Government’s rapid response to the newly revealed problem of convicts living in a leaky prison. While law-abiding honest victims languish in rotting houses that are almost impossible to sell, ...
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Navy PR stunt scuttled! Laughter is uncontained Join the Navy, for “a life less ordinary”, as that painfully awful TV commercial trumpeted. The slogan had many people pondering its meaning. But if the new naval onslaught now headlined in our newspapers is anything to go by, life in the Navy is much ...
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Fight the litter spies: Be a tidy, anonymous Kiwi Following the $100 fine on a Tawa resident (subsequently waived) for clearing sundry scrap items out of a car and into a council rubbish bin, it would appear that the next slogan to adorn our "Yeah, right" roadside hoardings will be "Be a Tidy Kiwi". The ...
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