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Old Oct 28th 2006, 9:43 am
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Originally Posted by mumomonty
Again, I applaud you Mazi. You know the Warehouse? Well we call it the Church of New Zealand.
Damn I wish I'd met you when I was there!
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Old Oct 28th 2006, 9:52 am
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Originally Posted by mazi
Damn I wish I'd met you when I was there!
Ciao (probably only italian I know apart from pizza) oh and andiamo
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Old Oct 28th 2006, 9:55 am
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Ciao (probably only italian I know apart from pizza) oh and andiamo
Come now, surely you know 'pasta' too??!!
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Old Oct 28th 2006, 10:28 am
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You can't buy diet Dandelion and Burdock here
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Old Oct 28th 2006, 10:39 am
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Number 8 wire mentality

The continuous arguments about whether Russell Crowe is an NZer or an Ocker; he's a prat, why do you want to claim him?

Pot Luck dinners - lots of mish-mashes of food, bleurgh. "I'll have the prawns with the cabbage mash thanks - oh and maybe a bit of pasta with some fake mozzarella thrown on top".
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Old Oct 28th 2006, 11:07 am
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I've said it before and I will probably never stop

the blooming sandflies
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Old Oct 28th 2006, 11:11 am
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Originally Posted by pixi-dust
I've said it before and I will probably never stop

the blooming sandflies
ditto
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Old Oct 28th 2006, 11:18 am
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- the car culture
- sooped up jananese imports with tin can size exhausts (mufflers :-O)
- the fact that a 15 year old can drive to school in a v8 powered car, talking away on a mobile phone without any insurace and not be breaking a single law
- bad haircuts
- really bad shirts
- the sausages - i wouldnt feed them to a dog let alone a human
- supermarkets stocked with leftovers
- the fact that every bulb of garlic i EVER bought in the country was at least 50% rotten
- for a nation that is supposedly (statistically) the most travelled in the world they are exceptionally un-worldly and igorant of any food not to be found at their own doorstep
- the beer, although there are a couple of exceptions to that :-D
- the endless prattling on about any film with a peter jackson connection at the expense of all other news
- the dire tv, flooded with dire advertisements normally for shops run by overweight menopausal women selling last decades high street fashions
- the open racism towards asians
- the scary drivers
- the flood of aussie/kiwi varietal wines with a total lack of choice for anything else
- the americanisation of the place - grids, malls, suburbs .... town centres with the soul ripped out of them
- the overall greyness of the place
- the strange misconception that the weather in new zealand is somehow better than in the UK its not better, its just different
- the fact that people seem to think all you have to do is add some random fruit to a pizza or a burger (apricots on a pizza for heavens sake??) and that gives you a license to call it "gourmet"
- the use of the word kiwi as a superlative to almost everything with local connection - talk about self obsessed
- "Tasty" cheese - there is an breach of advertising law case in there somewhere i am sure

.... im sure i will think of more....
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Old Oct 28th 2006, 11:21 am
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Originally Posted by SecretSquirrel
- the car culture
- sooped up jananese imports with tin can size exhausts (mufflers :-O)
- the fact that a 15 year old can drive to school in a v8 powered car, talking away on a mobile phone without any insurace and not be breaking a single law
- bad haircuts
- really bad shirts
- the sausages - i wouldnt feed them to a dog let alone a human
- supermarkets stocked with leftovers
- the fact that every bulb of garlic i EVER bought in the country was at least 50% rotten
- for a nation that is supposedly (statistically) the most travelled in the world they are exceptionally un-worldly and igorant of any food not to be found at their own doorstep
- the beer, although there are a couple of exceptions to that :-D
- the endless prattling on about any film with a peter jackson connection at the expense of all other news
- the dire tv, flooded with dire advertisements normally for shops run by overweight menopausal women selling last decades high street fashions
- the open racism towards asians
- the scary drivers
- the flood of aussie/kiwi varietal wines with a total lack of choice for anything else
- the americanisation of the place - grids, malls, suburbs .... town centres with the soul ripped out of them
- the overall greyness of the place
- the strange misconception that the weather in new zealand is somehow better than in the UK its not better, its just different
- the fact that people seem to think all you have to do is add some random fruit to a pizza or a burger (apricots on a pizza for heavens sake??) and that gives you a license to call it "gourmet"
- the use of the word kiwi as a superlative to almost everything with local connection - talk about self obsessed
- "Tasty" cheese - there is an breach of advertising law case in there somewhere i am sure

.... im sure i will think of more....
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Old Oct 28th 2006, 11:23 am
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Originally Posted by mazi
I love you! Are you male or female? Who cares, I love you anyway!

Arohanui!
i could tell you but i would have to kill you - by force feeding you with the other thing i was about to add to the list....

KIWI DIP :scared:
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Old Oct 28th 2006, 11:27 am
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I know I mentioned supermarkets as a whole before but:

Pak n' Save (sic re. the n' - yes, clearly there should be an apostrophe before the n too). I can forgive the jaunty spelling of Pak - just
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Old Oct 28th 2006, 11:29 am
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the fact that despite how kiwis bang on about how crap our fish and chips are compared to theirs - whenever you go to a chippy;
(a) the place stinks of dogburgers and beetroot
(b) they full out a piece of fish with the batter already cooked already on it and stick it in the fryer

... and they still thinks its superior!!
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Old Oct 28th 2006, 11:49 am
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Originally Posted by SecretSquirrel
the fact that despite how kiwis bang on about how crap our fish and chips are compared to theirs - whenever you go to a chippy;
(a) the place stinks of dogburgers and beetroot
(b) they full out a piece of fish with the batter already cooked already on it and stick it in the fryer

... and they still thinks its superior!!
And what the hell do they cook the chips in? I am not being dramatic when I say I almost vomited the first time I tried them. I tried them several times after too, from different dogburger-beetroot shops and they were always the same. I did stop eating them in answer to those of you who may be about to ask me why I continued in vain to stomach the things. And what kind of devil's stomach lining is that fish terakihi?

like the snapper though - I'll get me to the positive things thread right away!
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Old Oct 28th 2006, 12:14 pm
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Originally Posted by pixi-dust
I've said it before and I will probably never stop

the blooming sandflies
Remember how I was last year? WELL. DH has been bitten twice already (PawPaw thanks ) but I've had NONE. I really don't mean to be cruel but I'm hoping to hell that they've switched allegiance
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Old Oct 28th 2006, 12:23 pm
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Originally Posted by Batty
Remember how I was last year? WELL. DH has been bitten twice already (PawPaw thanks ) but I've had NONE. I really don't mean to be cruel but I'm hoping to hell that they've switched allegiance
only twice! Lucky him - I have about 15 already - but not reacting quite so badly. oh, so thats a positive!
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