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Old Dec 13th 2009, 10:37 am
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Materialism is a good thing. That's why Australia is a 1st world country and NZ is not.
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Old Dec 13th 2009, 10:41 am
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Originally Posted by Vash the Stampede
I have no doubt that it's unpopular in NZ, for the very reasons you've mentioned. However...
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That ad is pretty close to the truth. The RNZAF asked for some new planes to replace the ancient ones they had and that stupid communist woman that they had running the country decided that they were too expensive and basically did away with the air force.

Royal New Zealand Air Force is now called Royal New Zealand Air.
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Originally Posted by Amazulu
That ad is pretty close to the truth. The RNZAF asked for some new planes to replace the ancient ones they had and that stupid communist woman that they had running the country decided that they were too expensive and basically did away with the air force.

Royal New Zealand Air Force is now called Royal New Zealand Air.
They have a band:

http://www.airforce.mil.nz/operation...78ffddd%7D.htm
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Outstanding! I love the photo of their Vietnam-era Huey.
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Originally Posted by Amazulu
Outstanding! I love the photo of their Vietnam-era Huey.
Did we donate our old ones when we phased them out and bought Blackhawks? or did we mothball them?

Must have been about 2004.

Never liked the bloody things.
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Originally Posted by Amazulu
Outstanding! I love the photo of their Vietnam-era Huey.
Perhaps if they played "Ride of the Valkyries" they'd sound like a proper air force.
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Perhaps if they played "Ride of the Valkyries" they'd sound like a proper air force.
That would scare the enemy.
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Originally Posted by WillBlack
Perhaps if they played "Ride of the Valkyries" they'd sound like a proper air force.
Maybe they intend buying new fighters with the proceeds of CD sales.
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Originally Posted by Deutschmaster
Talking of NZ I think Flight of the Concordes are hilarious

More fun than Neighbours or Home and Away
It's funny but it's an American programme.
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Originally Posted by Amazulu
Outstanding! I love the photo of their Vietnam-era Huey.
The RNZAF is in the process of launching a Reserve Scheme to provide an available pool of appropriately qualified personnel who can seamlessly integrate annually into and out of the RNZAF for various durations.

http://www.stepup.mil.nz/jobs-in-the...es/default.htm

The air force you have when you don’t have an air force?

They left part off the end. It originally read: “The RNZAF is in the process of launching a Reserve Scheme to provide an available pool of appropriately qualified personnel who can seamlessly integrate annually into and out of the RNZAF for various durations when we can get a loaner….”
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Old Dec 13th 2009, 11:11 pm
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Many third world countries (eg India) have better transport infrastructures than that.


thats only because the british built it for them
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I was joking in my posts yesterday, but a comment in this thread really shocked me:

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=644466

I quote:

Plumbers are no longer in shortage here in New Zealand. They were removed from the shortages lists a few months ago at the last review. In fact, many plumbers and tradespeople have found themselves short of work or out of work during this past year. My husband has been on short hours for the best part of the year now. Trade firms in their efforts to keep their tradesmen employed have been known to operate a rota scheme of 4 / 3 day weeks. Apprentices, which cost a firm virtually nothing, have been set down in some case.


Most all of the trade skills were removed from the shortages lists at the last review. There is just not enough work to go around at the moment.

Man, NZ really is stuffed. All jokes aside, I feel dreadfully sorry for them.
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Originally Posted by slapphead_otool
I was joking in my posts yesterday, but a comment in this thread really shocked me:

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=644466

I quote:

Plumbers are no longer in shortage here in New Zealand. They were removed from the shortages lists a few months ago at the last review. In fact, many plumbers and tradespeople have found themselves short of work or out of work during this past year. My husband has been on short hours for the best part of the year now. Trade firms in their efforts to keep their tradesmen employed have been known to operate a rota scheme of 4 / 3 day weeks. Apprentices, which cost a firm virtually nothing, have been set down in some case.

Most all of the trade skills were removed from the shortages lists at the last review. There is just not enough work to go around at the moment.

Man, NZ really is stuffed. All jokes aside, I feel dreadfully sorry for them.
Apart from being a great place to visit, great lamb and great rugby, NZ has nothing to offer the rest of the world. It's a basket case.
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Originally Posted by slapphead_otool
Man, NZ really is stuffed. All jokes aside, I feel dreadfully sorry for them.
I know you haven't been posting on the forum long, but if you read back a few months on the Aus forum you will find almost identical posts. You'll find stories of people who came, spent months looking for work, then went home again. I've seen recent positive posts on the NZ forum re work in homebuilding etc, so it can't be all that stuffed.
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My FIL says that lots of tradesmen in his area of NZ are advertising in the local paper for work.....

Here I'm having trouble finding trades who have any spare capacity.

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