The negative New Zealand thread
Oct 28th 2006, 1:12 pm
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Re: The negative New Zealand thread
Originally Posted by Jack Daws
No let get you started 
whats the deal with the 1950s home baking thing? all those "afgans" and "lammingtons" - i think nz must have been caught short on the futures market - some kiwi derivatives trader must have bought a contract for the world supply of dessicated coconut!
Oct 28th 2006, 1:16 pm
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Re: The negative New Zealand thread
Originally Posted by SecretSquirrel
oh if you insist....
whats the deal with the 1950s home baking thing? all those "afgans" and "lammingtons" - i think nz must have been caught short on the futures market - some kiwi derivatives trader must have bought a contract for the world supply of dessicated coconut!
whats the deal with the 1950s home baking thing? all those "afgans" and "lammingtons" - i think nz must have been caught short on the futures market - some kiwi derivatives trader must have bought a contract for the world supply of dessicated coconut!
Bugger a positive post. Must delete...
Oct 28th 2006, 1:25 pm
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Re: The negative New Zealand thread
Originally Posted by SecretSquirrel
oh if you insist....
whats the deal with the 1950s home baking thing? all those "afgans" and "lammingtons" - i think nz must have been caught short on the futures market - some kiwi derivatives trader must have bought a contract for the world supply of dessicated coconut!
whats the deal with the 1950s home baking thing? all those "afgans" and "lammingtons" - i think nz must have been caught short on the futures market - some kiwi derivatives trader must have bought a contract for the world supply of dessicated coconut!
Oct 28th 2006, 1:33 pm
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Re: The negative New Zealand thread
Originally Posted by SecretSquirrel
oh if you insist....
whats the deal with the 1950s home baking thing? all those "afgans" and "lammingtons" - i think nz must have been caught short on the futures market - some kiwi derivatives trader must have bought a contract for the world supply of dessicated coconut!
whats the deal with the 1950s home baking thing? all those "afgans" and "lammingtons" - i think nz must have been caught short on the futures market - some kiwi derivatives trader must have bought a contract for the world supply of dessicated coconut!
Oct 28th 2006, 1:35 pm
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Re: The negative New Zealand thread
UTEs - thats another thing..... what are they all about???
Oct 28th 2006, 1:44 pm
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Re: The negative New Zealand thread
.... those shirts you can buy at the warehouse that have flames going up the back..... classy 
Oct 28th 2006, 1:45 pm
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Re: The negative New Zealand thread
THE PRICE OF BOOKS!! :scared:
Oct 28th 2006, 1:45 pm
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Re: The negative New Zealand thread
Got some more:
all that clean green crap - when you go to a shop and buy eg. a birthday card which is already wrapped in cellophane they put it in a paper bag, then seal the bag with sellotape then put it into a carrier bag..
And what is clean and green about spraying a dirt road with oil to keep the dust down?
Spraying insecticide above your house - and admitting it is bloody dangerous because they tell all the schoolkids not to leave the house that day - to try to get rid of a moth (yes, ONE single moth, not a whole bunch of one breed, I'm talking ONE, ONE, ONE moth!) which may or may not have entered the country and may or may not be detrimental to crops.
The rubbish (washing machines, cookers, burnt-out cars etc.) beside the road
V8 cars as seen as something normal - clean, green? My eye.
Lack of recycling - oh sorry, with the exception of paper
Massive landfills everywhere
Houses built on top of landfills which gradually sink
Subdivisions which look like something out of the Truman Show filled with zombies from Stepford Wives. Where's the soul?
Garage after garage after garage in said subdivisions. Oh no sorry, they're houses.
People with more money than sense who build big hair houses akin to those you used to see in Dynasty or Knot's Landing - the kind with great corinthian pillars as doorways. Taste? Not in NZ!
"World famous in New Zealand" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No sense of humour - well, maybe they have if you take the big hair houses into account.
all that clean green crap - when you go to a shop and buy eg. a birthday card which is already wrapped in cellophane they put it in a paper bag, then seal the bag with sellotape then put it into a carrier bag..
And what is clean and green about spraying a dirt road with oil to keep the dust down?
Spraying insecticide above your house - and admitting it is bloody dangerous because they tell all the schoolkids not to leave the house that day - to try to get rid of a moth (yes, ONE single moth, not a whole bunch of one breed, I'm talking ONE, ONE, ONE moth!) which may or may not have entered the country and may or may not be detrimental to crops.
The rubbish (washing machines, cookers, burnt-out cars etc.) beside the road
V8 cars as seen as something normal - clean, green? My eye.
Lack of recycling - oh sorry, with the exception of paper
Massive landfills everywhere
Houses built on top of landfills which gradually sink
Subdivisions which look like something out of the Truman Show filled with zombies from Stepford Wives. Where's the soul?
Garage after garage after garage in said subdivisions. Oh no sorry, they're houses.
People with more money than sense who build big hair houses akin to those you used to see in Dynasty or Knot's Landing - the kind with great corinthian pillars as doorways. Taste? Not in NZ!
"World famous in New Zealand" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No sense of humour - well, maybe they have if you take the big hair houses into account.
Oct 28th 2006, 1:47 pm
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Re: The negative New Zealand thread
Originally Posted by SecretSquirrel
THE PRICE OF BOOKS!! :scared:
Oct 28th 2006, 1:47 pm
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Re: The negative New Zealand thread
My boyfriend has just returned from work annd reminded me of a very good one:
Almost no public transport
(And he's a Kiwi)
Almost no public transport
(And he's a Kiwi)
Oct 28th 2006, 1:48 pm
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Re: The negative New Zealand thread
Originally Posted by Batty
When you have friends you just swap
But as I have said before, the 'education' ahem, well....
(This message was supposed to be a reply to my friend Sec)
Last edited by mazi; Oct 28th 2006 at 1:55 pm.
Oct 28th 2006, 1:49 pm
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Re: The negative New Zealand thread
Originally Posted by mazi
People with more money than sense who build big hair houses akin to those you used to see in Dynasty or Knot's Landing - the kind with great corinthian pillars as doorways. Taste? Not in NZ!
Oct 28th 2006, 1:49 pm
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Re: The negative New Zealand thread
Originally Posted by Batty
When you have friends you just swap
Oct 28th 2006, 1:52 pm
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Re: The negative New Zealand thread
Originally Posted by SecretSquirrel
THE PRICE OF BOOKS!! :scared:
Oct 28th 2006, 1:52 pm
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Re: The negative New Zealand thread
- souveniers (sp?) do with the all blacks (50% of GDP)
- souveniers (sp?) with "kiwiana" (GUMBOOTS, RUGBY, HOKEY POKEY, JANDALS, RUGBY, KIWIFRUIT, RUGBY, RUGBY AND RUGBY) - (remaining 50% of GDP)
- souveniers (sp?) with "kiwiana" (GUMBOOTS, RUGBY, HOKEY POKEY, JANDALS, RUGBY, KIWIFRUIT, RUGBY, RUGBY AND RUGBY) - (remaining 50% of GDP)