This New Zealand section
May 2nd 2007, 8:03 am
#46
NZ ways is best ways :0)
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Location: Christchurch, NZ
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Re: This New Zealand section
I don't find the radio (The Rock fm) here boring. They say everything from b*gger, s*it, and w*nker to toss*r, b*stard and c*ck. It's all fine and no one says anything! No Mary Whitehouse here to shout, scream and stamp her feet.
Apparently though, any of that 'Taking God's name in vaie' stuff and your favourite DJ is off the airwaves quicker than you can blink!
Eh!?
Makes me laugh daily at what they get away with
Apparently though, any of that 'Taking God's name in vaie' stuff and your favourite DJ is off the airwaves quicker than you can blink!
Eh!?
Makes me laugh daily at what they get away with
May 2nd 2007, 8:10 am
#47
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Re: This New Zealand section
You ain't kidding. One of the major reasons NZ sucks so much in my opinion
is it's so boring. And by the way, I love nature and wildlife, which is why
this place is not for me, but that's another story entirely.
I recently PMed another poster about this very topic.
If it weren't for Badger's occasional appearances, and a few other posters
such as some of the ones who have contributed to this thread, I would
just give up on this site.
Where's the reknowned British sense of humor when you need it? Do
people lose it once they settle on these benighted shores?
is it's so boring. And by the way, I love nature and wildlife, which is why
this place is not for me, but that's another story entirely.
I recently PMed another poster about this very topic.
If it weren't for Badger's occasional appearances, and a few other posters
such as some of the ones who have contributed to this thread, I would
just give up on this site.
Where's the reknowned British sense of humor when you need it? Do
people lose it once they settle on these benighted shores?
May 2nd 2007, 8:15 am
#48
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 1,454
Re: This New Zealand section
Just watched 'Fair Go', the 'That's Life' of NZ TV.
The final segment was a painfully unfunny story (from the Fair Go archives) about some old couple who bought 4 nuns but the nuns were too old...blah blah blah.
Turns out nuns are a type of bird.
The host of the show turned to the camera, smiled, and said that the old couple were a right pair of characters but were dead now. Goodnight!
The famous NZ bluntness? sense of humour?
The final segment was a painfully unfunny story (from the Fair Go archives) about some old couple who bought 4 nuns but the nuns were too old...blah blah blah.
Turns out nuns are a type of bird.
The host of the show turned to the camera, smiled, and said that the old couple were a right pair of characters but were dead now. Goodnight!
The famous NZ bluntness? sense of humour?
Last edited by Avid; May 2nd 2007 at 8:22 am.
May 2nd 2007, 8:17 am
#49
WAS bored stiff in USA
Joined: Aug 2005
Location: now in Ashburton nz yahoo
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Re: This New Zealand section
Did you never manage to find yours again then lexylou when you returned to the UK?
May 2nd 2007, 10:27 am
#51
you dewty owld maan!
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May 2nd 2007, 10:30 am
#52
you dewty owld maan!
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Re: This New Zealand section
/steps aside as the tumbleweeds pinwheel through the halls of BE-dom/
I'll get my coat and take it to bed........
I'll get my coat and take it to bed........
May 2nd 2007, 3:17 pm
#54
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Re: This New Zealand section
Here's a picture of a 28 year old secondhand fire truck, that misguided fools manned for only $100 per year, despite answering 400+ calls per year!
It carries no cutting gear, no hydraulic spreaders (The things you chop car roofs off with) and would only get up to 90kph with the wind behind it, whilst going downhill.
My advice - Drive very very safely and make sure that you big wooden shed (House) never catches on fire.
Burt
It carries no cutting gear, no hydraulic spreaders (The things you chop car roofs off with) and would only get up to 90kph with the wind behind it, whilst going downhill.
My advice - Drive very very safely and make sure that you big wooden shed (House) never catches on fire.
Burt
Last edited by Burt Badger; May 2nd 2007 at 3:22 pm. Reason: Crap spelling despite free spell checker!
May 2nd 2007, 3:24 pm
#55
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Location: WA Perth at the mo'
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Re: This New Zealand section
Here's a picture of a 28 year old secondhand fire truck, that misguided fools manned for only $100 per year, despite answering 400+ calls per year!
It carries no cutting gear, no hydralic spreaders (The things you chop car roofs off with) and would only get up to 90kph with the wind behind it, whilst going downhill.
My advice - Drive very very safely and make sure that you big wooden shed (House) never catches on fire.
Burt
It carries no cutting gear, no hydralic spreaders (The things you chop car roofs off with) and would only get up to 90kph with the wind behind it, whilst going downhill.
My advice - Drive very very safely and make sure that you big wooden shed (House) never catches on fire.
Burt
May 2nd 2007, 3:31 pm
#56
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Re: This New Zealand section
I believe that the "Old Girl" actually came from Australia. You got rid of them when they reached the end of their useful lives and sold them to the Kywy's LOL.
Burt
Burt
May 2nd 2007, 7:32 pm
#58
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Re: This New Zealand section
May 2nd 2007, 9:34 pm
#60
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Re: This New Zealand section
is depressing me.
Come on peeps. Please, someone, post SOMETHING, which will be worth talking about.
weather...scodas....weather....
It's like walking into a New Zealand boozer...and expecting signs of life.
Are all the people who move to NZ tree huggers? It seems like it. We love Nature... Even when somebody slags the place we get the hippy trippy feel good speil "Well at least you tried, and good luck back in the UK"!
I know NZ is boring, but c'mon, do me a favour and stay of the st johns for a few days to get some fire in your belly...
Life. But not as you know it. In New Zealand.
Where is badger when we need him?
Come on peeps. Please, someone, post SOMETHING, which will be worth talking about.
weather...scodas....weather....
It's like walking into a New Zealand boozer...and expecting signs of life.
Are all the people who move to NZ tree huggers? It seems like it. We love Nature... Even when somebody slags the place we get the hippy trippy feel good speil "Well at least you tried, and good luck back in the UK"!
I know NZ is boring, but c'mon, do me a favour and stay of the st johns for a few days to get some fire in your belly...
Life. But not as you know it. In New Zealand.
Where is badger when we need him?