Pom bashing.....your experience?
Sep 28th 2006, 12:57 pm
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Re: Pom bashing.....your experience?
Originally Posted by thebears
I have come to the conclusion that Buttercracks is not searching for balanced experiences but stirring.
The appeal for people immigrating to NZ is not the cities and if you check the flight times you should understand before buying your ticket how isolated it is in terms of distance.
Silly comments about stealing the women? where is this coming from the women out number the men - we need all the help we can get
Personally and after talking with a few of me mates back in NZ no one has a problem with immigrants coming as long as they are coming to participate and not to take the piss with the welfare system.
Kiwi
The appeal for people immigrating to NZ is not the cities and if you check the flight times you should understand before buying your ticket how isolated it is in terms of distance.
Silly comments about stealing the women? where is this coming from the women out number the men - we need all the help we can get
Personally and after talking with a few of me mates back in NZ no one has a problem with immigrants coming as long as they are coming to participate and not to take the piss with the welfare system.Kiwi
I have read that there are many NZers who are going to Australia and who are able to use the welfare system in both countries but dont really know what the differences are between the two so could you please let me know the difference.
Please dont be so defensive - but be sure to contribute to the post!
Sep 28th 2006, 4:57 pm
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Re: Pom bashing.....your experience?
Mate, I live on a small Island here in UK, so the move to NZ is actually enlarging my base. My local town is smaller than the one we're moving to.
Me and Haze came over to have a look round, and as my starting post asked, just wanted to know if people suffered abuse as immigrants. From the replies I've received, I got more abuse for grabbing a local girl when I came here than I will going to NZ. Most migrants are in relationships and have skills to offer. My inability to claim social for two years negates one of the points you tried to make, so as was previously stated, stirring springs to mind.
Secondly, a strong feeling of nationalism is no bad thing. Here our nationalism is now seen as racism and has led to some of the trouble we're suffering at the minute, but at list we're not wearing American blinkers and realise that other countries do actually exist.
Finally, if you feel so negatively about NZ, choose another country. I'm sure you'll be welcomed with open arms by your intelligent, conversational, handsome/beautiful neighbours as they all run round to tell you how fantastic it is that you've deigned to settle with them.
Me and Haze came over to have a look round, and as my starting post asked, just wanted to know if people suffered abuse as immigrants. From the replies I've received, I got more abuse for grabbing a local girl when I came here than I will going to NZ. Most migrants are in relationships and have skills to offer. My inability to claim social for two years negates one of the points you tried to make, so as was previously stated, stirring springs to mind.
Secondly, a strong feeling of nationalism is no bad thing. Here our nationalism is now seen as racism and has led to some of the trouble we're suffering at the minute, but at list we're not wearing American blinkers and realise that other countries do actually exist.
Finally, if you feel so negatively about NZ, choose another country. I'm sure you'll be welcomed with open arms by your intelligent, conversational, handsome/beautiful neighbours as they all run round to tell you how fantastic it is that you've deigned to settle with them.
Sep 28th 2006, 7:26 pm
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Re: Pom bashing.....your experience?
Doesn't lazy pommes date back to the union strikes?
Something to do with the guy stiring up the trouble was English and I think maybe his name was Pomme? (doesn't sound much of an English name!!!) So maybe not!!!
Have I got this right??? Some help here historians please
Something to do with the guy stiring up the trouble was English and I think maybe his name was Pomme? (doesn't sound much of an English name!!!) So maybe not!!!
Have I got this right??? Some help here historians please
Sep 28th 2006, 7:53 pm
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Re: Pom bashing.....your experience?
Originally Posted by jueinnz
Doesn't lazy pommes date back to the union strikes?
Something to do with the guy stiring up the trouble was English and I think maybe his name was Pomme? (doesn't sound much of an English name!!!) So maybe not!!!
Have I got this right??? Some help here historians please
Something to do with the guy stiring up the trouble was English and I think maybe his name was Pomme? (doesn't sound much of an English name!!!) So maybe not!!!
Have I got this right??? Some help here historians please
Sep 28th 2006, 10:28 pm
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Re: Pom bashing.....your experience?
POM was originally Prisoner of His Majesty,therefore interestingly-the Aussies are the Poms.Not the British.
Sep 29th 2006, 12:09 am
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Re: Pom bashing.....your experience?
Originally Posted by Buttercracks
One thing I heard from a friend of mine from New York is that Australians put the jumbucks in the tucker bag but NZers put the jumbucks into the sleeping bag. What is that all about?
see, I can look up a dictionary too!!!!
Kiwis have the same sort of jokes about Aussies...but we try to use words they can understand, otherwise it sort of defeats the purpose...
Sep 29th 2006, 7:25 am
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Re: Pom bashing.....your experience?
Originally Posted by thebears
I have come to the conclusion that Buttercracks is not searching for balanced experiences but stirring.
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Sep 30th 2006, 9:01 am
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Re: Pom bashing.....your experience?
Originally Posted by danny.f
POM was originally Prisoner of His Majesty,therefore interestingly-the Aussies are the Poms.Not the British.
POME Prisoner of Mother England
All British sorry to say. They were all British - English, Welsh, Scot and some Irish. Death sentence commuted to transportation to the colonies - be it US (until the War of Independence), Australia or NZ.
Danny what do you know about the NZers and Australians in your neck of the woods - who could you put up with more?
Sep 30th 2006, 2:14 pm
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Re: Pom bashing.....your experience?
Originally Posted by Buttercracks
Danny what do you know about the NZers and Australians in your neck of the woods - who could you put up with more?
Oct 1st 2006, 1:36 am
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Re: Pom bashing.....your experience?
Originally Posted by thebears
I have come to the conclusion that Buttercracks is not searching for balanced experiences but stirring.
The appeal for people immigrating to NZ is not the cities and if you check the flight times you should understand before buying your ticket how isolated it is in terms of distance.
Silly comments about stealing the women? where is this coming from the women out number the men - we need all the help we can get Personally and after talking with a few of me mates back in NZ no one has a problem with immigrants coming as long as they are coming to participate and not to take the piss with the welfare system.
Kiwi
The appeal for people immigrating to NZ is not the cities and if you check the flight times you should understand before buying your ticket how isolated it is in terms of distance.
Silly comments about stealing the women? where is this coming from the women out number the men - we need all the help we can get
Personally and after talking with a few of me mates back in NZ no one has a problem with immigrants coming as long as they are coming to participate and not to take the piss with the welfare system.Kiwi
Oct 1st 2006, 1:53 am
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Re: Pom bashing.....your experience?
Originally Posted by Buttercracks
POHM Prisoner of Her Majesty
POME Prisoner of Mother England
All British sorry to say. They were all British - English, Welsh, Scot and some Irish. Death sentence commuted to transportation to the colonies - be it US (until the War of Independence), Australia or NZ.
Danny what do you know about the NZers and Australians in your neck of the woods - who could you put up with more?
POME Prisoner of Mother England
All British sorry to say. They were all British - English, Welsh, Scot and some Irish. Death sentence commuted to transportation to the colonies - be it US (until the War of Independence), Australia or NZ.
Danny what do you know about the NZers and Australians in your neck of the woods - who could you put up with more?
My answer would be typically inner-city,therefore sport-orientated.
My ma and Da were both Irish catholics-therefore downtrodden,always the underdog.
I see huge improvements-and cockiness in the Aussie sports ability/attitude,
cricket,athletics,footy,rugby league/union-and scores like 7-0 against NZ in internationals. Therefore my sympathies would lie with the Kiwis,but based on very shallow reasoning. Not really based on any personal experience.
Oct 1st 2006, 4:49 am
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Re: Pom bashing.....your experience?
Originally Posted by mumomonty
Is BC a troll? :scared:
Oct 1st 2006, 7:17 am
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Re: Pom bashing.....your experience?
Originally Posted by Batty
I think so.
and a little paranoid.I am trying to understand a whole culture - whether that be a small population like 5 million or 20 million people its important before I decide.
Thanks for the replies - keep them coming,
Oct 1st 2006, 7:22 am
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Re: Pom bashing.....your experience?
Originally Posted by Buttercracks
Dont be so defensive. You are Batty and a little paranoid.
I am trying to understand a whole culture - whether that be a small population like 5 million or 20 million people its important before I decide.
Thanks for the replies - keep them coming,
and a little paranoid.I am trying to understand a whole culture - whether that be a small population like 5 million or 20 million people its important before I decide.
Thanks for the replies - keep them coming,
A troll.
Oct 1st 2006, 9:27 am
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Re: Pom bashing.....your experience?
[QUOTE=danny.f]My ma and Da were both Irish catholics-therefore downtrodden,always the underdog.
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In Liverpool! No!
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In Liverpool! No!