The slag off New Zealand Ultimate Thread.
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Re: The slag off New Zealand Ultimate Thread.
Apology accepted. I'm glad you brought up fly screens!
Eating outside in such a manner does not encourage good habits or a good diet.
I would understand eating unhealthy food if it tasted good, but I don't think those pies do. They must be an acquired taste. I've also heard that in the last few years, the quality of the pies has deteriorated, so perhaps you enjoyed better food in your youth.
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Re: The slag off New Zealand Ultimate Thread.
There are far too many trees in NZ, clear them away and make room for some more shops. And as for all those lakes, isn't there enough water here ?
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Re: The slag off New Zealand Ultimate Thread.
How are you supposed to bond with your new cd if you arrive at work 15 min after you have left the house...?
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/stor...ectid=10441933
Notice the government considers commercial pine plantations as evidence of "reforestation." The native bush continues to shrink and you don't hear much outcry about that.
To a North American, NZ seems lacking in trees, so much so that my NZ South Island born and raised boyfriend said he never saw so many trees until he visited back east (US).
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Is this a new team strategy to highjack the thread?
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Why does the government bother having NZ Standard time.
DEFY the government at the start of NZ Daylight savings Time by refusing to put your clocks forward at 2.00 in the morning. 'Save' the hour for later in the day. You still get your lie-in and you can fast forward your day when it suits you, like when there is nothing on telly.
DEFY the government at the start of NZ Daylight savings Time by refusing to put your clocks forward at 2.00 in the morning. 'Save' the hour for later in the day. You still get your lie-in and you can fast forward your day when it suits you, like when there is nothing on telly.
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Re: The slag off New Zealand Ultimate Thread.
Seriously, I don't think this is a big issue. It just amuses me somewhat that this - and fly screens - seem to be so important to you.
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They get exercise during gym and interval periods too.
Seriously, I don't think this is a big issue. It just amuses me somewhat that this - and fly screens - seem to be so important to you.
I don't like flies in the house - they poo all over the place, and lay eggs on things, and I find it generally off-putting. I don't like mosquitos or moths in the house either, and you can't beat cross ventilation on those summer nights, bugless, of course. This summer, because we had screens, we used the fan only once. The cool breeze makes the room quite comfortable in all but the hottest of evenings.
We all have our own particular concerns. There are other things I could mention, and do. I work in schools and it never fails to bother me seeing kids standing outside in the cold rain during their lunch periods.
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Oh, and they never seem to have hose-pipe bans over here. In UK, you always had a great excuse for not washing the car or watering the garden in the summer, not so in NZ
PS - I have a bomb, and if anyone moves I'm going to blow this thread to kingdom come
PS - I have a bomb, and if anyone moves I'm going to blow this thread to kingdom come
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Re: The slag off New Zealand Ultimate Thread.
Most (all?)
Most schools do not provide healthful food; they sell mostly high sugar pastries, disgusting pies and sausage rolls, and otherwise unwholesome food and drink. The selections are always very limited.
These are facts.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/...ectid=10442364
Most schools do not provide healthful food; they sell mostly high sugar pastries, disgusting pies and sausage rolls, and otherwise unwholesome food and drink. The selections are always very limited.
These are facts.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/...ectid=10442364
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Re: The slag off New Zealand Ultimate Thread.
Wyoming, Kansas, Arizona, Oklahoma New Mexico etc. etc. I could go on.
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Re: The slag off New Zealand Ultimate Thread.
I was responding to a "slag off New Zealand" thread.
Schools everywhere are not doing enough to improve food choices for children. It's no different here in New Zealand.
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Oh come on!!!!!!! goodness me, did you ever get out of New Jersey, did you ever go west? We were in Nebraska hardly any trees at all & I could name quite a few other States too that were practically treeless.
Wyoming, Kansas, Arizona, Oklahoma New Mexico etc. etc. I could go on.
Wyoming, Kansas, Arizona, Oklahoma New Mexico etc. etc. I could go on.
These states are (mostly) treeless because they lie within the Great Plains region or in the desert southwest. They have been, within recent geological times, treeless places, not deforested.
The northeastern parts of the US are heavily wooded.
To continue in the spirit of the thread:
My NZ boyfriend is really bothered by the trend of building homes in people's front and back sections. 1/4 sections are becoming increasingly more difficult to find and when they're sold, most are subdivided.
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So you'd prefer it if Auckland was 2-3 times it's current size? Even if it took some deforestation of the Waitakeres and Riverhead to achieve this? How many people in London have sole use of a 1/4 section, do you think? Or New York? Or Lisbon? Or any other large developed city? I posted some figures in another thread a while ago which shows just how densely packed houses are in countries other than NZ.
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So you'd prefer it if Auckland was 2-3 times it's current size? Even if it took some deforestation of the Waitakeres and Riverhead to achieve this? How many people in London have sole use of a 1/4 section, do you think? Or New York? Or Lisbon? Or any other large developed city? I posted some figures in another thread a while ago which shows just how densely packed houses are in countries other than NZ.
I think it's hard for anyone to like rapid population increases where they live. How it affects a place is what's interesting, and different in each case.
I do think that Auckland has not done enough to plan for rapid developement and population increases. This is a constant complaint from NZers themselves and always a hot topic in the media. One of the issues is that NZers don't like the idea of high density urban housing, even if their alternative is renting a small house on a tiny plot of land and not enjoying property ownership or a reasonable garden to call their own. That puts a big strain on urban land use.
As someone who could not easily continue their career because of Auckland's inadequate public transportation, I think it's important that people know what Auckland's particular urban problems are.
It has actually has been pointed out in another thread by another poster, that in many NZ towns, houses are built fairly close together even when surrounded by rural areas.
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