hazeandsteve

I really can't see what the problem with that is!

discobay

Heck they do that here too and it's not just supermarkets.

Tray

I like Xmas in summer- if you're going to have all those public holidays it's pretty cool to have them when the sun is shining and I think Xmas in summer keeps a bit of perspective about Xmas, unlike in the UK where it's the highlight of several miserable months and has snowballed out of all proportion. For us Xmas arrives pretty much when the kids break up from school and we stick a tree up and go wild in the aisles buying cheese and pink fizz and PASTRAMI SALMON. Summer Xmas rocks imo, so don't you moaners go getting it changed [/QUOTE]

Ditto

BEVS

Sandflies

bolton1

Tourists

Bo-Jangles

It's almost 2011 and most of the biggest names on the high street don't even offer online shopping.

New World, Farmers, Briscoes et al, get yer bloomin finger out!!

pom4gud

....... that my mother-in-law lives there

cappuccino

No personal tax allowance - pay tax on every dollar earned. Even kids have to pay tax on their savings accounts.

Persephone

I am not alone
That's something I try not to think about, it just makes me feel sad At least the income tax rates have come down a little bit to make up for the increase in GST.

Persephone

The ads on TV are very UNCOOL!!!
Too long and too many, plus too many breaks within a programme. It's especially worse if the programme was originally on the BBC and so was never meant to have ad breaks:curse:

crap coffee

tv is utter trash here. I do want to enjoy watching tv but I find myself turn it off most of the time. - not worth. just wasting time. Not a point buying expensive (rip off) colour tv to watch crap unless borrowing dvds or whatever.

Expat Kiwi

Oh that used to annoy me too. I gave up watching in the end and either downloaded or got DVDs out.

Charismatic

Grenades are the only way to fish.

However at the root of most of these complaints seems to be the stifling way in which New Zealanders cling to that which they know to the extent that they are very unwilling to try new ideas and strategies, especially where no precedent exists (Industry, housing, driving, education, healthcare, welfare etc.)

Expat Kiwi

The precedents usually do exist - just not in New Zealand.

Try to apply them to New Zealand and the excuse is "yeah no, it won't work in New Zealand mate" I guess the reasoning is if something has worked ok for decades why change it now? What Brits call "if it ain't broke don't fix it."

cappuccino

The ad breaks are annoying but I get more annoyed when the end of one programme seems to roll into the start of the next one.