What's your thoughts on Winston Peters???

[Biff]

uh huh... no NZ equivalent then?

I though it was, "lets kickass bro".

[Wolf]

I belong to a Caledonian Society, but you don't see me running around in a kilt and talking scots gaelic, or biff running around covered in blue paint and speaking welsh on a day to day basis do you?

Hmmm, would pay to see that.

LiasTZ does get to see me running around wearing a torc on a day to day basis, but I'm weird.

[Ixion]

I belong to a Caledonian Society, but you don't see me running around in a kilt and talking scots gaelic, or biff running around covered in blue paint and speaking welsh on a day to day basis do you?

You mean that wasn't Biff I saw !? Oh dear Lord, are there two such people about ?

[jazbug5]

You do realise that the covered in blue paint and tripping-off-your-nuts-on-Fly-Agaric thing is a Pictish thing and therefore Scottish...? Just want to clear that up...

Oh, and Wolf... a Torc was a device for ritual sacrifice in Celtic society. Um. But then, you did say you were wierd..!

[Fart]

Rock on dude...

You are so right!!!!

It's about time those snobby white bastards moved outta those flash suburbs and started mixing with the Tangata Whenua eh! The buggers yabber on in their own lingo, keep to their own, have no regard for the law of the land, build their own churches and just won't adopt the local culture...

Cheers

Now I know how the Maoris felt when Captain Cook started bring his white bros into NZ. Traded NZ for a basket full of muskets and force feeding the Christian religion onto the local Iwi.

Today, we are all paying for the Treaty Claims. Have we not learnt from our past mistakes?


ps: While travelling in London and Hong Kong in certain gatherings and pubs, I see alot of NZers sticking together and only hanging out with other NZers....ummmmm.


Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd; Bertrand Russell.

[Paul in NZ]

Dude ya gotta look at the big picture...

Immigrants tend to stick together for very good reason, often they are sponsored in by other families, it's a little frightening moving to a radically different culture, the support services are not very (um) supportive, the earning possibilities are low (remember all those Russian Fighter Pilot taxi drivers we had?) and most Europeans are about as welcoming and open as an angy weasel... It not always due to some sinister, diabolical plot by Johnnie Foreigner...

Go overseas and watch Kiwis and Aussies stick together.. Hell, go to Aussie where they have suburbs that are dominated by Kiwis...

Of course they speak their own lingo. It's bloody tiring speaking another language for a lot of people day in day out but lets face it, the language of business here is English!

It's a small world son. Ya gotta be adaptable...

You probably ride a Japanese bike made in a society alien to your beyond belief!

[Indoo]

See above, pitching in is fine, as long as the needs of NZ come first, and I believe that a part of that is NOT taking criminals and leeches. Bring on the skilled professionals with a good work ethic regardless of race, colour or creed, but ship the scumbags back.

If you want that definately don't vote New Zealand First. N.Z first is opposed to the immigrant group who are the hardest working, most productive and commit the least crime, merely due to the fact that they look different and talk different.

[Hitcher]

Isn't New Zealand supposed to be a beautiful clean country???
So why the hell have do we have Helen Clarke as the face of our nation?

Helen Clarke is the Black Sticks' goalie. Helen Clark is the Prime Minister.

[Hitcher]

I suspect there is a lot of attempted humour in the above posts, but the general sentiment is very disturbing. New Zealand has always been a nation of immigrants. There are no "indigenous" people here, just some who have been here longer than others. Some of us can trace our New Zealand ancestry back to the mid 1800s but that shouldn't give us any more "rights" than other law-abiding, tax-paying, citizens of this land some of us are proud to call home. If some rapid, red-necked, nazi wants something different for New Zealand, let them take it to the ballot box. History has proven that most thinking New Zealanders don't want a bar of them, and they are condemned to ring talkback radio for all eternity. While Winston Peters' recent comments resonate with some members of our community, most people value their vote(s) too highly to waste them on the Prince of the Porkbarrel.

[Fart]

NZ has come a long way from the old days.

I remember the days when you have to wait one-two months to have Telecom install a phone line and make it work.
I remember the days when eating out cost the earth and one can rarely afford to dine out. There was only a handful of restaurants to choose from.
I remember the days when shops all close at 5pm, weekends and public holidays.
I remember the days when cars and bikes were so expensive. NZ was full of run down old vehicles. A visitor once said that NZ was full of vehicles they have in their museum back home.

I prefer the NZ today where we have choices and freedom to make choices. Unless you want to live in the dark ages, we should all celebrate the wonderful country we have today. Multi-culture is a having the best of many worlds and we should treasure it.

[Wolf]

Whats with the politics talk anyway? isn't it one of the forbiden three subjects?

Say what?

Dude, there's an entire thread devoted to "Religious Ravings" and ninety percent of the threads devolve to sex sooner or later (Biff only reads 90% of the threads) - I'd say that the "Forbidden Three" are alive and well here.

[Wolf]

I once voted for Winston Peters as he came across as on the ball and he promised "A vote for me is a vote against National"

He then promptly used his seats to form an alliance with National.

Since then I've deemed him to be lying scum - just like all the other politicians - and I have resumed my practice of scrawling "NO CONFIDENCE" across all the names on offer. If I can be arsed going down to the polling booth.

Frankly none of 'em are worth getting out of bed for.

And if I find out which prick in the "Christian Heritage" party was responsible for the automated phone call I once received asking me to vote for them, I'll show him/her exactly what an IT geek does to "spammers" of any description. Interrupt my "family-time" with bleating platitudes about how they're all about family values! Politicians, filth all of them.

Libertarian? Me? Why did you ask?

[madboy]

[QUOTE=Paul in NZIt's about time those snobby white bastards moved outta those flash suburbs and started mixing with the Tangata Whenua eh! The buggers yabber on in their own lingo, keep to their own, have no regard for the law of the land, build their own churches and just won't adopt the local culture...[/QUOTE]Yeah, and while I'm mixing with 'em, they'll "borrow" my late-model car and drive it back to my house where they'll camp on the front lawn and claim they got the raw end of a land deal back when my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather was still a twinkle in his Australian mummy's eye.

[Lou Girardin]

Now I know how the Maoris felt when Captain Cook started bring his white bros into NZ. Traded NZ for a basket full of muskets and force feeding the Christian religion onto the local Iwi.

Today, we are all paying for the Treaty Claims. Have we not learnt from our past mistakes?


ps: While travelling in London and Hong Kong in certain gatherings and pubs, I see alot of NZers sticking together and only hanging out with other NZers....ummmmm.


Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd; Bertrand Russell.

So, in 20, 50, 100 years time we'll get our land back and/or huge monetary settlements from todays immigrants?
Excellent!

[Fart]

So, in 20, 50, 100 years time we'll get our land back and/or huge monetary settlements from todays immigrants?
Excellent!

I give up.

Oh well, back to watching Telly Tubbies.

God help us all.