NOT the Scottish Thread

[marty]

So let's bring it in here...

Originally Posted by Crasherfromwayback
I could be well wrong...but I'm pretty sure 'your' people weren't the first to occupy this fine land? If so...what did you pay the original 'owners', so that you can call it 'yours'?




Originally Posted by phill-k
Is that you hone hiding behind the avitar




Originally Posted by Reckless
Hey the threads about the miners/Mining and if you pick the right posts quite informative!

Start your own thread LOL!!!



Wott he said ... my first reaction as I followed through - then arrived at Reckless' response ... not for this thread ...

[Banditbandit]

Yeah .. OK ... was thinking about it myself ... I'm busy right now ... and my answer will be longish .. give me a chance to write it all down .. and I'll post here ...

[scumdog]

OK, I'll roll the first dice; - what was so unattractive with Hawaiiki (I think that's what it was called) to cause people to climb aboard a big-arsed canoe and bugger off for thousands of miles across the sea to EnnZedd?

[admenk]

OK, I'll roll the first dice; - what was so unattractive with Hawaiiki

All that sun and those half naked girls in nothing but grass skirts - it's enough to make anyone want to leave !

Seriously, the trouble with the question of who was here and when, and who was first, is that it's wrapped up in today's politics and it's hard to find hard facts on either side. I only know it wasn't me as I only came 3 years ago....

[jim.cox]

as I only came 3 years ago....

You should get your bits polished more often than that, Mate.

There are some lovely ladies down here on Manchester St who would be more than willing to help (for a fee )

[Edbear]

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/when-was...irst-settled/1

[MSTRS:Me]

OK, I'll roll the first dice; - what was so unattractive with Hawaiiki (I think that's what it was called) to cause people to climb aboard a big-arsed canoe and bugger off for thousands of miles across the sea to EnnZedd?

At the risk of getting a beating, or worse....acronyms.
TAB, DPB, STDs etc

[Edbear]

http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/moriori/1

http://history-nz.org/moriori.html

[nodrog:Me]

OK, I'll roll the first dice; - what was so unattractive with Hawaiiki (I think that's what it was called) to cause people to climb aboard a big-arsed canoe and bugger off for thousands of miles across the sea to EnnZedd?

They just went out fishing for the day, without the anchor.

Fanny.

[Banditbandit]

At the risk of getting a beating, or worse....acronyms.
TAB, DPB, STDs etc

No beating .. I laughed ... at least we can still laugh at ourselves ... (Just you buggas shouldn't laugh at us Māori ...)

That's the problem ... who is "Us" ?

Anway ...

This Māori man is driving home from the pub when he sees a "Booze Bus". Pulling over, he leans out and says "What a great Idea ... give me two dozen Tuis mate."

The cop leans out and says "I think you have the wrong idea about what a booze bus is - so now I'll require you to undergo a breath test. Please blow into this bag."

The Māori says; "Sorry, mate, I'm an asthmatic and my doctor says I can't blow into bags like that."

"In that case," says the policeman, "I'll require you to come inside and give us a blood test."

"No," replies the Māori man. "I'm a hemophiliac and my doctor says you can't take blood in case I bleed to death."

"Well," says the policeman, "I'll require you to give me a urine sample to test for alcohol content. I suppose you have soemthing that says I am not allowed to do that?"

"Too right, mate," says the Māori man. "The Treaty of Waitangi says you can't take the piss out of us Māori ..."

(And if you Pākehā laugh too hard ... Then I'll beat you up ...)

But seriously .. give me a chance to put soemthing together and I'll get back to you ..

[bogan]

But seriously .. give me a chance to put soemthing together and I'll get back to you ..

Will we have to sign it?

[phill-k]

This is going to be good

Well seriously let me do it for you, in NZ we are all NZ'ers regardless of colour or our genetic disposition, who got here first is basically irrelevant today as we all share in the risk and rewards of living here, most have intermarried and mixed up the gene pool anyway, most benefit (and I use that term loosely) from our way of life here, no one is disadvantaged by our collective presence and in fact as a society we like to look after those who are not as fortunate as others, we have a great environment and one of the few big questions we need to face now is how he move forward with our environment, me I want to see nuclear power plants, but I also want to see the continuance of extracting our countries wealth in a controlled manner by NZ'ers not overseas owned organisations. I'm happy if Maori wish to return to the way they were, up to a point, I don't want to see them believe they have greater rights than any other NZ citizen, but I'm also happy to offer special respect to Maori for having found our paradise first (or second)
there all said and It's still before five o'clock hence no wine has been partaken of yet, but I'm sure this thread is going to be a good one.

[Hitcher]

Repeat after me: "We are all immigrants".

[Bald Eagle]

Repeat after me: "We are all immigrants".

Speak for yourself . I was born here. I'm not European, I'm not Maori, I'm not Pakeha.
I am a New Zealander.

Rant end

[Ronin]