'Merkin 'lections

**MisterD** · 8th November 2012, 12:26

Originally Posted by jrandom

Yep, dunno about all the rest of yas, but I'm sure as hell thinking about moving to Colorado right now.

Just what Boulder needs, even more stoned snowboarders!

**jrandom** · 8th November 2012, 12:28

Originally Posted by MisterD

Just what Boulder needs, even more stoned snowboarders!

Wazzat? There are stoned people in Boulder? That's shocking. I'm sure it makes it hard to find good engineers willing to move there... http://jobview.monster.com/Google-In...115802475.aspx

**BoristheBiter** · 8th November 2012, 14:20

Originally Posted by skippa1

Fuck me....... if you dont give a shit who they voted in....why would you even open the thread or bother to comment?

It's called an opinion. Most people have one, I decided to post mine.

**Banditbandit** · 8th November 2012, 14:24

Must be time for some naked models here too

**007XX** · 8th November 2012, 14:32

Originally Posted by skippa1

agreed. I have spent time in NY, Boston, New Hampshire, Florida and passed through LA, Texas and San Francisco and I can honestly say that the people I met were genuinely nice people. They are different, but we all are aye. The thing with mericans is that they are brought up to believe that the USA is the best place in the world. They truly believe it and are really patriotic because of it. This sometimes means that they come accross as arrogant but it only stems from the fact that they a believers in their country.

You would find this also in France, England and these are the only ones I can say this for certain having visited them / had enough to do with.

I've met some amazing Americans through the years, and some real *insert debasing adjective here*.... But that goes for NZ too and whatever other countries I was lucky enough to visit.

I for one am glad Obama got in. A mormon in power? *shudder*

**007XX** · 8th November 2012, 14:34

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

Must be time for some naked models here too

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I strongly prefered your earlier efforts in that other thread...

You dirty, dirty scoundrel

**oldrider** · 8th November 2012, 15:17

Originally Posted by Paul in NZ

No its not actually... Once you go there you find 99% of merkins are bloody good buggers and its nothing like you would expect if your only source of information was the internet. Helpful, kind and decent to a fault. Yes - they have a few funny ideas and they have been sold a few bum steers (their medical system for one) BUT on the whole... I like them...

True!
That was our experience too, further South, the nicer they are but this thread is about their recent elections, different thing all together!

**Banditbandit** · 8th November 2012, 16:08

Originally Posted by 007XX

I strongly prefered your earlier efforts in that other thread...

Me too .. but I thought I'd better be non-sexist and cater to the ladies as well (sorry .. women as well) ... and not be ageist either ..

**007XX** · 8th November 2012, 16:15

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

Me too .. but I thought I'd better be non-sexist and cater to the ladies as well (sorry .. women as well) ... and not be ageist either ..

How very politically correct of you

**scumdog** · 8th November 2012, 18:35

Originally Posted by Paul in NZ

No its not actually... Once you go there you find 99% of merkins are bloody good buggers and its nothing like you would expect if your only source of information was the internet. Helpful, kind and decent to a fault. Yes - they have a few funny ideas and they have been sold a few bum steers (their medical system for one) BUT on the whole... I like them...

Kinda sums up my expience too Paul - otherwise I wouldn't be doing those visits regularly.

And they are extra keen to help/provide good service or whatever once they find I'm from 'Noo Zeeelan'.

**jrandom** · 8th November 2012, 18:44

Originally Posted by oldrider

further South, the nicer they are...

Maybe. In some ways. So long as you're not black, gay, or an atheist. Over the last wee while, I've discovered that all the Murkns I'm working with at the moment (power-plant-buildin' engineer types) vote Republican.

Given that I get my American political perspective from the likes of reddit.com, talking with them in person is a fairly severe culture shock.

It's interesting to note that they quickly run out of things to say, too. Their opinions really truly are actually quite uninformed and unethical.

I kinda like most of them on a personal level, but they've confirmed my internet-driven suspicion that the conservative Murkn demographic is a bunch of racist, bigoted, superstitious, uneducated-outside-of-what-they-do-for-a-living mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers.

**scumdog** · 8th November 2012, 20:00

Originally Posted by jrandom

I kinda like most of them on a personal level, but they've confirmed my internet-driven suspicion that the conservative Murkn demographic is a bunch of racist, bigoted, superstitious, uneducated-outside-of-what-they-do-for-a-living mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers.

Did they originally come from New Zealand??

**jrandom** · 8th November 2012, 20:05

Originally Posted by scumdog

Did they originally come from New Zealand??

Yeah, your implication's a fair call. The locals are often just as bad in their own way. But they're what I'm used to, so they don't annoy me as much.

I guess you could say that all cunts are cunts, but some cunts are cunts.