Waitangi anyone?

**RDJ** · 6th February 2014, 10:22

Originally Posted by frogfeaturesFZR

Procul Harum.

My sincere apologies Frogman you are of course right! No real defense other than I was listening to "Nights In White Satin" at the time...

**awa355** · 6th February 2014, 11:47

$500 million and we'll go away?

Yea, right!!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11197495

**RDJ** · 6th February 2014, 12:33

Originally Posted by awa355

$500 million and we'll go away?

Yea, right!!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11197495

Kipling said it best

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --

"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"

**oldrider** · 6th February 2014, 13:53

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11197495 Well that will be the first instalment out of the way at least!

Like the last guy in the video clip said ... keep the media out of the place and it all goes well it has been a great day out!

**_Shrek_** · 6th February 2014, 16:11

Originally Posted by oldrider

[Like the last guy in the video clip said ... keep the media out of the place and it all goes well it has been a great day out!

well it does stop all the

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**george formby** · 6th February 2014, 17:49

It's Un Zuds biggest Kai festival with a hint of belligerence between snacks. Last years Paua fritters were gawjus.

Mrs had me odd jobbing today so missed out on the grub. Turned some drawers into shelves, though. That's kiwi right there.

**JimO** · 6th February 2014, 18:00

Originally Posted by awa355

$500 million and we'll go away?

Yea, right!!

it would be worth it if they did go away back to where they came from

**oldrider** · 6th February 2014, 20:09

Originally Posted by JimO

it would be worth it if they did go away back to where they came from

Last count the genetic historians were claimimg that they all came from Taiwan ... so I guess that makes them all Asian drivers!

**Swoop** · 7th February 2014, 13:41

Originally Posted by oldrider

Last count the genetic historians were claimimg that they all came from Taiwan ...

A colleague always said that the carvings were almost identical. Taiwanese and Maori share a link there.

**jasonu** · 7th February 2014, 16:31

Originally Posted by Banditbandit

I'm sorry - but commemorating the slaughter of colonial troops as cannon fodder in yet another British fuck up hardly seems great ... some of us have just as different an opinion on that day as you do of this day ..

(Yes, I get what happened - and my Grandfather was wounded on the beaches at Gallipoli on April 25 ... I remember with respect ... I get all that ... It was still the slaughter of colonial troops in a great British fuck up)

It is not a day of commemoration, rather a day of rememberence and respect to those involved.