Reasons to be cheerful

**GazzaH** · 22nd June 2017, 22:41

Did they get your best side? Did you smile nicely?

**Moi** · 22nd June 2017, 23:11

Originally Posted by Moi

Great news!

Pics or it didn't happen...

Originally Posted by Oakie

You may regret saying that. They took two pics and I have them!

If I can find the ones I was given, we could compare and contrast...

**Oakie** · 23rd June 2017, 09:34

Originally Posted by Moi

If I can find the ones I was given, we could compare and contrast...

I thought it looked like the inside of a squid tube.

**Honest Andy** · 23rd June 2017, 09:49

Originally Posted by Oakie

I thought it looked like the inside of a squid tube.

Gentlemen. Please.

**TheDemonLord** · 23rd June 2017, 14:00

Jordan Peterson - Dropping Truth Bombs left, right and centre.

**russd7** · 23rd June 2017, 19:42

Originally Posted by Akzle

an ironic choice of emoticons there... two thumbs and a banana...

holy shit, didn't even realise what i did there.

**oldrider** · 26th June 2017, 22:29

The way the world might be if it was left alone to decide.

**Oakie** · 26th June 2017, 22:42

Originally Posted by oldrider

The way the world might be if it was left alone to decide.

If only...

**oldrider** · 5th July 2017, 17:47

VIDEO: Canadian Professor Jordan Peterson On The Importance Of Killing Postmodernism

Read more: http://thehayride.com/2017/06/video-...#ixzz4lvvWCQcY

**oldrider** · 7th July 2017, 22:39

Originally Posted by oldrider

The way the world might be if it was left alone to decide.

Apparently:-

The above was happening in Palestine pre-1948, before Zionism/Israel - I.E. "everybody" - all living together in peace!

What could possibly have gone wrong?

Was it Britain giving Palestine to the Zionists (http://ahtribune.com/history/1583-ba...tion-1917.html) because there was nobody there only bare dead lifeless sand?

Was it reward for the Zionists getting USA involved in WW1 thus turning the war against Germany and Britain snatching victory from the jaws of certain defeat?

**Moi** · 10th July 2017, 21:10

Listening to a morepork in the pohutukawa in the garden...

Some may say "So what?"

We live a few streets south of Eden Park.

**BuzzardNZ** · 10th July 2017, 21:40

Originally Posted by Moi

Listening to a morepork in the pohutukawa in the garden...

Some may say "So what?"

We live a few streets south of Eden Park.

They can be heard in the Wellington CBD too. Surprised the hell out of me when I first heard them!

**FJRider** · 10th July 2017, 21:45

Originally Posted by Moi

Listening to a morepork in the pohutukawa in the garden...

Some may say "So what?"

We live a few streets south of Eden Park.

I've been listening to Kiwi's in the bush outside my bedroom window.

I'm on Stewart Island this week.

**Moi** · 10th July 2017, 21:58

Originally Posted by BuzzardNZ

They can be heard in the Wellington CBD too. Surprised the hell out of me when I first heard them!

Amazing... they're an iconic bush bird to me. The first I clearly remember hearing, before I started school, were on Great Barrier Island in the very late 1950s.

Originally Posted by FJRider

I've been listening to Kiwi's in the bush outside my bedroom window.

I'm on Stewart Island this week.

That is special...

We heard some earlier this year when in the Bay of Islands, from the bush behind Paihia.

**Honest Andy** · 10th July 2017, 22:06

Hearing kiwi is pretty cool, shame you have to go so far into the wilderness to find them.
Moreporks are great, I love listening to them, there's heaps out my way, especially in the summer you can hear them calling out to each other across the valley. Sometimes in summer you can attract them by putting a big halogen worklight on the lawn. The light attracts the big moths and then if you're patient (beer makes me patient) the moreporks will swoop in to grab a feed

I also like that we don't seem to hear a big mob of cockatoos anymore, although we now have kookaburras nearby. Quite interesting to hear them at first but wears a bit thin after a while.