Are you a 'Kiwi' or a New Zealander?

[Akzle]

Remember going to a bar in London back in '87 ...

Ordered a beer and the Aussie barman asked me where I was from, I said New Zealand and added the acronym 'Keen Individual With Integrity'

KIWI.

He paused , served another customer then poured my beer and said sounds like a mistake there mate, I'd call you a Keen individual without intelligence judging by the way the All Blacks have been getting on lately.

Good bloke, didn't charge me for the beer.

fuck. Your absolutely right. Mind if i call you jesus?
One should judge someone elses intellect by the performance of the favoured sports team of the country theyre from.

[Big Dog]

When I were a nipper, in the deep south, I had a Maori friend called Charlie. He lived up the road a bit, in an old rundown farmhouse.

I was 4 or 5, and Charlie was about 80, and believe it or not he spoke less English than I did. Never stopped us talking from the time I escaped the house until Charlie walked me home for dinner.

Much later, long after Charlie stopped being able to walk me home, and well after he stopped answering his doorbell I learned that what Charlie and I spoke was mostly Maori. Or so the old dear in the shop half way between where Charlie and I lived told my mother. When my mother asked her to speak to me, so that she could hear me speak it the old dear said that she couldn't. Or wouldn't. She thought that what Charlie spoke was quite different to what she used with her family, from quite some way away. My mother told me she seemed also to believe that there was something almost disrespectful in her even attempting to speak to me as Charlie had.

I remember Charlie vividly to this day, can even hear and understand him. And yet I can't speak more than a couple of dozen words of "Maori".

Yep.
To me is stories like that stuff need to be a bigger part of our heritage.
Not he called me a name that if I try heard enough I can be offended by.
Much of the language throughout the Pacific was written down and formalised into a language by the same group of missionaries so it is little surprise there are common words... Albeit sometimes with different intent.
Palangi in most languages of the Pacific is a respectful word.
30 years ago I remember the Maori of Ngongotaha reserving ther word for pakeha with deserved mana, veterans, police, ministers etc. Some time in the 80's the word was used a lot during protests in a far more irreverent tone. Since then I have only heard it uttered by ferals trying to offend.

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[Drew]

uttered by ferals trying to offend.

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Is that a different approach from you calling them 'ferals'?

I'm a moron, and I can see the fucken stupidity in what you're saying. So shut your hole pakeha.

[Stylo]

fuck. Your absolutely right. Mind if i call you jesus?
One should judge someone elses intellect by the performance of the favoured sports team of the country theyre from.

Call me anything you want you mate, never been called Jesus though ...Hmmm

[Big Dog]

Is that a different approach from you calling them 'ferals'?

I'm a moron, and I can see the fucken stupidity in what you're saying. So shut your hole pakeha.

What term would you have me apply?
Not all the people I mean are Maori.

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[Drew]

What term would you have me apply?
Not all the people I mean are Maori.

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If you think they're being derogatory, replying in kind makes you no better.

Race never entered into it.

[Madness]

Call me anything you want you mate...

Honkey Kiwi.

[ellipsis]

Race never entered into it.

...I only came because of the racing bit...

[Tazz]

Call me anything you want you mate

Then what's this all about then mate

[James Deuce]

Old saying from wayyy back at school - "sticks and stones may break our bones but names can never hurt us" - call me what you will.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never quite describe the pain.

[Woodman]

Remember going to a bar in London back in '87 ...

Ordered a beer and the Aussie barman asked me where I was from, I said New Zealand and added the acronym 'Keen Individual With Integrity'

KIWI.

He paused , served another customer then poured my beer and said sounds like a mistake there mate, I'd call you a Keen individual without intelligence judging by the way the All Blacks have been getting on lately.

Good bloke, didn't charge me for the beer.

Didn't the ABs win the world cup in 1987?

[Akzle]

Didn't the ABs win the world cup in 1987?

the "without intelligence" part at least was rather apt.


...for a fucken strayan.

[Akzle]

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never quite describe the pain.

let me tune my fucking violin...

People are cunts. Your choices are pretty much limited to: accept it; deal with it; or kill yourself.

Anyone who defines themself by someone elses opinion of them is an evolutionary anomaly. (and should die) and, no doubt, a fucken boring cunt. Who started this thread again??

[ellipsis]

...de-evolution means that at some point some we will end up an algal bloom it seems...it has been prophesized that with the addition of a couple of vowels and a couple of consonants, the 'meerkats', will inherit the earth...luckily we probably share a paranoic state of attention to the world, so therefore the basic tenet of humanity is forwarded in the genetic evolution...maybe when we revisit in some other eon we will be doomed to repeat our fuckups...

[Akzle]

...de-evolution means that at some point some we will end up an algal bloom it seems...it has been prophesized that with the addition of a couple of vowels and a couple of consonants, the 'meerkats', will inherit the earth...luckily we probably share a paranoic state of attention to the world, so therefore the basic tenet of humanity is forwarded in the genetic evolution...maybe when we revisit in some other eon we will be doomed to repeat our fuckups...

like humans are yet the pinnacle of evolution...
We revisit??