No, after you.

[The Pastor]

Yeah, WTF is up with that?!!
You can buy a tree, plant it on your property, and then if you need to subsequently remove it for some valid reason (like its roots are breaking your wall or path), you're not allowed to. Who the hell owns it? What business is it of anyone else?

ITS NOT AS IF TREES ARE RARE IN NZ EITHER, WE HAVE WAY TO MANY TREES.

[sarahtvet]

Rounds these parts it exceeds the time the green is on....

In the UK we don't like amber it means go faster to us

[peasea]

Larger nations are like Joe average. Just getting on with getting on.

I've only been to Oz, so can't tell what other nations are like in their driving habits, BUT! I have many friends and lots of family members who have travelled extensively, they say the same thing. We are a nation of "I'm better than you's", which, when we compete in sporting events, is great. On the road; it sucks.

The road is for everyone; we take our babies on the open road; you want to race, go to a race track. The cash spent/received on things like 'Boy Racers' should/could be fed into tracks and fines increased. That way the message would get through (via lightened wallets) and there'd be more places to race (through lightened wallets).

Or is that too simple?

[86GSXR]

Yeah, and after going down to my local shop last Friday night and seeing two boy racer cars on their roofs, a lampost lying in the middle of the road, and hordes of said boy racers standing around laughing at the sight, I really don't know why we just don't make it illegal for anyone under 20 to own a vehicle larger than 1000cc and unmodified. That would slow em down a bit surely.

[swbarnett]

The real problem with young drivers in NZ is that we protect them too much when they're younger. I get the impression from what I see in the media and personally that most parents have the attitude that ANY amount of pain a child suffers is bad. If you don't allow your kids to get the odd grazed knee or even a broken limb or two before they reach driving age they don't learn the basic principle of cause and effect. When they finally have a bit of freedom to be reckless they do it in a way that has much higher consequences, both for themselves and others, than when they were younger.

A little pain is a good thing.