The Paul Henry thread

[Ronin]

I had my suspicions, but it's not something I've ever given much thought to.

I'm South African.

Ahhhh. The irony.

[SMOKEU]

More to the point, I can access some wines locally but I have no idea as to the quality. Perhaps you could advise me if I am looking at a particular line..?
Would be much appreciated.

I don't think we'll be importing direct...I often have people wanting me to get a certain wine. I have to buy a case. They buy one bottle and the other eleven bottles sit gathering dust for a thousand years. Not very profitable really...

I really don't have a clue about wine.

[avgas]

That's a fairly sweeping (and racist) generalisation.
By the 1840's approx. 60% of the English population could read and write.

Shhhhhh he's not racist.
Not one mention in there about blacks. lol

[avgas]

Maybe they were just too drunk to write?

Nah the Maori didn't need to write you see.

Oh wait you were talking about the whalers.

[rustyrobot]

Shhhhhh he's not racist.
Not one mention in there about blacks. lol

I love you too.

'Course you know that New Zealand was alcohol free before Europeans turned up.

[BoristheBiter]

I love you too.

'Course you know that New Zealand was alcohol free before Europeans turned up.

Just like the land and animals were protected.

[rustyrobot]

Just like the land and animals were protected.

You just made that up
I don't think humans really had any idea of their impact on our finite world until the middle of the last century. I'm no expert tho.

[avgas]

I love you too.

'Course you know that New Zealand was alcohol free before Europeans turned up.

'erd of "kava"
there are variants of it all over the world - even 'ere

http://www.entheology.org/edoto/anmviewer.asp?a=67&z=5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entheogen

[rustyrobot]

Wow, that's interesting. I've had kawakawa tea a number of times and never experienced effects anything like those suggested. Best I try again. I have a fairly healthy entheogenic repertoire and wouldn't consider Kawakawa as anything special in that regards.

[Banditbandit]

But how many people speak it fluently? It is very difficult to get a real figure on this, as many Maoris probably claim to speak the language fluently, but then we first have to define the definition of the term 'fluent'.

Apply the same definition to English ? Many people in New Zealand speak it .. but how many are fluent ?

[rustyrobot]

Apply the same definition to English ? Many people in New Zealand speak it .. but how many are fluent ?

Wot do u mean? If we wernt ment 2 use numbaz az letters, god wouldn't have made them sound tha same.

[SMOKEU]

Apply the same definition to English ? Many people in New Zealand speak it .. but how many are fluent ?

Good point, even seemingly well educated English only speaking people seem to have great difficulty in getting the grasp of even simple grammar.

[AllanB]

At least he did not call him "A cheeky little darky" ............. Now what happened to that guys TV career?

[rustyrobot]

At least he did not call him "A cheeky little darky" ............. Now what happened to that guys TV career?

Q+A
The home of NZ politics - Sunday, 9am TV ONE
http://tvnz.co.nz/q-and-a-news

The better question would be... what happened to his singing career?!
http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Paul_Holmes_(CD)

[EJK]

Are we talking about this guy?