So how does the "Maori Electoral Role" and "Maori All Blacks" fit in with your statement about no us and them?Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase
sounds Race based to me.....
Hardcore Biker
So how does the "Maori Electoral Role" and "Maori All Blacks" fit in with your statement about no us and them?
sounds Race based to me.....
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Forum whore
Paua was pawa too wasn't it? Bunch of place names with it before someone decided to change tack, such is the history of a lot of words in the English language.
Just the way languages roll in general I would have though.
A lot.of early settlers probably had less of a written language than the natives though
Forum whore
That's a good one!!!
NEDWN VIII
No honky's in the Maori All Black team, though that freckle faced ginga Paul Tito was suspect.
Hardcore Biker
Actually, as one would expect from simple population based ethnic numbers, the majority of people agitating for the H in Wanganui are not Maori*. This is another reason why it's annoying when someone automatically assumes that any objection to a particular point of view favoured by some (never all) of a particular ethnic minority, is automatically race-based. Hence, we diagnose projection in these people, they can't see past their own point of view to understand there can be a non-race-based objection to a particular activity or subsidy, because in their world, all objections are trumped by the Race Card. So please bear in mind that disagreement may be based on the lack of merit of the expenditure - not on the pigment of the enforced contributor. Verily, it is so.
* The person leading the charge to change the name is in fact the Mayor, despite two referenda saying the majority don't want to change. And particularly after an 85-year-flood with millions need to be spent cleaning up and getting people back in their houses and on the roads again, one would think that the Mayor and Council would see that as the priority. But no.
Again, the most likely explanation is people spending OPM to feel good about themselves. It's very common in NZ society. Somebody with authority over a budget (because they never spend their own money) thinks that someone else needs something done for them; and that something-that-must-be-done must be paid for by a third party with the third party's money.
A professor from Yale put it far more eloquently:
As soon as A observes something which seems to him wrong, from which X is suffering, A talks it over with B, and A and B then propose to get a law passed to remedy the evil and help X. Their law always proposes to determine what C shall do for X, or, in better case, what A, B, and C shall do for X... What I want to do is to look up C. I want to show you what manner of man he is. I call him the Forgotten Man. Perhaps the appellation is not strictly correct. He is the man who never is thought of at the beginning of such proposals.... I call him the forgotten man... Everyone else forgets him yet he always pays..."
I leave identification of parties A, B and X in this context as an exercise for the class.
NEDWN VIII
Yes, it should be an X instead of a Wh, when the Asian population grows in Whanganui, and Xing Wang Tung is elected Mayor, it may will become Xanganui.
Forum whore
Maybe these airline employees might move there...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaOkTKfxu44
The Majestic Metal Wizard
That will go down in history as one of the Greatest Trolls ever done.
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
NEDWN VIII
Sum Ting Wong
mini meeeeeee
Just like "I'm going to the lie-bree to get out some books" (showing my age).
When my grandparents were alive we'd be going to "won-guh-nooee" to visit them. Now we visit them in the cemetree at 'Aramo'.
I lahk to moove eet moove eet...
Katman to steveb64
Whip it, whip it good!
I still go to the Lie-bree
Watching daytime TV has reached an all time low point for me. Bloody Bambillo ads! "My ciropracter"
ARRRRGHHHHHHHHHHH!
Hardcore Biker
And in answer to one of the original posters questions - Ken Mair now appears to be running, what could be considered as a protection racket.
A clear message of relationships damaged greeted a vote by Wanganui District Council that quashed a bid to change the spelling of the Wanganui district.
While the "H" can be used in the spelling of the Wanganui urban area, a motion to have that extended district-wide was lost 7-6.
As soon as the vote was made, local Maori made it clear to councillors that formal relationships between iwi and council would be reviewed.
And it was a decision that had some councillors and mayor Annette Main visibly upset.
Iwi representative Ken Mair told the meeting the decision would have "major implications" on dealings with the council.
Iwi have cancelled a scheduled meeting between council and the Tupoho working party set for today but, more worryingly, Mr Mair said iwi would reconsider all its working relationships with council.
Prime among these are the recently signed deal to operate the port as a joint venture and a similar partnership at the resource recovery centre.
"If you cannot respect our name, then you need to understand our response to this decision," he said.
He said local Maori at the meeting were disturbed by some of the positions taken by councillors and said they did not understand how important it was to Maori to have the district's name spelt with the "H".
The motion councillors voted on was to ask the Geographic Board to consider a request to alter the spelling of the name Wanganui to Whanganui.
As the Mafia would say, "nice city you have there. Shame if something were to happen to it because you won't do what we demand you do."
Forum whore
Hardcore Biker
You have certainly beclowned yourself ....more than adequately.
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