No wonder aussies get the wrong idea...

[Big Dave]

on another note...saw you getting on the motorway at greenlane at like 11 am big dave...

such well behaved riding (was a passenger in my mums cage)

Mate - I have f*ck all points left. I'm sammy-speed-limit for the next 18months.

boring - but necessary.

[Blackbird]

...about life in NZ.
Look at the dribble the sydney papers serve up.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-t...407937267.html


3rd lead story as i post. Must be a very quiet news day.

Not only a quiet day Big Dave, but a bloody mischeivous one too. The Aussie paper which it was reported in is owned by Fairfax. The local Tokoroa paper is the South Waikato News. Guess what? Owned by Fairfax. Guess what number 2? None of this has been reported in the local paper. Not wanting to be told that they print bollocks and stir the locals up methinks. Think I might have a stir-up about this myself

[Big Dave]

Not only a quiet day Big Dave, but a bloody mischeivous one too. The Aussie paper which it was reported in is owned by Fairfax. The local Tokoroa paper is the South Waikato News. Guess what? Owned by Fairfax. Guess what number 2? None of this has been reported in the local paper. Not wanting to be told that they print bollocks and stir the locals up methinks. Think I might have a stir-up about this myself

Go for it - my first ever paid job was as an office boy at the Sydney Morning Harold in 1972. They offered me a cadetship - but I didn't want to drink that much.

I'll tell you some stories one day. Funny place.

[Blackbird]

Go for it - my first ever paid job was as an office boy at the Sydney Morning Harold in 1972. They offered me a cadetship - but I didn't want to drink that much.

I'll tell you some stories one day. Funny place.

Look forward to it. A career in journalism was one of my serious career options before I chose engineering. Maybe my liver is the better for it.

I'll wait until next week's local paper comes out in case they are simply tardy, and then I'll start winding them up if the story is not printed.

[Ozzie]

Go for it - my first ever paid job was as an office boy at the Sydney Morning Harold in 1972. They offered me a cadetship - but I didn't want to drink that much.

I'll tell you some stories one day. Funny place.

My father worked there at about the same time.

[DingDong]

Maori place names, the great thing about NZ place names is they all have a meaning...

Te Teko , Te= the, teko= shit (the shit)
Tarawera , Tara= twat, wera= hot (hot twat)
Urewera , Ure= cock... you know what wera means...

Thats all I can think of right now.



Imagine what would happen if the Aussies knew to whole story

But then again, Toowong and Ipswitch are some pretty stupid sounding Aussie names... wonder what they mean?

[sels1]

Mate - I have f*ck all points left. I'm sammy-speed-limit for the next 18months.

boring - but necessary.

Ha - your're not only one in that club!

And kaka, teko etc - sounds like a load of crap to me

[McJim]

But then again, Toowong and Ipswitch are some pretty stupid sounding Aussie names... wonder what they mean?

Funniest one I've seen is Townsville.

town = town
ville = town

therefore townstown?

[Ozzie]

My home town -

Wagga Wagga - Translation, place of many crows (wagga = crows?)

there is also Walla Walla, Yarong Yarong, Gumly Gumly and many many more!

Aboriginals used to stutter, either that or the poms that made the names up did.

Then of course there is the classic.....

The whities got confussed over the Aboriginal name for a flow of water, wanted to name a town after it, ended up naming the place Yarong Creek.

The story goes, Adelong means river, no, Ya wrong, creek. So they called that town Yarong Creek, and just called another town Adelong (which actually does mean river).

How's that for some trivia?

[Big Dave]

My home town -

Wagga Wagga - Translation, place of many crows (wagga = crows?)

there is also Walla Walla, Yarong Yarong, Gumly Gumly and many many more!

I lived in Wangi Wangi before here. Not too far from Kurri Kurri.

The duplication of names - Wagga Wagga - comes from the being no numeracy in Aboriginal.

There is one - or more than one - no numbers in the language - to say there were a lot of crows in wagga - you say Wagga Wagga.

KBer 'Warewolf' is a Wagga boy. (aye Colin!)

[Ozzie]

Kurri Kurri.

Is that the Bondi for Indian's, many Kurri's?








P/T (No offence intended)

[McJim]

The duplication of names - Wagga Wagga - comes from the being no numeracy in Aboriginal.

Possible misconception here - maybe 'many' is a number too as in:

one
two
many
many one
many two
many many
many many one
many many two
many many many
lots

(apologies to Terry Pratchett)

[Big Dave]

Yes - I think that's actually the way it works.

[Big Dave]

Is that the Bondi for Indian's, many Kurri's?








P/T (No offence intended)

Well - actually we decided that it would be good to get a Curry in Kurri Kurri, but we couldn't find an Indian Restaurant and we were in a hurry.

What we wanted was the 'We're in a hurry Kurri kurri Curry House' - but in a flurry it's absence was a worry.

True story.

[Beemer]

And yet if a Maori wants to drive around in a car with the number plate TUTAE - which my Maori dictionary lists as "dung, shit, turd" then he's allowed to?

My dictionary lists the meaning for kaka as "clothing, fibre, line, (tattoo/ancestry), handnet, flutter", definitely not the definition this guy is claiming! There are four different definitions for it, one without any macrons (as above), one with the macron over the first a (red hot), one over the second (cork), and one with macrons over both (parrot).

I've seen other cases where that guy has complained about things being wrong - place names spelled wrong, etc. He's just a bloody stirrer!