Humph, we sat here till early hours watching every test.

Good onyas, England.

BTW, does the English team have a nickname?

Like, Pommie Roses, or sumfin.

Pommie Proteas

Read it twice in your post - don't need to read it a third time.

Anyway, England's number one - everyone knows that, surely?

Humph, we sat here till early hours watching every test.

Good onyas, England.

BTW, does the English team have a nickname?

Like, Pommie Roses, or sumfin.

Dunno. Not much into that stuff, we British.

And out here in Vietnam I've lost Australia Network from my telly, so can't watch AFL (or RWC) from my home - have to go out to one of the sports bars in Saigon and sit with all the antipodean hoi-polloi.

The horror, the horror!

Never mind, at the end of October we've got a vertical run up the Bitexco Tower, 1002 steps.

And at the foot of the Bitexco Tower is the Hog's Breath Cafe, with the best lamb shank in town.

Edit: Deleted a zero from the number of steps. Even I'm not mad enough to attempt ten thousand!

Edited August 27, 201114 yr by Humphrey Bear

ABs 20 v OZ 25

Congrats Wannabies

And we beat the Paddies in Dublin -

Paddies 9 - this year's RWC winners 20

And we beat the Paddies in Dublin -

Paddies 9 - this year's RWC winners 20

I've read the AB's score twice now.

Ireland lost with 9 in their game.

And as Zpete has already stated, All Blacks 20 in theirs.

ABs 20 v OZ 25

Congrats Wannabies

Was there ever any doubt?

Strange New Zealand mating habits:

Did you know that the male Cook Strait giant weta attracts mates using the aroma of its feces?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinacrida_rugosa

Strange New Zealand mating habits:

Did you know that the male Cook Strait giant weta attracts mates using the aroma of its feces?

http://en.wikipedia....inacrida_rugosa

Ya talking sh*t Scads

Strange New Zealand mating habits:

Did you know that the male Cook Strait giant weta attracts mates using the aroma of its feces?

http://en.wikipedia....inacrida_rugosa

Ya talking sh*t Scads

Actually, I believe it's Shags.

Here's a little indigenous Australian talent, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgRCBN9nyzI://

Edited August 30, 201114 yr by Blinky Bill

Here's a little indigenous Australian talent, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgRCBN9nyzI://

An albino Aboriginal dancing in a snow storm?

Edited August 31, 201114 yr by Blinky Bill

That's twice you've posted the best of Australia.

Teach OZ to import all those boat peoples and more.......... Expand

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accuses the Government of 'ratting out' 23 Australians to the US. Photo / AP

Australia has reacted furiously to the publication of names of Australians on the United States terror watch-list, revealed in cables released by global whistleblower WikiLeaks.

The 23 people identified in cables signed by US Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich were alleged to have links with Yemeni-based Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who has advocated violence against the West and who has been implicated in planned terror attacks against America.

The list includes a grandmother once described as the matriarch of Australian Islamist militancy, a woman arrested in Yemen after her passport was cancelled, and the wife of a French terror suspect alleged to have had links with Australian terror cells.

NZ Parasite

NZ Parasite

A storm in a teacup and a VERY tenuous excuse to make waves.

That fact that the miniscule amount of leaf matter (think of half a match head amongst 10 tons of apples), and one immature grub were found IN NEW ZEALAND, shows that the checks and safety measures are up to scratch.

There's more chance that an Aussies RWC fan will carry something back on his shoes.

My apple tree and pear tree have no fire blight....they are 20 years old, reside in NZ and have never been pesticided, fungicided or shown any care whatsoever....except a pruning once in 5 years maybe.

Yah, but those dam_n Aussies brought the bushy tail possum to New Zealand. Thank gawd they didn't bring their rabbits.

Can one trust Australia????????

In about 1870, Sir George Grey, then Governor of New Zealand, liberated a variety of exotic birds and animals on the island, including wallabies. The wallabies thrived and became pests. Many other introduced species failed to survive, mainly due to a lack of vegetation caused by the wallabies.

Typical Australian greed............

The future of Kawau's wallabies?

Two types of wallaby on Kawau are threatened species back home in Australia. Until recently, live capture and export of wallabies, mainly to zoos overseas, was also taking place.

The kiwi governor of Sth OZ, once took some back I believe.

It would be great if they took back the 80,000,000 blotty possum, illegal OZ immigrants.

Not likely, Australia just takes over all NZ's best, no matter what, singers, footballers, actors.......

Laid claim to NZ's culinary delite, "The PAVLOVA"

They came as theives from England and are still active.

Edited September 1, 201114 yr by Zpete

I note you edited your post, Pete. I think you could have edited it some more. Such vitriol.

I note you edited your post, Pete. I think you could have edited it some more. Such vitriol.

Well, fair go........you guys claim Phar Lap, Pavlova, Russel Crowe, and many more, then you look down your noses at our delicious apples because some politician in South Australia has his pockets lined by an Adelaide pear grower.

But....never mind....we're still cuzzies when it comes to the rest of the world, eh?

I note you edited your post, Pete. I think you could have edited it some more. Such vitriol.

Well, fair go........you guys claim Phar Lap, Pavlova, Russel Crowe, and many more, then you look down your noses at our delicious apples because some politician in South Australia has his pockets lined by an Adelaide pear grower.

But....never mind....we're still cuzzies when it comes to the rest of the world, eh?

This inbreeding has to stop.........Jeez

I think virtually every isolated country is plagued by introduced species, even the islands of the far south had/have problems.

In most cases it was something that seemed like a good idea at the time.

Probably the most destructive species introduced to New Zealand... and Australia, was the white man.

NZ Parasite

There's more chance that an Aussies RWC fan will carry something back on his shoes.

You know Aussies that wear shoes?

Whatever next?

(It'll be sheep-shit, anyway)

I note you edited your post, Pete. I think you could have edited it some more. Such vitriol.

Well, fair go........you guys claim Phar Lap, Pavlova, Russel Crowe, and many more, then you look down your noses at our delicious apples because some politician in South Australia has his pockets lined by an Adelaide pear grower.

But....never mind....we're still cuzzies when it comes to the rest of the world, eh?

This inbreeding has to stop.........Jeez

Well....we are all F1 and F2 hybrids. If you read up about genetics, you will then understand why us inbreds are so superior.

I note you edited your post, Pete. I think you could have edited it some more. Such vitriol.

Yeah, I forgot, Ned Kelly was really a Kiwi.........

.................

Now ....... .......... he he

With all respect and esteem due a superior or an elder, to Ping.

Edited September 3, 201114 yr by Zpete

NZ Parasite

There's more chance that an Aussies RWC fan will carry something back on his shoes.

You know Aussies that wear shoes?

Whatever next?

(It'll be sheep-shit, anyway)

True story.

Many years ago working at Perth Airport you could always reley on a few characters getting off Air New Zealand.

Like the time a guy came clumping down the esculator to the arrivals hall wearing gumboots.

When asked why by Customs, he explained he thought he should wear shoes on the plane and these were the only ones he owned!

I remember another time airline staff delivered a comatose guy to passport check in a wheelchair. The lower half of his body was soaked in urine and the passport was in his back pocket. Nobody was game to retrieve it!

It was Wal, from Footrot Flats.

It was Wal, from Footrot Flats.

There's a Kiwi product that remains to this day Australia's favourite animated movie: A Dog's Tale

^I got more enjoyment from the cartoons - I found the movie disappointing.

Now you tell me, I just borrowed it off the internet....