January 10, 201016 yr Yes tell him, some of the studio animation was done outside NZ........................( tee hee )
January 10, 201016 yr Author This thread proves my point from the other thread. Make a thread about Americans and there are many replies. Try the same with a, well, minor country let's say, and no one has anything to say about it because they really don't have an opinion. And EVERYBODY has an opinion about America. Someone here was supposed to point out that Koala's & Kanagroos are from Australia, not New Zealand. My reply was going to be, "Oh, yeah, right. OK, then there's only one thing to like about NZ. ba-dum-bum-CHING! "
January 10, 201016 yr Small country, 4.3 million. Nice size to govern. Too cold for me. I've only gotten to know 2 Kiwis this past year. Went on a visa run with a Maori family. Peter Arnett was from Riverton, a whaling station.
January 10, 201016 yr 1. Roast lamb followed by boysenberry parfaits. 2. Whoring at a rugby tourney in Christchurch ("whoring" here meaning filling in on any team which needed a player.) 3. Hooking up with Aussie women at Mt. Hut while on a ski holiday!!!! (Guess which one I liked the best!)
January 10, 201016 yr 1. Roast lamb followed by boysenberry parfaits.2. Whoring at a rugby tourney in Christchurch ("whoring" here meaning filling in on any team which needed a player.) 3. Hooking up with Aussie women at Mt. Hut while on a ski holiday!!!! (Guess which one I liked the best!) The lamb?
January 10, 201016 yr I Like New Zealanders Because... Of..... It's Wool Their Māori Their Kiwi and It's Kiwis LaoPo
January 10, 201016 yr 1. Roast lamb followed by boysenberry parfaits.2. Whoring at a rugby tourney in Christchurch ("whoring" here meaning filling in on any team which needed a player.) 3. Hooking up with Aussie women at Mt. Hut while on a ski holiday!!!! (Guess which one I liked the best!) The lamb? Well, you have to admit, it is pretty darn good lamb!
January 10, 201016 yr Having spent a lot of time in rural New Zealand on month long fishing trips I have to agree that I like the Kiwis on general principle. They are like polite Aussies. I can't number all the times I've been invited home by complete strangers when I've been knocking about the country. A typical example; I was driving my rental car along a dirt track in the southern hill country of North Island. I was following a pretty stream I saw on a map. Knowing that obscure small streams in just about everywhere in New Zealand often have surprisingly large fish, I figured this might be one of the unsung good ones. However, it was drizzling rain, like it often is in New Zealand, and I still hadn't established where I was going to sleep for the night. I stopped to ask a Kiwi farmer and his wife if there was a motel or sleeping hut somewhere nearby. They both replied at once with the same answer... "Naw, mate, the pubs bin closed fer yars, an they's the only ones that used tah rent rooms. Why don'tcha come home with us and bunk down at our place for the night. The kids wud be glad to meet a stranger from Canada." As it turned out I spent two days with them and helped them herd sheep and talk farming. I also got some good advice about a few big Browns that were swimming in the pool the kids built in the local stream. That is just one example of many I had down there.
January 10, 201016 yr The approach up Otago Bay to Port Chalmers is one of the most stunning pieces of scenery I've ever seen.
January 11, 201016 yr 1. Roast lamb followed by boysenberry parfaits.2. Whoring at a rugby tourney in Christchurch ("whoring" here meaning filling in on any team which needed a player.) 3. Hooking up with Aussie women at Mt. Hut while on a ski holiday!!!! (Guess which one I liked the best!) Whoring for the rugby team?
January 20, 201016 yr Small country, 4.3 million. Nice size to govern. Too cold for me. I've only gotten to know 2 Kiwis this past year. Went on a visa run with a Maori family. Peter Arnett was from Riverton, a whaling station. [/quote] I, as a Kiwi, find that sounds a libelous statement, Blondie. We swim with the whales, no safer place for them than NZ waters.
January 20, 201016 yr Some of them spell funny. Spell, funny, that is correct spelling. Is there another way? Or are you insinuating something else. NZ is proud users of the Queen's English, correct English. Not the President's version, or Australia's follow the US version. Edit to add.....Touchy am I not?........ LOL
January 20, 201016 yr Author Some of them spell funny. Spell, funny, that is correct spelling. Is there another way? Or are you insinuating something else. NZ is proud users of the Queen's English, correct English. Not the President's version, or Australia's follow the US version. Edit to add.....Touchy am I not?........ LOL Too bad they don't have the Windsor accent to go with it. When I taught English in Moscow years ago one of our clients was Price Waterhouse. One of the big wigs was Kiwi and his wife wanted to be a teacher (apparently too bored sitting at home). The Russian students complained because they couldn't understand what she was saying half the time.
January 24, 201016 yr Some of them spell funny. Spell, funny, that is correct spelling. Is there another way? Or are you insinuating something else. NZ is proud users of the Queen's English, correct English. Not the President's version, or Australia's follow the US version. Edit to add.....Touchy am I not?........ LOL Too bad they don't have the Windsor accent to go with it. When I taught English in Moscow years ago one of our clients was Price Waterhouse. One of the big wigs was Kiwi and his wife wanted to be a teacher (apparently too bored sitting at home). The Russian students complained because they couldn't understand what she was saying half the time. She may have a toffee version accent. (add nose) NZ accent has been described as 'mid-atlantic', yeah rite......LOL I have been asked if I am Sth African during my travels. In OZ, they say I am a pommie.........<deleted>. Kiwi, thru and thru.
January 24, 201016 yr Author Some of them spell funny. Spell, funny, that is correct spelling. Is there another way? Or are you insinuating something else. NZ is proud users of the Queen's English, correct English. Not the President's version, or Australia's follow the US version. Edit to add.....Touchy am I not?........ LOL Too bad they don't have the Windsor accent to go with it. When I taught English in Moscow years ago one of our clients was Price Waterhouse. One of the big wigs was Kiwi and his wife wanted to be a teacher (apparently too bored sitting at home). The Russian students complained because they couldn't understand what she was saying half the time. She may have a toffee version accent. (add nose) It's been 15 years and all I remember is she pronounced the number 7 like "SEEVIN".
January 24, 201016 yr It's been 15 years and all I remember is she pronounced the number 7 like "SEEVIN". Sounds Aussie. A Kiwi would say s'vn Gosh I hate the "You have quoted more than the allowed blocks of text" error.
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