shennong posted:all i know about nz is the ross kemp on gangs episode with the nazi maoris
watch once were warriors and flight of the conchords and you'll know all about NZ
blinkandwheeze posted:i live in new zealand ...
wherabouts?
Ironicwarcriminal posted:you sure dude?
I thought only ones that are occasionally smuggled in or are in zoos or whatever.
no poisonous spiders either. i lived there when i was younger and we all went to school barefoot, and not because we were poor
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10776618
The shallow coastal regions ARE New Zealand
blinkandwheeze posted:wellington
cool, better than Auckland.
Ironicwarcriminal posted:blinkandwheeze posted:wellington
cool, better than Auckland.
the only places that are actually worse than auckland in this world are all in australia i.m.o.
blinkandwheeze posted:Ironicwarcriminal posted:
blinkandwheeze posted:
wellington
cool, better than Auckland.
the only places that are actually worse than auckland in this world are all in australia i.m.o.
yeah i'd probably agree with this
babyfinland posted:Australia is the greatest nation in the world and history
Also undeniably true
The best weather, the biggest houses, the nicest beaches, the prettiest women, the buffest blokes, the deadliest snakes, the most intelligent TV, the most compassionate attitude to minorities, the most alluring accents and the most mature and insightful intellectual class in the history of mankind
Jane Fonda…Jack Anderson…Daniel Schorr…hey! This is Richard Nixon’s enemies list! You just crossed out his name and put yours!
AUSTRALIA’S woeful Olympics medal tally is due to its residents’ disdain for any activity that emphasises the physical over the mental, it has been claimed.
The nation’s lack of concern for putting one over on other countries, particularly Britain, is another key factor.
Internationalist Nikki Hollis said: “Most nations would be smarting with humiliation at their resoundingly abysmal record in these games but not the Australians, an enigmatic people dedicated to the life of the mind who rarely travel outside their own shores.
“Until 1996, ‘rough sports’, a category which included rugby, surfing and cricket, were specifically banned in the Australian constitution as it was feared that they may distract young people from their studies of vers libre, dodecaphonic composition and ethnological art.
“Under protest from their own citizens, the government partly repealed these laws but only to introduce Australian Rules Football, a watered down version of the game which, according to those who have played it is ‘more like a mixture of chess and expressive dance’.
“Given how much the average young Australian male would far prefer to engage you in a discussion on the finer points of Mallarmé or Euripides than bandy remarks on uncouth ball games, it is hardy astonishing that they have won such a pitiful number of medals.”
Australian ex-pat Bill McKay said: “Being a sports fan in Australia is incredibly lonely. There’s more to life than the intellect but try telling that to the average bloke in New South Wales.
“Take swimming. We could be good at it but it’s impossible to swim and read at the same time – you just end up going in circles. And you can’t get an Aussie to put their book down, even in the water.”
Joanna Kramer, a self-confessed ‘Australophile’, said: “I think we British could learn a lot from Australia. What is sport, they say, compared with the arts and the crafts, macrame, ceramics, flower arranging?
“To them, physical competition and noisy collective celebration are as insignificant as the number of medals they have won in these Olympics.”
deadken posted:'Bookish' Australians indifferent to Olympics success
AUSTRALIA’S woeful Olympics medal tally is due to its residents’ disdain for any activity that emphasises the physical over the mental, it has been claimed.
The nation’s lack of concern for putting one over on other countries, particularly Britain, is another key factor.
Internationalist Nikki Hollis said: “Most nations would be smarting with humiliation at their resoundingly abysmal record in these games but not the Australians, an enigmatic people dedicated to the life of the mind who rarely travel outside their own shores.
“Until 1996, ‘rough sports’, a category which included rugby, surfing and cricket, were specifically banned in the Australian constitution as it was feared that they may distract young people from their studies of vers libre, dodecaphonic composition and ethnological art.
“Under protest from their own citizens, the government partly repealed these laws but only to introduce Australian Rules Football, a watered down version of the game which, according to those who have played it is ‘more like a mixture of chess and expressive dance’.
“Given how much the average young Australian male would far prefer to engage you in a discussion on the finer points of Mallarmé or Euripides than bandy remarks on uncouth ball games, it is hardy astonishing that they have won such a pitiful number of medals.”
Australian ex-pat Bill McKay said: “Being a sports fan in Australia is incredibly lonely. There’s more to life than the intellect but try telling that to the average bloke in New South Wales.
“Take swimming. We could be good at it but it’s impossible to swim and read at the same time – you just end up going in circles. And you can’t get an Aussie to put their book down, even in the water.”
Joanna Kramer, a self-confessed ‘Australophile’, said: “I think we British could learn a lot from Australia. What is sport, they say, compared with the arts and the crafts, macrame, ceramics, flower arranging?
“To them, physical competition and noisy collective celebration are as insignificant as the number of medals they have won in these Olympics.”
I unironically read books in the water, this satire is redundant
discipline posted:tpaine make me an avatar
Goethestein posted:throw teh j00 don the well...
Wow, between this and the casual throwing around of the R-bomb, you guys are really living up to your reputation as a "known hate site"