Indeed!maxmanrules said:Especially Mordor. You totally need to come over here and see that placeDanielBrown said:I know about it. Not in depth, but the maori, local animals(sheeps ) and the nature are pretty known to me. Think it's pretty amazing that you have such rich and different envieroments. Recently watched the LOTR trilogy and it's hard to believe that all locations are in the same country.
I'm from Sweden, by the way. :>
No, this is not a joke. At least half of the population of the U.S. has below average intelligence. There are more reasons as to why that is than I can count on 1 hand using the binary method (goes up to 32 if you count 0.) I won't even mention these reasons as the last thing I want to do is spark a debate on this thread.SilentJay22 said:Is this real? Please tell me that it was a joke. >.< These people need a boot to the head!4RM3D said:OT: There was a show in America asking ordinary people to point out a certain country on the world map. A lot of them failed.
When asking to point out Europe (not a country, I know), someone pointed to Australia.
Heck, when asking to point out America, the country they live in, some people still got it wrong.
OT: Yeah NZ. Kiwis, the All Blacks, LOTR, other stuff. I know of this place you speak of. I want to go there someday. I'd actually much rather go there than to Australia. I've yet to here of any deadly animals or insects from NZ. Until someone tells me that is...
THAT IS ALL YOU NEED.maxmanrules said:You do realise than is our ONLY insect right?GLo Jones said:Being English, you have the sort of insects that would make me curl up in a ball and die of fear.
Damn, I must be living with the good half.gNetkamiko said:No, this is not a joke. At least half of the population of the U.S. has below average intelligence.
I forgot about the Weta! That's... a huge bug!Nouw said:Deadly animals? Beware of the terrifying Weta. Did I mention it's a survivor of the cold? [http://www.cracked.com/article_18471_5-animals-that-are-terrifyingly-hard-to-kill.html] But don't squash it because it's endangered
To be honest I'm not sure. I'm guessing it was because it was our first time and our first car-ride from Auckland to Napier. And maybe you could shave off an hour or so.J-dog42 said:Sorry, I have to ask, how on Earth did it take you 12 hours to get from Napier to Auckland? When I lived in Dannevirke it took seven, maybe eight. Now the twelve hour slog from Dunedin to Nelson, that is a mission.
Aaah I understand now. 100 hours in a car would kill me X_XMimsofthedawg said:I actually think that it wasn't the fact it took 12 hours, but the fact that it took 12 hours yet I had only gone something like a tiny, TINY fraction of the expanse of America. For example, if I told you that it would take me something like 100 or so hours to drive to San Francisco to New York, you'd probably have a hard time grasping what a car ride like that would be like. Catch my drift?
Quite happily a Jaffa! Speaking of which, those lovely orange chocolates, just MADE for rolling down the stairs in the movies or throwing at someone's head!GoldenFish said:HAHA, I name you jaffa as it is your birthright.Phantomess said:Born and bred in Auckland, baby!
I'm a New Zealander and to be honest I was oblivious of all these sheep-New Zealand jokes overseas. I confess I haven't read very far past the post I just quoted but I'm surprised no one has mentioned New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy.
Hoping to get back in 2012 for my 25th. Was hoping to come home last year, but ended up in America instead. Was just as cold and damp there, only with much brighter lights.SpAc3man said:You poor lost soul... Were you near the beach? I'm from Rothesay Bay myself. Hope you find your way back one day.Phantomess said:Born and bred in Auckland, baby! Lived in Mairangi Bay, but most of the folks were from up near Whangarei. Was dragged from my home at the age of six and made to live in Australia by my uncaring parents, but one day... one day...
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AND one last thing for everyone. They are NOT called kiwi birds. They are called kiwis. A kiwi is not a fruit. A kiwi fruit is a fruit. Its like calling a pigeon a "pigeon bird". Every time a New Zealander hears someone refer to our national icon as a "kiwi bird" and a kiwi fruit as just a kiwi they die a little inside. Its not right.