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Thread ID: 124926	2012-05-28 04:17:00	New Zealand is a crap name for a country	Metla (12)	PC World Chat

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1277866	2012-05-29 06:29:00	You really need to check your History Books. In 1840 New Zealand became a part of New South Wales when it was annexed by Britain, In 1841 it formed a seperate colony. So already been part of the now states of Australia ;) I never studied New Zealand history and don't intend to, after all, it's got only <200 years! :D	bk T (215)
1277867	2012-05-29 06:39:00	I thought it was spelled New Keyland :eek: And the new flag has stylised Keywee.	R2x1 (4628)
1277868	2012-05-29 08:09:00	You really need to check your History Books. In 1840 New Zealand became a part of New South Wales when it was annexed by Britain, In 1841 it formed a seperate colony. So already been part of the now states of Australia ;) And Australia still keeps the door open for us in its statute books should we ever want to rejoice, for we too, are young and free :xmouth:	WalOne (4202)
1277869	2012-05-29 09:55:00	The name sucks, the anthem sucks, the union jack on the flag sucks, and the similarity to the Aussie flag sucks. We have an appalling honkey arrogance. Tasman wasn't the first to discover NZ. He was just the first honkey to produce surviving documents of the place. Likewise, Columbus didn't find America. He was just the first honkey to document the places existence. Maoris were in NZ before Tasman. Indians were in America before Columbus. Abo's were in Aus before whatever honkey that called it Australia. Maori were likely not the first in NZ either, there were the Moriori before them... so why not a Moriori name? Why do we only recognise a places history from the first ship of white men that brought VD to the land? Why not call it the Syphilis Isles, or Gonorhoea, or Clapland if we must note the first contact of prior settlers with a ship-load of poxy white men?	Paul.Cov (425)
1277870	2012-05-29 09:58:00	From an earlier post: "great land uplifted high" (groot hooch verheven landt) Land of highs and great hooch? Tasman must have stopped in Northland or Coromandel first.	Paul.Cov (425)
1277871	2012-05-29 12:22:00	If a rose was called 5hitburger they wouldn't be anywhere near as popular . Actually Metla, if shlt did not already have such pejorative connotations, and we hadn't inherited the multiple meanings of burger, then we would simply accept that name as meaning a nice looking and pleasant smelling flower . Taking a nice bunch of fresh red shitburgers home to Mrs Metla would possibly see you in clover . Words are defined as much by their usage as they are by their meanings . Burger King could well be Shitburgers (and possibly is) . Cheers Billy 8-{) :D	Billy T (70)
1277872	2012-05-29 12:26:00	We have given millions of dollars to the moaris in treaty settlements, we shouldnt sell our soul and give the countries name away as well. We beat them in the land wars we won fair and square and as victors get to pick the flag. Canada might have changed their flag but my theory is was they still pissed from the Dieppe raid. We need a flag which has a symbol of our our British ancestry and a lot of flags have stars lets have some some stars. Why not the Southern cross constellation? Our flag already has these? Sweet leave it ******* alone.	prefect (6291)
1277873	2012-05-29 14:07:00	The name sucks, the anthem sucks, the union jack on the flag sucks, and the similarity to the Aussie flag sucks. We have an appalling honkey arrogance. Tasman wasn't the first to discover NZ. He was just the first honkey to produce surviving documents of the place. Likewise, Columbus didn't find America. He was just the first honkey to document the places existence. Maoris were in NZ before Tasman. Indians were in America before Columbus. Abo's were in Aus before whatever honkey that called it Australia. Maori were likely not the first in NZ either, there were the Moriori before them... so why not a Moriori name? Why do we only recognise a places history from the first ship of white men that brought VD to the land? Why not call it the Syphilis Isles, or Gonorhoea, or Clapland if we must note the first contact of prior settlers with a ship-load of poxy white men?Do you wake up each day wanting to slit your wrists? You must really hate living in New Zealand if thats how you think.	Iantech (16386)
1277874	2012-05-29 17:17:00	he did? wait, no he didn't . When Abel Tasman reached New Zealand in 1642, he named it Staten Landt, believing it to be part of the land Jacob Le Maire had discovered in 1616 off the coast of Argentina . Staten Landt appeared on Tasman's first maps of New Zealand, but this was changed by Dutch cartographers to Nova Zelandia, after the Dutch province of Zeeland, some time after Hendrik Brouwer proved the South American land to be an island in 1643 . The Latin Nova Zelandia became Nieuw Zeeland in Dutch . Captain James Cook subsequently called the islands New Zealand . It seems logical that he simply applied English usage to the Dutch naming, but it has also been suggested he was possibly confusing Zeeland with the Danish island of Zealand . Dumbest naming of a country ever . . . . . and Staten Island was already in use . You could argue that all countries have dumb names - America was named after some obscure guy who only saw Brazil, Greenland was never Green Where did the name Canada come from? England was named after some German tribe Aoteoroa was some cloud formation and don't we all have better things to discuss ? "New Zealand" is 'way better than "Next Zealand" though - right? Or "Last Zealand" .	SurferJoe46 (51)
1277875	2012-05-29 17:28:00	The name sucks, the anthem sucks, the union jack on the flag sucks, and the similarity to the Aussie flag sucks. We have an appalling honkey arrogance. Tasman wasn't the first to discover NZ. He was just the first honkey to produce surviving documents of the place. Likewise, Columbus didn't find America. He was just the first honkey to document the places existence. Maoris were in NZ before Tasman. Indians were in America before Columbus. Abo's were in Aus before whatever honkey that called it Australia. Maori were likely not the first in NZ either, there were the Moriori before them... so why not a Moriori name? Why do we only recognise a places history from the first ship of white men that brought VD to the land? Why not call it the Syphilis Isles, or Gonorhoea, or Clapland if we must note the first contact of prior settlers with a ship-load of poxy white men? An Italian, I think: Amerigo ("America") Vespucci, who later invented the first gasoline powered scooters: VESPA. Either that or he wrote operettas. ....and actually, 'Indians' were from the Orient and got to the Americas by the Aleutian Bridge. DNA has proven that. So they were interlopers too. PS: I think the Ebonics spelling of 'HONKEY' (sic) is really: 'Honkie' ---not unlike the sound a horn makes.	SurferJoe46 (51)
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