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Thread ID: 109625 2010-05-16 02:03:00 ROse tinted spectacles gary67 (56) PC World Chat
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885190 2010-05-16 02:03:00 Article here (news.bbc.co.uk) about NZ, I think the reporter has rose tinted spectacles gary67 (56)
885191 2010-05-16 02:10:00 Hey, if it brings a few more tourists.... johcar (6283)
885192 2010-05-16 02:20:00 The whinging kippers are lucky they keep their englander passports so they can go home if they dont like it, we are stuck here.
Seemed right to me but I have only been here 54 years
prefect (6291)
885193 2010-05-16 02:23:00 Must've been tripping out on something. Or paid handsomely by the NZRU or the Tourist Board ..

What a lot of unmitigated crap.
WalOne (4202)
885194 2010-05-16 03:46:00 Anyone actually lived in another country that isn't AUstralia?
NZ is a lot better than a lot of other places.....

And it's nice NZ got some positive comments, better than being slagged.
pctek (84)
885195 2010-05-16 04:14:00 Anyone actually lived in another country that isn't AUstralia?
NZ is a lot better than a lot of other places.....

And it's nice NZ got some positive comments, better than being slagged.

Exactly! Spend a couple of years or more in Europe and you'll come home singing the Fred Dagg anthem 'You don't know how lucky you are Trev' at the top of your voice!

When you realize that he is seeing NZ from an English viewpoint, you can see why he would be so impressed. Sure, NZ isn't perfect, but it's a lot closer than from where he normally sits!
johcar (6283)
885196 2010-05-16 04:36:00 Anyone actually lived in another country that isn't AUstralia?
NZ is a lot better than a lot of other places.....

And it's nice NZ got some positive comments, better than being slagged.

:clap

Why do so many New Zealanders seem to want to put themselves or their country down so much? Have some pride and shout our praises loudly.
Marnie (4574)
885197 2010-05-16 05:56:00 Anyone actually lived in another country that isn't AUstralia?


Yes, apart from OZ: USA, UK, and Japan - a total of 25 years, my work taking me to India, Iran and Eastern bloc countries. And I still think the article is unmitigated c..., a pathetic standard of journalism, compiled after reading travel magazine garbage, then stringing perceived gems of literary cliches together to make what the author hopes is compulsive descriptive reading. This type of journalism comes out of the same stables that motoring magazines, art critics, film critics et al write for.

Yes, 25 years in other parts of the world make me really appreciate NZ, and I'd be one of its staunchest supporters. But we still don't need drivel like this article written about us.

(Bah, humbug)

;)
WalOne (4202)
885198 2010-05-16 10:18:00 Anyone actually lived in another country that isn't AUstralia?
NZ is a lot better than a lot of other places.....

And it's nice NZ got some positive comments, better than being slagged.
Well said. Unless you have travelled you don't realise what a great country this is.
mikebartnz (21)
885199 2010-05-16 11:54:00 I can see why the guy likes the country. I've been to England for three months, and, day to day, it's honestly a bit of a **** hole. I think he was wearing beer goggles though.

NZ is also a bit of a **** hole in some respects though.
ubergeek85 (131)
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