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Thread ID: 86907	2008-02-01 02:07:00	Welly is in party mode!	tingle (6539)	PC World Chat

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636131	2008-02-01 02:07:00	I walked throught the city at lunchtime and there are so many people walking around dressed up for the 7's tournament. It's such a great atmosphere. Very fun. I love it! Wish I had tickets. ;-(	tingle (6539)
636132	2008-02-01 02:58:00	:cool: :cool: Bring back Borat. :cool: :cool:	wratterus (105)
636133	2008-02-01 04:39:00	Last time I was in Wellington we were getting incredibly dirty looks from people. Was it the fact that we were dressed in jeans whereas the bulk of people were dressed soberly in black suits? Hadn't we bathed properly? Did we have a sign saying "from the north of the Bombay Hlls"? We were beginning to feel like social outcasts and lepers and really couldn't figure it out (even after taking a few tenative sniffs at the armpits when no one was looking). Very unfriendly place. After an hour of this the dog control officer caught up with us and pointed out the tiny signs on the second floor balconies saying "no dogs". We got the binoculars out and had a look (How are dogs supposed to read them that high off the ground or even know they are there???) She gave us a lecture on how it was unfair to the dogs to bring them into such a busy place as it terrifies the life out of them. We promptly looked down at the dog who was sitting there grinning with total enjoyment at the world racing by looking like your normal happy, relaxed labrador having a ball. Turned out we were in the danger area - had walked past the council offices 3 times. But she let us off with a warning as she could see by our clothes, and the dog's tag, that we were out of towners. Will avoid the place from now on.	Mercury (1316)
636134	2008-02-01 11:08:00	Ah, social mores have changed greatly about "walking the dog" in recent times. I remember being amazed yonks ago (Well, at least 15 years, I think) to be told by a cousin that dogs were forbidden in Lambton Quay, even on a lead. At that time, I was in the habit of deliberately walking young sheepdogs along Dunedin streets to get them accustomed to the crowds & traffic they wouldn't otherwise see on the farm. Later, I'd leave them tied outside a shop - checking from inside how well they behaved with strangers when left alone. It was a valuable part of their training. And as they were bred for good nature & already been socialised with children, no risk to anyone. But Dunedin also banned dogs from the central city a few years ago - though just the main street. Nobody pretended it was for the dogs' sake, mind you. It was a question of keeping footpaths clean. (Maybe now someone might raise the "dangerous dogs" issue, but not then...) So I guess, Mercury, I'm now surprised that you're surprised. I'd assumed this was general in our cities by now - just as I see fewer & fewer places to let dogs off the leash for a run in our cities, which is why I won't keep one here now. A small dog with the run of the house is one thing - a large one constantly chained outside is unkind, I believe. So where do you live, Mercury? Edit: Sorry, I see this bears no relationship to the topic header by now...	Laura (43)
636135	2008-02-01 12:23:00	Well, dogs in the cities weren't too bad until jandals became popular. A true dog lover does not hold her/his breath at any stage of the lawn-mowing.	R2x1 (4628)
636136	2008-02-01 20:23:00	Well, dogs in the cities weren't too bad until jandals became popular. Jandals? You're lucky, barefeet is the norm down here these days.	FoxyMX (5)
636137	2008-02-01 20:29:00	I've made it then. I have rich feet. :D Pity the rest of me has to be poor.	R2x1 (4628)
636138	2008-02-01 20:45:00	...So I guess, Mercury, I'm now surprised that you're surprised... ...So where do you live, Mercury?... We live on the edge of Auckland. I know there are bans on places like beaches during the summer months but there aren't, as far as I know, any bans on city streets. Only places I've met the ban is in Wellington and, more recently, Thames. Pity about Thames I would have quite liked to explore it.	Mercury (1316)
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