You guys are so-o-o-o-o-o lucky I couldn’t care less about sports. 
What this? One of my threads, involved in a sports hijack?! This will not stand! So, in hopes of getting things back on track, I offer up this line from a supposed movie critic, as qouted in the commercial for John Travolta’s new movie:
“John Travolta plays a good-guy hero.”
Thank you.
It’s like this Miller: The people of the Land of the Long Beige Cloud are really spoiled. I mean spoiled as in over-indulged. The country is the size of Britain or Japan but there are only 4 million people in it. The winter is the equivalent of a northern hemisphere spring, there are no crowds, no lines, no long commutes. You’d be surprised at the standard of living a university graduate with a good job can have here. Most of the time people don’t realise how lucky they are and how much they have. Having two of everything when everyone else in the world barely has one is quite natural to them. They’ll use two words when one will do, have two jobs when some people can’t get one, own two cars, two dogs, two televisions. Yet if there’s one identifying trait the people of this country possess I’d say it was jealousy. Strange but true.
And the above is a commentary from not-quite-of-this-world.
If you have two of everything, G.Nome – I think that’s cause for havin’ the next big party at your place.
Sheesh, mate, you want to help the balance of payments, export more Steinlager.
Thanks for the tip, I’ll inform the brewery.
Your bad cough will keep you at home, I’m sure.
Nah, it’s all cleared up now. How’s the chip?
No, you should buy five. For use on December 29th.
[sub]think about it[/sub]
Redlords a-leaping
Hey! It’s White… well, pretty much everywhere… sometimes it’s not so white in Auckland…
You don’t live in Auckland…
Seconded! There’s that dratted redundancy again.
But for redundant place names I don’t think you can do better than the Brits… and I humbly offer Torpenhow by way of example. Each syllable means “hill” in one language or another, thus hill-hill-hill.
<aside> On All Blacks – and certainly without wanting any sports hijack… one of my co-workers was accosted and somewhat harrassed in a US gym, for the All Blacks cap she was wearing… somebody took exception to it and accused her of being racist. :rolleyes: Wonder what they would have said if it’d been the soccer teams cap? Errr… that’d be the All Whites.
Nyah, Nyah - you Kiwis think you’re all so cool. But ObL hasn’t declared a jihad on you guys yet, has he? Nah, not even in duplicate he hasn’t. 
[sub]all non-Tasman people please ignore these posts - we’re just putting light-hearted shit on our neighbours[/sub]
If you want to be followed around by a lot of short guys with funny names and big hairy feet, go ahead.
Hey, Reprise … :p[sup]10[/sup]
… Band Name!
So I guess that yet another one of those imported hroses is going to win the Cup tomorrow?
[sub]why do all of our best horses and most of our best men come from NZ?[/sub]
Oops, did I say that aloud???
Hey, Reprise …
We won not just one cup, but two!