Well we have to be kind to those Ockers after the netball and rugby eh.
Isn’t “winking” a word for masturbation, said with a Kiwi accent?
No ** jjimm** you have been misinformed. Aussies are winkers not kiwis.
(awww I love em really 
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This is slightly off topic, but our office in the IFSC (international Financila Services Centre) of Dublin received a letter addressed to the “Eye of the sea”
So our postmen are not only cool but they are poets too.
Wolfie, I thought you meant yer postcode was Auckland 4.
Thinks for the wunks.
I’d be somewhere a tad more upmarket, if that were th’ case. And it’d be 1970 all over again.
And you’re welcome.
Put it down to Yahoo weirdness. From 16 000 miles away, I have a .uk yahoo junk email. I don’t really mind, but I did specify I live in Australia, and it insisted on giving me the .uk one. I tried to get around this by going back and re-doing parts of the online form, but nope. It was .uk or nothing for me as far as they were concerned.
I think it must have been some kind of Yahoo! glitch that lasted a few months and was then corrected. I know a few Irish people with yahoo.co.uk addresses because that’s all they could get at the time.
Anyway, I stand by the map thing.
Actually, some form designers manage to screw even Americans with utterly routine addresses. How? I think there must be some difference in requiring a field to be numeric vs. requiring it to be a number. As in, I have on three occasions run into this little routine:
ME: enters address, hits submit
FORM: Invalid address! The zip code must be five digits.
ME: whoops, did I mistype? re-enters zip code, hits submit
FORM: Invalid address! The zip code must be five digits.
ME: Try a third time, punching each of the five numbers slowly and carefully, hits submit
FORM: Invalid address! The zip code must be five digits.
<sign> The first time it happened, it took me a long time to figure out what happens. You see, my zip code starts with a zero. So your clever form sucks it in, applies the ‘rule’ that leading zeros don’t count in numbers, thus converting it to a four digit zip code, and then gripes!
As in, this particular company is now unable to accept orders from most of the New England states…maybe 1/5 of the entire US population! Way to go, form designer!
<sigh> I usually end up putting in a ‘9’ for the zero, figuring it is far enough wrong that maybe some postie will notice the state/zip mismatch and still deliver it.
Try registering at gettyimages.com (the form that finally pushed me over the edge to write this).