Just an appitiser:
Just an appitiser:
this is a big plus
We Love our Sheep
Anne Hannam
slim jim wrote:
this is a big plus
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312056,00.html
Incredible and great. That's one of those "If I ruled..." dictates I'd have in place.
Here in the US, it seems immigrants come here lean, but too quickly adapt our horrid diet and acitivity habits.
slim jim wrote:
this is a big plus
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312056,00.html
Did you read the whole article? It said they're denying fat immigrants because 1/2 of adult Kiwis and 1/3 of their children are overweight and their health care system can't handle the cost of more people with health care issues due to being fat. I wonder if the Polynesian influence on their diets is the cause all the overweight people.
Thanks for the beautiful pics! Are the overweight statistics of the other article posted true? It's hard to believe with a country as beautiful as that, that people aren't taking advantage of the great outdoors.
It's not the polynesian diet, it's the polynesian people.
If you only have to have a BMI over 25 to fall in the 'Overweight' category, I would imagine that's at least where most of them fall. You don't get many skinny Samoans.
Cool Hand wrote:
It also has that bestselling mystery novelist who helped kill her gilrfriend's mother when she was a teen.
Are you talking about the character Kate Winslet played in Heavenly Creatures?
Try reading the whole thread. It's only 2 pages.
Why the hell would an English-speaking nation spell it "centre?"
toothbrushfence wrote:
You forget their most important contribution to mankind:
A FENCE made of TOOTHBRUSHES
http://www.tepahu.co.nz/Info-Centre/Toothbrush-Fence.aspx
I once met a vegeterian who complained that her hiking trip there was ruined by sheep. True story.
Funniest FOTC ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtbQaJzZh1k
I like how the reprise the "Prince of Parties" from season one in this musical number.
Don't forget Speight's, the Southern Man's Beer.
Here in the UK we have plenty of Kiwi's and Aussies. On the whole they seem to be nice, but get to know them and every single one (Not an exageration) are full of themselves, stuck up there own ar@*$, more than likely racist to a certain degree and to top it off they are cleptomaniacs. But their country looks great.
J-Magz
Jenga wrote:
Here in the UK we have plenty of Kiwi's
"Kiwis"
Jenga wrote:
Here in the UK we have plenty of Kiwi's and Aussies. On the whole they seem to be nice, but get to know them and every single one (Not an exageration) are full of themselves, stuck up there own ar@*$, more than likely racist to a certain degree and to top it off they are cleptomaniacs. But their country looks great.
J-Magz
1) were not talking about Australians
2) were not talking about New Zealanders in the UK (who quite predictably have taken up english ways)
Were talking about new zealand and the people in it
and yet... (i know this is more of an inane thread, but this is pretty interesting - for those interested in something a bit more serious)
Sir Edmund Hilary!!!
Jonathan Wyatt... world mountain running champ
Barry Magee and Bill Bailie