1) Fisher-Paykel washers are overpriced and shoddily made.

2) The fruit named after their national bird looks like a fuzzy testicle.

What else?

I can think of a reason that everybody hates us via NZ....we got their most dangerous export as a member.

I have a sense the gauntlet has been thrown.

I wanna say Russell Crowe for Gladiator, Robin Hood, and The Quick and the Dead...

But he was actually pretty good in American Gangster, and The Sum of Us.

Xela

The industrial sports complex.

Ahem...

Why are we hatin' again?

Xela

The Lord of The Rings.

I'd like to visit New Zealand, go surfing and pet a few sharks. If I get my leg chewed off, only then will I complain about New Zealand. Well maybe I'll blame it on the surfboard.

They invented the model RC airplane.

Xela wrote:Ahem...

Why are we hatin' again?

Xela

That's just the way goose rolls. Getting mason riled up for the meeting

what, you don't like sheep?

rolandson wrote:what, you don't likelove sheep?

There fixed it.

Inquisitor wrote:

Xela wrote:Ahem...

Why are we hatin' again?

Xela

That's just the way goose rolls. Getting mason riled up for the meeting

Exactly. All in fun.

Russel Crowe is from there?!? That should count as at least two. "Acting" and "singing".

The Fisher and Paykel appliances exported to this country are built just slightly better than the Chinese crap you yanks love to buy. Because "Made in NZ" is slapped on them, the discriminating snobby American buyer will be happy to pay twice as much for bragging rights and an extra years service.

Kiwi fruit were called Chinese Gooseberries when I was a Kid. I guess we beat the Chinese and hoodwinked you yanks with that one, too.

I also fucking hate the "Lord Of The Rings effect". The whole country is now overrun by a bunch of fucking freaky, pimply, overweight American tourists wandering around in tunics expecting to see Hobbits behind every skyscraper. At least if you promise to show 'em a midget Kiwi or a field of rocks in the Southern Alps that Strider might have filmed scene X in, they turn into ATM's .

Take every joke on The Simpsons about Canada, and when the comparison comes, strike out "America".
Ex:America Australia Junior
...and so on.

New Zealand has reasonable gun regulation and basically NO gun crime.

masonalannz wrote:New Zealand has reasonable gun regulation and basically NO gun crime.

The ultimate comeback...

Well, Boba Fett is a New Zealander. Or rather, a clone of one. As is every Imperial Stormtrooper.

Going on 6 years with my F&P dishwashers without a problem.

I thought Russel Crowe was an Aussie?

whitey wrote:Going on 6 years with my F&P dishwashers without a problem.

I thought Russel Crowe was an Aussie?

F&P dish drawers, conceptually and functionally are light years ahead of anybody else's offerings.

Russel is an Aussie but born in NZ.

FriqueNationale wrote:Well, Boba Fett is a New Zealander. Or rather, a clone of one. As is every Imperial Stormtrooper.

You = my hero for today!

masonalannz wrote:The Fisher and Paykel appliances exported to this country are built just slightly better than the Chinese crap you yanks love to buy. Because "Made in NZ" is slapped on them, the discriminating snobby American buyer will be happy to pay twice as much for bragging rights and an extra years service.

Kiwi fruit were called Chinese Gooseberries when I was a Kid. I guess we beat the Chinese and hoodwinked you yanks with that one, too.

I also fucking hate the "Lord Of The Rings effect". The whole country is now overrun by a bunch of fucking freaky, pimply, overweight American tourists wandering around in tunics expecting to see Hobbits behind every skyscraper. At least if you promise to show 'em a midget Kiwi or a field of rocks in the Southern Alps that Strider might have filmed scene X in, they turn into ATM's .

Going to an anime convention next weekend here in Dallas so I will be seeing lots of that. Been there three times before a hell of a place to people watch.

Oh man, the meeting is going to be fun.

You're ripping on a country that has flesh eating parrots. Flesh- eating parrots, for crissakes.
That has to be the coolest thing since the flying bear.

whitey wrote:Going on 6 years with my F&P dishwashers without a problem.

When i pay over $800 for a washer with all of the bells and whistles, i expect the muther to last more than four years. Fuck Fisher & Paykel. No kiss first.