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  1. 62_Kiwi

    Happy 4th of July

    To all our American friends - have a great day :)
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    Zimbabwe - time something was done

    It's incredible how we "civilised" countries of the world sit by and let this sort of thing continue to happen in certain places on our planet.<br /><br />Maybe I'm ignorant, but isn't the United Nations supposed to give the worlds citizens some kind of protection against this type of...
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    Eco-Terrorists

    http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/19/domestic.terrorism/index.html <br /><br />Extremist nut-cases seem to be everywhere these days.<br /><br />A number of years ago, a friend of mine was driving down a central Auckland road when he came across a chaotic area of smoke, fire engines, shocked people...
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    Fingers in lots of pies ?

    Looks like people are diversifying into custard! :eek: <br /><br /> http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/02/custard.finger.ap/index.html <br /><br />Yuk! - be careful what you eat! :D
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    Chernobyl II

    There's some scary stuff going on in the world; <br /><br />How do you reckon they will fix the old "sarcophagus" - cover it over with a new one ? <br /><br />Sounds like a job for Homer Simpson :eek: <br /><br /> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10122759
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    How many countries have you been to in your lifetime?

    Further to JamesCoste's question about how many states you've visited - how many countries have you been to?<br /><br />Are there many of you that have never left your home country? I know many Kiwis who have never left NZ. But I suspect that America's such a big place with so much variety built...
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    Downsizing your vehicles

    Geeez, that would cramp your style a bit....trading in your F350 for a Toyota Corolla!! :confused: :( <br /><br />It can't be happening yet, can it..?<br /><br /> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10120054
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    Say it isn't so !!

    Revenge of the Rice Burners! :eek: <br /><br /> Are Japanese cars that popular in the USA ? They're all over the place in NZ... :rolleyes:
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    X versus Y

    I saw this in our local paper this morning...<br /><br />Guys, there's a bit of technical jargon in there...but to me it looks like we've been taking a hammering from the fairer sex for the last 300 million years or so...<br /><br /> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10115838...
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    St. Patrick's Day

    To all iboaters of Irish origin - Happy St Paddy's Day!! - and plenty of Guinness, Kilkenny and Jameson's :D ;)
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    Sprechen Sie Deutsches?

    Hey this is cool - a web page that can translate from English to a language of your choice... Bet you didn't know I could speak German (neither did I) ;) <br /><br /> http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/text.html <br /><br />Ich wollte immer eine andere Sprache sprechen!! :D
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    Taxes

    The following is an extract of a speech by a kiwi politician named Rodney Hide who is the leader of (in my opinion) NZ's most intelligent political party (ACT) - unfortunately also one of the smaller parties.... <br /><br />What he's saying is aimed at NZ's left wing government, but the argument...
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    Over 35

    I just got sent this...it's quite funny and sounds a lot like my childhood - but it does make you wonder when and how things started to go so wrong..... :rolleyes: <br /><br />
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    Close Call..!

    Have you ever considered how everything we ever thought to be newsworthy would pale into insignificance, if one of these asteroids decided to have our number on it...?<br /><br /> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10011159 <br /><br />
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    It's tough being a man...

    Do you know how tough it is being a man...?<br /><br />If you put a woman on a pedestal and try to protect her from the rat race, you're a male chauvinist.<br /><br />If you stay home and do the housework, you're a pansy. <br /><br />If you work too hard there is never any time for her. If you...
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    Kiwi in Singapore

    I'm taking a break from all this great NZ boating weather (which has finally arrived!)...and leaving for Singapore tomorrow (Sunday), on business - will be back in NZ on Friday afternoon. <br /><br />Singapore tends to be "head office" teritory for multinational companies servicing the...
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    Australian Bushfires

    This is a bad time of year for bushfires in Australia - not helped by the long drought they've been enduring.<br /><br />I hope that all Australian iboaters are out enjoying the good boating weather (like we are starting to do in NZ) and are not being affected badly by these fires.<br /><br />...
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    Gross Stupidity

    Every now and then you come across a story which is off the end of the stupidity scale :rolleyes: Check this one out from our local paper today...<br /><br /> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10006437
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    GM's Woes

    I've just been reading about the trouble that GM is having with it's relationship with Fiat. Apparently (as a hangover from a past investment deal) Fiat holds a "Put" option that could force GM to buy the remaining 90% of it's shares (for US$4.5B) - the shares that GM doesn't already own...<br...
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    Holiday Reading

    I've just been reading one of those books that you can't put down until it's finished.<br /><br />"Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed" by Patricia Cornwell.<br /><br />It's non-fiction which makes it more interesting. She actually solves the long running "Jack the Ripper"...
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