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  • Posted On: Oct 1 2005 1:09am
I'm Pakeha

Sounds like a fruit.


but us 'damned English' don't feel the need to rename anything, I certainly don't

What was that spot of water called before it was the "English" channel. o_O


Besides, what the hell is the island? Great Britian or United Kingdom? :b I remember talking to some bloke over there saying Britain and they said, "no..no.. we're the United Kingdom." wtf?


heh heh..

soccer... lol
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  • Posted On: Oct 1 2005 1:43am
Chau is quite fruity indeed.
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  • Posted On: Oct 1 2005 2:52am
No need to rename things when you've such a vastly obscure dictionary of phrases to rely on that 'sorta' get the point across. No need to come up with new phrases when you can just use old ones to new meaning.


Ie:

"Me jimmy wet the loo"

&

"We're in barny"

Examples that work wonders if you too also happen to be a raving drunk Scot or mentally defunct Irishman. Naw, yer blarny propper mick. Chops on!
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  • Posted On: Oct 1 2005 4:02am
As far as I can recall (it was a few years ago now) Helen Clark only disbanded the combat wing of our airforce. And, to be perfectly honest, they were a load of crap. We had like one squadron of Skyhawk jets and that was it.

(They were so shit, in fact, that we've only just managed to sell them - to an American training school - after being on the open market for over four years)


Half true. Firstly, she cancelled the upgrades of the craft that would have made them the most advanced skyhawks in the world, in addition to completely scaling back every aspect of the airforce (include, a doi, its naval Orions), turning your army into a glorified police force and your navy into a customs fleet.

And speaking of those skyhawks, they were all stationed in australia on part of the an anzac militiary agreement, and the reason you didn't sell them for 4 years is because that was the duration remaining in the defence agreement between our countries.


A pakeha, is that like the pre-maori natives, or just maori for 'white folk'?
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  • Posted On: Oct 1 2005 4:07am
nor are we a continent ourselves, I never said we were.

We are an island.


Whoopdy whoop! Australia is an island, AND a continent!

















"My mummy says i'm 'special'!"
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  • Posted On: Oct 1 2005 4:47am
What was that spot of water called before it was the "English" channel. o_O

Water. :p
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  • Posted On: Oct 1 2005 5:07am
Hah!

We are what we are, an Island, never pretended it was anything else.

The English Channel has always been called the English Channel, even before us English :P


I can tell you one thing, its never been called the French channel.

:P
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  • Posted On: Oct 1 2005 5:28am


The English Channel has always been called the English Channel, even before us English

ha! Bet you learned that in English history class.


"In the Beginning, God created England and then the Monarchy..."
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  • Posted On: Oct 1 2005 7:14am
Firstly, she cancelled the upgrades of the craft that would have made them the most advanced skyhawks in the world


Yes, but the fact remains that we'd still only have one squadron, which would hardly be enough to defend the country. It's not like we're going to be invaded anytime soon.

But for the rest I concede to Lupercus. Rawr.

As for the fruit...yeah, its the Maori word for whites. The official definition (or at least the one that was on the national census) for Pakeha is "New Zealand European". So I guess that makes me French.


And Labour won. By two seats.

*breathes a sigh of relief*
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  • Posted On: Oct 1 2005 7:57am
I can tell you one thing, its never been called the French channel.


No, i reckon thats more what he learnt in english history class. Anything, so long as it screws the frogs!



And finally, you guys had like 40 Skyhawks or something (i can't say how many squadrons they were organised into) and most of them were based at RAAF townsville or tindel. But you're right either way, but then again if you guys get messed with, of course we'd step in.

To invade.

And create the Uberest rugby side ever!

I'm sorry, but if Australia and NZ merged, it would be, without a doubt, the greatest sporting nation per capita in the world.