so i finally got around to watching last weekend's flight of the conchords. and what's this i hear?
New Zealand wasn't built on convicts, by convicts, for convicts? is that for real? i thought Australia and New Zealand was one big prison for hard criminals! what's the story?
interesting and useless wikipedia factoid:
Under British rule, the islands of New Zealand had been part of the colony of New South Wales.
doesn't really answer my questions though.
no convicts there pal. fucking tough arse maori though, hence the treaty of waitangi.
all the pussy ones move to australia, I heard
you're not maori switchy....
ugh. generally, sir. RACIAL
i prefer 'RACEY'
ha.
dunno if australia ever got the ad this parodies..
so bro, where's the best place online for those seeking rental properties in new zealand? south island specifically. i have found a few agent sites but wondered if there is a good single resource?
don't mess with the Mongrel Mob.
Actually a couple of years ago there was a cover story in North & South about a youth who was trying to decide between pursuing an acting career (he was apparently actingly gifted) or a career in the Mongrel Mob (or it may have been Black Power). 2 years down the track I wonder where he's ended up.
Should I:
a) go to Commonwealth Bank/Thomas Cook with a load of Aus dollars and change them for Kiwi ones before I go;
b) get money out of a cash machine over there as few times as possible and just swallow the charges for the convenience factor;
c) pay for everything on a card and ditto above swallowing;
d) get a 'travelcard' and load it up with cash in credit and keep fingers crossed that places actually accept it and it's not like a Myers card or something with only limited circulation;
or
e) somthing else more financially astute?
i'm going there just after xmas,i'm hanging!
How long you going for?
It's free for an ANZ account there. I held one for three months. Maybe it was $5 kiwi a month. $300mimimum to start and they give you a card straight away.
Toooo easy
3 weeks for me and I'll be on the move. That's a great tip though, for someone staying a bit longer who can conjur up some kind of 'roots'. I guess one would have to show all the apropriate forms of ID:
Address? The airport so far, Travelpacker Lodge tonight...
Utility bill? Hang on, just let me rummage the letter boxes at this block of flats...
Social Security number? What, can I go on the dole here? Whee-hee, I'm never going home! It's payback time for all those bouncers you sent us, even it up, bro. Now, how do you like them epples?
No I just needed my passport and an address. Kiwis don't give a fuck.
I'd go with the Cash Machine money swallow shit. Before I put all my money into the bank there I was carrying around about 3-4k. It was fucking stressful.
Another thought is transferring a sum to a friend/relative who is over there, then getting them to withdraw the cashola and hand it to you. Could that work without it being seen as some sort of drug-cartelesque 'laundering'? (Reminds self to quickly find a friend/relative who would trust me enough to give me their bank details... nah, scratch that idea.)
Assuming there is no tax or fees involved in that it's cool. Do they charge you this shit in banks for transferring notes? If not just do it in the bank here for yourself. What's the difference? You will have the cash straight away.
There'd prolly be an initial transfer fee to do it via a bank (and a lot more via a financial agent). I might just pop in to the Commonwealth next time I'm in town. And invest in a 'fannypack' to keep it close to 'home' when I'm on the road. Thankfully hiring a car rather than hitching, staying in motels rather than camping/hostels - How posh am I! - so less chance of it going walkabout.
Fannypack.
Shit, don't forget the brimmed hat and hawaiin shirts.
I read these posts from the beginning. Australia was never one big prison anyway. There is a decent argument the settlement was strategic and certainly Britain claimed W A quickly out of fear another European power might. That it was convenient to use convicts is undeniable (though remember: SA didn't). NZ is a whole different ballgame though - technically, not conquered but the Maori invited the British in to protect them from other Europeans they didn't like. Of course it soon became more like the conventional story, treaty of Waitangi or no treaty of Waitangi.
I was there last month (Auckland anyway) and all I can say if I had a NZ dollar for every time I saw an image of Rhys Darby I'd be a NZ millionaire.
I used to like Kiwis in general.
kiwis are generally painful, at best
even the ones i like
Aus got convicts, NZ got missionaries... not sure which is worse.
i like the bird, and the fruit. i have no opinion on the people. i mean, i'm sure they're nice. maybe.
Kiwi's are awesome - I should know, I'm 50% Kiwi
Fuck me, it's the same anywhere. Shit cunts and good cunts. The kiwi good cunts are wild and cunts. They're a bit more keen to get pumping on a party though.
im also 50% and have never gone. shame on me
oh, wait, yeah, i went to a Shapeshifter and Budspells all kiwi hip hop drum'n bass night, and the place was 90% kiwis, and it was a fantastic love filled vibe, and it wasn't just the e talking. kiwis are/can be bloody awesome. it's all ''hey. how are ya? having a good time? ay, awesome!''
It's all fun and games until somebody mentions THE ALL BLACKS then its time to go home.
Try growing up in a half Kiwi half South African household and discussing rugby
Don't mind talking about it. What I do object to is; they are bad losers, very bad losers.
Being Irish I have a degree in losing gracefully.
so, do kiwis refer to New Zealand as down under too? it's all the same south lump of land at the arse end of the world. do they have their own equivilent of the term ''down under'' then? not Aotearoa. or actually, ''Aotearoa'' is pretty cool. my mind runs in circles.
Kiwi's call Australia ''Aussie''. They say they're 'going to Aussie'
No! This is wrong. We are Aussies but we dont come from Aussie, we come from Oz perhaps..
We dont say ''lets go to Kiwi to eat some fish and chips and kumera'' now do we?!
No.
dumb kiwis
I just want to make it clear, that I have never taken an Australian possum or rainbow lorrikeet to NZ and take no responsibility any damage done by any Australian wildlife to New Zealand's puny weak slow flightless native creatures
Kiwi's call Australia ''Aussie''. They say they're 'going to Aussie'
Kiwis also refer to Australia as ''the other island'' sometimes. ;-)
or ''the west island''
or ''the west island''
Haha, love it!!!
It's Aussie and yr all Aussies. And that's about as polite as it gets!!! =) and yes, we seem to have a strange addiction to drum n bass.... i don't get it either.
im heading to nz in 28 days, woohoo!
They have good Camp A Low Hums there.
i'm heading to melbourne in about 30 or so days, woohoo!
where abouts in NZ?
probably going to do a anticlockwise lap around the north island.
I really liked it... wanna spend more time there
It's Aussies from Aussieland in my (admittedly Aussie) book. I hate it when people (usually Italians, from Italy) say 'vinyls' but that's another story...
they don't have 10c pieces any more... ''too cliché, too normal''
Ghost Chups
listening to T54 now...
good shit
i saw T54 about a month ago. After hearing some of their tunes i was expecting them to be pretty good live, but i felt a bit let down after the show. i would like to see them again though.