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WTF NZ
Monday, Nov 10, 2008 6:28PM / Standard Entry
alas, I cannot sum up our recent elections better the Australian Herald Sun described our election result.
"This wasn't about desperately needed change, as in the US, but change for change's sake. New Zealanders just got bored." True! "They might well come to miss Helen Clark, the woman who gave them nine years of relative economic and social stability (steady growth and improved family benefits), and who made her small nation's voice heard (no to invading Iraq, yes to tackling climate change) on the international stage."
Anyhu I wont rant on and bore you with NZ politics. Though the Bill and Ben party got over 10,000 votes. woot (unfortunately thats only half a percent and not enough to get the thousand grand back for registering) (and no I did not vote for them)
BED UPDATE
so far none of those other choices have worked out, this is the current one I am considering:
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Yes we can!!
Saturday, Nov 8, 2008 2:52PM / Standard Entry
Was anybody else reminded of Bob the Builder during Obama's victory speech....don't get me wrong, I am so happy he won and his victory speech brought tears to my eyes but afterwards Bob the Builder popped into my head!! Many Americans in NZ have since reported that they now feel proud and no longer have to pretend to be Canadian (it would seem Sarah Silverman was close to the bone in her humour).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IWKhYQarJU
Well today was Election day in New Zealand. Shorty and I voted and received special stickers to say we had voted (Shorty blogged hers, mine was destroyed as I loaded rubbish and green waste from my mums cottage onto a skip). I was tempted to vote for the McGilligudy Serious Party or the Bill and Ben Party but I didn't. I have a sinking feeling that in the week America finally votes left NZ will be voting right. *sigh* So I made sure my vote counted.
The Bill and Ben Party are not the same as Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men
Their main policy is to get 1% of the vote so they can get the $1000 back that it costs to register a political party. Personally I hope they get it. I have blogged these guys before, anybody remember my pulp sports video:
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuZxrwye0DI
I guess it's a luxury to have parties like McGilligudy Serious or Bill and Ben here, as our politics are so stable one can poke fun at them and it doesn't matter. In NZ if you vote left or right both our main parties (Labour = left (red), National = right (blue) are fairly central anyhu.
NOTE we have MMP (Mixed-member proportional wheresome MPs (members of Parliament) are elected from local constituencies and others are elected from party lists. The number of MPs that a political party has in the House reflects the proportion of the votes that the party gained nationally in the election). This allows scope for smaller parties to enter Parliament, for example, the Green Party.
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Melbourne Cup
Tuesday, Nov 4, 2008 4:58PM / Standard Entry
As millions of Americans are getting up and hopefully going to vote (if they haven't already), Kiwis and Aussies watched the Melbourne Cup. WTH is that well....
The Melbourne Cup is Australia's major annual thoroughbred horse race. Billed as The race that stops a nation, it is for three-year-olds and over, and covers a distance of 3,200 metres. It is generally regarded as the most prestigious "two-mile" handicap in the world. The event is held on the first Tuesday in November by the Victoria Racing Club, on the Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne. This day was traditionally only a public holiday within metropolitan Melbourne, but is now also observed as a holiday in the entire state of Victoria, and since 2007 also in the Australian Capital Territory[1].
My mother, my daugther and I went to a nice pub and watched it there and had a nice meal. (it was made even better because somebody thought my daughter was my sister
). It is fun we make silly bets and lots of women were wearing silly (but fun) hats. Great photos from the Melbourne Cup
Just why is the hat thing associated with the races, surely this is not just an Antipodean (kiwi and aussie) thing?Of course tomorrow is Guy Fawkes so tomorrow, if you don't know what that is....
Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606) sometimes known as Guido Fawkes, was a member of a group of English Roman Catholic revolutionaries who planned to carry out the Gunpowder Plot.
Although Robert Catesby was the lead figure in thinking up the actual plot, Fawkes was put in charge of executing the plan for his military and explosives experience. The plot was foiled shortly before its intended completion, as Fawkes was captured while guarding the gunpowder. Suspicion was aroused by his wearing of a coat, boots and spurs, as if he intended to leave very quickly.
Fawkes has left a lasting mark on history and popular culture. Held in the United Kingdom (and some parts of the Commonwealth) on November 5 is Bonfire Night, centred on the plot and Fawkes. He has been mentioned in popular film, literature and music by people such as Charles Dickens and John Lennon. There are geographical locations named after Fawkes, such as Isla Guy Fawkes in the Galápagos Islands and Guy Fawkes River in Australia. In Aussie (some places anyway) celebrate it earlier because of the risk of forest fires. In NZ fireworks are the traditional means of celebrating it.
I like the professional fireworks displays better so I will take K and her friends to one and we will have a picnic. It will probably be held on the weekend though. Every year some dickheads get careless and people get injured and burn down homes etc. Heres hoping that doesn't happen this year.
So America is voting. The race issue in the elections is rather big, I was wondering, if Obama was white and McCain was black - who would you vote for?
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halloween, indoor cricket, elections and flying pubic hair
Friday, Oct 31, 2008 2:03PM / Standard Entry
hows that for a title
Happy Halloween everyone I hope you have fun whatever you do. I am all set, I have my candy and my girl has gone to a party up the road. Last year I bought candy too and nobody came
- it was the first year I was prepared (Halloween is not traditional in NZ), in prior years I have had nothing and often pretended nobody was home . This year I'm ready.It is the Indoor Cricket world champs at the moment - my sister (who plays for NZ) is playing against Aussie tomorrow. I know most of you probably don't know, understand or care about cricket, let alone indoor cricket, but this is my sister
Go NZ!Good luck Obama in the coming US elections. What most of you will not know is that we also hold elections four days after the US elections. Of course ours are not important on the world stage but I'll still be voting
So what is this about flying pubic hair - well Liam Reid, one of the fine specimens of NZ *cough* has just been found guilty of murder and rape of Emma Agnew, a 20yo deaf Christchurch women and the rape and attempted murder of a Dunedin student. His defence was that the police framed him. Upon questioning and being asked why his pubic hair was in Emma's car he said "it could have blown in through the window". O.o He didn't explain why his pubes were randomly blowing down the street in the first place. He could have said police planted it, even with the dubious question of how police would be in possession of his pubic hair, it would been more plausible. Thank god this dangerous example of supreme stupidity is no longer on the streets.
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automatically playing videos or music
Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 8:21AM / Standard Entry
is really frigging annoying
Personally I like to have a choice in what I watch and listen too and don't appreciate that choice being taken from me everytime I check myfeeds.
Also it interferes with other music/videos that I might wish to watch or listen to in myfeeds. I have to scroll up or down and turn the damn thing off and then scroll back to the blog I am in - gah.
It plays everytime I navigate back to myfeeds after leaving someone a comment. Even if I like the song or clip I am often well sick it of it towards the end of the myfeeds page it is on.
Personally I have a limited amount of mb per month (its part of the mobile broadband package I have) and I don't want to have something I have not chosen to watch/listen to streaming and chewing through it.
Someone has done this just now, so if you have a blog on that page it will be awhile before I get it - I'm too annoyed at the moment.
End rant.
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