I started this subject to get us all to look at our relationship and realise we do have a special bond that we share with no other nation. The fact we can fight and argue together so fiercely but still stick together like brothers....
How many forums do you see where Australia and NZ are lumped together....and I think we do play together well, a little teasing is just part of that.
Hey I am not one to incite racial violence but I just thought something that would provoke a great debate from Awesome’s Jokes post is what the relationship between Kiwis and Aussies...is
My thoughts are we are just like siblings. Never happy to get along at home but stick together to the end versus the outside world.....
Is this not the ANZAC spirit??
Personally I have a raft of Kiwi jokes that would be best left somewhere else....
But I have met a number of Kiwis offshore and it was like we grew up together. I crashed the German Australian NZ consulates Christmas party in Berlin one year and you would not have thought there was six inches of water between us...After all NZ is just an eastern province of QLD...
I have a number of close Kiwi mates but we never miss an opportunity to have a dig.
Mackay it not a great place to be single... The Centre can get a bit rough in the late nights. Harbour probably best but a small pool. Wilkies won't do you much good either!!!!
I say travel... Although if you get desperate there is a lovely single woman who had one owner for last 20 years and is probably going to get most of my stuff...Cheap shot I know but I thought it a little amusing at the irony.
End of August I will be heading up to collect some things. See how things go we might be able to catch up have an ale or two and tell each other how bad it is.
It is a lovely little country town but you need to have lived here more than 20 years to be part of the crowd. Even those that are born here don't count until they have made the early 20s
As for adventure my last project was in PNG.. The locals here don't wave bush knives at you and you don't get picked up at the airport in a security meshed bus with gaurd with Shotgun so The Bri is not so bad...
Yeah I had very brief memories of The Bri as the locals call it as we used to pass through it at about 4 am in the morning on our way home from Melbourne...
I had some head hunter chasing me for a job and he could not even tell me where it was.....
I took the job anyway...
If you blow a tyre for a man you do more than the average woman ;-p
Just for a curve ball I worked in Germany around the turn of the Century (a scary statement in itself)
It was interesting to note that a number of East Germans were worse off because they were so accustomed to the government providing everything... It is difficult to budget when you have never had anything to manage...10 years from the fall of the wall and many were still struggling.
The wall was all but gone but the legacy was still kept alive in the people trying to adapt...
I was astounded as I always thought the fall of the wall was on of the greatest events of our lifetime...
Hope I made sense...Have had a good cheap Shiraz and cooked my first corned meat & veg...Talk about people who never needed to provide for themselves ;-D
Personally a guy with a beard does nothing for me.....
Seriously though I have been shaving for 20 years or more and I cut myself both times...
I often think I would look a lot smarter with a beard but concede I could never grow a credible example.
A couple of times I have grown a mo for movember but they often need to colour it in for me so it shows up in the photographs. Besides the itch and extra heat drives me nuts.
As for the 5 o'clock shadow I have always been mindful of giving pash rash... Should I reconsider this?
I was going to refer him to a psych.....but then again maybe they said next please as well.
Benny
We all have our sad stories....once you get a few miles on the clock it seems like everybody you meet will have some baggage...
That lovely girl has a tribe of kids... or a psycho ex or won't....I think you get the story.
Me it was simple... we spent 20 years getting to where we wanted to go and then when you look out you realise it was all for what...No meaning in your life and no love for the wife.
Here we are looking to the future...We can't fix the past and we have little control over the future but right now we get to have the fun.. ;-b
Yes we all struggle but we are not here to dwell on it ;-D
Having said that I am going to get a glass of ice and fill it with a single malt.....Then life will be complete...
;-D
Its simple, Chicks don't dig sad blokes. Hope this helped
I don't want to undersell your effort but please allow me to use your tasks as an example and give me time as I am sure you will get my point.
I work in construction usually (mines and process plant)and as a team have built some impressive structures, many tonnes of concrete, some hi tech control systems and the odd ancillary kitchen (lunch rooms) at the moment I am responsible for the construction of a multimillion dollar Coal Preparation plant...Your tasks are not impressive in their own right. But for you they represent an achievement to be proud of.
The things I have been pleased with myself have been doing the little things like sort the bank accounts and bills. At work I have people to pay the bills once I have reviewed and approved them I never go near a bank. These were probably things you did with a yawn...
How about setting up a bed and bedroom how you want it...I never had this opportunity while married as I just left it to the wife...
My point is it is about challenging to do things outside your own experience and learning new things not about showing we can do without the other gender.
Hey girls What about us blokes... Nobody expects a woman to know everything but we are expected to be capable of everything! I seemed pretty silly as I did not have a clue how to: 1 Set up a bank account 2 Iron a quilt 3 Wash the curtains 4 OK for the ladies... Clean a toilet...LMFAO
The point is it's the simple niceties of life that catch me...
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Kiwi Versus Aussie
DragonprinceI started this subject to get us all to look at our relationship and realise we do have a special bond that we share with no other nation. The fact we can fight and argue together so fiercely but still stick together like brothers....
How many forums do you see where Australia and NZ are lumped together....and I think we do play together well, a little teasing is just part of that.