Question 4 - I was in St Pierres out by the Airport about 6 years ago, this quite big NZ European was being very rude to the quite stunning young Japanese girl serving him, I said quite loudly SHUT the Fuck up you Prick ! He turned looked at me (about 3/4 of his size) went bright red and left the store ....
Well done Peter! We need more people to stand up for others in similar situations. I’ve done it myself and it’s great to see egos deflated occasionally👍
My eldest Daughter has a prt time job at a Woolies in Auckland , and is sick to death of elderly white folk telling her how nice it is to see a white person working at a supermarket , she can speak Hindi & Punjabi and I have told her to speak to them in either language to embarrass them....Which she enjoys doing...
5-year-old me was so inspired by John Walker's Montreal triumph that I began my own 'athletics club' at Rosebank Primary - I was extremely proud of being third-fastest in the new entrants.
Sporting moment- as a 14 year old listening to a crackling static-filled radio commentary from Rome as first, Peter Snell, then Murray Halberg won gold medals in the space of an hour. Me, as a hopeful runner myself with dreams of grandeur thought that was the most wonderful sporting moment then, and still do now.
2. Sorry women around the world money is much more important than you or your rights.
3. Watching right in front of us Tiny Hill getting the crap kicked out of him in a ruck at Eden Park 1956 ABs v Springboks.
5. None of those three. Would rather "have beer with Duncan cause Duncan's me mate."
6. No. Sometimes ponder why it is a big deal because it has happened and the dealing with it has become a much more important issue. Nobody is likely to admit responsibility, just lots of finger pointing.
8. Implement CGT, Wealth tax and address unemployment and poverty big time - no tinkering around the edges.
9. An easy one here - himself.
10. The person who makes editorial decisions about what is shown on the so called One News hour, with replacement by some one who provides a balance with a little left wing added to the mix, less USA, more Aotearoa and grilling of politicians.
Sporting comment - not bitter sweet , just bitter but amazing nonetheless.
Glasgow Celtic in the UEFa cup final 2003, half of Glasgow had left to go to the game in Seville , a poor student like me couldn’t afford it so I went to Glasgow barrowlands to watch on the big screen. The Pogues were playing before and after the game !
Celtic valiantly lost to Porto , 2-1 which dampened the mood somewhat .
Shane McGowan came out , drunk as a skunk after the game for the 2nd set and promptly told everyone to F off back home !
2) Oppression against women. My naivety vanished when Jacinda was the PM, and I in my later years learnt a new word. Misogyny in our country is alive and well. Sad.
3) Primary school only. A lover of Netball, lacking the necessary skills.
4) Heck, the recall of many moments that were normal in my growing up days. Black bastards, Dumb useless Horis. You Mowris are only useful to be a Labourer.
5) Preferably Jacinda, but, Simon Bridges might be a go? The others, they would rile me up and bring out my other not so nice 'side.'
6) NO.
7) Mike Hosking and Michael Laws.
8) Courage of convictions.
9) Himself!
10) With the writing on the wall? Perhaps they will all be looking at ways of morphing selves into????????
Re Katie Bradford my husband used to shout at the TV whenever she was on "for goodness sake woman put your hands in your pockets!" - her constant gestures used to drive him crazy, he reckoned it distracted from whatever it was she was saying at the time.
I was never a soccer fan but watching All whites play Saudi on a TV in a tent with an Amir (sheriff) in the Rub al Khali (empty quarter) Saudi Arabia 1982 was amazing. I was welcome after the Amir realised watching that game, that I was not American but a Kiwi. I spent lots of time after my shifts drinking tea, learning a smattering of Arabic to converse with that interesting Saudi policeman
Q1. Big Mac, or two, followed by a KFC bucket, washed down with Diet Coke,( if Don drinks it,it must be great!) and for dessert a few Krispy Kreme donuts with Ben and Jerry ice cream topping.
Q2. All it tells me is that Saudi Arabia is to be avoided at all costs.
Q3. Being on Sydney Harbour in the mid 1960’s on a naval tender among the fleet of yachts jockeying for position at the start of Sydney-Hobart race. Like being in a washing machine but unforgettable.
Q4. One that sticks is going to a pub in Bourke and seeing the white line on the floor. One side for whites, one for blacks and woe betide anyone who crossed.
Q5. Chippy. OK, he’s not on the list but who would want to spend the time it would take to swill a beer with any of the others?
Q6. Not entirely. Will we ever find out? Not entirely.
Q7. Shane Jones comes pretty close, alongside Don Brash and Hosking
Re your No.10 Jeremy, my husband had apparently thought long and hard one afternoon when he regaled me with this gem, his attitude towards soap operas was never in doubt :) .... "I've worked it out Lovey, you have to watch them in the right order Constipation St followed by Enemadale then Shitland St!"
OMG not Shortland Street - where would I catch up with current issues if not with SS?! I've watched it since its inception - I'm a great fan. Otherwise I'd agree with your other comments. Why SS? They do a good job ... I'm puzzled. Is it the programme you want gone? Have you seen the crap they've filled that space with over Christmas/New Year?!!
Oops. I wondered if someone might not agree with that answer. I can’t bear soap operas. I did watch one episode of SS, way back when, and that was enough. I’ve never even seen one episode of Neighbours, which for an Aussie in Australia I believe is still a hanging offence. It’s all yours to enjoy. Different strokes, as the saying goes.I’ll take the 9/10 as a complement though. Many thanks 😀😀
Thanks for taking time to reply! I can relate to you not enjoying soap operas - I did watch an episode of Neighbours once but didn't appeal. I think we still get it in the middle of the night when they're desperate for programmes! I'm not sure what grabbed me about SS - to be honest I think it's habit. A bit of a crisis though as it won't be on every night (a good marker of the day to take a seat) but only 3 nights a week. It will be interesting to see how NZers take to reduced hours. I'm quite surprised at myself for getting hooked. My mother used to listen to all the early morning soaps on radio - perhaps it's genetic!
One episode each makes us even!😀 As for the other crap you mentioned, it’s no surprise that TVNZ1 is losing support from advertisers and audiences. I reckon it’s a deliberate ploy to steer us all to digital only content so they can charge more for our viewing pleasure. Simon Dallow could probably leave the building as well without too many tears being shed.
3. Enjoying Gymnastics and pushing through the fear
4. Shopping with my Māori daughter in law and shop attendant ignoring her. When asked how she could help I replied, ‘attend to my daughter in law, the one intending to buy and has a P.Hd’
5. Pass in the beer thanks!
6. Hidden info from overseas governments as to origin
👍I enjoy these "flashbacks" - not necessarily for the subjects covered but because I only started reading this newsletter recently, so it is interesting to see HOW you covered them 🤔
Sporting memory? I was in a dingy flat somewhere when John Walker was "going for gold" in the Montreal Olympics - my flatmate came in to find out what the heck was going on as I was heard (2+ door distant) yelling "go John! Go John! Go John!...." very loud with a bit of jumping up and down 😁 Must have been on radio of course - radio commentary always made things more exciting ⁉️
Question 4 - I was in St Pierres out by the Airport about 6 years ago, this quite big NZ European was being very rude to the quite stunning young Japanese girl serving him, I said quite loudly SHUT the Fuck up you Prick ! He turned looked at me (about 3/4 of his size) went bright red and left the store ....
Well done Peter! We need more people to stand up for others in similar situations. I’ve done it myself and it’s great to see egos deflated occasionally👍
I thought he has going to hit me ....
My eldest Daughter has a prt time job at a Woolies in Auckland , and is sick to death of elderly white folk telling her how nice it is to see a white person working at a supermarket , she can speak Hindi & Punjabi and I have told her to speak to them in either language to embarrass them....Which she enjoys doing...
I’d love to be a fly on the wall to see and hear that!
5-year-old me was so inspired by John Walker's Montreal triumph that I began my own 'athletics club' at Rosebank Primary - I was extremely proud of being third-fastest in the new entrants.
Sporting moment- as a 14 year old listening to a crackling static-filled radio commentary from Rome as first, Peter Snell, then Murray Halberg won gold medals in the space of an hour. Me, as a hopeful runner myself with dreams of grandeur thought that was the most wonderful sporting moment then, and still do now.
Me too. I was 6.
My dad was there! I’ve got some great photos. Trying to figure out what to do with them….
Q5 - now I know why you stopped drinking
Go safely Nick. Clearly Waipu awaits.
1.He would deserve sautéed rat.
2. Sorry women around the world money is much more important than you or your rights.
3. Watching right in front of us Tiny Hill getting the crap kicked out of him in a ruck at Eden Park 1956 ABs v Springboks.
5. None of those three. Would rather "have beer with Duncan cause Duncan's me mate."
6. No. Sometimes ponder why it is a big deal because it has happened and the dealing with it has become a much more important issue. Nobody is likely to admit responsibility, just lots of finger pointing.
8. Implement CGT, Wealth tax and address unemployment and poverty big time - no tinkering around the edges.
9. An easy one here - himself.
10. The person who makes editorial decisions about what is shown on the so called One News hour, with replacement by some one who provides a balance with a little left wing added to the mix, less USA, more Aotearoa and grilling of politicians.
Thank you! Have a safe drive home !
Sporting comment - not bitter sweet , just bitter but amazing nonetheless.
Glasgow Celtic in the UEFa cup final 2003, half of Glasgow had left to go to the game in Seville , a poor student like me couldn’t afford it so I went to Glasgow barrowlands to watch on the big screen. The Pogues were playing before and after the game !
Celtic valiantly lost to Porto , 2-1 which dampened the mood somewhat .
Shane McGowan came out , drunk as a skunk after the game for the 2nd set and promptly told everyone to F off back home !
Very impressed you could still find time to say, "Hello" before your trip...drive safe :-)
1) Fricassée of larks' tongue washed down with several glasses of Penfolds Grange Hermitage .. oh
that's right our Dear Leader says he doesn't drink - well if he did I reckon this is what he'd
choose, being as he's "rich and sorted".
2) Never mind the optics - women don't count money does - same as it ever was.
3) The times my rugby mad Mum sat up in the middle of the night listening to the direct broadcast
on our old radio, cheering on the All Blacks in whatever match they were playing in the Northern
Hemisphere, thumping the table and cheering or swearing! keeping the rest of us awake
4) Newly arrived in Sydney going to the markets with friends then going into a nearby pub for a
quick drink to be told this was a koori pub no gubbas welcome .... several of our guys got
stubborn about it and we had a quick drink anyhoo but I'll never forget the air of anger,
resentment and malice towards us -it was shocking and saddening to this naive Kiwi!
5) Simon but it would be a quick one - and I'd tell him his opinion of Maureen Pugh was spot on!
6) No and probably never. Have read several interesting articles on how the natural world is being
ever impinged upon by the push of civilisation thus increasing exposure to bat habitats with
their dangerous coronavirus virus loads, termed zoonotic spillover, fascinating and scary.
7) Seymour - there's plenty of others but this little shite is having the greatest impact of course.
8) Just stay true to Labour's ethics and standards, the revolting Right is doing a great job all by
themselves in opening folks' eyes to their usual disgraceful m.o.
9) Money first, second and last.
10) Maiki Sherman - she seems to have sold out completely to fill Jessica Mutch's right wing loving
shoes :/
1) Luxon? May eat Crow!
2) Oppression against women. My naivety vanished when Jacinda was the PM, and I in my later years learnt a new word. Misogyny in our country is alive and well. Sad.
3) Primary school only. A lover of Netball, lacking the necessary skills.
4) Heck, the recall of many moments that were normal in my growing up days. Black bastards, Dumb useless Horis. You Mowris are only useful to be a Labourer.
5) Preferably Jacinda, but, Simon Bridges might be a go? The others, they would rile me up and bring out my other not so nice 'side.'
6) NO.
7) Mike Hosking and Michael Laws.
8) Courage of convictions.
9) Himself!
10) With the writing on the wall? Perhaps they will all be looking at ways of morphing selves into????????
Loved the happy song, I had heard it before but not for a very long time.
Answers to your questions:
1. Whatever Donald and Elon are eating, I think it’s called grovelling.
2. That money is more important than anything.
3. England winning the World Cup in football in 1966. So exciting.
4. The obvious division in school, and the undertone that Maori kids would be going to factories and labouring jobs rather than university.
5. I would rather go thirsty.
6. No I don’t think so, mainly because I’m not sure anyone really knows.
7. Mike Hosking.
8. For people who are appalled by this government and being hurt by their policies to get out a vote.
9. Money.
10. Katie Bradford, I’m sure she’s a lovely person, it’s just her reporting style really grates.
Enjoy a lovely sunny day driving home with Fi.
Mmmm I can see how you feel re Katie Bradford. I like what she says, but perhaps it's her voice?
Katie Bradford has broken one glass ceiling - she has learnt to ‘mansplain’ - wonder what her mum thinks?
Re Katie Bradford my husband used to shout at the TV whenever she was on "for goodness sake woman put your hands in your pockets!" - her constant gestures used to drive him crazy, he reckoned it distracted from whatever it was she was saying at the time.
4) Pukekohe late 50s early 60s. Separate bars in the pub.
Separate sections in the movie house.
Maori only school
Maori only allowed on Fridays in the public pool
I was never a soccer fan but watching All whites play Saudi on a TV in a tent with an Amir (sheriff) in the Rub al Khali (empty quarter) Saudi Arabia 1982 was amazing. I was welcome after the Amir realised watching that game, that I was not American but a Kiwi. I spent lots of time after my shifts drinking tea, learning a smattering of Arabic to converse with that interesting Saudi policeman
Q1. Big Mac, or two, followed by a KFC bucket, washed down with Diet Coke,( if Don drinks it,it must be great!) and for dessert a few Krispy Kreme donuts with Ben and Jerry ice cream topping.
Q2. All it tells me is that Saudi Arabia is to be avoided at all costs.
Q3. Being on Sydney Harbour in the mid 1960’s on a naval tender among the fleet of yachts jockeying for position at the start of Sydney-Hobart race. Like being in a washing machine but unforgettable.
Q4. One that sticks is going to a pub in Bourke and seeing the white line on the floor. One side for whites, one for blacks and woe betide anyone who crossed.
Q5. Chippy. OK, he’s not on the list but who would want to spend the time it would take to swill a beer with any of the others?
Q6. Not entirely. Will we ever find out? Not entirely.
Q7. Shane Jones comes pretty close, alongside Don Brash and Hosking
Q8. 18 months with Seymour as DPM should do it.
Q9. Money, money, money and more money.
Q10. The entire cast of Shortland Street.
Take the long road home and enjoy the ride.
A very happy song to get the day going🙂
Re your No.10 Jeremy, my husband had apparently thought long and hard one afternoon when he regaled me with this gem, his attitude towards soap operas was never in doubt :) .... "I've worked it out Lovey, you have to watch them in the right order Constipation St followed by Enemadale then Shitland St!"
Very good 😂😂😂,my thoughts exactly!
OMG not Shortland Street - where would I catch up with current issues if not with SS?! I've watched it since its inception - I'm a great fan. Otherwise I'd agree with your other comments. Why SS? They do a good job ... I'm puzzled. Is it the programme you want gone? Have you seen the crap they've filled that space with over Christmas/New Year?!!
Hi Jean
Oops. I wondered if someone might not agree with that answer. I can’t bear soap operas. I did watch one episode of SS, way back when, and that was enough. I’ve never even seen one episode of Neighbours, which for an Aussie in Australia I believe is still a hanging offence. It’s all yours to enjoy. Different strokes, as the saying goes.I’ll take the 9/10 as a complement though. Many thanks 😀😀
Thanks for taking time to reply! I can relate to you not enjoying soap operas - I did watch an episode of Neighbours once but didn't appeal. I think we still get it in the middle of the night when they're desperate for programmes! I'm not sure what grabbed me about SS - to be honest I think it's habit. A bit of a crisis though as it won't be on every night (a good marker of the day to take a seat) but only 3 nights a week. It will be interesting to see how NZers take to reduced hours. I'm quite surprised at myself for getting hooked. My mother used to listen to all the early morning soaps on radio - perhaps it's genetic!
One episode each makes us even!😀 As for the other crap you mentioned, it’s no surprise that TVNZ1 is losing support from advertisers and audiences. I reckon it’s a deliberate ploy to steer us all to digital only content so they can charge more for our viewing pleasure. Simon Dallow could probably leave the building as well without too many tears being shed.
😊
1. Cake
2. Become gnostic
3. Enjoying Gymnastics and pushing through the fear
4. Shopping with my Māori daughter in law and shop attendant ignoring her. When asked how she could help I replied, ‘attend to my daughter in law, the one intending to buy and has a P.Hd’
5. Pass in the beer thanks!
6. Hidden info from overseas governments as to origin
7. Definitely David Seymore and Don Brash
8. It’s started to happen
9. Scrooge McDucks money vault!
10. Elon Musk
Rawe tou korero. Brought a tear to my eyes at your number 4. Experienced it and seen it happen.
👍I enjoy these "flashbacks" - not necessarily for the subjects covered but because I only started reading this newsletter recently, so it is interesting to see HOW you covered them 🤔
Sporting memory? I was in a dingy flat somewhere when John Walker was "going for gold" in the Montreal Olympics - my flatmate came in to find out what the heck was going on as I was heard (2+ door distant) yelling "go John! Go John! Go John!...." very loud with a bit of jumping up and down 😁 Must have been on radio of course - radio commentary always made things more exciting ⁉️