This Parker chappie almost manages to make Brits sound 'windswept and interesting.' If the Lions supporters are happy to lose as long they keep singing, and us kiwis happy with the 'lack of passion in the crowd' as long as the All Blacks win - I'd say that was an equable outcome. Brad
"Brad Anton" <ant_on_knee@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:42965500$1@webbe.jcu.edu.au... | | "Uncle Dave" <davidcovey@t-online.de> wrote in message | news:1117105644.688512.165140@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... | > http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/050526/3/b49s.html | > | > UD | > | | This Parker chappie almost manages to make Brits sound 'windswept and | interesting.' If the Lions supporters are happy to lose as long they keep | singing, and us kiwis happy with the 'lack of passion in the crowd' as long | as the All Blacks win - I'd say that was an equable outcome. | Brad | Parker sounds like a nutter! Most Lions supporters are coming out because they are true rugby fans. They love the game - and the camaraderie - and believe that NZ encompasses both. I've been to SA and Oz with the Lions but my ambition has always been to come to NZ where I believe rugby is really part of the nation. I hope we'll win - I think we'll win - but moreover, I expect some great rugby and a good time with real rugby enthusiasts. Don't let the press and a few nutters drag this tour down to low level bickering. I hope rugby, and the fans, are the winners. Fred
"Fred" <newshound@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message news:4296615f$0$296$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com... >
Don't let the press and a few nutters drag this tour down to low level > bickering. > I hope rugby, and the fans, are the winners. > Fred >
Me too Fred, with the whole ambience of the tour all wrapped up in a subtle blend of friendly, jocular banter and scathing, vitriolic, personal attacks. Brad
"DaveyWavey" <davey.wavey@none.com> wrote in message news:u4md91l8sc6s2u77hheoq1rm12rerddd1g@4ax.com...> On Fri, 27 May 2005 08:54:23 +0800, rick boyd <boyd@comswest.net.au>> wrote:>
"Uncle Dave" <davidcovey@t-online.de> wrote in message news:1117198763.452845.173400@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...> <I have to admit that practically all their beer is better than the> stuff you can buy in Oz>>
Hardly a resounding recommendation. Even the Americans brew better> than the Strines and American beer (apart from one or two like Patriot)> is total and utter shite. I did have a couple of good beers in Oz but> I got the feeling that decent beer was probably illegal it was so hard> to find...>
Cheers>
That said, most any beer would taste good after a 44deg grape picking shift....
"DaveyWavey" <davey.wavey@none.com> wrote in message news:u4md91l8sc6s2u77hheoq1rm12rerddd1g@4ax.com...> On Fri, 27 May 2005 08:54:23 +0800, rick boyd <boyd@comswest.net.au>> wrote:>
Jesus, you'd think we'd never seem a pom before. New Zealand is full of> >the bastards. And Australia.> >
We used to have this joke in New Zealand.> >
Why are poms like bananas?> >
They're all yellow, bent and arrive by the boat load.> >
-- rick boyd (who actually really likes poms. As opposed to, say,> >Australians.)>
Interesting question: are there more poms in Aus and NZ than there are> Kiwis and Aussies in England?>
In fact, I reckon there's more Kiwis and (definitely) Aussies in> London alone.
And we have this joke in London ....no mention of Kiwis, but ......
"An Englishman, Aussie and South African in a bar one night having a beer. All of a sudden the South African drinks his beer throws his glass in the air, pulls out a gun shoots the glass to pieces and says "In Sath Afrika our glasses are so cheap that we don't need to drink from same one twice".
The Aussie obviously impressed by this, drinks his beer throws his glass into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the glass to pieces and says "Well mate, in 'straaaaaaailia we have so much sand to make the glasses that we don't need to drink out of the same glass twice either."
The Englishman, cool as a cucumber. Picks up his beer and drinks it, throws his glass into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the South African and the Australian and says "In England we have so many fu**ing South Africans and Australians that we don't need to drink with the same ones twice "
On Fri, 27 May 2005 14:15:18 +0200, "Simon Stovin-Bradford" <Simon.Stovin-Bradford@nospooge.cern.ch> wrote:
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right - so I'll see you in Christchurch for a few then Greig. Looking at the >schedule, I arrive there on the 23rd, leave 26th. I'll have web access so as >soon as you've worked out where to meet etc, give us a nod.>
Thanks mate.>
Excellent. We'll see if we can jack up a few more ChCh based RSRU readers as well.
Jesus, you'd think we'd never seem a pom before. New Zealand is full of > the bastards. And Australia.>
We used to have this joke in New Zealand.>
Why are poms like bananas?>
They're all yellow, bent and arrive by the boat load.>
-- rick boyd (who actually really likes poms. As opposed to, say, > Australians.)
The other version in the fifties was - How to double the IQ of both NZ and Aus Send all our poms over there, mind you that was in the days of the 10 pound poms. Look it up if you don't know what it means. Hint it's nothing to do with their weight.
Interesting question: are there more poms in Aus and NZ than there are> Kiwis and Aussies in England?>
In fact, I reckon there's more Kiwis and (definitely) Aussies in> London alone.
A physical impossibility, I would have thought. The UK has 58 million people or thereabouts from what I remember, and great floods of the fat, pasty buggers descended on the colonies post WWII. They're everywhere, like a horrible, Coronation-street-watching plague. For every Kiwi I run across in Australia, there would be ten poms. Easily.
Australia and New Zealand have smaller populations. I'd hazard a guess that most went to the UK went for the short term.
In Perth, official stats show there are 32,000 Kiwis, 13,000 South Africans and 172,000 British and Irish.
Uncle Dave wrote:> <I have to admit that practically all their beer is better than the> stuff you can buy in Oz>>
Hardly a resounding recommendation. Even the Americans brew better> than the Strines and American beer (apart from one or two like Patriot)> is total and utter shite. I did have a couple of good beers in Oz but> I got the feeling that decent beer was probably illegal it was so hard> to find...
The words of a blow-in tourist. It's like going to the UK, sucking a pint of warm Directors or whatever the big seller is there these days, and saying "All British beer is crap".
You have to look for the good beers, just like anywhere else.
In article Greig Blanchett <greigb@nzrfu.NOSPAM.com> wrote:
The big commercial breweries make sweet fizzy pop, so avoid them like> the plague. There are a lot of small breweries though turning out> quite decent beers. Here's a good list of breweries around the> country:
"rick boyd" <boyd@comswest.net.au> wrote in message news:4297d6f4$1@quokka.wn.com.au...> Uncle Dave wrote:>> <I have to admit that practically all their beer is better than the>> stuff you can buy in Oz>>>
Hardly a resounding recommendation. Even the Americans brew better>> than the Strines and American beer (apart from one or two like Patriot)>> is total and utter shite. I did have a couple of good beers in Oz but>> I got the feeling that decent beer was probably illegal it was so hard>> to find...>
The words of a blow-in tourist. It's like going to the UK, sucking a pint > of warm Directors or whatever the big seller is there these days, and > saying "All British beer is crap".>
You have to look for the good beers, just like anywhere else.>
-- rick boyd
I lived in Oz for a year Dingo boy. And I promise you I've drank more Aussie beer than you.
On Sat, 28 May 2005 10:19:02 +0800, rick boyd <boyd@comswest.net.au> wrote:
DaveyWavey wrote:>
Interesting question: are there more poms in Aus and NZ than there are>> Kiwis and Aussies in England?>>
In fact, I reckon there's more Kiwis and (definitely) Aussies in>> London alone.>
A physical impossibility, I would have thought. The UK has 58 million >people or thereabouts from what I remember, and great floods of the fat, >pasty buggers descended on the colonies post WWII. They're everywhere, >like a horrible, Coronation-street-watching plague. For every Kiwi I run >across in Australia, there would be ten poms. Easily.>
Australia and New Zealand have smaller populations. I'd hazard a guess >that most went to the UK went for the short term.>
In Perth, official stats show there are 32,000 Kiwis, 13,000 South >Africans and 172,000 British and Irish.>
-- rick boyd
I'm hungover this morning, so can't be bothered to Google forever, but...
According to the 2001 census, there were 3.4 million people living in England who were born outside the EU. It doesn't seem to break down the data any more than that, but I'll wager that most of them are Aussies
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On Sat, 28 May 2005 10:22:09 +0800, rick boyd <boyd@comswest.net.au> wrote:>>
WI recommend to you Mac's Black.>
It's probably not what you'd describe as a bitter or a stout, but it's a > dark beer
Closest to a porter. Macs Black is fairly thin in taste compared to Montieths Black Beer. Porters generally have gotten pretty popular here in the last few years, with the Tuatara Porter and the Founder's version being quite good drinks as well.
Emersons have some nice beer - I quite partial to the Bookbinder.
On Sat, 28 May 2005 10:22:09 +0800, rick boyd <boyd@comswest.net.au> wrote:>
WI recommend to you Mac's Black.>>
It's probably not what you'd describe as a bitter or a stout, but it's a >>dark beer>
Closest to a porter. Macs Black is fairly thin in taste compared to> Montieths Black Beer.
And Montieths is pretty weak too, if you ask me.
Porters generally have gotten pretty popular> here in the last few years, with the Tuatara Porter and the Founder's> version being quite good drinks as well.>
Emersons have some nice beer - I quite partial to the Bookbinder.>
Emersons have some loverly beers. I'd recommend the London Porter especially, if looking for a dark beer.
Not especially usfull fact: Bookbinder is named after my partner's brother - who used to be a Bookbinder and is a long time friend of Richard Emersons.
According to the 2001 census, there were 3.4 million people living in> England who were born outside the EU. It doesn't seem to break down> the data any more than that, but I'll wager that most of them are> Aussies
On Sat, 28 May 2005 23:11:09 +0800, rick boyd <boyd@comswest.net.au> wrote:
DaveyWavey wrote:>
According to the 2001 census, there were 3.4 million people living in>> England who were born outside the EU. It doesn't seem to break down>> the data any more than that, but I'll wager that most of them are>> Aussies >
Aborigines, I presume.>
With Pakistani accents.>
-- rick boyd
I could be wrong, but my impression is that many of those of Pakistani descent in England these days were born here. The newer generation of immigrants seem to be European, or Antipodean.
On Sat, 28 May 2005 23:11:09 +0800, rick boyd <boyd@comswest.net.au>>wrote:>
DaveyWavey wrote:>>
According to the 2001 census, there were 3.4 million people living in>>> England who were born outside the EU. It doesn't seem to break down>>> the data any more than that, but I'll wager that most of them are>>> Aussies >>
Aborigines, I presume.>>
With Pakistani accents.
I could be wrong, but my impression is that many of those of Pakistani>descent in England these days were born here.
The majority of UK "Pakistanis" are indeed born here; but they aren't included in the 3.4 million since they were born here!
The newer generation of>immigrants seem to be European, or Antipodean.
There are still a lot of first generation immigrants alive in the UK. Mostly from India Pakistan or the West Indies. These will form the majority of the 3.4 million. I'd hazzard a guess that the next most sizable ethnic group after those would be Africans. Most of the SANZAR "immigrants" seem to me to be temporary, mostly on working holiday visas.
I bow to your superior knowledge as regards Oz beer but it does beg the> question, why did you not offer me any of it? We drank wine IIRC.> Eh? Eh?
That was because we was in the presence of Ladies, Dave. Ladies prefer wine and gentlemen drinking with them prefer wine too, and if they don't they still do, because otherwise they would be Selfish Boorish Male Bastards.
<You have to look for the good beers, just like anywhere else.>>
Not in Belgium you don't. The moment you set foot in the place the>good beers run up to you, slap you in the kisser and shout "Oi! Come>and get it if you think you can handle it". Then they stand there>seductively tossing their frothy little heads.>
There are exceptions which prove the rule that the great unwashed knows>nowt about beer. Stella Artois, mostly used by Belgians for cleaning>engine parts and available for about 3 cents a gallon in litre plastic>(I kid you not) bottles at the Supermarket is marketed in the UK as>"Reassuringly Expensive". Yes, reassuringly expensive to people who>will pay over the odds for any old mass produced crap so long as it's>not brewed locally.
"Stella" is brewed in the UK (by Whitbreads) and it is even worse than the stuff they make in Belgium.
On Mon, 30 May 2005 15:39:33 +0100, Uncle Dave wrote (in article <1117463973.899522.106590@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):
Stella Artois, mostly used by Belgians for cleaning> engine parts and available for about 3 cents a gallon in litre plastic> (I kid you not) bottles at the Supermarket is marketed in the UK as> "Reassuringly Expensive".
It also happens to be nicknamed "Wife Beater", for apparently obvious reasons.
"Uncle Dave" <davidcovey@t-online.de> wrote in message news:1117463973.899522.106590@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...> <You have to look for the good beers, just like anywhere else.>>
Not in Belgium you don't. The moment you set foot in the place the> good beers run up to you, slap you in the kisser and shout "Oi! Come> and get it if you think you can handle it". Then they stand there> seductively tossing their frothy little heads.
You're getting confused with the children.
-- Mr Scebe "Pershonally i think you're a fucking idiot" ~Sean Connery in "The Rock"
