Hello from New Zealand

[dominic]

Hi everybody,
My name is Dominic and I live in Auckland, New Zealand.

I am currently building a D4 sailing dinghy (when I get the time) and trying to document the builing process on my website (when I get the time).

Cheers

[safewalrus]

Dominic, hello and welcome to the party - guess you've read a bit before you started writting :p and have a vague idea about what we're about :?: so again a hearty welcome to the part (please note that for some of us the main aim in life is to take the pee out of the Yanks :D - whilst this is a laudable thing to do [no matter how you spell wiskey, whiskey or even whisky, it is tooooo easy and gets boring at times! :D Incidentally there are even some Yanks who take the pee outof the Yanks - mostly ex Navy men who seem to have developed the same sense of humour as the rest of us! :D guess you can figure that out yourself, I can't!!!) Any way you'll soon get the hang of it!:cool:

[Bergalia]

Hey Walrus - to us 'Aussies' - Kiwis are also fair game for piss-taking, so Dominic will be a welcome addition...:D :D :D

[gonzo]

The only thing we know about your Navy is that you keep a crowbar to separate the men from the boys;)

[safewalrus]

As opposed to your Navy, which is All boys! :rolleyes: Sorry Gonzo closed season on Yanks I know (because of the festivities) but you did ask for that:D

[gonzo]

NO NO, the US Navy is don't ask, don't tell.

[boltonprofiles]

Hello Dominic, you will enjoy these forums, just avoid the odd reprebate and you will be ok. I will leave you to make up your mind as to who they are........

[safewalrus]

Please note 'most of the so called reprobates' tend to come from the north of the countrys they hail from! ;) Except the antipodeans who are, as we know upside down!:D

[safewalrus]

hey Gonzo allways believed that US stood for USeless - you've just confirmed that - "don't ask, don't tell, don't know"

[artemis]

hey Gonzo allways believed that US stood for USeless - you've just confirmed that - "don't ask, don't tell, don't know"
More Yank bashing again! That's political! We have been told by some who consider themselves experts that there is to be NO politcal commentary in this forum. So stop it! :p

[CDBarry]

Please note the upcoming HPYD 2006 at University of Auckland http://www.hpyd.org.nz , since it is in your neighborhood.

[safewalrus]

Artemis - please be aware 'Yank bashing' is NOT political, it's good clean entertainment!;) and in some parts of the world (Cornwall, New South Wales and others) it's compulsory. :p May I thank you for your consideration and please remain well and truly 'bashed'! You'll get used to it, and may even get to enjoy(?) it!:D

[artemis]

Artemis - please be aware 'Yank bashing' is NOT political, it's good clean entertainment!;) and in some parts of the world (Cornwall, New South Wales and others) it's compulsory. :p May I thank you for your consideration and please remain well and truly 'bashed'! You'll get used to it, and may even get to enjoy(?) it!:D
I guess my biggest problem with comments like "USeless" is that I am a natural born citizen of the United States of America and PROUD of my country, even if not its elected officials. "My country right or wrong, but my country" means a great deal to me. I'm not thin skinned, but I do not appreciate outsiders making comments which are clearly (to me at least) derogatory. I don't bash "The Royals" but do feel that any member of The Commonwealth who wishes to do so may. I am fully aware that many in this world do not think kind throughts about the USA (and possibly with good reason) but would prefer constructive criticism. If this isn't possible, then my only recourse to such a demonstration of crass ignorance as "USeless" is to say: "Turn it (the geographic location, in this case Cornwall) into a fused glass parking lot"!

[safewalrus]

Artemis, of course your PROUD of your country, so you should be - and rightly so after all America (United States of) HAS a lot to be proud of! The world would be a poorer place had we not let you become this country (It could be the English/Scottish/Welsh/Ulster backbone that helps) America!

Having said that, if you can't take the piss out of your friends and allies who can you take it out of?:confused: Remember there are certain countries who stand shoulder to shoulder against the tyrannies of the world, with the same beliefs (I don't need to tell you who they are do I) and like all families they squabble, fight take the piss and generally call each other names!:o Until some outsider tries to barge in that is then the outsider has a small(? :rolleyes: ) shock. Your part of that family so stand by to have the.......:D

[safewalrus]

Oh! and incidentally Cornwall is already a parking lot - full of Yanks waiting to be fleeced (bless em):D

[gonzo]

We are just jealous because our sheep can't stop talking about you guys.

[safewalrus]

Shucks Gonzo you say the nicest things!

[dominic]

Well it certainly looks lively in here. Before anyone starts bashing me for being a Kiwi, I'd better let you know that I'm from Wales (Next to England) - but now living permanently in NZ.

So, aussie and pommie bashing is fine by me ;)

[safewalrus]

:p hell there's a mixture, Welsh retread Kiwi, nearly as bad as a Scots retread aussie only thing worse is a retread Cornishman - at least I didn't have to go so far (they wouldn't let me!!):p

[boltonprofiles]

Hey Dominic, that is nearly as bad as me, a Scotsman living in England (and not even at the coast). Mind you, plenty of bashing fodder there, a Welshman living in New Zealand - I will write it in my 'bashing information book' for later use. :p

[trouty]

Another Kiwi on the boat design board can't be a bad thing.

I guess if enough of them eventually came to understand boat design they might eventually build a decent one and escape Kiwi land - invading the blessed land of Oz... :eek:

On 2nd thoughts - bugger orf! :D ;)

Ahh - reminds me of the old joke about a Ozzie and a Kiwi fella walking along a country lane in Kiwi land, (on their way to go trout fishing) and they spy a sheep with it's head stuck in the sheep fence!

So the Ozzie feller quick as wink - drops his strides and does the evil deed with the sheep.

In order not to leave his Anzac colleage out of the action, he finnishes with a flourish, zips up his fly and turns the the kiwi and says, "OK - now its your turn!".

Sadly - the kiwi, raced over, drops his daks and sticks his head in the fence! :rolleyes: :D :D

Cheers! he he he!

(Kiwi bashing is a national institution downunder!) ;)

[tansails]

I have sailed NZ waters often and love it there lots of wind and great people, lots of very good capable sailors of a higher cailbre than many other places oin the world. That Cook straight can be a brutal piece of water though. It still owes me a headsail!

Michael Bailey

[safewalrus]

And the fenceposts are comfortable!