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Australians, WTF is going on down there?

Pesqueeb

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Feb 2, 2007
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:confused::rofl:

A NEW Zealand man got a very personal part of his anatomy stuck in a flying fox at a children's playground in Christchurch this week, sparking a series of safety checks by the local council to avoid a repeat of the incident, according to reports.

The 30-year-old became entangled in the equipment when a malfunction caused the mechanism to move on the impact of the man hitting the end of the flying fox line - trapping his nether regions, The Star reported.

Fire crews called to the playground at Bishopdale Park had to dismantle the flying fox seat to free the man.

They said he had remained "stoic" despite being in quite a lot of pain.

The flying fox has remained dismantled since Tuesday's incident and a Christchurch City Council spokesman said other flying foxes in the city, on New Zealand's South Island, were being checked to reduce the risk of a repeat of the problem.

A flying fox is an aerial conveyor belt or suspended carrier operating on cables.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/safety-checks-after-new-zealand-man-gets-genitals-caught-in-flying-fox/story-e6frf7lf-1225854591077
Is this called a reverse David Carradine?
 

valve bouncer

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Feb 11, 2002
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Years and years ago a NZ Prime minister (I think it was Rob Muldoon) when asked about Kiwis emigrating to Aussie retorted that it was good as it raised the average IQ of both countries. :rofl:
Old Piggy Muldoon had a few memorable lines in his day. Reminds me of when I get asked "What have you ever done for your country?" I say "I left".
 

Pesqueeb

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Well, I had been drinking when I posted that and the heading is poorly worded. What I should have titled the thread is something along the lines of "monkeys from Australia, tell me why your neighbors are hanging them selves from their peckers."
 
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bizutch

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Dec 11, 2001
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Yeah.. You just offended both the Aussies, AND the Kiwi's with that mixup!
I offended a lady from Mexico City yesterday. We have to rate her driving experience as a NEW driver, like a 16 yr old because North Carolina only honors drivers licenses from the US & Canada.

I said something to the effect of "Well at least I know you can defend yourself in moving vehicle." Well, because all I've ever heard of Mexico City was bad.

She was ticked at me and didn't say anything until I asked how she met her US husband. She looked at me like a killer and said "I was an arms dealer." She was evil looking all of a sudden and the husband leaned back and chuckled and said "Yeeeaaahhh. You've pissed her off now!"

I told her that was the only portrayal I get to see and to tell me more about her city. It didn't work.:rofl:
 

syadasti

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Apr 15, 2002
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Wrong...
Nieuw Zealand was "discovered" by Dutchman Abel Tasman and is derived from the Dutch Province.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeland
Zealand is not wrong, its just one of the two islands with that name. And Abel didn't name NZ either plus it was the second island to be named NZ.

edit: Random article on the topic

Plus tourism articles promote Zealand as Old Zealand, so the Dutch lose :D

New Zealand too far? Try Old Zealand, Denmark's largest island, instead
 
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Kevin

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I didnt say Tasman named it Newe Zealand but he "discovered" it and named it something else.

The first European name for New Zealand was Staten Landt, the name given to it by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who in 1642 became the first European to see the islands.
The Dutch did name the country New Zealand after that.

The name New Zealand originated with Dutch cartographers, who called the islands Nova Zeelandia, after the Dutch province of Zeeland.
And Also,

There is no connection to the Danish island Zealand
So yes we DO win. :weee:

Have you been there btw?
I was there for a couple months last year and its an amazing country...
 
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syadasti

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Have you been there btw?
I was there for a couple months last year and its an amazing country...
Just New Zealand about 5 years ago (also in 2002 too) but it was discovered by the Maori:D
 
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syadasti

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See what I did there :wave:

Haha sorry man Im not giving up either :D
You mean what you edited :wave:



You left out NZ part one in Guinea. The quote saying there is no connection, the name is the most basic connection with all four of these islands, the map makers/explorers weren't very creative:think:
 

DaveW

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Yeah but it was discovered and colonised centuries before them whitey's made it down here. ;)
That's why my Island (the north island of Aotearoa) is also know as Te Ika-a-Māui. :p
 

bohorec

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Well, I had been drinking when I posted that and the heading is poorly worded. What I should have titled the thread is something along the lines of "monkeys from Australia, tell me why your neighbors are hanging them selves from their peckers."
Yeah now you blame your drinking issues. This is how they manage to prohibit the cool staf. Just admit it, you fail at geography.