I'm joining this group though I'm in NZ -- US born but my mother was an Aucklander. Hardly travel at all, been Brisbane once and liked it if that counts. Also have ancestors from Goulburn, and a great-great-great-grandfather who was an Irishman transported to Port Jackson in 1818. There are no NZers on this site -- none that want to carry on a conversation with me anyway, because I'm too sceptical. I'm the type who's always getting called cynical by people who don't know the meaning of the word, and I've got tired correcting them, saying no, I'm a sceptic.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.G'day there from your friends across the ditch, we are always ready to welcome new friends and compatriots, happy to discuss Reality, Reasoning and Logic thought, etc, with a new-chum.
Triphid
Level 9
May 19, 2019
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Ta, studied stage I logic at uni so I do alright in everyday reasoning without any real flare at it. Have written a couple of book-length polemics under the name G. A. De Forest (see Booklocker.com, Amazon, etc) debunking cherished myths, one on sixties music, the other a childhood memoir about being a boy transported to NZ when I was five... family dislocation, culture shock coming a rapidly modernising USA to NZ, 1960. Currently writing contemporary short stories steeped in everyday realities and a short novel series about street life in Auckland.
You will find some very cynical members here. All good mates to have at your back.
FrayedBear
Level 9
May 19, 2019
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Thanks for the solidarity -- maybe what I'm lacking a bit over here, Kiwis often being the ultimate she'll-be-righters, not the staunchest having your back, and hopeless to try and pin down in a fair argument.
@Garbonza Sounds like bruised egos.
The old joke about Australians is
Q. "How do you recognise a well balanced Australian?"
A. He has a big chip on each shoulder!"
Perhaps for Kiwis it should be -
"Has an even bigger chip on each shoulder!"
We accept Aussie and Aussie-ish in this group.
No typing with a NZ accent, however.
David1955
Level 8
May 19, 2019
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Thanks for the welcome. The Aussie-Irish connection is a spiritual tug. Before she died my mother was talking about settling in Goulburn (where her mother's mother, whom she never met, was from), and she'd never even been to Australia. It's funny about accents. We came from the US with strong Midwest accents -- "Wuts the big idear?" -- "Chicargo, Illinoise!" -- and I still have my burr on those terminal r's, so Kiwis think I'm from Central Otago or Southland. When I visited Brizzie a few years ago I was shown around by a Canadian guide working for the city council who said he couldn't detect anything in my accent but American. That's his perception as a Canadian but he's way off beam because it's no way comparable to anything like a full US accent, and that's been true in my case since 1962 when my 13-year-old sister listened to me and accused this 7-year-old of "turning into a [goddamn] Noozelander!".
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