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    Quote Originally posted by Nothing View Post
    Oh yeah true, they have their own game over in Australia. Which is interesting as I always consider Australia as comparatively, and in certain ways, a republic of USA. I would say that Australia would dearly love to become USA. They have a senate and everything!
    Why would they ever do such? Obviously you’ve never been there. Much more like Britain with good weather and a massive desert but a very distinct culture and great vibe. Increasingly they think USAians as being nuts.
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    Quote Originally posted by Nothing View Post
    Why would they do what? Start their own sport? Want to be USA? Have a senate?
    I have had plenty of dealings with Australians, but no I haven't been there, OR the USA.
    Not sure what that is meant to mean either!

    It seems they invented the game as a conglomeration of other football games being formed in Britain, as a pastime to keep cricket players fit during the winter.

    My surmise on why they seem more appreciating of Americana could be that they started off as a prison colony and perhaps rebelled against mother England?
    Also, they have lots of snakes and poisonous critters there, where Britain doesn't, neither does New Zealand, maybe there is something in that as to how it affects the mind?
    However, they DO still play Cricket, Rugby, and Rugby league so get their fill of international team sports.
    Maybe it is a size of continent thing?


    Oh you added more to qualify the statement. I refer to Australians having a more American culture than New Zealanders. Sure, they may seem more British to an American.
    Well, I lived in Britain and the US and spent 5+ months in OZ. I never ran into any Australians who wanted to be part of the US, they simply knew they had it so good where they are now. As my business partner at the time said, “be an American and give all this up? No way, Mate.”

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    Quote Originally posted by Nothing View Post
    They are my neighbours, I have lived with them my whole life, they STILL are very Americanised compared to New Zealand.
    Oh, AND they name their provinces and regions, as states! lol
    ...oh, ok. We’re working with the Kiwi-Ozzie school of putting each other down...I’ve seen a little of that as well. I’ve never been to the land you folks stole from the Māoris.

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    I think he was joking Nothing
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    Quote Originally posted by Nothing View Post
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    Quote Originally posted by Nothing View Post
    Oh dear, I think you may be creating something out of nothing again. No we are not working in that mode, I was certain it was quite clear that within the conversation, we were talking about USA and its invented sports, at which you brought up Australian rules and I drew off handedly a comparison with Australia seeming more American than here in New Zealand..that was the point ALL along... and the next comment points to you having a fair way to go with your self. All I get from that post is attempts to claw at me for reasons you only know. Sigh.
    I think he was joking Nothing
    Really? He just does the "pull my finger" type jokes from what I thought.
    That was more in a vein of trying to create animosity by starting some kind of slur towards which band of white people in the world stole the most land from their natives and treated them the worst.
    I have seen those kind of behaviours and arguments going down before and that was a classic attempt at it, I thought I was back in one of those public poo slinging forums again where people try as hard as they can to get reactions by being confrontational.
    Lego Batman's humor is somewhat of an acquired taste and you have to get used to it, but yes, I agree with NotAPretender that he was only joking. He tends to throw cynical humor into everything, just like a standup comedian would.
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    Well, Nothing. You can take it as a joke, or you can take it as confrontational. Let me hold up a mirror.

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    Kermie? Kek? Is that you?

    I smell chaos.

    I didn't realize that New Zealand doesn't have the dangerous, poisonous creatures that Australia has. I learned about the New Zealand ecosystem. It's one of the few that has not changed so drastically over millions of years. You have paleolithic plants and what can be called living fossils.

    I find myself wondering why there would be more danger and poison in the newer ecospheres? This very ancient one is not filled with them. Is it an example of a balance that was finally achieved in nature?

    The other thing that I can't get my head around is how come snakes haven't been reintroduced into Ireland and the same with New Zealand? Humans have been spreading things around for a long time.

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