Hey, how about reading my post before replying to it?

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I read it, what did you want me to address?

I happen to like the Register! They are about as liberal as you can get here. Rekha Basu is my favourite journalist. Her husband was another favourite of mine.

So, tell me all you Christchurch dwellers, what part of ChCh did you live in or do you live in? Sounds to me that some of you lived in the Cashmere, Hoon Hay areas.

Did anyone live in Avonhead or Ilam? Did anyone send their kids to Westburn Primary School or Burnside High? Or maybe a private school that was non-catholic?

Nope, you didn't. Not when this:

...gets answered by this:



Take the 30 seconds to actually read my post, instead of assuming you know what it's asking. That big passel of questions you see? Those are rhetorical. As in I already know it doesn't happen in Des Moines. No, there are no neo-Nazis walking around Gray's Lake. Your house is double-glazed, insulated and has central heating. If hoons were burning rubber in West Des Moines, their wheels would be auctioned and they'd be taking the bus.

The questions are statements, lucky resident of a City Where I Never Got Shoved, Called Chop Suey Or Told To Grunt Like A Pig*. It's what happened to me personally in your fair home city or to others on this board throughout New Zealand.

And it's no use trying to pretend we all lived in the wrong neighborhood. It doesn't become you, as someone who's indicated she's ready to confront the ugly aspect of her own country. It's never those "few bad apples", that's the truth. I lived near Hagley Park, in the so-called Cultural Precinct. Want to hear the experience of someone who had children at Burnside? Search for Trisha.

Now, I'm going to suggest that in order to keep the threads fresh, you think of what you'd really like to ask us, and start a new thread (use the green button at top in forums like "The Square").

* Yes.

Well if Des Moines was so wonderful why didn't you stay? Why is it that you and your husband are constantly on the move?

Hagley Park, the Cultural Precinct! Well, okay then, and since when did they begin calling it that? I just call it Hagley Park, downtown, fringes of Fendalton where the genteel folk supposedly lived. Then as Hagley covers acres of land, you could have been anywhere from Fendalton, Riccarton, downtown, Lincoln Rd area!

You make it sound as though 4 million people are responsible for what happened to you. The reason I suggested Ilam/Avonhead is because that' where I was brought up and that is where many Asians live. It's a very nice suburb of Christchurch full of good, ordinary folk with a fair amount of money! The right side of Memorial Avenue!

I could pretty much guarantee that nothing awful has happened in that suburb! Hagley Park which is virtually the centre of Christchurch and which attracts many and all kinds of citizens and tourists day and night and isn't suburbia!

Yes, here in Des Moines we put bad people in jail. We wouldn't just take their wheels off them. We do have our hoons here, the ones that like to drive around and around the downtown streets. Teenagers looking for something to do!

So where are you living now?

I have Chinese and Filipino relatives living in Christchurch, I wonder how many times they've been mistreated?

So based on your personal experiences you will be moving back here soon then? Seems to be the only place that good things happened for you.

Google would tend to disagree. But what do they know...



I'm trying *really* hard not to say something mean to you, but you're making it very difficult...

As nice as I can muster, can you PLEASE read things before replying, and quit posting these long-winded, nonsense-filled, off-topic rants? If you've got great things to say about Christchurch and Des Moines, go ahead and say them IN A NEW THREAD!

!! Ignore this if I'm stepping on your toes, no problems !!

Hey, I got your board from the phpBB forum, few of us are following your no deletion modding experiment wiht interest. I think I'm a believer now.

I wanted to offer $0.02 on a new guy you have there, khar59.

My guess is he's just old.

Not saying cut him slack but something to think about.

Either he's "59" or born in "1959", that explains a lot of things like the dumb mistakes about the Admin persecuting him and not understanding half of everything people write him.

I know 50, 59 isn't old but if they're Internet n00bs too they may as well be 80. Some older n00bs can't parse text on the monitor, I've seen this, it's called situational dyslexia.

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Well obviously you are feeling mean and spiteful and lashing out at everything Kiwi!

Nothing like being rational once in a while!

Right now you are acting like juveniles!

Guy, chill. I don't even know what everything Kiwi is.

If you mean I got something against New zealand or older people, no I don't. Never been there, don't plan to, and I'm gonna be old someday if I stay alive.

Just trying to help because people are getting mad at you. Try saying thanks, don't be so chip on the shoulder, n00b.

I run a sport board, don't give a rats' **** about Kiwi. Only connection to Expat Exposed is it uses the same software as mine.

Hey admin, better lock this thread, it's pretty **** now.