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Well it was funny none the less. I woke up, came on here and found that message, said wtf, and actually laughed my ass off. And thanks for the assurance of my coolness and funniness. I'll sleep better tonight.

Haha, the sign of a good night. I didn't even understand the first part of the sentence at all lol.

You know i'm always here for you baby.

Rofl, are you smashed? xD

Hot damn, them's some sexy merinos. But nothing compares to our Welsh pretties, they got more sex appeal.

There's a couple of sentences I never thought I'd say.

Glad you thought so, I've used it for a forum title before back in the day and it seemed to work out. I have to agree the current title is a little intimidating/condescending.

I don't know which is more amusing they dingo eating baby reference or the play on the words from the song, but I find it quite cleverly done haha

Yeah, drunken madness!

But I am saddened; 23 views on the topic and not a single post! I'm guessing that means 23 people all think my idea is brilliant and I should move forward with it immediately. That must be it!

Also, I rather like my idea of renaming Intellectual Discussion to Topical Debates. It more accurately describes the threads in that area without narrowing it to a specific type of topic, or using potentially insulting words such as "intellectual" (which I remember a couple of people mentioning).

Got any alternative ideas? "Debates" may also imply the wrong thing!

I like passing things! I'll be expecting my grad certificate in the post my good man

But there's not a tremendous amount of skilled work available here either - there's programmes most evenings about how the mines are enticing foreigners to try to attain work here but ending up in trailer parks waiting for an opportunity. You would expect an influx to Europe and America perhaps, but then the European markets are weak at best (some would say months away from the single currency collapse) and then America has it's many many problems as we've already noted in threads on here. These are strange waters we're sailing in.

I know you're always going to be reliant on foreign trade but depending on others is risky - investments can be pulled and then what happens? Where is the plan B? And yet having a large domestic market is no catalyst to success - look at the Eurozone for evidence of that. It's a complex and entirely fluid crisis - reactive to the slightest tremor in the global market.

I suppose the economic management of a smaller country can be just as troublesome as a large one. You make some very valid points though, especially about your workforce - but once you train someone to be that productive, where is the motivation to stay in NZ where there's extensive possibilities elsewhere?

I tried to look for a funny gif/meme to go here but I couldn't find one that fit, so settle for this image of Welsh sheep instead.



Aren't they beautiful?

That is a lot lol. So you might possibly end up going to Wales one day then? There's not really a lot to do here tbh. There's a lot of fields. Lots of them. Lots. Cardiff is quite nice.

I'd advise staying put. Plus then you can go for as long as you want. Where would you travel?

Me and my friend Alice have said we'd like to go travelling soon, but I'd doubt we'll do it for a few years.