Forum Archive Index - July 2001

["Andrew Dengel" <adengel@voyager.co.nz>]

Thank you Malcolm,

I'm glad you felt the need to point out to me my intelligence level.
Australia isn't 'my' number 2 country to live in at all, in fact I find
Australia to have an even more unhealthy insular, overly nationalistic
opinion of itself than NZ.
I was simply refering to a report issued over the media yesterday from a
world organization (apologies I forget whom) that measures these kind of
things. No one can dispute our standard of living (not necessarily quality
of life however) has plummeted over the last 20 years compared to other
countries.

Whilst RIL exaggerates and delights in winding many chatters up (and don't
they all bite so easily) many of the points he raises have some truth to
them and if some people stopped getting so defensive and childishly
comparing us to others (like RIL delights in doing) with the 'my toys are
better than yours' attitudes and thought about some of the problems facing
our country maybe we could make some progress. I am not whining or moaning I
believe NZ is a great place to live and have stayed here but I feel we stick
our heads in the sand and as long as we can see other countries with
problems we perceive to be worse than our own we think "she'll be right
mate".

Instead of knee jerk reactionary (and personal) comments (which is just what
RIL wants) either ignore him or discuss them rationally. And Malcolm if
things are so bad in Aussie what are you doing living there?!

I am not sure what nationality you are but I am sure the Aussies must love
having you living amongst them with the obvious disdain you have for the
"average" Australian.

Nuff said
Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sharechat@sharechat.co.nz
[mailto:owner-sharechat@sharechat.co.nz]On Behalf Of Malcolm Cameron
Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2001 18:09
To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz
Subject: Re: [sharechat] Don't do it Sarah Corkhill! WARNING! attn andrew
dengel

Andrew
from an aussie resident, doctors that have to read a text book to try
diagnose whats wrong with a patient. car servicing that takes at least 4
visits to get to acceptable standard, new houses that fall apart in five
years,expensive furniture that does not last three months, if this is your
number two country to live in the sooner you move over here the better you
seem even less intelligent than the average australian. the inteeligent ones
mostly do not want an aussie doctor or any product australian made. the
don't like getting NZ doctors over here because they would be preffered to
australians in the job market. this is only a sample of whats wrong with
australia. let allone the scams that go on.
Malcolm Cameron

>From: "Andrew Dengel" <adengel@clear.net.nz>
>Reply-To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz
>To: <sharechat@sharechat.co.nz>
>Subject: Re: [sharechat] Don't do it Sarah Corkhill! WARNING!
>Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:19:55 +0930
>
>I have missed RIL and have to be brutally honest and say that I agree with
>most of what he says. Sure NZ is a beautifull country, relatively clean and
>uncrowded but all those other problems he mentioned are here and need to be
>addressed by people who live or have lived in the real world! Not these
>dumb heads or academic politically correct totally out of touch idiots we
>have now!
>
>Aussie is number 2 in the world of best places to live (behind Norway?!) we
>have slipped well down the rankings and it needn't be that way.
>
>Andrew
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: DR
>   To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz
>   Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 10:33 AM
>   Subject: Re: [sharechat] Don't do it Sarah Corkhill! WARNING!
>
>
>   The RIL virus is back!
>   Probably as a worm.
>   D.
>

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