Greatest kiwi lives

MN5

Richard Hadlee
Sam Neill

Kruse

@nonpartizan said in Greatest kiwi lives:

It's one of the things that sucks about the Euro - it's just architecture which is fine and all but pretty bland.

I guess with the Euro - they're pretty hamstrung. Trying to get any sort of agreement for what represents their "identity" - across dozens of pretty different countries... amazed they even settled on that.
But just looked it up - realised they're not actual buildings/etc - but entirely stylized examples of architectural styles. (Original artist used actual bridges - but obviously that was going to fail)
Quite clever, actually - use the metaphor of "bridges" connecting the Union, and an abstracted set of images, so that nobody can whinge "why's the Pont de Nuilly there, but not Tower Bridge - fucking outrageous, innit?".

Due to the great number of historic bridges, arches, and gateways throughout the European continent, all the structures represented on the notes are entirely stylized illustrations of the relevant architectural styles, designed to evoke the landmarks within the European Union,[17] representing various European ages and styles.

Machpants

Oh we could put in a heap before we get more than a couple of sportsmen
Governor Grey
Hone Heke
Michael savage
Jean batten
Peter Jackson
Janet frame
Dame Whina Cooper
Sir Bernard Freyberg
Kiri te Kanawa
Keith Park

Bovidae

Nancy Wake

Toddy

There was a TV show back in the early 2000's that listed their top 100 NZ History makers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand's_Top_100_History_Makers

MN5

@Toddy said in Greatest kiwi lives:

There was a TV show back in the early 2000's that listed their top 100 NZ History makers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand's_Top_100_History_Makers

John Minto makes it and the Bushwackers don't ?

That's some bullshit right there

canefan

Richard Pearse. Should be as famous as the Wright Brothers

booboo

@nzzp said in Greatest kiwi lives:

@nonpartizan said in Greatest kiwi lives:

their impact on NZ and or the world at large?

Freddy Flintoff?

/Sarc

Seriously though, good question. Shows our focus on sports though

Ben Stokes?

bayimports

Dame Lisa Marie Carrington

Machpants

@Toddy said in Greatest kiwi lives:

There was a TV show back in the early 2000's that listed their top 100 NZ History makers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand's_Top_100_History_Makers

Dr King, founder of Plunkett, probably saved and enriched the lives of hundreds of thousands of kiwis. Racist sexist fluffybunny, but the foundation has done huge amounts of good

nonpartizan

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Rancid Schnitzel

Does it have to be a human? Phar Lap?

canefan

Anthony Wilding was NZs only Wimbledon champion

booboo

@sparky said in Greatest kiwi lives:

Colin Murdoch
Ronald Syme
David Low

Well, you had me asking "who?"

booboo

Bill Hamilton of the Hamilton Jet

MiketheSnow

Graham Henry

John Walker

Russel Crowe

Bones

@MiketheSnow said in Greatest kiwi lives:

Russel Crowe

That's cactus mate.

We'll take pavlova thanks.

canefan

@MiketheSnow said in Greatest kiwi lives:

Graham Henry

John Walker

Russel Crowe

Coutts you mean?

Nepia

@canefan said in Greatest kiwi lives:

@MiketheSnow said in Greatest kiwi lives:

Graham Henry

John Walker

Russel Crowe

Coutts you mean?

I think I prefer Crowe to Coutts.

MN5

@MiketheSnow said in Greatest kiwi lives:

Graham Henry

John Walker

Russel Crowe

Na, you go down that road then the 25 will all be affiliated with Rugby somehow.

Meads and Lomu for me, that’s absolutely it

The Silver Fern

Greatest kiwi lives