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as long as you can stand on the front lawn and smash golf balls with only a small risk of hitting a house then it's all good, and that one looks good for that.
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@taniwharugby are the houses in front of me, or off to the side?
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@mariner4life just aim at them if you are worried about hitting them!
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Give global warming 20 years and it will be right on the beach!
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Hooroo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
I wonder if they are the ones that snapped Aaron Smith as I see they have a pervy telescope.
If you need a telescope to see the beach... you are to far from the beach.
Until the 1950's properties right on the beach were discounted because you needed to be compensated for the distress of viewing all the unseemly flesh on display
Also although summers at the bach have become an iconic part of kiwi subconscious, fewer than 3% of kiwi's families have owned a bach and only 10% of the population ever had access to a family bach as they grew up.
Pretty sure the number with access to a helicopter would be even lower
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@dogmeat said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Hooroo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
I wonder if they are the ones that snapped Aaron Smith as I see they have a pervy telescope.
If you need a telescope to see the beach... you are to far from the beach.
Until the 1950's properties right on the beach were discounted because you needed to be compensated for the distress of viewing all the unseemly flesh on display
Also although summers at the bach have become an iconic part of kiwi subconscious, fewer than 3% of kiwi's families have owned a bach and only 10% of the population ever had access to a family bach as they grew up.
Pretty sure the number with access to a helicopter would be even lower
That is not true. Beachfront properties at the Mount and Whangamata were always the most prestigous... and costly. I great grandmother bought the first section at Whangamata, quite an interesting story , that I wont bore you with.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@dogmeat said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Hooroo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
I wonder if they are the ones that snapped Aaron Smith as I see they have a pervy telescope.
If you need a telescope to see the beach... you are to far from the beach.
Until the 1950's properties right on the beach were discounted because you needed to be compensated for the distress of viewing all the unseemly flesh on display
Also although summers at the bach have become an iconic part of kiwi subconscious, fewer than 3% of kiwi's families have owned a bach and only 10% of the population ever had access to a family bach as they grew up.
Pretty sure the number with access to a helicopter would be even lower
That is not true. Beachfront properties at the Mount and Whangamata were always the most prestigous... and costly. I great grandmother bought the first section at Whangamata, quite an interesting story , that I wont bore you with.
The guy that's just written a social history of NZ based around how the beach shaped us would probably say that's the difference between anecdote and research
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@dogmeat said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
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Look at old photos of both locations.All the initial dwellings? Beachfront. Is that anecdotal? All the original camp sites? Beachfront. Is that anecdotal? First street sold for holiday hpmes in Whanga... right on the beach. Maybe you could provide more proof of your claim with context? Because your claim is only anecdotal as well at this stage...is it not?
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1930's Mt
Camp site had already been established.
http://www.mtmaunganui.myewebsite.com/photos/old-photos-of-the-mount/mount-maunganui--christmas-1954..--.htmlPlenty of bare land behind the beachfront.
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I suppose they put a tennis court on the prime inland site? And sold the 'crappy' beachfront sections to the poor people in the 20's?
Early Settlement at Mount Maunganui
Mt. Maunganui, Tauranga (No. 17) Postcard image from collection of Justine Neal The earliest settlers of the narrow spit of land where ...
"In 1864 the first pilot house was built on the slopes of Mauao with a replacement cottage being built in 1874. Although it was a favourite spot for picnics and outings for the Tauranga settlers, permanent settlement of the area started slowly with people from Tauranga and Rotorua buying land and building holiday baches near the foot of Mauao on the sandhills. Many of these people later became residents."
They could have chosen anywhere... but they chose the sand hills.... on the beach...
also
"The Adams Cottage in Adams Avenue is the oldest building in Mount Maunganui. Although built as a bach or holiday home for John Cuthbert Adams it is a similar style of many pioneer cottages, having a gable ended simple design in what is known as ‘carpenter gothic’ style. Adams built it as a bach in 1906 when his family lived in Fifth Avenue at Taipororo. It was said that his daughters could row to the bach faster than he could drive around Welcome Bay to the Mount, the only route at that time.
The cottage is near the foreshore at Pilot Bay and originally had a simple plan." -
one of my 'friends' on FB liked this, WTF is the last one upto??
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@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@jegga That's great. I don't really LOL but did he actually say 6HP? I really love my cars but mostly drive a beaten up old hilux ute, which is akin to his final comment of "this thing is just fucking awful".
HEY! NEVER insult the deathless Hilux
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@NTA I secretly love it of course, and people actually smile at me and let me into queues when I drive it. They don't do that when I am in the RS4, funny that...The hilux also looks like the end result of the Top gear guys trying to destroy one, and failing. Only 180,000k's as well, so hopefully get another 300,000 out of it like my Hilux surf.
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@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@jegga That's great. I don't really LOL but did he actually say 6HP? I really love my cars but mostly drive a beaten up old hilux ute, which is akin to his final comment of "this thing is just fucking awful".
Its only a 200cc two stroke so 6hp is apparently what it puts out . If you love cars have you ever checked out this site?http://ateupwithmotor.com/ Be warned its one of those black hole sites that you can click on and then wonder where the last three hours went.
I've had two hiluxes and loved them both, I want to get another one as a project with my son. My brother has two-the model from the first crumpy ads with a surf v6 and a stout he wants to put an alloy v8 in. I'd never heard of a stout till he dragged the thing out of a farmers shed. It wont be winning any beauty contests, heres a restored one.
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@jegga said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Its only a 200cc two stroke so 6hp is apparently what it puts out .
Bloody hell. I bought a 190cc lawn mower 2 days ago. Subaru powered and bloody good.
I'm at risk of sounding like Clarkson, but there is no substitute for power.I really don't want to say this, but that Stout is, well... "cute". Definitely looks like it needs a V8. Not a real man's diesel hilux of course. You should definitely educate your son on the joys of shitbox hilux ownership.
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