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<p>I find the 'looks like a tea-towel/beach towel' argument ridiculous and just shows the point at our evolution of a nation we are at..</p>
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<p>Clearly these people have never been to any tourist site in the world, or specifically the UK and seen the Union Jack bandanas, tea-towels, coffee mugs, key-chains etc</p> -
<p>Weird argument that one. Especially considering there are plenty of tea towels already for sale with the existing flag.</p>
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I've seen the tea towel one too also so what if Richie McCaw is so think he can't tell the flags apart? Is another doing the rounds.<br><br>
My mum had a reunion with a bunch of her cousins last week , one is the former auditor general and the flag came up in conversation. He said that when he and his Aussie counterpart go to international conferences they probably have to swap flags on their desk or hanging behind them over about a third of the time because the hosts fuck them up that often. -
<p>If you think it looks like a beach towel then you are pretty much saying it is a good design, as there is no doubt beach towel makers will produce one. The Canadian flag looks fantastic as a beach towel.</p>
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<p>If someone says its a beach towel they might as well have said "I'm a sneering dork without a real reason to dislike this flag other than it has something to do with John Key" .</p>
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<p>A german guy at work was talking about it today, he obviously loathed Key buy can't believe we have what he called "a relic" on our flag so he's voting for change. </p> -
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If someone says its a beach towel they might as well have said "I'm a sneering dork without a real reason to dislike this flag other than it has something to do with John Key" .<br><br>
A <strong>german guy </strong>at work was talking about it today, he obviously <strong>loathed Key </strong>buy can't believe we have what he called "a relic" on our flag so he's voting for change.</p></blockquote>
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<p>You seem to be describing me .... aside from the German part.</p>
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<p>Two of them are factual, and I thought the 3rd would appeal to you ;).</p> -
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Two of them are factual, and I thought the 3rd would appeal to you ;).</p></blockquote>
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I saw you give Don a serve on pr yesterday , I don't know if you remember but he joined the fern a few years back and got laughed/hounded off when he tried to claim that because he earns fuck all as a photographer he's entitled to a state subsidised house because home ownership is a basic human right. Reading that thread was like watching a truck load of petrol slowly crash into a fireworks factory as he got more insistent that he was right.<br><br>
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<p>I saw you give Don a serve on pr yesterday , I don't know if you remember but he joined the fern a few years back and got laughed/hounded off when he tried to claim that because he earns fuck all as a photographer he's entitled to a state subsidised house because home ownership is a basic human right. Reading that thread was like watching a truck load of petrol slowly crash into a fireworks factory as he got more insistent that he was right.<br><br><strong>I swear social media is the worst thing to ever happen to the left, in another time a loser like him would be reduced to letters to the editor .</strong></p>
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<p>that are usually abridged versions or simply not printed.</p> -
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that are usually abridged versions or simply not printed.</blockquote>
<br><p>Or worse that part where they print a whole bunch of names and say your points are noted and have been covered by other correspondents . I think that's code for we have forwarded your letter to the mental health authorities.</p> -
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<p>I saw you give Don a serve on pr yesterday , I don't know if you remember but he joined the fern a few years back and got laughed/hounded off when he tried to claim that because he earns fuck all as a photographer he's entitled to a state subsidised house because home ownership is a basic human right. Reading that thread was like watching a truck load of petrol slowly crash into a fireworks factory as he got more insistent that he was right.<br><br>
I swear social media is the worst thing to ever happen to the left, in another time a loser like him would be reduced to letters to the editor .</p>
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<p>For ages I just thought that Don was Winger but apparently more than two people can flip flop on flags in precisely the same way (I actually assumed a bunch of posters, any anti vaccers, were just Winger's PR login multis). </p> -
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<p>For ages I just thought that Don was Winger but apparently more than two people can flip flop on flags in precisely the same way (I actually assumed a bunch of posters, any anti vaccers, were just Winger's PR login multis). </p>
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<p>He posts as muttonbird on the standard too, he's actually even more feral there. He seems like quite an awful little man .</p>
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<p>Grouch has a blog now too, I lost the link unfortunately but it was pretty funny reading him rant about how neo libs were slowly dragging NZ into a fascist state and the press are on Keys ....sorry brand Keys payroll.</p> -
<p>Just received my voting paper in London and uploaded a Lockwood tick to the website.</p>
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<p>4 work colleagues this week (2 Brits, 1 French, 1 Italian) have all come up to saying variations of "What do you think of New Zealand's new flag? I thing it's fantastic", not knowing that it isn't a done deal.</p>
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<p>I will be so gutted if it gets voted down :knuppel: </p> -
Will be the same for me here in der Schweiz. I don't think kiwis at home realise how appealing the Lockwood flag is to foreigners.<br><br>
19/20 voted for the other Lockwood in my work poll before referendum 1.
