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@victor-meldrew I don't think it is in print anymore but might be available via one of the interweb's book stores.
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@catogrande said in Happiness Scale:
@victor-meldrew I don't think it is in print anymore but might be available via one of the interweb's book stores.
Just ordered. £5.99 on Amazon.
Mrs Meldrew: "Well that's the summer sorted for you then...."
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I've run this page through some sentiment analysis programs and the exec summary for happiness is:
get more action (don't marry a career woman or a psych major with unresolved issues), enjoy your rugby, and brew your own beer. -
@victor-meldrew said in Happiness Scale:
@catogrande said in Happiness Scale:
@victor-meldrew I don't think it is in print anymore but might be available via one of the interweb's book stores.
Just ordered. £5.99 on Amazon.
Mrs Meldrew: "Well that's the summer sorted for you then...."
Brilliant! By the time you source the equipment and ingredients your first batch should be ready by the time lockdown has eased and travel is acceptable. As a related point I enjoy Wadworths 6X and Fullers London Pride.
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@victor-meldrew Oh and a quick tip, if you intend to use a Baby Burco for boiling everything up in, get one without an exposed element.
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@majorrage said in Happiness Scale:
Beautiful spring evening, beers with Neighbour’s around a fire pit.
Most content I’ve felt in ages.
Fire. Meat. Beer. Happy
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@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
any of the ex-pats missing NZ? last couple of weeks i really have been, for i think the first time ever? I think i heard a Muttonbirds song which sort of kicked it off. Now everything. I need to stay off Stuff (for a number of reasons) but just the shots of the country make me a bit melancholy. Simple shit like generic looking NZ houses and streets, let alone landscapes.
Miss my friends (one of my best mates has a baby girl who is already 1 and i have never met). Even miss my family for god's sake.
I am guessing it's the combination of 2.5 years since i was there, and the knowledge i can't just go there if and went i want to
Funny. Mrs Boo brought this up the other day.
But frankly I'm happy here. Weather really could not be better for one, and neither of us have really close ties back home. Our house is awfully nice and we couldn't afford any sort of equivalent in NZ.
But there's always aspects of NZ I miss. The proximity of everything, the NZ bush, clear water, pohutukawas, change of seasons (it's fairly constant here) with daffodils and spring flowers .., lack of venomous and toothed creatures ...
But nah. We'll visit some time.
Anyways, Ms Boo Jr is now about to be inflicted upon the unsuspecting motor vehicle operators of Queensland, having passed her Ps. 12+ months of angst from parents (particularly Mum) teaching her all our bad habits paid off. So she happy. Just another step in sending the offspring off into the wide growed up world.
Coincidentally also starting a new, first ever job. About to contribute to the obesity epidemic by selling KFC. The personal Boo family epidemic is hoping for staff discount.
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@mn5 said in Happiness Scale:
@majorrage said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life it's the shift change. It was always full of shit. But now it's we are better and full of shit.
@MN5 the stuff columnists really are the worst people on earth. I'm not sure any of them have actually left NZ and have a clue how anything really works.
@Paekakboyz it'll always be home for me though mate, so do like to keep an eye on it.
Agree100%. It takes a special kind of parasite to write absolute shit and get paid fuck all for it.
Then again some of us write absolute shit on here and don’t get paid at all so who are we to judge ?
"Some"?
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@nta said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
any of the ex-pats missing NZ?
I'm not an ex-pat and I'M fucking missing it. June Long Weekend 2020 with Redbeard just for the sake of getting over there and watching some local park rugby? Nup, fucked.
We had plans to do NZ and Fiji in the same year but that is all shit. It is as the point where I got a pop-up for the Limestone Coast in South Australia and it looks like fucking paradise.
Queensland's not bad. Try the whale watching.
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@nostrildamus said in Happiness Scale:
I've run this page through some sentiment analysis programs and the exec summary for happiness is:
get more action (don't marry a career woman or a psych major with unresolved issues), enjoy your rugby, and brew your own beer.Self help book to make a fortune out of
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@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
any of the ex-pats missing NZ? last couple of weeks i really have been, for i think the first time ever? I think i heard a Muttonbirds song which sort of kicked it off. Now everything. I need to stay off Stuff (for a number of reasons) but just the shots of the country make me a bit melancholy. Simple shit like generic looking NZ houses and streets, let alone landscapes.
Miss my friends (one of my best mates has a baby girl who is already 1 and i have never met). Even miss my family for god's sake.
I am guessing it's the combination of 2.5 years since i was there, and the knowledge i can't just go there if and went i want to
Apart from family and the desire to ride around in glorious scenery, not really. Auckland has changed too much (overcrowded) since I last resided there and almost all family have sold up and moved.
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@antipodean said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
any of the ex-pats missing NZ? last couple of weeks i really have been, for i think the first time ever? I think i heard a Muttonbirds song which sort of kicked it off. Now everything. I need to stay off Stuff (for a number of reasons) but just the shots of the country make me a bit melancholy. Simple shit like generic looking NZ houses and streets, let alone landscapes.
Miss my friends (one of my best mates has a baby girl who is already 1 and i have never met). Even miss my family for god's sake.
I am guessing it's the combination of 2.5 years since i was there, and the knowledge i can't just go there if and went i want to
Apart from family and the desire to ride around in glorious scenery, not really.
That's what I miss too. Aussie just doesn't cut it.
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Not thinking about living there again (it's not an option anyway) just a decent visit and tour around
Sick of the tropical summer might have something to do with it
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@crazy-horse said in Happiness Scale:
@antipodean said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
any of the ex-pats missing NZ? last couple of weeks i really have been, for i think the first time ever? I think i heard a Muttonbirds song which sort of kicked it off. Now everything. I need to stay off Stuff (for a number of reasons) but just the shots of the country make me a bit melancholy. Simple shit like generic looking NZ houses and streets, let alone landscapes.
Miss my friends (one of my best mates has a baby girl who is already 1 and i have never met). Even miss my family for god's sake.
I am guessing it's the combination of 2.5 years since i was there, and the knowledge i can't just go there if and went i want to
Apart from family and the desire to ride around in glorious scenery, not really.
That's what I miss too. Aussie just doesn't cut it.
Depends what you're after. We're never going to do snowcapped peaks better than NZ, that's for sure.
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@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
Not thinking about living there again (it's not an option anyway) just a decent visit and tour around
Sick of the tropical summer might have something to do with it
Summers are draining. Get harder every year and I am just in Brisbane. I'd hate living further north.
I miss seeing trees with no leaves in the winter.
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@crazy-horse said in Happiness Scale:
I am just in Brisbane.
@crazy-horse said in Happiness Scale:
Aussie just doesn't cut it.
I'm seeing the problem...
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@nta said in Happiness Scale:
@crazy-horse said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
Not thinking about living there again (it's not an option anyway) just a decent visit and tour around
Sick of the tropical summer might have something to do with it
Summers are draining. Get harder every year and I am just in Brisbane. I'd hate living further north.
I miss seeing trees with no leaves in the winter.
@crazy-horse said in Happiness Scale:
Aussie just doesn't cut it.
I'm seeing the problem...
Queensland? Too late for me to move now. I am happy being miserable here.
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@booboo said in Happiness Scale:
@nta said in Happiness Scale:
@mariner4life said in Happiness Scale:
any of the ex-pats missing NZ?
I'm not an ex-pat and I'M fucking missing it. June Long Weekend 2020 with Redbeard just for the sake of getting over there and watching some local park rugby? Nup, fucked.
We had plans to do NZ and Fiji in the same year but that is all shit. It is as the point where I got a pop-up for the Limestone Coast in South Australia and it looks like fucking paradise.
Queensland's not bad. Try the whale watching.
Forster NSW has whale watching.
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