Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@siam It's hard to imagine, but my father's family had to eat flower bulbs during the "hunger winter" (1944) during the Second World War because there was nothing else to eat at the time. I guess you can eat anything if you're really hungry, but just the thought of it ...
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@taniwharugby cool. One off my kids is on an internship with Cam and released four kiwi out on the coast 10 days ago
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@machpants i took the kids out to a release out Parua Bay several years back (were raised on Limestone Island) were a couple hundred there
TR Jnr was only about 8 or so and they asked what used to eat Kiwi before dogs and stoats arrived in NZ and his hand shoots up an he shouts out The Maoris!
They were meaning before Maori arrived too.
When we lived out that way one of our cats caught a stoat!
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Even more awesome if true. I clearly didn't bother checking.
edit - I did bother. Not true, kinda:
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@antipodean Pretty cool anyway. Like the man said , in English there are several River Rivers and I do have a little internal chuckle when I see any River Avon. Same as seeing Salsa Sauce on a menu.
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@antipodean said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Even more awesome if true. I clearly didn't bother checking.
edit - I did bother. Not true, kinda:And you are correct. "Pen" is top or such like in Welsh.
Bryn is hill. @MiketheSnow is welcome to correct me.
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@snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@antipodean said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Even more awesome if true. I clearly didn't bother checking.
edit - I did bother. Not true, kinda:And you are correct. "Pen" is top or such like in Welsh.
Bryn is hill. @MiketheSnow is welcome to correct me.
Correct. 'Top' in topography terms.
'End' in geography/location, as in Bridgend which is Pen(end)-y bont (bridge).
Welsh is back to front.
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@mikethesnow said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Welsh is back to front.
Aren't many languages, well when translated to English anyway?
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@mikethesnow said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Welsh is back to front.
Aren't many languages, well when translated to English anyway?
Yes, in terms of nouns and adjectives. Car red not red car.
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@snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@mikethesnow said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Welsh is back to front.
Aren't many languages, well when translated to English anyway?
Yes, in terms of nouns and adjectives. Car red not red car.
Yeah English is back to front, car is more important than red.
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@machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@mikethesnow said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Welsh is back to front.
Aren't many languages, well when translated to English anyway?
Yes, in terms of nouns and adjectives. Car red not red car.
Yeah English is back to front, car is more important than red.
I think that rather depends on the model of car and shade of red.
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@catogrande said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@mikethesnow said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Welsh is back to front.
Aren't many languages, well when translated to English anyway?
Yes, in terms of nouns and adjectives. Car red not red car.
Yeah English is back to front, car is more important than red.
I think that rather depends on the model of car and shade of red.
Reliant Robin, Ferrari red?
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Rockstars when they were young
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Fuck me sideways with a pitchfork...
... It'd be more pleasant
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@machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Fuck me sideways with a pitchfork...
... It'd be more pleasant
Cool. Looks like a way to eliminate hipsters.
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@machpants looks like fun, for someone, but I'm not built for endurance so (or speed or, well anything) not me!
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@machpants looks like fun, for someone, but I'm not built for endurance so (or speed or, well anything) not me!
I've done marathons, very slowly, and relay for life without stopping (even slower!) but yeah, crazy shit - mine was all on decent roads and/or tracks!
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@machpants yea I did the Wild Kiwi which is 21km out Whangarei Heads, that was bad enough!
