Finally got to see the Haka myself...

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Finally got to see the Haka myself...

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http://www.flurl.com/uploaded/All_Black ... 59892.html

Barry, is that all Maori shit, or did they thrown in a few European rude gestures for good measure?
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Here we see prehistoric man making odd noises and gestures perhaps in a sort of male dominance ritual to attract the females.

I honestly couldn't make out a word, the gestures were self explanatory though.
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And while we're at it, what prey tell is 'Happy Waitangi Day'?

I got a mail from me mate in NZ with that at the end.


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And...Do hobbits live in New Zealand?
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Waitangi Day commemorates the signing of a treaty at Waitangi on 6 February 1840 by a group of Maori chiefs and the British Government, represented by Lieutenant-Governor Hobson. The treaty was subsequently signed by other Maori chiefs in various locations throughout the country. The question of what obligations the Treaty of Waitangi placed on each side has been a subject of contention ever since.
On the public holiday of 6th February each year, New Zealanders of all ethnic backgrounds and creeds gather to commemorate the first signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
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You're confusing NZ with Australia when it comes to snakes and poisoness spiders. There are zero snakes in NZ and only 1 native poisoness spider...
of course with all those containers coming in there may be some starting to establish themselves eventually......
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I forgot to answer John's original question. This is the "new" version of the Haka that this team recently started using. The old version had a few less of the gestures, and most certainly didn't have the "slice the throat" move at the end of the Haka.

Personally I preferred the old version. If I can find a copy of it I'll let you know.
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BeeJay wrote: There are zero snakes in NZ and only 1 native poisoness spider...
Yeah, but it's a big one.
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BeeJay wrote:You're confusing NZ with Australia when it comes to snakes and poisoness spiders. There are zero snakes in NZ and only 1 native poisoness spider...
of course with all those containers coming in there may be some starting to establish themselves eventually......
I have a friend here that comes from there and claims there is a large amount of spiders there. I don't recall specifically about snakes, that's one less thing to worry about...too bad it's the spiders I hate most. The site below shows 12 different and very nast looking spiders from NZ(just on the first page!):

http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/TePapa/Englis ... _Web/What/

Spiders don't have to be venimous to give a really nasty bite. I don't think I could handle facing down one of those big monster spiders in Australia...I hear it can bit through your ankle, through boots! No way I'm getting near one of those.
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Sea snakes can wash ashore, but those are quite a rarity.

Most spiders I see are harmless. Katapo spiders (the only native venomous spider) are mostly found down south anyway, I think. I've certainly never seen one here.

...then there's those spiders that were in the movie Arachnophobia... those come from New Zealand too... :)
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Apparently there are Katipo spiders all through the sand-dunes I used to play in when I was a kid but I never saw one and have only ever heard of one spider bite that only made the person sick. Certainly never heard of anyone dying from a spider bite.

I guess I do see more spiders here than we did while living in the UK, but they pretty much tend to keep out of your way. When we do have one come inside, I normally let it walk over my hands as I play a game of "Get the blighter outta here quick" for either my wife or the kids.... unless it's a white-tail in which case it gets the fly-swat since they attack and eat my favourite spider, the daddy-long-legs.

I definitely wouldn't let a fear of spiders put you off visiting NZ... :)
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BeeJay wrote:I definitely wouldn't let a fear of spiders put you off visiting NZ... :)
Just the fear of broadband internet prices... :)
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Nah, it's still on my 'see before I die' list, but there's nothing I hate more than walking into a spider web. I left my window down last summer to vent some heat, came out the next morning and hopped in w/o looking. I was a couple blocks away when I leaned back. There was a web from the ceiling to the back of my headrest...and a big, nasty wolf spider the size of my thumb...on my head! I won, but now I look every time.
I've only encountered one thing worse than that, working on a soffitt...a wasp nest bigger than me! Exterminator estimated 10,000+ hive, so in reality, NZ is probably safer.
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