A personal plea to Richard Orchard

Still haven't gotten those cicadas... but I'm NOT complaining!

Don't worry Erica, I would shield you from those pesky cicadas if push comes to shove.

What the devil are they anyway?
They ain't big buggers are they?

I think I've sprained an ankle.

Lame-o. But thank you for the offer, o Brave Flashman.

Cicadas are actually pretty big for a bug, but they don't bite humans or even eat other insects. Most of their 17-year lifespan is spent underground as they grow to maturity. When they emerge for the last month or so of their lives, their impact is pretty much limited to eating foliage, making a LOUD sound, mating, laying eggs, and dying.

So, no, they aren't much of a hassle at all. We've got some here and it's really just blown all out of proportion.

On the issue of baer, Fatty is completey, 100% right on how to deal with him and his fans. If you don't feed the fire, it eventually burns out. And that is all the time I'll waste on that subject.

Thank goodness for fatty!!!

:)

when I was a kid I used to collect cicada shells that I'd found on trees. It was fun and I had quite a few until my mum, pronouncing them "disgusting" made me chuck them out.

Tut, tut..typical Kiwi thing to do. Next thing you'll be complaining about the underarm incident and us stealing Russel Crowe, the Pavalova and discovering flight 3 weeks before the Wright Brothers.

we have cicadas EVERYWHERE. it smells like cheese cos of all of them dying everywhere.

and i don't care about baer- i just wish that people would stop replying to his posts.

Anybody ever thought about threatening him that we'll pull a "Lorena Bobbitt: the next tiem he has a post like this? And for those of you who don't remember or know, Lorena Bobbitt was the one who chopped off her hubby's dick while he was asleep because he cheated on her. Can you say OUCH!?

>>Tut, tut..typical Kiwi thing to do. Next thing you'll be complaining about the underarm incident and us stealing Russel Crowe, the Pavalova and discovering flight 3 weeks before the Wright Brothers.

Hmmm, well you DID steal the Pavlova, and history tells us that we did fly before the Wright Brothers. But you're perfectly welcome to Russell Crowe. ;-p

I wonder I wrote pavAlova..interesting.

Still..we invented it. We're better than you *sticks tongue out*

So there is no one to ban this person from the board?
Teri

>>Still..we invented it. We're better than you *sticks tongue out*

*sticks tongue back out* you only claimed it when you heard that we'd invented it. If you had wanted it that badly you should have made it yourselves in the first place!
And anyway, we're better than you cause OUR country isn't full of bloody loudmouth Ockers. And, of course, Hobbits roam free through ever street. ;-)
Face it, you're driven to desperation - trying to claim Keisha Castle-Hughes and (dear God) Renee Zellweger? What next? "The All Blacks are the official Australian team"?
*blows loud raspberry*

I agree with the "old timers" in here, of who I consider myself as well

People are easy to be ignored, if you dont like what they say, just skip it, that's the internet

If you think it is cool or helping your ego to say that some people must go, do so, you make then as annoying postings as some others, in my opinion

Freedom of speech is great, freedom of moderatorship is wonderful and that's what I like here, no moderators and just in very exceptional cases an exit
As said so many times before, best way to get off of people that are annoying is to ignore them totally

Let your prescense (or however you write that) here be not because of your replies to the ones who do not need it

(dont reply on this, hahaha)

I concede that your Prime Minister is more of a man than ours so that's at least one positive about New Zealand..

Can't think of any others. None the less I'd still like to travel to New Zealand :)