I am from New Zealand.
The land of the long white rain cloud, where we have to play computer games so as to keep our reflexes sharp in case of Orc raiding parties or Large fire breathing dragons that occasionally come to burn down our lake towns. yes the Hobbit is actually a documentary of daily New Zealand life (minus the computer games).

I've always suspected that.

Welcome KiwiSteve!

<insert traditional Australian/New Zealander rivalry-induced sheep joke here>

KiwiSteve wrote:I am from New Zealand.
The land of the long white rain cloud, where we have to play computer games so as to keep our reflexes sharp in case of Orc raiding parties or Large fire breathing dragons that occasionally come to burn down our lake towns. yes the Hobbit is actually a documentary of daily New Zealand life (minus the computer games).

Welcome!

To be honest, I've always wanted to visit New Zealand.

DWMagus wrote:

KiwiSteve wrote:I am from New Zealand.
The land of the long white rain cloud, where we have to play computer games so as to keep our reflexes sharp in case of Orc raiding parties or Large fire breathing dragons that occasionally come to burn down our lake towns. yes the Hobbit is actually a documentary of daily New Zealand life (minus the computer games).

Welcome!

To be honest, I've always wanted to visit New Zealand.

I've been! So much of the landscape is beautiful there.

I recommend the trip if you can manage it.

Just_Ice_au wrote:

DWMagus wrote:

KiwiSteve wrote:I am from New Zealand.
The land of the long white rain cloud, where we have to play computer games so as to keep our reflexes sharp in case of Orc raiding parties or Large fire breathing dragons that occasionally come to burn down our lake towns. yes the Hobbit is actually a documentary of daily New Zealand life (minus the computer games).

Welcome!

To be honest, I've always wanted to visit New Zealand.

I've been! So much of the landscape is beautiful there.

I recommend the trip if you can manage it.

I'd also love to visit Australia, but I'm too afraid most things there would be trying to kill me.

Seriously, has anyone else noticed this? Just Ice must be built like a mountain to still be there.

DWMagus wrote:
Seriously, has anyone else noticed this? Just Ice must be built like a mountain to still be there.

It's a lot less scary than you'd think

DWMagus wrote:

Just_Ice_au wrote:

DWMagus wrote:Welcome!

To be honest, I've always wanted to visit New Zealand.

I've been! So much of the landscape is beautiful there.

I recommend the trip if you can manage it.

I'd also love to visit Australia, but I'm too afraid most things there would be trying to kill me.

Seriously, has anyone else noticed this? Just Ice must be built like a mountain to still be there.

This is clearly Just_ice.

Scytale wrote:

DWMagus wrote:
Seriously, has anyone else noticed this? Just Ice must be built like a mountain to still be there.

It's a lot less scary than you'd think

Yeah, it's not too bad. Its mostly common-sense type stuff that every aussie kid grows up learning; Like, don't leave your shoes outside at night, or if you do, check them for spiders in the morning; don't mess around in the tool shed or the garden without keeping an eye out for spiders and wearing gloves; or don't wander around in the tall grass near bushland, because snakes; or make sure to swim at patrolled beaches in between the flags.

Just doing little things like that helps mitigate the dangers a lot, and most of us have been doing those things our whole lives without giving it much thought. Too routine to be scary.

EDIT: @Idunno haha, I wish!

So you're saying aussies have more common sense because... Darwinism? =P

Gazz wrote:So you're saying aussies have more common sense because... Darwinism? =P

Shared experience. People aren't naturally selected by leaving shoes outside, they just learn that a huntsman (or worse, admittedly!) running up your leg is no fun~

Idunno wrote:

This is now my mental image of Just Ice.

Apparently when they said he was a mountain of knowledge, they literally meant the mountain part.

DWMagus wrote: Apparently when they said he was a mountain of knowledge, they literally meant the mountain part.

Well, they could have meant that he's kind of slow...

Just_Ice_au wrote:don't leave your shoes outside at night, or if you do, check them for spiders in the morning; don't mess around in the tool shed or the garden without keeping an eye out for spiders and wearing gloves; or don't wander around in the tall grass near bushland, because snakes; or make sure to swim at patrolled beaches in between the flags.

Other than the lethality of the spiders and snakes, this sounds a fair bit like Louisiana.

how on earth are we supposed to let japan china and south korea know about this game?