But I do recall being annoyed when Winston Peters

Once, in a moment of quiet desperation I watched TV and was rewarded with some show where Winston, entertaining at home, was cooking his signature dish...

Thom Kha Gai

I guess Thai immigrants are ok by him?

And god knows what…

my gripe with air nz is that it has no consistent or reasonable level of service. i worked in service in big and small places for nearly twenty years, and what marks a decent business is the simple…

The Koru Club is much, much nicer than equivalent Star Alliance facilities anywhere else I've been (haven't checked Singapore out yet). United Airlines have a cash bar (with an…

so make that maua, taua, matou, and tatou.

Perhaps in some future hypermultiethnic society there will be seven different ways of saying "we"

how about; maua, taua, korua, raua? that's four off the top of my head.

but I think rather a lot of people here don't buy 'international' food to prove how global and hip 'we' are. We buy it because that's our food. You big cracker.

I buy it because I love the curry.

But I do recall being annoyed when Winston Peters used to…

but, like weta's sports comment indicates, there's the perception that the drunken yobs at the tennis are the 'normal' ethnics. of course, they're not.

finally, the restaurant round is a way to…

Now before I go getting any hackles up, how many of you reading this speak a language other than English? How many of you have lived in a non-English-speaking country for more than a trip to 'see the sights'.

Ah me.

That "same old monoculture" is a bit of a mirage. It's the previous national myth.

You've got a bit of a monocultural cringe going on there Mr Tibby. If I understood you right, NZ's multiculturalism, whatever that is, is a veneer over…

It went up early on the morning of Australia Day. It helped a little with the apprehension I was feeling at the thought of the day to come. But instead the day was much as I expected.…

Your gustatory powers, Che, are positively mythic.

someone has to jolly the aussie economy along. i mean, what the hell else are they going to do, sell worthless contracts to aboriginal land-holding trusts and take all their minerals royalties?!

i mean, please...

handsome...thoroughly charming

...and well on your way to becoming a huge fat bastard.

Geez, was there anything left over there by the time you flew out??

Your gustatory powers, Che, are positively mythic.

It's funny because it's true.

and you good sir, can stay on the christmas card list.

furthermore, i can neither affirm nor deny my membership of any political party. especially not the crazy ones.

I'm a highly educated, handsome and thoroughly charming individual

It's funny because it's true.

It sounds like you might be interested in taking some form of collective action – I understand that there is an association out there that you may be interested in... although they may not be quite so enthusiastic about your views on multiculturalism...