New Zealand is NOT for sale!

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New Zealand is NOT for sale!

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http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411365/712869
Australian tries to sell NZ on ebay
May 11, 2006

An Australian man tried to auction New Zealand off over the internet, starting at just one Australian cent.

Six thousand hits and 22 bids later, New Zealand was still a real estate bargain at $3,000.

But it is a joke Foreign Minister Winston Peters could not take.

"I don't think it's fun. I think that kind of nonsensical stupidity, I'll leave to the tabloid media," he says.

The posting said the country's highlights include "the dodgiest America's Cup win ever...and very ordinary weather."

The man trying to sell New Zealand, an Australian living in Brisbane, would not appear on camera but says he has been to Auckland once and did not think much of it.

But before the country could be sold off, Daniel Feiler of ebay Australia says the auction was pulled.

"We have over 1,000 trust and safety people looking at the site and key areas, and clearly New Zealand isn't for sale."
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Post by Moonwynd »

Ooh...I think I smell Canada on the auction block! I hope someone bids...I need the money...
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Who the fuck would buy new zealand? Kiwis are a bunch of damn savages.
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Moonwynd wrote:Ooh...I think I smell Canada on the auction block! I hope someone bids...I need the money...
better hurry. the way your dollar is going, you won't be able to afford it.
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kyoukan wrote:
Moonwynd wrote:Ooh...I think I smell Canada on the auction block! I hope someone bids...I need the money...
better hurry. the way your dollar is going, you won't be able to afford it.
Don't worry, if the check bounces, we'll just liberate you instead.
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nice comeback, because your other military operations are going so swimmingly.
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masteen wrote:
kyoukan wrote:
Moonwynd wrote:Ooh...I think I smell Canada on the auction block! I hope someone bids...I need the money...
better hurry. the way your dollar is going, you won't be able to afford it.
Don't worry, if the check bounces, we'll just liberate you instead.
Easily done simply by rallying around Canada's inability to control their French population. That's more of a reason right there to liberate than we had to invade Iraq.
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great. I had a nice little flame war brewing and you have to come and gimp it up with your boring. I'd be mildly amazed if a fucking shut-in like you could find canada on a map, much less know fuck all about it.
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I ruined your simple flame war? Awwww : ( Fucking baby!

Had it all scripted out already did you?
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masteen wrote:Who the fuck would buy new zealand? Kiwis are a bunch of damn savages.
Peter Jackson?
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Post by Demags »

How much for just the Tasmin Glacier? Thats the part I want.


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Winnow wrote:I ruined your simple flame war? Awwww : ( Fucking baby!

Had it all scripted out already did you?
seriously, could you turn the fucking gay down like 2 notches for, i dunno, maybe 5 days or so? You're starting to piss me the fuck off.
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Shotgun Minas Tirith, bitches!
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Truant wrote:
Winnow wrote:I ruined your simple flame war? Awwww : ( Fucking baby!

Had it all scripted out already did you?
seriously, could you turn the fucking gay down like 2 notches for, i dunno, maybe 5 days or so? You're starting to piss me the fuck off.
Don't go changing, to try and please me
You never let me down before
Don't imagine you're too familiar
And I don't see you anymore
I wouldn't leave you in times of trouble
We never could have come this far
I took the good times; I'll take the bad times
I'll take you just the way you are
Don't go trying some new fashion
Don't change the color of your hair
You always have my unspoken passion
Although I might not seem to care
I don't want clover conversation
I never want to work that hard
I just want someone that I can talk to
I want you just the way you are.
I need to know that you will always be
The same old someone that I knew
What will it take till you believe in me
The way that I believe in you.
I said I love you and that's forever
And this I promise from the heart
I could not love you any better
I love you just the way you are
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Billy Joel, ending flame wars since 2006.
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Truant wrote:seriously, could you turn the fucking gay down like 2 notches for, i dunno, maybe 5 days or so? You're starting to piss me the fuck off.
What a whiney bitch.
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Aslanna wrote:
Truant wrote:seriously, could you turn the fucking gay down like 2 notches for, i dunno, maybe 5 days or so? You're starting to piss me the fuck off.
What a whiney bitch.
oh the fucking irony of you saying that.

i think someone might have slipped me something because this can't actually be real.
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