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22 Dec 14, 09:46AM
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ITT, we share what we love about this time of year, in photo format only.
Rules:
- One image per post.
- Please don't post an essay as a description.
- The image should load in the thread, rather than to be opened as a link.
- Please post an original photo, rather than a googled one.
- Please don't quote existing images in any posts.
- Be sensible, not a prick.
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22 Dec 14, 09:47AM
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The Pohutukawa Tree
(A.K.A: Metrosideros excelsa, or The New Zealand Christmas Tree)
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(23 Dec 14, 09:16AM)Flint Wrote: Is that up north RK?
It's outside my workplace in Auckland. I suspect they planted heaps of them around work so that it makes it harder for the council to widen the roads (a.k.a. steal their land), due to the tree being protected.
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Oh Jesus, RK. What's wrong with you? We got it, NZ is a beautiful place to live in. Is really that necessary to overflood us with so much Pohutukawa/Maori stuff?
Anyway, nice tree.
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Overflood? He posts less stuff about NZ than you spam random shit to annoy people
He can posts these pics all day erry day, i like them.
Lovely tree
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(23 Dec 14, 02:15PM)Andrez Wrote: Oh Jesus, RK. What's wrong with you? We got it, NZ is a beautiful place to live in. Is really that necessary to overflood us with so much Pohutukawa/Maori stuff?
The French Peugeot.
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Serious Request
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_Request
Serious Request is a family of annual multi-day, multimedia fundraising events for International Red Cross initiatives, typically hosted by radio stations in the week before Christmas.
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From a chair in my livingroom. Snow (not as much as it usually is though), slush on the roads, two farms and a fjord. Something you guys probably don't see every day.
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Holidays of all gamers?
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so you own a Jack Russell? :)
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Who's reading mathematical ideas? Are you studying maths at university?
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Marti: Wow.
Yopa: Beautiful.
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23 Dec 14, 07:40PM
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Yopa let's switch our places. please
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Actually I am selling that book
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Nice swing set, yopa. You must be desperate to get back out on that bad boy.
Here's what my boys got up to with a crime scene investigation kit from their grandmother; examining blood spatter patterns. It's what christmas is all about...
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(23 Dec 14, 07:38PM)RandumKiwi Wrote: Yopa: Beautiful. Ikr, but pretty cold. Was -13 degrees today
(24 Dec 14, 01:33PM)jamz Wrote: Nice swing set, yopa. You must be desperate to get back out on that bad boy. Mostly used as a target for football, but I would probably have to wait until april/may before I can use it again.
(23 Dec 14, 07:40PM)ExodusS Wrote: Yopa let's switch our places. please Meh, even with this shitty internet connection, I like it here
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24 Dec 14, 09:06PM
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** All off-topic posts have been deleted, please stay on topic **
@Jamz: Are you serious, or joking? It looks like someone went crazy with a butterknife.
@yopa: hmm, I think I'm good not to switch places. Today it's a balmy 20 degress centigrade (and it's only 9am, so it's gonna get warmer yet).
Background of my climate: This one time, it got so cold in my city that my car had ice on its windshield in the morning (i.e. this hardly ever happens). Also, although it has snowed a few times as freak one-offs in the last 20 years (such a little amount it melts quickly), my city has never really had snow.
I'm in almost sub-tropical Auckland ;)
@Andrez: Don't be a grinch, share us a photo of what you love about this time of year, keen to see what your local italy looks like.
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@RandumKiwi, I will post my christmas tradition soon
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We all know NZ is like Little Australia come now... Nice tree though. Lovely colors.
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25 Dec 14, 08:10AM
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(25 Dec 14, 07:18AM)MorganKell Wrote: We all know NZ is like Little Australia come now... Nice tree though. Lovely colors.
Wrong. Australia is like little America.
New Zealand is like little Britain.
Back on topic pls :P
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Late to the party...
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is that your cocaine field, bullpup?
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Looks like a pretty cool place...
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*Nice - guys! I luv snow! But it's summer here.
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Do they get snow in Brazil?
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(12 Jan 15, 06:22PM)Nightmare Wrote: Do they get snow in Brazil?
Yes, they call it 'ice cream'
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(12 Jan 15, 06:22PM)Nightmare Wrote: Do they get snow in Brazil?
Yes, we have. But very little. Snow drops one or two days in the year. And only about 5 centimeters. But we are here in the summer now...
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(22 Dec 14, 09:47AM)RandumKiwi Wrote: The Pohutukawa Tree
(A.K.A: Metrosideros excelsa, or The New Zealand Christmas Tree)
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Seeing such a summery looking plant has me thinking, what is it like to have Christmas in the summer and see snow on the Christmas cards and in the Christmas films?
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