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    Quote Originally Posted by johnboy View Post
    Thanks Rrumbler, the 'Heartland' folks we met were truly amazing and genuine people.
    Here in New Zealand we have a preconceived idea of America and Americans; gleaned from television shows and the movies...and it's not really very complimentary...you come across as loud, brash, and, very often, stupid.
    The reality is quite different.
    We found the average American to be a thoughtful, kind, and caring sort of bloke.
    It was actually humbling that total strangers would go out of their way to make us feel welcome and to help in any way they could...something we just didn't expect.
    You're an amazing bunch of people; and I'm very pleased to have met you.
    Thank-you.
    Johnboy,
    Thank you for the heartfelt comments about your trip. Having grown up in SW Missouri on the border with both Arkansas and Oklahoma it makes me feel proud that your experience with the real people of America was a good experience. Unfortunately I believe that we all too often form judgements from what we see in the biased news or worse, on prime time TV.

    Also, your observations on "high tide" in our "loos" made me laugh! The auto flush mechanisms can indeed be a surprise if you move the wrong way - they are triggered by an infra red proxmity switch, and the idea is that as you rise to depart the throne the flush happens automatically. Sorry you got surprised by Lowe's auto flushes
    Roger
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    My first real experience with Americans,was in the mid eighties,in the South Island,on holiday..We met up with a hard case retired/semi retired bunch from[if my memory serves me well]the Sun Valley Caravan Club,probably Arizona..they were cruising the country in hired RVs,and having a ball..Real neat people,wish we could have spent more time with them,,,and then a few days later,the other side of the American tourist...dont go there...
    Next time Was in 1991,when I spent three weeks in California,with a brief trip to Las Vegas,and back to LA..All real nice folks,and I hope we can scrape some cash together soon,so Lynda and I can do another trip..This time,it will be well OUT of L.A...Wanna see the real side of your great[big]country..
    Yeah,your dunnies scared me too,,I thought there must have been a blockage..Stood back from the pan and yelled out for my friend...Oyy,your dunnies blocked..
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    Quote Originally Posted by johnboy View Post
    Thanks Rrumbler, the 'Heartland' folks we met were truly amazing and genuine people.
    Here in New Zealand we have a preconceived idea of America and Americans; gleaned from television shows and the movies...and it's not really very complimentary...you come across as loud, brash, and, very often, stupid.
    The reality is quite different.
    We found the average American to be a thoughtful, kind, and caring sort of bloke.
    It was actually humbling that total strangers would go out of their way to make us feel welcome and to help in any way they could...something we just didn't expect.
    You're an amazing bunch of people; and I'm very pleased to have met you.
    Thank-you.
    Thanks for that observation John, I think we don't always appreciate how pervasive an image our misdirected (as a nation) adulation for celebrity causes. We suffer from widely broadcast images such as this:


    Given your recent discovery of the "real" American spirit you might enjoy an astute British citizens observations. You can access each streaming commentary by clicking the "permalink" at the bottom of each Monday through Friday segment:
    http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/
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    Wow!
    Astute indeed!
    And quite thought provoking.
    I didn't watch them all, but that Daniel Hannan sure dribbled a bib-full.
    The cliche "those who ignore history are doomed to re-live it" springs to mind.
    We see the centralisation of power happening here in God's Own Country too; with the power moving from the people to the faceless, nameless, cloned 'suits' of bureaucracy.

    A few years back I took the Dept. of Conservation, Forest and Bird Society, and the South Taranaki District Council to court; they were jointly proposing legislation that I felt usurped their powers/mandate.
    The most terrifying time of my life...here was I, a poor dumb peasant from the bush, facing a bevy of lawyers whose hourly rate was more than my monthly drawings.
    But I beat them!
    One up for the little guy!
    They knew the theory, but I was well versed in the practical aspects of the argument...I compared them to eunuchs in a harem...they knew how it was done, saw it done every day; but were totally incapable of doing it.
    So nil bastardo carborundum.
    Don't let them grind you down.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lamin8r View Post
    My first real experience with Americans,was in the mid eighties,in the South Island,on holiday..We met up with a hard case retired/semi retired bunch from[if my memory serves me well]the Sun Valley Caravan Club,probably Arizona..they were cruising the country in hired RVs,and having a ball..Real neat people,wish we could have spent more time with them,,,and then a few days later,the other side of the American tourist...dont go there...
    Next time Was in 1991,when I spent three weeks in California,with a brief trip to Las Vegas,and back to LA..All real nice folks,and I hope we can scrape some cash together soon,so Lynda and I can do another trip..This time,it will be well OUT of L.A...Wanna see the real side of your great[big]country..
    Yeah,your dunnies scared me too,,I thought there must have been a blockage..Stood back from the pan and yelled out for my friend...Oyy,your dunnies blocked..
    Robin, my advice (for what it's worth,) would be to fly direct to the East coast, hire a small two-berth camper, (less parking hassles than with a bigger one,) and meander your way back across to the West coast; avoiding the large cities where ever possible.
    I found the cities claustraphobic due to the sheer height of the buildings.
    (Mind you, I get that in NZ too...you get that when you've lived in the bush as long as I have...)
    And a GPS is a must-have.
    The place is HUGE!
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    Just remembered this thread and thought I should add to it now the bus is getting closer to Certification.
    I've got quite a few photos, but don't know how to:
    a) load them into my computer,
    and
    b) how to load them into this thread.

    Can some pooter buff give a dumb-ass peasant from the bush a detailed blow-by-blow step-by-step analysis of how to work this white-man's-magic?

    Thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by johnboy View Post
    Just remembered this thread and thought I should add to it now the bus is getting closer to Certification.
    I've got quite a few photos, but don't know how to:
    a) load them into my computer,
    and
    b) how to load them into this thread.

    Can some pooter buff give a dumb-ass peasant from the bush a detailed blow-by-blow step-by-step analysis of how to work this white-man's-magic?

    Thanks.

    .
    John,,easiest way is to open a photobucket account,,(its free),,then load the pix from there to here..That way,the pix are the correct size to start with..The rest is easy,if I can remember how to do it myself..
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    If we aren't supposed to have midnight snacks,,,WHY is there a light in the refrigerator???

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    For whatever reason, I missed this thread but have 'picked' it up since. I enjoyed your 'visit' with the 'Okies' - and they like many (most?) other small communities here in the US really are the way we are. And many American tourists - well that's another story because even though they might come across as brash and loud, really aren't always that way - many are out of the US for the first time and it's excitement and lack of knowledge of the local ways. When my wife and I travel internationally, usually Europe, we try to blend and so far have been complemented. And plotting murder of shrieking small children - during my working life, spent about as much time in an airplane going to places with strange names as behind my desk - and am lucky to not be in jail.

    Get those photos posted - as well as plot another trip to the US
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    I think Robin should drive out to "El Rancho Rosie" and do it for you.................what are friends for??!! And he'd make it into next month's news letter..............he'd be a star!

    I'd offer to have you send them to me and I'd post them for you, but if you don't know how to download from the camera.................
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    Johnboy,
    If they're still on your camera, the camera should have had an accessory cable that connects the camera port to a USB for connecting to the computer. Once you connect the cable turn the camera "On" and your computer will sense "New Equipment" and should then come up with an import screen. Once there select (browse) the location on your computer where you want the pictures to reside, select any other options (like deleting the pictures from the camera once loaded?), and hit "Import", "Go" or "Start" as applicable. That should get them all on your computer, in the folder you chose.
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    The photos were in the camera, but the card (is that what it's called?) got full.
    (There was a lot of other stuff in there too, events/runs/parties we'd been to.)
    So we went to Warehouse and printed them off so as to put them into albums.
    So I've got photos, but not on the camera.
    And I'm not pooter literate...I can type on the thing, but anything more complex than that has me bamboozled.
    Hey; I don't know if they go shiny-side up or shiny-side down in the scanner even!

    Bob; I think you've got a great idea...get the Barnes out here to show me the way.
    How 'bout it Robin?
    I'll even give you lunch...if you can stand the thought of Vegemite and limp lettuce sandwiches!

    I'm gonna be in Wellington for the next few days, but will give you a ring when we get back...if that's okay?

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    Quote Originally Posted by johnboy View Post
    The photos were in the camera, but the card (is that what it's called?) got full.
    (There was a lot of other stuff in there too, events/runs/parties we'd been to.)
    So we went to Warehouse and printed them off so as to put them into albums.
    So I've got photos, but not on the camera.
    And I'm not pooter literate...I can type on the thing, but anything more complex than that has me bamboozled.
    Hey; I don't know if they go shiny-side up or shiny-side down in the scanner even!

    Bob; I think you've got a great idea...get the Barnes out here to show me the way.
    How 'bout it Robin?
    I'll even give you lunch...if you can stand the thought of Vegemite and limp lettuce sandwiches!

    I'm gonna be in Wellington for the next few days, but will give you a ring when we get back...if that's okay?

    .
    No probs,Johnny..Keep ya limp lettuce,pal..Will have the vegemite though..Vogel's sandwich loaf,a toaster and some vegemite..Kool...I had heard,that your pooter skills were not quite up to mine..At least,I dont get sawdust and bark and pigfern in my keyboard when I log on any more..But Lynda still has to help me with some things,that keep changing..You just fire that ol pooter up,John,,get a good head of steam up,and call us..See what we can do..
    Micah 6:8

    If we aren't supposed to have midnight snacks,,,WHY is there a light in the refrigerator???

    Robin.

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    The first thing I learned when I went to Australia on a fishing trip with western outdoors news was when you go into a resturant and order be sure to tell them to hold the vegemite the put that stuff on every thing and it's absolutely gross. johnboy I some howe ended up with about 3 of the sim card readers you just plug it into a usb port plug the sim card in it and down load the pictures if you p/m me your address I'll send you one. as for posting to C.H.R. can't help you there I still haven't figured that out myself.....ted
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    Quote Originally Posted by ted dehaan View Post
    The first thing I learned when I went to Australia on a fishing trip with western outdoors news was when you go into a resturant and order be sure to tell them to hold the vegemite the put that stuff on every thing and it's absolutely gross. johnboy I some howe ended up with about 3 of the sim card readers you just plug it into a usb port plug the sim card in it and down load the pictures if you p/m me your address I'll send you one. as for posting to C.H.R. can't help you there I still haven't figured that out myself.....ted
    Mr. ted Sir, you're a very generous man.
    Vegemite (and Marmite, a similar product,) are both yeast extracts and peculiar to the Antipodes; we're used to them, grew up with them, and (by and large,) relish them.
    But I can understand, because of their very distinct flavour, someone who hasn't had them before would/could find them revolting...an 'acquired' taste you might say.
    It has been said of them that "too much spoils the flavour".
    And that's very true...the merest smidgen will suffice; particularly to an 'uneducated' palate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lamin8r View Post
    No probs,Johnny..Keep ya limp lettuce,pal..Will have the vegemite though..Vogel's sandwich loaf,a toaster and some vegemite..Kool...I had heard,that your pooter skills were not quite up to mine..At least,I dont get sawdust and bark and pigfern in my keyboard when I log on any more..But Lynda still has to help me with some things,that keep changing..You just fire that ol pooter up,John,,get a good head of steam up,and call us..See what we can do..
    I don't always get 'sawdust and bark and pigfern' in my keyboard when I log on...I have been known to sometimes clean up a wee bit...hey: I even have a bath at least once a year whether I need it or not...I mean, let's face it; only dirty people wash.
    So will give you a Bell later to arrange a time/date for you to be my 'Knight in Shining Armani' and come to my aid...(or is 'Pierre Cardigan' more your style?)



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    '49 Morris Minor. Datsun 1500cc, 5sp manual, Marina front axle, Nissan rear axle.
    '51 Ford school bus. Chev 400 ci Vortec 5 sp manual + Gearvendors 2sp, 2000 Chev lwb dually chassis and axles.
    '64 A.C. Cobra replica. Ford 429, C6 auto, Torana ifs, Jaguar irs.

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