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dunno if you're calling me a brit - could be trouble if so..
We even use CW and ACW as shorthand for clockwise and anticlockwise. Put it down as an Aussie thing.
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They run races both CW and ACW [CCW] ?? Doesn't this get the horses confused or dizzy?
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Some races here in Zild also go "the other way", but that's not much of a problem because most Kiwi horses are too busy winning every race on offer across the ditch. you did ask for the gloves to come off, right stales? ;^)Ooooo, go Maxie!
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'scuse me Board members, but there's a little sorting out needs doing around here. Before I do however, please don't be alarmed - as Hev pointed out Kiwi baiting and Aussie baiting is a national sport on either side of the Tasman and must not be taken seriously by outsiders.
Now, Max and CapK...........
Point 1. Just think of Aussies as the social workers of the south Pacific. It's our job to do whatever we can to help other, less fortunate, nations improve their self esteem. If this involves letting them make a few clothes for us, or encouraging their nags to gallop around our racetracks, then so be it. We'll even give them $10M to look after our boat people if that will help.
Point 2. Students of psychology would be aware that those with low self esteem spend much of their time pointing out the faults in everything else.
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Kiwi baiting and Aussie baiting is a national sport on either side of the Tasman and must not be taken seriously by outsiders.
A) Can we bet?
2) Will y'all be running around after each other sungates or widdershins?
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> South is Down...
And now to really confuse you.....
The North magnetic pole is not somewhere in the vicinity of the North geographic pole. It is, in fact, at the opposite end of the earth, somewhere near the South geographic pole. It's the SOUTH end of a compass needle (ie the blue bit) that happens to be pointing toward the Arctic. It does so because it is at the mercy of the North pole of the compass needle, dutifully pointing towards the North magnetic pole.
Stick around a few million years and things will reverse, the North magnetic pole and the North geographic pole will be virtually coincident.
Why? "They" are still working on the answer to that.
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A) Can we bet?
2) Will y'all be running around after each other sungates or widdershins?
and who, pray tell, will be going "the other way". I always thought y'all were proterberance liking fellas.
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Point 2. Students of psychology would be aware that those with low self esteem spend much of their time pointing out the faults in everything else.
stales
Sorry to hear about your little problem. Is Australia "everything else"? Objectively, I mean.
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