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“An Australian couple has upset Kiwis with an online expat guide which warns that Auckland is a “horrible soulless city” and its inhabitants are “hobbits” who cannot dress properly,” cries the NZ Herald in a story about a couple of Aussie bloggers having a go at us. And then an update today here, with hurt feelings from a Rotorua tourist operator and a DB rep who is defensive about the criticism of NZ beer.

Please! It’s a wind-up!

The so-called anonymous Tasmanians bloggers are actually (NB We have removed the name and location of the site’s maker at his request. But he did tell us this…

“The blog was set up as a bit of a lark to give a few mates back in Aus a chuckle. Before Tuesday it had had about 10 hits. Then an AAP journalist decided to sensationalise the whole thing, and, well, you can see what’s happened. To answer your question, yes it’s a complete tongue-in-cheek wind-up, mostly written along with a couple of drinks after work. I thought it was pretty clearly satirical, but obviously I was wrong.”

Phone prank: Comedian does a terrible Billy Connolly impersonation and still gets brown-nosed to within an inch of his life!

Who would’ve thought… an honest scammer.

Media: Time magazine must be regretting opening up their Time 100 (the world’s most influential people) to the internet vote. Someone named “Moot” is leading their poll.

Radical: Infamous for trying to use George Clooney’s sweat to flavour tofu (among many other things), Ingrid Newkirk, the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has written a unique will. And by unique, I mean crazy.

“That the “meat” of my body, or a portion thereof, be used for a human barbecue, to remind the world that the meat of a corpse is all flesh, regardless of whether it comes from a human being or another animal, and that flesh foods are not needed.”

War is bad, ok: Israeli soldiers wearing T-shirts of pregnant women with the slogan “1 Shot 2 Kills”. Read about it here.

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