Is the Haka the most embarrassing thing about New Zealand?

by **saxitoxin** on Sat Feb 15, 2025 7:25 pm

Each time I see a video of a bunch of overweight, middle aged men and 110-pound teenagers doing the Haka I have to immediately flip to something else it makes me so sad. I just feel so embarrassed for these people.

Like, who told them this was a good idea? And did they not realize that whomever did it was joking?

by **saxitoxin** on Sat Feb 15, 2025 7:28 pm

I mean look at these poor people. One of them is actually wearing a maternity shirt. This is why I'll never travel to New Zealand. If I saw one of these IRL it would be all I could do to avoid just bursting out laughing.

by **Pack Rat** on Sat Feb 15, 2025 10:58 pm

saxitoxin wrote:I mean look at these poor people. One of them is actually wearing a maternity shirt. This is why I'll never travel to New Zealand. If I saw one of these IRL it would be all I could do to avoid just bursting out laughing.

Saxi, those guys would have you as a snack. I would pay you to laugh at them, just so I can see you sh!t in your panties.

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by **saxitoxin** on Sat Feb 15, 2025 11:27 pm

Pack Rat wrote:Saxi, those guys would have you as a snack.

I mean, you may not be wrong. The pregnant one looks like it's hangry for its third lunch.

by **2dimes** on Sat Feb 15, 2025 11:48 pm

It could be.

I know you have some issue with the kiwis, however... Nobody did the Haka that we saw in the five days we were there.

They speak a variant of English, most people were polite. The weather was nice, there was at least one pretty impressive museum, MOTAT or something, the big city has a fun tower and at the time they served a really excellent steak.

I was definately amused by the sign, just outside the commuter train station in down town Auckland, politely asking you not to get extremely drunk and rowdy in the area.

If it wasn't so far and a fairly expensive trip I would probably go somewhat often.

by **KoolBak** on Sun Feb 16, 2025 8:51 am

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by **riskllama** on Tue Feb 18, 2025 9:16 pm

Pack Rat wrote:
saxitoxin wrote:I mean look at these poor people. One of them is actually wearing a maternity shirt. This is why I'll never travel to New Zealand. If I saw one of these IRL it would be all I could do to avoid just bursting out laughing.

Saxi, those guys would have you as a snack. I would pay you to laugh at them, just so I can see you sh!t in your panties.

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lol, yeah - if saxi is actually dumb enough to laugh, he'd absolutely be turned into a pile of goo & rightly so, imo(but I don't think he actually is that dumb, perhaps just a tad racist? but who isn't, these days...)