Comments on: Tall Poppy Syndrome

By: jimmy

jimmy — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:11:52 +0000

Come on guys. Don’t you recognise irony when you see it? Check out the Rich List some time all you defenders of Tall Poppy beneficiaries of unbridled neo-con capitalism (ie. Corporatism/fascism) and you’ll see that very few of the recent fortunes have been socially productive and contributed to the wealth of NZ. Most of our richest executives (of formally public owned companies and the paymasters of our politicians) have acquired their wealth with outsized pay packets and stock options from the sucker shareholders and by convincing their employees to work for less than $14/hr (before tax), all aided and abetted by a series of Labour and National governments and a bunch of white haired free market idealogues in The Treasury

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:18:59 +0000

Yeah, definitely wrong box, mate. You and I seem to be talking about completely different things (after all I’m saying it’s the same EVERYWHERE, not just NZ).

Still, no harm done.

By: Utah

Utah — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:07:34 +0000

Ignore or delete this, wrong box sorry?

By: Utah

Utah — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:06:39 +0000

I agree! I was born in New Zealand and sadly have grown up in New Zealand and by default I am a New Zealander. I love New Zealand’s landscape, scenic beauty etc but I hate the people. I’ve never had a good boss or a fair salary and all of my extended family members suck and are selfish and difficult to get along with. They are not supportive and only do what benefits themselves. Most New Zealanders are drug addicts and boozers and they are always congratulating themselves. You can’t talk to them about anything intelligent because they all seem to possess an IQ of around 70-90? I’ve resigned to accepting that the best thing to do is keep to yourself?

By: Utah

Utah — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:05:12 +0000

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By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:55:55 +0000

Thank-you Em for posting your reply, you have managed to give fantastic examples of a number of things mentioned in my original post.

You are obviously resentful of people with money, admit openly that there are far better countries than New Zealand and even manage to mention the scenery.

You even have the attitude of the typical tall poppy cutter, trying to insult as way to try to make yourself, and your country, look better. But, in this case you fail miserably, all you end up doing is demonstrating the typical “head up your own ass” attitude that is so prevalent in your country.

Thank-you for your encouragement though, I see no reason to change my opinions of New Zealand, New Zealanders or alter my goals to leave, I will as you say take my “hard earned money” and go and contribute it to some other country’s economy.

As I said before thank-you for supporting my original post, you have managed in a few lines to actively demonstrate many of the traits I had already mentioned.

By: Em

Em — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:31:06 +0000

Phoenix, you sound like an idiot.

Why don’t you take your hard earned money and f**k off to some other, far better country and stop bad mouthing your own!

Far too ignorant to see the NZ is beautiful, and obviously a ‘glass half empty’, cynical reject.

Dick!

By: Selwyn Nogood

Selwyn Nogood — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:43:52 +0000

It made my day reading this comment. Thanks Mike.