On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:43:28 +0100, Lister 
wrote:
>On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:44:07 GMT, Jaimie Vandenbergh
> wrote:
>>On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 07:02:00 +1200, jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie
>>Kahn Genet) wrote:
>>>Jaimie Vandenbergh  wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:35:29 +0100, Lister 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> >I've only ever been to Australia in the southern hemisphere.  Went on
>>>> >the Neighbours tour (typical tourist!).  I'd like to go to NZ some
>>>> >time though
>>>> 
>>>> It's excellent, I spent a couple of months there two years back (half
>>>> holiday, half work) and had an utterly fantastic time.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm told that if you live there in your 20s-30s, it's all a bit
>>>> sewing-circle social pressure to have a house in the Right Street,
>>>> with a Big TV and the Right Car for your Position, and Why Haven't You
>>>> Had Children Yet? Sort of like the 50s. But wonderful to visit.
>>>
>>>Nah, not like that anymore :-D Or at least it hasn't been for me,
>>>anyway. But I'm a complete geek - and happily so! So my lifestyle
>>>doesn't conform to the 'norm'.
>>
>>Might have just been the folks my mates were hanging about with. Early
>>30s married couple with no kids, Hamilton way. They moved up to
>>Auckland after a while, but still got the pressure... 
>>
>>Probably something to do with being a girl, and not geeky.
>>
>>	Cheers - Jaimie
>
>
>You're not a girl!

Not often. But my mate is, and it was her getting pressured.

	Cheers - Jaimie (often a girl's name in the USA these days)
-- 
"Never go to bed angry, or on fire." - Gomez Addams

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:35:15 GMT, Jaimie Vandenbergh
 wrote:

>>You're not a girl!
>
>Not often. But my mate is, and it was her getting pressured.
>

Ah

>	Cheers - Jaimie (often a girl's name in the USA these days)

Indeed