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Kiwi's at it again !

Now should you think that this further attack on the lack of generosity in New Zealand is as a result of the Fit Ones husband ( BBB - big bald bloke) texting me the rugby score last weekend, you would be right ! Yet again the Kiwis have made the National news over here in the Northern hemisphere. You will remember the guy who went around to various funerals just for the food ....the Grim Eater! Well this time, one of their government ministers has been found to have used his ministerial credit card to pay for the porn movies he watched while staying away in hotels on government business....the tight and stupid git ! Fantastic.....make our guys expenses look tame.Now this in itself is a great story,but added to that the fact that he is a married father of 7 and it turns into a comedy sketch !I do remember going to a wedding in the UK along with some of my male friends, some years ago. I couldn't understand why their hotel bills were exactly £6.70 more than mine, until someone pointe...

The Grim Eater

Yes, there is a character called the "Grim Eater" according to todays news. He lives in New Zealand and has spent the last few weeks travelling to, on average four funerals per week, simply to eat the food, even removing some in plastic containers !Now I may have accused my sister who lives in NZ, the Fit One ,on occasion of being tight, but now I realise by New Zealand standards she is positively generous !To my knowledge, she has never attended a funeral simply to partake of the food...in fact she is so fit she has never attended anything simply to partake of the food. While I clock up miles in the "Renault I will always hate", she runs 10 k daily....hard to credit we are related in fact, except when she arrives home to Ireland and requests Bacon, Cabbage and Spuds as her first meal. Having survived on dried fruits, nuts and fruit up until that point, she loses all control and lashes the butter onto the spuds before mashing it all together and devouring it with a ...