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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Nov 2007 08:05    Post subject: Seems we have a new national policy...


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/17/wfat117.xml

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A British man who moved to New Zealand has been told by officials that his wife is too fat to join him.




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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Nov 2007 10:20    Post subject:
What a strange rule. Although I can't say that they're totally wrong. They do have a high potiential of becoming sick.


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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Nov 2007 10:24    Post subject:
Now imagine if that happened here in the states. It'd be a ghost country.

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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Nov 2007 11:06    Post subject:
SpykeZ wrote:
Now imagine if that happened here in the states. It'd be a ghost country.

Damn I love all you can eat buffets


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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Nov 2007 11:16    Post subject:
makes perfect sense, they should actually start forcing people to loose weight if they keep wanna have health insurance. not only for their own good but also for the good of the economy and the future


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lmao @ this thread Laughing


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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Nov 2007 16:47    Post subject:
there is a parallel private health care system in NZ, why not just deny her access to the public system until she loses some weight?


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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Nov 2007 17:14    Post subject:
Because it just doesn't look good on the streets. Fat ppl I mean.
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To be 100% fair to both of them, she doesn't look "that" fat. There are a lot bigger people in the world, and I'm sure in NZ too. In fact, he looks larger than she does.

All seems a little harsh to me.


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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Nov 2007 19:06    Post subject:
sounds like he has a high paid job aswell maybe the country just doesnt like outsiders coming in and taking over the highly skilled jobs :S
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Nov 2007 19:20    Post subject:
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sounds like he has a high paid job aswell maybe the country just doesnt like outsiders coming in and taking over the highly skilled jobs :S


they don't have anyone to work at them in the first place Wink

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New Zealand is critically short of skilled workers, and many large firms are intensively recruiting in Britain.


and btw, holy shit, they don't fuck around with the medical clearance ..
http://www.emigratenz.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=21


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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Nov 2007 22:52    Post subject:
nouseforaname wrote:
there is a parallel private health care system in NZ, why not just deny her access to the public system until she loses some weight?


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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Nov 2007 22:59    Post subject:
nouseforaname wrote:
snop1050 wrote:
sounds like he has a high paid job aswell maybe the country just doesnt like outsiders coming in and taking over the highly skilled jobs :S


they don't have anyone to work at them in the first place Wink

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New Zealand is critically short of skilled workers, and many large firms are intensively recruiting in Britain.


and btw, holy shit, they don't fuck around with the medical clearance ..
http://www.emigratenz.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=21


You wont get into this country to live unless your extreme skilled with a job lined up or you have a massive wad of cash.

Then on top of that we have

- 750 Refugees a year
- 650 Pacific Islanders per year
- 1000 Samoans a year.



I see tough immigration as a good thing .... and its easy to police since we live in the middle of fucking nowhere with no land borders Razz
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Nov 2007 23:01    Post subject:
watergem wrote:


To be 100% fair to both of them, she doesn't look "that" fat. There are a lot bigger people in the world, and I'm sure in NZ too. In fact, he looks larger than she does.

All seems a little harsh to me.


!?

Shes huge man ....

(and i guess that pic was taken before he lost all the weight so he could get in)
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PostPosted: Wed, 21st Nov 2007 09:28    Post subject:
Very sad I think
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PostPosted: Wed, 21st Nov 2007 09:35    Post subject:
nouseforaname wrote:
why not just deny her access to the public system until she loses some weight?
I second that, in this state the process sounds like plain and simple discrimination. Too fat to cross the border? huh.
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Nov 2007 13:12    Post subject:
pistolshrimp wrote:
Very sad I think


Whys that ??

Seems fair to me.. we are a sovereign country and can pass laws, rules and regulations pretty much as we please with regards to immigration..

No one has the "Right" to come here...

Maybe if we lived on some utopian planet and we were all citizens of earth.. but we dont...
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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Nov 2007 16:46    Post subject:
no wonder why chiv thinks that NZ is a third world shithole when it comes to technology, you don't let people in to do the work Wink


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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Nov 2007 17:44    Post subject:
Mortibus wrote:
SpykeZ wrote:
Now imagine if that happened here in the states. It'd be a ghost country.

Damn I love all you can eat buffets


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The funny thing about that picture. I have been to Europe and the USA. And i find both populations to have a very large amount of overweight and obese people, if not equal. And the majority of obese (If not all) people i saw in Spain, where from London. France would be an exception though, unless all the overweight people just stay indoors.

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Its a crazy law, because many overweight people are not entirely unhealthy. But they knew the law before trying to emigrate, and they should respect it. Not make a fuss with news papers and such.


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PostPosted: Thu, 22nd Nov 2007 18:05    Post subject:
Its not that they're unhealthy. But they are at a higher risk of being unhealthy later on in life.


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PostPosted: Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 00:47    Post subject:
nouseforaname wrote:
no wonder why chiv thinks that NZ is a third world shithole when it comes to technology, you don't let people in to do the work Wink


He seems like a rather angry individual when it comes to every aspect of his life really Laughing

And yeah we let them in .. just not the fatties Razz
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PostPosted: Fri, 23rd Nov 2007 07:29    Post subject:
I feel the law is unfair and rather silly, however the fact that they both new of the rules
and didn't do anything to follow them shows there own ignorance. They want to move to
a location that has rules, they should adapt or live elsewhere.


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PostPosted: Wed, 28th Nov 2007 06:17    Post subject:
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nouseforaname wrote:
no wonder why chiv thinks that NZ is a third world shithole when it comes to technology, you don't let people in to do the work Wink


He seems like a rather angry individual when it comes to every aspect of his life really Laughing

And yeah we let them in .. just not the fatties Razz


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PostPosted: Thu, 29th Nov 2007 14:41    Post subject:
WaldoJ wrote:
-=Cartoon=- wrote:
nouseforaname wrote:
no wonder why chiv thinks that NZ is a third world shithole when it comes to technology, you don't let people in to do the work Wink


He seems like a rather angry individual when it comes to every aspect of his life really Laughing

And yeah we let them in .. just not the fatties Razz


hot scientists ftw!


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