This week in "Wainuiomata Leans Into Its Stereotype"

"Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen" (distraxi) 09/17/2020 at 21:03 • Filed to: None

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For the non-Kiwis (i.e. all y’all), Wainuiomata i s a satellite town of our capital Wellington, and is the butt of all the region’s white trash jokes.

Wonder why?

Jim Spanfeller > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 09/17/2020 at 21:20

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This reminds me of a car in Boseman, Montana. I have relatives there who told me they’ve seen a Chevy Lumina driving around with a pickup bed welded where the roof used to be. Like, they cut the roof off at the top of the pillars and welded a bed there like some bizarre, alternate-universe El-Camino.

boredalways > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 09/17/2020 at 21:29

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Despite the higher center of gravity than a double decker bus, it has doubled its storage capacity.

SiennaMan > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 09/17/2020 at 22:10

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That’s.. interesting.

It seems like more trouble than its worth? (Although I live in a part of the world where even the poors can often scare up enough land to park both a car  and a trailer..)

bison78 > boredalways 09/17/2020 at 22:10

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Double decker buses have an unexpectedly low center of gravity.

boredalways > bison78 09/17/2020 at 22:19

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bison78 > boredalways 09/17/2020 at 22:21

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I thought you would be impressed by a video featuring Tiff Needell.

liam > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen 09/17/2020 at 23:01

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When I was looking for a house in the Wgtn region I was shown house over in Wainui.  Everyone of them had a bar, and one had *2* bars.  One upstairs in a kinda of game room, and the other downstairs with long white shag pile and white fake leather upholstery.  When discussing the house we referred to the upstairs as the public bar :-)

Svend > bison78 09/17/2020 at 23:04

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I love the old Routemaster videos.

Skid pan test.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Jim Spanfeller 09/17/2020 at 23:11

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Hmmm bed welded on top of a car, that could actually be useful. 

bison78 > Svend 09/17/2020 at 23:25

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Those were the videos I was looking for. Unfortunately, my Google-Fu wasn’t up the task.

Svend > bison78 09/17/2020 at 23:35

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I think my YouTube knows me too well. It throws up old videos from British Pathe, etc... all the time.

I love videos like these, the RT1.

boredalways > bison78 09/17/2020 at 23:40

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Always!  I just couldn't help myself to tease you for correcting my inaccurate joke.  No malice intended.  I'm sorry.

bison78 > boredalways 09/17/2020 at 23:45

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No need for apologies: I wasn’t upset. In fact, I found it amusing.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > liam 09/18/2020 at 01:07

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That’s the Wainui we know and love :-).

The first house I owned had last been done up in the 70s and had a shagpile carpet. Before we m oved in we had it steam cleaned - the guy found over $5 in loose cha n ge lost in the pil e, along with enough Lego to fortify the garage. We were goi ng to rip the shag  straight out but for various reasons it took about 5 years before we actually did. I really missed it when it was gone...