“No kooks, locals only.”
In news that will chill the spine of vulnerable adult learner surfers everywhere, New Zealand has drawn a line in the sand against the VALpocalypse.
In a surprising move, Jacinda Adern’s leftist regime whose progressive bona fides are beyond any sorta reproach, Marxist at heart if not practice, has used the COVID pandemic to shut down out-of-towners and kooks.
Currently the little island nation is under tough “Alert 4 level” restrictions as it battles what is, viewed through a worldwide perspective, a minor hit of the bug.
Better to be safe than sorry, I suppose, although it does bring to mind Russian author Czeslaw Milosz’s observation of the “vulnerability of the twentieth century mind to seduction by socio-political doctrines and its readiness to accept totalitarian terror for the sake of a hypothetic future.”
Via the government’s COVID-info site,
“If you are not experienced, do not surf.”
Have you ever read a sentence of comparable wisdom and virtue?
Interestingly, outer-reef sessions are banned as restrictions remind surfers to “stay within 200 metres of the shore.”
Also allowed in New Zealand is “white-baiting” which, I had hoped, would be the taunting of white devils by major media outlets, as per the US’s NY Times, New Yorker, CNN etc, although it appears to be a sort of fishing.
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What a load of shit – Reilly appears out of his depth and slinging comparisons he lacks the intellect to understand like a kook version of Alan Jones.
I went surfing all day yesterday at my local. The small group of surfers discussed this at length, deciding that for them the instruction is quite clear, but relies on a cooperative spirit, like so many of the rules that have kept this country safe up until now and look very much like containing the delta outbreak.
If you are experienced you know it, but the salient point is that for all outdoor activity the measure is whether an accident will tie up emergency services that would be better available for covid cases.
A desperate attempt to stimulate click-bait and a chance to spread misinformation.
No wonder Kiwis have so little respect for Australians these days.
https://youtu.be/Cy9yJ4dLMTw
Those kiwis, always a step ahead..
All this acceptance and allowing of every perverted tic possible and then showing some teeth when it is most needed, thank you Jacinda!
Where’s the Marxist part again…or are u going brush over the rest of it?
U gonna gloss over the first sentence, really?
That’s crazy ha!
What is a white devil and why is taunting them something you had hoped for? I hope this isn’t an extremely offensive and a racially biased way of referring to european caucasian ethnical backgrounds cause that would be incredibly racist.
How exactly do they expect you to learn if you’ve never done it before if you take courses and you’re trained to practice something then just go break the law I don’t care and if you get hurt fine if you do something really stupid I might not rescue you but if you don’t then you should get a rescue and if you have to pay for it so be it it’s absurd I’m putting New Zealand on my list of places never to go I’m an experienced motorcycle rider all around the world and it’s one of the top places to take a motorcycle tour guess what I won’t… If I ever take an international motorcycle tour again and I’ve taken at least seven.. Marxism is stupid and so isn’t socialism and I don’t want to support them anyways.. that’s the problem with f****** Hawaii.. and I didn’t like it anyways.. California is another huge outside concentration camp for socialists along with the whole West Coast no one needs it Australia ditto they’re stupid they’re all stupid.. and you are unquestionably in my view better off dying a premature death than living under it…
Covid-deniers and anti-maskers and vaxxers are right up there with ChemTrailistas, and Election Fraudsters and Deep State Dorks and TrumpEters.
Oh well, this is way of thinning the herd and raising the average American IQ.
At SURFER in the Golden Years, when people would ask to have their books or videos or whatever reviewed, one editor would say – jokingly – send a hundred bucks.
Flynn’s father Walt sent a copy of The Haole Apprentice and a $100 bill fell out when it was opened.
The editor sent it back.
The book or the money?
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Hodads stfu
Yeah, exactly.
Churr bros ..!
Thank fuck Tramping gets the go-ahead. I’m fucken really experienced at that.
Miłosz was Polish you uncultured kook.
Born in Tsarist Russia, identified as Polish. Both wrong! Both right!
Never identified as Russian and the only reason for ‘born in Russia’ is that Russia was occupying large part of Poland at the time he was born.
Time to join us in the 21st century old chap.
Russian literature?
Who do you think you are, the Lennox Head goat whisperer?!
Late to the party, Gotcha wrote that tag line in the 80s! Everything is so slow to get to NZ.
Second bullet point allowing tramps, are they hookers or just skanks?
Not sure you can call the alternative hypothetical?? Here in nz we have had the advantage of watching covid play out elsewhere a week or two in advance, allowing us the luxury of making decisions based on reality.
Go yell at Czeslaw Milosz!
Much easier to type a comment on a blog post…
So Negs, ergo BG, is successfully influencing NZ National Policy. That’s gnarly cuz!