'Big thinkers'

A genius from Christchurch has decided that we need to be nice to Australians:

Poking fun at Australians has been something of a national sport for decades, but now New Zealand's tourism bosses want less teasing and more visitors.

The plea, which may astonish patriotic Kiwis, is a serious one and comes as New Zealand tourism agencies take the bold step of adopting Australia's national colours as a marketing tactic.

"While one comment is pretty innocuous, if every second Kiwi makes a comment [to Australian visitors] about the cricket or about the rugby, it will start to grate on them," said Christchurch and Canterbury Marketing chief executive Ian Bougen.

"If we want to keep those Aussie dollars rolling in ... maybe we need to learn to be a little bit more hospitable."

Oh for the love of Christchurch.... He goes on, and it gets worse.

"Canterbury's colours are normally red and black, but we've decided that it's time for us to turn green and gold - at least for a few months," Mr Bougen said. "It's a little bit cheeky and a little bit quirky."

It's a little bit zany, a little bit out there and I'm not even wearing underwear.... You tit.

There is nothing worse than someone that is not busy enough and has to justify there existence coming up with this sort of tosh!