Wabbit is going to be a mango picker

16 Responses to Wabbit is going to be a mango picker

1. Carol-Christian Soldier says:

   November 24, 2011 at 20:58

   when I was young-my family used to go to the farm lands and paid the farmer for the ‘privilege ‘ to pick -bushels of apples-peaches-tomatoes et al so that the fruit could be canned in glass bottles –now we can buy glass bottled fruit- picked and -canned by someone else —we have come a long way!
   Enjoy picking for $$$$ : – )
   Carol-CS
   • KG says:

     November 25, 2011 at 00:18

     I very much doubt I’ll enjoy it, Carol. Still, you know what the Buddhists say–“work is prayer”.
     I just hope the lady backpackers wear more at work than they do around town–one doesn’t need distractions….
2. Darin says:

   November 25, 2011 at 00:16

   Mango picker? There’s gotta be a song in there somewhere.

   I hear there’s an opening for a Helicopter pilot in NZ.
   http://youtu.be/vm398hEzH8E
   • KG says:

     November 25, 2011 at 00:19

     I bet the insurance company is a bit teed off with him Darin.
     As for mangoes–I don’t even eat fruit!
     • Darin says:

       November 25, 2011 at 03:20

       Look at the irony.Fiffty feet of loose cable cost $3million while at the same time fifty more feet on his skyline would have saved that $3million……and a change of underware
3. kowtow says:

   November 25, 2011 at 07:15

   I’m no expert but have had a tiny bit of time around helicopters.

   I can’t believe that that stunt was anyway commonsensical.Kiwi #8 wire,yeh right……

   Note some of our churnolists from TV1 are already blaming some geezer on the ground for it,more fricken experts!

   $200 a day. It boils my balls that we have layabouts here in “Godzone” being subsidised by the taxpayer to do nothing but smoke dope and make noise in shitty old cars when they could be working for a living…….oh sorry that was a moral judgement.tsk tsk.
4. Bill The Bunyip says:

   November 25, 2011 at 07:24

   At least you will have something to look at. My current job is carting rocks from one side of a sandpit to t’other. 7 minutes per round trip, 18 ton per trip, 11 hours of driving per day.
   Enthralling stuff but at $300 per day it means more time to do what I want when all the rocks are moved.
   • KG says:

     November 25, 2011 at 07:38

     That sounds like a version of the old Army punishment, Bill! (Apart from using a truck to do it, that is).
     • kowtow says:

       November 25, 2011 at 08:07

       Cool Hand Luke

       Now fill it in again.

       Great film.
       • KG says:

         November 25, 2011 at 08:19

         Yes!
5. John H says:

   November 25, 2011 at 08:32

   Enjoys the mango’s and the $$$,……but you can keep the snakes KG!!
   • Moist von Lipwig says:

     November 25, 2011 at 10:33

     Sorry can’t resist

     “Wabbit’s gone to Queensland pickin, and we don’t know where he are.”
     With apologies to Banjo Patterson

     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB6K85PuQ_M
     • KG says:

       November 25, 2011 at 10:41

       Nice one, M von L!
   • KG says:

     November 25, 2011 at 10:40

     Not being a selfish man, John I’ll be perfectly happy to get hold of a styrene foam fruit box and courier a couple down to you. (snakes, that is, not mangoes)
6. MK says:

   November 25, 2011 at 21:00

   Now i know why i avoid the tropics, bloody snakes, i hear they’re in the water too. Good heavens is there no escape from them.
   • KG says:

     November 25, 2011 at 21:35

     Right now, MK, noisy neighbours are more of a problem than a few wrigglies.