(April 26, 2016 at 3:43 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(April 26, 2016 at 1:30 am)c172 Wrote: When I was a kid, a beloved family friend expatted to Dunedin to teach bioinformatics at the University of Otago. But that's bloody far south.
That's where a batch of Syrian refugees NZ took in have been sent last week.
Poor bastards have gone from a hot, desert country to a city at the bottom of the South Island just as NZ's winter is setting in.
Think of it this way: They're far more likely to die in a skirmish between the forest elves and the lowland dwarves than in a drone strike in Dunedin; I'll bet that's a trade off they're willing to make.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.