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Cheap alternatives to travel

Once-respected journalist Duncan Garner wrote a dog-whistling article, no not about dog whistling but he probably wished he had now, but about going to Kmart to buy some new undies. Everyone thought that was too much information but that wasn’t the bad part of the article, oh lordy no. He added how he was in a queue in a Kmart and when he looked around there were a lot of brown faces. He felt like he was in the middle of South or Southeast Asia and asked the readers of the column is this is type of New Zealand people want to see more of in 20 years time (yes because we like diversity and other cultures help “Kiwi” culture to progress).

That column was in a way meant to say how immigration is causing a stress on infrastructure since he had to wait in a long queue, although it ignored that in order to improve infrastructure you’d need help from the outside. That was his problem with Kmart. All I have to say I go to Kmart for the bargains, not because I’m imagining that I’m going to the land of my ancestors. If that was the case that means Kmart is also a cheap place for travel as instead of paying for airfares, transport and accommodation to go to India I could just go to Kmart and the only cost would be the portion of the money I spent on petrol to get there. I will end up meeting my relatives there (probably not though, although I may run into cousins who already live in NZ but that would be a pure coincidence)

Therefore there are other ways to get to places overseas without leaving the city or country.

One of these ways is instead of going to Mexico is going to the restaurant called Mexico. That is if you imagine the country Mexico being all about ordering & eating food and being unable to read the menu because they have no lights on. The total electricity bill for the entire Mexico restaurant chain comes to around $0.00 every month I think.

A serious suggestion of instead of going to America is don’t, the political climate at the moment is quite horrible there with Trump as president although if someone paid for me to go to an NFL game there I still would, I’d then take a knee while the national anthem played, other spectators would say I’m not being a patriotic American and I’d be like the jokes on you because I’m not American in the first place. Ha haha ha haha ha ha haha ha ha (that is from the song True Blood from Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2). And the kneeling is a protest against police brutality and mistreatment of African Americans so how taking a knee can be seen as disrespect is beyond me.

If you happen to be near the Canterbury Plains then go there because that is your alternative to being in Spain, because as the song says the rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain. And since it rains down in Canterbury it’s like you’re in Espana. Although in reality the rain in Spain stays mainly on the mountains so My Fair Lady has a lot to answer for. The actual cathedrals in Spain are also christ churches just like Christchurch so maybe there’s a link there too, if you disregard the fact that cathedrals are also in a lot of other countries too.