Only in Helengrad!

Growing up in the UK, the tv would feature some wacky news stories from the USA, and people would often comment 'Only in America!'

You know, crazy shootings, or dating shows on tv, and then some years later they arrived and became part of the rich fabric of England.

Now some bright spark has come up with the flash idea of replacing flashing men in pelican crossing with flashing women, oeeerrr!!!

Some $50,000 has been spent on the project so far, which one might think be better spent on a temporary classroom for youngsters in a south Cantebury school, but I guess being 'quirky' is more important than giving kids a warm place to learn.

However, since we are run by the 'sisterhood' why not have the flashing women? What better symbolic reflection of New Zealand today?

The council's chief urban designer, project leader Gerald Blunt, said the initiative was another step in cutting the apron strings of Mother England. "It is about the capital city's role ... but it is also all about our national identity."

Yes, silly ideas like this are certainly a great way to stick two fingers up to the Mother Country. I bet the Brits would think we were barking mad on reading crap like this.

And I always thought a better way to express one's national idenity might be in developing a non-nuclear defence strategy and abandonning your friends in Australia and the USA after being manipulated by the Russians. But there we go!

But yes, flashing women on pelicon crossings it is! What better stupidity to express New Zealand under Liarbour! As we might well now say, 'Only in Helengrad!'