<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>2:30 you get those stairs fixed up? last week those ones that you had to do that you <{><[>done backwards <[>laughs laughs wasn't MY fault it was the bloody builder what'd he do oh that's right <{><[>he marked them all wrong <[>numbered them the wrong way <{><[>that dork <[>did he have to pay for that twice yep <,> well he paid for all the materials then he had to pay for a bit of extra labour bit of extra material voc <,> would have cost him three grand for the stairs that's what it cost him originally <{1><[1>mm and then <{2><[2>he had to pay on top of that <,> gee that driveway at your work's a real MOTHER to get in and out of <&>3:00 <[1>mm <[2>word laughs you know that big puddle by the door yeah yeah by the house <.>that's when that's full we <.>ca we word fucking about forty ks <.>it <{><[><.>spr <[>you spray <{><[>the house <[><.>spr spray the house laughs word see the guy's missus out there cleaning it <.>every on her day off laughs yeah she must get <{><[>pissed off <[>oh do they actually live there yeah they're um plumbers one of the workers <.>he he flats there with his missus oh right <,> see that <.>flats word flats that um i saw <.>there's <,> <.>these <,> i think they're samoans or something man going <.>in into that flat where <{1><[1>bob and i was yeah tut they pulled up there today cos i nearly hit her i thought oops <{2><[2>cars just about run into her on the roundabout and there i see it go up the road a bit and it pulled into our old flat <[1>oh yeah <[2>laughs oh right <,> i've still got stuff up there too <,> can't let word <&>4:00 yeah the <.>old the old joinery used to own that house as well the old what the <.>old tawa joinery when i first started there oh their house next to your work <{1><[1>not the one i used to live <{2><[2>in <[1>yeah <[2>one of the guys there <{><[><.>f from work used to live in there for thirty bucks a week <[>sneezes jeez that's all right eh whole family far out <{1><[1>he's in word oh yeah straight over there on the piss <{2><[2>laughs <[1>word fridays <[2>word good one yeah where did you get those nick them oh jenny's nick them at the <{><[>park royal yeah i know it's like those <.>ones those matches i got in that trip in auckland that <.>l when i was staying at the logan park <[>hyatt did eugene see all those matches up there <.>aye he might've they were boxes like this and they were those white soft ones and they just make no noise <,,> mm <,> reckon old inga made the right decision today <,> what's he doing i didn't <.>even i didn't even <{><[><.>get <[>got offered a million bucks to go play league <.>in and he turned it down for his <{><[>country eh <[>yeah mm yeah <.>i i heard something yeah <&>5:00 silly fool <{><[>laughs <[>i <.>reckon i reckon he should have taken it nah too far away from home eh it's a million bucks he could take his family there with him voc obviously his family comes first mate yeah i suppose that's good in a way <.>but long way from home though gee how long did he have to decide <,> oh he could've decided right there and then but he probably would have <.>deci he probably already discussed it with his wife and that eh yeah and went oh nah didn't you see his brother on the telly eh didn't you see his brother on the telly no oh <,> gosh oh very heavy boy yeah oh yeah <{><[>nah <[>hope he doesn't take it <,> really mm who's the other guy mel meninga's friend <.>but where's <.>he from aussie eh yeah he's a big mother nah no he's quite a stocky little cunt laughs nah might word later at the pub mate laughs um <{><[>laughs <[>laughs i brushed his shoulder <{><[>laughs <[>oh is <.>that is that when you went up to the game in <{><[>palmie oh yeah <[>in palmie <,> <&>6:00 good mechanic eh yeah i reckon two tests there's another one on <.>saturday this saturday i'm going to start working weekends soon they said tonight just as i was about to leave work they said er <,> they said <,> oh the <{><[>big boss sorry what <[><.>you how you going to get to work in the weekends oh <.>i HOPEFULLY hopefully hopefully gonna be getting that car damn soon you reckon well otherwise i'll <.>just i'll just take one home i'll say look i can't get there on saturdays i'll just take <{><[>one home on friday night they won't mind that i'll take a car home on friday night and bring it in the morning <,> drop someone off or something sniffs but um <,> yeah carl said tonight seeing i'm productive now i can um <[>yeah laughs i might as well yeah i might as well start um getting on the roster so that means i can have days off during the week and stuff like that so that'll be really good <,> <{1><[1>give me some time because it's <.>really it's a real bitch for me to get out here and do banking and that <{2><[2>cos that's the main thing BANKS and bills mind you i won't <.>have <{3><[3>everything will be in <{4><[4>an office word <[1>mm <[2>yeah <[3><.>g <[4>don't you use the bank in town <&>7:00 well you CAN but not <.>like i suppose it's just an exception at the moment while i'm trying to organise this stuff <.>through and because i'm changing banks cos <.>i'm <.>i'm tomorrow i'm going to close every thing down at um at national and move over to trustbank all my accounts and everything <,> provided nothing i find is very pricey bloody marie came into work yesterday shit she gave me a fright marie that lives here yeah malcolm did she hi something wrong with my car what is it you <.>guy oh she was going round the corner on the motorway she was jumping across the road so i thought oh yeah that sounds familiar so i went outside and had a look at it i pushed down on the <.>back on the <.>back arse end of it boing boing boing <{><[><.>look looked underneath there's fucking oil all over the shocks oh it's your shock absorbers mate laughs <[>shocks really yeah so she's still driving it like that yeah she's just driving more carefully sniffs said just don't go too fast what ones both of them or one just one of them's got oil all over it must have sprung a leak man <&>8:00 it's knackered <&>pronounced as k nackered oh yeah laughs shit happens more <.>expensive she's earning good money now anyway i imagine oh doubt it reckon? mm i think she's already lost her daytime job she's already finished that one her assignment oh so she's just doing the night stint yeah better <.>than at least she's got an income <.>know you know they said she's too efficient laughs i believe it yeah i believe it she is pretty efficient i reckon she would be really efficient but that'll go <.>on onto her reference so she might get a job i hope that she'll get a fulltime job yeah should ring on it eh oh eight hundred laughs i done that last night <{1><[1>yeah cos she's on that oh eight hundred number i rung up last night cos we saw <{2><[2>the ad come on and the first time i <.>someone someone or other answered the phone so i just hung up <{3><[3>and then the second time i rang up i thought of i can't hang up again it wasn't marie so i just <.>said i just said oh do those cheap <.>fares those cheap fares apply to the ferries and so they said no just the trains i said thank you <{4><[4>laughs hung up mm <{5><[5>so <.>then <,,> oh god i feel crook man <[1>laughs <[2>laughs <[3>laughs <[4>laughs <&>9:00 <[5>oh yeah got a sore gut <,> feel like a big filthy fart <&>sniggers do it man do it <{><[>laughs <[>laughs nah breaks wind laughs you're a gross cunt laughs oh well <,> yeah i thought martin was coming over tonight um no he's got polytech i'm supposed to be looking at his door mm <,> but he had polytech tonight so he <{1><[1>couldn't do it that's cos i asked jenny when i got home as i walked in she walked <{2><[2>in just after <[1>oh <[2>oh word oh <.>i we should go to pub tomorrow night for the cricket cricket <,> yeah it doesn't start till half past eight cricket tomorrow night? yeah why not <,> hey i saw sean today <{><[>sean fulcher yeah i was out in um tiroa bay and i went out and visit the guy i used to work for at four square and <.>he sean fulcher was out there been to the chemists <&>10:00 <[>yeah <&>sniggers yeah no because he's crook he's not playing tomorrow night oh right yeah he's really quite ill sniffs so um he's off work and everything i'd doubt it simon wood'll br there to play laughs nah he might still be at his um <{><[>what is it anger <,> management course laughs <[>laughs yeah freaking o did you hear about robert's bike no oh didn't you hear what he done in the weekend did he fuck it well <.>no <.>he <,> he got his new front tyre yeah got his new chain <,> and he got it all on and everything the bike running and it was like it was GRIPPY as anything he took off up the road here he just went on a road test and he just took off he was flying up the road here BANG he blew the base gasket oh yeah so the base gasket's blown so he's just got that tonight he's put the new one on <,> it's nothing but TROUBLE that bike eh i reckon sniffs <&>sighs it's just um is he getting another one i don't know what he's going to do i think he's <.>gonna cos he pays it <.>off he finishes paying it off next month or something so he's just gonna <,> pay it off <.>and um <&>11:00 <.>and keep it i think he wants to turn it into a race bike so he might pay it off buy a cheap car and then just race it he wants a bloody r x seven doesn't he oh god don't know why there's no room in there oh yeah doesn't need room though <,,> mm yeah <,,> every time we go to the garage now everyone starts bloody choking <&>sniggers what garage the b p why i got an electric shock off the fridge laughs did you <{><[>when <[>laughs old ron was there <.>s standing by the fridge just looking at them <,> he goes touch that handle pete so i touched it nothing happened and i go why and <.>he's fucking i'm getting SPARKS off me fingers said probably your nylon jacket man you know jumping a bit of electricity touch the other one er <{><[>so then i touched <&>12:00 it laughs nothing happened then he opens one he goes why don't you open that one okay now hold this door so i fucking GRABBED it and voc laughs <&>12:00 <[><.>and <.>th <.>th <.>you <.>you real bad one oh the electrician showed up it was only <.>eighty ninety volts laughs i mean jesus christ i'm going to fall to bits <{><[>voc <,> cos i couldn't let go laughs <[>yeah oh is that right fell over backwards yeah when was this today? no this was last week oh you didn't say anything about that oh voc maybe it was good bro laughs sneezes tut they've lost staff turnover down at that garage i reckon <{><[>sniffs <[>reckon they do eh i've seen quite a few people yeah doing the work <,> yeah yeah we went on <.>the um <,> i was on the social club last year we went on a harbour cruise <{><[>end <.>of end of last year <&>13:00 <[>oh really those party club cards yeah THEY do harbour cruises word <{><[>word <[>real cheap too murray's supposed to be getting me one yeah well i'm supposed to be getting one too i've got <.>a a number but they're going up every bloody time <{><[>always going up <,> i mean christ <[>mm <,,> mm voc <,> what'd you do on sunday sunday after you left here what'd you do when was that is that when you had the barbecue yeah um <,> is <.>it <.>y yous were having the barbecue and me and simon came back over yeah we went over out at the farm in his car cos we went down there in the afternoon <{><[>me and <.>mar eh over the farm word shelly bay <[>word <,> voc oh right yeah cos <.>martin we went down there <.>on during the day <.>me there was martin and simon in the front of the ute and me and murray up the back we <.>went over all the hills and that on the farm <{1><[1>on the ute we just <.>we done a bit of fourwheel drifting <{2><[2>sniffs and then um then in the <&>14:00 afternoon they were going out to <.>martin's martin and <,> murray were going out to sorry to murray's <.>m parents' place for tea so me and simon went down the farm in his corolla and we done all the same tracks in his corolla man <[1>oh yeah <[2>laughs laughs <{><[>laughs <[>yeah four wheel driving in <.>this in this <.>little i'd probably have given it a go yeah no he done it <.>easily ended up really easily we done a few jumps and stuff it was pretty laughs mind boggling stuff eh we went down onto that big part when you go down the farm road before you get to the last corner there's that big bit of grass that just goes <.>right right out well we went out there did all these handbrake slides and wheel spins and stuff like that and he was just getting real loose and we were getting close to the cliffs mm and i just said well i said fuck man i just said stop stop stop i said get off here man i thought he was going to kill us there was <.>a tut when we were coming back <,> over the top there was an ambulance up by the cliffs mm with a winch over the side <&>15:00 laughs and er there was a police car up there too <{><[>laughs <[>oh right something's going on we <.>went walked down to have a look but we couldn't <.>see looked like a car had gone over the cliff sniffs someone had stolen it <.>or yeah <,> oh it could have been stolen it could be anything yeah voc i was quite out of it actually yeah and then we just came back over to murray's and watched going to be taught how to be a gunsmith soon be a gunsmith mm who with then i work on me guns i'll <.>just oh is that the guy in j ville <.>you yeah i was talking to him last night said oh i got this spare barrel at home sniffs can you put it on me gun he says oh yeah we could do that i'll show you how to do it can do it yourself and i went cool is that what the guy does for a job <.>or no he's a teacher <,> it's just he's <.>in he's into shooting as well he's <.>a gunsmith hobbyist voc <,> just word what day did you have your shoot on sunday <{><[>was that yesterday <[>mm nah <.>it's <&>16:00 oh that's right sunday day before right so how <.>far's you won for <.>you for <.>your <.>s <{1><[1>you personally won but your team didn't win <{2><[2>where did your team come <[1>yeah <[2>yeah fuck we got annihilated in the end where'd you come second out of three teams oh yeah <,> better than last yeah sniffs voc on and there was a few extras few extra people yeah freelance sort of thing cunning old BAstard gave me a fright man eh i wasn't paying attention to all the scores up till kneeling yeah and the old man comes up and goes oh shit hey the plimmt's doing really well forty six prone and forty seven <,> sitting and forty six kneeling oh yeah fuck i only got forty three kneeling oh fucking old cunt so where did you beat him so <.>i i went and told this guy word oh shit you bet me by four points yeah well he must've of got a bit nervous cos he crapped out in the standing yeah psyched him out man laughs how old is he <&>17:00 oh older guy yeah oh oh <{><[><.>that's he's a pretty good shot <[>old man oh yeah he's been at it for a few years mind you they're used to it cos we weren't allowed to use slings in that particular shoot and their club don't use slings what clubs were there wellington kapiti porirua what you're porirua aren't you yeah <,> there's this bloody <,> fat <,> fat sheila that's after me in auckland oh yeah the one in the flat yeah yeah <.>okay her old man's shifting down here to tawa voc so <,> they've just split up who will got a bloody twenty year old pregnant mate they're shifting down here and marrying and he's fucking near fifty five <{><[>laughs laughs yeah <[>REALLY <,> dirty old bastard that's unreal yeah she was up there too gee she wasn't bad either she was up where oh <{><[>oh on saturday <[>up at the range yeah <&>18:00 and where's she from er hutt i think voc she must've been living in auckland for <.>s a while <,> they're shifting down here either that or word he's got a pajero yeah got <.>his they're shifting on saturday night bringing some gear down and his pajero crapped out stuffed the gearbox and clutch oh no they had to go <.>all back to auckland to get another car sniffs <.>how did he not get far nah i wonder how his wife feels about all this yeah <,,> he was late for the shoot so he couldn't shoot but hopefully he'll join our club sniffs he's an ex new zealander ex new zealand team yeah he gave up three years ago and wants to come back and shoot again club <,> wants to come back he goes <{><[>fuck <.>you <[>just to tawa are you zoned for joining the clubs nah you can join any clubs you like i can be associate member of wellington and kapiti if i want <&>19:00 kapiti must be a <.>pretty what size club's <.>that is it very big a few people in there i don't know eh <,> we've got about fifty eighty odd members yeah but you don't see them all <{><[>all the time it's like <.>everything <[>no we're mostly hunters eh mostly hunters deer stalking and that yeah well cos that's like our vintage car club eh <.>you you get hardly <.>any anyone turns out for anything they just want to be members mm <&>19:30