Tuesday 10 November 2009

Ten Interesting Facts About New Zealand

  1. When someone asks "How you doing?" they are not actually asking you how you are doing. This greeting can be thought of as a primitive degenerate version of the Scot's greeting "Alright?".
  2. There are no coin denominations lower than 10 cents. Things are still priced at subliminally cheaper values like $9.99 but as the value gets rounded you end up paying $10 anyway.
  3. New Zealand was the first country to research and develop the concept of a spreadable butter.
  4. Peppers are called Capsicums here.
  5. If you are turning left on a road and a car opposite you is turning right then you have to give way.
  6. New Zealand may actually qualify for the World Cup - they have to beat the mighty Bahrain on Saturday to qualify.
  7. The easiest way to transfer money between two different banks is to withdraw the money at one branch, walk around the corner to the other bank's branch, and there make a deposit.
  8. There are more pipe bands per head of population than in Scotland.
  9. Most houses do not have central heating and are therefore really cold in the morning.
  10. Bombay mix is called Bhuja.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

I'm happy enough with everything, even the "death on a stick" that is the turning left conundrum, but I'm not happy about the Capsicums. Not happy at all. I think you need to have a word.

Andy McDowall said...

It could be worse, they could call them "un-feces" which is a really bad name for a fruit/anything.

Andy McDowall said...

For a truly mental traffic system look up the Melbourne Hook Turn (http://archive.bigben.id.au/victoria/melb/hook_turn.html).

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