- 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?".
- 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.
- New Zealand was the first country to research and develop the concept of a spreadable butter.
- Peppers are called Capsicums here.
- If you are turning left on a road and a car opposite you is turning right then you have to give way.
- New Zealand may actually qualify for the World Cup - they have to beat the mighty Bahrain on Saturday to qualify.
- 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.
- There are more pipe bands per head of population than in Scotland.
- Most houses do not have central heating and are therefore really cold in the morning.
- Bombay mix is called Bhuja.
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Ten Interesting Facts About New Zealand
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3 comments:
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.
It could be worse, they could call them "un-feces" which is a really bad name for a fruit/anything.
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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