New Zealand: Australia's Canada?

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Is this true?

― Kant's hairdresser, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

No.

― Sym (shmuel), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Lovely country, silly accent, lots of empty spaces, liberal politics ....... hmmmmmmmmm, could be

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaks the same language, has roughly the same culture, is smaller, politically more liberal, but is somehow duller. Yep, I'd say the analogy works.

― Hamlet Jones, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

new zealanders are prettier

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd say exactly the same kind of offence is taken when they're confused with their larger neighbours.

― winterland, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

New Zealanders have much better music.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I take no offence, what do I care?

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Well yeah Ipso I mean what are there, like 5 good Aust bands?

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

if that.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha go us! Do you count the Easybeats, tho? I don't.

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

no way.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Cos you hate them or cos they're Scottish/Swedish? Don't hate the poor little Easybeats

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

both.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Scottish/Dutch surely?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh I always mix them up over there in Scandinavia it's all the same etc

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

'tis true

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Canada, our sleeping giant to the north.

― Skottie, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

haha, mr. mime.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Australia ROCKS! YEAH!

― Marianna L, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you, RJG

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

All you South Hemispherians... figures...

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

All you zombies hide your faces

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd say exactly the same kind of offence is taken when they're confused with their larger neighbours.

Americans get upset when they're mistaken for Canadians?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

we are fatter than you frozen prarie fuks

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

just wanted to add a general fuck off.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

NZ has geysers and bubbling mud. Hooray! Also Flying Nun and the underrated Bailter Space and Fetus Productions. If anything gets big enough, we pretend they were Australian all along.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

what you mean is that if anything gets big enough, they move to sydney.

australia has a desert, my niece, my sister, the scientists, and those flamin' mongrels from ilx. the first band i was in spent our time trying to sound like an aussie band. oh hey and don't forget muriel's wedding and priscilla queen of the desert!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

don't forget abba were australian!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaks the same language, has roughly the same culture, is smaller

Canada isn't smaller, you anthropocentric swine!

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I want to go to NZ. Some Maoris came to San Francisco, and they gave me leaflets and stuff. It looks great.

What now?

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 October 2005 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

what would you antipodeans say are the big differences between the aus and nz accents? i'm good at identifying accents from that part of the globe but i'm not sure i'd be able to specifically say "hey, you're from new zealand" if i heard an nz-er speak.

― 100% WJE (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 7 October 2005 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

What now?

Just go, it's great.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 October 2005 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

kiwis say fush and chups. i reckon it might be pretty hard for someone not australian or kiwi to distinguish them.

you could identify it by differences in slang though. australians say speed bumps, kiwis say judder bars - that sort of thing.

― gem (trisk), Friday, 7 October 2005 04:11 (nineteen years ago)

also kiwis are intrinsically noize because they say 'bro' a lot

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Friday, 7 October 2005 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

and they say 'choice' a lot too. even 'choice, bro'.

nz is awesome, get thee to the travel agent!

― gem (trisk), Friday, 7 October 2005 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

It's all in the vowels. For example, and this always cracks people up because we have such low-brow humour: their pronounciation of the number "six" is "sex." They really need to fix their accent.

― salexander (salexander), Friday, 7 October 2005 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

aw. i love the nz accent!

― gem (trisk), Friday, 7 October 2005 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

Well it IS a nice place. Kind of similar to Tasmania but with nicer people.

― salexander (salexander), Friday, 7 October 2005 04:17 (nineteen years ago)

Go to Milford Sound. (it's choice eh bro)

― dve, Friday, 7 October 2005 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

And we have disowned Russell Crowe. He was ALWAYS a New Zealander.

― salexander (salexander), Friday, 7 October 2005 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

judder bars?!!?! hahaha

― minna (minna), Friday, 7 October 2005 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

do aussies use ROOTING?

6: aus = "seex", nz = "sux"
fish & chips: aus = "feesh & cheeps", nz = "fush & chups"
&c&c&c

― etc, Monday, 10 October 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

yes we root

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

do people really use "bro" more than "cuz" now?

― etc, Monday, 10 October 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

how about PASHING? or is that not specifically antipodean?

― etc, Monday, 10 October 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

wellington = melbourne = san francisco
auckland = sydney = los angeles

― etc, Monday, 10 October 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

do people actually say cuz? it's all bro and mate round here

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

As a relative newcomer to Wellington (7 weeks) and being Canadian, I'm suitably impressed by the sheer weatheriness of it all. What they lack in snow in this city they make up for in the wind.

It's amazing how a social welfare state which treats its citizens with a reasonable amount of compassion, while its larger neighbour appears to be going down the drain with inhumane work place policies and backwards immigration policies, can find its analogue in another hemisphere.

My Aussie friends look to New Zealand as a positively civilized place compared to their homeland. It doesn't mean they stop whinging about those things that make NZ look provincial. But the same thing happens in Canada, too.

An Australian friend once said that NZ is "monstered" by Aus, a term I had yet to hear used in the case of Canada/US relations.

And they just put in some "judder bars" on my street this weekend.

"Choice" and "Sweet as" are the preferred superlatives 'round these parts, though "bro" gets a fair workout, too.

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

People in Wanganui say cus, bro, uncle (older or richer male) and shag. Shag is an endearment men use for other men. I think it might be related to sheep.

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

from what i've seen australia has far stronger labour laws, if that is what "inhumane work place policies" refers to. unions are certainly more powerful there than in new zealand, and i'm pretty sure it is harder to fire people there (this is one of the major reasons why we have lower unemployment). also, anecdotally they seem to get more sick and holiday days over there, but this could just be a result of living in hamilton.

― webber (webber), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i've always said this. firstly, new zealand is much more beautiful than australia like canada kicks the USA's ass in the beauty stakes, nz has that whole weird accent thing going on just like canada and nzers get mistaken for australians by foreigners like canadians get mistaken for americans. but mostly:

kiwi: so what do australians really think of nzers? c'mon, you can tell me!
australian: uh...we dont.

canuck: so what do americans really think of canadians? c'mon, you can tell me!
american: uh...we dont.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

i think of new zealanders a lot!

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

well thats just queer

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

also, as much as everyone seems to want to portray new zealand as a liberal paradise and australia as america mkII, the simple reality is that australia has had a far longer history of left wing governments than new zealand probably ever will (only three labour governments have ever been re-elected in nz, one which advocated more free market policies than the right was willing to do at that time, and this one which arguably has only continuously been elected by going far enough to the right to comfortably take the centre).

maybe this will change in the future, but it doesnt look like the liberals will be in power for too much longer in aus (i hope, anyway)

― webber (webber), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

five years pass...

hey we're doing loads of country comparisons, why not this too

ILX is depressingly short of sheepfuxors atm...until I BECOME ONE in a couple of days...

― acoleuthic, Monday, 14 February 2011 08:03 (fourteen years ago)

Where are you going, exactly? Te Kuiti in the King Country, I hope?

― Whineyoming, The 51st State (King Boy Pato), Monday, 14 February 2011 08:10 (fourteen years ago)

i guess fuxoring sheep is a pretty big step up from the genetic bottleneck your current citizenship implies. (xp)

― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Monday, 14 February 2011 08:10 (fourteen years ago)

said the woman from arkansas

― calling planet dearth (sunny successor), Monday, 14 February 2011 08:11 (fourteen years ago)

not a lot of sheep here, missy.

― http://tinyurl.com/lil-shits (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 16:22 (fourteen years ago)

Do Australian diplomats really bully their NZ counterparts as seen in documentary TV series Flight of the Conchords?

― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 16:31 (fourteen years ago)

lj make sure you go to taranaki and visit the mountain, climb paritutu rock, wander along back beach and ngamotu beach, avoid the museum bc it is just a constant display of white-man-is-the-devil-forever-and-always, go to govett-brewster art gallery (they always have at least one really great exhibition running), go for a walk through pukekura park/the bowl of brooklands/brooklands zoo (bring a loaf of bread with you so you can feed the manic ducks, and maybe even some eels if you're lucky).

also go to wellington and visit the zealandia wildlife sanctuary (take your bird-watching binoculars), climb mt vic, avoid te papa bc it's fucking boring, walk along the waterfront from oriental bay round to frank kitts park, find aro valley and head up to the end where you'll see holloway road (my old street) wander right up to the end and take a scenic hike through the hills, eat at nic0lini's restaurant on courtenay place and tell them justine sent you, stroll through cuba st, have a soy hot chocolate at midnight espresso, have brunch at fidel's, have drinks at havana, have drinks later at 'the library', eat dinner at matterhorn, go dancing the mighty mighty.

― just1n3, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 16:40 (fourteen years ago)

Aussies forever grateful that 'God Defend New Zealand' is a national anthem much, much worse than their own. Bro.

― Tony Abbott : shit happening (SeekAltRoute), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 20:55 (fourteen years ago)

i want to go to nz so so so so bad

― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

it seems like my spiritual homeland tbh

― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

lj there are all kinds of amazing birds (ornithological variety, not ladies, though there are those too but you will be otherwise occupied with your own lady)...

I have friends in Wellington too, if you go anywhere near there let me know and I will tell them you are coming, they are wonderful American immigrant ambassadors of fun and awesomeness that would make an LJ feel very welcome indeed

― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:39 (fourteen years ago)

i want to go to nz so so so so bad

It's well worth it.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:41 (fourteen years ago)

Just remember, Monteith's:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3259/2720741356_f71673b71e_o.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:44 (fourteen years ago)

that would be a better photo if you'd finished your beer, Ned

― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:53 (fourteen years ago)

I did so after it was taken. Give me some credit!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:54 (fourteen years ago)

Hurm. Well okay then.

― VegemiteGrrl, Tuesday, 15 February 2011 23:56 (fourteen years ago)

Ned, out of interest (as a New Zealander in the US who likes your writing), do you have an online journal or similar for that trip?

― paulhw, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 00:53 (fourteen years ago)

Thanks -- pretty much all I had was, well, a thread on here!

This is the thread for my travels

But there's all sorts of posts and things there. Most of my trip was Auckland and Dunedin.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 02:58 (fourteen years ago)

Just remember, Monteith's:

happily LJ is getting there in enough of summer to fully appreciate the radler

― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 03:05 (fourteen years ago)

― miss pansy twist (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 03:10 (fourteen years ago)

summer ale also iirc

― miss pansy twist (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 03:10 (fourteen years ago)

^^ damn straight

― Keepin' it Rael with Peter Gabriel (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 04:09 (fourteen years ago)

Fuck Monteith's, if you can find Emerson's on tap.

One of the best bars I've ever been in: http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&xhr=t&cp=9&client=firefox-a&hs=wAG&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=inch+bar+dunedin&fb=1&gl=au&hq=inch+bar&hnear=Dunedin,+New+Zealand&cid=0,0,18150650172767938028&ei=nWFbTaC8GoKGuQP1n4SaAg&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBkQnwIwAA

― sex cells (S-), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 05:33 (fourteen years ago)

dunedin! :)

― just sayin, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 09:50 (fourteen years ago)

One of my university pals has spent the past several years in Dunedin. All I know about his life down under is that he has taken up morris dancing, which I might previously have thought was a lot more avoidable in NZ than here. O_O

Enjoy, LJ! I'd like to see NZ. And its record shops, if there are any left, out of some probably unlikely daydream of finding a ton of Roy Montgomery stuff which I don't already have (which is most of it).

― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 13:24 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

how can new zealand hope to establish credibility when its prime minister utters the words OF COURSE I APOLOGIZE TO MR DOTCOM

― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Thursday, 27 September 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago)

Hahah what

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 September 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago)

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57521208-93/new-zealand-pm-apologizes-to-kim-dotcom-case-unraveling/

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 September 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago)

twelve years pass...

Interesting things are happening in NZ

Parliament suspended after floor-shaking haka by Te Pāti Māori pic.twitter.com/K6FJkNLL7T
— Nick (@StrayDogNZ) November 14, 2024

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 November 2024 13:21 (nine months ago)

Interesting things are happening in NZ

About time.

― biting your uncles (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 November 2024 13:32 (nine months ago)

FP’d for impossibly cunty racism.

― et a earwig (sic), Saturday, 16 November 2024 17:35 (nine months ago)

Hey I liked it!

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 November 2024 19:10 (nine months ago)

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