Observations from a Canadian visiting New Zealand:
-
@sundogplanets Here’s a little experiment (for science, you know?): can you sing “Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi” to them and tell me what their reaction is? Thank you.
@dmian Usually it's just joining in. Though there may be sections of society that don't hold with their kids being taught that foreign language
-
@sundogplanets No drip coffee... might be a problem.
@nantucketlit
Just ask for an Americano
Way I was told it got that name was because many of the US soldiers in Italy didn't like espresso, so the helpful locals worked out how to make an approximation of what they were used to with an espresso machine. When I was younger most old fashioned cafes and tearooms had Kona drip machines whilst the trendy cafes had espresso.
There is a place in town that does both, the drip coffee is a bottomless cup, so that's what I go for. -
@sundogplanets
Wait until you hit Australia. -
It's a great sign, but the hand written SNAKES, twice, and the spider, leave no doubt what country you're in...
Just add crocs, cassowaries, and stingers for FNQ. Oh, and gympie-gympie trees.
-
Yep, that's pretty serious!
@rdm
Most of the people I know (apart from family) who've dealt with a fatal outdoors incident it's being on that track. Almost all of the woefully ill-prepared people or the ones who push on in the wrong weather get away with it. But there are so very many of them. That sign is part of a project to try and reduce the number of times Search and Rescue have to go up and retrieve someone
@falkovdg @sundogplanets -
@rdm@aus.social @sundogplanets@mastodon.social And this one at Kingscliff
@ada @sundogplanets @rdm How about we just go to the movies?
-
Observations from a Canadian visiting New Zealand:
-Making NZers say "Saskatchewan" is kind of hilarious
-Roundabouts work really really well when everyone is used to them
-Drip coffee apparently does not exist here (espresso-based coffee drinks only. Even at the one Dunkin Donuts I saw in a hideous mall I had to go inside in Auckland).
-NZ signs do not play around (see example below)@sundogplanets New Zealand Road Safety adverts are also in another league and do not play around either (see also Aussie ones too).
-
@sundogplanets regarding the road signs - I still vividly remember the road signs saying " the faster you go, the bigger the mess" - are those still around?
@schwestaline @sundogplanets yup, but depends where you are
-
Observations from a Canadian visiting New Zealand:
-Making NZers say "Saskatchewan" is kind of hilarious
-Roundabouts work really really well when everyone is used to them
-Drip coffee apparently does not exist here (espresso-based coffee drinks only. Even at the one Dunkin Donuts I saw in a hideous mall I had to go inside in Auckland).
-NZ signs do not play around (see example below)@sundogplanets you should see our road safety ads!
-
@sundogplanets “I know the difference between margarine and butter,
I can say Saskatchewan without starting to stutter…”@colinburgess "…I thought of something but instead said a mutter."
-
Observations from a Canadian visiting New Zealand:
-Making NZers say "Saskatchewan" is kind of hilarious
-Roundabouts work really really well when everyone is used to them
-Drip coffee apparently does not exist here (espresso-based coffee drinks only. Even at the one Dunkin Donuts I saw in a hideous mall I had to go inside in Auckland).
-NZ signs do not play around (see example below)@sundogplanets @at I’m impressed every time a European nails my ancestral “Massachusetts” on the first try.
-
Observations from a Canadian visiting New Zealand:
-Making NZers say "Saskatchewan" is kind of hilarious
-Roundabouts work really really well when everyone is used to them
-Drip coffee apparently does not exist here (espresso-based coffee drinks only. Even at the one Dunkin Donuts I saw in a hideous mall I had to go inside in Auckland).
-NZ signs do not play around (see example below)My favourite danger sign used in the UK:
-
Observations from a Canadian visiting New Zealand:
-Making NZers say "Saskatchewan" is kind of hilarious
-Roundabouts work really really well when everyone is used to them
-Drip coffee apparently does not exist here (espresso-based coffee drinks only. Even at the one Dunkin Donuts I saw in a hideous mall I had to go inside in Auckland).
-NZ signs do not play around (see example below)@sundogplanets Does Cliff have any relatives that can pick him up?
-
Observations from a Canadian visiting New Zealand:
-Making NZers say "Saskatchewan" is kind of hilarious
-Roundabouts work really really well when everyone is used to them
-Drip coffee apparently does not exist here (espresso-based coffee drinks only. Even at the one Dunkin Donuts I saw in a hideous mall I had to go inside in Auckland).
-NZ signs do not play around (see example below)Really weird that I believe the US invented Roundabouts then abandoned them.
In the UK they also work when people follow the signs and road markings. Which stupid people cannot do.
-
Not sure why anyone does drip coffee or Nescafe.
Please don't mention International Roast
@Arapalla @sundogplanets I miss perked coffee. It’s nowhere to be found these days. Can’t even buy a proper perking pot.
-
Really weird that I believe the US invented Roundabouts then abandoned them.
In the UK they also work when people follow the signs and road markings. Which stupid people cannot do.
@simonzerafa @sundogplanets
The French decided to copy roundabouts from the English, but insisted on keeping their "priorité à droite" rule, so vehicles already on the roundabout had to give way to people coming onto it. Not sure how long this lasted, but they eventually decided forcing the people coming onto the roundabout to give way might be a good idea. -
@simonzerafa @sundogplanets
The French decided to copy roundabouts from the English, but insisted on keeping their "priorité à droite" rule, so vehicles already on the roundabout had to give way to people coming onto it. Not sure how long this lasted, but they eventually decided forcing the people coming onto the roundabout to give way might be a good idea.Yep, that's probably not good for traffic flow.
Adding traffic lights to a roundabout is a tacit admittion that it's not working as a roundabout. It needs to be a junction
️ -
@sundogplanets @at I’m impressed every time a European nails my ancestral “Massachusetts” on the first try.
@0xabad1dea @sundogplanets @at we have had decades of practice pronouncing Massachusetts correctly thanks to famous and dearly missed comedian Loriot who created a short funny story about a family dad trying to film his family on the moment of the arrival of a piano in the house which was a gift from his mother, a certain Berta Planikowsky from Massachusetts. As you can imagine the joke centered on the near impossibility for anyone to pronounce either last name or origin in front of a camera
-
Observations from a Canadian visiting New Zealand:
-Making NZers say "Saskatchewan" is kind of hilarious
-Roundabouts work really really well when everyone is used to them
-Drip coffee apparently does not exist here (espresso-based coffee drinks only. Even at the one Dunkin Donuts I saw in a hideous mall I had to go inside in Auckland).
-NZ signs do not play around (see example below)@sundogplanets
I like that the important sign warning about the danger of the cliff is held up with tape. -
Really weird that I believe the US invented Roundabouts then abandoned them.
In the UK they also work when people follow the signs and road markings. Which stupid people cannot do.
@simonzerafa @sundogplanets There's a lot of roundabouts in Austria, and a high number of stupid drivers too, but I haven't seen much stupidity in roundabouts except the occasional ignoring of right-of-way. It was found, however, that the center of the roundabout needs to have something to block the view or people might try to drive straight over it, leading to sculptures or mounds of earth nearly in each of them.
