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Odd stuff about NZ.
It is illegal to vote whilst drunk in NZ.
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You can buy your 2 year old daughter a large vodka and tonic in a bar :D
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Maxigesic :eek:
Fast forward to 2:52 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3MGFopWUJo Very odd and oh so amateur hour; hard to imagine that this is an over the counter medicine that we're talking about. :eek: |
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Lino flooring often continues up the wall in place of skirting board.
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Originally Posted by luvwelly
(Post 9728845)
Lino flooring often continues up the wall in place of skirting board.
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Originally Posted by Bo-Jangles
(Post 9728783)
Maxigesic :eek:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/e...Ceilingcat.jpg So what is Dan Carter doing lying on top of a heat pump peeping on that nice couple? Creepy much? |
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getting exited about making muffins ;)
a good night out is a social club The Kiwi Guys |
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Originally Posted by nelsonpom
(Post 9727620)
You can buy your 2 year old daughter a large vodka and tonic in a bar :D
Q - was he pulling my leg??? :sneaky: |
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Originally Posted by Genesis
(Post 9727501)
It is illegal to vote whilst drunk in NZ.
but then Winston wouldn't get in......... :rofl: |
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Originally Posted by luvwelly
(Post 9728845)
Lino flooring often continues up the wall in place of skirting board.
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It is ok to go into a bar naked and assault a 60 year old bloke and an Australian - as long as you are an AB.
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Originally Posted by nelsonpom
(Post 9727620)
You can buy your 2 year old daughter a large vodka and tonic in a bar :D
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Originally Posted by lardyl
(Post 9729808)
People like to lay carpet in the garage - in fact some companies specialise in it :ohmy:
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Originally Posted by Stormer999
(Post 9730049)
Excuse me but our motorbikes live in a carpeted garage........:frown:
bet they purr though :lol: |
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Originally Posted by lardyl
(Post 9730056)
exactly - do you stroke them?
bet they purr though :lol: |
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Originally Posted by lardyl
(Post 9730056)
exactly - do you stroke them?
bet they purr though :lol: |
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The statue of "Captain Cook" on the hill outside Gisborne...despite the fact he is wearing an Italian Navy uniform.;)
Who is that imposter?:confused: |
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Some people go to the supermarket in their dressing gown and slippers! I even saw someone in the Mall once wearing fluffy slippers and dressing gown. Oh and people often walk around outside in bare feet "ouch"!:ohmy:
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Originally Posted by shirl
(Post 9730902)
Some people go to the supermarket in their dressing gown and slippers! I even saw someone in the Mall once wearing fluffy slippers and dressing gown. Oh and people often walk around outside in bare feet "ouch"!:ohmy:
Also you often see parents with kids in the supermarket in their bedclothes. Usually at times when they should be in bed! |
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Originally Posted by Stormer999
(Post 9730092)
Makes working on them more comfortable than a concrete, usually wet floor. Nothing odd about that........;);)
how can your garage floor be "usually" wet? do you soil yourself at the prospect of stroking the con rods....? or do you keep your sheep in there?? now that would be a combination, mutton and a grease gun. :ohmy: you could do what one bloke I met did with his Triumph and bring it into the lounge. Just don't leave it in front of the gas fire when it has a "small" fuel leak. :rolleyes: |
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Originally Posted by RobClubley
(Post 9730907)
I hate that - how little self respect must you have to go to Pak n Save in your jammies in the middle of the day?
Also you often see parents with kids in the supermarket in their bedclothes. Usually at times when they should be in bed! |
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Originally Posted by shirl
(Post 9730902)
Some people go to the supermarket in their dressing gown and slippers! I even saw someone in the Mall once wearing fluffy slippers and dressing gown. Oh and people often walk around outside in bare feet "ouch"!:ohmy:
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Originally Posted by RobClubley
(Post 9730907)
I hate that - how little self respect must you have to go to Pak n Save in your jammies in the middle of the day?
Also you often see parents with kids in the supermarket in their bedclothes. Usually at times when they should be in bed! |
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Originally Posted by love30stm
(Post 9730945)
I hate that too especially obese people that let them selves go too, there is a girl on the checkout at Pak n save with a full beard and moustache lovely :ohmy:
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Originally Posted by love30stm
(Post 9730945)
I hate that too especially obese people that let them selves go too, there is a girl on the checkout at Pak n save with a full beard and moustache lovely :ohmy:
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Back to odd things: our neighbour looked after a whole FLOCK of sheep for her friend for a month, in her 2.5 acre section which is next to ours. They escaped, as she wasn't really geared up for sheep, so we got free chicken wire down our 50m fence, from her, to stop them coming in our garden and bothering our (sheep) dogs :rofl:
Only in NZ :thumbsup: J |
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I am not sure if this is a local tradition, but on sunny days folks seem to gather on their deck chairs outside the front of their property (i.e. on the crossover bit between the road and their driveway) to sit and drink beer and entertain their friends. It's all very odd and I don't understand why sitting on a driveway beside a busy road is such an attraction.
I must admit they do mostly seem to be the great unwashed /jobless types; usually with a pitbull running around among them. |
Public holiday surcharges
We have Public holiday surcharges; which is quite good because it means on busy holiday weekends you can generally find a seat in a cafe because people take real issue about paying it and we have this ongoing debate and dilemma nine times every year about paying the extra 15% service charge on public holidays. Lots of cafes and restaurants close for two weeks Christmas holidays.
Noticing the disparity between the quality of hospitality venues, and the subsistence income of the people working in them, the New Zealand Labour Government, sometime in the late 2000s, legislated mandatory time-and-a-half pay on public holidays – a fairly standard piece of law in larger, overseas economies. In response, New Zealand’s “nation of small business owners” set about passing on this increased cost to their customers. But not, as even a half-wit, Year 10 Economics drop out would advise, by spreading the price increase through-out the year. Rather, in a fit of protest – and demonstrating the collective intelligence of Michael Laws’ talkback radio audience – the majority of businesses instead chose to add a surcharge to the bill, of anything up to 20%, on public holidays only. :rofl: |
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I forgot how much I love this website; if it's odd you'll find it here. :rofl:
New Zealand T-Shirts Nothing informs the world of wearer’s modest Kiwi patriotism better than a printed T-Shirt with words or images cleverly rearranged into the shape of New Zealand. Ironic, then, that 99% of these are worn exclusively in this country only. |
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Originally Posted by Bo-Jangles
(Post 9731433)
We have Public holiday surcharges
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Fireworks can only be sold on four days of the year - 2nd to 5th of November, because they are very dangerous. :rofl:
Shops open at midnight on 1st November to get a few more hours of selling time. Nuts-R-US!! |
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Originally Posted by Bo-Jangles
(Post 9731483)
Fireworks can only be sold on four days of the year - 2nd to 5th of November, because they are very dangerous. :rofl:
Shops open at midnight on 1st November to get a few more hours of selling time. Nuts-R-US!! people let them off for no reason over the next 3 or 4 weeks, or hoard them in their garages/kitchens/whatever, safe that is.........TBH seen more kids holding fireworks and letting them off over here in 5 years than I ever saw in the UK in 40 years there - she'll be right of course then there are the BB guns/ammo (maybe they are real?) being sold in the dollar shop so the kids can have real fun for the rest of the year imitating the hunters on Hunting Aetearoa by going after boars in their local bit of bush. perhaps this isn't odd but it could be construed as dangerous :unsure: |
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Re the fireworks - at least you guys get 4 days to buy your fireworks. In most Australian states, fireworks for personal use have been banned altogether for decades!!
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Black pudding in the same chiller as dog food;)
People with large enough driveways but then park the car on the front lawn. Indicating right when they are going straight ahead on a roundaout. Police dishing out fines for not stopping long enogh at a stop sign. Not sure if all of these are odd or if I'm just having a good old fashioned winge!!:rofl: |
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Fanatical enforcement of the world's slowest speed limits
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Originally Posted by liz_r
(Post 9734732)
Re the fireworks - at least you guys get 4 days to buy your fireworks. In most Australian states, fireworks for personal use have been banned altogether for decades!!
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So would the SPCA who are actively campaigning for it.
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Originally Posted by BEVS
(Post 9735016)
I'd be very pleased to see that here.
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[QUOTE=mazandben;9734903]People with largee enough driveways but then park the car on the front lawn.
Indicating right when they are going straight ahead on a roundaout. People who park in front of their houses, or even garages, ON THE PAVEMENT, directly blocking the footpath, because they can't be bothered having to drive in then reverse out. What's that all about ? Indicating right when going straight ahead at a roundabout ? My kiwi husband does that (and did do when we lived in Britain). It drives me bananas ! |
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Originally Posted by BEVS
(Post 9735016)
I'd be very pleased to see that here.
We have never bought them for around 10 years after my son was burned by a sparkler. We tend to stay away from home firework displays and watch from the safety of our house, or go to properly organised displays. |
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