Originally Posted by simonmarkellis (Post 6971989)

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4757372a4560.html

I suppose with some of the back biting on here recently, they have a point!!!;)

Originally Posted by simonmarkellis (Post 6971989)

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4757372a4560.html

I suppose with some of the back biting on here recently, they have a point!!!;)

Originally Posted by Stuff

the British also have a humorous side, with 22 percent saying they are not afraid to laugh at themselves.

Originally Posted by Stuff

The top 10 British traits were:
1. Talking about the weather
2. Great at queueing
3. Sarcasm
4. Watching soaps
5. Getting drunk
6. A love of bargains
7. A love of curtain-twitching
8. Stiff upper lip
9. Love of all television
10. Moaning

Originally Posted by lardyl (Post 6975079)

So you mean:
we enjoy talking about the rain that Kiwis love to spray on "our parades",
we queue up nice and quietly to be told to f-off to Oz/back to the UK,
we are sarcastic/ironic in our posts so most NZers can't understand them or us come to think of it,
we can't be bothered to discuss important issues as we are too busy watching Corrie/Shortland Street,
some of our posts are "alcohol-fuelled",
we came to NZ to work for peanuts and allow someone else to get a bargain,
we spend too much time looking for mould on our curtains to enjoy the climate,
we endeavour to remain calm in the face of a diatribe from "Johnny-Kiwi" or other "locals",
we love our TV so much that we are "conniseurs" and so regard the NZ stuff as cr@p
and finally we might moan a bit....???

yeah right..........but I still don't see "back-biting" there????
does "double jointed" appear in there as more likely to bite our own backs methinks......:D



Now can anyone come up with an alternative one for Johnny-Kiwi?? I would but I'm not risking it.............:ohmy::rofl::ohmy:

Originally Posted by Batty (Post 6975247)

Lardyl - the company doing the poll are a UK company and the article came from Reuters - it's only being quoted on Stuff - not that Kiwis are saying these awful untruths :D

Originally Posted by lardyl (Post 6976462)

Indeed I was just trying to bat Simon's point about "back biting" back and try to inject some "irony"......oh well.......:o

But can we come up with a poll on the top ten Kiwi traits as experienced by British Ex-Pats? Or is that too dangerous.....???