mickey_d

When locals find out we are from England they ask us if we lived in a street like Coronation Street & is it really like it appears on TV.

Kiwiprincess

Yes but to be fair, many of you did! And by that I mean terraced housing! It is only recently that terraced housing (ie in the form of townhouses) has been seen in areas other than state housing areas and for old people

Campbells

We used to live in a castle in Scotland

Not too many of those on Coronation St or in NZ for that matter

karonious

When I first started work here in Hamilton, I was asked if I came from Coronation Street country.... I have a Scottish accent but we all sound the same............

UKNZAUS

I have a typical Lancashire accent and sound just like Janice from Corrie (she lived 10 minutes away from us). Anyway, was outside New World getting the littlies sorted last week and some woman came up to me and asked which part of Scotland I came from?! I didn't want to burst out laughing, so through a smirk/gritted teeth (picture Posh Spice teeth clamped together grin) I just said near Manchester ... she said it was lovely! I was chuckling for ages

sarahlou2411

Ordering wood in Parameta I was asked if I was scottish and my son has been asked too....we are from Manchester originally but have moved round so much its a reduced version (more northern).

As for what I do to not get bored...I come on here and read all the daft stuff you lot talk about!!

Ted Logan

Better than getting mistaken for an Aussie :curse: :curse:

I mean really, what are you poms like.

Campbells

Or a Frenchie

ballsrburning

it could be worse whe I travelled, being welsh threw eveyone, by all accounts and this is no lie I came from the following places according to the peeps i met.

france, scotland, ireland, usa, canada, germany, most of the scandanavian countries and the worst possible insult England.

Still I do struggle to tell the difference between the aussie and kiwi accents.

lardyl

that'll endear you to the locals - I foresee a half winchester of HCl coming your way at speed accompanied by ....... "no I'm not an Aussie!"

ballsrburning

They tend throw around hydrogen chloride, won't be a problem at room temp its a gas, though does become hydrochloric acid with contant to air. I do hope HCL means something else.

There's an easy way of getting around it I will presume they are kiwi, and won't say anything like i did in aus. or I just glass the bstrd back.

UKNZAUS

I can tell the difference between a Kiwi and an Aussie, but Carl can't

Ted Logan

Aussies are thicker, drag there knuckles along the ground and sleep with their sisters plus they stress than vowels more when speaking

Six = pronounced Sex (Aussie)
Six = pronounced Sucks (Kiwi)