Thursday, September 22, 2011

Important Differences Between Australia and New Zealand part 3:

14) In New Zealand, you are likely to drink spirits from a wee cup. In Australia, you would not drink anything from a wee cup.

15) In Australia, there is no single meat product that you could eat for all three meals in a day without being considered odd. In New Zealand, there is such a meat product and it is sausages.

16) In Australia, people are supposed to be impressed if you say you have convict heritage. In New Zealand convict heritage does not invite respect.

17) In Australia, if you wear stripy thermal tights with a long raincoat over the top (just long enough to make it ambiguous as to whether you are wearing shorts), people will keep you away from their children. In New Zealand, if you wear such an outfit you are likely to be a school teacher on a class excursion and thus surrounded by kids.

18) In Australia, if you sell your farm, you are probably giving up farming forever. In New Zealand, if you sell your farm you are probably going to use the money to buy a bigger farm.

19) In Australia, Home and Away is on at 7:30. In New Zealand, it is on at 5:30.

20) In Australia, one of our biggest exports is digging things out of the ground and selling them to people, like coal. In New Zealand, one of the biggest exports is digging things out of the ground and selling them to people, like carrots.

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