Observations from a Canadian visiting New Zealand:
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@AmeliasBrain @sundogplanets Interesting. In the Midlands of the UK we use “breakfast, dinner, tea” for the three main meals. But other bits of the country would use “breakfast, lunch, dinner”.
It’s a mess of a language.
@mattwilcox @AmeliasBrain @sundogplanets
Dinner is the main meal. So it depends if that's in the middle of the day or towards the end.
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@sundogplanets Quick question - do you know if the lecture tomorrow night in New Plymouth needs an advanced booking? Very keen to attend
@Ali Sorry I have no idea how it works, it's organized by the local group.
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Today I learned that New Zealand "supper" seems to be more like what I'd imagine hobbits eat for meal number 6 (cheese, crackers, fruit, cookies) than Saskatchewan supper (the full meal you eat at the end of the day after a lot of hard farm labour)
More NZ signs that are extremely honest
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More NZ signs that are extremely honest
@sundogplanets Love the ambiguity of "do not encourage feeding … on anyone"
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Today I learned that New Zealand "supper" seems to be more like what I'd imagine hobbits eat for meal number 6 (cheese, crackers, fruit, cookies) than Saskatchewan supper (the full meal you eat at the end of the day after a lot of hard farm labour)
@sundogplanets Your idea of supper matches that of what we had at the end of the day. A.K.A. Dinner.
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More NZ signs that are extremely honest
@sundogplanets I love so much the dumping rubbish one!
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More NZ signs that are extremely honest
@sundogplanets Have you heard slip-slop-slap? Not as funny as "don't be a tosser" but another bit of local culture.
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More NZ signs that are extremely honest
@sundogplanets As a French person, I can’t tell you how funny it is to read “big bite” and “breeding season” on the same poster.
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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 don't know if you're still around there, but i had excellent filter coffee at Daily Daily Coffeemakers when I was in Auckland
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More NZ signs that are extremely honest
Honesty is certainly the best policy.
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More NZ signs that are extremely honest
@sundogplanets I love the rubbish dumping one. Actually I thought of doing something like that autonomously but insulting litterers in rhyme.
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More NZ signs that are extremely honest
@sundogplanets "tosser" is a nice piece of wordplay.
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@sundogplanets I love so much the dumping rubbish one!
@adelinej @sundogplanets Me too! Good idea for our mayor to copy.
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More NZ signs that are extremely honest
@sundogplanets I imagine you can reuse the "Don't be a tosser" sign in your presentations
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More NZ signs that are extremely honest
@sundogplanets The precautionary ones just make sense. The clearer the better!
(Honestly, the same goes for the rubbish one - if you can’t think of that yourself you obviously got kind of a thick skull)
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More NZ signs that are extremely honest
@sundogplanets the dumping one is epic
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More NZ signs that are extremely honest
@sundogplanets
If you like the signs, there are also some classic TV adverts you should check out.For example 'blazed', by the incomparable Taika Waititi:
https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/blazed-drug-driving-2013 -
More NZ signs that are extremely honest
@sundogplanets have you met Bas yet? He's everywhere around Mt Taranaki
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@sundogplanets have you met Bas yet? He's everywhere around Mt Taranaki
@sundogplanets also keep an eye out once you get on the south Island, lots of crazy road signs there
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More NZ signs that are extremely honest
@sundogplanets Our motel welcome folder in Whitianga had instructions for actions after a tsunami warning. "Drive north out of town, then uphill. We will see you there, we will not be staying."
