Observations from a Canadian visiting New Zealand:
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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 canโt tell you how funny it is to read โbig biteโ and โbreeding seasonโ 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 canโt 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."
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@sundogplanets have you met Bas yet? He's everywhere around Mt Taranaki



@oseiler @sundogplanets he really is, though sometimes at other places it's his colleagues. I saw a colleague on the way to Angelus Hut.
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@sundogplanets also keep an eye out once you get on the south Island, lots of crazy road signs there

@oseiler @sundogplanets related

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@oseiler @sundogplanets he really is, though sometimes at other places it's his colleagues. I saw a colleague on the way to Angelus Hut.
@va2lam good to know - haven't been there yet
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@oseiler @sundogplanets he really is, though sometimes at other places it's his colleagues. I saw a colleague on the way to Angelus Hut.
@va2lam @sundogplanets it was a really good thing when I took the kids up and we'd stop and got the youngest to do the Bas check.
On the other hand I've seen way too many mountain runners without any gear and their exhausted kids in tow or tourists starting late with a predicted incoming weather change who had no idea about that, and especially the northern approach features plenty of cliffs not too far from the track.
It seems they've found a good balance with these signs.