Grilled cheese sandwiches are known as "cheese toasties"
Cookies don't really exist, only "bickies" (short for biscuits)
Over Easter there is a 24 hour rabbit hunt
No commercials are allowed on the radio or tv on Good Friday. No alcohol can be bought either, they rope off that section of the grocery store like a crime scene.
Weather forecasts almost always describe nice weather as "fine" not cloudy, sunny, or partial clouds. Basically, if it's not raining it's "fine". That word is so subjective though, one person may see a torrential downpour as fine, I certainly don't.
99% of the showerheads in Australia and New Zealand were made for people 5'8" and under. Anyone taller has to duck.
Movies come out WAY behind the rest of the world for instance, in Australia the release of "Death at a Funeral" was about a month behind North America. In New Zealand the delay was about 4 months. In Queenstown "American Gangster" is now playing (mid April), it was released October 1st... Are people swimming these movie reels over?
"Ta" means thank-you.
Kiwis pride themselves in typos. Apparently editing is optional for they can be found in almost everything from the front page of the paper to the company brochure.
No one knows what a "timbit" is. (I wasn't surprised)
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"what do they swim them over here?" that's the tops rob. I mean, common, fedex people!
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