@sundogplanets I don't know if you know who Zorak is (from Space Ghost Coast to Coast) but his attempt to pronounce "Saskatchewan" lives rent-free in my head. ("Skas watch a wan or whatever.")

@sundogplanets Somehow I can't see a sign like that and not think of one particular scene in The Young Ones.

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As another Canadian in NZ, while hiking the Routeburn track, our pretty young guide told us, when you get to the junction, take the lift.

@sundogplanets Drip coffee exists here!

I worked in a building, an old telecommunications building, which had signs posted warning about asbestos. There we had a drip coffee maker and a microwave.

OH! And you'll sometimes find them in small town motels (though I think most of them have switched to the same 2 brands of instant coffee. One of them doesn't smell like urine so that's the better of the two).

@sundogplanets I’m guessing Seeskeetcheeweeen 🎶

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I like that the important sign warning about the danger of the cliff is held up with tape.

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Really weird that I believe the US invented Roundabouts then abandoned them.

In the UK they also work when people follow the signs and road markings. Which stupid people cannot do.

@sundogplanets Does Cliff have any relatives that can pick him up?

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My favourite danger sign used in the UK:

@sundogplanets @at I’m impressed every time a European nails my ancestral “Massachusetts” on the first try.

@sundogplanets you should see our road safety ads!

@sundogplanets New Zealand Road Safety adverts are also in another league and do not play around either (see also Aussie ones too).

@sundogplanets Here’s a little experiment (for science, you know?): can you sing “Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi” to them and tell me what their reaction is? Thank you. 😁

@sundogplanets https://getfullvideoj.blogspot.com/2026/02/miss-ki-anta.html

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https://getfullvideoj.blogspot.com/2026/02/miss-ki-anta.html

@sundogplanets With you on the drip coffee thing. Went through a whole expensive dilettante coffee thing. Found out I lack the early morning patience for pourovers and such. What I like is strong unadorned 10-oz cup of coffee I make for myself at home in a drip aka filter machine that heats the water to the right temperature. (Most machines do not and those that do have ridiculously inflated prices.)

@sundogplanets Sas-kwatch-wan? Is even a real word?

@sundogplanets hello

@sundogplanets I sincerely hope you are enjoying your time in our country. Welcome.

@sundogplanets No drip coffee... might be a problem.

@sundogplanets Roundabouts are useful, but you can have too many of them. NZ hasn't reached that stage yet.
https://youtu.be/eYuNAle69Ws?si=k1_fjrihJzxQkDWn

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Let me chip in as a fairly recently immigrated kiwi who lived in Milton Keynes, UK which is basically made of roundabouts held together with electrical tape: kiwis are crap at them.
(Ducks)

@sundogplanets regarding the road signs - I still vividly remember the road signs saying " the faster you go, the bigger the mess" - are those still around?

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Guess what SIX means in NZ? 😲😳🤣😂🤣

@sundogplanets wellingtonians are incredibly proud of their coffee. I’d be careful with them there drip coffee words down there

@sundogplanets in Australia we change that sign to "party cliff" by adding bottles and a boombox

@sundogplanets To be fair, there is genuinely good specialty filter/drip coffee these days (keywords: "pourover", "V60"). But if you mean the cheap over-boiled and continuously reheated stuff, yeah no thanks.

@sundogplanets Why would you want drip (filter) coffee when you can have a Long Black?

@sundogplanets Wow, this could be a great advertisement for moving to NZ. No drip coffee and competent drivers? Sign me the hell up.

@sundogplanets wait, if you are in NZ... who il caring the goats?

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Fun observations! Look forward to some more. 😁

@sundogplanets OK, but why would you want drip coffee when you could have espresso? I don't understand.

@sundogplanets Fun to follow your progress through our country.

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Wait until you hit Australia.

@sundogplanets btw nice pic of Mr Ngauruhoe

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Why would you want drip "coffee" when you could have coffee as intended?

@sundogplanets “I know the difference between margarine and butter,
I can say Saskatchewan without starting to stutter…”

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TIL what drip coffee is! (Thank you Wikipedia.)

Not sure what we call it here in UK... percolated coffee?

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Not sure why anyone does drip coffee or Nescafe.🤷

Please don't mention International Roast 🤢

@sundogplanets Federal Delicatessen in Auckland has good proper brewed coffee. Owned by Al Brown and uses coffee from a roaster in Wellington

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That Cliff guy really is a bastard, isn't he.

@sundogplanets there's a cafe in Newtown Wellington calked "Black Coffee" and they serve good drip coffee if you need a hit

@sundogplanets I thought New Zealand was a paradise until I heard about the coffee thing. Wow.

@sundogplanets I get that. I’ve done that myself, but not in a public forum.

Go well

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You might like to rethink how it sounds, surprise at a person of colour being up with modern trends.

@sundogplanets when you said “hand gestures” I had a vivid image for a moment of kids doing a 6 7 haka at boomers and Gen Xers.