Observations from a Canadian visiting New Zealand:

[dmian@mastodon.social]

@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.

[redrobyn@mastodon.nz]

@dmian Usually it's just joining in. Though there may be sections of society that don't hold with their kids being taught that foreign language

[redrobyn@mastodon.nz]

@nantucketlit
Just ask for an Americano
Way I was told it got that name was because many of the US soldiers in Italy didn't like espresso, so the helpful locals worked out how to make an approximation of what they were used to with an espresso machine. When I was younger most old fashioned cafes and tearooms had Kona drip machines whilst the trendy cafes had espresso.
There is a place in town that does both, the drip coffee is a bottomless cup, so that's what I go for.

[davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social]

@rdm @sundogplanets

[davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social]

@thefathippy @Su_G @rdm @sundogplanets

[redrobyn@mastodon.nz]

@rdm
Most of the people I know (apart from family) who've dealt with a fatal outdoors incident it's being on that track. Almost all of the woefully ill-prepared people or the ones who push on in the wrong weather get away with it. But there are so very many of them. That sign is part of a project to try and reduce the number of times Search and Rescue have to go up and retrieve someone
@falkovdg @sundogplanets

[doppelganger75@mastodon.world]

@ada @sundogplanets @rdm How about we just go to the movies?

[richrockster@mastodon.social]

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

[mu@mastodon.nz]

@schwestaline @sundogplanets yup, but depends where you are

[mu@mastodon.nz]

@sundogplanets you should see our road safety ads!

[mkj@social.mkj.earth]

@colinburgess "…I thought of something but instead said a mutter."

@sundogplanets

[0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange]

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

[ste@noc.social]

@sundogplanets

My favourite danger sign used in the UK:

[catawu@mastodon.social]

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

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@sundogplanets

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.

[catawu@mastodon.social]

@Arapalla @sundogplanets I miss perked coffee. It’s nowhere to be found these days. Can’t even buy a proper perking pot.

[davep@infosec.exchange]

@simonzerafa @sundogplanets
The French decided to copy roundabouts from the English, but insisted on keeping their "priorité à droite" rule, so vehicles already on the roundabout had to give way to people coming onto it. Not sure how long this lasted, but they eventually decided forcing the people coming onto the roundabout to give way might be a good idea.

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@davep @sundogplanets

Yep, that's probably not good for traffic flow.

Adding traffic lights to a roundabout is a tacit admittion that it's not working as a roundabout. It needs to be a junction ‍️

[schwestaline@mastodon.social]

@0xabad1dea @sundogplanets @at we have had decades of practice pronouncing Massachusetts correctly thanks to famous and dearly missed comedian Loriot who created a short funny story about a family dad trying to film his family on the moment of the arrival of a piano in the house which was a gift from his mother, a certain Berta Planikowsky from Massachusetts. As you can imagine the joke centered on the near impossibility for anyone to pronounce either last name or origin in front of a camera

[sloanlance@mastodon.social]

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