# Misconceptions about YOUR country **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 30, 2003, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807 "2003-09-30T23:53:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/101 "2003-10-05T12:05:54Z")
Well see are we disagreeing? A) Sheep do not regularly run down Queen street. B)Shoe polish, birds, hairy brown fruit and people share the same same name but we need to keep some distance :D. Hence the fruit will always be kiwifruit (ok so maybe its my own personal mission lol) C) See i knew you were older 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/102 "2003-10-05T12:10:06Z")
How about horses running up the North-Western motorway, though, **calm kiwi**? Okay, okay, I’m goin’ … 😃 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/103 "2003-10-05T12:12:31Z")
LOL Stop making them think we are a country of farm animals running amok! Maybe the sheep lovin image is better!? Nah ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/104 "2003-10-05T12:14:37Z")
Oh and you forgot kiwi bacon 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/105 "2003-10-05T12:18:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by calm kiwi \* > \*\*Oh and you forgot kiwi bacon 🙂 \*\* Now, if _that_ doesn’t blow their mind, nothing will. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/106 "2003-10-05T12:20:17Z")
hehe let’s hope so. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/107 "2003-10-05T12:21:31Z")
Oh we just made a new NZ stereotype. Kiwis argue while smiling. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/108 "2003-10-05T12:25:16Z")
Yeah, we’re a happy crew from the former quarter-acre, pavlova paradise … 🙂 Good to see you again, fellow Kiwi. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lurksfromwork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@lurksfromwork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurksfromwork)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/109 "2003-10-05T12:27:53Z")
Hmmmm. Sheep lovers, Horses running around on the street and Farm animals running amok, boot polish, medium sized flightless bird or a small hary fruit It’s a hard decision… Bbuuuut i think we know what will stick:p Kiwi bacon. Never heard of it. Do you shear them? Nice cheese though:) ---
**Author:** ![lurksfromwork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@lurksfromwork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurksfromwork)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/110 "2003-10-05T12:29:19Z")
Hmmmm. Sheep lovers, Horses running around on the street and Farm animals running amok, boot polish, medium sized flightless bird or a small hairy fruit It’s a hard decision… Bbuuuut i think we know what will stick:p Kiwi bacon. Never heard of it. Do you shear them? Nice cheese though:) ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/111 "2003-10-05T12:30:29Z")
Likewise you are a good old fruit 😉 (and we are both still awake rather late!) ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/112 "2003-10-05T12:36:37Z")
The bacon very rarely needs sharing nor does it baa, but it is damn yummy on toast with shoepolish, hairy brown fruit and a giant wallop of marmite while you are gazing out the window at the farm animals running amok and the neighbour having his way with a ewe (whilst wearing gumboots of course). ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/113 "2003-10-05T12:38:41Z")
_applause_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/114 "2003-10-05T12:43:11Z")
I would bow…but I’m a bit concerned about the look in the eye of that ram behind me 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lurksfromwork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@lurksfromwork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurksfromwork)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/115 "2003-10-05T12:53:23Z")
Yes, applause is due indeed. My hat is tipped…slightly:) NZ where the ewes get rammed and the rams get used! What time is it there now **calm kiwi** ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/116 "2003-10-05T12:53:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by calm kiwi \* > \*\*I would bow…but I’m a bit concerned about the look in the eye of that ram behind me 🙂 \*\* :eek: And no, folks, we don’t talk about bestiality all the time in Godzone. Maybe in the pages of the _NZ Truth_, but not all th’ time. Children, avert your eyes … 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/117 "2003-10-05T13:01:25Z")
The time is none of ewe business 😉 and my first contrubution to this thread was to say we didn’t deserve the sheep jokes…BUGGER. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/118 "2003-10-05T13:03:19Z")
or should that be…eeeekkkkkkkkkkkkk…BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA buggery? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/119 "2003-10-05T18:07:47Z")
Another misconception about New Zealanders – we’re a quiet, abiding crowd, who don’t take over huge chunks of threads on international boards to discuss Kiwiana and animal management in the dead of a Kiwi night. Well, I reckon **calm kiwi** and I shot _that_ one outta the sky … Back to your normal programme, folks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807/120 "2003-10-05T22:56:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SirMuffinMan \* > \*\*No, we **don’t** wear corks on wide-brimmed hats. > \*\* Well, we used to…at least until we invented the Wine Cask and found that hanging the bladders from _those_ on the rim our Akubras sort of cut our vision down a bit. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/misconceptions-about-your-country/204807.md?page=7)