# Tell me what your perceptions of New Zealand are.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-your-perceptions-of-new-zealand-are/407625>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 11, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-your-perceptions-of-new-zealand-are/407625 "2007-06-11T21:54:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-your-perceptions-of-new-zealand-are/407625/101 "2007-06-15T16:05:28Z")

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Sorry, don’t have the rugby gene either. To me, all games with foreign guys in spiffy shorts who dance and hug each other a lot are soccer until proven otherwise. 😉

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**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:** [June 15, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-your-perceptions-of-new-zealand-are/407625/102 "2007-06-15T17:11:41Z")

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[QUOTE=MelCthefirst]  
Yeah, a small minority more than “a lot of” - everyone at my work had coats on today!  
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Air conditioning at your work still set on “summer” reading? My sympathies.

Elsewhere, those putting heating on in buildings just produce a stuffy feeling insiode – due to the milder temps outside.

Sorry, but I just go by what I see, and that’s in the central city and western suburbs of the isthmus. Tip of my nose hasn’t turned cold yet – this ain’t a frosty winter (we haven’t had frost yet, either, for that matter). Been the strangest one I’ve known for more than 40 years.

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**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:** [June 15, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-your-perceptions-of-new-zealand-are/407625/103 "2007-06-15T17:13:40Z")

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[QUOTE=Mehitabel]  
Sorry, don’t have the rugby gene either. To me, all games with foreign guys in spiffy shorts who dance and hug each other a lot are soccer until proven otherwise. 😉  
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You could have a point there … 🙂

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