I don’t know how popular it is in the U.S. but I can buy Kiwi brand boot polish in Quebec and it’s pretty much the standard for shining military boots, in my experience.
The low-gloss boot paste the army issues us for free is meant to waterproof the new all-season combat boot. It’s brand name is… Emu? Seriously? I just noticed this for the first time.
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You mean it’s not one of the fifty states?
Is this a common expression in NZ?
How does it sound with a Kiwi accent? I imagine not so authentic.
“Nugger plus” would be close.
Wouldn’t it be “n’ggeh, pliz”?
New Zealand is where I learned that I might not be good with accents.
I met a ton of incredibly lovely people. And when it came up (not often, but from time to time it did), they’d all use the example “We say ‘fish and chips’ and Australians say ‘fish and chips’” and because they were really great, kind, nice people, I’d nod and smile and change the subject and not point out to them that so far as I could tell, they’d said it the exact same way both times.
I’ve been watching a TV show made in New Zealand, with all NZ actors.
They all still sound Australian to me.
I have seen all The Lord of the Rings movies. That is not an obviously different accent. You’re awfully angry for a hobbit, aren’t you?
I kid, I kid.
Nasty, nasty hobbitses
From Flight of the Conchords:
Of course, he was talking about Lucy Lawless, so it was a Kiwi faking an Australian accent. 
As a New Zealander living in Australia, I disavow all connections with this thread.
No, that’s ovineaphilia, not ovineaphobia.
Goddamnit! I’ve been patiently scrolling, all the while thinking “Please nobody have said ‘Hobbits’.” and there you go.
Hobbiton
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Yeah, but you really can’t have an OP spewing stuff about New Zealand at the SAME FRICKING TIME that a new Hobbit movie is in theaters, and expect me to NOT go there.
And, let’s be honest, it makes the OP seem cuter to picture him all indignant, but looking like this.
But holding his breath and stamping his big hobbit feet.
Could the blood be rushing to his head from being upside down on the other side there?
Wonder if he’s got any fush to go with it? He’d better keep those in his chully bun.
I couldn’t tell the difference in Kiwi and Aussie accents for the first three or four years I lived in Australia.
It took working with a girl from the South Island with a very, very pronounced Kiwi accent to make me hear the difference. Now I can spot it easily - everywhere all the time, because I think they all live here.
For the benefit of our histrionic friend, I am an American with two passports who lives in Australia and has been to New Zealand and still doesn’t care. What do I win?
Kiwis always want to say my accent is Irish, anyway. What the actual fuck? American is nothing like Irish (although granted, American with 11 years of Australian on top might be something like that, in that I pronounce my ‘r’s’.)
This made me laugh harder than it should have. I keep muttering it to myself under my breath - because, yanno, rude and out of context - and giggling.
