Question for Australian and New Zealand members : Othor Games

» Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:39 am

I suppose we're sorta like siblings. We pretend to hate each other, but deep down, there's a lot of love. I've been to Australia, and I loved it, and I've made some really good Aussie friends on these forums. I assume it's a bit like the America/Canada and perhaps the England/Wales relationships :shrug:

Yeah, I'd say that's a fairly accurate description

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» Tue Aug 09, 2011 7:35 am

G'day,

the word you are looking for is as some of you have already mentiond " Australasia" Australasia is a region of Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands.

I have never been to NZ myself but some of it dose look pretty beautiful, but you can't beat the diversity of Australia, deserts, bushland, rainforest's, snowy mountains etc

» Mon Aug 08, 2011 11:39 pm

G'day,

the word you are looking for is as some of you have already mentiond " Australasia" Australasia is a region of Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, the island of New Guinea, and neighbouring islands.

I have never been to NZ myself but some of it dose look pretty beautiful, but you can't beat the diversity of Australia, deserts, bushland, rainforest's, snowy mountains etc

We've got the Rangipo desert, bushland, forests, better snowy mountains, and nothing that'll kill you while walking through them.

» Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:54 am

We've got the Rangipo desert, bushland, forests, better snowy mountains, and nothing that'll kill you while walking through them.

And Tim Shadbolt

» Tue Aug 09, 2011 6:26 am

Who could take Australia seriously when they used to be governed by RUDDY RUDDY RUDDY RUDDY RUDD?

We did have Uncle Helen...

» Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:48 pm

I suppose we're sorta like siblings. We pretend to hate each other, but deep down, there's a lot of love. I've been to Australia, and I loved it, and I've made some really good Aussie friends on these forums. I assume it's a bit like the America/Canada and perhaps the England/Wales relationships :shrug:

I agree. I must say Carrot is the only New Zealander I know that likes Australia. Carrot Sandwich--The only friendly [censored for it killed children, and if you read it, you will get pregnant]!

Yeah, I'd say that's a fairly accurate description

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YAY! :thumbsup:

I'm liking this thread.

» Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:25 am

Wooo! Southern Hemisphereian fight! Is this what a SHFERIRTTAS meeting is like?

Here, let me start one for the North! :teehee:

[snip]........so I dont think there's actually a term you could use to describe both peoples like "Europeans" or "Americans".

[snip]..We just consider New Zealand our smaller, slighty more-sheep filled cousin. :teehee:

Many of us Canucks take offense to being called Americans. North Americans? Sure, but "Americans" in North America generally refers to citizens of the U.S.A.. Of which I, and many others are not. I'll hazard a guess Mexicans, Haitians, Cubans, "the rest" feel the same way.

I suppose we're sorta like siblings. We pretend to hate each other, but deep down, there's a lot of love.

Exactly. We, Canadians and Americans, "poke" each other all the time but when things get tough or serious we pull together and help each other. Just like siblings/family. We are very similar in many ways, yet unique in others. It's nice to have the distinction made.

» Tue Aug 09, 2011 12:50 am

I agree. I must say Carrot is the only New Zealander I know that likes Australia. Carrot Sandwich--The only friendly [censored for it killed children, and if you read it, you will get pregnant]!

Doesn't Ni! like Australia as well? :spotted owl:

» Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:05 pm

Okay, I've finally arrived to back up my Australian brothers.

Fact: There is about a half a million New Zealanders living in Australia, and only about four million people in NZ all up. A large part of your population leaves and comes to Australia, because we have hotter women and know how to properly pronounce fish and chips.

OT: Australasia makes more sense than Oceania, and it is a better word because it is closer to 'Australia'. Probably the best term, although I don't begrudge people for sometimes using ANZAC, despite it making no sense, there isn't really another term. And unfortunately we can't use ANZ, because of the stupid bank :glare:

» Tue Aug 09, 2011 3:44 am

Pfft....New Zealand has sheep, sheep, sheep, flightless brown chickens [...]

As apposed to all those other brown chickens that can fly?? :S

» Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:46 pm

I suppose we're sorta like siblings. We pretend to hate each other, but deep down, there's a lot of love. I've been to Australia, and I loved it, and I've made some really good Aussie friends on these forums. I assume it's a bit like the America/Canada and perhaps the England/Wales relationships :shrug:

Stop insinuating that I'm related to sheep. Thinking on it, we don't really have anything like that, we're just hated.

I suppose the North and South of England is probably close enough; we're just that petty.

» Tue Aug 09, 2011 7:09 am

and nothing that'll kill you while walking through them.

You say that like it's a good thing

» Tue Aug 09, 2011 3:07 am

Stop insinuating that I'm related to sheep. Thinking on it, we don't really have anything like that, we're just hated.

I suppose the North and South of England is probably close enough; we're just that petty.

My experience of the latter is that it was also just hatred.