the most stupid question to ever be posted in this forum

ok, i dont know much about new zealand or australia at all, but you guys call eachother kiwi's. ????? why??? i dont get it. and i just felt like asking. is it slang or what? ive always wanted to know. all i know is that its the national bird of new zealand. .

 

Yeah, it's the national bird of New Zealand, and it's unique to New Zealand.. it's a national icon. When we use it in the context of people (and not the rad birds), it has the meaning of "New Zealander", or "fellow New Zealander".

It's not so much slang as it is a kind of idiom.

That doesn't quite fully explain it. There's a sense of pride of being a New Zealander when we use the term 'kiwi'. Or at least I like to think so.

BTW it isn't a stupid question at all

 

thanks!

 

ONly if you think calling us Aussies, kiwis, is the done thing We may have similarities with our natures/accents (except thick kiwi) but we're also diverse from each other with a genuine respect. Aussies ans Kiwis have always had an affinity with each other and regularly buddy up overseas. But we're better at sport

 

as you can see, Aussies have a thing with denial too,

 

ahahaha, that was awesome gloria. burn....

and yeah, i think there was some story with the soldiers in WWI having kiwi brand boot polish and they took to calling each other kiwis and then the name stuck and spread...

but that might just be urban legend.

 

OH i an see you nickname is quite perfect for you.

Name all the things kiwis have won lately? Actually, you can name all the things in the last decade, it'll be the same length list.

 

True

Especially so in the "Wild Animals Eating Babies" (WAEB) comptetition. You guys kick ass.

(bahaha)

 

In terms of the aussie and kiwi accent, a lot of foreigners get them confused.

It's actually quite easy to tell them apart though if you just pay attention to the nuances as I shall explain.

The Australian accent is nasal and annoying.

The New Zealand accent is whiny and irritating.

See? Quite simple and easy to tell them apart.

And fuck you, trickster. We won the Bledisloe Cup this year, we won the tri nations...

also, hello? Australia just lost the Ashes.

 

shit yeah bro. We also win when we are not taking on OZ - NZ also WON against the british/irish lions, Michael Cambell WON the US Open. and that's just sport.

Do your homework before you bandy around the insults...i'm quite happy to be insulted, but only if it's based in fact.

and vimal. oh my god, i was just drinking my water bottle when i read your post, i just laughed so hard water shot out my nose. oh dear.

 

Yeah we lost the Ashes, we were under strength. But give up on the Tri-Nations and Bledisloe. It's ONE sport you're talking about, you can have it. We have a heap more to play with.


Let's see,

One of the top teams in Rugby
Number 1 team in Rugby League
Top 4 in men's Basketball
Top 2 in women's basketball
Number 1 team in men's Swimming
Number 1 team in Women's Swimming
Number 1 in men's Cricket
Number 1 in women's cricket
Have one of the best tennis players in the world
Have won the second most Davis Cups ever
Top 2 in women's water polo
Gold medal men's hockey team
One of the best female hockey teams
Number 1 female aerial skier
Several medalists in both men's and women's shooting in last Olympics
Champions in lawn Bowls
Have won the Baseball world Cup
Champions in Ten Pin Bowling
Won the Cricket World Cup 3 times
Won the Rugby World Cup several times
Have held all Rugby cups at once
Made 3 Davis cup finals in consecutive years
Champion ironmen/women
Champion Sailing teams
Champion kayakers/skullers
Have been Junior Soccer champions
Have been Junior Basketball champions
Have the best women's Squash players of all time
Have World Champion horses
The best handicap horse race in the world
Best motorcycle riders
Netball Champions
One of the best golfers of all time
Some of the best tennis players in history
Have Rod Laver as being the only male to win all Grand Slams in one year and did it twice
Have held the best Olympic Games ever
Will hold the Commonwealth Games for the second time next year
Number 1 women's tennis player of all time, with Margaret Courts 11 Australian open wins. 24 majors.
Have been world champions in distant running
Have several players playing in the UK Premier League Soccer
Number 1 in men's cycling
Number 1 in Women's cycling
Number 1 in Wheelchair basketball
Number 1 men's paralympian in skiing
Gold medalists in sydney olympics for women's water polo
One of the best Triathletes ever
One of the best Heptathletes ever
One of the best 400 metre runners ever
World Champion women's divers
Champion men's pairs diving
Champion women's pairs diving
Champion race walkers and gold medalists
Have some of the best male and female surfers of all time
The best motor race drivers in the world in V8 Super Cars
Up and coming Formula One drivers
Best junior motor gp riders
Some of the best Boxers of all time
Hold one of the Grand Slams of World Tennis
World Champion Equestrian riders



That's enough for now. Don't like it if you wish, but we ARE said to be the best sporting nation in the world. We have more champions in more sports than any other country. Per sport per population, we would have won roughly over 450 gold medals, 330 silver and 250 bronze. (Meaning if we had the same population as China, Russia and US) They have hundreds of millions where we have 20 million, yet we are better. GO AUSSIE

 

Excuse me, but your netball team lost to the silver ferns in the latest trans-tasman netball fling.

Anyway, sport isn't everything. It's nice for a [quick] perv.

 

I meant we have been champs Mr Man Pants

But, i can't stand those chicks who only watch the footy for the guys in tight shorts (slaps head) How can you think about that when a great game is on.

 

ah trickster..yes, aussies do pretty well in sport. but that diesn't make your claim about kiwi sport -

Name all the things kiwis have won lately? Actually, you can name all the things in the last decade, it'll be the same length list.

any more true. it's kind of an outrageous claim actually.
we do win at stuff too yknow - rowing is another area we are strating to excell at, kayaking, cycling, triathalon...

and as you pointed out in another thread, aussie has far more people than NZ. So the fact that we can and do beat you with talent picked from a pool of 4 million (as opposed to the 20 million that you have) says somethign pretty cool.

plus, if you are so utterly wonderful, why dya have keep pinching kiwis? benji marshall for instance....

 

.goog

not to jump in on this great pissing match, but..no, sorry no

have you ever heard of the duel in the pool? It is a US-Australia swim tournament to decide who is the best swim team in the world. We crushed you the first time around and we won resoundly again this year(190-102) and won 18 of the 28 events.

as for the world cup in baseball? Erm, it is my understanding that the first one is beginning next year. There have been only 2 olympic champions(US and cuba 3x). Anyways, it wont actually matter, since all the best players play in MLB and i dont believe they'll be allowed to play..so its not like it means anything.


BTW,australia sent 482 athletes to athens and won 49 medals. The US sent 614 and won 103 medals. Per capita based statistics are for looooooooooooooooooosers...and small countries

 

argh. this is so boring.
Trickster, honey, sweetheart, angelcakes, this IS a new zealand forum. its kinda dumb of you to come over here and trumpet about how amazing australia is cos frankly, we don't really care what you say, there's no way you can prove that oz is better then nz cos our minds don't bend that way.

Feel free to continue posting here, its real fun and stuff but perhaps this is one topic we should stay away from unless there's something really good to mock each other about (eg if Australia lost to New Zealand 257 - 2 in Netball or something equally ridiculous.). Otherwise, lets just agree to disagree, shall we?

 

We didn't nick Benji marshall, he played juniors in Sydney for god's sake. He grew up in Oz. I'm sure if he wanted to go back to NZ, he'd get offered anything he wants being the star he is.