If you want to understand how far the Australia vs. New Zealand divide goes, watch this you.tube clip.
HT: Sean du Toit
Note: Unless you can tell an Aussie accent from a New Zealand one, this simply won't make sense. Since most Americans can't tell an English accent from an Australia one (I'm thinking particularly of Tom Schreiner here) you might want to skip past this clip and just focus on finding where Australia and New Zealand are on a map!
In honour of the Kiwis, let me just say that NZ has the best rugby team in the world three years out of four!
9 comments:
Nonsense, the Springboks are number 1… Yesterday they played for the wooden spoon!
I often wonder why Flight of the Concords is such big success in the USofA, especially the inter-Tasman humour.
BTW, Springboks are definitely the champs! I'm half a kiwi, but I know where my allegiances lie. :) And the Australians got thrashed by the Kiwi's.
But we still like you Mike.
As an australian...that is the worst excuse for an australian accent since meryl streep. It went from bad kiwi accent to normal kiwi accent...
funny though...ps: losing or not, i still love rugby - the wallabies will bounce back!
My favourite Aussie/Kiwi ad is the spoof one encouraging Aussies to invade New Zealand.
If you don't know it, its here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo6fgZ-dbOw
Mike,
You've been in Scotland too long if you think that girl has an Australian accent!
The accent's not perfect Aussie (if there is such a thing) but the tone is.
As an American who can vaguely tell the difference, I thought this was really funny.
Flight of the Conchords taught me the difference (excuse the offensive hand gestures at the beginning!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs_rXxi0zhM
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