NZ Road Rules

[forkoil]

This thread is a thinly disguised hack from you overseas gits (mainly poms) on our road rules. fark off, you've got some crap ones over there too. And undertaking is a farking good idea (the others may be a bit shitty bit that one aint).

[Pixie]

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Number 3. Maybe Transit could put up signs stating:
If you are going to slow and holding up traffic, get the fark over to the slow lane.

or

SLOW lanes for slower drivers
Middle lanes to over take the slower drivers.
Fast lanes for those that are going much faster than the slow drivers....

We have slow vehicle lanes - but aparantly no one drives a slow vehicle, regardless of how slow they are going.Cahns

[Dave Lobster]

I know what you are trying to say, however we don't have "Fast" or "Slow" lanes here in NZ. In fact, even if we did use that terminology instead of left or right, they would all just be variants of "Slow". Something like "Slow", "Slower" and "Reversing only".

Off topic.. but when I bought my car from the dealer in Newmarket, the asian salesman said "Don't you think Kiwis drive fast?" Er, no mate.. not at all.

[Pixie]

This thread is a thinly disguised hack from you overseas gits (mainly poms) on our road rules. fark off, you've got some crap ones over there too. And undertaking is a farking good idea (the others may be a bit shitty bit that one aint).

Undertaking is only a good idea when you are in a country where the fuck wit population is discourteous and will not keep left,and the cops only enforce speed infringements.
Undertaking introduces another element of unpredictability to traffic and is not good.

[Dave Lobster]

Why don't the cops ticket people for not keeping left?

There must be a fortune to made from it..

[Ewan Oozarmy]

This thread is a thinly disguised hack from you overseas gits (mainly poms) on our road rules. fark off, you've got some crap ones over there too. And undertaking is a farking good idea (the others may be a bit shitty bit that one aint).

I agree - there are many crap rules in the UK, however, I'm now driving/riding in NZ and just trying to get to grips with the NZ rules.

PS - I'm English - the "poms" where the first English to arrive in Aussi - IE the convicts - Prisoner of Mother England (POME) or Prisoner of His Majesty's Service (POHMS).....whichever you prefer.....

[Dave Lobster]

PS - I'm English - the "poms" where the first English to arrive in Aussi - IE the convicts - Prisoner of Mother England (POME) or Prisoner of His Majesty's Service (POHMS).....whichever you prefer.....

So.. where did whinging poms originate?

[Swoop]

the "poms" where the first English to arrive

Were they?

[Ewan Oozarmy]

So.. where did whinging poms originate?

The southern hemesphere I guess - mind you, us English do like a good whinge.......

[vifferman]

Why don't the cops ticket people for not keeping left?

Why would they?
Don't you know anything: Speed Kills.
Everything else is harmless. I mean, when did anyone ever die from failing to keep left....
Mebbe the cops are waiting for a laser-sighted leftometer, with built-in ka-chinga to be invented.
"Ah.. yeah, you were 15.7cm to the right of keeping left, Sir! That'll be $170 dollars and 35 points."

[Dave Lobster]

Why would they?
Don't you know anything: Speed Kills.

Tsk.. I'm so thick sometimes..

[forkoil]

I agree - there are many crap rules in the UK, however, I'm now driving/riding in NZ and just trying to get to grips with the NZ rules.

PS - I'm English - the "poms" where the first English to arrive in Aussi - IE the convicts - Prisoner of Mother England (POME) or Prisoner of His Majesty's Service (POHMS).....whichever you prefer.....

Ahem......

"In fact, we first come across it in print during World War I, in 1914, as a derogatory term for an immigrant to Australia from England. It is a quotation from D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo in 1923 that gives us the most popularly accepted etymology of this word: "Pommy is supposed to be short for pomegranate. Pomegranate, pronounced invariably 'pommygranate', is a near enough rhyme to immigrant, in a naturally rhyming country. Furthermore, immigrants are known in their first months, before their blood ‘thins down’, by their round and ruddy cheeks. So we are told." Slang lexicographer Eric Partridge also favors the pomegranate derivation, and he gives a slightly more detailed explanation by quoting from H.J. Rumsey's The Pommies (1920): "Colonial boys and girls, ready to find a nickname, were fond of rhyming Immigrant, Jimmy-grant, Pommegrant, and called it to the new chum children. The name stuck and became abbreviated to pommy later on." Partridge also believes that the word was being used as far back as the end of the 19th century. It is often the case with slang that it is spoken for several years before it is put into writing. Anyhow, the OED is careful to note that there is no good evidence supporting the pomegranate derivation."

[Ewan Oozarmy]

Ahem......

"In fact, we first come across it in print during World War I, in 1914, as a derogatory term for an immigrant to Australia from England. It is a quotation from D.H. Lawrence's Kangaroo in 1923 that gives us the most popularly accepted etymology of this word: "Pommy is supposed to be short for pomegranate. Pomegranate, pronounced invariably 'pommygranate', is a near enough rhyme to immigrant, in a naturally rhyming country. Furthermore, immigrants are known in their first months, before their blood ‘thins down’, by their round and ruddy cheeks. So we are told." Slang lexicographer Eric Partridge also favors the pomegranate derivation, and he gives a slightly more detailed explanation by quoting from H.J. Rumsey's The Pommies (1920): "Colonial boys and girls, ready to find a nickname, were fond of rhyming Immigrant, Jimmy-grant, Pommegrant, and called it to the new chum children. The name stuck and became abbreviated to pommy later on." Partridge also believes that the word was being used as far back as the end of the 19th century. It is often the case with slang that it is spoken for several years before it is put into writing. Anyhow, the OED is careful to note that there is no good evidence supporting the pomegranate derivation."

Hhhmmmmmm - another theory which still involves English migrating to Australia - interesting.......

[forkoil]

Hhhmmmmmm - another theory which still involves English migrating to Australia - interesting.......

ooz - you cant escape being a pom, just accept it, it wont hurt (after a while). Poms are poms, in Aus or New Zild. They pinch our words too, like pavlova. Anyway welcome, lie back and think of mother england.

[Ewan Oozarmy]

They pinch our words too, like pavlova. Anyway welcome, lie back and think of mother england.

Pavlova - Excellent!! Cheers, Forkoil - it's good to be here. My missus is a Kiwi and has lived over in London with me for the last 10 years, so now it's my turn to get the "foreigner abuse"