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Funniest thing I ever heard about it was a girl from Cornwall saying "Ah, New Zealand, the thinking man's Australia."
by fatdog 10y ago
Funniest thing I ever heard about it was a girl from Cornwall saying "Ah, New Zealand, the thinking man's Australia."
- jazoom 10y agoI don't get it. Is that a Kiwi joke?
- idlewords 10y agoYou must be from Australia.
- EdwardDiego 10y agoI'm a Kiwi and I don't get it either. We like to point to Australia and say "Sure, we've got racism, but have you seen those guys over there?" so, we're a thinking man's somewhat racist post-colonial society? Erm, cool?
- nibs 10y agoAustralia is dumber than NZ. So the "dumb" NZers are leaving, and leaving makes them dumb, but their presence in Australia makes Australia smarter.
- pklausler 10y agoSo the average IQ rises in both countries, then. Sounds like a win to me.
- nisse72 10y agoAh! Which brings to mind the quote from former NZ prime minister Rob Muldoon, commenting how the large numbers of Kiwis emigrating to Australia resulted in raising the average IQ of both countries.
- gohrt 10y agoSimpson's paradox! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
- snowwrestler 10y agoExtra funny that she's from Cornwall, which is like the New Zealand of England.
- pklausler 10y agoOr as I heard it: "New Zealand: Australia's Canada".
- dredmorbius 10y agoThough you've got to swim a bit further to cross the border.