For me, Lord of the Rings
Deffo , peter jackson literally just gave us nz and we were like :0
I always think that enough time has gone by so they can just start calling it "Zealand". Also, "Flight of the Conchords".
Zealand still exists though. In Denmark.
Huh? What's that?
It's not on any of my maps
Its a place? I just looked all over my globe and couldn't find it.
Being an Aussie, quite a few things. Some good, some bad, and not all I can say on Lemmy about sheep shaggers.
Kiwi birds, the laser kiwi flag, rugby, hakas, dramatic landscapes, an accent that turns "deck" into "dick", and L&P
six
There's a garbage dump named after John Cleese
Ninja Kiwi, a gaming studio that create mobile games. Their most known game is the Bloon Tower Defense series.
Sheep and it not being on maps.
Sheep. Kiwis. Sailing.
It's that little island off Australia, right?
(I kid! I kid!)
Friendly Polynesians I've worked with in Australia.
Moa, Lord of the Rings, Rocket Lab, and lemmy.nz.
TUI birds. They have the most amazing calls. Actually all birds in New Zealand need a mention, but the TUI is my favorite.
Jacinda Ardern
Pinging @Dave@lemmy.nz as answers might be interesting
Hakas, sheep, green, snowboard, sea, nice people. All this. Never met anyone from there, never been there, but that is what internet taught me.
Prion Disease
I thought that was PNG not NZ.
Fjords
Billionaires buying bunkers.
Liliput, brobdingnag, barsoom, narnia, and other fictional places.
Nah, bad jokes aside, it's the people and the bird.
Overall, New Zealanders have been positive interactions for me. Not super common in meat space, but enough that it left an impression.
And, you can't escape the kiwi. Cute little buggers.
Those are the first things that pop in my head when it comes up.
The second thing is Alien Weaponry, a freaking amazing band from New Zealand.
Sheep. Sheep in a lot of green.
Hobbits and the crushing of your version of SAG/AFTRA
top right of Austraila.. but now I have to Google map that I might be wrong!
This is some Mandela Effect.. that's not where it used to be! Bottom right isn't right!
kakapo
In elementary school, I had a kiwi teacher who told us about growing up on his uncle's sheep farm. Allegedly, he once found some caves on the property where an underground river ran. In those waters lived a huge eel that had been eating lost sheep, until my teacher killed it in hand-to-eel combat.
I want to believe that it's a true story, so you'd better check what's under your feet.
