Posted by: Dani | 24/03/2010

things that still make me laugh about Australia

  • Its not Australia – its ‘straaya.
  • ‘how you going?’ is a question asking how you are, not how you are getting somewhere. When asked in a shop, you are also expected to reply, as the person asking wouldn’t have asked if they didn’t want to know the answer.
  • they do no understand the phrase ‘get the drinks in’ – poor show if you ask me!
  • Mc Cafe is a poor attempt for McDonalds to be a coffee shop
  • Doonas – why they don’t call them duvets I have no idea
  • its put another prawn on the barbie, there are no shrimps.
  • no wuccas/arvo/any other shortening of words.
  • how they insult everyone
  • they actually say ‘fair dinkum’
  • goon – nowhere else in the world do people subject themselves to drinking such awful wine from a box, when oz is full of such nice wines. However, it has lead to games such as goon of fortune…
  • the all laugh at Tasmainias how we laugh at the welsh.
  • the call their prime minister K Fed. Sadly their prime minister isn’t cool. G Brown just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
  • Melb uni hold their exams in the nicest building ever. Sadly its freezing cold.
  • Also  with exams – you get reading time, ie 15 minutes of sitting at the answer paper wishing that you had revised that one little thing.
  • You also get to take lollies into the exam with you. So when you think its all a failure, you get to eat a jelly snake.
  • How they believe that 4°C is absolutely freezing.
  • Driving 4 hours is a standard amount of time to get anywhere on a friday.
  • They call any type of sweets ‘lollies’
  • They have travelled more of Europe than I have, but I have travelled around more of their country.
  • Societies hand out snags (sausage in a slice of bread) and beers at lunchtime. Its amazing.
  • They believe that New Zealand should become another Aussie state.
  • They care about any sport. Its always on, but they’re actually proud of most of their sports teams, and occasionally the socceroos.
  • They consider fosters (the beer) an insult to aussie pride.
  • In aussie rules (aka footy) they have 4 goalposts, the two outermost ones which are essentially getting a point for trying to get a goal, but effectively missing.
  • There is no such thing as disliking Vegemite, you have to like it if you call yourself Australian.
  • When its hot outside, you will still have to carry a hoodie for when you go inside, as the air con is guaranteed to be set to ‘chilly’

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