You Know You're Austrailian If......

[T-Bone]

YOU KNOW YOU'RE AUSTRALIAN IF...

01. You believe that stubbies can be either drunk or worn.
02. You waddle when you walk due to the 53 expired petrol discount vouchers stuffed in your wallet or purse.
03. You've made a bong out of your garden hose rather than use it for something legal such as watering the garden.
04. When you hear that an American "roots for his team" you wonder how often and with whom.
05. You understand that "a group of women wearing black thongs" isn't as dirty as it sounds.
06. You pronounce Melbourne as "Mel-bin".
07. You believe the "l" in the word "Australia" is optional.
08. You can translate: "Dazza and Shazza played Acca Dacca on the way to Maccas."
09. You believe it makes perfect sense for a nation to decorate its highways with large fibreglass bananas, prawns and sheep.
10. You call your best friend "a total ****" but someone you really, truly despise is just "a bit of a bastard".
11. You're secretly proud of our killer wildlife.
12. You believe it makes sense for a country to have a $1 coin that's twice as big as its $2 coin.
13. You believe all famous Kiwis are actually Australian, until they stuff up, at which point they become Kiwis again.
14. Hamburger. Beetroot. Of course.
15. You know that certain words must, by law, be shouted out during any rendition of the Angels' song 'Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again'.
16. You believe, as an article of faith, that the confectionary known as the Wagon Wheel has become smaller with every passing year.
17. You still don't get why the "Labor" in "Australian Labor Party" is not spelt with a "u".
18. You believe, as an article of faith, that every important discovery in the world was made by an Australian but then sold off to the Yanks for a pittance.
19. You believe that the more you shorten someone's name the more you like them.
20. You understand that "excuse me" can sound rude, while "scuse me" is always polite.
21. You know what it's like to swallow a fly, on occasion via your nose.
22. You understand that "you" has a plural and that it's "youse".
23. You know it's not summer until the steering wheel is too hot to handle.
24. Your biggest family argument over the summer concerned the rules for beach cricket.
25. When returning home from overseas, you expect to be brutally strip-searched by Customs - just in case you're trying to sneak in fruit.
26. You believe the phrase "smart casual" refers to a pair of black tracky-daks, suitably laundered.
27. You get choked up with emotion by the first verse of the national anthem and then have trouble remembering the second.
28. You know, whatever the tourist books say, that no one says "cobber".
29. You still think of Kylie as "that girl off Neighbours".

[Behshad]

ONE MORE TIME PLEASE

[CatEyes]

Did T-Bone just hiccup???

[T-Bone]

Na.... But the board has been weird and very slow for me all morning.

[Deb]

YOU KNOW YOU'RE AUSTRALIAN IF...

06. You pronounce Melbourne as "Mel-bin".
13. You believe all famous Kiwis are actually Australian, until they stuff up, at which point they become Kiwis again.
19. You believe that the more you shorten someone's name the more you like them.

Those ones especially, made me giggle when I thought of my cousins. LOL, a little of 19 must have rubbed off on me also, I do that all the time. My cousins lived in Australia for years and years and moved to New Zealand a few years back, I've never gotten the Kiwis/Aussies thing, assuming it must be like a Canada/US thing?

[CatEyes]

Ladies and Gentlemen!!

We have a winner -

03. You've made a bong out of your garden hose rather than use it for something legal such as watering the garden.

Not that I speak from experience.

Cat

[Rip Rokken]

30. If airfare to Vegas costs $3,000 round-trip. CRIKEY!

Why don't we take up a collection for him?

[Moon Beam]

YOU KNOW YOU'RE AUSTRALIAN IF...

24. Your biggest family argument over the summer concerned the rules for beach cricket.

Is this true Andrew?

[Shadowsong]

Ohhh the flies in the bush are not at all amusing...
Never swallowed one yet but my Dad certainle has
They hitch a ride all over your back covered with flies
It;s gastly...

Ohhh, the controban
They even have border patrols from state to state
Can't bring produce from New South Wales to Queensland
That's like saying you can't bring an apple from CA to WA
if they catch you it's a fine.

Strip searched I never heard of but Dad got fumigated so if they ask you if you were on a farm, ranch or bush
SAY NO...

[Deb]

LMAO! Love their airport security. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLUuFPAJpfs

[conversationpc]

21. You know what it's like to swallow a fly, on occasion via your nose.

[Tomulator]

...if you know and appreciate the band Midnight Oil.

Sorry, but I loved those guys!

[ttango1]

When you say MAH-ZDUH as in MAZDA as MAAZDAAH.

[Lady Luck]

LMAO! Love their airport security. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLUuFPAJpfs

I'm in the wrong line of work.

[The Sushi Hunter]

You know your NOT Autralian if you've read "You know your Australian if...." and it really didn't make any sense to you.

Actually I loved my trips to Australia back in the late 80's. I only wish that I had not destroyed my home videos that I had shot walking around Sidney at night. The red light district was called something like Kings Cross I recall. We stepped into some club that promised us we would see some tits and ass. So we go in and there were two dozen metal chairs all facing a screen. We sit down and after 45 minutes the place gets half way full of guys and some chick dressed up like a sexy looking house maid comes out and starts sponging down the wooden dance floor. After she did that for about ten minutes, they turn on a movie and it's shot from the point of view of a peeper crawling through bushes, branches and mounds of dead leaves on the ground. About the time this peeper comes up to a couple on the ground messing around, I got up with my buddies and we hit the road. That was a wacky deal and we wanted no part of that. So we ended up walking the streets of Sidney until about 2am, video taping our walk. Overall, I really liked Sidney. I think the city is so beautiful at night with the city lights and the bridge lit up.

[Andrew]

YOU KNOW YOU'RE AUSTRALIAN IF...

24. Your biggest family argument over the summer concerned the rules for beach cricket.

Is this true Andrew?

Very true

So is the fly one...and several others!

[RedWingFan]

YOU KNOW YOU'RE AUSTRALIAN IF...

24. Your biggest family argument over the summer concerned the rules for beach cricket.

Is this true Andrew?

Very true

So is the fly one...and several others!

You snort flies down there?

[Andrew]

YOU KNOW YOU'RE AUSTRALIAN IF...

24. Your biggest family argument over the summer concerned the rules for beach cricket.

Is this true Andrew?

Very true

So is the fly one...and several others!

You snort flies down there?

Not intentionally!!!

[RedWingFan]

YOU KNOW YOU'RE AUSTRALIAN IF...

24. Your biggest family argument over the summer concerned the rules for beach cricket.

Is this true Andrew?

Very true

So is the fly one...and several others!

You snort flies down there?

Not intentionally!!!

They conveniently fail to mention that on "The Wiggles"

[Andrew]

Not intentionally!!!

They conveniently fail to mention that on "The Wiggles" [/quote]

There is a lot they fail to mention on The Wiggles

[Vladan]

22. You understand that "you" has a plural and that it's "youse".

So very true, it's actually a word I use from time to time...

[Shadowsong]

Not intentionally!!!

They conveniently fail to mention that on "The Wiggles"

There is a lot they fail to mention on The Wiggles [/quote]

My Mom is an Australian citizen..

We have brown snakes
DEADLY
Guarana
Mom caught a 6 ft one with a kitten in its mouth
she made it drop it

Mom got a brown snake too
stood on its head with a board
screaming for my dad
who came with the axe & took off its head
LOL

OOOh fun!

I was last in aussieland in 2003 March
didn't see a fly or snake
Good thing
but the prickly pear got me
Ouch those things are bad

You see that good looking pink fruit?

DON'T touch it!


Mom with a sheep she hand raised
I was there Mom hadn't seen the sheep in a year
but she called the sheep & it came to her
it had lambs of its own
but it remembered my mom
Touching



Climbing around my last vacation 2003

[Blueskies]

Great pics, Shadow...it's good to see who we're talking to once in a while.

[Shadowsong]

Great pics, Shadow...it's good to see who we're talking to once in a while.

\\
Thanks,
Just me
lil shadow...

[RedWingFan]

They conveniently fail to mention that on "The Wiggles"

There is a lot they fail to mention on The Wiggles

Andrew, since I'm half Mexican I thought of you as I saw our cultures clash!!! Funny!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz9ftyyqkFM