YOU KNOW YOU'RE AUSTRALIAN WHEN:

You believe that stubbies can either be drunk or worn.

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

You understand that the phrase 'a group of women wearing black thongs' refers to footwear and may be less alluring than it sounds.

You pronounce Melbourne as 'Mel-bin'.

You believe the 'i' in the word 'Australia' is optional.

You can translate: 'Dazza and Shazza played Acca Dacca on the way to Maccas'.

You call your best friend 'a total bastard' but someone you really, truly despise is just 'a bit of a bastard'.

You think 'Woolloomooloo' is a perfectly reasonable name for a place.

You're secretly proud of our killer wildlife.

You believe it makes sense for a country to have a $1 coin that's twice as big as its $2 coin.

You understand that 'Wagga Wagga' can be abbreviated to 'Wagga' but 'Woy Woy' can't be called 'Woy'.

You believe that cooked down axle grease makes a good breakfast spread - you've squeezed it through Vita Wheats to make
little Vegemite worms.

You believe all famous Kiwis are actually Australian, until they stuff up,at which point they again become Kiwis.

Beetroot with your Hamburger... of course!

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' And 'Living next door to Alice'.

You wear ugg boots outside the house.

You believe that the more you shorten someone's name the more you like them.

You understand that 'excuse me' can sound rude, While 'scuse me' is always polite.

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

You know it's not summer until the steering wheel is too hot to handle and a seat belt buckle becomes a pretty good branding iron.

You shake your head in horror when companies try to market what they call 'Anzac Cookies'.

You still think of Kylie as 'that girl off Neighbours'.

When working in a bar, you understand male customers will feel the need to offer an excuse whenever they order low-alcohol beer.

You know how to abbreviate every word, all of which usually end in "o": arvo, combo, garbo, kero, lezzo, metho, milko, muso, rego, servo, smoko, speedo, righto, goodo etc...

You know that there is a universal place called 'woop woop' probably located somewhere beyond the black stump.

You know that none of us actually drink Fosters beer, because it tastes like piss.

You sleep with Aeroguard on in the summer and don't mind it as a perfume.

You've only ever used the words - tops, ripper, sick, mad, sweet, to mean "good" and when you place 'bloody' in front of it then you really mean it.

You say 'no worries' quite often, whether you realise it or not.

You understand what no wucking furries means.

You've drank your tea/coffee/milo through a Tim Tam.

You own a Bond's chesty singlet - in several different colors.

You know that some people pronounce Australia like "Straya" and that's ok.

Gerty Dancer wrote:

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We got a free one of those garden hose thingy's once when teenagers threw one over the fence into our yard.... now theres an Aussie word, we call it a yard, overseas it would be the back garden?

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 Funny! I did cleaning and grounds maintainence on strata units for many years & I was left scratching my head for quite some time trying to figure out why some of the hoses seemed to be getting shorter & shorter every time I used them. Then one day I found one of them bong thingies lying around.

Cheers

Jon

Came out from England as a ten pound pom in 1959, embraced the country immediately and after over 50 years can relate to your post Hylda&John.

I suppose that I must be an Aussie by now.

John

Happywanderer wrote:

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Love it, so true. You won't mind if I borrow it to send to my email friends Hylda & Jon??
So they all know I'm a true Aussie now.

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I was trying to upload it to FB Marj, but it wasn't playing the game. Fb, that is.

Good one Hylda & Jon. 

Hylda&Jon wrote:

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Happywanderer wrote:

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Love it, so true. You won't mind if I borrow it to send to my email friends Hylda & Jon??
So they all know I'm a true Aussie now.

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 Since I borrowed it from facebook in the first place you're quite welcome to it Marge

Cheers

Jon

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 Thanks Jon. I finally got it to upload to my FB wall.

Jack Mac wrote:

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Love the bit about our wildlife.  We take a perverse delight in having so many killer species even though we're all (well nearly all) just as scared of them as any one else.

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 Anyone not scared of some of our killer wildlife needs their head examined.

Yeah, we let anyone in here.
Kiwis are like Poms - we love to bag them, but we really do love 'em.
Where would we be if we didn't have all the immigrants of post WW11, which included 10 pound poms, Greeks, Italians, Polish, German, Ukranian, etc. etc.
They worked hard from the day they arrived, while they were still in the migrant hostels waiting for housing, and for Elizabeth to be developed in SA. Whyalla was also set up to employ migrants.
If all migrants were of the same high quality and lifestyle standard we wouldn't have anything to complain about.
And then there's the foods they introduced. We went from pies and pasties to Dim Sims, Chinese, and many other foreign dishes and culinary delights. In SA we had metwurst and fritz, and still do.

Me too! But what can we, the humble folk do about it?

And so many good Aussies are still here feeling helpless as those that wanna-be powerful make really short-sighted, stupid decisons.
I reckon between all the GN's here could do a better job.

Certainly couldn't do any worse