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Alright, not strictly speaking a post about teaching, but certainly a ... er .. culturally informative post for prospective tourists, students and teachers alike. Yeah. That's what I'll call it.
Highlighted are the particularly true points, although I must stress it's all horrendously accurate.


You know you're Australian if.....

1. You know the meaning of the word 'girt'.

2. You believe that stubbies can be either drunk or worn.

3. You think it's normal to have a Prime Minister called Kevin.

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

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

6. You pronounce Melbourne as 'Mel-bin'. (Or Melb'n.)

7. You believe the 'L' in the word 'Australia' is optional.

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

9. 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 ba$tard' but someone you really, truly despise is just 'a bit of a ba$tard'.

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

12. You're secretly proud of our killer wildlife.

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

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

15. You believe that cooled-down axle grease makes a good breakfast spread.

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

17. You know, whatever the tourist books say, that no one says 'cobber'.

18. 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.

19. You believe, as an article of faith, that the confectionery known as the Wagon Wheel has become smaller with every passing year.

20. You still don't get why the 'Labor' in 'Australian Labor Party' is not spelt with a 'u'.

21. You wear ugg boots outside the house.

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

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

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

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

26. You know it's not summer until the steering wheel is too hot to handle.

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

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

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

30. When returning home from overseas, you expect to be brutally strip-searched by Customs - just in case you're trying to sneak in fruit.

31. You get choked up with emotion by the first verse of the national anthem and then have trouble remembering the second.

32. You find yourself ignorant of nearly all the facts deemed essential in the government's new test for migrants.

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Grin.

There were a couple of others that I deleted, but yes, good 33.

#12 really needs to be adapted by deleting the 'secretly' part. Everyone I know seems pretty open about it. Heh.