u know your Australian
1. You know the meaning of the word “girt”.
2. You believe that stubbies can be either drunk or worn.
3. You believe it is appropriate to put a rubber in your son’s pencil case when he first attends school.
4. When you hear that an American “roots for his team” you wonder how often and with whom.
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”.
7. You pronounce Penrith as “Pen-riff”.
8. You believe the “l” in the word “Australia” is optional.
9. You can translate: “Dazza and Shazza played Acca Dacca on the way to Maccas.”
10. You call your best friend “a total bastard” but someone you really, truly despise is just “a bit of a bastard”.
11. You think “Woolloomooloo” is a perfectly reasonable name for a place.
12. You understand that “Wagga Wagga” can be abbreviated to “Wagga” but “Woy Woy” can’t be called “Woy”.
13. You believe that the more you shorten someone’s name the more you like them.
14. Whatever your linguistic skills, you find yourself able to order takeaway fluently in every Asian language.
15. You understand that “excuse me” can sound rude, while “scuse me” is always polite.
16. You understand that “you” has a plural and that it’s “youse”.
17. You know, whatever the tourist books say, that no one says “cobber”.
there are 3 funny australian tv shows that exagerate some lower class aussie steriotypes
fat pizza, swift and shift couriers and houseos
funny but as politically incorrect as it gets
what people find the strangest about us is a mate is a random bloke u meet somewhere
your best freinds are every derogative word under the sun
Aussie rhyming slang. Seppo, short for septic tank, rhymes with yank.
(& no help from jman or fowler)