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Okay, not actually linking this one, but it's been pinched from [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com].

You aren't Australian until...

1) You've caught a blowfly buzzing around your head with your bare hands

2) You've mimicked Alf Stewart from 'Home and Away' - "Push off, ya flamin' drongo"

3) You have argued whether Fords are better than Holdens

4) You've done the Hot Sand run from the beach to your towel

5) You know who Ray Martin is

6) You call your home "My Joint"

7) You start using words like 'Bloody, grouse and champ'

8) You stop greeting people with 'Hello' and go straight into 'how're you doin'?

9) You've seriously considered running down to the shops in a pair of Ugg boots

10) You own ugg boots

11) You've been to a one day cricket match and screamed incomprehensibly until your throat went raw

12) You've had to decide between putting up with mosquitoes and moving the BBQ inside

13) You've changed your ring tone on your mobile phone to something much more annoying than the one it came with

14) You kind of know the first verse of the national anthem, but buggered if you know what 'girt' means

15) You have a story that some how revolves around excess consumption of alcohol and a mate named 'Dave'

16) You're secretly annoyed with Russell Crowe

17) You own a Bonds t-shirt and wear it with pride

18) You've risked attending a music festival on the hottest day of the year

19) You've tried to hang off a Hills Hoist while pretending you could fly

20) You've had to visit the emergency room after hanging off Hills Hoist and pretending you could fly

21) You own pair of thongs for every day use, and another pair of dress thongs for special occasions

22) You don't know what's in a meat pie and you don't care

23) You pronounce Australia 'Straya'

24) You call soccer 'soccer', not football

25) You know a dog named Bluey

26) You've squeezed Vegemite between Vita Wheat to make Vegemite worms

27) You suck coffee though a Tim Tam

28) You've become deeply cynical of politicians

29) You realise that lifeguards are the only ones who can wear Speedo's and look good

30) You've been in a Ute with a blue heeler in the back

31) You pledge allegiance to Vegemite over Promite

32) In your CD collection you have at least one: Kylie Minogue, Cold Chisel or Paul Kelly

33) You understand the value of Public Holidays

34) You order a "Hamburger with the lot, thanks love"

35) You believe that the flavour of any meal is improved by adding tomato sauce

36) You have been invited to a B&S Ball

37) Your weekends are spent barracking for your favourite sports team

38) You have a toilet dolly

39) You've played beach cricket with a tennis ball and a bat fashioned out of a fence post

40) You still go on about how great the Sydney Olympics were

41) You firmly believe that in the end, everything will be ok, and have told a mate in tough times that 'She'll be right, mate'

42) You use the phrase 'no worries' at least once a day

43) You've been on a beach holiday and probably stayed in a caravan

44) You constantly shorten words. For example,breakfast becomes 'brekkie' and afternoon becomes 'arvo', barbeque becomes 'barbie'

45) You order a $5 steak the size of your head at your local RSL

46) You've adopted a local bar as one of your own

47) You know all the words to 'Holy Grail' and sing it at the top of your lungs.

48) Your idea of a holiday is driving hundreds of kilometres to sit on the banks of the Murray and drink copious amounts of alcohol while you pretend to be fishing

49) You can't understand why John Farnham never became an International success

50) You know that the oath of mateship can never be limited by Geographical distance

This might help my overseas readers understand my personality, just a bit. *grins* Especially since there's a hell of a lot of these that are me. My God, I'm a walking cliche. Move over Steve Irwin. ;)

Date: 2003-06-09 08:05 pm (UTC)

Date: 2003-06-09 08:18 pm (UTC)
ext_3673: Manny, from black books (Default)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/
...

Half of those bloody describe me. Though we only had the barbie inside for a couple of weeks while we were renovating and without a kitchen or stove.

Date: 2003-06-09 08:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] obsidian179.livejournal.com
Okay, I'm obviously NOT an Australian, so I approached this with some trepidition (sp?). Anyway, I started reading through it, and found to my surprise that some of them fit me.

See?

4) You've done the Hot Sand run from the beach to your towel Well, come on, who hasn't done that? ;)

8) You stop greeting people with 'Hello' and go straight into 'how're you doin'? I've done that, I think.

12) You've had to decide between putting up with mosquitoes and moving the BBQ inside Okay, first you have to try and see if you can get the mosquitoes to leave you alone with all sorts of useless anti-mosquitoes products. Then you have to decide if you're going indoors or not.

14) You kind of know the first verse of the national anthem, but buggered if you know what 'girt' means Does it count if it's not the Australian National Anthem? 'Cause I'm fairly certain of the 1st verse of the American one, and I don't have a clue what "girt" means...

22) You don't know what's in a meat pie and you don't care You know what, that's true. I don't. (To both, obviously. *g*)

28) You've become deeply cynical of politicians Again, not strictly an Australian trait. *smirks*

35) You believe that the flavour of any meal is improved by adding tomato sauce I... might believe that. (Except for things like, oh, salad, desert, etc...)

41) You firmly believe that in the end, everything will be ok, and have told a mate in tough times that 'She'll be right, mate' Oh, sure. I mean, it may take a while, but sooner or later I'll believe that. (Otherwise I would have gone insane by now, ya know?)

44) You constantly shorten words. For example,breakfast becomes 'brekkie' and afternoon becomes 'arvo', barbeque becomes 'barbie' Ummm, maybe not those words, but I shorten some things.

50) You know that the oath of mateship can never be limited by Geographical distance Oh, wha do you think? Most of my friends live in either a different state or a different country.

So, do you think that's enough to get me visitation privelages? ^_^

Date: 2003-06-09 09:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] philf.livejournal.com
15) You have a story that some how revolves around excess consumption of alcohol and a mate named 'Dave'

And 'Paul', and 'Mark', and 'Jonas' and...


Date: 2003-06-10 07:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dexfarkin.livejournal.com
...'Phil' and 'DuAnn' and 'Byss'.

OMG!!

Date: 2003-06-09 11:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seraangel.livejournal.com
OMG!! Toilet Dolly!!! My Grandma had one of those and my Aunt used to make them and it was always so weird!

Date: 2003-06-10 05:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trishalynn.livejournal.com
8) You stop greeting people with 'Hello' and go straight into 'how're you doin'?

And you're a New Yorker if you say, "Hey,how'reyadoin'?"

Or the popular alternate: "How'reyoudoin'?"

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