I have dealings with students on exchange to and from variouse countries around the world. Their insights into culture shock are sometimes right on the button. This was copied from somewhere else on the net but still made me giggle.
You know your Australian when
~The shorter the nickname, the more they like you.
~Whether it's the opening of Parliament, or the launch of a new art gallery, there is no Australian event that cannot be improved by a sausage sizzle.
~There is no food that cannot be improved by the application of tomato sauce.
~On the beach, all Australians hide their keys and wallet by placing them inside their sandshoes. No thief has ever worked this out. We might have very stupid thieves. Or really stinky sandshoes.
~It's not summer until the steering wheel is too hot to hold, or the bitumen is painful to walk over.
~A thong is not a piece of scanty swimwear, as in America, but a fine example of footwear. A group of sheilas wearing black leather thongs may not be as exciting as you had hoped.
~It is proper to refer to your best friend as "a total bastard". By contrast, your worst enemy is "a bit of a bastard".
~Historians believe the widespread use of the word "mate" can be traced to the harsh conditions on the Australian frontier in the 1890s, and the development of a code of mutual aid, or "mateship". Alternatively, we may all just be really hopeless with names.
~If it can't be fixed with pantyhose and fencing wire, it's not worth fixing.
~It's considered better to be down on your luck than up yourself.
~The phrase "a simple picnic" is not known. Or at least not acted upon. You should take everything. If you don't need to make three trips back to the car, you are not trying.
~A flash sportscar driven by a middle-aged man does not incite envy as in America but hilarity.
~Australians love new technology. Years after their introduction, most conversations on mobile phones are principally about the fact that the call is "being made on my mobile".
~And, finally, don't let the tour
ist books fool you. No-one says "cobber".
goodfielder wrote:I won't be satisfied until we all get barcodes on our foreheads at birth....damnit I wish I hadn't said that, I bet some bureaucrat in Canberra is monitoring this thread
gf - I think I have those barcodes already.
There are an awful lot of lines on my forehead!
November 11, 2005 in Oz.
Anyone want to share their thoughts on what this day means to them?
I will later. I'm on the run & have dallied at A2K for too long already, I'm afraid ...
No one has anything to say? That's a surprise.
OK, I'll say me bit then:
It's Remembrance Day & I find it very sad that there's no longer a solitary old digger left in 2005.
Ned Kelly was hung on this day & still doesn't have a proper marker to show the spot.
And in 1975 we saw the elected government of this country dismissed by the official representative of the Queen of England in Oz. Conservative folk never accepted a Labor government after such a long period of Liberal rule & plugged away at getting rid of it from day one. On the 11/11/75 they finally succeeded. A very sad day for many of us.
Eerie silence marks Kelly anniversary
November 11, 2005 - 2:19PM/the AGE
An eerie silence filled the Old Melbourne Gaol today as descendants of Ned Kelly gathered to mark the 125th anniversary of his hanging.
A bell was rung and Kelly descendant Leigh Olver repeated the infamous bushranger's last words: "Such is life", as guests bowed their heads in remembrance.
To the left of the stage where speakers had earlier paid homage to Australia's Robin Hood, were the gallows and trap door where Kelly's body swung for half an hour before being taken down and pronounced dead.
More than 5,000 people gathered outside the gaol when Kelly was hung on November 11, 1880, after being found guilty of murdering Constable Thomas Lonigan at Stringybark Creek.
Today, a woman, who did not wish to be identified but said she was a descendant of the Kelly Gang, shed tears as the minute lengthened and loudly chirping birds lent an air of the surreal to the occasion. ... <cont>
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/eerie-silence-marks-kelly-anniversary/2005/11/11/1131578217681.html?oneclick=true
Tandberg's famous dismissal cartoon. It still makes me laugh.:
Heard Gough on aunty radio the other day, remarkably on the ball for an 89 year old.
Yes. Cantankerous old codger!
Just so GF
Interesting that a link to poor Ned should appear at this time. He was at one stage looking like a catylyst for rebllion in the north east. Some talk of secession (sp) around that time.
"My names Ned son of Red and a better man never stood in boots" he roared
watch this space for an interesting photgraph related to NED (if i can find it)
Waiting, dadpad, waiting .....
Quote: waiting dadpad waiting
cease and desist ms olga
your linked web site contains some gross miss information. Quotes 2 police being shot at stringybark infact there were 3 as per below. "600 people watched the seige" I think..... not!
sergent michael Kennedy headstone
Thomas lonigan headstone
Michael Scanlen headstone
police monument Mansfield
Inscription on police monument
kennedy grave inscription
"And a terror to evil doers"
lonigan inscription
scanlan headstone says exactly the same
What is that white spectral looking thing to the right of Lonigans headstone inscription?
Good pix, dadpad!
I was in Adelaide 30 years ago!
I'm over it all now!
dadpad wrote:... your linked web site contains some gross miss information. Quotes 2 police being shot at stringybark infact there were 3 as per below. "600 people watched the seige" I think..... not!
Why that dirty, rotten scoundrel who produced that site! Lucky you cam along to set us straight, dadpad!
Good photographs, dadpad.
margo wrote:I was in Adelaide 30 years ago!
I'm over it all now!
But was Adelaide ever the same again, margo?
