Australian Culture: Are We Crazy Or Is It Just Me

[Aerozord]

Originally Posted by Flarecobra

No, it's not New Zealand. I know a few people from there.

Might be Sweden though.

Come on guys know your stereotypes

[Magus]

I dunno, there was this Australian guy from Tasmania on the Colbert Report last week (I think), he was pretty awesome seeming so I'm now convinced Australians are all pretty awesome.

Like I can't even remember what he was being interviewed about, it seemed to be entirely based around showing that Australians are really awesome, so there you go.

[3stan]

Man, you guys, I stay off the internet for twelve hours.

Originally Posted by TDK

A shithouse is an outdoor toilet. Stop destroying your own culture by making up new meanings for things.

Are you kidding? Squidging up words is like 90% of what we do.

Originally Posted by Aerozord

Depends on context. Easiest way to put it is in any reporting, speech, or journalism courses they tell you flat out to avoid slang in any form. So regardless of whether or not its used, academically we view it as a tool for hacks.

That basically vindicates my view of Australian journalism, so thanks.

Originally Posted by TDK

Of australian culture, yes. They can't escape the trappings of their own heritage. They're all destined to be criminals.

I'd be offended by this, but i basically spent today jaywalking, downloading movies, and murdering and eating my friends so I guess I can't say anything.

Originally Posted by Magus

I dunno, there was this Australian guy from Tasmania on the Colbert Report last week (I think), he was pretty awesome seeming so I'm now convinced Australians are all pretty awesome.

Like I can't even remember what he was being interviewed about, it seemed to be entirely based around showing that Australians are really awesome, so there you go.

That can't be right. I'm from Tasmania, it's shithouseAHAYOUSEEWOTIDIDTHERE

[Arhra]

Originally Posted by Magus

I dunno, there was this Australian guy from Tasmania on the Colbert Report last week (I think), he was pretty awesome seeming so I'm now convinced Australians are all pretty awesome.

Like I can't even remember what he was being interviewed about, it seemed to be entirely based around showing that Australians are really awesome, so there you go.

HELLO

Anyway, just popping in to link Douglas Adams' informative primer on Australia.

It's pretty snazzfairy!

[RickZarber]

Also see: Riding the Rays.

Originally Posted by DNA

Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner. In fact it's not so much a country as such, more a sort of thin crust of semi-demented civilisation caked around the edge of a vast, raw wilderness, full of heat and dust and hopping things.

Tell most Australians that you like their country and they will give a dry laugh and say 'Well, it's the last place left now isn't it?', which is the sort of worrying thing that Australians say. You don't quite know what they mean but it worries you in case they're right.

Just knowing that the place is lurking there on the other side of the world where we can't see it is oddly unsettling, and I'm always looking for excuses to go even if only to keep an eye on it.