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Published: 2019-11-23 10:02:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 21580; Favourites: 678; Downloads: 143
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There's that old Terry Pratchett gag about the only thing not wanting to harm you in Australia is 'some of the sheep', to which I say, he clearly never saw them drive
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Australians about american beer: "We frankly believe that your american beer is like making love in a canoe." "Making love in a canoe?" "Yeah, it's fucking close to water!" Thanks Monty Python (british!) for this never getting old joke!
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Hahaha! I hadn't heard that one
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtgKkiβ¦
They even mentioned a sheep departement. So it really fits!
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This id hilariuos! And soooo well done!
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Those crazy sheep! Are they drinking Fosters (because Fosters is Australian for beer)?
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... and 'beer' is Australian for 'drink'
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And drink we shall! Beer that is. In the New Mexican Outback because I can't get to Oz just yet.
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No one here in Australia drinks Fosters. That's XXXX beer (Called Four X or Forex. Honestly, a mob Castlemaine Brewery in Queensland called it that).
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This South Ozzie drinks West End Export!
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Ha. This one drinks any random Pilsner. Living in Tassie at the moment so I've had a few Boags.
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Don't mind an occasional Boags or Heineken, not a big drinker though.
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I'm not much of a drinker either. Prefer a bourbon if grog is on offer.
Never had a Heineken. Boags was ok, but as a non-beer person, beer is beer pretty much.
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You're saying American television lied to me!!??Β Β Now I need a beer.Β
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Β I know it's a shock that American Television might have gotten it wrong, but Australia is a tiny little island on the other side of the world.
It is only the same size as the continental US (From Mexico to Canada and East to West).
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Ha! American television specializes in getting everything wrong.
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As a non-American, I've wondered how much about America from television isn't American?
I've been there once back in 2000 and I only went to New York and New Jersey.
New York was basically a bigger Melbourne as far as I could see.
The only thing that I thought was odd was that all the cars were way over the speed limit, they were all quite new, and the houses were huge (compared to Australia where about half the cars on the road are over 20 yrs old in most places).
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Most of it! American TV is a hodge-podge of what entertainment producers think America is supposed to be. It is a cultural requirement to go at least 10 miles per hour over the speed limit in the shiniest brand new car you can own here.
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Ha. I know Australia is rarely represented the way it actually is.
I expect though that this is true for every country on the planet.
The only time Australia is represented like it is, is when Australians make the show because we can tell the difference between a Kiwi and an Aussie accent.
I think Australia is becoming more American every year though.
The young folk seem to only be happy if their car is shiny and new.
Thank the banks for that I guess.
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Everything I know about Australia I learned from the Men at Work video "Down Under" and the movies "Young Einstien" and "Crocodile Dundee." I am the embodiment of the Ugly American. And we're having this conversation on Loopydave 's comment feed!
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I can't even list all the American shows I've watched, and I suspect I still have it wrong.
Re your list.
Most of us do like Vegemite. The trick is to spread it so thin it looks like burnt toast, not to put it on thick like peanut butter.
Re Young Einstein (shot in my home town of Newcastle). We definitely see beer as pretty much a religion. It definitely has to be so fizzy and cold that it hurts to drink fast.
Re Croc Dundee. Very few of us carry big knives, but we definitely are very apathetic towards how dangerous a lot of our creatures are. Mostly because we rarely see them unless we go North. If you are North, a crocodile will absolutely attempt to drag you into a river or creek. But only after they've watched you for a while.
We definitely say G'day, and it is exactly like that. The G so like in eGg. Just a short noise like the g in golf. Then a normal Day. Don't leave any space between the G sound and then saying Day. Emphasis should be on the D part of G'day, so more like g'Day.
We also definitely say Fair Dinkum as an exclamation of 'are you telling the truth, no way, shit, gosh, wow'. Fair Dinkum can of course be said as a statement, or as a question, or as sarcasm.
Sorry Loopydave. I'm pretty sure there is a name for taking someone's thread off topic. Love your work by the way..
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Thank YOU! Appreciate the kind words!
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You're absolutely welcome!Β Seeing the thumbnail of this already had a huge smile on my face!
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βThereβs a mention of EcksEcksEcksEcks in Wrencherβs Snakes of All Nations,β said the Chair of Indefinite Studies. βIt says the continent has very few poisonous snakesβ¦ Oh, thereβs a footnote.β His finger went down the page. βIt says βMost of them have been killed by the spiders.β How very odd.β
βThe Last Continent
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Haha! I remember that quote... always made me laugh!
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As an Aussie, I laughed hard at that part of the book. RIP Terry Pratchett...
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Terry was my favourite writer. Still hurts that he's gone...Β Β
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I am in absolute agreement. He is one of the few writers that I've read everything of, and then re-read some.
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Sheep in a Jeep or I guess in this case a Ute. Nice work.
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Defo a ute. (Short for Utility I guess, but as an Australian, I rarely see us use the entire word for anything).
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This made me laugh so hard! Thank you for sharing it.
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Laughter is my favourite currency... happy to amuse!
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An the moral of this is never let an Australian sheep, especially a ram, anywhere near your cans of XXXX.
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Its a rule I live by
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