Post by deirdre on Jan 26, 2006 23:34:51 GMT -5
Ok, my friend sent this article to me and Some of these are so true! Well, practically all of them. 
Feel free to add anymore.
You know you're Australian when....
1) You've mimicked Alf Stewart from Home and Away's broad, Australian accent, eg. "push off, ya flamin' drongo !"
2) You've had an argument with your mate over whether Ford or Holden makes the better car.
3) You've done the "hot sand" dance at the beach while running from the ocean back to your towel.
4) You know who Ray Martin is.
5) You start using words like "reckon" and call people "mate".
6) You stop greeting people with "hello" and go straight to the "how ya doin' ?"
7) You've seriously considered running down to the shop in a pair of Ugg Boots.
8) You own a pair of ugg boots.
9) You've been to a day-nighter cricket match and screamed out incomprehensibly until your throat went raw.
10) You kind of know the first verse to the national anthem, but don't know what "girt" means.
11) You have a story that somehow revolves around excess consumption of alcohol and a mate named "Davo".
12) You've risked attending an outdoor music festival on the hottest day of the year.
13) You've tried to hang off a clothesline while pretending you can fly.
14) You've had a visit to the emergency room after hanging off the clothesline pretending you can fly.
15) You own a pair of thongs for everyday use, and another pair of "dress thongs" for special occasions.
16) You don't know what's in a meat pie, and you don't care.
17) You pronounce Australia as "Stralya".
18) You call soccer soccer, not football.
19) You've squeezed Vegemite through vita wheat.
20) You've sucked your coffee through a Tim Tam.
21) You realise that lifeguards are the only people who can get away with wearing Speedos.
22) You know the little vegemite song.
23) You understand the value of public holidays.
24) Your weekends are spent barracking for your favourite sports team.
25) You've played beach cricket with a tennis ball and a bat fashioned out of a fence post.
26) 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".
27) You use the phrase, "no worries" at least once a day.
28) You've been on a beach holiday and have probably stayed in a caravan.
29) You constantly shorten words to "brekkie", "arvo" and "barbie"
30) You've adopted a local bar as yours.
31) You actively dislike Americans, but watch their TV, eat their food and worship their idols.
32) The barbeque is a male-dominated arena. And the women do the salads.
33) 'Fair go for all' excludes indigenous people.
34) You can't understand why overseas people who supposedly speak the same language have great difficulty comprehending you.
35) You actually understand all of these!
Feel free to add anymore.
You know you're Australian when....
1) You've mimicked Alf Stewart from Home and Away's broad, Australian accent, eg. "push off, ya flamin' drongo !"
2) You've had an argument with your mate over whether Ford or Holden makes the better car.
3) You've done the "hot sand" dance at the beach while running from the ocean back to your towel.
4) You know who Ray Martin is.
5) You start using words like "reckon" and call people "mate".
6) You stop greeting people with "hello" and go straight to the "how ya doin' ?"
7) You've seriously considered running down to the shop in a pair of Ugg Boots.
8) You own a pair of ugg boots.
9) You've been to a day-nighter cricket match and screamed out incomprehensibly until your throat went raw.
10) You kind of know the first verse to the national anthem, but don't know what "girt" means.
11) You have a story that somehow revolves around excess consumption of alcohol and a mate named "Davo".
12) You've risked attending an outdoor music festival on the hottest day of the year.
13) You've tried to hang off a clothesline while pretending you can fly.
14) You've had a visit to the emergency room after hanging off the clothesline pretending you can fly.
15) You own a pair of thongs for everyday use, and another pair of "dress thongs" for special occasions.
16) You don't know what's in a meat pie, and you don't care.
17) You pronounce Australia as "Stralya".
18) You call soccer soccer, not football.
19) You've squeezed Vegemite through vita wheat.
20) You've sucked your coffee through a Tim Tam.
21) You realise that lifeguards are the only people who can get away with wearing Speedos.
22) You know the little vegemite song.
23) You understand the value of public holidays.
24) Your weekends are spent barracking for your favourite sports team.
25) You've played beach cricket with a tennis ball and a bat fashioned out of a fence post.
26) 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".
27) You use the phrase, "no worries" at least once a day.
28) You've been on a beach holiday and have probably stayed in a caravan.
29) You constantly shorten words to "brekkie", "arvo" and "barbie"
30) You've adopted a local bar as yours.
31) You actively dislike Americans, but watch their TV, eat their food and worship their idols.
32) The barbeque is a male-dominated arena. And the women do the salads.
33) 'Fair go for all' excludes indigenous people.
34) You can't understand why overseas people who supposedly speak the same language have great difficulty comprehending you.
35) You actually understand all of these!
