Opinions on Australia - a study.

[Sebenko]

A land who's people deserve great accolades just for not dying, but instead end up with politicians so bad they make GLORIOUS LEADER GORDON BROWN look good.

 

[Naeo]

I like Australia/Australians. Been there once before, and it was a pretty neat experience; everyone was friendly and they're a lot less stuck-up about "politically correct" (i.e. hyper-syllabic and obfuscated) language than us Americans.

 

[Yumi_and_Erea]

I love Australians.

Except for Steve Erwin and Michael Atkinson, the fucktarts.

Apart from them, I love you guys.

 

[Nickolai77]

Australians are, on the whole, great people. I'm proud of the fact that Britain and Australia are two countries which are quite close, due to the number of Brit's which go and emigrate to Australia. Like any country, you do have your retards. Britain has chav's, America has its fundimentalist Christians, Australia has its racists (argubly) and Micheal Atkinson. God help you poor Australian gamers. And you've got that internet firewall thingie- seriously, you guys need to sort out your government.

I'm sure Australia is a lovely beautiful country, altough your wildlife is a bit...wild to say the least. I would prefer hedgehogs and robins over snakes and spiders anyday.

 

[Crimsane]

Feh. Australia doesn't have anything to do with my normal daily life, so I don't much think about it one way or another.

 

[teutonicman]

From a Canadian's perspective I see your country as any other first world country primarily white country, with the exception that your government has a raging hard on for censorship.

 

[ace_of_something]

Personally I fear Australia because it's the land where monsters are born. I have an acute fear of highly poisonous fish, jellyfish, bugs, snakes, and weird marsupials.

I also heard that Koalas don't like belly rubs, how could something be so adorable and be so irritable? It's off-putting.

As far as the peoples of Australia... I dunno most people I know see them as 'hillbilly british people' kind of like how most of America veiws the deep south. I just think of them as 'less uptight english people'. Very uptight about censorship.

 

[Spitfire175]

Aussies from the outback and the bush are awesome. Met a few in Germany in a gun convention. Wicked sense of humour they had. And wicked knives.

If I'll ever go to Australia, I'll bring a 12 gauge with me to deal with the spiders and such.

 

[Mcupobob]

Get over, almost ever english countery on the escsapist gets poke fun at.

 

[Pendragon9]

You guys are alright, and I have a friend or two that lives there.

Your government though, has a stick up it's rear porthole, if you get my drift.

 

[DRTJR]

I will say this every Aussie i know A. hates their government, and B. does not vote

 

[Akai Shizuku]

Like the people, hate the government.

Also, why don't you ride kangaroos to school and work and back?

 

[Alphavillain]

I like the Aussie "can do" mentality. It's an easy attitude to mock, but it's great. They don't have the whole annoying, eye-rolling "I'm soooo bored" thing that many Europeans have.

 

[ThatsBitch3n]

My opinion of Australia is that its a decent country and everyone ive met from there is pretty nice.

 

[Lemon Of Life]

Have you never seen Crocodile Dundee? Course they do that. I happen to know a friend on MSN who has a kangeroo as a pet.

lol'd.

But yeah, it may be due to Steve Irwin and Crocodile Dundee that some of these misconceptions hold strong.

I shall have him killed.

*Steps into time machine*.

 

[Ashbax]

Yes I have a question.

Did you really think anyone had those misconceptions about Australia? Come on, we are not stupid enough to think that you ride Kangaroos and wrestle Crocodiles. I've never heard anyone say that outside of a joke.

/thread

I mean, come on, thats like me believing people think us irish all have ginger beards and drink and fight all day long. Actually, the second one is nearly true. There's LOADS of drunks in ireland and its really violent. AND we have loads of gingers. Uhh...oh yeah, what about our people being midgets who wear green? Average height in ireland is 5'10, and we don't wear green much except to ireland sports matches...

People just like joking around/stereotyping. Though, dude, I feel sorry for you. You dont have the gory version of L4D2, and brah, you havent lived until you've blown up a zombie with a thumper grenade launcher. THERE IS AN ACTUAL FRIGGING TRAIL OF FECKING GUTS, Y'HEAR ME? TRAIL. OF. GUTS. DISMEMBERED CORPSES. LOLWUT.

 

[Ashbax]

Have you never seen Crocodile Dundee? Course they do that. I happen to know a friend on MSN who has a kangeroo as a pet.

lol'd.

But yeah, it may be due to Steve Irwin and Crocodile Dundee that some of these misconceptions hold strong.

I shall have him killed.

*Steps into time machine*.

Crocodile dundee is AWESOME, shaddup.

 

[Balaxe]

I don't really take notice to Australian steriotypes as there's stereiotypes for every country. So take it with a grain a salt mate. Also Australia is an epic place to live, everyone has to vistit us atleast once in their life.

 

[Yamiki]

I tend to be quite merciful with pretty much every insect/arachnid I find these days and I never quite understood the shrimp on the barby one, it'd just fall through the grill

I prefer our coat of arms on a barbie myself... and yes that is not just a joke we do eat the animals of our coat of arms

Not gunna lie, kangaroo is fucking delicious. Only ever had it once or twice in my lifetime though, it's a good thing there isn't also a cow and a pig on the coat of arms, I guess.

I do heartily agree, Kangaroo is a great lean meat ....
OT: As an Australian I welcome the various stereotypes for the pure comedic values they impart with some of the more gullible of tourists, convincing a British tourist that your a cockatoo shearer or a wombat farmer is hilarious... Most of the stereotypes I think we may have started anyway...
Satire is the only comedy the world can ever understand, whilst we still have breath in our lungs... England will still be full of POMs, New Zealanders are still Kiwis, and Americans are still Yanks. Its the natural order of things... With each name comes a stereotype it's not a bad thing .... just funny as feth ....
now if you don't quite mind I have some wombats to farm and I have a full day of shearing cockatoo's and wrestling that big ol' saltie that's eating my wombats...
Later world, may the fruit of your kin be the camel that broke the straw.

 

[ResonanceSD]

I will say this every Aussie i know A. hates their government, and B. does not vote

Clearly you don't know a single Aussie as it's illegal to not vote. Unless you're in prison. Also, I don't hate* the government. They just do a lot of stupid things.