What do you really know about Australia?

[RhombusHatesYou]

4. Crocodiles don't eat people in the same way a shark would (sawing witht heir teeth), they grab onto you with their teeth and roll, breaking bones and tearing flesh. If you even suspect a croc is near somewhere you intend to swim, then don't! Don't even stand around, leave.

Crocs rarely eat fresh kills, they prefer to stash them under rocks and stuff in the water. Crocs typically kill via drowning, dragging their victim under the water. Trauma and/or blood loss can kill before this but the croc will usually go ahead with the drowning routine regardless.

6. Normal Australian's LOVE foreign accents, if your from a different country, you can get laid in Australia, and do much better than you usually would. You know how hot you are out of 10? add 5 to that total and that's how hot you are here. If you were already a 9 or 10, you could consider yourself a rock star with the ladies/men.

Not entirely true. You have to have the right accent, which changes from person to person. There are several accents that I'd rather drive roofing nails into my ears than listen to.

7. The suburbs aren't as bad as everyone makes them out to be, just try to make a few friends first then go out to the local with them and you will be fine.

Most burbs are okay regardless, it's only the ones with 'welfare class' reputations (often well deserved) that you shouldn't go to unless you've got mates there.

 

[Risingblade]

There are kangoroos, it was home to british presidents, there a hurricane close by at the moment, shit is expesive there,There a place called Karrantha and Perth, It's like canada but with no snow?

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

It's not true, while the male platypus has an incredibly painful venom, it is unlikely that you will die from it's scratch, althought it can leave you incapacitated for an extended period of time.

That's because the venom basically takes your pain receptors near the wound and cranks them up to 11 and can take months to wear off. In extreme cases the doctors will just severe the affected nerves.

 

[The-Bad-Blooded]

I don't know HOW many times I've said this, but Australians have NEVER, in the History of the Universe, EVER, said 'Chunder' or the term 'whack a Shrimp on the Barbie'

1. because they sound REDICULOUS
2. because only pussies eat shrimp, we eat PRAWNS.

Australia is known for having Naturally Beautiful people...

 

[ENKC]

Plus an Aussie mate of mine grew up near this little town in the outback where a load of people ended up on smack, and in a rare show of liberalism the local government effectively stopped enforcing laws against softer drugs like dope and psychedelics in order to curb this problem. It worked. Kinda. Now it's full of hippie types, has an annual joint-rolling festival and the police station has an elaborate hallucinogenic mural on the front that they can't be bothered to take down. Sounds like fun.

Nimbin: Stoner Capital of the World.

Debate about whether it being a country or a continent has/had been going on for a while.

Screw being American

Please tell me you're deliberately poking fun at perceptions of the geographical ignorance of Americans. Please.

I also have heard the taxation is included in cost when purchasing. Canada really should adopt this policy.

I'm an Australian tax accountant, so here goes. We have something called Goods and Services Tax (GST) charged on most goods and services (there are some exceptions). This is similar to any number of 'sales' or 'consumption' taxes around the world. It is NOT a substitute for income tax as we still pay that and still fill out tax returns. I should know - I just did five hundred of them in four months.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

I don't know HOW many times I've said this, but Australians have NEVER, in the History of the Universe, EVER, said 'Chunder' or the term 'whack a Shrimp on the Barbie'

'Chunder' was used regularly until around the mid-80s when it was superceded by 'spew' and 'puke'. If you go out bush and visit any of the Towns That Time Forgot you'll occasionally still hear 'chunder'.

 

[Mr Pantomime]

I know when I was over there, I was at a touchpool in an aquarium, and they had a blue-ringed Jellyfish in there. You guys are intense.

I think you mean either a Blue Ringed Octopus, which are very deadly,
or a Blue Bottle (a type of jellyfish with like projectile stinging tendrils) not deadly, a little painful but not much.

I remember going to the aquarium and getting bitten by a baby crocodile in the touchpool, don't worry, unless their big enough to roll over and break your neck or tear a limb off, their not too harmful, just a few stitches.

Sorry, I meant Blue-Ringed Octopus

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

I'm an Australian tax accountant, so here goes. We have something called Goods and Services Tax (GST) charged on most goods and services (there are some exceptions). This is similar to any number of 'sales' or 'consumption' taxes around the world.

And they still haven't removed half of the taxes the GST was supposed to 'replace' because "hey, money!"

 

[Mr Thin]

Edit: It sure is nice to see the amount of Australians saying nice things about this pla-oh wait, no...Aussie aussie aussie?

Oi Oi Oi!

The lack of Australian spirit in this thread is disheartening. Some Australians are even bashing this country! Where are the patriots!?

Also, to the poms going on about beating us in cricket, we just beat England 3 times in a row in the ODIs, so nyeh.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Sorry, I meant Blue-Ringed Octopus

I've been bitten by one of those little bastards. Docs said if I hadn't been pissed out of my skull and if I'd gotten a full dose of the venom I'd've been dead instead of just chucking my guts up and being laid up in bed for a week.

 

[Tower 87]

I don't know HOW many times I've said this, but Australians have NEVER, in the History of the Universe, EVER, said 'Chunder' or the term 'whack a Shrimp on the Barbie'

1. because they sound REDICULOUS
2. because only pussies eat shrimp, we eat PRAWNS.

Australia is known for having Naturally Beautiful people...

Oh my, you must be from a far more sophisticated part of Australia than I am. 'Chunda' is a Friday night buzz word, unless you use the far more preferred term to "Cry Ruth"

 

[TheRealCJ]

I have been given several boomerangs from my Australian relatives, yet I haven't killed any cows in the adjacent field with this magical weapon.

keep in mind that a returning boomerang probably wasn't used to hunt.

Hunting boomerangs were pretty much just a club you throw.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Where are the patriots!?

Probably down the beach wearing the flag as capes and shouting racial abuse at immigrants. It is Australia Day, after all.

 

[STE3L]

It is general practice for youths to get blind drunk at any opportunity.

 

[STE3L]

P.S. i know, i am one XD

 

[Eumersian]

I think I know that they have all of the weird-ass animals. Like marsupials, and platypuses and what not.

 

[The King of Rock and Roll]

Everything is upside down.

 

[Tower 87]

The lack of Australian spirit in this thread is disheartening. Some Australians are even bashing this country! Where are the patriots!?

I am with you bruddah, but what is interesting is how other countries see Australia, I am still not convinced that we don't deserve our racist cultural identity even if its complete horse shit. Knowing how we are viewed will help us change the way we are viewed....but they better stay away from my Australium