# You might be an Australian if....... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 4, 2006, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364 "2006-06-04T08:07:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/21 "2006-06-06T08:54:13Z")
[QUOTE=Giles] On the other hand, [venomous snakes](http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/snake_fangs.htm) live away from cities and town, so I’ve not seen them outside zoos. [/QUOTE] Um, no they don’t (live outside urban and rural areas). Plenty of suburbs here in Melbourne encounter browns and tigers on a regular basis. Sure, if you live in the _inner_ 'burbs you won’t have to worry about a snake curled around your dunny seat when you wander in for your morning pee, but for everywhere else, especially if they are somewhat new housing developments, you get Joe Blakes. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/22 "2006-06-06T08:55:15Z")
**You might be an Australian if…** …an American like me asks what part of New Zealand you are from and you throw a holy fit. (And vice versa for New Zealanders.) ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/23 "2006-06-06T08:57:26Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] **You might be an Australian if…** …an American like me asks what part of New Zealand you are from and you throw a holy fit. (And vice versa for New Zealanders.) [/QUOTE] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/24 "2006-06-08T23:50:50Z")
I wanted to add that in Wisconsin woodchopping is a sport. Hayward holds The Lumberjack World Championships every year. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/25 "2006-06-08T23:52:31Z")
I forgot the link. > **[Lumberjack World Championships - Hayward, WI](https://lumberjackworldchampionships.com/)** > > International competition showcasing the best sawing, chopping, speed climbing, log rolling, boom-running & more! Yo-Ho! ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/26 "2006-06-09T05:46:08Z")
You know ALL Kiwis are sheep rooting whingers. And you know what sheep rooting means. You only put vaseline on battery terminals and things that taste like battery terminals. You know the numbers of 10 sheilas who are real certs. And 99.94 means more to you than those numbers. You have a whipper snipper in the shed (rooted). You (if you’re male) have had a girlfriend whose name ends in _lene_ as in Raelene Marlene Sharlene Noelene ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/27 "2006-06-09T05:50:11Z")
[QUOTE=kambuckta] Following the lead of **Amaranta** in her thread [about Canadian identity](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=374145), I am being a dead-set \*Copy-cat from Ballarat \* and doing the same for Australians. Nyeh, nyeh. 😃 Anyways, here’s how you can call yourself an Aussie: If you’re over 40 you will appreciate Armistice Day (11 November) for another reason altogether. . 😛 [/QUOTE] Agree- and no one seems to have picked up on your cleer humour on this one 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/28 "2006-06-09T05:51:27Z")
CleVer. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/29 "2006-06-09T07:12:04Z")
[QUOTE=Cicero] You (if you’re male) have had a girlfriend whose name ends in _lene_ as in Raelene Marlene Sharlene Noelene [/QUOTE] With the emph_aaaarsis_ on the ‘ene’ of course. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/30 "2006-06-09T08:52:41Z")
And I would add that rivalry between Kiwis and Australians, although fierce at times, doesn’t detract from the fact that Australians and Kiwis fought shoulder to shoulder at Gallipoli. So, whilst we can take the piss out of each other, there is also admiration. Thought I’d get in first. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lynne-42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lynne-42/32/3138_2.png) [@lynne-42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynne-42)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/31 "2006-06-09T10:12:26Z")
[QUOTE=Giles] Well, the dropbears have been mentioned, but not the spiders and the snakes. \< snip \> Now someone can tell you lot about sharks and crocodiles. [/QUOTE] Crocodiles are incredible! (I just finished writing a book on them which comes out in November.) Every time they eat someone, the tourism to the croc-infested north goes up. You known you’re an Aussie if you call them salties and freshies. Don’t have them in my backyard, though - an hour out of Melbourne - we do have the deadly spiders and snakes, echidna breeding and platypus within a few kilometres. You know you’re Aussie if you know someone with chooks. Now there’s a scary critter. We also have dropbears. They breed here. Haven’t had a local death from one for a few months now. Not tourist season. It’s winter here. Lynne ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/32 "2006-06-09T11:27:19Z")
[QUOTE=Cicero] And I would add that rivalry between Kiwis and Australians, although fierce at times, doesn’t detract from the fact that Australians and Kiwis fought shoulder to shoulder at Gallipoli. So, whilst we can take the piss out of each other, there is also admiration. Thought I’d get in first. 🙂 [/QUOTE] True from this side, in most cases, mate. And Aussies aren’t the only ones with the chooks, **lynne-42**. These days in cities it means you might have an envionmentalist as a neighbour. That’s even scarier. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lynne-42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lynne-42/32/3138_2.png) [@lynne-42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynne-42)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/33 "2006-06-09T11:57:20Z")
You’re an Aussie if you give New Zealanders heaps and like them better than any other mob. Can’t wait to get back over there. I went to a conference in Wellington and didn’t stay on to look around. One of the stupidist decisions of my life. The view from the plane as the sun set over the fiords on the north of the south island as we flew out was the most stunning sight of my life. But don’t tell any New Zealanders I said all that. Lynne ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/34 "2006-06-09T12:02:10Z")
Heh. I try not to let on that I don’t mind havin’ Aussies as neighbours (and ANZAC cousins) across the Ditch, either. But it’s true. 😉 Haven’t seen Wellington, yet. I intend to, though. Mind you, my city has its scenic moments, too. You’d be welcome anytime you got th’ chance to head on back over here, **lynne-42**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Silence\_of\_the\_clams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silence_of_the_clams)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/35 "2006-06-09T14:18:36Z")
You might be an Aussie if… - Bob’s you’re uncle - you actually enjoy cricket and understand the rules - you drive around in a ute - you use the same ute to run over the new Akubra to make it look old and worn - all you’re friends names are shortened (Mazza, Johnno, etc) - you’re ears are squashed and crumpled from playing tighthead in the scrum - cheers mate! ---
**Author:** ![adopted](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@adopted](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adopted)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/36 "2006-06-09T15:30:20Z")
[QUOTE=DMark] **You might be an Australian if…** …an American like me asks what part of New Zealand you are from and you throw a holy fit. (And vice versa for New Zealanders.) [/QUOTE] Hadn’t you heard Dmark? Australia is set to become New Zealand’s eastern island before the 2007 rugby season… ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/37 "2006-06-09T19:25:24Z")
[QUOTE=adopted] Hadn’t you heard Dmark? Australia is set to become New Zealand’s eastern island before the 2007 rugby season… [/QUOTE] Nah. It’s been our _western_ island for years. Something else we don’t say too much about. It upsets them so, poor dears. (_sshh!_) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/38 "2006-06-09T19:38:59Z")
Dropbears? Well, I’m a [believer!](http://members.ozemail.com.au/~enigman/dropbear.html) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/39 "2006-06-09T19:44:07Z")
So… why is Cher unwelcome in Oz? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364/40 "2006-06-09T19:54:05Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] So… why is Cher unwelcome in Oz? [/QUOTE] Because we have taste? You know you are Australian if you have been sending Tim Tams to online friends in the USA for 8 years. I was going to post more, but my pet kangaroo is cratching at the back door to come in. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-might-be-an-australian-if/359364.md?page=3)