You know you’re an honorary Australian when:
You’ve caught the blowfly buzzing around your head with your bare hands.
You’ve had an argument with a mate over whether Ford or Holden makes the better cars.
You’ve done the “Hot Sand” dance at the beach while running from the ocean back to your towel.
You’re secretly annoyed by Russell Crowe.
You’ve squeezed Vegemite between Vita Wheats to make little Vegemite worms.
Your weekends are spent barracking for your favorite sports team.
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You constantly shorten words. For example, breakfast becomes “brekkie”, afternoon becomes “arvo”, barbeque becomes “barbie”.
You are more scared of bindies in summer than you are of redback spiders.
:lol: these are so true! I hate those damn bindies...but I'm used to the spiders, so they don't really worry me anymore...of course, when I see them I still freak out, but they're easy to squish...
You know you're Australian if to you, December/January is usually the wet season
Are you kidding?! it's only October and it's already getting hot
and last year, for Christmas, I swear I almost melted it got so hot...but then again, Aussie weather is notorious for sometime being hot all winter then raining all summer...*mumbles* stupid Australian weather...
I could only think of one though (which admittedly I got off an ad, but still..)
You know you're Australian when you live in (probably) the only country where it's socially acceptable to eat your own national animal.
(I put the 'probably' there because I'm not sure if other countires eat their national animal. And just for the record, I've never actually eaten Kangaroo, well, at least not to my knowledge, but it's on this commercial for beer...and lots of people actually do eat Kangaroo)
ETA: I got these off a few websites:
You Know You're Australian when:
You sleep with Aeroguard on.
You feel obliged to spread salty black stuff that looks like congealed motor oil on bread and actually grow to like it.
(I should point out that Vegemite is actually really nice, but pretty much no-one outside of Australia actually likes it)
Democracy means the freedom to draw caricatures of John Howard.
All of your internationally famous people don't live here.
You don't drink Fosters, but you let the world think you do.
You've ever used the words - grouse, tops, ripper, choice, sick, rad, exo, ace, wicked, ballistic - to mean good. And then you place 'bloody' in front of it when you really mean it.
The "Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi oi oi!" chant has been a religious experience in the past.
The private lives of footy and cricket players become more important than local and national news stories.
You say 'no worries' quite often, whether you realise it or not.
You realise you have no Bill of Rights.
The first thing guaranteed to get eaten at parties is fairy bread.
You mimick Alf Stewart from the TV show Home and Away's broad, Australian accent, eg. "push off, ya flamin' drongo!" or "ya flamin' mongrels!"
You start using words like "reckon" and call people "mate".
You've seriously considered running down the shop in a pair of Ugg Boots
You kind of know the first verse to the national anthem, but don't know what "girt" means.
You suck your coffee (or hot chocolate) through a Tim Tam.
You don't know what's in a meat pie, and you don't care.
