Saturday 26 March 2011

anti-aussie?

talkin to an american dude this week, he expected me, as an aussie, to be in love with tennis. i'm not. neither am i blonde, or tanned or a surfer ( i do like the beach ) i dont follow any variety of football and i dont usually care about cricket tho i have been known to get involved in a very close game. also anti-aussie is my interest in the arts and then there is my dogged exploration of faith in a hugely secular society. i talk like an aussie, i can be well spoken australian or grossly vernacular, in the right situation i can even morph into the australian version of trailer trash. unfortunately here in the wide brown land we dont have such a wonderfully evocative name for our lowest common denominator.... what stereotypes do you associate with terra australis?

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  1. "my dogged exploration of faith..."

    God is dog spelled backward, of course, so I'm not surprised that you've turned to dog worship, but I'm more than a little surprised that, now that your jobless, you hang out around the trailer park all day mainlining morphine. Oh, well, I luvs you even more now that I know you're no good than I did when I thought you wuz very good.

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  2. lol snow!
    love ya back, darls!

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  3. hey, btw, did you see i'm coming your way? you'd better duck for cover!

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  4. Kylie, I can't believe you've never heard of bogans. "An individual from a lower class background or someone with limited education, speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour" (Wikipedia). There's even a well-known blog called Things Bogans Like (http://thingsboganslike.com/)

    Apart from that derogatory stereotype, my own stereotype of an Aussie is hedonistic, optimistic, food and beer (or chardy) loving, hard-working and keen on physical activity. True or false?

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  5. oh nick, of course i know bogans! temporary brain glitch!
    well i love my food, dont drink,
    work only as hard as i must and as i said to somebody else only today: i dont play sport but i'm not against physical activity ;)

    all up , not a great aussie :)

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  6. Y'all carry knives and wrestle crocs barehanded like Crocodile Dundee.

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  7. "Y'all carry knives and wrestle crocs barehanded"

    You say that like it's not really true!

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  8. Fun-loving, bit of devil-may-care, casual (as in, anti-suit-and-tie), gregarious, self-sufficient, charming.

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  9. sorry guys, too tired to comment, just got back from wrestling a croc...

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  10. "just got back from wrestling a croc... "

    Does the fact that you wrote this mean that you won? Was the experience fun for both you and the croc?

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  11. it's always fun when you win, snow!
    but there would be more attractive wrestling partners

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  12. Ha! 'chardy' shichyeah! We are arguably the most apathetic people on earth, and proud of it!

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  13. i am so disppointed in you<<,you said you would try to LOVE TENISjuast for me<><><>wouldn't you do anything for me<><>let us test yoou<<<watch the entire french open from paris and give a report back to me the putz

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  14. megan,
    we probably are all of that!

    putz,
    i will do anything for you that doesnt involve sport!

    baino,
    apathy is a big one!

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  15. Now a bit old fashioned but do you remember OCKER ?

    In Western NSW is a river named the Bogan.

    I was in Bogan House at school believe it or not. (Dubbo Central School.)

    I have only been aware of Bogan for probably just 5 years as an alternate descriptor for bogan.

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  16. I meant yokel or ocker!

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