First thing that comes to mind when you think of Australia

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27 Mar 2019, 8:48 pm

Have a tinnie, mate.

said with a quasi-interrogative rising intonation, natch...

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27 Mar 2019, 10:55 pm

Waltzing Matilda

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31 Mar 2019, 8:46 pm

They have such icky words : roo , barbie , mongrel , sheila :evil:

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01 Apr 2019, 12:18 am

tomato.

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01 Apr 2019, 8:14 am

Memes!

(Warning: there's a fair amount of swearing in the video, but it's also fairly accurate)

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01 Apr 2019, 9:26 am

Certain words mean different things than they mean in America:

"Crook" means sick
A "ringer" is a cowboy

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01 Apr 2019, 9:29 am

Edwin Flack, the first major Australian runner, who competed in the first Olympic Games of 1896 in Athens, Greece.

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01 Apr 2019, 3:58 pm

Alcoholism and Kangaroos

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01 Apr 2019, 8:13 pm

Aboriginal people
Great Barrier Reef
Bill Bryson's book
John Williamson

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02 Apr 2019, 9:08 am

Herb Elliott (Australian middle distance runner)
Ron Clarke (Runner)

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04 Apr 2019, 7:39 pm

theres a big red rock thats as tall as a small mountain but its techinically not a mountain coz it has no root.

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05 Apr 2019, 9:13 am

Lleyton Hewitt
Mark Philippousis
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15 May 2019, 7:52 pm

Lets just say they wont invite a kangaroo in the studio again (it was a kiddie show or something) , started kicking like Bruce Lee or something :lol:

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16 May 2019, 2:35 am

Giant Crocodiles

Meat Pies

Billabongs

Didgeridoos

Desert, Desert, and More Desert

Surfing

Barramundi

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20 May 2019, 4:28 pm

Besides the typical stuff, I grumply have to recall the waste of a tree that The Australian Connection is which was the first book we read in English class at school.

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01 Sep 2019, 3:00 am

eilishbillie987 wrote:

theres a big red rock thats as tall as a small mountain but its techinically not a mountain coz it has no root.

That's probably Uluru. It used to be called Ayers Rock but they changed it to the name the local Aboriginal people give it.

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