YOU KNOW YOU'RE AUSTRALIAN IF YOU...
• believe that stubbies can be either drunk or worn.
• waddle when you walk due to the 53 expired petrol discount vouchers stuffed in your wallet or purse
• have made a bong out of your garden hose rather than use it for something illegal such as watering the garden
. • think it's normal to have a leader called Julia.
• believe it is appropriate to put a rubber in your son's pencil case when he first attends school
• are liable to burst out laughing whenever you hear of Americans "rooting" for something
• understand that the phrase 'a group of women wearing black thongs' refers to footwear and may be less alluring than it sounds
• pronounce Melbourne as 'Mel-bn'.
• believe the 'l' in the word ' Australia ' is optional.
• know that some people pronounce Australia like "Straya" and that's ok.
• can translate: 'Dazza and Shazza played Acca Dacca on the way to Maccas.'
• believe it makes perfect sense for a nation to decorate its highways with large fibreglass bananas, prawns and sheep
• call your best friend 'a total bastard' but someone you really, truly despise is just 'a bit of a bastard'.
• think 'Woolloomooloo' is a perfectly reasonable name for a place.
• are secretly proud of our killer wildlife.
• believe it makes sense for a country to have a $1 coin that's twice as big as its $2 coin
. • understand that 'Wagga Wagga' can be abbreviated to 'Wagga' but 'Woy Woy' can't be called 'Woy'.
• believe that cooked-down axle grease makes a good breakfast spread. You've also squeezed it through Vita Weat biscuits to make little Vegemite worms
• believe all famous Kiwis are actually Australian, until they stuff up, at which point they again become Kiwis
• hamburger with Beetroot? Of course!
• know that certain words must, by law, be shouted out during any rendition of the Angels' song 'Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again'
• believe that the confectionery known as the Wagon Wheel has become smaller with every passing year
• wear ugg boots outside the house
• believe that every important discovery in the world was made by an Australian but then sold off to the Yanks for a pittance
• believe that the more you shorten someone's name the more you like them.
• whatever your linguistic skills, you find yourself able to order takeaway fluently in every Asian language
• understand that 'excuse me' can sound rude, while 'scuse me' is always polite
• know what it's like to swallow a fly
• know it's not summer until the steering wheel is too hot to handle and a seat belt buckle becomes a pretty good branding iron.
• biggest family argument over the summer concerned the rules for beach cricket
• shake your head in horror when companies try to market what they call 'Anzac cookies'.
• still think of Kylie as 'that girl off Neighbours'
• understand that all train timetables are works of fiction.
• understand, when working in a bar, that male customers will feel the need to offer an excuse whenever they order low-alcohol beer
• know how to abbreviate every word, all of which usually end in -o: arvo, combo, garbo, kero, lezzo, metho, milko, muso, rego, servo, smoko, speedo, righto etc
• know that there is a universal place called "woop woop" located in the middle of nowhere .... no matter where you actually are
• know that none of us actually drink Fosters beer, because it tastes like ###t. But we let the world think we do. Because we can
• have some time in your life slept with Aeroguard on in the summer. Maybe even as perfume.
• have only ever used the words - tops, ripper, sick, mad, rad, and sweet - to mean good. And then you place 'bloody' in front of it when you REALLY mean it.
• know that the barbeque is a political arena; the person holding the tongs is always the boss and usually a man. And the women make the salad.
• say 'no worries' quite often, whether you realise it or not.
• have drunk your tea/coffee/milo through a Tim Tam.
•
own a Bond's chesty. In several different colours my have not!

• have ordered a steak the size of your head and only paid $5 at your local RSL.
• know that 'roo meat tastes pretty good, but not as good as barra. Or a meat pie.
• and .. will immediately forward this list to other Australians, here and overseas, realising that only they will understand.