What do you really know about Australia?
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The are the only country that is also a continent.
Also, only place that has glow worms.
Majority of the country is uninhabitable desert (?)
Their video games laws and prices suck.
Also, only place that has glow worms.
Majority of the country is uninhabitable desert (?)
Their video games laws and prices suck.
This. A New Zealand immigrant has explained this to me.SBoggart said:
Otherwise: Kangaroos, Crocodiles, things that kill you, Steve Irwin and the fact that Australia is where all the convicts were sent by the British Empire are all I really know about it. Well, that and its quite wet there right now.
Australia seems like a chill country but can you guys please stop trying to ruin Saskatchewan's Potash industry? The buy out didn't work so now there is an Aussie mine being built so that you can outsource our local company. Please stop that! We need the 2-3 billion dollars a day that sector makes for the province! Seriously, Saskatchewan doesn't have much else going for it!
Vizzini says that Iocaine powder comes from Australia....
Oh, and it's entirely peopled with criminals...
Oh, and it's entirely peopled with criminals...
Just one point I'd like to make. Aborigine is a general term referring to indigenous peoples globally. However, it's usage in Australia is as a general word for indigenous Australians. Largely because no one bothered to learn all the names of the 250+ "peoples" that were reduced by %80 within the first 130 years of Australia being discovered. We really didn't care about them. In fact they were officially listed as being "native flora and fauna" well into the 80's.Neverhoodian said:
These days aborigines (of which there are no full-bloods left BTW) are officially referred to as " people". Unfortunately, 200 years of hostility between white settlers and aborigines has caused them to mostly shun the developed world and live, partially by choice, as third-world people. But you probably already knew that.
Also, yes. Australia is a continent. Oceania is not a continent, the term mostly refers to the islands on the Pacific Tectonic Plate, and the tectonic plates aren't exactly the same things as continents. Australia is on the Indo-Australian Plate (same plate as India, strange right?). New Zealand is on the border of the Antarctic and Indo-Australian Plates, That's why they have all these huge mountains (and volcanos? not sure) on the southern island.
This is basically true but Queensland is reputedly stronger in accents than the rest... Maybe Northern Territory as well... and as a general rule the further in and isolated the stronger the accent.Tower 87 said:
LIKE AMERICA!?!? Please stop saying this it's not doing good things for my patriotism.innocentEX said:
To the latter, screw emus... I ride a cassowary!
And to further one stereotype I could eat Vegemite from the jar... people who use butter are soft =]
Assassin Xaero said:
Kinda. But, not really, but...
Just look at this picture. No I'm not going to upload it to ImageShack.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Australia-climate-map_MJC01.png
Ahh, I might have just got it mixed up with something... don't like 90% of the people or something live along the coast (like not directly on, but on the coast as opposed to towards the middle)? Maybe that was what I was thinking...Isaac The Grape said:
About 80% of all the population lives within 500KM of the coast. People do live in the middle of Australia (there's a town called Alice Springs that is on the map purely because of this) it's just that aside from mining there's very little reason to do so.Assassin Xaero said:
Now that's just not true. I live in a small country town, and there's racism and homophobia aplenty. I think as you get closer to a city, larger population ensures you'll find greater numbers of racists/homophobics (idiots) but the percentage remains more or less the same...joshuaayt said:
I live here in Australia, and I don't really care. I didn't know it was Australia Day today until I found that I couldn't ring the University until tomorrow yesterday... Which is a pain.
I will say this. Our special forces unit kicks ass. It's widely regarded as the best.
Come on. Tell me what isn't awesome about that.I said:
I'm impressed by the knowledge the non-Aussies here have exhibited.
I, too, am sorry about Rupert Murdoch. And half of Mel Gibson.
And like others have said, you really don't have to worry about the poisonous wildlife. It's not like we spend half our time dodging funnel webs and poisonous snakes. Both of those animals are fairly keen on avoiding the big cities. And if you get your house properly sprayed every year like you're supposed to, you'll never have a problem.
I, too, am sorry about Rupert Murdoch. And half of Mel Gibson.
And like others have said, you really don't have to worry about the poisonous wildlife. It's not like we spend half our time dodging funnel webs and poisonous snakes. Both of those animals are fairly keen on avoiding the big cities. And if you get your house properly sprayed every year like you're supposed to, you'll never have a problem.
To easy. Julia Gillard is currently PM.Tower 87 said:
Movies ah. Ooo how about all three Mad Max films, "Dirty Deeds" (One of Sam Worthington's first films (Avatar, Clash of the titans) and also stars Sam Neal and John Goodman), "Animal Kingdom", "Samson & Delilah", "Bran Nue Dae", "Mary & Max", "Footy Legends", "Wake in Fright", "Bad Eggs", "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert", "The Proposition", "Muriel's Wedding", "Ned Kelly", "Rabbit-Proof Fence (important to understand the aboriginal situation)", "The Castle" (famous for being filmed in 11 days with an awful camera and for being rubbish in general, yet still being one of the most loved and highest grossing Australian films of all time), "Japanese Story", "Jindabyne", "The Man Who Sued God", "On the Beach" (an incredibly depressing film and one of the first films to explore post-Nuclear WWIII Apocalypse.), "Romper Stomper", "Strictly Ballroom", "Ten Canoes", "The Dish", "Danny Deckchair", "Charlie & Boots", "Welcome to Woop Woop", "Chopper" ("I never killed anyone if they didn't deserve it" the best thing about the movie is everything in it is true. Chopper Reid is a real person.), "Fat Pizza: The Movie", "He Died with a Felafel in His Hand", and "Tomorrow, When the War Began" (shame they didn't keep to the book, which they could have done and still made a perfectly fine movie without the need for a sequel(which won't be made or they will be banned in america an thus not make enough money.) and they made the invaders Asian.)
Bloody hell that took a long time to write down.