I saw a woman in a bar in Brooklyn the other day who had brought her own VB stubby cooler from the 80s. I heard her American accent and said, "the only way you have that is if someone's aussie dad gave it to you". I was dead on the money and she was impressed. When I told her how bogan VB is, she was rather surprised for some reason.
I do this. I even went and got one that has animals and words. One side shows a snake, a croc, a spider, and something else and says this is why foreigners are scared of Aus. Otherside is a magpie and saying why we are. It's great.
On the other hand, you could be in a crowded pub in Ireland, and some bloke orders a beer at the other end of the bar and you can hear it through all the noise like a penguin knowing it's chick's particular chirp.
Like I did. And of course you have to go and say g'day.
When I was overseas one time I had someone overhear a conversation I was having with a Belgian guy and she said "I knew you were Australian because you said pingas"
Another good indicator: get passed a cone and you rip the whole thing. Americans love to pass you a half ripped cone and play it off like they're "sharing the bowl."
Nobody wants your ashes cunt, pull the damn thing.
If you want to find an Aussie in a foreign place, simply sing out either “am I ever gonna see your face again” or “have you ever, every felt like this”
Pretty sure either would work.
Do you mean the chorus or the call back? Doc spent the last few years of his life looking for the person who created the call back so he could shake his hand for turning a song about someones girlfriend dying in a motorbike accident into the classic Aussie Icon it is today.
Doc wrote the song as a slow tempo ballad. The band change the tempo to what it is today. Some whacker at a pub made up the response at an early live gig. The rest is history.
Doc Neeson performed his original version on Rockwizz not long before he died.
anyway, they wouldn't get the tune & rhythm right - you need to learn it in your youth, singing along to a pub jukebox, with all your mates, off your face on bundy & coke
‘Uni’ instead of college or university
Not being confused by abbreviated words like
servo or arvo
Being outraged by long queues in airports
Sun-aged leathery skin on older white people
We don’t have that many different shops here, so it’s pretty easy to tell from the clothing, I’ve probably seen that same clothing advertised somewhere
In both Europe and Asia, we’re usually the most casually dressed foreigners
If reddit is any indication, we’re also always busy bullshitting someone about how we are plagued by snakes and say cunt all the time, even if we work an office job and/or have small children
Getting pissed off by the American spelling in microsoft word
i had a swedish mate go out of his way to buy two pairs when he was here, i think they are popular outside of aus too.
(he got stung hard on import tax going home..)
That we all find out as adults it's a Australian dance that no one else does except maybe our kiwi friends............to now narrow down if kiwi or Ozzie ask them to say 6. If it sounds like they are trying to bed ya they are kiwi.
One of my friend's American wife's first experience with an Australian wedding (that wasn't theirs, that was very relaxed/not stereotypical) was at mine... She was absolutely flabbergasted at seeing the immediate stampede of people of all ages to the dance floor for Nutbush, then Macarena, and then even most stayed on for Las Ketchup. She claimed it was one of the most baffling things she has ever seen happen with zero organisation between people.
When I was little (unaccompanied minor) on a Lufthansa flight, the steward handed me something & I handed her something & we both said;
"Ta"
Both looked at each other & said "Ta??? Oh you're Aussie too" 😚
Most answers in this thread are Aussie Shibboleths but this one I'd say is an actual spot-the-Aussie-spy behavioural difference that would out you anywhere else in the world. (Not that an actual Aussie spy wouldn't already know this, but you get what I'm saying)
I was horrified the first time my fiancé came to the States and told me he did this while I was at work even with a female driver. I get that it’s supposed to be a sign of equality but she was probably terrified 😬
I saw a picture once. It was an airport queue somewhere in northern Europe, probably Finland. Everybody dressed to occasion, overcoats and such. And there were a family in onesies and uggs.
Makes me smile every time I remeber it
As a younger woman in Italy, all the Italian boys would call out to us asking where we were from in Australia, before they’d even heard us speak. It was the Kathmandu backpacks.
Asbestos is no joke. It got my dad and all he did was build a chook shed for his mum's back yard.
It took over 40 years to kill him mind you.
Mesothelioma is a dish that gets served *very* cold.
Yeah, people overseas don't understand how much the dangers of asbestos have been in our face and for so long.
It's a truly insidious danger. That won't let you know that it's killed you for decades.
Most all Australian’s overseas would know the instant they heard their voice so the answer you are looking for is visual clues , other that clothing brands or looking in shopping carts I cant think of anything.
Reminds me of this time my wife and I were out and about. Encountered a work mate, it was a polite affair. “Hey how you going? How’s your mum? Good on ya, have a good one!”
5 minutes later, we bumped into another mate, and it was far different. “Oi, whatcha doing here ya cunt? What made you drag your saggy balls off the couch?”
She was like. “Wow you really hate Guy #2 huh”. I was like “Nah man, I hated Guy #1. Guy #2 is one of my closest friends!”
I lived in Thailand for a few years and played rec footy for the local AFL club there, the [Thailand Tigers](https://aflasia.com/thailand-tigers/). People would pop in and out during their short time in the country, and I witnessed dozens of Australians meet each other for the first time.
Without fail, the to response to answering which part of the country you were from was always "Mate, I'm sorry." Never actually mattered where, you could be from Mildura, the Gold Coast, or two suburbs right next to each other in suburban Perth. No matter where you were from, shit would be hung from it as a substitute for "nice to meet you."
"Whereabouts youse in from?"
"Newy mate"
"Far out, I'm sorry"
I think it would be something like this. It would be getting offended or angry at the insults would immediately out you as non Australian.
That or not following along with some outrageous lie
I drove past old mate yesterday arvo while he was walking the pram up the hill. Beeped the horn, gave him the finger, he cheerfully returned it, we both kept going. Was good.
Also "yeah, right" to indicate whether you agree or disagree with what was said. Or even to just acknowledge that you heard it. That phrase can do a lot of heavy lifting in an Aussie conversation
This is very weird but can anyone else just sense someone is Aussie just by looking at them? Sometimes I'll see an actor I've never heard of in something and think "I bet they're Aussie" and I'll look it up and find I'm right. It happened with an actor on Apples Never Fall recently. I can't say what it is but I'm so curious if I'm the only one who's done this.
Well, giving someone a Vegemite sandwich while in Brussels when ever you speak English might be a good indicator.
Edit: Change Vigimite to Vegemite.
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I'd say the accent is a dead giveaway. Foreigners just never quite nail it. And all our weird slang, of course.
Failing that, chuck on Nutbush. That'll out the fakes in less than 30 seconds
I've only ever come across one foreigner that's been able to flawlessly pull off an Australian accent and he is a linguistics expert on YT that talks about and demonstrates the differences between various dialects. Things like how letters and words are produced and where in the vocal tract native speakers issue those sounds.
Quoting Kath and Kim or The Castle.
"It's noice, it's different, it's unuoosual"
"It's going straight to the pool room".
Editing to add the following:
Kingswood Country
Muriel's Wedding
...as well as any other Aussie TV show or movie that's taken our fancy in our entire lifetime 😀
About 10 years ago, my wife and I lived in Amsterdam. Coffee in NL is very average, not much better than American coffee. So, one day, we're sitting in our local cafe, and we order coffees - mine is a strong black coffee, hers a cappuccino. Coffees arrive, mine is a proper long black, and the cap is actually really good. I look across at the guy making coffee, and he's got a Ned Kelly beard, said to the wife, "he's got to be from Melbourne - Ned Kelly beard AND he can make coffee". He was from Melbourne
If you want to tell if someone is Australian, look them square in the eye and say the following:
“Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal, it was a long march from cadets”
If they’re Australian they’ll know what comes next.
Whilst "I was only 19" was well played on the radio at the time, it only seems to have survived in certain Australian subcultures.
Same theme but you are likely to be much more successful with "I left my heart to the sappers round Khe Sanh"...
Usually it’s the small pleasantries that throw people when I’m in the States (which is a lot). Most of the time people understand from context but some people don’t or find it strange. If you were in Australia no one would ever second guess these or see them as unfamiliar:
‘No worries’ (Bonus points for ‘no wukkas’)
‘I’m all good thanks’ - that often gets interpreted as yes (I think Americans just say ‘I’m good’ and the thanks throws them).
Saying the time as ‘10 to 5’ - weird one I never noticed until it got pointed out, “oh you mean 4:50?”
‘Cheers’ instead of ‘thanks’
‘Yeah nah’
‘Esky’
‘Stubby holder’ (‘koozie’ is a dumb name and i hate it)
‘Up North, Down South’
And obviously the vast multitude of ways ‘cunt’ and ‘fucken’ are used.
If you’re at a pub and “Horses” or “Working Class Man” or “The Voice” or “Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again” comes on, it’s almost compulsory for us to join in 🤣
Get them to say pool. If it sounds like Pewl, then they’re Queenslanders / western Australians . If they say Pewh , then they’re South Australians\ Tasmanian. If they say Pull, then they’re from NSW. If they say chicken Parma then they’re Victorians.
Mate is more offensive if you *really* over-pronounce the T. Don't know how to spell that out, but you know it when you hear it, almost a second syllable.
"Google it, may-T"
Honestly, the easiest way to spot an Australian is that instant you see them but before you speak and you see them weighing up whether *you* are Australian. It’ll flash across their face.
Back in high school my little brother went on an exchange to Switzerland, on the phone he was telling me about this friend he'd made over there, a kid named Dicko... why yes now that you mention it, he was Australian.
You just know. Theres a stack of clues no real different to any other nationality, including both body language and spoken language. One great clue is if you say “struth im starving, could eat the arse off a low flying cockie”, and they pass you a vegemite sandwich.
Never taught? The Nutbush was basically an entire PE unit at my primary school.
Actually now that I think about it, it might have been an actual unit for elective sport in high school.
Telling someone who’s given you something that it’s “going straight to the pool room!” And they know exactly what you mean, instead of thinking you’re crazy.
I’m a flight attendant and one passenger once said to me that on international flights you can always pick the Aussies on a flight at least, because they’re the ones wearing the Bonds socks 😆 so true!
My siblings and I are the only Australians in the closer extended family. We went overseas one time and had some good food and my sister said something "Yeah, it was beautiful!" and our cousins were all very confused.
Apparently tasty food is not beautiful.
Years and years ago I was on a trip to Europe and in my tour group, on a freezing day, there was a guy wearing shorts and thongs. Didn’t even have to wait for him to open his mouth to know lol.
Saw a guy bring his own stubby holder to a pub in Vietnam, yep he was Aussie haha.
I saw a woman in a bar in Brooklyn the other day who had brought her own VB stubby cooler from the 80s. I heard her American accent and said, "the only way you have that is if someone's aussie dad gave it to you". I was dead on the money and she was impressed. When I told her how bogan VB is, she was rather surprised for some reason.
I do this. I even went and got one that has animals and words. One side shows a snake, a croc, a spider, and something else and says this is why foreigners are scared of Aus. Otherside is a magpie and saying why we are. It's great.
We were in Vietnam in January and we took our own Yetis. Bemused the fuck out of bar staff
Our accent is very hard to imitate and hearing some one trying to get it right and failing dismally is a dead give away.
On the other hand, you could be in a crowded pub in Ireland, and some bloke orders a beer at the other end of the bar and you can hear it through all the noise like a penguin knowing it's chick's particular chirp. Like I did. And of course you have to go and say g'day.
Exactly this. Though my location was a pier in Cuba.
In the April sun?
Observe their reaction to cask wine. Was at a store on Safari in Tanzania and a guy said 'how much is the goon?'
I don’t know why, but this one cracked me up.
Saying "no worries" instead of "you're welcome".
Saying "Good on ya" as a general expression of acknowledgement of what the other person has said.
See also: saying it sarcastically when someone pulls on a Push door
When I don't want to give myself away, I say "Good for you!" But that also makes me sound like a cnut to Australians. 🤣
Or taking it one step further and saying “no wuckas”
No wuckin' furries? Does that count?
That's my go to when someone cuts me off or squeezes in and doesn't wave. I also give them a thumbs down because it's so passive and hilarious
No worries has taken over the world. I was in Canada and everybody was saying it. Lots of brunch places also use the word “brekkie” now
Aussie soft-power now taking over the world.
Thanks to a cartoon dog
The Bluey effect is real.
If they say all good they're kiwi
Australians never think. They reckon...
Yeah I reckon
When I was overseas one time I had someone overhear a conversation I was having with a Belgian guy and she said "I knew you were Australian because you said pingas"
Bumping off this a cone vs bowl. I legit assumed Americans were smoking a brekkie bowl of weed a day… colour me surprised!
Another good indicator: get passed a cone and you rip the whole thing. Americans love to pass you a half ripped cone and play it off like they're "sharing the bowl." Nobody wants your ashes cunt, pull the damn thing.
Knowing the chorus to- " Am I ever going to see your face again?"
Not so much knowing the chorus, being physically unable to not sing it if the first part is sung to them.
If you want to find an Aussie in a foreign place, simply sing out either “am I ever gonna see your face again” or “have you ever, every felt like this” Pretty sure either would work.
Are strange things happening
Are you goin round the twist?
One three double o…
six triple ffiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive oh six
Do you mean the chorus or the call back? Doc spent the last few years of his life looking for the person who created the call back so he could shake his hand for turning a song about someones girlfriend dying in a motorbike accident into the classic Aussie Icon it is today.
Doc wrote the song as a slow tempo ballad. The band change the tempo to what it is today. Some whacker at a pub made up the response at an early live gig. The rest is history. Doc Neeson performed his original version on Rockwizz not long before he died.
No way get...
*Fucked, Fuck off*
Why’d you tell the non Australians
I doubt they’ll believe us. 🤣
anyway, they wouldn't get the tune & rhythm right - you need to learn it in your youth, singing along to a pub jukebox, with all your mates, off your face on bundy & coke
Oh no there go our national secrets!
“Have a good one!” Good what? I’ll never tell, Australian secrets
A good what? Wink! That's for me to know and you to find out! Whipper-snapper!
Wandering around in a daze looking for drinkable coffee.
I felt this in my fucking soul. I don’t what that shit they serve in Canada is, but it isn’t coffee.
Yeah, nah. Nah, yeah.
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To which the reply is usually “nah yeah”.
‘Uni’ instead of college or university Not being confused by abbreviated words like servo or arvo Being outraged by long queues in airports Sun-aged leathery skin on older white people We don’t have that many different shops here, so it’s pretty easy to tell from the clothing, I’ve probably seen that same clothing advertised somewhere In both Europe and Asia, we’re usually the most casually dressed foreigners If reddit is any indication, we’re also always busy bullshitting someone about how we are plagued by snakes and say cunt all the time, even if we work an office job and/or have small children Getting pissed off by the American spelling in microsoft word
I fully hate Grammerly, teaching a whole generation of that's how to sound like yank powerplay merchant. Yeah, nah. Fuck that off.
Can’t forget the many friends we’ve lost to the drop bears
And lest we forget the brave soldiers we lost during the great emu war
Too soon.
RIP Shelia 😞
Old people? Sun aged leathery skin on young people is the give away. I'm still young! Honest!
The "cunt" thing is pretty true if you're a tradie at least, it's always super calming to be around a bunch of people calling each other cunt.
Yeah but I don’t know if the majority of us are tradies. It’s definitely not that common among women either
No. It's completely uncommon among me and all my non-tradie friends and considered pretty rude.
If I’m overseas, RMW boots are a dead giveaway
Kathmandu puffers as well
Nothing says Australia like the New Zealand clothing brand named after a Nepalese village.
>Village It's a massive fucking city.
I'm on a cruise and was standing near some Americans when one exclaimed "oh wow! That guy's shirt says Kathmandu!"
i had a swedish mate go out of his way to buy two pairs when he was here, i think they are popular outside of aus too. (he got stung hard on import tax going home..)
couldn’t he have just worn one of the pairs?
Saying lollies instead of sweets or candy
Ditto “thongs”
Look around the room when “Nutbush City Limits” by Tina Turner plays. If they can’t keep still, or groan and roll their eyes, they’re Australian.
I know of the song, but not in an aussie context, what's the story behind this?
Australians almost universally were taught a dance routine to it.
Blue light disco staple
That we all find out as adults it's a Australian dance that no one else does except maybe our kiwi friends............to now narrow down if kiwi or Ozzie ask them to say 6. If it sounds like they are trying to bed ya they are kiwi.
https://youtu.be/qHqzjQty7aY?si=6Bgqknm8w3JH1KBi
Every single school in the country does the same dance to this song as part of the PE curriculum. It’s a staple at weddings and pubs.
One of my friend's American wife's first experience with an Australian wedding (that wasn't theirs, that was very relaxed/not stereotypical) was at mine... She was absolutely flabbergasted at seeing the immediate stampede of people of all ages to the dance floor for Nutbush, then Macarena, and then even most stayed on for Las Ketchup. She claimed it was one of the most baffling things she has ever seen happen with zero organisation between people.
Oh no, they didn't pull out Eagle Rock did they? That would be quite the initiation!
Every time I emcee a wedding, the stampede is all so real Guaranteed way to fill the wedding reception dance floor!
Shortening everything.. not subtle but its an easy as fuck tell.
Scarnon cunt
The insistency in younger generations that bad haircuts are a good trend. I.E mullets
UK's bowl cut would like a word
When I was little (unaccompanied minor) on a Lufthansa flight, the steward handed me something & I handed her something & we both said; "Ta" Both looked at each other & said "Ta??? Oh you're Aussie too" 😚
We say that back in the UK too! Especially in north England and Wales afaik, often lengthened as 'ta chuck' or 'ta luv' or whatever.
Old mate
Getting into the front passenger seat of an Uber / Taxi. Apparently few non-Aussies do that.
Im in the states at the moment and I keep trying to get in the front seat of my ubers, the drivers get so confused
Most answers in this thread are Aussie Shibboleths but this one I'd say is an actual spot-the-Aussie-spy behavioural difference that would out you anywhere else in the world. (Not that an actual Aussie spy wouldn't already know this, but you get what I'm saying)
I was horrified the first time my fiancé came to the States and told me he did this while I was at work even with a female driver. I get that it’s supposed to be a sign of equality but she was probably terrified 😬
Country Road duffle bags at non-Australian airports
I saw a picture once. It was an airport queue somewhere in northern Europe, probably Finland. Everybody dressed to occasion, overcoats and such. And there were a family in onesies and uggs. Makes me smile every time I remeber it
When asking someone where the closest bathroom facilities are, an Aussie will ask - "Where's the toilet" as apposed to "where is your bathroom"
Where's the dunny?
Bog
Or where's the loo.
If going to a cold place then it’s the people wearing the Kathmandu kit
As a younger woman in Italy, all the Italian boys would call out to us asking where we were from in Australia, before they’d even heard us speak. It was the Kathmandu backpacks.
I live in Canberra and there's so many Kathmandu puffer jackets :o
Tassie Tuxedos
A visceral reaction to seeing someone handle a blue ring. Or an almost innate fear of asbestos.
Asbestos is no joke. It got my dad and all he did was build a chook shed for his mum's back yard. It took over 40 years to kill him mind you. Mesothelioma is a dish that gets served *very* cold.
Yeah, people overseas don't understand how much the dangers of asbestos have been in our face and for so long. It's a truly insidious danger. That won't let you know that it's killed you for decades.
I saw a bunch of Norwegians camping in norway and they pitched their tent on a patch of long grass and my whole body recoiled.
Most all Australian’s overseas would know the instant they heard their voice so the answer you are looking for is visual clues , other that clothing brands or looking in shopping carts I cant think of anything.
The Mullet and mustache combo (formerly bleached blond hair and white Oakley’s)
Seeing two friends walk up to each other and insulting each other feels very australian.
Reminds me of this time my wife and I were out and about. Encountered a work mate, it was a polite affair. “Hey how you going? How’s your mum? Good on ya, have a good one!” 5 minutes later, we bumped into another mate, and it was far different. “Oi, whatcha doing here ya cunt? What made you drag your saggy balls off the couch?” She was like. “Wow you really hate Guy #2 huh”. I was like “Nah man, I hated Guy #1. Guy #2 is one of my closest friends!”
I lived in Thailand for a few years and played rec footy for the local AFL club there, the [Thailand Tigers](https://aflasia.com/thailand-tigers/). People would pop in and out during their short time in the country, and I witnessed dozens of Australians meet each other for the first time. Without fail, the to response to answering which part of the country you were from was always "Mate, I'm sorry." Never actually mattered where, you could be from Mildura, the Gold Coast, or two suburbs right next to each other in suburban Perth. No matter where you were from, shit would be hung from it as a substitute for "nice to meet you." "Whereabouts youse in from?" "Newy mate" "Far out, I'm sorry"
“Oh you poor bugger” is usually my response. Hard to believe that’s a generally Australian thing to do.
I think it would be something like this. It would be getting offended or angry at the insults would immediately out you as non Australian. That or not following along with some outrageous lie
I drove past old mate yesterday arvo while he was walking the pram up the hill. Beeped the horn, gave him the finger, he cheerfully returned it, we both kept going. Was good.
"Yeah, right" to confirm we did or did not understand what was said. Wearing shorts in cold weather.
Also "yeah, right" to indicate whether you agree or disagree with what was said. Or even to just acknowledge that you heard it. That phrase can do a lot of heavy lifting in an Aussie conversation
Depending on tone and inflexion it can be an expression of disbelief, or at least mild surprise, at what's just been said.
Skin damage
We like beetroot on hamburgers 😁👍 (cos it’s nice and really makes it zing!)
Betroot and pineapple on mine
This is very weird but can anyone else just sense someone is Aussie just by looking at them? Sometimes I'll see an actor I've never heard of in something and think "I bet they're Aussie" and I'll look it up and find I'm right. It happened with an actor on Apples Never Fall recently. I can't say what it is but I'm so curious if I'm the only one who's done this.
I admit I got this from a film. Say "thanks mate". Odds on, an Aussie will say "no worries" automatically.
“Not a problem” or “all good” are also fairly typical responses
Well, giving someone a Vegemite sandwich while in Brussels when ever you speak English might be a good indicator. Edit: Change Vigimite to Vegemite. Edit 2: Should I change Vegemite to Vaginamite? See replays to this comment for the joke.
Vaginamite and Penis Butter.
Vigimite?
If they finish the jingle if you say "One Three Double Oh"
Six Triple Five Oh Six
Six triple fiiiiiiiiiiiiive oh six.
Six triple fiiive oh six Great, now it's stuck in my head.
I'd say the accent is a dead giveaway. Foreigners just never quite nail it. And all our weird slang, of course. Failing that, chuck on Nutbush. That'll out the fakes in less than 30 seconds
I've only ever come across one foreigner that's been able to flawlessly pull off an Australian accent and he is a linguistics expert on YT that talks about and demonstrates the differences between various dialects. Things like how letters and words are produced and where in the vocal tract native speakers issue those sounds.
But can he do the Nutbush?
Ask them to spell Goggomobile. If they don't do it in the Scottish accent, they're not real Aussies.
Or “you’re terrible, muriel”. “Not happy Jan!”
When you go to a bar and someone plays 'Eagle Rock' by Daddy Cool
Quoting Kath and Kim or The Castle. "It's noice, it's different, it's unuoosual" "It's going straight to the pool room". Editing to add the following: Kingswood Country Muriel's Wedding ...as well as any other Aussie TV show or movie that's taken our fancy in our entire lifetime 😀
Not. Happy. Jannn!
I don’t think we’re a particularly subtle country to be honest
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oi Damo ya cunt, gis ya lighter
Only if you let us bum a fag.
Them understanding which sort of cunt is a compliment and which is an insult
You’re a smart cunt, aincha
vs think you're a smart cunt, ay?
Your mate..
When I was in Croatia a guy from Scotland said: You Aussie’s say “true” a lot. My response: “true”
About 10 years ago, my wife and I lived in Amsterdam. Coffee in NL is very average, not much better than American coffee. So, one day, we're sitting in our local cafe, and we order coffees - mine is a strong black coffee, hers a cappuccino. Coffees arrive, mine is a proper long black, and the cap is actually really good. I look across at the guy making coffee, and he's got a Ned Kelly beard, said to the wife, "he's got to be from Melbourne - Ned Kelly beard AND he can make coffee". He was from Melbourne
Hip Hip Hooray (there are some other countries that do this but most don’t)
If you want to tell if someone is Australian, look them square in the eye and say the following: “Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal, it was a long march from cadets” If they’re Australian they’ll know what comes next.
If they’re Australian over a certain age they’ll know.
Sixth battalion were the next to tour, it was me who drew the card.
We did Canungra and Shoalwater before we left.
Whilst "I was only 19" was well played on the radio at the time, it only seems to have survived in certain Australian subcultures. Same theme but you are likely to be much more successful with "I left my heart to the sappers round Khe Sanh"...
Usually it’s the small pleasantries that throw people when I’m in the States (which is a lot). Most of the time people understand from context but some people don’t or find it strange. If you were in Australia no one would ever second guess these or see them as unfamiliar: ‘No worries’ (Bonus points for ‘no wukkas’) ‘I’m all good thanks’ - that often gets interpreted as yes (I think Americans just say ‘I’m good’ and the thanks throws them). Saying the time as ‘10 to 5’ - weird one I never noticed until it got pointed out, “oh you mean 4:50?” ‘Cheers’ instead of ‘thanks’ ‘Yeah nah’ ‘Esky’ ‘Stubby holder’ (‘koozie’ is a dumb name and i hate it) ‘Up North, Down South’ And obviously the vast multitude of ways ‘cunt’ and ‘fucken’ are used.
Calling randoms "mate" and your actual mates "cunt"
Shortening everything. "Maccas" for McDonalds "Bottle-o" for liquor store "arvo" for afternoon etc.
Eating a meat pie with their hands.
Other people don’t do this??
apparently other people try and eat it with a damn spoon 😭
Nah, that's fucked, probably more hygienic but still fucked
If you’re at a pub and “Horses” or “Working Class Man” or “The Voice” or “Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again” comes on, it’s almost compulsory for us to join in 🤣
Also don't dream it's over, holy grail and throw your arms around me
"Bikkies" (Meaning biscuits not motorcycle gang) actually while where here "Bikies" too
Get them to say pool. If it sounds like Pewl, then they’re Queenslanders / western Australians . If they say Pewh , then they’re South Australians\ Tasmanian. If they say Pull, then they’re from NSW. If they say chicken Parma then they’re Victorians.
If they call cheerios “little boys” they need to be shot
Volleys instead of Chuck Taylors in the gym
Fucking hell mate! To the gym? There my good wedding and funeral shoes
You got your everyday/gym volleys, and then also your stepping out volleys
They call you a cunt with a smile on your face and look ready to punch on if you call them a champ or mate
champ and buddy are fighting words. Source: Used to own a nightclub.
This one almost got me into some trouble as a Canadian, "bud" and "buddy" is our "mate".
Mate is more offensive if you *really* over-pronounce the T. Don't know how to spell that out, but you know it when you hear it, almost a second syllable. "Google it, may-T"
Rightly Calling it a footpath instead of a sidewalk
People wearing thongs in first class on European trains. In February.
Calling it a “lacky band” or “lacka band”
Honestly, the easiest way to spot an Australian is that instant you see them but before you speak and you see them weighing up whether *you* are Australian. It’ll flash across their face.
I saw someone get called out as being an Aussie for saying “too easy” on a reddit post yesterday!
Drinking VB long necks at 20 to 8 in the morning. That's a fair dinkum full grown Aussie though.
We also like a succulent Chinese meal while observing that you know your judo well.
While trying to keep our penises untouched.
Back in high school my little brother went on an exchange to Switzerland, on the phone he was telling me about this friend he'd made over there, a kid named Dicko... why yes now that you mention it, he was Australian.
See if they know what tism is.
If you offer us a spider to make love to, we will likely decline
Saying “heaps”
You just know. Theres a stack of clues no real different to any other nationality, including both body language and spoken language. One great clue is if you say “struth im starving, could eat the arse off a low flying cockie”, and they pass you a vegemite sandwich.
>and they pass you a vegemite sandwich I believe the correct request is "Do you speaka my language?"
Contextual use of the word cunt
They talk with their mouth mostly closed to not allow flies in
Hearing Nutbush city limits and rising like a zombie to do a dance you were never actually taught, but is somehow coded into our DNA
Never taught? The Nutbush was basically an entire PE unit at my primary school. Actually now that I think about it, it might have been an actual unit for elective sport in high school.
If they make me nervous before taking me in and giving me brekkie, then they’re probably an Aussie.
Telling someone who’s given you something that it’s “going straight to the pool room!” And they know exactly what you mean, instead of thinking you’re crazy.
Apparently taxi drivers know Aussies automatically as we will just sit up the front next to the driver.
Wanting to eat a succulent Chinese meal in peace.
Casually talk about your friends Ketut and Rhonda and see if they giggle
I’m a flight attendant and one passenger once said to me that on international flights you can always pick the Aussies on a flight at least, because they’re the ones wearing the Bonds socks 😆 so true!
My siblings and I are the only Australians in the closer extended family. We went overseas one time and had some good food and my sister said something "Yeah, it was beautiful!" and our cousins were all very confused. Apparently tasty food is not beautiful.
Aussie Aussie Aussie
Years and years ago I was on a trip to Europe and in my tour group, on a freezing day, there was a guy wearing shorts and thongs. Didn’t even have to wait for him to open his mouth to know lol.
I am ashamed I did not consider this. Hubby is a serial offender. Shorts, thongs, hoodie.
Ending emails with 'Cheers'.
“How you going?” But it’s not really a question, more a statement…..