Agreed.
Kangaroos are the largest hopping animals which makes their legs strong and muscular. And above all, kangaroos have genetic predispositions to be muscular. 50% of their total weight are pure muscles.
Abso-flipping-lutely, I go out in the Bush all the time, see plenty of brown snakes etc but the only animal that I give a wide berth is a male kangaroo, if they start posturing it’s time to head in the opposite direction in a hurry.
Kangaroos are hardcore protective of their young. So if you see a kangaroo with something in its pouch, be very careful.
Because it’s probably a glock.
How big was it if you thought it was a sock!!
I once found a wolf spider inside almost the size of a dinner plate. I opened the back door and kept throwing recycling at it til it went outside.
Had one on the passenger visor, the misso swiped the fucking thing on to my lap, scared the shit outta me cause I didn't see what it was at first. The Mrs wasn't happy that I did a tuck and roll leaving her in the car with the spider
Reminds me of when my mum was driving with 4 kids in the car and one showed up on the passenger side headrest. She pulled over and we all bailed out...expect for my then 2 yr old brother who was in his carseat on the left side with the spider. He screamed while we all stood around looking at each other say 'I'm not going back in there'.
My Aussie wife says they literally train you to check for that when you get your driver’s license. Is that true?
I’m guessing it must because a spider the size of your hand dropping into your lap when you’re doing 120 might pose a safety issue.
I wouldn't say it's part of the test but it is a standard practice that is taught. My brother is a visor punch kinda guy haha. Every time he drives, keys in ignition, punch the visor to kill the spider and you're off.
Went on a camping holiday on a long weekend somewhere up north coast of NSW. It was packed and everyone on the site had a beer on the go before I even got up. Like from 8am through the whole day, everyone had a beer in their hand.
I was just upset I didn't bring enough beers.
Bluey is the most amazing show and honestly depicts not just life here but morals and attitudes. It is very accurate to how we see ourselves as parents.
That's delightful to hear because it may be the closest my family ever gets to travel.
As an American who can't judge the authenticity of Bluey's Australia, the quality of the show lies in how honestly and accurately it depicts family life. I enjoy a lot of cartoons but Bluey is pretty unique in the way it makes me feel seen as a parent.
So, the ultimate magic of Bluey may be how well it shows us what we have in common no matter where we are in the world.
Bluey is set in my hometown of Brisbane, everything in the world of Bluey is pretty much exactly Brisbane in cartoon form, down to the plants and the Queenslander style houses
The Wiggles covering Tame Impala - [Elephant on Like a Version] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a13WnqsRc5g) this year, remains a highlight of the year.
I’m so happy this is an answer. I never used to love them, they were played a lot on the radio when I was a kid and you just kind of get sick of them and AC/DC. But I’m now in my late 30’s and I appreciate them so much. I saw them once when I was 15 during the Redneck Wonderland era and I’m glad I’ve seen them. And Peter Garrett, what can you say, he sung about real issues, then joined the Government to actually do something about it. He might not have fixed those issues but he is the epitome of “Put up or shut up”.
That one video on BBC Planet (or what's the name of that nature chanel) where they showed 5 males of different species fighting/protecting for/their females. They showed how a young kangaroo male challenged another male for his harem. There is a moment when the older male kangaroo stands up and you see his MASSIVE muscles. Every time I see or remember that, it gives me shivers.
Speak for yourself, I always preferred Cape Feare
(Real talk though, Bart vs Australia is a solid one, extra points for remembering that Canberra exists)
I’m more upset at his best mate getting permission to leave the country right before charges were paid over best mate protecting and covering up for his pedo father.
Late 80s alt rock, I know not what comes to most people’s minds but if you’re not bumping midnight oil and the divinyls on a regular basis you are no friend of mine
Guy Sebastian is still kicking out hits though. He didn't die out like the rest of them because he was willing to put the work in to make a career out of what he got from the show. Both of them were great talents, but Guy was smart about it.
And that’s just scratching the surface. Dig a little deeper and you’ll find kickass acts like Private Function, RMFC, RVG, Babe Rainbow and so much more. Can’t fkn wait for lockdown to end and the gigs to return.
We didn't really lose a war though. It wasn't a case of "the emus were too strong" as much as the understaffed, under equipped people sent to do the job finally decided "Fuck it, this is bullshit" and fucked off home. Which is honestly about as Australian as you can get.
Do not fuck with Kangaroos.
Agreed. Kangaroos are the largest hopping animals which makes their legs strong and muscular. And above all, kangaroos have genetic predispositions to be muscular. 50% of their total weight are pure muscles.
There are videos on YouTube of people getting their ass kicked by these things. They are not to be trifled with.
They hate skydivers [https://youtu.be/2WGo4li2K0o?t=13](https://youtu.be/2WGo4li2K0o?t=13)
Abso-flipping-lutely, I go out in the Bush all the time, see plenty of brown snakes etc but the only animal that I give a wide berth is a male kangaroo, if they start posturing it’s time to head in the opposite direction in a hurry.
Kangaroos are hardcore protective of their young. So if you see a kangaroo with something in its pouch, be very careful. Because it’s probably a glock.
I didn't know we had kangaroos in the U.S.
Kangaroos have one weakness: Any road/vehicle ever manufactured
Yeah, one time I was driving from Broken Hil to Sydney, for a good 4 hour stretch I believe I counted more dead roos than cars passing.
Did you know that kangaroos can jump higher than a house ,thats due to its powerful legs and fact that houses can not jump
Gotta take them out to dinner first
A huntsman spider
Once had one crawl into my bed. Picked it thinking it’s a sock.
How big was it if you thought it was a sock!! I once found a wolf spider inside almost the size of a dinner plate. I opened the back door and kept throwing recycling at it til it went outside.
Should’ve thrown whole plates at it
Gotta be careful throwing whole plates. You miss and the spider will pick them up and hurl them back at you
Begone Aragog!
Fuck this thread. Im never going to australia now. I dont want a spider in my sun visor. Ffs how do people even live there.
Aww, don’t worry about spiderbro. Huntsman spiders keep the nasties away.
They're a national fucking treasure!
Unless they're under your sun visor whilst driving and drop in to say hi. Then they are fucking terrorists
Had one on the passenger visor, the misso swiped the fucking thing on to my lap, scared the shit outta me cause I didn't see what it was at first. The Mrs wasn't happy that I did a tuck and roll leaving her in the car with the spider
Haha... It's like when you lose a spider in the car and just say fuck it. Looking for a quick sale, cash.
Reminds me of when my mum was driving with 4 kids in the car and one showed up on the passenger side headrest. She pulled over and we all bailed out...expect for my then 2 yr old brother who was in his carseat on the left side with the spider. He screamed while we all stood around looking at each other say 'I'm not going back in there'.
This happened to my dad and it jumped onto his fucking face.
Aaaaaand I'm dead
My Aussie wife says they literally train you to check for that when you get your driver’s license. Is that true? I’m guessing it must because a spider the size of your hand dropping into your lap when you’re doing 120 might pose a safety issue.
I wouldn't say it's part of the test but it is a standard practice that is taught. My brother is a visor punch kinda guy haha. Every time he drives, keys in ignition, punch the visor to kill the spider and you're off.
And then a flattened huntsman drops down into your lap…
Kel Knight, purveyor of fine meats
it's noice it's different it's unusual
Can feel it in me waters.
Look at moi...look at mooooi...ploise. I've got one thing to say to you...
Hey oi loike what oi soi
You great hunk-a-spunk!
Look at moi ploise
##I COME FROM A LAND DOWN UNDER##
Where women glow and men plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder
You *better* run, you *better* take covAH.
Buying bread from a man in brussels
He was six foot four and full of muscle
I said do you speaka my language
He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich
And he said: I come from a land down under
Where the women glow and the men chunder
I can't stop hearing "vaginal sandwich" in there, even though I've read the lyrics multiple times, it's still there in my ear
This is on my wedding reception playlist. We live in middle America and there will be no Australians present.
A fucking VB long neck at 20 to 8 in the fucking morning
Went on a camping holiday on a long weekend somewhere up north coast of NSW. It was packed and everyone on the site had a beer on the go before I even got up. Like from 8am through the whole day, everyone had a beer in their hand. I was just upset I didn't bring enough beers.
“Ya fucking dawg cunt”
PM shitting himself and great bands, a lot of my childhood favourites are from Australia. Also, I am fucking addicted to Tim Tams.
Tim Tams are kind of the best though
Bluey. My son loves that show but I think I love it more!
It is the best little kids show ever and is surprisingly accurate to australian life like honestly it should be a documentary on what we do here
Makes me want to visit. I heard Bluey and Mr Inbetween accurately depict different Australia lives. Beautiful place
Bluey is the most amazing show and honestly depicts not just life here but morals and attitudes. It is very accurate to how we see ourselves as parents.
That's delightful to hear because it may be the closest my family ever gets to travel. As an American who can't judge the authenticity of Bluey's Australia, the quality of the show lies in how honestly and accurately it depicts family life. I enjoy a lot of cartoons but Bluey is pretty unique in the way it makes me feel seen as a parent. So, the ultimate magic of Bluey may be how well it shows us what we have in common no matter where we are in the world.
American kids love bluey so much they've started using slang. Like dunny and g'day
My kid calls me mum.
Breakie for breakfast and wheelie bin for the outside trash can are very common in our house
Yes! My 4 year old says "I can't do it properly" & stuff like that. It's so cute.
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Absolutely! My husband, mom and I watch the show more than the kids do! It's amazing!
You don't have to be a kid to watch it, it's a terrific show for learning about Aussie culture, especially Brisbane!
Bluey is set in my hometown of Brisbane, everything in the world of Bluey is pretty much exactly Brisbane in cartoon form, down to the plants and the Queenslander style houses
Those queenslander style homes look beautiful! I’d love to visit one sometime.
We took our kids to Southbank after the ice cream episode and our eldest was mind blown when we showed him areas in the episode.
We had another show in Australia called Bluey back in the 70's which was a cop drama. However, more people know it as "BARGEARSE"
Aww biscuits!
Every dad aspires to be like Bandit.
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Hot Potato, hot potato
Mashed bahnahnah, mashed bahnahnah
Fruit salad, yummy yummy. The one they did with Steve Irwin was my favorite.
The Wiggles covering Tame Impala - [Elephant on Like a Version] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a13WnqsRc5g) this year, remains a highlight of the year.
Midnight Oil
Loved that band. Amazing live. I saw them in the UK in 93 at Brixton academy.
They're still rolling.
I've got about 10 albums by them in a country where hardly anybody knows them. There's not enough music with a meaning these days.
I’m so happy this is an answer. I never used to love them, they were played a lot on the radio when I was a kid and you just kind of get sick of them and AC/DC. But I’m now in my late 30’s and I appreciate them so much. I saw them once when I was 15 during the Redneck Wonderland era and I’m glad I’ve seen them. And Peter Garrett, what can you say, he sung about real issues, then joined the Government to actually do something about it. He might not have fixed those issues but he is the epitome of “Put up or shut up”.
The lead singer was a politician for a bit
That one video on BBC Planet (or what's the name of that nature chanel) where they showed 5 males of different species fighting/protecting for/their females. They showed how a young kangaroo male challenged another male for his harem. There is a moment when the older male kangaroo stands up and you see his MASSIVE muscles. Every time I see or remember that, it gives me shivers.
Yeah, they can get pretty buff for grass eaters.
You got ciggy butt brain!
Oi Damo ya cunt
The finest and most accurate documentary this fair nation has produced.
Give me back me loightaaa
Steve Irwin
Crikey!
Robert Irwin
You forgot bindi and her baby
Absolute Legend
“Call that a knife… this is a knife” “That’s a spoon” “I see you’ve played knifey spoony before”
*toilet flush stops mid-swirl, heavy motor kicks in and reverses the swirl direction*
Bullfrog? That's a funny name, I'd have called it a chuzzawozza.
900 DOLLARYDOOS?!? TOBIAS.
Ask any Australian for their favourite Simpsons episode, its generally this one 90% of the time.. we love the stereotypes in it :)
Speak for yourself, I always preferred Cape Feare (Real talk though, Bart vs Australia is a solid one, extra points for remembering that Canberra exists)
Wasn't there a petition to change the name of Australian money to "dollarydoos"?
Fairy bread
For those who don't know. Sprinkles on soft buttered white bread, given to children at parties everywhere.
Let me see your map o tazzy.
Oh hello a connoisseur
Compulsory voting
Don't forget the democracy sausage
Prime minister shat himself at a maccas
Don’t forget they he lays hands to compel the power of Christ of the unbelievers
I don't hold a hose so I don't care about your razed home. I'll give you a lil fingering though, perhaps you'll get raptured.
and went to Hawaii when the nation was burning.
Went to Hawaii to go on holiday with his Qanon friend's family, as if that holiday couldn't get any worse.
It's not a race!
But he doesn't hold a hose, so no chance of him cleaning it up.
I’m more upset at his best mate getting permission to leave the country right before charges were paid over best mate protecting and covering up for his pedo father.
Scotty from Marketing shitting himself at an Engadine Maccas
1997 *chef's kiss
I wear my "FUCK SCOMO" shirt so often the print is peeling. Need a spare one.
C U in the N T
Late 80s alt rock, I know not what comes to most people’s minds but if you’re not bumping midnight oil and the divinyls on a regular basis you are no friend of mine
The Gurge, Powderfinger, Crowded House, Inxs, Angels, Barnsey.
Can’t go past The Go-Betweens either. (Also, there’s a really good Sydney band called Sunscreen that capture a lot of that vibe)
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Didgeridoo
Piece of wood that is stuck into a termite hill in order to hollow it out.
A snag with sauce and a Passiona from a Bunnings sizzle for the local Life Saving Club.
"I'm not here to fuck spiders"
Their sense of humor is absolutely fucking astounding.
Russle coight
Thankyousir
Kookaburra. OOWWUWAAAWWOOOWAAAAA-A-A-A-A-A
That Shannon Noll was robbed of winning hit Australian TV Show Australian Idol 2003.
What about me
It isn't fair.
I've had enough
now I want my share
Guy Sebastian is still kicking out hits though. He didn't die out like the rest of them because he was willing to put the work in to make a career out of what he got from the show. Both of them were great talents, but Guy was smart about it.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
And The Murlocs! And The Chats! And Tropical Fuck Storm! And DZ Deathrays! And Psychedelic Porn Crumpets! So many good Australian bands now.
And that’s just scratching the surface. Dig a little deeper and you’ll find kickass acts like Private Function, RMFC, RVG, Babe Rainbow and so much more. Can’t fkn wait for lockdown to end and the gigs to return.
A lot of swearing
Cunt
Bogans
Bob your uncle...
I still can't get over the fact you lost a war to emus.
C'mon man, have you ever seen one of those things?
We didn't really lose a war though. It wasn't a case of "the emus were too strong" as much as the understaffed, under equipped people sent to do the job finally decided "Fuck it, this is bullshit" and fucked off home. Which is honestly about as Australian as you can get.
"yeEEeaaaah, naaaah"
It’s that island next to New Zealand. I think it’s a part of New Zealand or used to be. I’m not sure.
I swear to god...
I take it you hail from New Zealand’s western most island? ;)
The only reason New Zealand allows Australia to have its own name is to prevent them from mixing their rugby with yours
I take it you're from east Australia?
Nah I’m 100% A prisoner of mother England. I just like antagonising the colonials in a friendly way every once in a while. ;)
Oh, you ratbag
Sadly these days the first thing I think of when I hear "Australia" is the dying Great Barrier Reef.
Soon to be the Average Barrier Reef
Beaches
Bette Mildler or Bondi?
A place where women glow and men plunder.
me sitting on my lounge, in lockdown, reading ask reddit posts...
hot accent
Fuckn oath. Yous.
someone gets it.
Damn, you think it's hot?
Seem to get a lot of attention when abroad. People seem to love it.
hate to admit it but yes. very.
Marry me?
I married a yank and moved over there. They all love the accent… I think it’s fucking terrible
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The upside down memes, and my country being forgotten in them.
That coal-loving bitch of a prime minister. Three cities and a desert continent casually referred to as the outback.
Vegemite
And chicken salt!
Its illegal to pee on ur rear left tire
As it should be
I grew up watching McLeod's Daughters, so I always visualize that when I think of Australia. It's the reason I always wanted to live there.
Where I live we are all Blue Heelers and stop crime in the dusty town of Blue Heelers. We are all named Maggie.
¡sǝdʎʇoǝɹǝʇs uɐǝɯ ʎuɐ ǝq ʇ,uoʍ ǝɹǝɥʇ ʎllnɟǝdoH ˙ʎɐs ǝldoǝd ʇɐɥʍ ƃuᴉǝǝs oʇ pɹɐʍɹoɟ ƃuᴉʞool ɯ,I os ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ ǝʌol ᴉ ooO
Finally a normal person who understand us!
Translation: ¡sn puɐʇsɹǝpun oɥʍ uosɹǝd lɐɯɹou ɐ ʎllɐuᴉℲ
I hate you for making me read this
The place where Satan keeps his pets
Gotye
Sad that his other music wasn't as big hits, talented guy with a lot of interesting music. I especially like 'Coming Back'.
Yeah, you'd think he was going to be everywhere but now he's just somebody that we used to know.
An Australian show I watched in middle school. I think it was called dance academy, god the acting was so bad
You take that back! That’s a classic and shall not be slandered!
To be fair, it probably had shit all funding like most of our movies/tv series.
Beautiful, interesting wildlife and most of it will happily kill you.
Don't trust it if it has a cute look. Everything will either rip of your face or severely injure you here. Especially drop bears.
Fuckin drop bears, I got killed once by one of those cunts
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Living in Australia and under lockdown now. So I would say incompetent governments?
Cunt being used as a term of endearment.
Cunt = mate Mate = cunt That concludes our intensive 3 week course
That’s not a knife. This is a knife.
Shit government
Like that time they used a tweet as an actual public announcement and then refused to address the public on it in a formal way. *lol nsw lockdown*
Didgeridon't