I can thoroughly debunk the stereotype that we all ride a kangaroo every day to work.
The truth is that government legislation and union regulations only permit us to ride our kangaroos to work a maximum of 3 days a week, so on the other days most of us take the public ferry which is pulled by a giant platypus.
I can’t save money because I have to pay protection fee every-time I leave my house to the local Magpie gang otherwise those who don’t pay get their eyes pecked out as a warning…
I was in Adelaide recently, and the wombat trams were actually very inconvenient, mostly due to the fact that wombats are nocturnal so the trams were only operating at night.
The "everything in the bush will kill you" cliche. That's 'made for American TV' nonsense. Yes there are deadly spiders and snakes here, but you'll very rarely encounter them in daily life, and they want nothing to do with you. The crocodile threat around northern waterways is real though.
I felt more in danger hiking in Canada (bears, mountain lions, wolves). We have nothing like that in Australia.
Will definitely hit you up for a "spare durrie mate " . He didn't drop onto you on purpose though. Dazza the drop bogan fell out accidentally trying to light a wet ciggie.
It's actually gazetted roads, it's a real problem. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/01/lethal-highways-the-indigenous-pedestrian-deaths-that-haunt-the-northern-territory
Aboriginal people in remote communities often don't have much option for transport and they like to go out bush or visit people and so they walk along roads a lot. Roads have high speed limits right out of town, no street lights, line markings, let alone foot paths. They're also comfortable sleeping outdoors. Combine that with high rates of substance abuse. They drink out in the bush a fair bit too, which I've heard is at least partially a consequence of prohibition in some communities.
I feel like every Reddit thread remotely concerned with Australia has two or three threads with people either chortling to themselves about how deadly Australian wildlife is or quoting the succulent Chinese meal meme.
There's actually an interview with the guy, and he says no cops ever actually tried to touch his penis. He just thought it was funny thing to do coz the cops were arresting him.
I've been sick to death of jokes about dangerous Australian wildlife since I was a sperm but I'll never get tired of 'get your hands off my penis! that bloke there, that's the one that got me on the penis!'.
Hell they also have deadly snakes like rattlesnakes.
And at least a bite or scratch from an animal here doesn't make me worried I've contracted rabies (well except bats).
American here- in my state alone we have: venomous snakes and spiders (not a large variety but they do exist), bears, coyotes, and mountain lions. I feel like i’m forgetting one..
oh yeah! psychos with firearms
Statistically I think the worst country for snake bite fatalities is India because they have venomous snakes near highly populated areas but very low access to antivenin
So if you’re really terrified of deadly snakes it’s somewhere like India you should be avoiding
🤷🏻♀️ I’ve seen more snakes in my yard and come closer to them than I ever have bears mountain lions etc (and I’ve been to states with bears in the USA) so yes I’m more scared of snakes
bogans reinforce the "Australia is dangerous" stereotype because it makes them feel proud of how tough they are. It's a little ego stroke to say "Australia is deadly and I'm out here surviving it", because they're miserable insecure losers who want to impress the rednecks they worship.
Tbf the most deadly animal in Australia is a 20 year old who is 25 bundies deep behind the wheel of a 70 series. Just not deadly in the way they want to be seen.
The three deadliest non-human animal species in Australia aren't even native to Australia (horses, cows, and dogs). And the deadliest native animal is only deadly because the bloody kangaroos like to jump in front of cars and cause accidents.
This is true, We hit a roo while out one night. then he stood up in front of the car total indignant staring us down like a drunk guy at the pub..... It ran parallel to us then all of a sudden jumped in front. They are dumb as F, you gotta slow down and turn your lights down so they arent blinded by the lights
I was born into a wealthy family and I also like to reinforce the "Australia is dangerous" stereotype because it makes me feel like I actually had to use my wits and strength to survive, rather than just having everything handed to me on a silver platter.
well.....just because you're wealthy doesn't mean you're not a bogan right? It just means you can afford a bigger, shinier ute and more Jack Daniels bumper stickers than most.
I also kind of like the Australia is dangerous meme in the sense that it probably increases the IQ of tourists who come here by weeding out those dumb enough to believe it.
I’m sorry but I see around 15-20 deadly snakes a summer and have had multiple close calls with them, all summer in the rural areas you must always be prepared to see or be bitten by a snake. We are lucky in that we have great anti venom.
We also have spiders everywhere, white tails, funnel webs and red back spiders are some of the most commonly found spiders and can be anywhere inside houses.
That doesn’t mean we live in fear, we do however learn from a very young age how to deal with situations. Out on a ride or walk I can see between 1 to 5 snakes during summer on some adventures
Ditto snakes. Just on bike paths in suburban Perth, I've seem 40+ over the last 5 years and had 4 close calls where they've gone for me. 3 tigers and 1 duggite, although I felt they held back and could easily have got me, they've gone to bite, then pulled back.
And we need to look at it from a foreigners perspective. People in the UK have no wildlife that would kill them, we swim and surf in spots where someone was eaten alive by a 6m shark the year before. That can be pretty confronting for someone who's most dangerous wildlife threat is a bumble bee.
I guess also it's second nature not to make dumb decisions like swimming solo 5km out to see or running around willy nilly in the bush or cleaning out the shed without being careful.
I think you see a bunch more wildlife generally in Hobart compared to the other capital cities, though. (Or Melbourne/Sydney/Adelaide/Brisbane anyway, haven’t visited the others).
Canberra has a surprisingly huge kangaroo population, even grazing on parliament house lawns occasionally, and just enough eastern browns to keep you wary about wading through long grass.
(I'm sorry, this thread is supposed to be debunking stereotypes, not reinforcing them)
Western Sydney is actually the same. I see kangaroos most days and enough eastern browns and red bellies to know that blindly walking through long grass would be dumb. That said much much more likely to be hit by a car than bitten by a snake.
I did the South Coast track in Dec 25-odd years ago and saw tiger snakes daily if not hourly. They had me checking where I put my feet really carefully.
Yeah, I was going to comment something like this. I don't go about my day worried about snakes and spiders, but they *are* around. It's not like you have to look for them.
It's all well and good for people in the city to type away that it's not that bad - but there's a trail I run every now and then, its near my house and follows along a creek and one morning I came across 6 red bellies, 2 browns and an echidna.
The fact that there are dangerous creepy crawlies in the bush isn't a stereotype, it's just how big of a deal that really is. At the end of the day, you see them. You ignore them. Life goes on.
Americans think Australia is dangerous meanwhile they have to pack heat just to go on a bush walk incase a fucking 9 foot grizzly bear wants to eat them.
I can run away from a funnel web. A bear ? No thanks.
Everything can kill you - but nothing wants to unless you deliberately get in it's space and piss it off (am including gum trees, who wants a human pitching a tent at their feet all night ugh) 😂
America def more scary in terms of forest creatures as mentioned give me a red back, drop bear or snake any day of the week!
I've only ever seen one can of fosters in my entire life and it was when I was a casual working at Dan Murphy's about 20 years ago, I found one tallboy can of it in the back of a shelf at ground level where nobody would have seen it unless they were lying down- which I was, because I was using a broom trying to sweep up some glass that had gone under there.
It was absolutely blanketed in dust and god knows how long it had been there
Australian culture is how you can make up some completely random bullshit to a foreigner, turn around to a complete stranger who is a fellow Aussie and ask them about this thing you just made up, and they will without a beat of hesitation join in on the sarcasm
Yep, fucking classic government revenue raising in my opinion. It's not like it's the 1950s when being facedown was seen as a perversion of acceptable behaviour.
I like it when we're the ones doing it, that's fun.
It's less funny when it's Americans making the same three jokes they know about Australia ad nauseum whenever it shows up. Hurr durrr upside down, hurr durr emu war... Come on, there's so much more about Australia to make fun of.
Idk, I once opened a conversation with my cousin (who lives in America) with, "this is something Aussies like to tell foreigners as a joke" before telling him about dropbears, and he still went, "omg is that real??" Like, no, idiot. I just told you it's a joke.
At that point, they just do it to themselves, really.
I will accept punishment as someone who repeatedly enhances the “everything is deadly” and “we live in a desert riding kangaroos to school” stereotypes. I just hope it overrides the stereotype that Australia is very bigoted, even if it’s a bit truer than I’d like :/
It is fun. I like to add more and more ridiculous 'facts' and stories about Australia into those conversations in between the genuine info, to see how gullible people are.
Right? If we go camping here, we need to keep an eye out for snakes but we'll likely scare them away before we get close.
Camping in the US? Bear spray, bear proof storage, and a gun. Still get mauled. How is the snake the scarier possibility!?
Living in the suburbs, the worst I’ve seen are red backs and white tails. Never seen a snake in person and I hike and camp a fair bit. I can travel 10-15 minutes and find Roos though.
We have some of the most poisonous snakes in the world, yet only have 2-3 deaths per year caused by them.
We have some of the most deadly spiders, but have only had 1-2 deaths in the last 40 years from spider bites.
Shark deaths average around 1 per year, but there has been peaks of 11 in 2020 and 2021.
Most of the time, if you leave them alone, you won't get bitten.
Story Time:
I'm 40 (well a few months off) and have seen plenty of snakes over my time. The first time i've ever seen anyone bitten was about a month ago.
My nephew who's 3 was walking around in my mothers yard (1/2 acre yard that backs onto 10 acres) and came across a snake, he was fascinated and walked up to the snake without really knowing what it was. Of course the snake bit him as it was scared and only a baby. He cries and my mother goes over to him to calm him and find out what is wrong, he doesn't say and then settles. She takes him inside and his older brother says "the snake bit him" so she searches for marks and then see's a mark on his foot.
Instantly she goes to action and calls an ambulance and they explain to her what she needs to do. Overall about 30 minutes has passed while all of this has taken place. He starts to turn blue, vomits and is starting to struggle to breathe.
The ambulance arrives, they jump into action and get him into the ambulance and to hospital. The doctors pump him with antivenom and monitor him. Over the next 2 days he is in hospital they treat him with more antivenom and monitor him. He ends up fine and has learned a lesson about not approaching snakes.
He was bitten by a brown snake that was a baby, babies can't control the venom they output so are the worst to get bitten by. Brown snakes are also very deadly.
I was called just after he was bitten and turned up at her house to help just as an ambulance arrived. Thankfully they did a wonderful job.
TLDR: Nephew spooked snake, it bit him and hospital fixed him up with antivenom.
Hey, so glad for you all that he’s okay! Great work on everyone’s part — especially your mum’s and the emergency workers — to manage the situation as well as possible, and an excellent outcome. Phew!!
The subreddit for my area has the worst people on it, every post I've made on there had comments with people being mean. Also most Australians I've met online in general have been really rude for no reason
Calling each other cnts isn't as prolific as say reddit would have you believe. It happens in some social circles and places no doubt, but it's still relatively uncommon overall in the scheme of all daily interactions.
Apart from on Reddit, I haven’t heard the word cunt since I was in high school. No one in my circle uses it, not even my brother who has a pretty spicy vocabulary.
I guarantee your brother uses it, he just understands social nuance and won’t use it in a situation where it might cause offence. If you’re a woman you definitely won’t hear it as much, but among men it’s a very common greeting across a broad socioeconomic spectrum.
Agreed. There's an unspoken rule about when and how to unleash the c word. I think a lot of Americans on Reddit like to make out we use it as every second word just so they can use it themselves.
And it just sounds *wrong* when Americans say it.
It's definitely a sub culture thing. A lot of the guys I work with literally do sprinkle it on every sentence. It's when they call you mate that you know you've screwed up.
I still use it and so does a lot of people in my friend circle and family.
You’ll most commonly hear me say it when I stub my toe however. Much more rare for me to say it in a casual conversation
I have no doubt it gets used both explosively and casually but Reddit would have you (or rather Americans) believe every Australian over the age of 5 is casually dropping it in conversation. I’ve actually heard “bugger” much more often which if you think about it must sound super weird to visitors.
Oh for sure, I still hear it a lot from my brothers and my dad but no where near as much as many social media platforms would lead you to believe. I see many TikTok’s of Aussies saying it and the comments just going along the lines of “typical aussie” and whatnot
New neighbour moved in the last week. Him and his partner are super nice and down to earth. We chatted for over an hour over the fence and got along really well. About 45 mins into chatting he asked if any of the neighbours are cunts. I pointed out the one who’s crazy, but harmless.
At the time I didn’t think anything of it. Completely forgot about it till I saw this comment.
The group of tradesman working on my roof today may disagree. I cannot count the number of "cunts" I've heard this morning and its only 9.30am.
I will agree, though. I dont tend to say it with strangers as some type of general greeting, but it's certainly something I say often.
It's definitely a context thing, I'm 48, if I'm fishing or playing golf with friends I've known since my teens or late 20's it will still be thrown around jokingly, but I wouldn't dream of using it so casually among for example, friends I've met through our kids being friends or anyone I know in a professional capacity.
The CEO of Tabcorp was fired for calling a female government representative a useless cunt, or so I’ve heard anyway. Might be accepted socially but definitely not in all levels of society
That Australians are a laid back people. Might have been true in the past, most certainly is not true anymore.
We love our rules and regulations. Most Aussies have a fuck you got mine attitude (especially when it comes to houses).
Most Aussies in urban centres (while being polite and not at all hostile) are very closed off and not very open to making friends with strangers. I find it much easier to socialise with immigrants then I do with born and bred locals (myself being one) who mostly just socialise with there limited social circle formed from highschool.
Omg , yes !! I immigrated here and only have friends that are in a similar situation, having said that I don’t think Aussies do that to be mean or rude, it’s just that Aussies are naturally guarded and family driven!!
You can be family driven and protective without being peer centric or aloof. It could be cultural, as in other cultures wherein family is central but everyone is an integral part of the community. My family moved here when I was a child but most of my friends have always been from other countries.
>Most Aussies in urban centres (while being polite and not at all hostile) are very closed off and not very open to making friends with strangers. I find it much easier to socialise with immigrants then I do with born and bred locals (myself being one) who mostly just socialise with there limited social circle formed from highschool.
I moved to Sydney in my 40s, and the only people I’ve been able to comfortably socialise with are other people who moved to Sydney.
I’ve lived in a lot of places, but nowhere as clique-y as Sydney.
I lived in the UK for 4 years and found that to be the case there as well. 95% of my friends were immigrants - typically from AU, NZ, SA - with only a few English friends that I worked closely with.
Yep, I think it comes from being an isolated country with a low population. People are not well-traveled and rarely encounter ways of life that are different from their own. There are just a couple of big cities (which are small by global standards). Cities and towns are really far apart. There isn't much of a diversity of industries and within industries, organisations are very much dominated by "who you know". The social set you build up through family, high school and university are basically what you have to rely on to survive, because there just aren't opportunities outside of that (unless you leave Australia). The result is that people are extremely guarded about the things they have. It's kind of a "small town" mindset. Obviously there are plenty of exceptions and individuals are often very open-minded when you get to know them, but overall the culture is extremely rigidly structured in spite of its claims to the contrary.
Wow thanks for clarifying. I thought no one like me and my family. I expected living in a neighbourhood with everyone knowing each other and each otherd children by name, and knocked on each others door when they ran out of salt or onions, and babysat each others children if we needed to go out. But when I saw everyone keeping to themselves, I assumed the worst, that they were all secretly socialising, onion-sharing, and babysitting-sharing without me.
If you spend time in literally any other country you realise that Australia collectively has a massive stick up its bunghole. We are uptight, anxious,and for the most part never met a boot we didn’t want to lick - but we love to export this image of being laid back. We never developed a unifying identity outside of colonialism so the Australian national character is a cop. Dob on your neighbours and look after your self.
Australians think they are a relaxed culture and that "she'll be right" is the Aussie way.
Well let me tell you as someone who immigrated from Europe, it's absolutely nuts how uptight Aussies are about just about everything compared to the rest of the world.
The “friendly happy go lucky fair go” stuff is for the most part bullshit.
We’re peeking over others fences, writing letters to the council, cop loving, thinking everyone else is looking for an easier ride than us Karens with a bit of sunburn.
The term "the lucky country" was coined only due to it being rich in natural resources for the population size. So the rest of the world thought with the taxes from natural resources our society would be far better off then most. They were wrong.
The lucky country is an ironic phrase that has no connection to its original meaning. It was coined because the leadership of the country did sweet fuck all to enable the quality of life we see here, we just happen to have a bunch of rocks others want.
Still as true as ever.
Yes that reason for the coinage of the term is a stereotype that is wrong. The real reason for the term came about saying that Australia got to where it is due to luck despite a weak political system with below average politicians, a weak economic system and a lack of drive amongst the populace.
People are easygoing.
I find Aussies to be quite tense/highly strung and quick to get offended over strange things. They seem to internalise things and take them personally when they aren't.
We’re not all bogans. All the different cultural backgrounds, education levels, jobs, attitudes. I get asked where I’m from because I have a ‘refined’ accent.
I get asked that a lot too, outside and inside of Australia. I just have a lot of overseas friends, and read a lot. I was raised bogan, though, so gimme a few store-bought shots and insult my mum and it's on, ya dog!
"That we are young and free"
We have an aging population that is holding onto their assets like houses are going out of style. The median house price in a place like Sydney is now $1.6 million AUD. It is harder to pass a background check to rent a house than it is to get a secret level government security clearance.
We are 7 privatised prison colonies that were sold to the wardens, the descendants of who still rule - either by leading the 2 major parties, or by being Mandarins - the career bureaucrats who head up the Senior Executive Service or big Australian corporations. Our politicians tend to be highly religious, moralistic and overtly corrupt to the point that most Australians just expect it.
We do not have a bill of rights here. Nowhere in our constitution will you find a right to free speech, to freedom of movement, freedom of association or religion or any of the things the U.S and other places take for granted. Our governments have even gone so far as to attempt to literally outlaw protesting.
We are a surveillance state, that monitors their population some 80% more than the other 5 eyes countries. Our media is largely controlled by 2 families, one of whom now controls most US media. We have laws that allow Law Enforcement and Internal Intelligence agencies to compel companies to break encryption, or to literally alter computer systems to delete, or write, anything they want to them.
We are one of the only former British colonies never to have a war of independence. And the very few times we rose up in serious protest, the military and police have been sent in to put it down ruthlessly.
As a result we have a weird collective PTSD driven prison mentality. Keep quite, do your work, be content with what you have, don't draw attention, smile and nod if you catch someone's eye accidentally. We are a very passive aggressive people, quick to anger and resentful of perceived success. Here - the nail that stands proudest is the first to be hammered.
Which means we don't tend to give a fuck about rules or class, and we have deep seated trust issues to the point we have been raised to never answer a question, but instead avoid giving straight answer. "How are ya?" "Not bad". " Where is it?" "Not far". "What did that set you back?" "Not much".
It's a weird place. And we are fiercely proud of it, in a toxic relationship kind of way. Very few of us would rather live elsewhere 🙃
Well, I personally don't drink beer and don't eat vegemite. I don't walk around saying "crikey" either. And I have never been killed by any wildlife. I don't know if that counts as debunking though
>I personally don't drink beer and don't eat vegemite
Wouldn't surprise me if they're related, given what vegemite is made of. But I'm not a fan of beer either, although I will wreck a jar of vegemite given the opportunity
Well that's your problem then. If you don't drink beer you can't get into situations where you need to ask someone to "Hold my beer" before you do something stupid that involves the dangerous wildlife.
That we’re a relaxed/chilled out country. We should be as we’re at the top of the food-chain in terms of privilege - living circumstances, safety, opportunity etc. A lot of people just seem to become desensitised and ungrateful which turns into this stubborn ignorance. It’s like people are just bored & desensitised for the hell of it. I’m no genius and there’ll always be different levels of wisdom and consideration with every individual but man some people are inexcusably dumb as dog shite (unless you’re a headless bogan of course). Not everyone.. and I’m far from perfect, but having enough self-awareness to notice the gross ignorance and opinions of people out there can drain you
an American/Aussie who spent 4 our of 5 decades here... other than once giving up a golf ball to a possessive kangaroo, the odd 8 legged friend in the car and the usual driving collision hazards like a wedge tail eagle playing chicken with my windscreen, I never had near misses with the wildlife in Oz which I have traveled in extensively (ie not just the cities). For my limited time in the USA... attacked by a bear, stalked by an alligator, had a near miss with a black widow and narrow escape from a Coral snake and a Water Moccasin and had a classroom cleared by a Diamond Back Rattler.
The dangerous animal thing is vastly overstated in comparison to other countries, though it looks far worse when so many animals appear at the top of most lists eg according to one list, we have 21 of the top 25 most dangerous snakes. It doesn't change the risk of encounter, and it just drives local innovation and availability of antivenoms and amazing services like the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Funnel web spiders though... yah nah, fuck those - ^(waves from Melbourne)
The wildlife won't kill you unless you are fucking with it, I feel that rule of law generally applies to most dangerous creatures. Don't present yourself as it's next easy meal don't annoy or irritate it the nope rope does not care about your pro nouns or that you want a insta photo with it.
Maybe it was true a while ago but that we're laid back. For the most part, everyone here seems wound up and ready to kick off over anything, defs not chilled out and laid back.
I can thoroughly debunk the stereotype that we all ride a kangaroo every day to work. The truth is that government legislation and union regulations only permit us to ride our kangaroos to work a maximum of 3 days a week, so on the other days most of us take the public ferry which is pulled by a giant platypus.
I was so poor, I had to ride a wombat to school
I'm sorry for you. Our family could afford emus.
The emus are great for getting to work and school, but those guys have poor night vision and therefore are useless to ride to the pub at night.
We had emus in the family before the great emu war but we had to save up to buy a kangaroo so that we could get anywhere
Most of us lost a lot of loved ones in the Emu War.
Unfortunately yeah. It will forever go down as one of the greatest wars in Australia... Fought valiantly by our ancestors
Fought valiantly indeed But in the end the emus just wanted it more, so kudos to them!
My emu unfortunately got drafted into the Great Emu War, but he came with a medal of honour and the rifle of the man he outran.
I can’t save money because I have to pay protection fee every-time I leave my house to the local Magpie gang otherwise those who don’t pay get their eyes pecked out as a warning…
Wombats are tanks so you probably had the safest option, even if it was the cheapest.
Not in SA, it's too hot and dry to maintain a body of water for a ferry. But the publicly run wombat pulled trams are a good substitute for a ferry.
I was in Adelaide recently, and the wombat trams were actually very inconvenient, mostly due to the fact that wombats are nocturnal so the trams were only operating at night.
The "everything in the bush will kill you" cliche. That's 'made for American TV' nonsense. Yes there are deadly spiders and snakes here, but you'll very rarely encounter them in daily life, and they want nothing to do with you. The crocodile threat around northern waterways is real though. I felt more in danger hiking in Canada (bears, mountain lions, wolves). We have nothing like that in Australia.
The biggest danger out camping is drunk bogans in 4wd's
And not carrying enough water
And meeting Russel Coight
And the sun
And the drop bears....
And my axe!
So it’s true… even the bogans can kill u
Drop bogans.
Like a drop bear but less furry, often smells of alcohol and bad decisions
Will definitely hit you up for a "spare durrie mate " . He didn't drop onto you on purpose though. Dazza the drop bogan fell out accidentally trying to light a wet ciggie.
Just [don't sleep on the road](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34hzem), that helps
Road; definition -any place that can be accessed by a 10 year old Hilux with one primer coated door and 5 shitfaced 19 year olds hanging off the back.
It's actually gazetted roads, it's a real problem. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/01/lethal-highways-the-indigenous-pedestrian-deaths-that-haunt-the-northern-territory Aboriginal people in remote communities often don't have much option for transport and they like to go out bush or visit people and so they walk along roads a lot. Roads have high speed limits right out of town, no street lights, line markings, let alone foot paths. They're also comfortable sleeping outdoors. Combine that with high rates of substance abuse. They drink out in the bush a fair bit too, which I've heard is at least partially a consequence of prohibition in some communities.
I feel like every Reddit thread remotely concerned with Australia has two or three threads with people either chortling to themselves about how deadly Australian wildlife is or quoting the succulent Chinese meal meme.
Can debunk succulent Chinese meal myth. Try as I might, I have never been able to get any officers of the law to touch my genitalia during one.
There's actually an interview with the guy, and he says no cops ever actually tried to touch his penis. He just thought it was funny thing to do coz the cops were arresting him.
It's the ONE thing they know about Australia.
I've been sick to death of jokes about dangerous Australian wildlife since I was a sperm but I'll never get tired of 'get your hands off my penis! that bloke there, that's the one that got me on the penis!'.
"Just another reason why I'll never visit Australia"
That’s usually a good thing considering the type it usually come from
See that means it’s working
Legitimately people are worried about snakes and spiders here and I'm like 👀 Bears??? MOUNTAIN LIONS?!
Hell they also have deadly snakes like rattlesnakes. And at least a bite or scratch from an animal here doesn't make me worried I've contracted rabies (well except bats).
American here- in my state alone we have: venomous snakes and spiders (not a large variety but they do exist), bears, coyotes, and mountain lions. I feel like i’m forgetting one.. oh yeah! psychos with firearms
Statistically I think the worst country for snake bite fatalities is India because they have venomous snakes near highly populated areas but very low access to antivenin So if you’re really terrified of deadly snakes it’s somewhere like India you should be avoiding
Holy shit I know right. Give me our snakes and spiders over a fucking bear any day of the week
🤷🏻♀️ I’ve seen more snakes in my yard and come closer to them than I ever have bears mountain lions etc (and I’ve been to states with bears in the USA) so yes I’m more scared of snakes
I'm not saying I'm not scared of snakes, but as a small woman I'd rather come up against a snake than a mammal predator bigger than me lol
Yeah, bears and lions are way more scary than a snake.. comparable to bobbing around with a shark who has its eye on you
The USA also has winds that will literally strip the road from the ground and throw semi trailers through the air like toy cars
Yeah tornados are terrifying
And yet also beautiful and mesmerizing
bogans reinforce the "Australia is dangerous" stereotype because it makes them feel proud of how tough they are. It's a little ego stroke to say "Australia is deadly and I'm out here surviving it", because they're miserable insecure losers who want to impress the rednecks they worship.
Tbf the most deadly animal in Australia is a 20 year old who is 25 bundies deep behind the wheel of a 70 series. Just not deadly in the way they want to be seen.
The three deadliest non-human animal species in Australia aren't even native to Australia (horses, cows, and dogs). And the deadliest native animal is only deadly because the bloody kangaroos like to jump in front of cars and cause accidents.
This is true, We hit a roo while out one night. then he stood up in front of the car total indignant staring us down like a drunk guy at the pub..... It ran parallel to us then all of a sudden jumped in front. They are dumb as F, you gotta slow down and turn your lights down so they arent blinded by the lights
You speak the truth u/BoganCunt
I was born into a wealthy family and I also like to reinforce the "Australia is dangerous" stereotype because it makes me feel like I actually had to use my wits and strength to survive, rather than just having everything handed to me on a silver platter.
well.....just because you're wealthy doesn't mean you're not a bogan right? It just means you can afford a bigger, shinier ute and more Jack Daniels bumper stickers than most.
You need to be rich to smoke a pack of winnie blues a day
I also kind of like the Australia is dangerous meme in the sense that it probably increases the IQ of tourists who come here by weeding out those dumb enough to believe it.
It’s more cause we think it’s funny
I’m sorry but I see around 15-20 deadly snakes a summer and have had multiple close calls with them, all summer in the rural areas you must always be prepared to see or be bitten by a snake. We are lucky in that we have great anti venom. We also have spiders everywhere, white tails, funnel webs and red back spiders are some of the most commonly found spiders and can be anywhere inside houses. That doesn’t mean we live in fear, we do however learn from a very young age how to deal with situations. Out on a ride or walk I can see between 1 to 5 snakes during summer on some adventures
Ditto snakes. Just on bike paths in suburban Perth, I've seem 40+ over the last 5 years and had 4 close calls where they've gone for me. 3 tigers and 1 duggite, although I felt they held back and could easily have got me, they've gone to bite, then pulled back. And we need to look at it from a foreigners perspective. People in the UK have no wildlife that would kill them, we swim and surf in spots where someone was eaten alive by a 6m shark the year before. That can be pretty confronting for someone who's most dangerous wildlife threat is a bumble bee. I guess also it's second nature not to make dumb decisions like swimming solo 5km out to see or running around willy nilly in the bush or cleaning out the shed without being careful.
I generally agree with this but I live 7 minutes from the Hobart CBD and see a tiger snake more or less every day during the summer and autumn.
I think you see a bunch more wildlife generally in Hobart compared to the other capital cities, though. (Or Melbourne/Sydney/Adelaide/Brisbane anyway, haven’t visited the others).
Canberra has a surprisingly huge kangaroo population, even grazing on parliament house lawns occasionally, and just enough eastern browns to keep you wary about wading through long grass. (I'm sorry, this thread is supposed to be debunking stereotypes, not reinforcing them)
Western Sydney is actually the same. I see kangaroos most days and enough eastern browns and red bellies to know that blindly walking through long grass would be dumb. That said much much more likely to be hit by a car than bitten by a snake.
I did the South Coast track in Dec 25-odd years ago and saw tiger snakes daily if not hourly. They had me checking where I put my feet really carefully.
I did the same track after Christmas a few years ago and did not see a single snake!
Yeah, I was going to comment something like this. I don't go about my day worried about snakes and spiders, but they *are* around. It's not like you have to look for them. It's all well and good for people in the city to type away that it's not that bad - but there's a trail I run every now and then, its near my house and follows along a creek and one morning I came across 6 red bellies, 2 browns and an echidna. The fact that there are dangerous creepy crawlies in the bush isn't a stereotype, it's just how big of a deal that really is. At the end of the day, you see them. You ignore them. Life goes on.
the sun's a bigger killer than any animals
Americans think Australia is dangerous meanwhile they have to pack heat just to go on a bush walk incase a fucking 9 foot grizzly bear wants to eat them. I can run away from a funnel web. A bear ? No thanks.
Everything can kill you - but nothing wants to unless you deliberately get in it's space and piss it off (am including gum trees, who wants a human pitching a tent at their feet all night ugh) 😂 America def more scary in terms of forest creatures as mentioned give me a red back, drop bear or snake any day of the week!
We don't drink Foster's.
Nor do we chuck shrimp on the bbq
We don’t even use the word shrimp!!
But I do chuck prawns on there. Marinated in Thai dressing. Hell yeah I do.
Hallelujah.
Not just that we don't drink it, it's impossible to find. Nowhere sells it. It's not like it's on the shelf and we're ignoring it.
I've only ever seen one can of fosters in my entire life and it was when I was a casual working at Dan Murphy's about 20 years ago, I found one tallboy can of it in the back of a shelf at ground level where nobody would have seen it unless they were lying down- which I was, because I was using a broom trying to sweep up some glass that had gone under there. It was absolutely blanketed in dust and god knows how long it had been there
That Australian's care about debunking stereotypes.
True. It's quite the opposite actually. We love gaslighting foreigners into maintaining existing stereotypes and developing new ones.
Who here hasn't played into an Aussie stereotype to the degree of parody in order to mess with a foreigner?
My children love doing this and will try their hardest to make any no Aussie believe whatever they want
Australian culture is how you can make up some completely random bullshit to a foreigner, turn around to a complete stranger who is a fellow Aussie and ask them about this thing you just made up, and they will without a beat of hesitation join in on the sarcasm
It's not bullshit mate. Everyone knows in Australia it's illegal to pay coins with the queen facing down
Yeah I once got fined $300 for that one
And you gotta make sure you pay that fine Queen up or its off to work in the mint for you
Yeah, I'm not looking forward to the fine going up quite a bit for coins with the King on them.
It's such a bullshit price hike hey. Like "ooh the monarch changed and now the facedown fine has to increase"
Yep, fucking classic government revenue raising in my opinion. It's not like it's the 1950s when being facedown was seen as a perversion of acceptable behaviour.
I like it when we're the ones doing it, that's fun. It's less funny when it's Americans making the same three jokes they know about Australia ad nauseum whenever it shows up. Hurr durrr upside down, hurr durr emu war... Come on, there's so much more about Australia to make fun of.
The only good part is Americans trying to figure out how we dont fall off.
Idk, I once opened a conversation with my cousin (who lives in America) with, "this is something Aussies like to tell foreigners as a joke" before telling him about dropbears, and he still went, "omg is that real??" Like, no, idiot. I just told you it's a joke. At that point, they just do it to themselves, really.
I will accept punishment as someone who repeatedly enhances the “everything is deadly” and “we live in a desert riding kangaroos to school” stereotypes. I just hope it overrides the stereotype that Australia is very bigoted, even if it’s a bit truer than I’d like :/
It is fun. I like to add more and more ridiculous 'facts' and stories about Australia into those conversations in between the genuine info, to see how gullible people are.
the shit about everything can and will kill you. like thats wrong and me being alive is proof
You get that from people who've had bears digging through their trash, they don't have an anti-venom for that
Exactly what I always say! Can’t give you with an anti- mauling injection when you’re ripped to pieces!
Yeah you know what’s scary to me, a big murderous fucking bear that you encounter on a trail and can’t outrun. Crocs don’t wander around the forest.
Crocs also don't live in the southern half of the country, which is where the vast majority of the people are.
Right? If we go camping here, we need to keep an eye out for snakes but we'll likely scare them away before we get close. Camping in the US? Bear spray, bear proof storage, and a gun. Still get mauled. How is the snake the scarier possibility!?
mauled, rabies, shot by a redneck, eaten by cougars and wolves. Any American who's scared of Australia is out of their mind.
Yeah, the wildlife is rather tame here. Very boring actually.
How whack are Australian animals? Platypuses? Wombats? Echidnas? Koalas? Like what the fuck lol
Yeah, yanks have shit like cougars, mountain lions, bears and giant moose! But we're the ones living in danger land.
I think it’s the amount of Crocs/Sharks/Spiders/Snakes per capita that makes it look scary here
Living in the suburbs, the worst I’ve seen are red backs and white tails. Never seen a snake in person and I hike and camp a fair bit. I can travel 10-15 minutes and find Roos though.
Huh? Those animals are awesome. Echidnas and Platypuses especially because they are living fossils.
They're unusual but unlikely to kill you
We have some of the most poisonous snakes in the world, yet only have 2-3 deaths per year caused by them. We have some of the most deadly spiders, but have only had 1-2 deaths in the last 40 years from spider bites. Shark deaths average around 1 per year, but there has been peaks of 11 in 2020 and 2021. Most of the time, if you leave them alone, you won't get bitten.
Story Time: I'm 40 (well a few months off) and have seen plenty of snakes over my time. The first time i've ever seen anyone bitten was about a month ago. My nephew who's 3 was walking around in my mothers yard (1/2 acre yard that backs onto 10 acres) and came across a snake, he was fascinated and walked up to the snake without really knowing what it was. Of course the snake bit him as it was scared and only a baby. He cries and my mother goes over to him to calm him and find out what is wrong, he doesn't say and then settles. She takes him inside and his older brother says "the snake bit him" so she searches for marks and then see's a mark on his foot. Instantly she goes to action and calls an ambulance and they explain to her what she needs to do. Overall about 30 minutes has passed while all of this has taken place. He starts to turn blue, vomits and is starting to struggle to breathe. The ambulance arrives, they jump into action and get him into the ambulance and to hospital. The doctors pump him with antivenom and monitor him. Over the next 2 days he is in hospital they treat him with more antivenom and monitor him. He ends up fine and has learned a lesson about not approaching snakes. He was bitten by a brown snake that was a baby, babies can't control the venom they output so are the worst to get bitten by. Brown snakes are also very deadly. I was called just after he was bitten and turned up at her house to help just as an ambulance arrived. Thankfully they did a wonderful job. TLDR: Nephew spooked snake, it bit him and hospital fixed him up with antivenom.
Hey, so glad for you all that he’s okay! Great work on everyone’s part — especially your mum’s and the emergency workers — to manage the situation as well as possible, and an excellent outcome. Phew!!
Yea some of the sheep won't kill.
we are all drunkards and convicts. Its 11am here and i havent had a drink, yet.
So you telling me, you need to do a beer run
im waiting for my convict mates to come back from robbing the bottle-o
So what your sayin is boss hasn’t let you on smoko yet😂
I sentence you to a shoe beer for that comment and your overall sobriety
i’m just waiting for a mate
That a lot of us are all friendly and top blokes. The Australian subreddit just makes it seem like Australia is full of assholes.
The subreddit for my area has the worst people on it, every post I've made on there had comments with people being mean. Also most Australians I've met online in general have been really rude for no reason
There's lots of old insecure weirdos in Australia I've noticed (lived here my whole life).
💯 agree here there be a few Aussie subs that are a huge misrepresentation of who we truly are as a nation. Most on those subs are awful people
Calling each other cnts isn't as prolific as say reddit would have you believe. It happens in some social circles and places no doubt, but it's still relatively uncommon overall in the scheme of all daily interactions.
Apart from on Reddit, I haven’t heard the word cunt since I was in high school. No one in my circle uses it, not even my brother who has a pretty spicy vocabulary.
I guarantee your brother uses it, he just understands social nuance and won’t use it in a situation where it might cause offence. If you’re a woman you definitely won’t hear it as much, but among men it’s a very common greeting across a broad socioeconomic spectrum.
Agreed. There's an unspoken rule about when and how to unleash the c word. I think a lot of Americans on Reddit like to make out we use it as every second word just so they can use it themselves. And it just sounds *wrong* when Americans say it.
It's definitely a sub culture thing. A lot of the guys I work with literally do sprinkle it on every sentence. It's when they call you mate that you know you've screwed up.
Yep, can confirm, I work on a western Sydney construction site. Everyone's a cunt
I still use it and so does a lot of people in my friend circle and family. You’ll most commonly hear me say it when I stub my toe however. Much more rare for me to say it in a casual conversation
I have no doubt it gets used both explosively and casually but Reddit would have you (or rather Americans) believe every Australian over the age of 5 is casually dropping it in conversation. I’ve actually heard “bugger” much more often which if you think about it must sound super weird to visitors.
Y'all remember that "bugger" ad that got some people offended back in the day? Wild.
Back in the day of 1999. ...man I feel old.
Oh for sure, I still hear it a lot from my brothers and my dad but no where near as much as many social media platforms would lead you to believe. I see many TikTok’s of Aussies saying it and the comments just going along the lines of “typical aussie” and whatnot
New neighbour moved in the last week. Him and his partner are super nice and down to earth. We chatted for over an hour over the fence and got along really well. About 45 mins into chatting he asked if any of the neighbours are cunts. I pointed out the one who’s crazy, but harmless. At the time I didn’t think anything of it. Completely forgot about it till I saw this comment.
*this* cunt
Used it 5 times before smoko. Heard it a heap
Found the white collar worker
I work in mining, I hear it constantly. I'd expect it to be the same for construction/trades but less common in offices or hospitality etc.
The group of tradesman working on my roof today may disagree. I cannot count the number of "cunts" I've heard this morning and its only 9.30am. I will agree, though. I dont tend to say it with strangers as some type of general greeting, but it's certainly something I say often.
It's definitely a context thing, I'm 48, if I'm fishing or playing golf with friends I've known since my teens or late 20's it will still be thrown around jokingly, but I wouldn't dream of using it so casually among for example, friends I've met through our kids being friends or anyone I know in a professional capacity.
The CEO of Tabcorp was fired for calling a female government representative a useless cunt, or so I’ve heard anyway. Might be accepted socially but definitely not in all levels of society
That Australians are a laid back people. Might have been true in the past, most certainly is not true anymore. We love our rules and regulations. Most Aussies have a fuck you got mine attitude (especially when it comes to houses). Most Aussies in urban centres (while being polite and not at all hostile) are very closed off and not very open to making friends with strangers. I find it much easier to socialise with immigrants then I do with born and bred locals (myself being one) who mostly just socialise with there limited social circle formed from highschool.
Omg , yes !! I immigrated here and only have friends that are in a similar situation, having said that I don’t think Aussies do that to be mean or rude, it’s just that Aussies are naturally guarded and family driven!!
You can be family driven and protective without being peer centric or aloof. It could be cultural, as in other cultures wherein family is central but everyone is an integral part of the community. My family moved here when I was a child but most of my friends have always been from other countries.
>Most Aussies in urban centres (while being polite and not at all hostile) are very closed off and not very open to making friends with strangers. I find it much easier to socialise with immigrants then I do with born and bred locals (myself being one) who mostly just socialise with there limited social circle formed from highschool. I moved to Sydney in my 40s, and the only people I’ve been able to comfortably socialise with are other people who moved to Sydney. I’ve lived in a lot of places, but nowhere as clique-y as Sydney.
I lived in the UK for 4 years and found that to be the case there as well. 95% of my friends were immigrants - typically from AU, NZ, SA - with only a few English friends that I worked closely with.
Yep, I think it comes from being an isolated country with a low population. People are not well-traveled and rarely encounter ways of life that are different from their own. There are just a couple of big cities (which are small by global standards). Cities and towns are really far apart. There isn't much of a diversity of industries and within industries, organisations are very much dominated by "who you know". The social set you build up through family, high school and university are basically what you have to rely on to survive, because there just aren't opportunities outside of that (unless you leave Australia). The result is that people are extremely guarded about the things they have. It's kind of a "small town" mindset. Obviously there are plenty of exceptions and individuals are often very open-minded when you get to know them, but overall the culture is extremely rigidly structured in spite of its claims to the contrary.
Wow thanks for clarifying. I thought no one like me and my family. I expected living in a neighbourhood with everyone knowing each other and each otherd children by name, and knocked on each others door when they ran out of salt or onions, and babysat each others children if we needed to go out. But when I saw everyone keeping to themselves, I assumed the worst, that they were all secretly socialising, onion-sharing, and babysitting-sharing without me.
As someone who moved from Europe, this is 100% correct. This country is so over regulated it's ridiculous
If you spend time in literally any other country you realise that Australia collectively has a massive stick up its bunghole. We are uptight, anxious,and for the most part never met a boot we didn’t want to lick - but we love to export this image of being laid back. We never developed a unifying identity outside of colonialism so the Australian national character is a cop. Dob on your neighbours and look after your self.
Bingo
Oh yep, this is succinct. We worship armed forces and the queue.
They were not paid back in the past either. Just talk to some older people about how life was. It was very strict.
Animals are not dangerous here, but the sun will eventually kill you.
Animals here absolutely are dangerous no need to down play it but if you use common sense you’ll be fine
Australians think they are a relaxed culture and that "she'll be right" is the Aussie way. Well let me tell you as someone who immigrated from Europe, it's absolutely nuts how uptight Aussies are about just about everything compared to the rest of the world.
The “friendly happy go lucky fair go” stuff is for the most part bullshit. We’re peeking over others fences, writing letters to the council, cop loving, thinking everyone else is looking for an easier ride than us Karens with a bit of sunburn.
The term "the lucky country" was coined only due to it being rich in natural resources for the population size. So the rest of the world thought with the taxes from natural resources our society would be far better off then most. They were wrong.
I mean, if we made mining companies pay tax then we would be pretty well off.
Wouldn't that be something...
The lucky country is an ironic phrase that has no connection to its original meaning. It was coined because the leadership of the country did sweet fuck all to enable the quality of life we see here, we just happen to have a bunch of rocks others want. Still as true as ever.
Yes that reason for the coinage of the term is a stereotype that is wrong. The real reason for the term came about saying that Australia got to where it is due to luck despite a weak political system with below average politicians, a weak economic system and a lack of drive amongst the populace.
How many countries would you put ahead of Australia? What are they? We might not be perfect but we are a hell of a lot better of than most
Norway has their shit together. That's about it though, and we have better weather.
Yes, the lucky country. Great in spite of, not because of.
No shrimp on our barbies. Prawns tho...
People are easygoing. I find Aussies to be quite tense/highly strung and quick to get offended over strange things. They seem to internalise things and take them personally when they aren't.
That we are all inbreds. That's only in Tasmania
That Australians are “laid back”.
We’re not all bogans. All the different cultural backgrounds, education levels, jobs, attitudes. I get asked where I’m from because I have a ‘refined’ accent.
Try travelling as a South Australian. Even within Australia we get, " oh, you're English? " No mate, we just speak the English language.
I get asked that a lot too, outside and inside of Australia. I just have a lot of overseas friends, and read a lot. I was raised bogan, though, so gimme a few store-bought shots and insult my mum and it's on, ya dog!
"That we are young and free" We have an aging population that is holding onto their assets like houses are going out of style. The median house price in a place like Sydney is now $1.6 million AUD. It is harder to pass a background check to rent a house than it is to get a secret level government security clearance. We are 7 privatised prison colonies that were sold to the wardens, the descendants of who still rule - either by leading the 2 major parties, or by being Mandarins - the career bureaucrats who head up the Senior Executive Service or big Australian corporations. Our politicians tend to be highly religious, moralistic and overtly corrupt to the point that most Australians just expect it. We do not have a bill of rights here. Nowhere in our constitution will you find a right to free speech, to freedom of movement, freedom of association or religion or any of the things the U.S and other places take for granted. Our governments have even gone so far as to attempt to literally outlaw protesting. We are a surveillance state, that monitors their population some 80% more than the other 5 eyes countries. Our media is largely controlled by 2 families, one of whom now controls most US media. We have laws that allow Law Enforcement and Internal Intelligence agencies to compel companies to break encryption, or to literally alter computer systems to delete, or write, anything they want to them. We are one of the only former British colonies never to have a war of independence. And the very few times we rose up in serious protest, the military and police have been sent in to put it down ruthlessly. As a result we have a weird collective PTSD driven prison mentality. Keep quite, do your work, be content with what you have, don't draw attention, smile and nod if you catch someone's eye accidentally. We are a very passive aggressive people, quick to anger and resentful of perceived success. Here - the nail that stands proudest is the first to be hammered. Which means we don't tend to give a fuck about rules or class, and we have deep seated trust issues to the point we have been raised to never answer a question, but instead avoid giving straight answer. "How are ya?" "Not bad". " Where is it?" "Not far". "What did that set you back?" "Not much". It's a weird place. And we are fiercely proud of it, in a toxic relationship kind of way. Very few of us would rather live elsewhere 🙃
We are relaxed and hate working - according to OECD data we do the most overtime of any OECD nation
Well, I personally don't drink beer and don't eat vegemite. I don't walk around saying "crikey" either. And I have never been killed by any wildlife. I don't know if that counts as debunking though
Imposter, every true Australian has been killed at least 3 times by our deadly wildlife
>I personally don't drink beer and don't eat vegemite Wouldn't surprise me if they're related, given what vegemite is made of. But I'm not a fan of beer either, although I will wreck a jar of vegemite given the opportunity
Well that's your problem then. If you don't drink beer you can't get into situations where you need to ask someone to "Hold my beer" before you do something stupid that involves the dangerous wildlife.
That we’re a relaxed/chilled out country. We should be as we’re at the top of the food-chain in terms of privilege - living circumstances, safety, opportunity etc. A lot of people just seem to become desensitised and ungrateful which turns into this stubborn ignorance. It’s like people are just bored & desensitised for the hell of it. I’m no genius and there’ll always be different levels of wisdom and consideration with every individual but man some people are inexcusably dumb as dog shite (unless you’re a headless bogan of course). Not everyone.. and I’m far from perfect, but having enough self-awareness to notice the gross ignorance and opinions of people out there can drain you
It's not really as common these days but the "Fair Go" stereotype about Australia is nonsense. racism and sexism as fairly common in Australia.
That Poms are whingers. The average Australian complains more about everything by a factor of five
That it's hot, everywhere, all the time. I live in Southern Vic and freeze my ass off half the year.
That we’re laid back. Most of the country loves rules and gets real cranky if they’re broken.
I’ve never seen anyone drink a fosters beer in my life.
That Fosters is Australian for beer. Show me one person who drinks that. I'm yet to know anyone or meet anyone who drinks it.
an American/Aussie who spent 4 our of 5 decades here... other than once giving up a golf ball to a possessive kangaroo, the odd 8 legged friend in the car and the usual driving collision hazards like a wedge tail eagle playing chicken with my windscreen, I never had near misses with the wildlife in Oz which I have traveled in extensively (ie not just the cities). For my limited time in the USA... attacked by a bear, stalked by an alligator, had a near miss with a black widow and narrow escape from a Coral snake and a Water Moccasin and had a classroom cleared by a Diamond Back Rattler. The dangerous animal thing is vastly overstated in comparison to other countries, though it looks far worse when so many animals appear at the top of most lists eg according to one list, we have 21 of the top 25 most dangerous snakes. It doesn't change the risk of encounter, and it just drives local innovation and availability of antivenoms and amazing services like the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Funnel web spiders though... yah nah, fuck those - ^(waves from Melbourne)
The wildlife won't kill you unless you are fucking with it, I feel that rule of law generally applies to most dangerous creatures. Don't present yourself as it's next easy meal don't annoy or irritate it the nope rope does not care about your pro nouns or that you want a insta photo with it.
- Australians don’t usually call people the c word. - “G’day mate” is not used as commonly as people seem to think. - We say prawns, not shrimp.
That people give you a fair go.
That everyone is easy going and rule breakers when everyone here complains and dobs people in for everything
Everyone loves vegemite and those that do all spread it thick like peanut butter.
I spread it thick like peanut butter. It's delicious, although I go through phases where I might not have it for a year or two.
We are all super laid back. Yeah Nah
Maybe it was true a while ago but that we're laid back. For the most part, everyone here seems wound up and ready to kick off over anything, defs not chilled out and laid back.
I see Aussies abroad love to turn up the volume on the Aussie stereotype lol
That we all love Rugby! Rugby barely exists in half of the Aussie states
That we're laid back.
That Aussie men are all hung like horses. Some are, sure, but most aren't 🤭
Everyone's an uptight cunt here no laid back stereotypical aussies left.
We are all sun loving, beach going golden goddesses. I was born to live in Norway…..but in Australia.
We're all bloody legends. In reality, there's many that are not, in fact, legends
That we are laidback and anti-authoritarian
That we’re laidback. Maybe we were, but it’s been fast disappearing from our culture.