15 things that if you don’t do, are you even Australian?

15 things that if you don’t do, are you even Australian?

When visitors come to Australia, there’s plenty about our great country that may catch them by surprise.
The fact our spiders can be as big as a dinner plate, or perhaps that our kangaroo population out ranks us two to one.
But there 16 other hilarious true blue experiences they don’t mention in the travel brochures.
1. Being utterly unfazed by any natural disasters.
“You think this is a flood – you should have seen 1986.”
2. Having too much to drink at the pub on Anzac Day.
Then stopping for a Turkish kebab on the way home.
3. Standing on a stranger’s towel
Because you underestimated the heat of the beach sand and them not batting an eyelid. #beentherebro
4. Then still chancing the heat of the road barefoot
And having to walk on the white painted lines.
5. Literally mixing Vegemite with anything
Chocolate and cheese are just two examples – there is even a cocktail called a Bloody Sheila with it.
6. Speaking fluent ‘pub’
Knowing your pots from your pints and your schooners from your middies so you don’t hold up the line. And the only unacceptable f-word in a pub is Foster’s.
7. Calling not blue things “blue”
From redheads to fights – ‘I reckon Blue is gonna have a blue’.
8. Firmly believing there is a correct way to eat a pie
“What kind of a sicko takes the top off?”
9. The great sauce swindle
“I don’t care that it’s only 50c extra – it’s the principle.”
10. Ragging on the size and scariness of Crocs
“You’ve never seen a salty have you mate?”
11. Drastically understating the weather
“It’s a bit fresh today.”
12. Making things rhyme and throwing in a contraction plus nickname whenever possible
Purely hypothetically that might end up as “I heard Sco-Mo cacked his dacks at Macca’s.”
13. ‘Old mate’ for someone who isn’t necessarily either is always an insult
But ‘dickhead’ is a term of endearment. In the right tone.
14. We have a very generous definition of “celebrity”
For example, asking judge Lindsay Lohan to act surprised when the Hammerhead on The Masked Singer turned out be a cricket player. Who retired when Lindsay was 11.
15. We use ‘dog’ as a verb – and not in the sexy British way
As in ‘ya never dog on your mates, ya dog.’

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