Ah, Australians. We’re quite a weird and wild bunch. Only those who grew up Down Under can truly understand and appreciate the quirks that make Australia so special.
Here are the tell-tale signs you’re a true blue, through and through:
- You learned about drugs and alcohol from a giraffe in a caravan
- You don’t feel weird about going to the supermarket barefoot
- You abbreviate everything because saying the whole word is too much effort
- You can never have enough chicken salt or tom sauce on your chips
- You slip, slop, slap before leaving the house each morning
- You think a flight under eight hours is a quick trip
- You know all the lyrics to ‘The Horses’ by Daryl Braithwaite, but not the full national anthem
- You consider a slice of white bread with a sausage a complete meal
- You’d make a significant detour just to take a photo with a giant roadside attraction
- You give everyone a nickname, whether they want one or not
- You can finish the line, “No hat, no play…”
- You think meat pies are the holy grail of food
- You think everyone’s your mate, even if you just met them five minutes ago
- You know our true national animal is the bin chicken
- You drink a lot of coffee – and you know what the good stuff tastes like
- You smack-talk every other city that isn’t the one you live in
- Beetroot on burgers is a yes
- You know all the moves to The Nutbush
- You say "yeah nah"
- Turkey what? You eat seafood at Christmas
- You’ll happily spin yarns about drop bears to tourists
- You become paranoid of magpies as soon as September hits
- You drastically overstate the weather, describing a windy day as a full-blown hurricane
- You’ve nailed the perfect Vegemite-to-butter ratio
- You know you can count on every rural town to have at least one pub
- You swear like a sailor
- You wear sunnies in the middle of winter
- Schoolies was your rite of passage to adulthood
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