There's nothing like a creamy gaytime. There's just something about being covered in nuts that makes one salivate. XD
Other Aussie factoids:
- We don't give or expect tips. We find the custom a strange symbol of social dysfunction. Tourism & hospitality are the exception - people in bars and fancy restaurants may tip, but it is generally earned and not expected. We have developed minimum wage laws that ensure employers pay their staff a livable wage rather than require the customers to supplement them.
- We like to end words with -o, -azza, or -acca regardless of whether it makes sense. And we speak fast. Shorten all the words! The fact we sometimes make the words longer is irrelevant.
- We don't always mean what we say nor say what we mean - Australians have developed a special lingo that is full of humour and imagery, designed to both shock and conceal in equal measure and it is always irreverent.
- When our voice inflection goes up at the end of a statement, we are not actually asking a question. And most questions are actually rhetorical. We also exaggerate by extreme understatement.
- A block of beer is considered a genuine and preferred form of currency/payment.
- Use of indicators whilst driving is apparently optional.
- We have a $2 coin. Our $1 coin is twice the size of our $2 coin.Our notes are brightly colour coded, and go (5, 10, 20, 50, 100). We no longer have 1 cent and 2 cent coins.
- You can go to see a doctor (GP) and not pay a thing.
- Inventing and embellishing outlandish wildlife to freak out foreigners is a favourite past time.
- We make a bong out of our garden hose rather than use it for something illegal such as watering the garden.
- We wear thongs on our feet. We also wear Ugg boots outside the house.
- Being barefoot is acceptable so long as one dresses like a surfer and not a stoner.
- We also have burgers with 'The Lot'
- We put tomato sauce on almost anything.
- We dip our french-fries in soft-serve icecream.
- The use of industrial waste from breweries to make a breakfast spread is not weird at all.
- We pronounce the H in H.
- A common sign on restaurants and parties is BYO - it means you bring your own booze. Apparently this is unique, I didn't realise until I asked around.
- We have a bank robber as a national hero.
- We say 'How's it going?' instead of 'What's up?'. Australians don't actually want to know how you are going. They just want you to say 'good', or anything short.
- Christmas is a time for seafood and sunstroke.
- Voting is compulsory, and you face a fine for not doing so. Having any political understanding, however, is optional, and is in fact discouraged.
- We wear sunnies all year round, even when it is cloudy.
- We have no emotional attachment to guns.
- We firmly believe supersized fruit is a sensible tourist attraction.
- We actually eat our native animals, even the ones on our national coat of arms.
