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Re: I had a thought:
(Anonymous) 2014-03-05 08:38 am (UTC)(link)- Re: snow, depends on the place, as the user above said. But Canberra is not one of the places that snows - it has snowed thrice here in the last two and a half decades. (Canberra is the capital city of Australia for those who don't know)
Re: kangaroos, I have personally never heard of anyone owning one (besides Vanilla Ice, weirdly). But if you live near bushland it's not unheard of them to hang out in your back garden. One came into ours once, and hid nervously in the back corner until night when it escaped again.
Re: deadly animals, you get used to it, promise.
Re: I have used and heard Sheila to refer to a woman in everyday conversation as many times as I have heard bonzer, true blue, fair dinkum, dinky di, cobber and ridgy didge. By which I mean I use all of those phrases in every sentence I speak aloud.
Re: video, I feel like this is a fair representation of the Aussie soap. Fry and Laurie would have been parodying Neighbours and/or Home and Away, which have both been on for yonks (heh, aussie slang) and both of which are popular in the UK for reasons unknown to either country. But feel free to judge for yourself:
Neighbours 90s intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGLEO-oqkDE
Home and Away 80s/90s intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IzdV0gJS3U
(Warning for aggressive 90s fashion and hair and terrible, terrible earworms)
Re: Americans vs Canadians, Canadians have mounties. No competition, sorry.
Re: Aussie history, I can't recommend any history books personally, but you could start at this page compiled by the National Library of Australia of good online resources about Aust. history and go from there: http://www.nla.gov.au/australiana/australian-history-selected-websites
Re: Aussie literature, the user above listed some classic Aussie children's literature - to which I would add The Adventures of Blinky Bill, Dot and the Kangaroo and Midnight. In terms of adult literature, you couldn't go wrong with starting with Tim Winton, who basically is modern aussie lit. in a lot of ways. Cloudstreet is his epic, but he has a lot of shorter books too - I quite enjoyed Breathe, personally. For early 20th century, try My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin. I would also recommend checking out the verse of Banjo Patterson vs Henry Lawson for the ultra classic colonial Australian lit experience - then follow it up with come Oodgeroo Noonuccal for a modern, indigenous perspective and palate cleanser. (Banjo Patterson wrote Waltzing Matilda, the unofficial Australian anthem, fyi.)
Re: travelling after school, the user above talked about schoolies, which is the week after the final high school/college (Year 12) exams, where lots of school leavers go to the gold coast to party and get drunk. I didn't do it, don't know anyone who did, but it definitely happens and there are always news articles about x number of accidents or arrests during it. However, I think you might actually be referring to people taking a 'gap' year between year 12 and their first year of university to work and/or travel, which is pretty common. I did it myself.
Re: fashion, rule of thumb is that Australian fashion is usually a season behind international trends - but that's changing with the internet. I wouldn't say out fashion is that different from, say, general UK or American fashion trends. A lot of people I know buy their clothes from ASOS.com, and similar sites, if that helps. We probably wear thongs more in summer?
Re: Aussie food, 'Australian' food is based on a lot of good old stodgy UK recipes, as you would expect from a colony. Hence the meat pie, Sunday roasts etc. Big emphasis on meat, and bbqs, though an Aussie cliche, are popular. The Pavlova is an all Aussie dessert. We also make use of lots of good quality fresh meat/produce, hence the cliche of seafood in summer (though I'm talking from the east coast perspective - it's hard to get fresh, affordable produce in central Australia for obvs reasons, which is a problem). Oh, and you will never find a gathering of people without a sausage sizzle nearby.
Re: NZ - sort of :) We def have a similar sibling country squabbling relationship. But I think politically we're actually a lot closer than you guys - Australians and New Zealanders can actually live and work indefinitely in the other country. A lot of New Zealanders move to Australia because there are more work opportunities.
Re: gay marriage, Not yet :( The ACT (Australian Capital Territory, the territory where Canberra is) has tried a few times, mostly recently last year - the High Court threw the act out after a week on the grounds that the ACT can't legislate against Federal law. Which sucks :(
Re: LGBT community: I'm not, but I have a few friends who are gay and know a few people who are trans and who are involved in the community. I'm from a pretty left wing/liberal city, but from my outside perspective the community seems generally friendly - the main complaints I've heard are just that it's small, so everyone knows everyone's business.
Re: urban legends, Yowies are like Australian Big Foot, and are based on Aboriginal myths. Bunyips are another Aboriginal mythical creature, usually said to live in water holes or billabongs. Apparently Australia also has one of the highest numbers of UFO sightings in the world. But other than that, most unique Aussie scary stories are originally true - red backs under the toilet seat, true if you're in the bush :( Serial killer who picked on backpackers, true :( Drop bears, true :( If you want to read a fictional creepy Australian story that a lot of people think is true, try Picnic at Hanging Rock (or find the movie). It's understated but very unnerving.
SORRY FOR THE TL;DR I HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON MY HANDS :(:(:(:
Re: I had a thought:
Urban legends - do you think Wolf Creek counts yet? Also now that I think about it there's the Harold Holt conspiracies but that's not very urban legend-y. I wanna say things like tourists will always get lost and die in X location but it tends to be true so uh...
Hadn't realised the High Court had thrown the marriage out AGAIN but I shouldn't be surprised :(
Re: I had a thought:
(Anonymous) 2014-03-05 11:06 am (UTC)(link)AYRT
Lol, no YOU are an ace Aussie M8! (Plus, you get points with me for being from Canberra!)
And yeah, it sucks about gay marriage. *Shakes fist at High Court*
Re: I had a thought:
(Anonymous) 2014-03-06 12:07 am (UTC)(link)I always heard Wolf Creek was roughly based on Ivan Milat/ Peter Falconio's murder, so I maybe it does count? Or maybe Australia is so terrifying in and of itself we don't actually need urban legends :/
Re: I had a thought:
true blue, fair dinkum, dinky di, cobber and ridgy didge.
This is so fucking cute but I have the feeling if I said it out loud I would summon some kind of Australian demon.
Schoolies sounds like our Spring Break, which I've never been to either, but yeah I was thinking of the gap year. People do that here too ("backpacking in Europe" is the cliche) but from what I've heard it's more common in Australia. And I think when people do it here they get reactions like "Ugh, she's not going to college?" You're pretty much expected to go to college right after high school, get a job, get a house and then you can go on your vacation. :\ I also would not have been able to afford it right after high school (can't now, either), but it would've been nice and probably given me some good life experience.
We probably wear thongs more in summer?
Sandals, right? Flip-flops? Not butt-showing bathing suits. Right? Right?
anyway ty this is great <3
Re: I had a thought:
(Anonymous) 2014-03-06 12:02 am (UTC)(link)You have already summoned the demon by mocking our fine language. It muttered angrily "Fair suck of the old sauce bottle mate," and glared at you for a few moments. Then it guffawed, slapped its thighs, declared it was just "Playing sillybuggers" with you, pinched you on the cheek, slapped you on the rump, and wandered off to the nearest pub to bet on the hermit crab races. Such is life in colonial Australia.
Oh, and gap years are definitely very acceptable here - some people even take more time off in the middle of their degree. Some of this is probs because we have a student benefit called Youth Allowance that you used to be able to get while you study fulltime if you earned a certain amount of money in 12 months (that's why I took a year off) - but they've changed it to 18 months now. A lot of people work for the first 6 months to save up the money they need for travelling the next 6 months. Backpacking in Europe or a working holiday in the UK are definitely the usual travel choices.
Sandals, right? Flip-flops? Not butt-showing bathing suits. Right? Right?
Maybe we wear both.... *cackles maniacally*
Glad you enjoyed my ramblings :)