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oliverandlisa Aug 31st 2005 12:45 am

Re: Ways to get accepted in Australia
 

Originally Posted by Scossie
Insist on calling all the Aussie blokes, "Cobber".

Call all the women, "Sheila's".

Walk into a pub and ask for a Fosters.

Remind everyone that, Waltzing Matilda is a song about a suicidal, sheep stealing, down and out!

:D

sel Aug 31st 2005 12:47 am

Re: Ways to get accepted in Australia
 
Run into a pub with a pair of scissors and insist Mullets REALLY did go out of fashion in the 70's

Run up and down the beach shouting "shark"

:D

Professional Princess Aug 31st 2005 12:49 am

Re: Ways to get accepted in Australia
 

Originally Posted by sel
Run into a pub with a pair of scissors and insist Mullets REALLY did go out of fashion in the 70's

Run up and down the beach shouting "shark"

:D


Pretend to be the shark and tape a fin to your back.

Have your hair cut and dyed to look like Queen Lizzy and say 'its the fashion'.

Sagacity Aug 31st 2005 1:06 am

Re: Ways to get accepted in Australia
 
Insist on repacking all the bags at the supermarket checkout yourself.

Hutch Aug 31st 2005 1:14 am

Re: Ways to get accepted in Australia
 
Ask everyone you meet if they know Crocodile Dundee.
Brag about London getting the Olympics in 2012 and mention how unlikely it would be for a city like Sydney to stage such an event.
Observe the water going anti-clockwise down the sink and run screaming from the room shouting 'Heathens! Demons! The water's posessed!'
Ask an outback rancher if all Aussies are as friendly as the nice young men you met at Mardi Gras.
Run around the edge of bush-land with a box of matches shouting "I'm the fire-starter, twisted fire-starter!"

Ozmanic Aug 31st 2005 1:17 am

Re: Ways to get accepted in Australia
 
On the first day you move in to your new house-make sure to tell all your neighbours that you are getting off to an early start with things-and have already bought the poison to kill the possums in the roof-and blue tongues in the garden.

Professional Princess Aug 31st 2005 1:29 am

Re: Ways to get accepted in Australia
 

Originally Posted by Ozmanic
On the first day you move in to your new house-make sure to tell all your neighbours that you are getting off to an early start with things-and have already bought the poison to kill the possums in the roof-and blue tongues in the garden.


Ask your neighbours how many possums make a good fur coat to send back home?

When someone calls you 'mate' shout loudly 'Sorry do I know you?'

when someone says 'How are ya?' Start crying and give them a full life history of your woman problems or bowel habits.

Ozmanic Aug 31st 2005 1:39 am

Re: Ways to get accepted in Australia
 

Originally Posted by Professional Princess
Ask your neighbours how many possums make a good fur coat to send back home?

When someone calls you 'mate' shout loudly 'Sorry do I know you?'

when someone says 'How are ya?' Start crying and give them a full life history of your woman problems or bowel habits.

Tell everyone you meet that you represent a company looking at farming Koalas in the UK for medical experiments.

Ozmanic Aug 31st 2005 1:45 am

Re: Ways to get accepted in Australia
 

Originally Posted by Professional Princess
Ask your neighbours how many possums make a good fur coat to send back home?

When someone calls you 'mate' shout loudly 'Sorry do I know you?'

when someone says 'How are ya?' Start crying and give them a full life history of your woman problems or bowel habits.

Ask everyone who's house you visit why they havent put carpet down in the bathroom.

Vash the Stampede Aug 31st 2005 1:50 am

Re: Ways to get accepted in Australia
 

Originally Posted by Ozmanic
Ask everyone who's house you visit why they havent put carpet down in the bathroom.

LOL, they'd simply laugh you to scorn. :D

Ozmanic Aug 31st 2005 1:52 am

Re: Ways to get accepted in Australia
 

Originally Posted by Professional Princess
Ask your neighbours how many possums make a good fur coat to send back home?

When someone calls you 'mate' shout loudly 'Sorry do I know you?'

when someone says 'How are ya?' Start crying and give them a full life history of your woman problems or bowel habits.

Always attempt to pay for everything in pounds-and get angry when people don't accept them
Hang around parking meters, and comment in a surprised fashion to passersby that they don't take pounds

Professional Princess Aug 31st 2005 1:58 am

Re: Ways to get accepted in Australia
 

Originally Posted by Ozmanic
Always attempt to pay for everything in pounds-and get angry when people don't accept them
Hang around parking meters, and comment in a surprised fashion to passersby that they don't take pounds

(snorting with laughter)

Shit on the floor next to the poshest restaurant and insist thats what you do at home.

hevs Aug 31st 2005 2:00 am

Re: Ways to get accepted in Australia
 
PYSL when they tell you how much they paid for a lettuce

Ozmanic Aug 31st 2005 2:05 am

Re: Ways to get accepted in Australia
 

Originally Posted by Professional Princess
(snorting with laughter)

Shit on the floor next to the poshest restaurant and insist thats what you do at home.

Start from the very beginning-
On arrival at the airport-if the immigration officer is an asian woman-say in your poshest accent "you speak remarkably good English for a coloured girl".

Ozmanic Aug 31st 2005 2:09 am

Re: Ways to get accepted in Australia
 

Originally Posted by Professional Princess
(snorting with laughter)

Shit on the floor next to the poshest restaurant and insist thats what you do at home.

If the immigration officer is an Aboriginal woman(not likely) say "it must be hard having to put clothes on to come to work" and start commending her for her "work ethic" and how proud she should be of herself that she has gone out and got a job.


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