View Poll Results: How Australian do you actually feel.
0-2 - Not in the slighest and almost certain I never will
14
36.84%
3-5 - Didn't at all, but some Australian feelings are coming through.g to occur
4
10.53%
5-7: The UK (Or whereever) is starting to feel like a distant memory "Mate"
13
34.21%
8-10: Strewth mate was I ever anything else?
7
18.42%
Voters: 38. You may not vote on this poll
How "Australian" do you feel.
Dec 2nd 2019, 8:02 pm
#16
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
I swear people at work use the word maroon several times a shift cos they know how much it winds me up when they pronounce it wrong!
Have to say, the longer I spend here, the less I feel I fit, which I guess means I am growing even more un-Australian by the day. Roll on the day QSuper pays out.........
Have to say, the longer I spend here, the less I feel I fit, which I guess means I am growing even more un-Australian by the day. Roll on the day QSuper pays out.........
Just tell them, looks like it's a full moan tonight
Got to say I'd probably struggle more in Queensland than anywhere else as well. Not sure how the very remote Perth and WA manages to seem more in tune with the rest of the world than some of what comes out of Queensland. But there you go.
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Dec 2nd 2019, 10:29 pm
#17
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
I'm with Dreamy and MP on how I feel - strange that eh? 
At the risk of sounding knobby, I feel more of a global citizen. Fourth continent so far, always happy to be where I am and always try to get stuck in. I think I may feel a tad more English these days, while living in the US, but that could be because my accent means that's how most recognise me. Can take the girl out of Yorkshire, and all that.
Typing this from Sydney though, and still feel it's our long-term home. Even if the bricks and mortar get handed over to a tenant on Monday
At the risk of sounding knobby, I feel more of a global citizen. Fourth continent so far, always happy to be where I am and always try to get stuck in. I think I may feel a tad more English these days, while living in the US, but that could be because my accent means that's how most recognise me. Can take the girl out of Yorkshire, and all that.
Typing this from Sydney though, and still feel it's our long-term home. Even if the bricks and mortar get handed over to a tenant on Monday
Dec 3rd 2019, 11:32 am
#18
Australia's Doorman
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
I swear people at work use the word maroon several times a shift cos they know how much it winds me up when they pronounce it wrong!
Have to say, the longer I spend here, the less I feel I fit, which I guess means I am growing even more un-Australian by the day. Roll on the day QSuper pays out.........
Have to say, the longer I spend here, the less I feel I fit, which I guess means I am growing even more un-Australian by the day. Roll on the day QSuper pays out.........
Dec 5th 2019, 3:46 am
#21
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
"Adelonians"?! Where does that come from? Do you mean Adeladies?
Dec 6th 2019, 6:56 pm
#24
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
Probably an old one, Kim. I grew up in the '40s and '50s (on the Darling Downs in Queensland), and "struth" - as it was usually written in newspapers and magazines - was common then. A bit like "cripes" perhaps, which disappeared for a while but seems to be back in favour again - at least among some Australians.
Dec 6th 2019, 10:53 pm
#25
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
Probably an old one, Kim. I grew up in the '40s and '50s (on the Darling Downs in Queensland), and "struth" - as it was usually written in newspapers and magazines - was common then. A bit like "cripes" perhaps, which disappeared for a while but seems to be back in favour again - at least among some Australians.
Dec 7th 2019, 8:44 pm
#26
Lost in BE Cyberspace
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
Dec 8th 2019, 6:32 am
#27
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
Golly, must be more Australian than I thought. I occasionally say Strewth And I always say G'day even here in UK which I suppose might make some folk a bit confused. I'm also prone to "no sweat". Oh dear, it's worse than I thought!
Dec 8th 2019, 7:56 am
#28
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
Dec 8th 2019, 8:07 am
#29
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Re: How "Australian" do you feel.
I know one person who says Gday. She's from country Victoria I think. Never hear it otherwise.
