I'm sure we have all met new immigrants to Aus who, lets be kind, try a bit too hard to "go native". By this I mean wearing bush hats, AFL shirts (why do they call them "guernseys "?), saying things like "ah shit mate - I'd be mad if I didn't", wear thongs whatever their weather and try keep a straight face when they say that VB is good beer. Oh ! AND cook absolutely every meal on the barbequeue.

What overly-Aussie behaviour will you own up to ?

Second question - assuming this all wore off and you now desperately want to go back to the UK have you started going the other way and becoming overly British ? This would include wearing football shirts, NEXT clothes, Lonsdale or Ben Sherman stuff, buying ASDA brand ploughman's pickle, reading UK newspapers online etc etc ?

I'll admit it, I'm a G'day girl. Much less effort to say that than "Good morning"

I'm forever saying "No worries/no drama's" and "Arvo". Oh, and I'm very guilty of having a thong collection rivalling Imelda Marcos's (not that she ever wore thongs but you catch my drift hey?!!!) Oh, there you go, I also add "Hey" at the end of sentences!!

[QUOTE=Skyblue67;5785210]I'm sure we have all met new immigrants to Aus who, lets be kind, try a bit too hard to "go native". By this I mean wearing bush hats, AFL shirts (why do they call them "guernseys "?), saying things like "ah shit mate - I'd be mad if I didn't", wear thongs whatever their weather and try keep a straight face when they say that VB is good beer. Oh ! AND cook absolutely every meal on the barbequeue.


Tell me about it Skyblue. They have usually changed there name to Bruce and Sheila before the plane has landed and everything in the UK is shit. Forgetting to be kind for the moment, these people are the worst people I have come across in oz.

I must be still proper English as i still say "alrite"...and never say "thongs" they are flip flpos for god's sake!! Thongs are what i wear round my arse

I still say 'hiya' when I greet people - but to their ear it sounds like 'how are ya' and so for ages I was confused by people saying 'fine thanks' to my greeting. I always wore surf label stuff (Billabong, Rip Curl etc) in the UK and Oakley thongs too for that matter - so nothing much has changed there. We only use the barbie when people are coming over - last night I cooked a packet of sausages in a frying pan on the cooker - oh the decadence. I am a fully fledged surf lifesaver though - which is probably going native - however I loathe most sports and wouldn't wear a sports jersey for any club or country even on pain of death.

God yes, I get that all the time!

[QUOTE=manc1;5788177] Yes, and the same ones who were likely to be the keep up with the joneses types whilst back in the UK .... nowt as queer as folk.

Thank you very much for clearing that up, it's had me confused for 3 years ... seriously

Well considering I taught English in Colombia and have a teaching certificate from Cambridge Uni, I would have to consider it my honour bound duty to extract my own eyes with a rusty piece of wire before any Antipodean utterances ever left my body.

As I said once before, an Australian advising on how to speak is about as relevant as an American advising on how to spell.

Well, it just goes to show that certificates don't prove a thing

I was expecting something better from you. I can give you a C for turning something in on time, but a D- for originality

Yerrrrr... dont go messing with Triboy, he's smoother than a greased up eel on teflon

You're judging on originality after YOUR hopeless effort?

That's like an Aussie judging people on the ability to take criticism of their homeland easily

I agree, very Slip, Slop, Slappy.

Doesn't mean anything by the way, just fancied posting it