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The penchant for trakkie daks, thongs (if observing a dress code) or bare feet (if not). Lack of a decent haircut (male or female), either no make-up (when they could do with it) or far too much (found another use for the old man's trowel?). My OH did tell my after about six months of living there that I was starting to wear my trakkies outside and that I needed a decent haircut as I was starting to look like 'one of them' - pulled me up short that did and my personal standards are now firmly back in place! ;)

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Now I have questions for those who have lived in OZ.
What are the sticks with numbers in restaurants and what are trakkie daks?

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haaaaa. can someone find a photo?

This thread is :rofl:

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trakkie daks = jogging bottoms/ tracksuit pants

In a lot of the restaurants they use sticks (i even got a wooden spoon once) with numbers denoting your order number.
But in fairness Morrisons do that here!! But just with laminated number squares

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Has anyone seen Strictly Ballroom?

I remember walking into Myers in Melbourne and seeing women who looked just like that. I thought it was made up...nooooo. It's for realz.

Cringes:

"little aussie battlers" gaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Australia "punching above it's weight" internationally. :rolleyes:
Ostraaaya is the best place everrrrrr (nearly always said by some bogan who never left)

They are not as popular as they think they are. Common question in Vancouver? "Is that an australian accent?" me: "no, nz" them: "oh that's better, I don't really like Ozzies". They're seen as full of themselves. Kinda surprised me to be honest.

Gotta admit trakkie daks are a kiwi thing too. Oh, the shame.

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I'm married to a kiwi and lived there for a couple of years, and yes, they are prolific there too :o

My husband HATES it if someone mistakes his accent for an Aussie :rofl: He usually says "dont upset me, i'm having a good day so far" :lol:

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OK I get it, then ewww going out in Trakkies is very bad. There's a fast food restaurant here, Carl's Junior who gives you a stand up plastic thing with a number and they deliver to your table, I like it better than standing about and waiting for them to shout and hand you a tray of food.
Hmmm the more I read the less I want to ever visit OZ.

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I'm a Kiwi too, and when I get mistaken for an Aussie I say 'no need to be so insulting!'. :lol:

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My particular beef is the cringeworthiness of the about to be Aussies. Wanting to go to Oz - what the hell is it with the yellow brick road thing? it's Australia for heavens' sake - say Oz in Australia and the locals will look at you like you just stepped out of a pumpkin. Also, what is it with this Live the Dream type thing? - the fine line between dream and nightmare always makes me think people should be wholly awake before they set off for their "New Life". Hey, I dont know what they think a 24 hour plane ride will do to their lives! Make them all as rich as Donald Trump and look like Elle McPherson??? Give their kids brains that they didnt have in UK????

Heck, I dont know why even thinking about Australia and the image it promotes to the world, wants me cringe - and want to throw up!

OK vent over, I just needed to get that out of my system!

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Manky hair do's.
Bare feet.
The OZ accent..urghhhh cringey.

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i worked with a guy who was giving me a bit of verbal for being english so i gave it back twice as hard and he said "i know you blokes (english) have the bulldog spirit but over here we have "the cattle dog spirit" !! wtf! :rofl::rofl:

also the saying "have a teaspoon of concrete and harden up"

the words bogan and larikin

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OH went to an event put on by the Australian consulate, to promote Australia. I think it was tied in with the movie coming out.

He came home :huh:

First of all, there was not enough food for all the guests, and it was cheaply run. It seemed tacky. There were a series of endless and boring self-congratulatory(from the Canadian POV) speeches by ozzie bureaucrats. Then they showed a documentary about the wonders of Australia.

It focused on snakes, crocs and spiders and how lethal they were.

OH was like "What exactly are they trying to sell? Go to Australia and get bitten by a snake?"

Then there was the big TV travel campaign for Australia, again, tied in with that POS movie "Australia". the Line was "where the bloody hell are you?" which was supposed to connect with customers on every continent :rolleyes:

Um, not. Maybe next time they should realise not everyone is in love with Aussie crassness as they are themselves.

And yeah, I don't get the "live the dream" talk either.

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"mateship" as if no one else has mates only Australians

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:rofl:

Adjective of the week. Let's all use it once this week. :thumbup:

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LOL!:lol:

Having a bad morning Quoll.:rofl: