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February 12th, 2010 - 10:11 am § in Things Australians Love

#21 Sport

Yes, Australians love their sport. Don’t come between a mullet and his footie, it could get ugly (uglier!). For those who don’t know, the most important thing in Australia is sport – all sport. Just to educate you in case you’re not Aussie, there are lots of types of sporting relief one can [...]

January 25th, 2010 - 10:55 am § in Things Australians Love

#18 Meat Pies

They are full of fat, gristle, lips & arseholes, jelly and gravy of varying viscosity. Some pies have no structural integrity and will collapse as soon as they are bitten into, causing molten gravy to stream down your hands like lava, resulting in third degree burns and a brown stain on your fre[...]

December 24th, 2009 - 10:48 am § in Things Australians Love

#17 Pub Rock

When Australians aren’t chugging on a bong, surfing or not winning The Melbourne Cup or meat raffles, they can be seen ‘getting their goats up’ standing in a beer sodden, vomit ridden pub worshipping the amateur rock outfit deemed cheap enough to appear on that particular night. There’s no d[...]

November 11th, 2009 - 10:36 am § in Things Australians Love

#14 Meat raffles

In the blistering heat of a January afternoon in Australia in the beer garden, when the beer goes warm before it comes out of the taps and the flies can barely summon up the energy to hassle you, what better way to pass the time than with a meat raffle? It gets to that point in [...][...]

October 30th, 2009 - 9:37 am § in Things Australians Love

#11 Doing the Season in Canada

Many young Aussies nearing the end of their two year UK work visa begin to get depressed when contemplating the prospect of heading home to Oz – not because they love living in dreary smelly old London (see ‘Moving to London’ blog) or that they aren’t looking forward to returning to sunshine[...]