1) You've mimicked Alf Stewart from the TV show Home and Away's broad,
Australian accent,
eg. "push off, ya flamin' drongo !"
I prefer Bazza McKenzie...and the Chunder Song.
2) You've had an argument with your mate over whether Ford or Holden makes
the better car !
Just Holden together...Found On A Rubbish Dump
3) You've done the "hot sand" dance at the beach while running from the
ocean back to your towel.
Burnt soles are a rite of passage.
4) You know who Ray Martin is !
And his wig.
5) You start using words like "reckon" and "root" and call people "mate".
nuff said
6) You stop greeting people with "hello" and go straight to the "how ya
goin' ?"
"how're they hangin'?
7) You've seriously considered running down the shop in a pair of Ugg Boots
Bin there dun that
8) You own a pair of ugg boots.
Not anymore
9) You've been to a day-night cricket match and screamed out
incomprehensibly until your throat went raw.
Boxing Day test at the MCG...yes
10) You kind of know the first verse to the national anthem, but don't know
what "girt" means.
alas I do know.
11) You have a story that somehow revolves around excess consumption of
alcohol and a mate named "Dave".
Got pissed as a fart many times with my mate dave [Lighting Director on Survivor]
12) You've risked attending an outdoor music festival on the hottest day of
the year.
Sunbury ['72, I think]
13) You've tried to hang off a clothesline while pretending you can fly.
'pretending'?
14) You've had a visit to the emergency room after hanging off the
clothesline pretending you can fly.
always got the better of a Hills hoist
15) You own a pair of thongs for everyday use, and another pair of "dress
thongs" for special occasions.
Used to have just the one pair.
16) You don't know what's in a meat pie, and you don't care.
Mostly they're edible so it doesn't matter
17) You pronounce Australia as "Stralya"
Is there another way?
18) You call soccer soccer, not football
and 'football' is 'footie'
19) You've squeezed Vegemite through vita wheat to make little Vegemite
worms.
with butter as well, of course
20) You have sucked your coffee through a Tim Tam.
fell apart...ruined the coffee
21) You realise that lifeguards are the only people who can get away with
wearing Speedos.
and even them not always
22) You pledge allegiance to Vegemite over Promite.
what's 'promite'?
23) You understand the value of public holidays.
and 'sickies'
24) Your weekends are spent barracking for your favourite sports team.
as long as we beat the Kiwis and the Poms
25) You have a toilet dolly.
I have rellies that do
26) Your Mum or Nan made it.
yep
27) You've played beach cricket with a tennis ball and a bat fashioned out
of a fence post.
Only while intoxicated
28) You firmly believe that in the end, everything will be ok, and have told
a mate in tough times that "She'll be right, mate"
a truism
29) You use the phrase, "no worries" at least once a day.
Ken Oath i do
30) You've been on a beach holiday and have probably stayed in a caravan.
and towed them
31) You constantly shorten words to "brekkie", "arvo" and "barbie"
and the rest
32) You've adopted a local bar as yours
several
33) You know the oath of mateship can never be limited by geographical
distance.
or time
34) You measure a journey in beer, not kilometres or time.
(That's a 3 stubby trip mate).
only when the coppers ain't looking...
