I was chatting with Jong the other day… Yes, I have a golden bat phone that must be handled with asbestos gloves so I’m not burnt by his radiant awesomeness.. and somehow we got onto the subject of our (Australian) barbarian rugby players.
Something about how awesome us Aussies were, and how he was prepared to wipe half dozen times in his 1st encounter before he ripped his shirt off.
Ohh no that’s right, I referred to Australia as Oz and he wondered if folk from Oz referred to Oz as Oz.
My response was:
Yeah Aussies are inherently lazy and Oz is one less character that Aus, yet sounds the same.
He was surprised he hear we Aussies are (can be) lazy as his image of us is our barbarian rugby players.
At which point I pointed out that rugby is only two of the 5(+) codes of footy we play here. Yes we have Gladiator Rugby Union, Barbarian Rugby League, Gnome kicking soccer, Mattress wearing wuss gridiron and of course the greatest game in the world, Aussie rules.
Sure Aussies have at some point in time been the leaders in just about every sport invented, and yes we are a hard working bunch, and yes we are very, very competitive, but it’s in an Australian way.
Greg Norman may be one of the best known golfers, friend to US Presidents and all, but he’s a lazy bugger… Why win when 2nd or 3rd is good enough. Mark Webber won his 1st F1 GP the other day, finally (apparently he then got caught in a when Harry met Sally moment then).
Some of our greatest sportspeople are surfers… What’s your image of a surfee?
Anyway, I think the thing that defines an Australian is our laid back attitude.
She’ll be right mate!
No wucking furries!
This can be handy when your raiding.
Wipe for the 100th time… No worries mate, just grabbing another tinny from the Esky and we’ll give another crack.
Sure we have Minus-DKP types, but you will probably find that they are only in a rush cause the bottlo is about to close and they need to hit the frog and toad to grab a slab for the next Naxx wing.
Want to go to Ulduar in your level 78 greens, yeah we’ll go have a captain cook, cause we want to give things a fair hard crack.
So if you get the chance, run an instance with an Aussie.
We don’t suffer fools gladly, but we like to think of ourselves as the underdogs, so no boss is too big that we can’t either dack it, give it a wet willy or at the very least give it an atomic wedgie.
Just don’t call us Kiwis! (Or say “I have a friend from Australia, he lives on the island east of the mainland called New Zealand). We love our Kiwi cousins, but they love their polymorph just a little too much (Seriously, why would you poly an Elf chick onto a sheep before you screw it unless you are a Kiwi?)
Gnomer and Out!
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I have had the pleasure of serving with Aussies when I was in the Navy, both as fellow travelers as well as cunning opponents during wargames, and gracious hosts in between exercises. A finer people you will not find anywhere in the world.
I can well imagine my friends from back then in a raid, and it’s just so.
Come to think of it in Oz wow of all my GM’s the ones who have been the yelling type – have not been Aussie in origin.
Have a read of Razorbax’s idea for a new in-WoW mini game!
Is kangaroo tasty?
It’s on my list of things to eat…
And is Foster’s really Australian for beer or have they been lying to me?
Roo meat is awesome… just don’t over cook it… it’s meant to be on the bloody side of red…
Fosters really is Australian for *shit* beer…
We don’t drink it unless there is nothing else in the esky…
Down south we tend to drink more of the Victoria Bitter, Melbourne Bitter or Carlton Draft (all from the same Foster’s womb), or Tooheys…
Although over the last 10 years or so, beer drinking has become as snobby as wine drinking… so there are lots of good micro-brewry beers out there.
If you get the opportunity ti drink Fosters, in a can, pass on it… in a bottle, not so bad…
@Arioch
1) If you like venison, and have plenty time to tenderize, and have onions and/or garlic handy … it’s not bad. Did I mention the tenderizing?
2) The ads lie to you. All the Aussies I met down there preferred Bud, believe it or not. They used Foster’s to clean bugs off the car bumpers.
(One of those statements might not be true.)
Don’t bother tenderizing it… just don’t cook it much… that’s the trick.. there’s bugger all fat in it, so it becomes too tough.
Mmm Bud… that’s the stuff we use to clean our toilets…
The thing that makes determining which one of those might be false is Vegemite. It more or less cancels all the rules.
Vegemite… you either love it, or hate it…
My son loves it… I hate it…
Although, it’s not so bad as a nice hot cuppa… and it’s good for you when your sick…
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Whoops… just lost my one Kiwi reader… you know I’m joshing… we loves you guys here.. you can have your cricket team, but the rest of you are welcome…
We’re a harsh bunch of people. A people born of lost criminals, graceful indigenous, and every immigrant you can think of. In a land where almost everything can kill you, and most of the land can’t grow anything.
If we’re insulting you it might mean we like you, if we’re quiet we’re actually not there, and if you’re on our good side you’ll be set for life (unless you didn’t bring beer).
We’re bound to be odd by any other standard but our own.
Ozzie, ozzie, ozzie, oi, oi, oi.
yeah, we’re a weird mob…
At least you guys have Kinder chocolate! I have to travel to our neighbors to the north just to get a freaking Kinder egg. ^_^
Geeez you can’t walk up the street here without falling over some sort of Kinder product… the surprises are the best though… even pre-parenthood
Sooooo…….
What does it mean if I use Polymorph: Pig?
Mmm my favorite poly… but then I think Aussies have a thing for bush pigs…
Hahaham nothing beats a good side of bacon eh?