I am an Aussie Aussie Aussie, OI OI OI!!!!

From Launceston in Tasmania, Australias Island State, smallest in area and population but the second established colony of European settlement.

The Australian national anthem is 'Advance Australia Fair' not Waltzing Matailda'. sorry to our our friendly previous post, but you are dead wrong Mate lol. However you are forgiven but its your shout when we meet orlright?

a few bits of australian slang for all you people who think we dont speak english

Bludger - someone who is lazy
beyond the black stump - far away - in the outback
drongo - stupid
Bastard - can be an insult or a term of endearment. If you met your best mate and greeted him 'with owyergoin you stupid bastard' he would grin and say 'orlright you fat gutted bald prick' and that would be considered friendly. However if you called someone you didn't know a bastard, then that would be extremely insulting. Its not the actual words its the way they are delivered.
Root - some thing that holds up trees but also slang for fuck. So if an american comes to australia and says she is rooting for a team, it will be greeted with first, astonishment and then laughter
a coldy - a beer also known as a tinny (a can of beer) a stubbie ( a small bottle of beer) a Darwin stubby is a fucking huge bottle of beer
sheila - a woman
bloke - a man

Some nick names that confuse
Bluey - guy with red hair
Shorty - a tall man

the best nickname I heard was a bloke in the Air Force and he was called buff. It wasnt till about a year after I was working with him and calling him Buff that I found out that it stood for Bloody Useless Fat Fool. it was an apt description and so australian that buff accepted the nickname with pride.

I am proud to be an Aussie and appreciate our culture of giving people a fair go, having the ability to laugh at ourselves and being friendly and forthright.

I also enjoy meeting people from other nations and getting to know them and making friendships.

Pixies is a bloody ripper of a site and I enjoy it a lot.

Good on yezl

Ian M
aka Grumbleguts