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What makes an Aussie proud?

January 22nd 2009 05:53

It is getting near our national day of pride, so get out the eskies, fill them with your favourite drinks, scour the barbie, and dust off the deck chairs and bean bags. Oh, and maybe it would be prudent for those that love to imbibe too much, to have a few brand new plastic garbo bins about, with extra large bin liners, so as to catch those inevitable technicolour yawns that always seem to decorate the gardens of families and friends on our most auspicious day!

We love our Aussie flag!

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Yes, we love our flag, even non-Aussies think our flag looks beautiful. Of course, if you are an indigenous Australian, one of the many Australian Aboriginal people, you would prefer saluting your own flag, as the National Aussie flag would only serve to remind most Aboriginals of who stole their lands and who persecuted and murdered them in their tens of thousands.... not something most Aussies like to commemorate on Australia Day, or at any other time, which may go some way to explain the continuing gulf between the European settlers (invaders) and the usually very gentle Aboriginal people.

Quite understandably so, the Aboriginal people of Australia much prefer to acknowledge their own flag, although many also acknowledge the Aussie flag as well.

I would love to show you what the Australian Aboriginal flag looks like, but, although it has been accepted as an official flag of Australia, it remains copyrighted. This is a rather annoyingly confusing situation, as we are all Australians, however, there is so much political, social and spiritual water under the bridge, I doubt that it will ever be in the public domain.

As for the title of this post, "what makes an Aussie proud", the following came via email to me today, which I think might go some way to answer that rather expansive question...enjoy...

Subject: FW: Only Aussies

ONLY AUSSIES

Being Australian is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for A Belgian beer, then on the way home, grabbing an Indian curry or A Turkish kebab, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.

Oh and...... Only in Australia ... can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

Only in Australia ... do supermarkets make sick people walk all the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in Australia ... do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries and a DIET coke.
Only in Australia ... do banks leave both doors open and chain the pens to the counters.
Only in Australia ... do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower in the garage.

NOT TO MENTION...

3 Aussies die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue.

58 Aussies are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers.

31 Aussies have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in.

8 Aussies had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.

A massive 543 Aussies were admitted to Emergency in the last two years after opening bottles of beer with their teeth.

and finally.........

In 2000 eight Aussies cracked their skull whilst throwing up into the toilet.

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