Happy Australia Day!

[Targan]

For those of you who are not lucky enough to come from 'Terra Australis', today is Australia Day, a national public holiday and probably the only day of the year when it is considered normal for Australians to display loud, overt patriotism.

So to my fellow 'Austruckafalians' I say Happy Australia Day, I hope you've already downed litres of beer and have more lined up.

I friend of mine posted the following on Facebook today:

"YOU KNOW YOU'RE AUSTRALIAN WHEN: You believe that stubbies can either be drunk or worn. You pronounce Melbourne as 'Mel-bin'. You believe that the letter 'l' in Australia is optional, and it's perfectly ok to call it 'Straya' You call your best friend 'a total bastard' but someone you really, truly despise is 'just a bit of a bastard'. You think 'Wooloomooloo' is a perfectly reasonable name for .........a place. You're secretly proud of our killer wildlife. You believe it makes perfect sense for a country to have a $1 coin thats twice as big as a $2 coin. You understand that 'Wagga Wagga' can be abbreviated to 'Wagga' but 'Woy Woy' cannot be just 'Woy'. Beetroot with your hamburger...of course! You know that certain words, by law, must be shouted outloud during any rendition of the Angels' song ...'Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again' and 'Living next door to Alice'. You wear ugg boots outside the house. You believe that the more you shorten someone's name, the more you like them. You understand that 'excuse me' can sound rude, but 'scuse me' is always polite. You know what its like to swallow a fly, on occasion via your nose. You know it's not summer until the steering wheel is too hot to handle and a seat belt buckle becomes a pretty good branding iron. You know how to abbreviate every word, all of which usually end in "o": arvo, convo, garbo, kezo, lezzo, metho, milko, muso, servo, smoko, rego, speedo, righto, etc,....you know that there is a universal place called 'Woop Woop' located in the middle of nowhere, no matter where you actually are! And you can understand all of this, had a giggle, and tell all your aussie and international friends. I love Australia!!!"