As an Aussie I will say this, an ad played on American TV 30-40 years ago does not reflect Australian culture.
We don’t eat shrimp, we eat prawns (it was changed to shrimp in the ad to avoid confusing Americans, which is a bit ironic).
Barbie is the shortened word for barbeque in Australia, but we don’t even cook prawns on the barbie, we either boil them or fry them on a pan.
This has been a PSA from an Aussie who has heard Americans making this dumb boomer-esque joke for their whole life; please come up with fresh ways to dunk on us, that way we can both laugh.
That said the picture is pretty funny.
I’m not gonna listen to a PSA about a country that offers thongs and bottled water out of the same vending machine!
note for my fellow americans: thongs = flip flops.
Now now. No need to be rude. We don’t actually think you do that.
We DO however think you lost a national war against a flock of emus, when you had guns.
Love the emu wars, but calling it a “national war” is a bit of a stretch. It was 3 blokes with 2 guns between them, an “incompetent war” is a better descriptor lol.
We call a rifle a rifle here,
Because we actually understand them and we don’t think they make our dicks magically bigger
So, you call every gun a rifle then?
No, a rifle is a rifle
A sidearm is a sidearm, or a pistol
A shotgun is a shotgun
Etc.
If you don’t know what a rifle actually is, then you shouldn’t be using them, because you don’t know how they actually work and how they behave
We had a very real effort to officially change the currency to the “dollarydoo”
I hope to see it happen in my lifetime
I’m not even Australian and I support this.
Funnier names for all funny money!
