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[–]writerlylesbian 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Australian, late 30s, mix of English and Irish ancestry

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

They sent all the cool and interesting Brits to Australia, I hear.

[–]writerlylesbian 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

haha, yes, we're the nation founded on the trash who got kicked of other countries, lololol.

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You mean FUN PEOPLE.

[–]florasis 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I heard that australians are assholes lol I would prefer moving to Canada

[–]writerlylesbian 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Australians tend not to suffer fools gladly. We can be blunt and tell it like it is, and we're often pretty irreverent when it comes to authority etc. There was a video going round recently of someone yelling at the Prime Minister to get off his lawn during a press conference, lol. And the PM was like, yeah, he's right, we should get off his lawn. I can't imagine that happening in many countries around the world.

But I'd say a lot of Australians are more community minded than those in some other western countries - definitely WAY more than the US, for example. So we do actually give half a shit about the people around us, sometimes.