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.
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
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.
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!
Kid loves Bluey and my wife and I have started calling money dollarbucks. It’s fun!
I normally like living in the land of euros but Bluey makes me wish I could use the term dollarbucks instead.
This is pretty racist, I think.
As an Australian citizen, I decree this not to be racist, and that you would find life far better if you removed the stick
As an Aussie, you might need to get checked, mate. This was a joke.
You’re PM of Australia now. No takebacks.
Strange plastic women laying around distributing shrimp is no basis for a system of government.
Still better than albo
Oh, fuck off
He’s way better than the many years under Lib incompetence and corruption
He’s better than the libs, yes. But he’s got a long way to go. He’s centrist. We need left, not centrist
While everyone else was struggling to eat, he and his partner bought a luxury property
Those are prawn not shrimp
They’re the same thing. There’s no real distinction.
Writing in 1980, L. B. Holthuis noted that the terms prawn and shrimp were used inconsistently “even within a single region”, generalising that larger species fished commercially were generally called shrimp in the United States, and prawns in other English-speaking countries, although not without exceptions.[7]
And yet any Aussie can tell you they are shrimp.
Prawns, cunt
