topic Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian in Community Spirit

What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

poddster — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:09:59 GMT

Here is your chance to stand up and be counted

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

poddster — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:18:07 GMT

No takers?

Perhaps you don't know or haven't given it any thought

Pity about that

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

i-need-a-martini — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:24:23 GMT

It's a hard question poddster because being australian means different things to different people.

I can't answer for any one thing. I just AM because it's part of my existance.

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

spotweldersfriend — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:47:09 GMT

All I talk about is sport, booze and cars. 100% Strine.

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

poddster — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:45:38 GMT

That is why i emphasised the YOU in the title of the topic Martinus 🙂

I would like contributors' personal opinion and not their general view

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

poddster — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:47:53 GMT

Spotty, unfortunately that is how Aussies are seen by the vast majority of the world 😞

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

newstart2380 — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:51:03 GMT

@poddster wrote:
That is why i emphasised the YOU in the title of the topic Martinus 🙂

I would like contributors' personal opinion and not their general view

Because I love my country, I was born here, I can't stand pommies calling me a convict and in general feel very privaliged to live in a free country without war and huge amounts of poverty and people dying or starvation.

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

aussie_guy — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 09:59:06 GMT

You know you can be identified as being a dinky di Aussie
when youu know that certain words must, by law, be shouted out
during any rendition of the Angels' song Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again.

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

i-need-a-martini — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:01:41 GMT

Yes but if I talk about the attributes that I think make me Australian, it wouldn't make sense to anyone else. because it's an innate thing.

For example, my Italian heritage is a really important attribute to me that contributes to my Australian-ness.

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

lakeland27 — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:05:34 GMT

i have a birth cerificate .

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

i-need-a-martini — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:08:23 GMT

I don't think a birth certificate means much LL.

Perhaps a citizenship certificate has more meaning?

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

newstart2380 — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:09:14 GMT

@lakeland27 wrote:
i have a birth cerificate .

MMMM one from Earth ? I always had the impression you may be from another planet.

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

joz*garage — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:09:36 GMT

accent

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

cherry*135 — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:11:40 GMT

My Australian Citizenship Certificate 😄

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

lakeland27 — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:17:20 GMT

@i-need-a-martini wrote:
I don't think a birth certificate means much LL.

Perhaps a citizenship certificate has more meaning?

but it has the words Glenelg and South Australia on it. is that not good enough ? are you saying i have to do a test too ? why on earth would i need a citizenship cerificate when i have generations of graves and immigration records form the 1830's to verify my status ?

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

lakeland27 — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:20:00 GMT

but i get the point martini

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

poddster — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:21:35 GMT

Is that the extent of it Joz?

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

joz*garage — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:25:07 GMT

nooo pods, feeling different perhaps not fitting in with an australian culture - but is there a culture and do we all have a identity problem?

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

poddster — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:27:05 GMT

I too have a birth certificate and a much longer lineage than what you boast of LL. All that proves is that you were born and the place you were born in.

Re: What attributes identify YOU as being Australian

poddster — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:31:19 GMT

Joz, some indeed do have an identity problem, but I don't think you are one of them 🙂