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[spikesandstuds]

So many people ask me for help on moving to Australia, and want to know what they'll need to know to integrate nicely into Australian society. Here's a little pop quiz and please do fill it out in the comments! No Googling! now with answers/translations

Comments

[apatheticalli]

I honestly cannot even begin to understand what 90% of that means, haha.

LANGUAGE
2. What is a mole? An SI unit that measures an amount of something.

CUSTOMS
2. a. knockin'

FOOD
5. What purple root vegetable beginning with the letter "b" is required by law to be included in a hamburger with the lot? A beet!

[spikesandstuds]

1. WRONG!
2. CORRECT! :D
3. I'll only give you half a point on this - it's a beetROOT! :P

[apatheticalli]

Haha, I suck as this game.

1. Is it referring to the animal?
3. I considering 'root' to be implied in the question.

[spikesandstuds]

1. Sort of, hahaha. It would be more correctly spelled "moll", but everyone in Australia seems to spell it "mole" for reasons unbeknownst to me.

3. But we don't call them "beets", they're "beetroots". Srsly. :P

[glitterpunkin]

Launguage
1. Uh I think so.
2. probably different than what I'm thinking
3. No
4. It's christmas.
Customs
1. I can't do math in any country sorry
2. a) rockin?
b)truck?
c) sucky
3. I've had it up to here and can't be bothered
4. nope
5. yes and no.
Foods
1. I wish. That sounds yummy.
2. I have no idea but I'd eat it anyway.
3. Varies depending on my mood.
4. I would think that if you brought enough to share you could have someone else's food.
5. beet
Culture
1.thongs.
2. not sure what you mean.
3. KYLIE!
4. probably if I lived in Austrailia
5. Yup
6. Maybe..
7. drinkin?
8. yeah, minus the beer being underage at the time.

[spikesandstuds]

I just edited the post with the answers if you want to check how you did! :)

[glitterpunkin]

Eh, I didn't do too bad but I think it helped that I've been there.

[madddy]

Don't worry kiddies, I'm from Australia.. born and bred in rural country, and I can only answer about 2/3's of those..
:P

[spikesandstuds]

Really? hahahahah.. I laughed because not only do they know what they all mean, I totally talk like that. :P

[madddy]

well there are only a couple of little things I'm not positive on, but I was being nice to the foreigners :P

LOL I know, you bumpkin you :P

[spikesandstuds]

I just posted all the answers in the original post!

[iscariot]

OMG! That is classic.
I'm a fellow Aussie, and disturbingly enough, managed to answer most of that [won't post, spoiler!]

Hope you had a good Xmas!
And good luck with all things bub-related =)
xXx

[spikesandstuds]

I'm gonna post the answers soon, I think, most of my overseas friends will have seen this by now :)

Thanks, have a good New Year! Bubs is doing just fine with very little interference, but we'll have our 20-week ultrasound in a few weeks, so stay tuned for that, that's the good one!

[khukuri]

8. In any two-hour period have you ever eaten three-bean salad, a chop and two serves of pav washed down with someone else's beer that has been flogged from a bath full of ice?

This was my Christmas! And getten para was my brother's. :T

Wait, is "you're going home in the back of an ambulance" an Aussie thing only? Man. The rest of the world sucks.

This is orsum, can I put this up in my lj? With credit and stuff, of course. :D

[spikesandstuds]

Yeah, it really is an Aussie thing, I know nobody would get that one. :)

You can totally put it up! I stole it from an email, of course. :)