bonzer, mate

[deird_lj]

Sometimes I start wishing for a high-quality Aussie show that the world will get fannish over - and then everyone will start writing fic set in Australia, and I'll help beta everyone to make sure they do the swearing correctly, and soon there'll be huge amounts of fic with the characters wearing shorts to their Christmas barbecues and dodging spiders when they go outside and eating pies at footy games...


Then I realise that they'll all do it wrong. And the internet will suddenly be full of fic with people saying "G'day mate!" every few minutes, and having pet kangaroos, and all the OCs will be called Bruce and Sheila.

That makes me less enthusiastic about the whole idea.



(It would, on occasion, be nice to live in a country that people remember exists.)

Comments

[deird1]

I have never ever seen a cane toad. Truefax. :)

[gingerwall.livejournal.com]

Haha, you just debunked my one (but dearly-held!) Australian stereotype.

Fooey.

I rather liked that movie they showed us in high school biology class with the guy in the truck squishing the toads and all the dogs getting high from licking them in backyards.

[deird1]

Cane toads are a Queensland thing. I'm from Melbourne.


It'd be kinda like talking to someone in Boston and saying "But you guys have palm trees! I saw them on tv!"... and the Boston person blinking and saying "Yeah - in Florida."

Down here, we just have drop bears.

[gingerwall.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. Australia being small for a continent but still a large country, there must be lots of geographic diversity.

And not to mess too hard with your perfectly lovely analogy, but it was more like "But you guys have palm trees! I saw this poorly-made documentary once that said the palms invaded Australia and strangled out all of the rest of the native vegetation in the whole country. Now they're the only kind of tree on the whole island!" Stupid producers.

I hear drop bears can be fierce, but at least the toothpaste behind your ears helps you smell good, assuming you get a nice, minty flavor.

[klme.livejournal.com]

Stupid producers indeed. Mind you, Queenslanders are rather overrun with the things. Far Northern Queenslanders that is. But they're a whole different race of people up there ;)

[klme.livejournal.com]

I squish drop bears with my car for fun :)