JUNK RUNTAH: Australian

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Australian

I am not an overly patriotic person. Australias awesome, sure. But Im not gonna carry on like a dick about it. There arent ,many things that make me get all Aussie. The Olympics dont do it for me. I like to watch it, dont get me wrong. I like the Opening Ceremony... its like a big Rock Eistedfod. I like the running and the falling and the jumping and the splashing. i dont care for the cycling and the lifting... but I am equally as inspired by the Russian twirly ribbon gymnast midget as I am by the Australian one. Although, I must say, Sally Pearson is my favouritest Gold Coast bogan-chick to ever win a gold medal. She is super cute. "Did you see me!!"

My husband gets a lot of stick for aligning with both England and Australia. Like he cant be happy for the country of his birth AND for the country of his childrens birth for being good at swimming fast? Cos thats all it is, isnt it? Its just swimming, running, whatever better than the other guy. Its not world peace or rocket surgery. Or something else important. Like flow charts.

At the end of the day, Im pretty cool with whatever, you know? I dont know or understand enough about politics to have an opinion on many subjects around immigration and nationalism. I believe that patriotism and Aussie Pride can lead to some fairly unpleasant thinking and behaviour. I dont believe that loving your country means wanting to keep it all for yourself. I believe in people just being cool, for flips sake. Thats my platform. When I become Prime Minister (or Supreme Leader) my campaign slogan will be: "For flips sake, just be cool, you guys." I think I will win.

Anyway, I discovered last week that there is one thing that gets me all patriotic and proud to be an Australian.

And that is a mob of kangaroos, just hanging out in a field.

Stone the flamin crows! How cool is that.

They were just lying there, being all, "Yeah, so we are like totally on your Coat of Arms. All those tourists who come all the way to OZ, just to see us? They would be shitting their pants right now. THATS how awesome we are."

"Oh, and by the way, if you come any closer I will kick your arse."

Kangaroos. No one else in the world has them. Millions of people on the planet will never see one in the flesh. And they are just hanging out in our fields. Being awesome. THATS why Australia is pretty flippin ace.

What makes you proud to be an Aussie? And if you are NOT an Aussie, what makes you proud to be where YOU are from?

Oh, and by the way, this is my 200th blog post!!! How exciting!! Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!

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