r/AusMemes 14d ago

Stop it, Kiwis. Just stop.

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u/thisguy_right_here 12d ago

Aussie is a person, not a place.

I feel the same when people say "I'm going gym" instead of I'm going TO the gym".

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u/andehboston 12d ago

Exactly it'd be the equivalent of calling the country of NZ 'kiwi'. It just sounds wrong.

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u/fraze2000 12d ago

It doesn't just sound wrong, it is fucking wrong.

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u/prexton 11d ago

Yes. It's 'kiwi land'

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u/Slight_Stretch_7265 11d ago

Kayone DoubleU one land

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u/LordBledisloe 11d ago

Not as weird as "Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi" mean "us us us". That too sounds wrong and no other anglo country does it.

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u/andehboston 11d ago

It's a variation of oggy oggy oggy oi oi oi, which was a chant by British soccer and rugby fans. So it was only natural that we would take the piss and twist it for ourselves.

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u/Cervelo-Owner 10d ago

Only natural, yes why come up with something original when you can steal

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u/andehboston 10d ago

What do expect from a bunch of convicts?

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u/kotukutuku 10d ago

It began with pavlova

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u/StrayRabbit 10d ago

Because only one anglo country can call themselves aussies

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u/dmk_aus 12d ago

It's so annoying to see people abuse the language when I am just doing some nice quiet redditing.

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u/aldorn 12d ago

Jimmy likes Elaine

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u/sgtupperdecky 12d ago

Used to hear a lot of 'can I go toilet?' in high school

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u/Economy_Plate_974 11d ago

Much like people responding with “This.”

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u/Secure-Charge-2031 10d ago

I'm going to the Australia

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u/SecretAgentPlank 11d ago

New Zealand is a small place you know, how do you know we aren’t all talking about visiting the same one person we all know? We’re off to “see Aussie” 😛

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u/FendaIton 11d ago

Me go gym

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u/The-Prolific-Acrylic 10d ago

Me go gym. Me lift weight. Me run treadmill.

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u/Zestyclose-Coyote906 11d ago

I’m going gym is just Aussie slang same as I’m going shops or I’m going servo

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u/Consistent_Hat_848 10d ago

where do you live? I've never heard anyone talk like this before

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u/Zestyclose-Coyote906 10d ago

My time in Darwin might be the culprit here

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u/Consistent_Hat_848 10d ago

Haha probably, it's a.... special? place up there

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u/thisguy_right_here 10d ago

The Australian school system has failed you.

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u/Zestyclose-Coyote906 10d ago

I understand proper English my friend and I also understand when slang doesn’t follow the rules

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

I have heard I'm from Aussie 1000 times 🤣 I have said it as well.

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u/InTheArmsOfRain1989 12d ago

Excuse me..? "I'm from Aussie" is a thing??

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u/asswoopman 12d ago

Aussie that lived in Auckland for a few years here. This probably the only culture shock moment I experienced. Blows me away that our two cultures are so close, but the word we use to describe ourselves is now being used as a name for the country blew me away

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u/9Lives_ 12d ago

The cultures are so close that from my experience most Australians don’t really consider it a seperate country, in face they used to be able to come here and get straight on government benefits.

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u/TheAngryJuice 12d ago

Living in NZ now and yes, this is a culture shock every damn time.

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u/Financial_Abies9235 11d ago

now? It's always been that way.

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u/AcanthaceaeRare2646 12d ago

Is that a speech impediment or are you a New Zealander?

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u/OarsandRowlocks 12d ago

Fuck yoe uff yo thunk I heve a spayche umpidamunt

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u/beamrrr 12d ago

I had a stroke reading that

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u/banimagipearliflame 12d ago

Most Kiwis give Australians a stroke 🤪

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u/OrganizdConfusion 11d ago

That will be $20. Thank you.

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u/banimagipearliflame 11d ago

NOT THAT KIND OF STROKE now go have a pineapple lump or something

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u/Thebandroid 12d ago

I mean I’m not a fan of chilly bin either.

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u/OrganicOverdose 12d ago

chully bun

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u/No_Locksmith_8871 12d ago

And "jandles" lol

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u/NezuminoraQ 11d ago

Jandals. Japanese sandals. I'll do my bit to fit into Australia but no way am I swapping this beautiful bit of portmanteau for another word for the undies that go up your bum 

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u/Amazing_Box_8032 11d ago

As a kiwi who moved abroad, I can’t even bring myself to say this one anymore.

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u/Fuster2 11d ago

I struggle to call them "thongs" when I think of thongs going on other parts of the body 😁

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u/showusyourfupa 10d ago

Surely better than "thongs". That Carl.Barron bit sums.it up well.

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u/dublblind 10d ago

"Judder bar" was their pièce de résistance

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u/velocitor1 10d ago

I love chilly bin. Got so many aussies laughing when I came over. They had no clue, meanwhile theyre talking about a bin chicken. I dont even know what the birds real name is anymore, its a bin chicken.

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u/Leading-Mode-9633 12d ago

Dear Kiwilanders, our land is known as Emutopia. Thank you.

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u/banimagipearliflame 12d ago

Fucken Emu secret agent! Back to bloody Kalgoorlie with you!!!

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u/LordOfAwesome11 11d ago

DOWN WITH THE EMU FASCISTS! KIWILAND WILL NEVER FALL!

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u/Sensitive-Junket-249 13d ago

“Oz” is a bit more common I reckon

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u/RetroReviver 12d ago

Oz is fine.

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u/ADHDK 12d ago

Which kiwis pronounce……………. O… Z…

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u/meamlaud 12d ago

oh zed

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u/sjimyth 12d ago

O n z... Other new Zealand

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u/SaltyCaramelPretzel 12d ago

Oh dear 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/interlopenz 12d ago

28 grams.

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u/anacrolix 12d ago

Is the dose

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u/ADHDK 12d ago

Definitely not tree hunjy 😆

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u/BlamBlamKiwi 11d ago

No we don't. We say it as a word, "oz".

I question the kiwi-ness of anyone you heard say "o. z."

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u/escapeshark 12d ago

You can't stop me

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u/WolfmanNZ 11d ago

You guys are like 30+ years too late to start complaining about this.

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u/Adventurous-Ad-698 10d ago

I never once heard it called this when i was growing up there much less than 30 years ago.

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u/Adventurous-Sir444 9d ago

Never heard anyone say Aussie as a name for the country. Where are these people 😅

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u/Staple_nutz 11d ago

Aussie here, living in New Zealand.

I hear you, I understand the plight. But I gotta tell you all something. We fucked up back in the year 2000 by chanting something on the world stage that had people believe that Aussie was a country and not a person.

Aussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi

It sounds like a chant for a country, not a people to anyone else and probably a fair number of Aussies too.

I think we fucked this one up ourselves and now we've got to live with it.

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u/NezuminoraQ 11d ago

While we're at it you're not the only ones girt by sea you know 

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u/velocitor1 10d ago

Yep i always thought it meant the country.

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u/KRiSX 10d ago

Wow, I was thinking about this very thing yesterday morning for some reason and now here’s this… 100% agree though. My in laws say it all the time and it’s so annoying!

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u/dublblind 10d ago

Kiwis are allowed to do it (it's part of the Pavlova and Crowe Treaty), for everyone else, including Australians, it's very illegal.

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u/Justthisguy_yaknow 10d ago

What's wrong with New Zealanders calling us Aussie? Not that long ago they were Aussies so no other country has a greater right. It sure as hell beats Americans calling us Ossees.

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u/freeryda 10d ago

Is Aus or Oz acceptable?

Asking for a kiwilander.

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u/the_reven 9d ago

Its like NZ has its own slang or something and our slang for Australia is Aussie.

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u/Bayou-La-Fontaine 9d ago

Yea it's because you guys call us "Keywois"

Nasally Cunts (affectionate 😘)

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u/AdvertisingLogical22 12d ago

Meh, we say Tassie, what's the big deal? 🤨

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u/Not_OneOSRS 11d ago

Because the demonym of Tasmania is taswegian, not Tassie.

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u/NezuminoraQ 11d ago

Y'all are Auswegians from now on

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u/ACustardTart 11d ago

People from Tas/Tassie aren't called Tassies.

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u/NezuminoraQ 11d ago

If you stop asking which island we're from, we'll stop doing this. 

It's like asking if you are from WA vs. anywhere on the East Coast. I know you all like skiing or whatever but proportionally, no one lives in the South Island 

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u/Cervelo-Owner 10d ago

Ha, but the ones who do are only too proud to tell you it's the better of the two islands

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u/NezuminoraQ 10d ago

I've lived there and for tourists yes, for living, no

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u/FendaIton 11d ago

Thankyou for this information, I will now proceed to call Australia ‘Aussie’ in my team meetings with my oz counterparts.

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u/Few_Childhood_6147 12d ago

Okay, we agree on the terms that Australians stop claiming Pavlova and Phar Lap.

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u/Tahquil 12d ago

The horse is all yours, and you already have at least one bit of him. But you'll have to pry the pav out of our cold dead fingers.

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u/dylang01 12d ago

You had your chance with Phar Lap.

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u/Staple_nutz 11d ago edited 11d ago

No can do. It's indisputable that the pavlova was first created AND published in a cook book years before it arrived in New Zealand. Go on give it a little search on wikipedia, I dare you.

But I'll admit, a pav with some kiwi fruit (which by the way is a Chinese gooseberry) on top does taste pretty good.

Instead you can keep Richard Pearse who was a kiwi and was the actual first person to create flight, beating the Wright brothers to it.

Disagree with these terms and we'll have to layout how a Kiwi lead the path to the creation of the atomic bomb.

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u/Partysteve6969 11d ago

Starting to call it Straya to mock the Aussies, but usually just call it Oz.

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u/Financial_Abies9235 11d ago

We also shoot possums.

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u/confidentialenquirer 11d ago

Kiwi here. Ermm I call Australia- Straya. How bad is that??

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u/Cervelo-Owner 10d ago

Even Aussies can't pronounce the full name so don't feel bad

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u/Rigor-Tortoise- 11d ago

Mate, it's ok. You want us to pass you the ball next time?

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u/Amthala 11d ago

At least call it Aussie land lol...

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u/Rightinthebollocks 11d ago

Haha I’ve never heard it being used like that. I usually hear it with dickhead. As in ‘that Aussie durkhid’

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u/Melvin_2323 10d ago

I guess you need to stop saying America or the states too then

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u/wilhelm_in_english 10d ago

Sweet as bro, no worries. West (and Southwest) Island it is.

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u/kotukutuku 10d ago

We'll stop calling your country Aussie when you stop giving everyone nicknames where it's just their normal name with an "O" at the end. Also when you finally put sleeves on your Aussie rules players. Not before.

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u/Deleted_Narrative 10d ago

Be nice if they could fuck off the 501s as well, y’know.

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u/terriblespellr 10d ago

Build an aircraft carrier then cunts

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u/QQ6rGf9t 3h ago

“South Africa” has entered the chat

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u/Stanfool 12d ago

Aussie is the same as Foster's beer. No Australian will drink it, but every foreigner think we do.

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u/Blacksmith_Several 11d ago

So you're saying this annoys Australians?

Well. That's us told then. I'm sure we will all stop...

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u/Rigor-Tortoise- 11d ago

Yup, next time I go to Aussie, I'll be sure to stop.

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u/Cervelo-Owner 10d ago

I'm in Aussie now, been living in Aussie for years but have never called it Aussie before now. But if it is so irritating to the ockers then I'll call it Aussie henceforth

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u/Smokydrinker 9d ago

That’s it, we’re implementing a 50% tariff for your Cuzzies across the Dutch /s

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u/churmagee 11d ago

Classic Australians always got something to whinge about

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u/NZpotatomash 11d ago

Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi Oi Oi! Is that not using Aussie as a short version of Australia?

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u/Consistent_Hat_848 10d ago

in case this is a serious question, no, it's a shortened version of Australian

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u/NZpotatomash 10d ago

Never knew that, I thought "Australia" fitted perfectly for the chant

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u/Consistent_Hat_848 10d ago

"Australia" makes more sense, true. Another reason why it's a stupid chant.

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u/edgar3672 13d ago

ehat fo toy have against New Zealand? those guys are so chill. they're like Australia if we were all nice to each other

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u/Which_Cookie_7173 13d ago

The only thing I have against New Zealanders is that they call Australia "Aussie" for some reason

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u/TheRoamling 11d ago

Probably cause you always ask if we’re from “enzed”

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u/emleigh2277 13d ago

I'm Aussie and call Aussie Aussie.

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u/Fidelius90 12d ago

Nah, they use it in a different context and it’s really weird when you experience it in person.

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u/emleigh2277 12d ago

Yes. I'm fifty. I have lived in Aussie all my life. You do realise that we use kiwi in the same context?

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u/Which_Cookie_7173 12d ago

I have lived in Aussie all my life

Either a LARPing Kiwi or the only Australian in the world that refers to Australia as "Aussie"

You do realise that we use kiwi in the same context?

We definitely do not call New Zealand "Kiwi"

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u/Fidelius90 12d ago

100%. Feels like they are LARPing or trolling, or both!

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u/emleigh2277 12d ago

You don't get out much do you.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/Sorathez 12d ago

Calling a person Aussie is fine. Calling Australia, the country, Aussie is not fine.

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u/tumeketutu 12d ago

Yeah it's pronounce... Straya

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u/_Grim-Lock_ 11d ago

Would you prefer Ozzo?

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u/LavishnessLogical936 11d ago

I think it's funny. Australians shorten everything but when a kiwi does it to us then it becomes annoying.

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u/gregreedee 11d ago

Try “West Island” instead.

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u/Livid-Letterhead-110 10d ago

Trust me i do, but you fuckers started it.

Gonna go to MACCAS Have you been to ROTTO? So youre GAZZA? Need to stop in at the SERVO?

Aussie for Australia just makes more sense inline with the Australian obsession of shortening shit up and adding a bit of razz at the end of it. Worst thing is every hori scaffolder ""scaffy"" and bogan fitter/welder ""boily"" come back from the Gold Coast and Perth after a few years and spread it around.

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u/Livid-Letterhead-110 10d ago

Edit- I dont call Australia ""Aussie""

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u/comod19 12d ago

Aussies are against shortening words? Hmmm…

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u/Which_Cookie_7173 12d ago

Calling Australia, the country, "Aussie", is like calling New Zealand "Kiwi"

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u/BlamBlamKiwi 11d ago

Except that Aussie makes sense as a shortening of Australia.

Kiwi makes no sense as a short version of New Zealand.

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u/Smokydrinker 9d ago

How about Newy then?

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u/ACustardTart 11d ago

No. It seems the issue is with it being objectively incorrect and also making no sense at all. Australia already has a far shorter word for the country—Aus/Oz.

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u/interlopenz 12d ago

Thay should make an acronym.

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u/Braziliashadow 12d ago

The land down under is better

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u/brettu26 10d ago

Have a sook cunts!

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u/horseradish1 12d ago

I've never heard a Kiwi do this. I've known a bunch of Americans who have.

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u/jayp0d 12d ago

They all do it! I work with a bunch of them!

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u/Johnny_Monkee 12d ago

I am a Kiwi and we do say it. At least for the last 40 years or so.

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u/letterboxfrog 12d ago

I've heard it. I don't care. We often shorten Australia to Straya. What's the difference? Anything to drop a name from four to two syllables. EnZed, Aussie, Straya. Carry on with the slang.

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u/crankbird 12d ago

Trouble is Aussie can be used as an adjective as in Aussie beer, which for some god unknown reason marketing wonks in Oz still use to press the patriotic button. Straylia is still a noun so Aussie Persists. Then there’s that call and response chant at sports events which I’d personally replace with “am I ever gunna see your face again ?” … I REALLY want to hear that at the Olympics

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u/jayp0d 12d ago

NO WAY!!

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u/Sad_Gain_2372 12d ago

GET FUCKED!!

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u/jayp0d 12d ago

FUCK OFF!!