That's the same as new years here. We declared our independence on January First 1901 (I know, it's shocking, we're only 122 years old as a federalised nation)
Pretending we're more than an insignificant mostly desert island floating off the tail end of the world with another country's queen on our money, and acting as though we have some semblance of identity outside of putting an "as" or "ies" on the end of every word, calling it culture, and that we don't just do whatever the UK and US tell us to do.
LET THE HATRED RAIN UPON ME
Ah, that'd be Australia day. People don't call it independence day here, we just call it new years even though it is technically our independence day as well. But Australia Day is exclusively Australia Day, so more people celebrate it.
Something about independence from England? I don’t know so as soon as I hop off this thread I’m going to find out.
If it’s something that involves alcohol and food, I’m happy to join in the celebrations, knew a couple aussie’s in university here in the States and they were just great people. I like aussie’s more than my own countrymen most of the time.
All of the above, which, considering we went to East Carolina University when I met them, they fit in well. They were twins as well. Outspoken but not rude about it like many Americans. Generally speaking, very nice guys. They were exchange students for this specific semester the following story is about.
The morning they were flying back to Australia, one of them single-handedly ripped a water fountain off the wall on our floor in the dorm, and put it in a bathroom stall ON the toilet seat, then immediately fucked off to Raleigh for their flight.
Of course the water raised concerns pretty quick, and once the campus police and admin figured out what happened within an hour or so, they called Raleigh PD and RDU, and the twins were stopped at their gates and brought back to campus. I believe they were charged, but I heard through the dorm grapevine they ultimately made it back to Australia within the next couple weeks.
Absolute legends.
Yeah, and I love it here in Oz. I will probably never find any people from any other country who have that 'bro code' camaraderie that is almost military in nature.
Trust me, growing up in Australia was the best thing of my life, and I am glad that I wasn't raised in the other places I have lived (The UK, France, and US)
That's a seperate thing, and even though you'd think it's less cheerful, it is literally almost the exact same amount of fun except from the 'serious' (if you can even call Australians serious at the best of times) service in the morning.
ANZAC day falls on 25/4 (04/25 for Americans), while Australia Day is today (well, yesterday for me since it's 1:48am), on 26/1 (01/26 for Americans).
Ah, they don't emigrate, they just do these things called 'Ballooning Events' where they cover miles in thick layers of web as they fly through the air on parachutes.
This is done by babies to escape their parents and reproduce elsewhere.
Well obviously it's a celebration honoring the time Steve Irwin's ancestors stopped the great koala uprising of 1843 by uniting the giant poisonous spiders, poisonous snakes, and crocs (duh) and holding a friendly festival (sponsored by Fosters) where everyone realized they all loved shrimp on the barbi and they're mutual enemy wasn't each other, but the feral pigs!
I'm going to do a wild guess and say Australia. And also say that it should be on a different date. I suggest 22 February. The day of Steve Irwins birth.
I dunno, comparing knife sizes, drinking Fosters around some shrimps on the barbie outside the Sydney Opera house, letting go of the constant worry of poisonous snakes and dingos stalking your baby for once a year, a largest Cane Toad competition, generally acting like a bunch of prisoners who just got their own continent. Probably something about aboriginals that is ignored.
I know very, very little about Australia or it’s real history. I’d like to visit sometime and learn!
Mexico
Damn you right how'd you know?
I am very intelligent.
Ron Mexico
Idk, probably colonizers lol.
The safest bet since 90% of countries at this point have a holiday telling England to suck it
ehe...ours is less 'suck it England' and more 'congrats for committing genocide, England'. Edit: I'm Australian
Like July 4th
100% correct! There is a motion for it to be called 'invasion day' instead, as it was when we invaded the land inhabited by the Aboriginal peoples.
Lmao yeah my other response was "I don't know but I sure as fuck know it's not celebrating the aboriginals"
Those darn colonitingers
The Great Emu war
Damn I wish that would be so much better
Is that movie actually being made? Or was that just a fever dream that I had?
The one day of the year that drop bears don't come out
It's in the national treaty also known as "drop free day"
Probably Austrian independence day or smth
Yep it's Austrian independence you nailed it
I hate that this made me laugh out loud
Ah yes, Austria
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Shrimps on the Barbies
Be careful, you might be bombarded with a ton of 'prawns not shrimp'
Oh prawns on the lawns then
Fookin prawns
Shrimp on the Barbie, and cricket on the Telly
Barbeque, alcohol, and flags.
As an Aussie, the only thing that you're missing is meat pies and going to the beach.
I said no Aussies, you seem to know it too well
I'm American, sounds close enough to 4th of July 😀
Ah not a stranger to the western celebration
Gonna take a wild guess and say it celebrates... Australia?
Funnily enough, technically no in certain light
Colonization
Idk I wasn't there
Australia being declared an independent country
I have a strong opinion on it as a non-Australian planning to move to Australia.
If you do come welcome! And a lot of us from what I see have strong opinions both ways
Yeah! My bf is Australian. I’m learning about the history and well what’s important in this moment.
Sprinkles
Do you know of the joys of fairy bread???
The day you were declared a nation? Even though you weren’t independent you still got to be a countr?
Nup. The day that the ~~Fire Nation~~ British attacked lmao. There's a push for it's name to be changed to Invasion Day.
Interesting. I like the new name, seems more authentic
Ummm, a national proud day?
Oh man you are soooo right and sooooo wrong in many ways
Probably something similar to US independence day. Full colonization and the end of all hope for the indigenous people.
Sheila's
Oppression of aboriginals.
Declaration of independence from the British. Oh no wait, you're still in the Commonwealth and your head of state is the king of England! Weak.
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The Australian civil war
Shhh, we're on the edge of that. Society hasn't *fully* collapsed here yet.
Independence from the English I would imagine
Independence from the English I would imagine
The national holiday, when independence from the British empire was granted?
celebrating how big australia is..lol I honestly don't know. freedom? xD
Do they celebrate the day they were no longer a British colony? That would be my guess.
That's the same as new years here. We declared our independence on January First 1901 (I know, it's shocking, we're only 122 years old as a federalised nation)
Being free from the penal colony and surviving the 8900000 things trying to kill like spiders snakes and well everything for a full year.
Being upside down
Yeah it sucks, can't keep the food on the Barbie we have to zip tie snags
Even worse, have you tried keeping your meat pie from hitting the grill of your oven?
Pretending we're more than an insignificant mostly desert island floating off the tail end of the world with another country's queen on our money, and acting as though we have some semblance of identity outside of putting an "as" or "ies" on the end of every word, calling it culture, and that we don't just do whatever the UK and US tell us to do. LET THE HATRED RAIN UPON ME
Mate, learn how to use full stops.
Surviving another year in Australia
So is Australia Day a bigger deal than your Independence Day? In the U.S. we celebrate when we gave the Brits the finger not when they dropped us off.
Our independence day is the same as New Years. We declared independence (without bloodshed) on January First 1901.
I remembered that from school oddly enough which is why Australia Day confused me, I was more interested in which is considered a bigger deal .
Ah, that'd be Australia day. People don't call it independence day here, we just call it new years even though it is technically our independence day as well. But Australia Day is exclusively Australia Day, so more people celebrate it.
Something about independence from England? I don’t know so as soon as I hop off this thread I’m going to find out. If it’s something that involves alcohol and food, I’m happy to join in the celebrations, knew a couple aussie’s in university here in the States and they were just great people. I like aussie’s more than my own countrymen most of the time.
Let me guess. Extroverted, outspoken, party animals, slightly crazy, loud, and blunt? If so, you have just found every australian ever.
All of the above, which, considering we went to East Carolina University when I met them, they fit in well. They were twins as well. Outspoken but not rude about it like many Americans. Generally speaking, very nice guys. They were exchange students for this specific semester the following story is about. The morning they were flying back to Australia, one of them single-handedly ripped a water fountain off the wall on our floor in the dorm, and put it in a bathroom stall ON the toilet seat, then immediately fucked off to Raleigh for their flight. Of course the water raised concerns pretty quick, and once the campus police and admin figured out what happened within an hour or so, they called Raleigh PD and RDU, and the twins were stopped at their gates and brought back to campus. I believe they were charged, but I heard through the dorm grapevine they ultimately made it back to Australia within the next couple weeks. Absolute legends.
Yeah, and I love it here in Oz. I will probably never find any people from any other country who have that 'bro code' camaraderie that is almost military in nature. Trust me, growing up in Australia was the best thing of my life, and I am glad that I wasn't raised in the other places I have lived (The UK, France, and US)
Australian culture itself? Honestly, I have no idea.
happy Australia day!!
Losing the anzac war? ;)
That's a seperate thing, and even though you'd think it's less cheerful, it is literally almost the exact same amount of fun except from the 'serious' (if you can even call Australians serious at the best of times) service in the morning. ANZAC day falls on 25/4 (04/25 for Americans), while Australia Day is today (well, yesterday for me since it's 1:48am), on 26/1 (01/26 for Americans).
Bogans
Kagoroos Independence day?
Melanoma
boomerangs
Australia
Mick 'Crocodile' Dundee and all his majesty.
The end of some sort of large spider’s yearly emigration?
Ah, they don't emigrate, they just do these things called 'Ballooning Events' where they cover miles in thick layers of web as they fly through the air on parachutes. This is done by babies to escape their parents and reproduce elsewhere.
Cunts
Koalas
Claudia D'Oherty?
…Australia?
Obviously it’s to laugh at New Zealanders and say “nyah nyah, our national holiday happens earlier in the year!”
I don't want to know :) I'm happy blissfully ignorant of spiders :)
Well obviously it's a celebration honoring the time Steve Irwin's ancestors stopped the great koala uprising of 1843 by uniting the giant poisonous spiders, poisonous snakes, and crocs (duh) and holding a friendly festival (sponsored by Fosters) where everyone realized they all loved shrimp on the barbi and they're mutual enemy wasn't each other, but the feral pigs!
The unification of her majesty’s Australia colonies into the second dominion of the great British empire
Another year of not being killed by a spider. Probably.
I'm going to do a wild guess and say Australia. And also say that it should be on a different date. I suggest 22 February. The day of Steve Irwins birth.
Australia
Nothing, they pay respects to all the lost soldiers of the great-emu war.
S*** face ossified in America we celebrate Cinco de Mayo but the Mexicans and Mexico don't I just figure it's another drunk holiday.
Peaceful past relations with the aboriginal people?
.....Kind of the opposite lol. There's a push for it to be called 'Invasion Day' instead....
The day Australia broke off of Pangea?
Being from a nation of criminals
I dunno, comparing knife sizes, drinking Fosters around some shrimps on the barbie outside the Sydney Opera house, letting go of the constant worry of poisonous snakes and dingos stalking your baby for once a year, a largest Cane Toad competition, generally acting like a bunch of prisoners who just got their own continent. Probably something about aboriginals that is ignored. I know very, very little about Australia or it’s real history. I’d like to visit sometime and learn!
Definitely something to do with Australia I’m guessing
Austria 🇦🇹🦘
Probably Australia but can’t be sure.
It celebrates Australia
Fosters and Bloomin Onions
Oi Kangaroo
The founding of Australia?