• naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      That’s not, nor has it ever been, particularly funny.

      The joke is basically “northern hemisphere is the default amirite? so everyone else must be upside down har har”

      And before you think I’m just a salty Aussie there’s heaps of actually funny jokes you can make about Australia.

      For example Danny bhoy has a fucking hilarious routine about the stupid fucking names we give shit like bottle-o

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        8 months ago

        The joke is made based on perspective, if you are in an australian sub someone can make a joke on europe seeing it like that, the fact that mostly ppl from the north emisphere do it shows nothing, it’s literally a matter of perspective

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          8 months ago

          I have actually seen an Australian make the exact joke you mentioned, I don’t remember the specifics but it was basically that.

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        8 months ago

        As far as I know the joke is based off the flat earth conspiracy which says that Australia can’t exist and therefore must be on the other side of the flat earth

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          8 months ago

          Well I guess everyone has their own idea of what’s funny.

          I mean here’s some https://www.winetraveler.com/australia/funny-town-place-names-in-australia/

          we’ve got silly names like bottle shop for where we buy booze (sells bottles), usually shortened to bottle-o, similarly you have stuff like service station -> serv-o.

          Indigenous place names often have “wo” sounds and repetition, you get stuff like wagga wagga etc. Consequently we tend to say “it’s in woop woop” if something is the arse end of nowhere.

          Plus there’s the sheer lack of imagination in the English colonial naming. I mean “new south Wales”? really? Not even like “yeah this is like Wales” someone looked at a fucking dry sandy cliffy bay and said " you know what this fucking reminds me of? Wales. Wait no, the southern part of Wales"

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        8 months ago

        You dont get it, they make jokes that will get a rise out of you. If its a good joke we can all laugh, but if they make the same bad joke every time, it gets to you more than an actual slagging will.

        Take it from an Irish person, we know how to handle lame jokes the americans come up with.

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          8 months ago

          Teasing is fun it’s just that’s all they have and it’s so boring.

          Like do something different, mock our slack mouthed drunk accents, how fucking uptight the government is, how soft we are about cold, how much we drink, literally anything.