Debunking a few myths about Australia

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Moonyu wrote:

I did some fact checking once I got home from work and I found several of your points to be flat out lies according to the American book of other countries and their strange, weird and possibly sick ways. (It's given to each American at their six birthday.)


2. Americans suck at math.

Hey now, that may apply to our dumbed down redneck population that gets all the news coverage, but I think we are pretty good (we do have some of the top colleges in the world :P).

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Thaelyn wrote:

I was once part of a joint training exercise with some members of the Australian military. The only question I could think to ask was if toilet water really swirled the opposite direction.

Sorry, Murica.

Sorry for the double post, but being a man of science I have to answer this (even if you are BS'ing).


Water swirls in the opposite direction south of the equator.

I'm sure that the toilet water swirl is as it should be. I've been reliably informed (I'm guessing) that the USA drive on the wrong side of the road, so it stands to reason that their plumbing is also assed about backwards.

I can assure everyone (MoonYu) that Australia is a real place that can be traveled to through a magical vortex, The Bermuda Triangle or just swim here like the New Zealanders do.

A typical stereotype about Australians is we like to BBQ. This is correct. A typical weekend gathering for family and friends would consist of eating the charred flesh of as many dead animals as we can find. If you haven't had time to get to the butchers then you are going to have to go hunting as you wouldn't want to turn up empty handed, but you might get lucky and nab yourself some "roadkill". This could be wallaby, wombat, emu, possum or sometimes not recognizable as it has been run over by too many trucks.

It is rumored that some Australians like to drink beer but that could be a myth.

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TheMage2000 wrote:

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Thaelyn wrote:

I was once part of a joint training exercise with some members of the Australian military. The only question I could think to ask was if toilet water really swirled the opposite direction.

Sorry, Murica.

Sorry for the double post, but being a man of science I have to answer this (even if you are BS'ing).


Water swirls in the opposite direction south of the equator.

Sadly enough, I wasn't joking. The one time I had an opportunity to talk to the Aussie guys, nothing else came to mind except to laugh with them at the idiot American soldier who ate some un-refrigerated sushi he found lying around the day before and had to be evaced to a hospital (no telling how old that shit was).

My question to them may paint me as an idiot, but next to that guy, I'm a freakin' genius.

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TheMage2000 wrote:

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Moonyu wrote:

I did some fact checking once I got home from work and I found several of your points to be flat out lies according to the American book of other countries and their strange, weird and possibly sick ways. (It's given to each American at their six birthday.)


2. Americans suck at math.

Hey now, that may apply to our dumbed down redneck population that gets all the news coverage, but I think we are pretty good (we do have some of the top colleges in the world :P).

Sure, but in proportion to the number of Colleges in America, the best ones are just a blip on the radar.

Also I spotted someone in this thread writing 'should of'. For shame. Absolute shame.

Oh and as for Australia, demn humongous man eating spiders. Id die instantly if I saw one of those, just looking at one would cause it to cast an unsavable finger of death spell on me.

I just realized those roos kind of look like my avatar.

Lel kangaroorgy.

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TheMage2000 wrote:

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Moonyu wrote:

I did some fact checking once I got home from work and I found several of your points to be flat out lies according to the American book of other countries and their strange, weird and possibly sick ways. (It's given to each American at their six birthday.)


2. Americans suck at math.

Hey now, that may apply to our dumbed down redneck population that gets all the news coverage, but I think we are pretty good (we do have some of the top colleges in the world :P).

Well, aren't you just a paragon of enlightened thinking?

By the way, "redneck" is not the pejorative you appear to believe it to be. =^[.]^=