I think a few of these links have been posted before, but since there are a fair few Aussies who use Cafe Husky now I thought it would be helpful to enlighten our international friends in regards to our often dry, sarcastic and dark sense of humour/humor. Sometimes in conversation we are misinterpreted as coming across as being rude or obnoxious. With the odd exception I'm sure, in general most Australians are a pretty friendly bunch and for some of us (me) it is common to subtly (sometimes not so subtly) weave our dryness and sarcasm heavily into interaction general, with no hurt intended. Note I do not work for tourism Australia, our new government has probably disbanded it/merged it with some irrelevant and already overloaded department anyway (example of a poor attempt at Australian humour).. http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-humour The first 10 minutes of Carl Barron's stand up explains it all, if you can understand the slang. View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NP0KquF_lg
Holy crap, I would fit right in then. Pretty much describes my personality and I grew up in Midwest USA. That's even more reason for me and the Wife to check out Down-under. Plan to visit there in a decade or so for my early retirement celebration trip.
Best time to visit is now, you guys are getting out of a recession and we might be heading for a bit of one. Plus our is dollar poorer than its been for a while too.
I spend 2 years of my life in Australia and its an amazing country. Not that I want to live there (where I am now is better for me) but Australia is close to my heart for sure. the nature is blowing you away (unheard of when you're from Europe) Robert-Jan
