The facts of life Down Under, to anyone who isn’t actually living there, are shrouded in mystery, and that’s the only truth. Like, what’s it like to be living in a place where almost every animal is either poisonous or venomous, where spiders fall from the skies, temperatures are scorching, and you have to endure it all while upside down?! The last part, of course, was a thoroughly not funny dad joke, but everything before it was true.
To learn about life in Australia, you could watch a National Geographic documentary, visit a library to check out an atlas, or try to google each and every aspect of thoroughly Australian things that encapsulate the experience of living there. However, a better way to learn the Aussies’ secrets would be to check out these positively Australian tweets and learn about their habits straight from the horse’s mouth. Or Twitter. So, what we did here is we gathered all the funny tweets that have been sent to our screens right from Down Under and are now letting you in on the secrets that we learned while reading them!
Be advised, though, these cool tweets are heavily peppered with phrases and words from everyone’s beloved Aussie slang, so you just might need a page of Urban Dictionary open to keep you in the know. Besides that, most of these snippets of wisdom are pure comedy gold, so a good time reading them is guaranteed!
Right-o, scroll down below and check out these hilarious Australian tweets! Once you’re done laughing and gathering intel on the facts of living in Australia, be sure to give the best tweets your vote so they find their way to the top of this list. Lastly, share this article with your friends!
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Little known fact, the bitey deathmaker 3000 are actually highly skilled and very coordinated dancers
This Aussie is totally stealing the "bitey deathmaker 3000" phrase. So so true!
There's no bananas big enough to compare them to Aus Spiders
Load More Replies...this does actually exist. its called Critterpedia, you take a photo and using AI it identifies the spider, snake, or other critter. It's still in early access as far as I know, but it has some pretty prestigious backing behind it (CSIRO etc).
If there isn't an app that can identify spiders from a picture, taken at safe distance, would someone with the skills make one? Please?
So I was reading yesterday how there hasn't been a recorded death by spider bite since the 90's. Not to say people haven't died because of spiders (like finding one in your car on the highway and freaking right the hell out)
Just how citable is your source, and what area of land or ocean are they covering for this review? Per fauna.com posted 6/9/21, approximately 11 people die per year from spider bites world wide. Were you reading from some pro spider propaganda? 🤨
Load More Replies...I'm Australian and c@#t is used in every sentence it has now replaced the word MATE hey C, love you C, how you going C totally normal
But that's just one news company's name, they don't all refer to news as "Stuff", just referring to the news they heard through Stuff Co.
I like it I wonder if they have any stuffy stuff stuff...you get nz Etsy plushies called stuffies
White Pointers = light-skinned tourists gesturing at things they want their tourist friends to look at.
Depends what part of Australia to what you call swimwear. Around where I live they're called swimmers but other parts say trunks, bathers, togs. It all depends what part of Australia
And typically Australian that the term "drongo" would be used in a Government health ad
A drongo is a slow-witted or stupid person: a fool. This great Australian insult was originally an RAAF term for a raw recruit. It first appeared in the early 1940s, but its origin reaches back to the name of the racehorse Drongo, who ran around in the early 1920s
Is there affordable Healthcare in Australia? Unlike the place you know I am talking about.
Yes we have free healthcare in our public health system. I would be dead today twice over if we didn't at this point.
Load More Replies...The brown snake he is referring to is the second deadliest land snake, so no wonder he high tailed it out of there
I had a friend the other day post on facebook that her daughter said she found something 'especially dangerous'. Thankfully it turned out to not be the snake she thought it was but a very pregnant blue tongue lizard and was taken away by animal rescue.
Actually in the eastern part where I live the summers recently have been comparatively mild by Australian standards. Our weather pattern for the last few years has been dominated by a pattern called "La Nina", which makes the weather wetter and cooler (hence all the floods). When the pattern is dominated by "El Nino" that's when you get fried to a crisp
Would you feel different if they were stealing donuts?
Load More Replies...I don’t think it’s easy to be Aussie. I view them as sun burned ninjas who have to battle deadly wildlife every day just to survive.
Yep. As an official Australian girl I can confirm that we have to fight wildlife to survive.
Load More Replies...I haven't had one in my house yet but there is one who hangs around in the garden at night making a noise like a goblin with indigestion.
Goblin with indigestion! Ir a banshee with a sore throat
Load More Replies...I’ve got a fat a*s one that keeps falling from a tree in the night
Hey. Don't complain about your adorable possums. Be thankful they're not the North American variety.
Mine live between the levels of my house and scream at midnight... not so adorable when you can't see them
Load More Replies...My brother had a possum that ate everything, it was not bothered by us in the slightest either. We caught it in a live trap and relocated her to an orange orchard up the road lol. He now has a resident Antechinus (marsupial mouse) that lives in his living room and regualy makes an appearance while we watch tv
No that's opossums. Possums are just pretty, but stinky, a**holes that raid stuff, empty your fruit trees and veggie patch and p**s on everything
Load More Replies...There is literally a popular children's book called "Possum in the house" about "A frisky possum leads the family in a frenetic chase through the pantry, kitchen, bathroom, study, and other rooms of the house."
I DONT KNOW WHO YOUR KIDDING AMERICANS TALK LIKE THIS (ADD A JESUS CHRIST FOR ADDED EFFECT)
Yeah, italic font is how Italians talk. Americans shout.
Load More Replies...Welp, due to the different font they used it broke the post when it got edited for bored panda.
I think that's on your end, it works fine for me
Load More Replies...I believe you used to many letters. It'd be more:" 'Strayans talk likedis" we like to jam words together and leave out half of the others lol
I was thinking the same. Is the most accurate description of English and the comparative with Spanish!
Load More Replies...nah, they have an accent that enrages the Drop Bear.
Load More Replies...And you keep a firm grip on its private bits to keep it docile.
It looks like electronic configurations of chemistry 1s2 1p2 2p2 and stuff
And you get a ticket for parking while you try to decide what you need to do.
As someone from Los Angeles, this makes me feel better about our parking signs.
Wait? Wha? Where is...? Wha? Who? But? School days? Wha? P5 what? What the hell time is it? This reminds me to make an appointment to get my eyes checked.
5 minutes- basically a drop off/pick up situation as it's a school area. School areas also usually have a 40km/h restriction during this time too.
Load More Replies...I recently went to Sydney for the first time a month ago and can confirm: traffic there is a nightmare.
Because sometimes it's probably fun to look at an animal without running full speed away from it
It's the only way to see harmless animals from elsewhere. They need to be protected from our Murder McBiteys.
Because snakes and spiders are cool behind the glass, scary in your house
When i was in Australia, i would look up into the trees and see many colorful birds who looked like escapees from an expensive pet store.
Nothing is more Australian than taking a byproduct from the beer brewing industry and repurposing it to be something to feed to your kids for breakfast. 😀👍 Edit: Thanks Tyke! There is also nothing more British than what I wrote above.
I sent a jar of Vegemite to a friend in Alabama, and she sent back some "before and after" pictures of her husband sampling the stuff. I said you're supposed to only put a very thin layer on the bread, not slather it on like it's peanut butter, but of course by then it was too late. He had clearly been poisoned.
"Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree...." er...sorry, mate, they moved it
My first thought! "Kookaburra sits on the old sign posts, merry merry king of the town is he, laugh kookaburra laugh, gay your life must be"
Load More Replies...In the dictionary, this is the picture next to the word "mansplaining"
I was totally trying to figure out what that was too! :::Wishing for crime procedural techie to “ enhance” image to solve the case:::
Load More Replies...If you just use your peripheral vision their logo kind of looks like Iron Man and Captain America got mixed together.
As a University of Adelaide Alumni, I can vouch that this was at least true in the nineties. I even had one lecturer who, when I said I'd like to go to a specialist Drama school down the track, said "oh, but you have to be pretty to go there."
Here's me, wondering what OAK milk tastes like... until I turn up my screen brightness and see pineapple hiding at the bottom 🤣
I thought it was oak flavor until I read this 🙄
Load More Replies...Oh god I actually tried that stuff. In fact I sampled a lot of them as a stunt for my "What Did Food Ever Do To You?" page, which is all about the bizarre food flavours I keep finding. I tasted the Redskins flavoured milk (yes, they've since changed the name - it's a raspberry flavoured sweet which is apparently designed to break your teeth) in front of an audience and a good time was had by everyone except me. The stuff got taken off the shelves in about a month, and for good reason. The current bizarre flavour is "Lime Splice", which is an ice cream combining lime flavoured ice with vanilla ice cream. I haven't touched it. Yet.
I didn't know household cleaner bottles could talk. Has he now changed his name to cif?
I doubt it, as Cif still sounds like an abbreviation for Syphillis :)
Load More Replies...I thought that was supposed to be cheese, but hey, you do you 🤪
Load More Replies...Aw, looks like my Bella that died at 16y 4 years ago. Only much angrier. Princess Bella would have been appeased way before this stage
Haha yep when you've gone from "yeah mate haha" to "look mate!". Mate works for every situation
Okay, now we need a translation of "fair dinkum".
Load More Replies...There's a take away joint up the road from my place called "Mad Feed" hahaha
More likely to hear it if you live in the country.
Load More Replies...*opens a can of beer* Wanna join in, anyone?
Load More Replies...My understanding is that “Crack a tinny!” is Aussie slang for “open up the Spam and let’s eat.” This ladies appear to all have a tin of this canned meat in their hand.
Close. It's beer. Confusingly, "tinny" can also be slang for a small metal dinghy.
Load More Replies...Nuclear bomb = deadly fire and heat from the sky. Australians: Meh…
To be fair, like all good aussie things is usually just abbreviated (acronymed?) to ADF
And some interpunctuations keys as well. Or atleast, the dot.
Load More Replies...Yeah, I'm not so sure the group of women that are horny for Post Malone is quite as large as this guy is imagining
*inflation occurs* ⚡️Breaking new, aussie goes on killing spree attacking delivery personel⚡️
"We have just seen a broke human running around wielding a pair of dentures killing all the dentists. More at 7."
Load More Replies...this is definitely an old tweet, lol 2018. You'd be lucky to get delivery for $10 these days.
It's worse living in Canada and a site saying "free shipping" only to find its American and to ship 20km more to cross the border it's now $12.99
Are you kidding? Americans don't acknowledge that any other country has decent universities. USA! USA! USA! (I am an American, born and raised in the Midwest, lived on both coasts as an adult, so I like to think I have a decent perspective on our culture.)
You are incorrect. Also American. There is enough American hate on BP, no need for Americans to pile on as well. Lol
Load More Replies...My dad had one that said Wagga Wagga Teacher's College which might be a hit on the international market
TAFE stands for Technical and Further Education. So if you wanted to do nursing or business or woodworking or mechanics or hairdressing or fashion or film or something like that, many choose to go to TAFE. It's a common first step out of school (some people do something at TAFE while they're still at school). The other part of the joke is that lots of Aussies wear hoodies with "Harvard" or "Princeton" or other big US unis on them, even if they've never been, so the joke is "Oh, we wear hoodies with YALE on them, do they wear TAFE NSW hoodies?"
Load More Replies...Endless choice to watch people flogging floor cleaners. The excitement of a new channel is tempered by the fact that it probably will be a home shopping channel
It took me a moment to register that the picture on the left was from the show, and not actually him in his costume on a random beach on his day off
It is! "Yous c***s". I self censored. Screw you, BP!
Load More Replies..."Yous" "yee" and "yiz" (Yizer is also another term...thats Dublin for "Yous are") are all Irish. Example...in trouble with a teacher, Yee will all regret this behaviour when you fail an exam. Yous mean you're going to the concert? Yiz are joking me, yizer going to the park?
If I hear yous my mind automatically goes to "youse guys" with the New York accent lol
Load More Replies...I'm a Texan (not an American) and we were born saying ya'll. So it sounds normal.
Eh, I think yous is the best option. Rolls off the tongue. y'all does sound bad, I've tried it. "How are y'all" is way worse than "How are yous" (edit: grammar)
You works perfectly well for a group. I can usually go for weeks at a time without saying anything as a replacement 🤪 Or you could just go with imperative sentences where it is an "understood you."
To quote Stella Donnelly "And you wear me out Like you wear that southern cross tattoo"
At least he's centered in his own lane, that's better than most drivers worldwide
In Canberra, that is actually true. We have a lot of nature reserves intermixed with the suburbs. You can often see them grazing on median strips in the middle of the road, or bounding across the roads at dusk.
i wonder if the cops clocked his sped and impounded the roo for doing more than 25kph ** instant impound of car and $1298 impound fine
Nutbush City Limits 🪩🪩 great! Now this song is stuck in my head at midnight 😂🤐
Little old town in Tennessee That's called a quiet little old community A one-horse town You have to watch What you're puttin' down in old
Load More Replies...The most amazing thing known to man....I get my Aussie friends to bring them
Load More Replies...They even had an ad where a woman requested from a genie "I want a packet of Tim Tams that never run out"
the best chocolate biscuit you will ever have, comes in lots of different flavours too!
It's the sweet oz/nz version of bacon. Universal orgasmic pleasure experience. And if anyone disagrees, they will be shot down.
Bottleshop of course being referred to as a "bottle-o" (every Aussie word has to end in 'O')
Last time I checked, half our country wasn't rioting due to people being murdered by our cops. And don't think we've forgotten when your cops shot one of ours just because she came up to your cop car.
This noble image should be on an Australian postage stamp. Or the flag.
Brazilian thongs. Actually made of rubber like proper thongs and some sort of plastic rubbish that cuts your toes.
Load More Replies...I walk around the bush with no shoes on all the time, not just the shops
You're telling me, as hot as it is, it's not hot enough for your clothes to dry most of the year?
its hot for 3 hours then it rains then hails then its sunny then windy in summer it can 45 degrees the next day 18 degrees and rain and cloudy i love Melbourne
No, we think Australian culture is having a firm grip on a venemous snake with one hand, a large beer in the other hand, while riding on the back of a kangaroo jumping full tilt through a desert hot enough to melt steel.
Arvo is afternoon. Avo is avocado. Here's some more info if you like: https://www.vu.edu.au/sites/default/files/aussie-slang.pdf
Be quick though, as soon as it gets over 30°C those chooks go fast. Coles BBQ chicken has the best skin too
Try shoplifting. If that doesn't work at least you got something for free! 😋
Like most shops, go there when you are simply browsing to kill time instead of with a specific purpose and you will be swatting them away like flies
I tried standing in the middle of the shop and loudly saying "oh if only a brave employee would come to my aid!", but the (now ex) friend I was with said "you're not conventionally attractive enough for that to work".
I like how they are 100% Australian *meat*. “Beef, Roo…What’s it to you?”
These things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. Party pies are great munchies
Party pies are a staple here in Australia, theyre awesome
Load More Replies...Yes, housing prices here in Oz are ridiculous. You watch House Hunters International and see people buying huge mansions in island paradises for less than a suburban bungalow in boring old Canberra
Eh, I don't get the hate on Canberra. I like it (and I'm a qlder)
Load More Replies...Trying to explain to my American mom that No I can’t buy the ‘cute bungalow’ rental I’m in. It’s $1.6 million in a down market.
That caption...is that in reference to the video of the old guy getting arrested for dining without paying? I feel like my millennial Youtube knowledge has finally paid off.
Giraffe: munching on human metatarsal. Aussies: We told you everything was deadly here.”
Man I would get excited when I saw his caravan 2 schools over because it would mean he'd be at my school soon lol the stars were my favorite not so much the weird skinned lady lol
harold the sex ed van hahaha wooww thats bringing back alot of memories of primary school
I know of a t-shirt company that has a shirt with a giraffe on it and the words 'get in the van', which is awesome!
Descended from British criminals and outcasts. They have culture. Right now i can only think of the word "salty". I need more adjectives please
You're thinking of the Eastern States. Not all of us live in convict country! 🤣
Load More Replies...Given the incidence of skin cancer, I wish that rule was in place when I was growing up in the 60's
Alas there is a poem, No hat, No play, No fun today, So grab your bag and run away! (Last two lines were made up by schoolchildren
Load More Replies...in our school, we used to sing, "no hate no play no school today, pack your bags and go away."
Gotta sit in the shelter shed and watch all the kids play all lunch because you forgot/lost your hat and it can't be just any hat it has to be the schools uniform and usually costs a fortune
Ours were allowed to be any hat, as long as it was a legionnaire's or bucket hat, so mum bought them from kmart
Load More Replies...Pity they weren't 90's kids watching new episodes when it was in its heyday
Not letting your kids watch The Simpson's should be child abuse /jk
Load More Replies...Simpson's replace Home and Away in my house. We still had to watch Neighbours though
To understand some of these it helps to be born and raised in Oz.
Kind of sounds like another term for sticky situation. Like oh man I got into a real bondi cluster last night
The bondi cluster was really bad, I need some help . . .
Load More Replies...My mum got the whole class zooper doopers and everyone loved it (for anyone who doesn't know, a zooper dooper is a type of ice block)
Load More Replies...That particular PM was a POS. The only Aussie bloke that'd pop a blood vessel over that would be a FOX News fan. Wankers the lot of 'em!
I only ever saw these in the UK - they never had these where I lived in the States
Load More Replies...We didn't have these when I was a kid but we had connector pens and used to make spaceships and guns with them
I went to a gourmet pizza place here in Melbourne once, and had a duck and pear pizza with blue cheese. F*****g amazing!
That sounds disgusting, but so does mashed banana with orange juice and that sh^t slaps
Load More Replies...It's true. Until recently stabbing your political leader in the back was a noble tradition (see Bill Hayden, John Howard, Andrew Peacock, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull etc etc). It's good to see the baton has now been passed to the Brits.
You do have to consider that Australia is the country where the Prime Minister disappeared forever while taking a dip in the surf. His protection team protested the idea, but he pulled rank, and ...
The Simpsons is now in an endloop repeat loop, along with shows such as Friends and Seinfeld
*The venomous rental bike strikes the man from the rear… Man dies*
does that mean i could be making money off this c**p i made when i was 8 years old
I've only ever heard it called BrocolEYE in jest, but Im NSW maybe its a regional thing
Yep I was raised with broccol eye on the meenu. Hell who says you can't have spaghett eye? Just like you have octo pie in a spaghett eye marinara
And fil-ims at the cinema…or pictures as our grandparents said…and the cringeworthy Eye-talians *shudder*
Load More Replies...But a specific region thing too. There's a bunch of people in Qld who pronounce castle and similar words with a short a sound instead of "cahstle". Or piool instead of pool. ... reckon they are the "broccoleye" people too
Load More Replies...Mine was 'I'm the hotter friend'. My brother wore it for one of his year 12 casual days (theme was gender swap)
Load More Replies...Who thinks Jeff Buckley actually wrote Hallelujah??? Please give the talented an amazing Leonard Cohen his rightful credit, tyvm.
Australia seems like the country with a sense of humor. I hope I get to visit someday.
yeasss come visit!!! GO TO BRISSY (brisbane) OR ELSE
Load More Replies...This was a great list, don't think I'd seen any of these ones before. Also nice to see things written in our slang :)
Australia seems like the country with a sense of humor. I hope I get to visit someday.
yeasss come visit!!! GO TO BRISSY (brisbane) OR ELSE
Load More Replies...This was a great list, don't think I'd seen any of these ones before. Also nice to see things written in our slang :)
