30 Funny Things Non-Australians Found Out About Australia And Can’t Stop Laughing At

I'm fairly sure this isn't confined to Australia

The first patent used this name

Had to Google "Tater tots". Seems to be some kind of fried potatoes

The funny thing is that our public holiday is not actually on the Queens birthday.

Mate, we have seven time zones

Americans used to do the same!

Yeah, it was just part of an advert

We do that regionally in the U.S. with "buddy."

And proud of it! 👍

we do?

Good luck telling your wife the new coworker f****d you off.

how is that absolutely ludicrous knowledge???

And chooks lay bum nuts or cackleberries

Wait till he hears the term "w***y w***y"

Well this guy is calling his poodle cocker spaniel cross the wrong thing now, he should be calling it a spoodle. A sproodle is a Springer spaniel poodle cross. We also have the much better name for a golden retriever poodle cross, groodle. I mean what dumb person calls them goldendoodle, it's as bad as cockerpoo.

We call it both. I use hiking not bush walking.

Any time we can shorten a name we will. Unless it’s already short, then we make them longer 😂

Canadian here - around here we call them that too (though it might be a local / regional thing)

That's actually a common shortening/nickname for many things in Australia. Documentarys are doccos, people named Dave can be Davo, service stations are servos, bottle shops are bottle-os.

I prefer to call mosquitoes - dead

Depends where you live.

We still use "tea urn" in England

Really? Just because a handful of people call it something doesn't mean it's an Aussie term. Another one I have never heard before.

To Australians, "crackers" are savoury biscuits used in dips.

This is a universal informal term, mine is known as sausage boy 😊

The term derives from Sylvanus Bowser, American inventor of the first self-service fuel pump

Given it's a German brand, I don't think you pronounce it properly either.

Yes, so do we Brits. Could this be because Australia is a British colony?

We also play Goon Roulette! It's like Spin the Bottle, except you hang a goon bag from the clothesline, get a bunch of friends to stand around it in a circle and then spin the clothesline. If the goon bag stops near you, you drink! Then spin again!!

Another term I have never heard before.

Traky-Dacks, please.

I'm about to make your year. I eat kangaroo sausages for breakfast sometimes, the packaging describes them as kanga bangas. Just gunna leave that here

"Sausage Sizzles"- no one calls it a sausage sizzler

And I just found out root beer is sarsaparilla. You guys like sarsaparilla and ice cream? We have spiders with coke or creaming Soda in Australia.

Nope, frangers.

We have Movie World too and I thought it was a US thing...

We were still letting mining companies destroy sacred sites as recently as right now.

That's just British English.

Bless your heart

And men's tight swimming trunks are called "Budgie Smugglers!" Because the bulge in the man's bathers looks like he's trying to smuggle a budgie in it. For those of you who don't know, a budgie is a slang term for the bird, the budgerigar. Known as a parakeet, in America.

It's not just in OZ it's called rock melons

I thought the Socceroos was the team?

In Britain we just say "lounge"

Hot chips with chicken salt, yummo.

It can be a pretty offensive term so I don’t suggest using it.

ALL CHEESE IS TASTY CHESE!!!

Both are used. Hundreds and thousands are the small rainbow balls, the other varieties are just sprinkles. And having buttered bread with hundreds and thousands is a kids party food staple called fairy bread.

Yeah, because the correct botanical name is so much more ludicrous than the word bell peppers for something that's neither a bell nor a pepper.

Zooper doopers or icy poles.

I don't know how to tell you this, but that's not entirely correct.

What's a koozie?

Rubber boots were first made of "gum rubber." How did Wellington get involved?

We also call them darts

We eat them on Christmas then go swimming

Derro's are often used to describe people that are like trouble makers, druggies, look unkempt and ratty etc. It is an insult.

Yeah, and my kangaroo balls can open bottles.

Yes, New Zealanders and everyone else South of the Equator see it the right way up because we have a special corrective lens on the dome.

A jaffle is a very specific thing though. A jaffle is a toasted sandwich with the edges sealed shut in the Jaffle maker (almost like a pie maker). A toastie is made in a sandwich press (flat)

A pint and schooner are not the same. You order a pint and a schooner and you will see the difference.

Same in the UK, it rhymes with 'horrid'.

Must be regional. We still call them Egg and Soldiers.

I have news for you... so do the British

That's not what squizzies means in Australia. We don't have squirrels so it's not something most would bother to abbreviate.

Not as bad as finding out no other countries know the nutbush dance by Tina turner and its not even an Aussie song. It's a song and dance that's often played at parties, weddings etc.

You've discovered the world has two hemispheres, well done