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!

In French, it's Tongs

We also have Thonging. 2 people wishing to settle a dispute each take a thong and slap each other stupid

They were called thongs, zories, sandals, flip flops, and slippahs for ages in America. The term "thong" went into disuse when the women's thong swimsuit came along. If you want something to laugh at, Google the term, "Budgie Smuggler" and then imagine the reason it would be called that. :D

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Floridian here... we called them both flip flops and thongs, also Zoris. As I got older, usage seemed to gravitate more towards flip flop, and by the time thong bikinis were a fixture, I never heard them called anything but flip flops.

We call thong underwear "thong" too...

When I was a kid, Americans called them “thongs”.

flip flops were thongs in the 1950s and 60s and 70s..... then the name changed for some reason

Where I am from they can be zoris, thongs, flip flops; I've even heard them called flaps.

In South Africa: flip-flops or slip-slops. These days 'thongs' are something else.

We did too until the underwear came along

That's what we called them as children.

Where I am, the southwest of the United States, we sometimes call them "CHANCLAS"

And they call sticky tape "Durex".

I wonder what they think the Thong Song is about.

In Southern California, USA they started as Go Aheads, went to Flip Flops and then to thongs, way before the pantie style existed. There was also a pejorative name that my friends and I never used.

I remember meeting up with a handful of British guys who wanted to “throw some thongs on and walk along the beach” 😂 took me a minute

Canadians do the same

So what do the Aussies call those wretched ass crack infesting underwear?

I grew up in the southeastern part of the USA and we called them thongs too. And slippers are house shoes. The car indicator is a blinker.

Jandals in NZ.

I was wearing thongs and accidentally kicked the wheel of the shopping trolley. Blood pours out of my little toes all through my thongs. Tried to get my kiwi girlfriend to check out my bloody thongs and she went a bit green...

So does Sisqo

Um and what's wrong with that.

Lol, Canada yes to call them things until the underwear became a big thing, then flipflops was the alternate. I wonder if the undie inventor looked at their toes and went 'man that looks like a butt, I'm gonna make something like that for my butt'

Gives a whole new meaning to "is she wearing a thong?"

I had this explained to me by an Australian that is what the Romans called their sandals.

Since I'm an old woman, I still call them thongs just to screw with people.

Floridian here, born and raised. Always called them thongs. Not that weird, gotta say.

I wonder if the underwear thong, where the material goes between the cheeks was inspired by thongs going between the toes.

I know plenty of Americans who use the same term.

American here: I still do this >.>

Yeah thongs mean something else australia, you are definitely wrong on this one.

Yeah, I grew up calling flip flops 'thongs'. You will notice the little piece of floss between the toes...is like the little piece of floss found in another item of clothing called a thong.

The first time I heard this was from an Australian I met traveling in Vietnam. She casually told to my boyfriend and I, "I need to buy some new thongs, mine are all manky.". Our expressions clearly indicated we felt this was an overshare, and she was confused as to why we were weirded out by her announcement. Gotta love cross cultural confusion!

If you took a picture of your feet in them I'd bet boredpanda would censor your foot for being in a thong.